skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's ~1 year of priority boarding and automatic first class upgrades (you have to re-qualify yearly), and it's several weekends at the very least - there is no way you can hit 50K miles in a single weekend.

You're looking at spending 5-10% of all of your weekends in a plane to maintain this status.
> While I agree, how do you enforce that? How do you make sure that actually happens? How do you protect the groups which we agree have certain degree of disadvantage most of the time from the outside? And even with that enforced, being in an environment where most of the people might hate you based on your gender/sex/skin color won't change your experience based on a paper/set of rules.

Giving them money might fix that? What you do however is punish any racist action that happens. You kick people out of the school when it happens, no second chance. You give people opportunity to talk about it, you talk about it with people. What about a class that everyone need to do which talk about racism.

Now they are saying that it's okay to care about your gender and race, you will get monetary support if there's a possibility of racism... if you are not white...

>A group that as we have discussed and you seem to agree with me have more advantages

No I disagree on that part. I know multiple people that are white that have trouble with money and I know plenty of people from other gender/race that doesn't. Generalization is wrong. There's plenty of white people that couldn't afford to go and there's plenty of non-white people that could afford to go.

> could go to any other similar space near them

You make me think about it. A good way to use that money would be to help hacker school to stop racism. A safe network of hacker school that fight against racism.

> Because again they don't have to fear racism or sexism that can not be controlled.

I still doesn't see how giving them money fix that. I completely agree that's the issue that need to be solved.
"what makes race special?"

It's unchangable, it's easily measurable, and it has one of the most extreme biases.
moaning about Facebook's attitude to privacy for years and it's not stopped their growth

Has it? I rather thought their growth curve had peaked and in some countries FB usage is falling. In particular, at least here in the UK, kids are allegedly abandoning FB for other messaging systems because their parents have finally figured out how to use it to keep tabs on them.

(And I for one no longer update my FB, precisely because their attitude towards monetization is so obnoxious. Meanwhile, I do continue to use a paid-for-with-real-money accounts on two other social networks that have rather more respect for their users.)
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And yet they moved USD $7,000,000,000 worth of product in 48 hours. This will all pass.
I'm sorry, my lack of understanding it was supposed to be apparent in that post, and indeed you clarified that it's actually more the second scenario I hinted at. I was responding to people talking specifically about an underlying language making system calls and that not making said system calls from the language itself would keep you safe.

You're confirming the suspicion that I had. To wit:

"for this to be a 10/10 issue, it has to mean that processing the header files in Nginx/Apache results in some buffer overflow or for those values to be directly fed to bash."

Not a buffer overflow, but if those headers are being fed upwards into bash, that's what we're both talking about.
That -- the quest for the next level of status -- is exactly what the article focuses on, so they didn't really miss it. And it explicitly mentions that the status levels now require a minimum spend in addition to a minimum of miles.
This is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_%28betting_system%29
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Hello!

I have an idea for a startup project (in fact it's not only an idea, I even started realizing it, being a cs student) but I have a problem finding a name for it with an available com domain. For the last 3-4 months I thinked only about the "perfect name", but nothing. The problem is I'm not very creative (including finding good names, designing etc).

I read many articles about this, but nothing helped. Also I found many naming contest websites, but these cost at least 50$ and I can't afford it, I'm really low on budget (you know, I'm a student).

Do you have any advice how can I find a name for my project?
Wait, I can go one better. Candidate A) has a large number of elegant projects. Candidate B) is a ninja with a large number of high profile assassinations under his belt.

Obviously the question of "objectively better" comes with an implicit "for the role in question".

People opposed to using "objective" or "meritocracy" as labels are arguing for more nuance in understanding the needs and biases of people and teams.

That sounds pretty but it's totally vacuous - it doesn't give me any information on how the decision process would be altered.
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Modern "mileage runs" require the travel to actually be completed.

In the late 1990s/early 2000s, people used to go on "baht runs", buying a cheap Thai Airways airpass that allowed many segments of intra-Thailand travel for a very low price, and earning many "qualifying segments" on TG's partner carriers, allowing people to make top-tier United status for under $1000 (by getting 100+ qualifying segments).

There were reports that some people didn't actually fly the trips (e.g. supposedly some people paid locals to board with their boarding passes).

These days, like the "pudding guy" and the "buying Treasury bonds with credit cards" and the "dollar coins", are over.
Let's hope so.

I suppose it makes sense if a single line is a year.
That affect their ability to go to that school, yeah.
Realistically, consumers choose based on the clear numbers, disk space and memory. 1 TB disks and 8 GB of RAM have recently hit the low-ish end of laptops so at least there's that to go on.
I usually have to take a flight at the end of the year to lock in Diamond on Delta. What does that buy me? Upgrades to first class on just about any domestic flight I take. The exception is DTW-SFO where first class is full of the ultra-Diamonds who commute to work from Detroit to Bay Area. (not really a higher class, they just book way in advance to get best fares)
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That's not cheating..... it's a perfectly fine, perfectely efficient way for the casino to make money.

If you are splitting your bets among players to get around table limits, they might frown on that - but that's not because you are "winning" it's because you are circumventing their table limits.
Yes, that is the Republican spin.

Do you feel "open source software" is the political enemy of the president? That received the same level of scrutiny along with "progressive".

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-15/irs-sent-same-lette...

It was a keyword based list based on types of organization the IRS had the most issues with. The Democrats were hit in 2011. Years before this was an "issue". Oddly enough, the Republicans were fine with that but mysteriously they:

1) Ignore the non-partisan, non-political, and liberal groups that were targeted under the same policy.
2) Only complain about the targeting of potentially conservative groups.

And even if you claim "the IRS goes after political opponents of the president", you blame the President for not keeping them on a tight enough leash. You don't blame the people enforcing the Presidential policies.
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I love the example in the article of how under one special promotion, you could fly a round trip to Singapore which would be "enough for a business class round trip to Europe". If you happen to fancy going to Singapore this might seem like a very good deal, but the idea of taking a long haul flight purely for the purposes of ensuring a better seat on your next long haul flight is mind-boggling
The Martingale only wins in the long run if you have unlimited wealth and time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_%28betting_system%29
Air miles (along with many loyalty type programs that primarily benefit corporate travelers) exists as a form of kickback, encouraging employees to spend their employer's money prolifically, and to short circuit normal best-value evaluations, in order to earn personal miles. Some employers prohibit this, or demand that the miles go towards the company or whatever, but many more do not encouraging people to take countless unjustified or unnecessary flights and hotel stays purely to rack up personal benefits that they can use to their own benefit.
i am more interested in your AOT static Ruby Compiler, anything to share on that front?
Yes, I'd love to see evidence one way or the other.

I've had endless hassles converting miles to flights. It always seems that there are no seats available for mileage redemption for the routes and times I want to fly.

So I've concluded miles are worth a lot less than cash. I now buy the cheapest ticket regardless of carrier and use a cash back credit card. No more miles, no more loyalty.

If your time has value, and if you're spending your own money (not your employer's), is it worth the effort to juggle all the programs, deals, miles and terms?

Or is cash the better option?
Extremely good call.
I think Elasticsearch is a good solution for analytic workloads (including time-series data). Query speeds are significantly faster than most DBs because it uses the vector space model (which also introduces the possibility of false positives). I wouldn't recommend it (yet) as a primary data store. It is however really useful for analytics.
Seems like a very odd way to spend your time and money. I would argue that the same amount of effort spent trying to make more money would likely pay off better in the long term.
You can become a U.S. citizen and maintain citizenship of your country of birth(or others your are holding)if the country wasn't China and a few others listed in the link I have provided.
Half of my immediate family have become U.S. Citizens and maintained their other citizenships.

http://www.immihelp.com/citizenship/dual-citizenship-recogni...
Collecting miles isn't necessarily focused on earning free flights. The tiered statuses offered by most airlines include a variety of other perks that can make them attractive, and that couldn't readily be achieved via lowest-bidder flying: dedicated lines at airport security, advance boarding, free upgrades, free bags, waived fees, greater flexibility to change a ticket, dedicated customer support numbers, etc.

While some of these can be purchased as one-offs, the cost of doing so would probably offset the "cheapest flight" approach, and the convenience of receiving them automatically has some value on its own.

The cost/benefit might still not be there, but it's not as straightforward as the ticket savings vs. free flight savings question you put forward. You have to also bear in mind that many miles hunters are logging some (or most) of their travel on an employer's dime.
Mileage runs for status on United have gotten more complicated, though, because you have to work towards both your mileage total and your spending total, and while partner trips count towards both, only trips on United planes or United tickets count towards the latter. This means you either have a much more restricted set of possible mileage run flights, or the average CPM of your non-mileage-run flights has to be higher.
The Martingale simply does not work. An infinitely wealthy gambler employing this strategy over an infinite time horizon on a fair game has a neutral expectation. For every gambler who comes out ahead, another one comes out behind. Additionally, real life gamblers aren't infinitely wealthy and casino games are negative expectation.

If it "works" for you, you're just the survivor bias.
I don't see how this betting scheme can be of advantage if each game round is independent of the previous. Plus many casinos put a maximum bet limit anyway if you could somehow make it work.
I may be wrong, but I don't know if that works at a lot of casinos because of the zeros and double zeros on the wheel. I think that gives the house an edge.
FACTA is one of those laws that makes me cringe. It was attached to a jobs bill and passed under the veil of popular support for going after supposed tax scofflaws that hold money in overseas accounts. In reality it was just a power play to further extend the government's reach into peoples' personal lives, evidenced by the absurdly low reporting requirement for over-seas accounts with more than $50,000.
That's called Martingaling, and it isn't beating a casino because eventually you'll hit a losing streak and either run out of money or hit table limits.
Thanks, I just found that.

Interesting they say that casino betting limits eliminate the strategy. I don't think that's true.

Let's say you have $100k on the table, which is the maximum allowed, and you lose. All you need to is play multiple tables with the doubled bet ($200k) split up across those tables. Once you've played all of those to conclusion (maybe even splitting again...) you will have effectively "won" the line of play that they tried to stop you when you hit the $100k limit.
As a competitive golfer, and someone who has played in matches included in this data, this analysis was really interesting and spot on in analysis.

The one thing I've always wondered about is about seeding. The author mentions how there's a 60.3% chance that the higher seed wins that match since the seedings are based on the two qualifying rounds. My guess is that the vast number of higher seeds winning comes in the first round of matches. In my experience, if you win one match, both players are good enough for it to be a toss up.

The other point on this topic would be running the analysis for men and women separately. From what I've seen, there is a much greater skill gap between the really good women and the "average" women than the really good men and the "average" man. I would expect to see a higher percentage of higher seeds in women to win than in the men's case.
> The width and height attributes on img, iframe and object are no longer allowed to contain percentages. They are also not allowed to be used to stretch the image to a different aspect ratio than its intrinsic aspect ratio.

Well, that's news to me. Seems like an odd change, but I can use CSS to achieve what I need there.
Creator of Alamofire here. Just pushed the 1.0.0 release. Happy to answer any questions you might have.
the generated power comes right at the peak load (if the panels are oriented to the west, slightly less so for south orientation)

Why would anyone do this? You generate more power by pointing them south, and the net metering rules mean it doesn't matter to you what time of day that happens.
I've always been intrigued by the idea of various marketplaces of financial activity, likened to houses of gambling.

Someone well versed in stock exchanges, commodity exchanges, currency exchanges, insurance exchanges, rare metal / mineral exchanges etc. can chime in:

What is a good "house" (a marketplace for goods and/or financial instruments) that does not change the rules - or changes them very rarely - and has generally stood the test of time?

Can currency markets be gamed - by governments or other control bodies - so that a repeat of the Black Wednesday[1] is all but minimized?

I am really interested in how financial markets deal with these kinds of quandaries, where a Soros[2] like figure could potentially manipulate an event to his favor.

If they put in place too many fail-safe mechanisms, 'players' may be turned away and may want to 'gamble' at another house.

Too few, then the 'house' gets taken to the cleaners.

[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#Currency_speculati...

[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
It depends on the airline. A few years ago, when I used to fly and average of at least one round trip per week, including many from the US to Europe it would get me:
- Free domestic upgrades to business class
- Access to showers in the airport, behind security
- Hot food and free drinks in the lounge
- Priority access for boarding and no baggage charges
- Early access to seats for reward usage (including transatlantic business class upgrade)
- Access to excellent ground agents to help adjust itineraries, including frequent waiver of change fees
- A nice quiet place behind security to wait during layovers

That was basically SA gold. If you are higher tier (e.g. LH HON Circle), then add things like free full service restaurant and private passport control to the list.
What's the appeal of "priority" boarding? First one on the plane? Yay!
For anyone interested, this strategy is called the [1]Martingale betting system. It works great if a gambler has infinite money, but no gamblers do. It can deplete your bankroll very quickly, due to the exponential nature of the betting system. Your expected profit from this game style is still slightly below zero, due to the relatively unlikely event of running out of bankroll before winning and losing a catastrophic amount of money.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)

EDIT: Everyone seems to have beaten me to this answer... :p
If there's a place for browsers like Opera, there's a place for you; probably your focus is on usability and design, and while security is something in the mind of hackers in general, design and usability are the first thing for non-tech users.

So im sure you can find a place even without making it the first choice for hackers.. but of course you can always take measures to address the concerns of this crowd..

But at first, i think is good to focus on what you are good at; than if you succeed you can grow and address more the security conscious people

Dont try to be everything to everyone else(at least at first), as browser market is crowded you have a very narrow door to pass through, once you find it, use it

(About Trust: it will come slowly with time; It's something you cant get for free anyway.. as in any relationship in life)
> “We see things in order of a 20% lift,” says Ho. That means shoppers that would come into a store once a week now typically come in three times a week, he says. “

Is there some sort of new Silicon Valley math I wasn't informed of?
They said the blinded portion is only skimming the application, and they get that info after a minute or two. If they blinded the entire pre-interview process (e.g., browse github profiles/etc through a chrome plugin that changes "nitin patel" to "grande puta"), that would be fairly convincing.

Ultimately a quality measurement at the end of the process would be the best, however - measure the outputs rather than the inputs.
> Many eyes theory conclusively disproven

Really? Using as evidence an example where a security auditor reading open-source code found a serious bug?

The fact that few serious bugs are found by reading open-source code may reflect their infrequency rather than the notion that "many eyes" isn't realistic. Heartbleed was also discovered by auditors reading open-source code files.

Claiming that Shellshock's discovery "conclusively" disproves many eyes is like saying that a cancer diagnosis proves that one shouldn't visit hospitals.
Where do you go to find these loopholes? Or is it just a lot of individual research?
The whole point of citizenship is that it is a sort of legal contract of sorts between the would be citizen and the rest of the citizens. It's not a simple matter between two people.

If such a marketplace were to be legally implemented it should be far more complicated than a simple swap of citizenship between two people. Even then, the liquidity of citizenship would undermine its value, for better or worst.
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From 2011, has this made it into gcc? Is it part of LLVM now since they tested with that?
I'm not entirely sure I am being down-voted in this case.

I believe my HN account got slapped with an automatic down rating adjustment quite a long time ago (that applies to anything I post here, automatically lowering my comment positioning).

For example, when I posted my comment initially, it was instantly ranked below a gray-shaded 'negative value' comment from a user with a lower karma rating than myself.

Anything I post on HN automatically starts at the bottom of the pile. I suspect if you could check my account it has a flag set on it.
No.

It used to be an "ancillary" crime, but now it's simply illegal to move money while looking like you're trying to hide the source.
What versions of the JVM don't map JVM threads directly to Os threads? I thought green threading was removed a long time ago. I would love more info, thank you.
From "man perlfunc" unser "system":

If there is only one scalar argument, the argument is checked for shell metacharacters, and if there are any, the entire argument is passed to the system's command shell for parsing (this is "/bin/sh -c" on Unix platforms, but varies on other platforms). If there are no shell metacharacters in the argument, it is split into words and passed directly to "execvp", which is more efficient.

So your example does not invoke the shell.
(Sorry I didn't see your reply earlier)

Sounds like an interesting project. I didn't point ML to say that meta-languages generally or ML itself were useless. Rather, that ML is specialized in a way that wouldn't aid in writing things completely unrelated to compilers. (Tho I hadn't thought of using one in an expert system.) Say, writing relational databases, game AI's or GUI interfaces.
The majority of the code will be running on the GPU so it will actually be doing pretty good on battery life.
Look at Mitnick's twitter feed. He clarified that the comment was just a "fuck you" in response to Chris you are a felon comment. Mitnick said he wasn't serious.
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"One thing that was getting our nerd juices flowing: Go."

I have a hard time believing that statement. Ignoring whatever "nerd juices" may be, surely something that was entirely designed for dead simple imperative syntax isn't getting them flowing.

You want something different, I get that. What you really want is something statically compiled and cross-platform.
The article claims few eyes are looking at open source code, which is not necessarily false, however that claim must be contrasted with even fewer eyes are looking at proprietary source code. Security through obscurity is not a well-regarded practice and in fact the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommends against it.
Are you seriously arguing that information shown on the results page after you ask Google to perform a search, in response to the specific search term you use, is not 'search results'? Whatever helps you sleep at night I guess…
Likewise, it's been a thorn in my side up until now.

And it is safe, POSIX sh does not support exported functions, that is a bash-ism.
Custom ROM, I'd rather not be sucked into the google 'ecosystem'.
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Distributing third party applications via Docker?
It seems worse than it is. The human visual system isn't counting every dot. It's just a texture to us.

Each dot is 6 pixels wide, making it 52 x 52 = 2704 weeks (making each row a year).

You could get the number of days remaining by expanding this image about 2.6x along both axes.
It's for work. If it were a side project I would probably have just grabbed InfluxDB and run with that since it looks the most fun, but since it's for a core part of the whole system then the risk of project abandonment is a bit high.
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Each AZ looks to me like it is a day apart. Surely that is enough time.