skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have a point. On the other hand, we're making every effort in our design to maximize the value people are getting out of helping one another, sharing resources and time, etc rather than squeezing the system as much as possible
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thanks! our goal is to incentivize people to connect and work together. we want to change the way people interact online, and this is our way of doing it
With Weka, I was able to test a wide variety of algos. When every Weka algo failed, I tried Google's prediction API with a wide variety of combinations of data and that failed as well. I thought for sure that one of them would work. Unfortunately, not a single one got me profitable over the long term. I could actually win slightly more than 50% of the time on 50/50 and "Double Up" contests, but that doesn't beat the rake.
I was thinking about this the other day and I decided that fantasy football is the most significant contributing factor in the crazy market share the NFL currently enjoys compared to the other major sports. If not for fantasy football, I don't think the NFL would be as overwhelmingly popular compared to the other sports as it is today. Because of fantasy football, nearly every game on television is watchable, because nearly every game has implications to the fantasy-viewer.

Of course, a lot of what makes fantasy football compelling to play is derived in part from what makes football compelling as a fan. 16 game seasons mean every game means something. One game a week, all on Sunday (until this dumb Thursday night football BS started), means there is a low overhead to team management. Multiple skill positions and multiple (interesting) ways to score (fantasy) points allows for varying strategies. Add all of those together and you end up with a game that is accessible to the masses, yet engaging and deep enough for those that choose to compete.

This is what ultimately holds back the other major fantasy leagues (NHL, NBA, MLB). Daily fantasy sports are a huge win for gaining back some of that market share, so it will be interesting how that affects actual viewership numbers in the future. Personally, I think the NBA is going to gain back some of the ground it has lost since the 90s.
From the OP, which is worth reading in its entirety:

"[...] this is not about treating the ill as much as it is about minimizing infections. [...] We are primarily trying to facilitate people to die without infecting others. Very little of this logic beyond the ORS [oral rehydration supplement] is about treatment."
A very dismissive and short-sighted comment. The ambition here seems to go beyond the current implementation, to have a "magic" chat view that tracks voices and transcribes them in differing colors automatically and with minimal setup. I laud the effort and encourage the team to play this out for the sake of the hearing impaired. I hope that in the next decade deaf people--and their interlocutors--won't have to hobble together a slew of disparate technologies just to enable a group conversation.
As a dev myself who has an input system that supports stuff like this I can have the opinion that anyone who doesn't do it is lazy, because it didn't take me that much time at all to get it working.

>There's no such thing a lazy game developer.

The quality of some indie games out there really point in another direction, but if you wanna argue that these games don't have to uphold to a certain level of quality on the most basic stuff like key rebinding systems then I guess I can't stop you.
Let's review the many reasons to use something simpler than OAuth: http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2013/03/oauth-great-way-to-...
Thanks. I wanted to check because there's a common pattern in these sorts of security incidents where some suggestion for possible mitigation gets made (note how I weakened that phrase) and by the time the game of security telephone is played out over a few panicky hours it turns into "just do X and the problem is solved!". For instance, "just switch to RC4!" was not exactly the most solid of advice for BEAST, if one actually thought about it, but it was frequently presented as The Solution (TM). (Not necessarily by knowledgeable people, of course, but by enough people.)

TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV has the danger of becoming that, but in the short term it doesn't seem like it actually does much in a world where, AFAIK, not very many SSL connections support it.
There is no repl, but there are projects in development that make the workflow less of a chore. My own project, SRVi (https://github.com/ajhager/srvi), serves up your GopherJS project, recompiling and embedding when you refresh the page. It will even report compiler errors right in the browser.

Still plenty of room for improvement, but there are people who are excited about making GopherJS fun to work with.
Got swine flu just before my property final (thankfully, the others were over). Word.
A similar stash of data data is in the libraries of the agencies that did the research for the various over-the-horizon-radars around the world. Australia's DSTO has rooms full of magnetic tapes with decades worth of ionospheric measurements on them.
Firefox 34 will disable SSLv3 entirely:

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2014/10/14/the-poodle-atta...

Already using the beta, it is very stable.

You can also set security.tls.version.min to 1

In Chrome set the command line flag --ssl-version-min=tls1
All languages actually represent source code as trees. It's just that the shavings are less obvious in other languages.
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IE6 on XP can actually use TLS, it is just not enabled by default.

But IE8 is readily available on XP so who would use IE6
Penrose graphical notation
and..........?
Old page, new wrapper. The 1999 version...

https://web.archive.org/web/20001110004100/http://www.apple....
"This site best viewed in Netscape"
NLP app to find great available domain names
The online poker sites operated offshore, through high-risk credit card processors.

Fantasy sports markets, otoh, have Yahoo and CBS as operators (both take ~30% rake). FanDuel is processing a few hundred million through PayPal. Presumably, these companies are all paying taxes, so this time everybody's in on it.
I like Nate Silver's take on disasters. Model it like Earthquakes and anything else bad that happens on a log scale. Then make a plan for every possible contingency. Although it is already an outbreak there is still a range of possible endgames. Unfortunately policy planners don't do any of this IMO.
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Rx Aggregation Service (REST API)
If you're using an iOS device, the iTunes store has the "How to Start a Startup" podcast which is an audio-only version of all of the talks.
Wonder if they have custom support for WinXP.
Product Psychology Explains How to Get Users Hooked
You are mistaken if you think Amazon is backed by "enterprise" Java apps from a single codebase.
The immediate action is clear: Donate generously to an organization like http://doctorswithoutborders.com/

They're on the ground and trying hard to treat people. They need resources.

Slightly longer term is figuring out a cure and vaccine.

Longer yet is improving the health care systems in Africa and around the world.
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I am mostly surprised that we have an "uber for XYZ" cropping up, as opposed to a general-purpose delivery service winning out, like postmates.

this makes me think - perhaps most of the value in the delivery service is the catalog of specific goods you want, and less so how they will actually get it to you. for example - sure postmates could deliver medical marijuana, but perhaps not the exact strain you prefer to treat your affliction.

interesting too - the delivery will probably just get easier over time, particularly if we ever figure out the rules for commercial drones. so focus on catalogs of stuff people really want (catalogs that don't already exist).
Is there a reason you seem to favor head-to-head over, say, a 50/50 structure?
Are they going to take it down like Microsoft did with Monster Truck Madness 2 website?
> Bear in mind there is very little difference between windows 1.0 code (1985) windows 8.1 code now. There's some 16 bit scum on the API but that's it.

That's like saying there's no difference between Mac OS from 1984 and Mac OS X. You're ignoring the shift from DOS-based Windows to the NT (New Technology) version which is more like VAX VMS (and had the same lead author). There were also some major changes with the introduction of .Net and the CLR.
There are so many unanswered questions. Why would any family bring a loved one to one of these ECUs? You are basically abandoning someone you love to die alone in great pain. Who is going to volunteer to work in one of these ECU as they will be basically unprotected and at great risk? Even if everything go according to plan they will be worse in a months time than they are now?
If "enterprise applications" mean over-architectured monstrosities filled with boilerplate code, a hundred levels of indirection and horrible XML configuration files then thank god Go doesn't encourage that.
For support driven development approach, I find this post informative (https://medium.com/@tonido/how-did-we-build-successful-custo...)

Looks like there are practitioners who follow Kevin's footsteps.
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My Grandma is slowly losing her hearing - one ear is 100% deaf while her other remaining one is at about 50%. She uses a CapTel speech to text phone with a huge display to understand what is said when people call her. It generally works well, but she only has one in her family room. She struggles to hear especially when there are multiple people speaking and there is background noise. I've learned techniques to improve her comprehension, but it can only go so far (If interested, here's a few: make sure you're looking at them when talking, speak in a 'deeper tone', don't rush your words, continually repeat what was said until they understand, etc).

Almost everyone in the United States has a phone. If I could download an app that runs this program along with my cousins, and have my Grandma use her 'iPad' (Nook tablet) to understand, with the assistance of something like Transcense, that would be amazing. By linking several microphones, they may be able to cancel out background noise and only highlight the specific speaker, and that would be a fantastic advance.

I'm wondering what their current state of Transcense's speech recognition is, however. From the video, it did see like there were some errors. I'm sure a deaf user can understand what was meant to be said using context of the conversation, but in a business meeting a misunderstood word can change the whole meaning of the sentence or message. I've used Siri, Dragon Naturally speaking, et al and while they're good, they're not perfect. Dragon in particular supposedly can be taught and learn the user's unique style of speech, so I'm also curious if Transcence will be going the route of machine learning and NLP.
It seems like these points are true of other Java alternatives as well. What about Ceylon, Fantom, and Kotlin?
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>> Don't optimize for self esteem. Optimize for total progress over a given amount of time.

I'm stealing this line because it is absolutely packed with wisdom.
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Spotify, Lightroom and Skype replaces iTunes, iPhoto and Facetime for lots of people. Dropbox works better than iCloud when it comes to camera images.
I use the "Tree Style Tab" extension, available here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

If you haven't used it before, and if you're prone to having 10+ tabs open at a time, I highly recommend it. Although I warn you that you may never wish to use Safari or Chrome again...

Chrome used to have a similar feature built-in but they removed it ages ago.
Very impressive, where can I find the paper?
Does the Movie Fed Up Make Sense?
I'm not a fan using "terrorism" for things that are really just criminal acts, but this one certainly fits the bill:

"The email was a warning to all staff and students at USU if Sarkeesian’s talk wasn’t canceled “a Montreal Massacre style attack will be carried out” against those in attendance, students, staff and the women’s center."
It's a cute historical artifact. A lot of websites in the 90s used to have badges at the bottom indicating these sort of things.

Sometimes it's nice to sit back and ponder the past of our industry :)
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I will punch your business in the mouth for $2000
I hope that's an option. I could see this being used to transcribe conversations between groups of hearing people, as in meetings and the like.
OpenSSL TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV Mitigation Patch
Anybody up for backporting Go's stdlib to C? Doing so in an automated way would be all the better.

There are just so many things in Go that feel like 80% solutions - they make great demos but in every day use you have to fight them (looking at you import system and the GOPATH, magical make() function, magical overloaded accessors, lack of expressions or at least ternary if, pre and post increment are hacks not expressions, lack of coercion to more precise types, no templating / generics / preprocessing, needs an equivalent to realloc, having to go through reflect / unsafe to get things done, lack of proper type resolution for complex types).

There are many things I do like about Go, but much of the time it feels like a very pretty prison compared to the (admittedly less pretty) freedom of C.
Welcome to the events business, where someone will happily sell you a dream of fundraising / winning an award / getting media exposure for the low low price of as much as they can possibly extract from you.

Yes, the occasional company comes away from these cattle calls with more than they came in with - which is why this sort of scheme continues. But for every one that does, many more just come away with empty wallets. Talking to investors is free - I'd put the money towards bettering your product instead.
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The services are out there, and they ain't cheap.
I believe it's the later: safari is really good at not wasting energy. Anandtech looked into this not too long ago: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8327/browser-faceoff-battery-l...
I've written convenience http handlers that compile Go to js on demand (and report errors in the browser console & server stderr). I do something like this in the backend:

http.Handle("/assets/script.go.js", gopherjs_http.GoFiles("./assets/script.go"))

Then my html files (or templates that generate html via html/template package) include it with:

<script src="./assets/script.go.js" type="text/javascript"></script>.

That way, I can edit the ./assets/script.go file in my code editor (with goimports on save, autocomplete, etc.) with the server running. Whenever I refresh the page in the browser, new compiled JavaScript is loaded.

It's really nice to be able edit the Go script, css, html template and not need to restart the web server for effects to take place. Just refresh the page, and see new code running.

That's my workflow so far.

I have plans to improve that code so that it accesses the assets via a virtual file system interface, so that it's possible to have a debug version that hot-reloads all files from disk, and a release version that embeds the assets into the Go binary so it can run anywhere.
You promise to left-hook our businesses before the market does. How valuable is a left-hook that doesn't come from customers?

One person doesn't know what the market wants before the market tells them. Even Steve Jobs, considered the king of knowing what the market wants without asking them, failed miserably at that game for years. VCs also constantly fail at it, even though it's their professional.

This is essentially a pre-Lean pitch. Pass.
You can always use Option() as in:

scala> Option(System.getProperty("kaboom"))

res1: Option[String] = None

then map, getOrElse or fold at will.

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" We are about to assist thousands and thousands of people
to die an excruciating death at home without even the most
mild of pain relief."

I simply don't understand this. Why isn't humane assisted suicide an option considered in this scenario? If I were one of the people who was going to be left to die an excruciating death, all I would want is one syringe with a super potent does of heroin... i.e. enough to slip into a warm coma and then shut down my breathing and nervous system. How hard can it be to repurpose seized drug shipments for such a purpose if shit is truly hitting the fan.

The longer the host stays alive, the longer the virus has to multiply in the host and get caretakers sick.
If you are referring to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1036765, that was an unrelated change that was made well in advance of my knowledge of this issue.
arXiv link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2895
There is a reason that every C/C++ compiler has various optimization options. Developers like the compiler to respond quickly to changes and later they'd like the highest performing code at the cost of compile speed.
That's because Windows 8 includes the features of both iOS and Mac OS X. If Mac OS X could run iOS apps, do you reckon these would be supplied outside the Apple Store?

You don't have to use Metro, of course. However, if you do, there are constraints that are required for a secure, always-connected, battery-powered device that are not required for a traditional desktop or laptop.

> I don't see Microsoft permitting open development

I don't understand this. There are several ways to develop Metro apps, including C# or C++ with XAML, C++ with DirectX, and JavaScript with HTML/CSS. Seems to me that Apple is more restrictive on both the iOS and Mac OS X sides. Even if you really mean "open deployment", it's not completely closed....
Questions:

1) Is this feature-complete and stable?

2) How do you do inheritance safely in compiled JS? Because of the way prototyping and scoping are handled in JS, I'm curious how a large, object-oriented structure would perform when compiled to JS.
Practically speaking, how broken is SSLv3.0 now? Are we hours, days, weeks, months, or years from someone actually getting out there and exploiting this?
Ah, can this be done effectively in old old processes? I guess I figured to beat an FPGA (many of which run in the latest-and-greatest process) you'd want a newer process.
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I've always wondered, do you need a licensing deal to use individual player stats etc. to run a site like this? If not, it seems like the barrier to entry would be quite low and you wouldn't even really need the network effects that poker requires.
Yeah when you put it that way, your position makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing.

I think the disconnect is that I see that sensor as hugely important. If you were in a car and it lost the ability to sense speed via the speedometer, how would it pull over and stop? How would it know how quickly to steer towards the shoulder? How would it know when it had stopped?

When airline autopilots were developed you didn't have a dozen ways to sense speed. With a car you have the speedometer, GPS, probably some kind of estimates from LIDAR and vision, and the ability to integrate output from the accelerometers and feed all those into a kalman filter to make a really good model for the car's speed even if the more accurate methods fail. Certainly there are good odds it could perform well enough to move the car to the shoulder.

I guess I am less worried about those kinds of more minor failures and more worried about the kinds where humans are suddenly thrust back into the loop. On airplanes the pilots nearly always have a way to control the plane and plenty of time to react since they've got 5-30 minutes worth of glide.

In a car when something goes wrong you might well have vehicles on either side, in front and behind if it's heavy traffic. And in that case if the car finds itself asking for a human driver very suddenly who has to start making very good decisions faster than a human is capable of.

In my mind the "you can always pull over and stop" only works if you're assuming that the car is driving on an immaculately paved stretch of nearly or completely empty road.
I wrote some clever code that fixed a problem on Windows. When running on Mac the same code leaked memory and blocked the event loop. 1 star - "crashed my entire computer".
I don't predict what the market wants. I will just audit a site or product to uncover UX/UI or other design/marketing issues before they end up as help tickets.
There are a lot of reasons why compiling C++ is inherently slow, but one big one is having a text preprocessor implementing an entirely different language tacked on the front.
They have then doubtlessly been told that they are unenforceable again Joe Employee who wants to work at Subway, but you seem to think that they still do it to trick people from leaving to work at subway. Why don't you think it's useful to discourage people potential competitors from infiltrating their company? I'd bet you it's way more likely to be enforceable in the latter case, against someone looking to copy your operations, if it's enforceable at all.
this is gross. what are the stats on success rate of pregnancy with frozen eggs? maybe companies should look at mechanisms to support flexible work schedules instead of playing god & experimenting on women.
I tried to spread it around. My general strategy during the last month was:
$40 in head-to-head (5 each of $1, $2, $5)
$50 in double-ups (5 each of $5)
$10-20 in big tournaments (usually just the $2 tournament with 10,000 players)

I put my best overall lineups in the head-to-head and double-up format, trying to limit too much exposure to one team unless it was an obviously superior play to do so, and 5-10 different lineups for the tournament structure, where I went with higher variance plays.
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