skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came here to say the same thing. I have done a few extensive benchmarks internally and the conclusions were exactly the same (even though you don't need benchmarks really to know there is a difference). CSS transitions/animations have less overhead than Javascript ones. I think the issue here is perceived performance vs actual performance. People assume just because it looks fast and runs fast, that it is fast, when it in-fact comes with some overhead (that might not be visible on the surface).
This trailer is really not helping my personal goal of keeping my expectations low for this movie.
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> How much would it really cost to feed and house a person for a year?

It depends. What kind of mental health issues (including substance abuse) does that person have?

Keep in mind that people also need security. Food and shelter aren't enough. They also need their belongings to be secure for long enough to build up a minimal amount of personal equity. You can't make it out of poverty if you're perpetually under the threat of robbery, abuse, and worse.
That is weird, because they did have an end of the world sale at something like 75% of if you brought a years worth of upgrades, so they are not against using silly days to sell merc.
E3 Visa transfer?
I am transferring employers and E3 visas (Australian). I end one job on Jan 5 an the other begins January 12. The issue is that I will be out of the US over xmas only returning on Jan 7 - is that going to be a problem? When should the new employer submit the LCA?
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click on free ( filter ) to see the free python books.
I'd also come across FeatherweightVM http://sourceforge.net/projects/fvm-rni/
The implications of this are huge, it should drastically reduce processing time for neural nets. I wonder if given this if networks could be updated asynchronously/continuously.
Modern C++ Testing
I agree that it is a bad idea to apply Singapore as an example for China. Just as people can't apply Finland to America. But there may be something about small-isolated economic-centric city-states. They might have way less overhead for political progress and action and the highest-levels are in sync with local issues, since local issues is targetted.

For example, Silicon Valley might have different issues with immigration than say Texas. But SV has to deal with Texas congressmen regarding policy.
There are ways of building structures better than tents relatively cheaply, but it would almost certainly be illegal. And even tents require land to put them on. And no one wants homeless people living near them.

Minimum wage screws the people whose labor isn't worth $7 an hour, but it does help the minimum wage workers whose employers can afford it. So it can be a net benefit. Arguably, since those people now have to compete against all the new unemployed people who want their job, on things other than wage.
The pseudo-libertarian drivel is becoming too easy to predict for every education/poverty/human welfare article posted to HN. Scroll to the bottom to see non-defensive, compassionate comments...
I just wish the media didn't make this an "us" vs. "them" situation. This approach is so destructive: it improves the situation for nobody but only fuels class hate.

I remember reading a very long, well-researched, and balanced post from TechCrunch [1] about the housing shortage in SF. Media: more posts like that, please. Help identify underlying issues, flawed policies, or missed opportunities, instead of simply blaming the engineers.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/
I've looked into timing attacks in the past but failed to exploit one. Even running php locally from the command line, eliminating any possibility of network randomness, I couldn't get even a few bytes with any amount of certainty.

Not saying it's not an issue, but I'm not so sure it's a big deal either.
It depends on the type/s of meditation in which you are interested.

In the Christian West, there are several schools of "discursive meditation", or mental prayer, which developed over many centuries. This kind of meditation, practiced daily and closely connected to regular examination of conscience, is seen as an important component of the struggle to overcome vice and cultivate virtue.

Two resources you might find helpful in learning how to go about discursive meditation are a short essay on Lectio Divina and the Fifth Treatise from Fr. Rodriguez's Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues:

http://j.mp/LectioDivina

https://archive.org/stream/PPCV-Manresa#page/n273/mode/2up

See also Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange's overview of mental prayer in his classic work The Three Ages of the Interior Life:

http://www.christianperfection.info/tta47.php

In the Christian East, meditation generally takes the form of "passive contemplation" rather than discursive meditation. The Philokalia is probably the best resource for learning more:

https://archive.org/stream/Philokalia-TheCompleteText/Philok...

Make sure to keep handy the glossary at the back of the book:

https://archive.org/stream/Philokalia-TheCompleteText/Philok...
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Ya, that's what it seems it should be...

But then you have to hire contractors to do all that. And managers to manage them. And managers to manage the managers. And pensions for all the inspectors and managers. Or the government could try to do it directly. Either way... the real cost gets significant additions. Along with a higher probability of failure.

You need security. Some of these people aren't safe for others to be with. Liability. So you need insurance. And lawyers. Lots of lawyers so you don't get sued as much when someone cuts themselves on a shipping container.

So you can probably 5-10x the real cost and still run into budget problems. So people keep suffering. That's why I don't know what the answer is but I wish I did.
One missed paycheck can turn into multiple missed paychecks, which can fuck over even the people with a rainy day fund.

I'm a tech gal in SF, but there was a period of ~6 months or so where I had back to back to back upper respiratory infections from hell and I was so fatigued and ill that I wasn't taking up any new contracts. Lucky for me I'm my own boss, and lucky for me I'm a cheapskate with a big rainy day fund. Not that many employers would put up with someone not working for 6 months at a time. "Doing something wrong" doesn't just mean "incompetent developer" or "person spending beyond their means". It could be something as simple as me being out of commission this entire past week because sinusitis (seriously, fuck these infections) plus nausea/period cramps. It could be something as awful as being terminally ill.

That's just myself too... my husband and I just started trying for kids, so that's an additional layer of responsibility we're preparing ourselves for. Then I don't know what might happen to either of our parents, just in case. The list goes on. One paycheck can absolutely make a difference, and not just of the "you must be stupid" variety.
As a researcher at a face recognition company, this is interesting, although the fact that algorithms change pretty frequently makes me think the work is quite ephemeral. Also I'm wondering if he's heard of liveness detection.
Can you give a briefish but honest assessment about how Phoenix outdoes going with your stock Rails stack, and how it might make a few things harder? How would I differentiate/"sell" an Elixir/Phoenix stack (say, for an API) to a manager? How does Phoenix differentiate itself from Rails, and how difficult is it to switch, and under what circumstances?

(I say this as a fan, btw! I just think that it's important to get the pros and cons out there. I also think that a lot of Ruby/Rails folks are VERY curious about Elixir generally and Phoenix specifically, lately...)
If you read the article:
"And the irony is, not even [Sergey Brin's] engineers get paid enough to live here."
If "SV" was perfect, it wouldn't need critical articles. It isn't so I welcome them to remind us what we should address.
Surge pricing gets more, less experienced, drivers on the road.
Thomas Piketty is right: Income inequality is holding us back
Gay Marriage
iOS8 only came out 2 1/2 months ago. Give it time.
We should fix the law. But that is quite difficult when the political system has been largely bought and paid for.
Is providing helpers for authentication and authorization (for example like ASP.NET MVC attributes) anywhere on the roadmap?
It would be helpful not to reimplement authentication routines from scratch in every project.
I don't understand your comment as it appears a bad attempt at sarcasm but falls very short of that aim.
"He gets on the bus at midnight and rides the same 35-mile journey between San Jose and Palo Alto, California, until sunrise." If you are homeless (assuming without a job, as is not the case with all homeless interviewed in this article), is there a big difference to you between Palo Alto, CA and San Jose, CA? Each is equally unaffordable to pay rent and probably equally easy to panhandle (if that's what you choose to do).
Off topic, but kudos for your product site - I think it's functionally and aesthetically very well done.

The annotated UI pagers on the homepage are neat.
The value is simple: It makes it easier to tell a narrative, and it is a central repository with a common goal and central theme. It is easy to bulk upload a set of images, crop, rotate, sort, and annotate them into a composite disassembly guide that includes photo notes, required tools, and a Bill of Materials of consituent components (with links to Octopart). I invite you to create a guide and see how much easier it is to document disassembly, than by using something like Flickr (which is great, but less specific in application).

As for the TOS clause, that's standard legal protection. The terms also explicitly permit derivative works within the site. We're evaluating open licenses for the future, but for now it is easier to let content owners retain copyright.
You have %3 minimum for card processing when you do that.
Yes, it is VB6.

I did actually put quite a bit of thought into how I was going to put in the code samples. I elected to use BASIC like syntax because IMHO, this is close to as common denominator as possible and most universally understood (this is not an invite to start a flame war!)

I also elected to start by arrays at 1, rather than 0. The purest in my wanted to use zero, but to make it more universally understood, I elected to use one (because it also relates to the real world and card #1). I think more people will understand it this way.

The other thing I almost did not do (but changed my mind at the last minute), was to in-line the swap function and enumerate all three steps. I almost wrote it with Swap(i,s) function instead. Half of me thinks using a function is easier to understand, the other half likes the in-line for explaining it.

It's not as if the logic is very hard, there's one loop.

I'm curious what others think. Was it hard to understand? I'm always keen to learn more. Could I have explained it easier with the changes above?
Webcams Hacked Around the World
I wrote a tool a while ago for testing network based timing attacks. Getting the measurement right is really hard, just taking the average doesn't generally work while the 10th percentile measurement is much better. I did find PHP fairly hard to exploit though, but I was trying over a network which much more difficult than locally.

The code for the tool (and a presentation pdf) is here if you're interested: https://github.com/aj-code/TimingIntrusionTool5000
How could EU enforce the break? Google doesn't need branches in EU to exist. It could do all business with EU customers via Switzerland. Sure, no more Google jobs in EU, but that's surely a better outcome than being forced to split?

It could only work if EU pushed a law forcing all ISPs to block all requests to google, but that's never going to happen.
Netflix CEO: Broadcast TV Will Be Dead by 2030
This is wonderful work. I wonder how long it will take for software archeology to become a real field? So much is forgotten already.
What did you like about it vs. building the same thing on the Rails stack, assuming you are/were a Rails guy?

Also, how's your test suite? :)
These articles make it sound like homelessness is the fault of Google and Facebook. Homelessness has existed in Silicon Valley for decades and it has gotten worse because the laws prevent sufficient housing to be built.

The wrong thing about this kind of articles is how they try to link tech and social problems like they were cause and effect. It's similar to other smears like "immigrants are taking our jobs", etc.
I often wonder about how much programmers of my generation are missing out on because of our relative lack of understanding of the full stack of software and hardware. Many of my peers have never written C code outside of school and largely expect to only work in high level scripting languages like Python or Ruby.
If he is not the same author, then you are right. One statement from an other poster suggested, that he is.

The original author would have the right to add new alternative license conditions as he wishes to.

Maybe the author of 3D City should say something about it.

Edit:
Now I saw, what you mean. MicropolisJS seems to be an alteration of the GPL'ed Micropolis of an other author. And the owner of MicropolisJS stripped the GPL license from it to use it in the other project (btw. why?). I am no lawyer, but it really looks to me as a violation of the GPL, at least without permission of the first author.
Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. I was just criticizing western thought that so dominates our world today. Why do you identify yourself as a "westerner" instead as just someone who subscribes to western way of thinking? Why does a way of thought have to be defended instead of examined?

There have been many ways of thinking before our current materialistic western thought that were not merely primitive forms of current thought. For example in Vedic thought 'life-after-life' is just a fact and meaning in life is the lasting benefit we can accomplish for our consciousness. Can you imagine the transformational change in our society if we go from current view of life as "end all be all chance" to a "continuum".

In my view, meditation is examination of thought, not something that helps you make more money.
I think in most cases, a bytecode solution would just be inserting another runtime layer between JS and hardware. It'd be a rough couple years of transition to get speed back, and not to mention the years spent trying to get everyone to agree to a standard.

Sadly, JavaScript may very well be our bytecode. Unless by some miracle one of the intended JS replacements actually takes off.
Burning visible images onto CD-Rs with data
Which is why we need an anti-rich society. Eat the 1% and redistribute their wealth. I can only hope that a distributed post scarcity society and technology base can render their money worthless.
Because tents alone are not enough. You need to account for sewage and sanitation, power, and all the rest of dealing with a large number of homo sapiens crammed into a small space.

The thing is as a society we have plenty of resources and could enable most people to live with at least a minimal level of stability and security. But we don't want to. We've decided that our greatest economic centers work best when they're seething rat piles with the King Rat being pulled down and replaced every so often.
Is it just me or does the site design remind you of Frank Chimero's http://shapeofdesignbook.com?
How we perceive is different from how a machine perceives. The approach to fool machine perception could be quite different and incompatible.

I'm curious how feasibly we could take samples of human speech and use it to produce novel phrases that would fool a computer.
Since you're already invested in the MS stack Did you try TypeScript ?

If yes how does it compare to Dart ?
Ok, I found that in the logs. What you experienced was caused by the duplicate detector. That story had already been submitted by a different account, but was dead. (It was dead because the submitter had lost submission privileges because of prior off-topic posts.) The system redirected you to the existing post, which is how it tells you that you submitted a duplicate—but since you don't have "showdead" turned on in your profile, you didn't see it. This is a bug. We're working on a better duplicate detector, which should eliminate this problem.

Re the quote from that article, it's common for article writers to spice their posts with claims of being blacklisted. In HN's case, at least, you should take such claims with a lot of salt—they're usually groundless, and the ones that aren't are typically distorted. I tried to point that out in this case at the time (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8625890).
(You mean elicit, not illicit)

Placebo might be a fair critique if we were talking about people's self-reported stress or well-being. Here we're talking about physical changes in the amygdala.
I agree with you, but many people are doing something wrong. I've known plenty of people in tech who do not seem to be able to live below their means. I've had coworkers/managers/friends look at me like I had an extra head when I balk at the cost of things that don't even seem to register for them, especially when I mention I save 40-50% of my net income (and my pay isn't particularly impressive by silicon valley standards).
He is paraphrasing Winston Churchill, whom apparently was echoing an unattributed aphorism. http://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government
It's really ridiculous to say the tech industry is creating more of a problem than it does in helping the population. Before the tech explosion, let's say 1989, San Jose, and in particular, San Francisco, were dumps. The sort of looked like Fresno does today. Downtown San Jose was not a place most people from San Jose would ever venture to. Market St in San Francisco was scary. Maybe people think Fresno, as it is today, is what we'd like the SF bay area to look like. I prefer that it not look like that.

Yes, gentrification does have some impact on people on the periphery, and we can't discount that, but on average, the population as a whole is better off. Back in the early '90s, SF's real estate was in a depression. RE agents were moving out, due to the RE market depression. What we have now needs addressing, but it's more of a governmental intervention which is necessary. Intervention to address the housing stock shortage.

We need an organization like ABAG to have some executive power. Someone who can say, these will be green areas, these areas we can build up, and we need to bring mass transit here. We need regional governmental integration. Piece-meal works too slowly to adapt to the changes brought on by economic development.

It's because the SF bay area is such an economic engine that we have so many people come here and find jobs they cannot find in their home states or counties. If we were in stagnation like Fresno/Bakersfield, we'd have people fleeing trying to find the economic magnet.
Even taking the straight minimum may be better.
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> high level scripting languages like

I'm sorry, I thought that term died a long time ago. What exactly is a scripting language to you and how is it different than whatever you may call a "normal" programming language?
Einstein’s Lost Hypothesis
> NOTE In general, it's not possible to prevent length leaks. So it's OK to leak the length.

I would imagine that you can prevent length leaks by looping through the characters of the known value and then returning that comparison with an additional check of length.

function timingSafeEquals($safe, $user) {

$safeLen = strlen($safe);
$userLen = strlen($user);

$result = 0;
for ($i = 0; $i < $userLen; $i++) {
$result |= (ord($safe[$i]) ^ ord($user[$i]));
}

return $result === 0 && $userLen === $safeLen;
}
Given countries or reasonably similar per capita wealth it stands to reason that they stand reasonably close together.
There seems to be some stark contrasts in South Dakota.
Before it comes up (because it invariably will):

Anyone looking to invoke the "fire in a crowded theater" meme should consider that its origin was in Schenck v. United States, where it was invoked to justify criminal prosecution of somebody urging young men not to submit to the draft. It's not "common sense", it's bullshit.

With the massive data-mining and rampant algorithmic prosecution of people going on these days, it should be pretty obvious that this is a terrible, terrible fucking idea.
near the bottom of the the list is a course for sale:

"How To Market Yourself as a Developer"

it's regularly $599, but wait, now it's $299 but today it's on sale for $190!

sounds like somebody definitely has the marketing part figured out
That's not true.

A company taking on more debt does not automatically alter its market cap. There is no automatic correlation for any given valuation metric, whether we're talking about how high a PE ratio should be, or how debt should be valued when deciding if a market cap is reasonable.

Your 1) item rests on the efficient market theory, which is false.

It is entirely up to investors - their reasoning and emotion - and it typically varies significantly from one industry to another, and from one company to another. For some companies, taking on debt will not alter the market cap what-so-ever. Apple for example, viewed as an extremely healthy company with massive earnings, can take on debt without it denting their market cap in a negative way.
Kentucky truly is the worst state in the US.
Why HOT Kendra Wilkinson is trending today (
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Work remotely. Or if your company won't let you, leave and work for a company that does.
The author of MicropolisJS is not the author of the ThreeJS SimCity clone that is the top of this HW story.
Of course tents are not a long term solution, but vagrancy has been a problem for centuries and we still haven't solved it despite much chatter just like this. My point is that assuming we can't do anything substantial/long-run now then surely tents are better than nothing while we take another 50 years trying to figure this stuff out? They're functional, they're cheap, and they're leagues better than sleeping behind a dumpster. Siting them might be a headscratcher, and one I can't really comment on being several thousand miles away from SF.
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Or we just need to allow more housing to be built, and soon.

Anti-gentrification activists make it even worse since they oppose pretty much every new development. "We don't want luxury condos in our neightbourhood". Then you will have old tiny studios at the price of luxury condos.

People don't move to SF because because they look for a luxury condo here. They move to SF because there are jobs.
I assumed, although I didn't state it, that we could deny people who were a danger to others access. This also doesn't include medical care because these people almost certainly already have it through other the government programs.

And yeah I didn't include managers or other employees salaries. We could save much of that by requiring that the people there worked a few hours a week or by running some traning program in the kitchen and get cheap labour that way.

I also assumed non-stupidty by the government as we were trying to find out what it cost to house them, not what they could drive the price up to.
The population growth rate is roughly the same as most other cities in the country

http://e.infogr.am/infographic-20300?src=embed

It's SF's fault that it cannot deal with demand growth, not everyone else's
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If you want we remove the Haskell reference as invalid example, be my guest. The idea that I'm bringing in is not any less true because of that.