skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Former NYT journalist here.

You make some really good points. The NYT is trying hard to embrace the Web, and it's done a better job than a lot of newspapers, but it faces certain limitations.

That said, a lot of the activity in the newsroom is still tied to the daily rhythm of putting out newspapers.

Digital ad revenue only accounts for about 30% of the paper's total ad revenue, which means that print still figures large:

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/243057/nytco-t...

While the NYT's profit declined by about 40% from 2013 to 2014, from $156M to $92M, it is still a profitable company, and much of that profit comes from print. It's very hard for a company to wean itself from a profit center, especially when it's not clear how profitable it will be on the digital side.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/business/new-york-times-co...
Omnigraffle is very nice but a bit costly.
Same here. Looks like "TypeError: secret required" from the heroku logs.
I think you're talking about this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003RAE19Q/ the Livescribe Echo Smartpen

Or at least as of 2010 when I put it in an Amazon.com wishlist (and #%&^%& but Amazon's search function sucks, "pen" didn't find the "smartpen" by which it's named).

Going to http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl_sr_pc?ie=UTF8&field-brandtext... I see much cheaper versions, including ones for iOS.
related to EMV security, Andrea Barisani gave a talk at 31C3 last December: "Practical EMV PIN interception and fraud detection"

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6120_-_en_-_...
Recommended if you like this: Light Up from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection[1]. The UI is not as polished, but the collection includes a great number of other puzzles, and has iOS[2] and Android[3] ports.

[1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/light...

[2] http://hewgill.com/puzzles/

[3] https://chris.boyle.name/projects/android-puzzles/
Here's a list of tools and services for HTTP load testing and benchmarking. I added Locust to the list. Let me know if the list is missing anything important.

https://github.com/simple10/guides/blob/master/load_testing....
Google Now doesn't care who says "OK, Google"; it'll (intentionally, I assume) allow anyone to say it.

Actual voice identification works in a similar way to how apps like Shazam do: they build a "fingerprint" of your voice. This is why it still works if you have a cold, or for some reason the pitch of your voice changes.
Do you have firsthand or even secondhand knowledge of a market for account takeover bugs where the buyers are monetizing those bugs via celebrity dirt? Do you have knowledge of markets for account takeover where buyers are directly monetizing those bugs at all?

I'm not asking if you can hypothesize such a market. I'm asking if you know about one actually existing.

It's been suggested to me that there is in fact at least one set of buyers for account takeover bugs. But they aren't monetizing those accounts.
This is not a problem. You can have any hypothesis and any test. If your test has validity it's a valid way to test the hypothesis. That's it.

The scientific process is a social one, and if you feel that an experiment is constructed unfairly, you can devise another experiment to falsify it.

Saying that an experiment "confirms" a hypothesis is just a rhetorical trick of the comment parent. Experiments can only ever falsify.
Whenever I give a talk, I show up wearing fancy lingerie underneath my business clothes. That way I get the feeling that I know something absolutely nobody else in the room knows... and that little fact gives me confidence.

If you're a guy and/or not into wearing lingerie you can always wear a ridiculous shirt underneath your presentation clothes that has something outrageous on it. Or (if you're crazy enough) put a printout of something random, like a banana or a hamster or Oscar the Grouch in your pocket. Just thinking in the first ten seconds that you did something so nonsensical make you kind of wonder if you are losing your mind- in which case you may have a little chuckle to yourself, causing the tension to dissolve. Also, you will know something the audience absolutely doesn't.

I realize this is exceptionally unorthodox advice, but it works so don't knock it 'til you've tried it.

Another tip is to pretend that you are talking to a room full of friends, that you have been accepted by all of the audience members already and they support you. Takes the edge off...

jsonne is absolutely right the lead up is always worse and after 10 to 20 seconds it starts to feel normal.

Knock 'em dead, you're gonna kill it.
So, basically, you lived in Trainspotting?
This is really great. Two big missing features preventing us from switching away from Slack are direct messages and mobile push notifications. The latter is hard to do: push is highly centralized, which is really bad for self-hosted/open source software. But DMs are totally doable.
How about:

entropy := amount of disorder

information := knowledge of the system (knowledge of disorder)

uncertainty := unknown disorder (entropy - information)

And so entropy and information are opposites: as you gain more information about a system the uncertainty is reduced. If the entropy of a system increase, the amount of information required to describe it increases. If you have an amount of information equal to the entropy, your uncertainty is zero and the system is completely described. This seems to square with our usage of the terms in the context of thermodynamics and information theory.
Now time to contact aliens (tired of listening?)
Private/direct messaging is the next big feature we will be adding :)
I don't think he was presenting his past actions as good. He was showing that he himself has made the same mistake.
This doesn't strike me as the best of ideas, but I do love the thought of a future wherein the news reports that everyone's savings accounts devalued a certain amount against the dollar because Walmart didn't meet their quarterly earnings or whatever.

That all said, I suppose this could exist today, if there was a payment processor who could transact vanguard shares.
Even more so, they try comparing absolute numbers with ratio.
1. We're using all of our own hardware, co-located in good datacenters with high quality internet providers. I've been building and deploying servers around the world for over a decade, so I have some strong opinions on this. We may also use rented dedicated servers in similar facilities during the public beta, but that's temporary. Uptimes will be comparable.

2. You can forward different external ports to the same internal ports on apps (e.g. port 31245 -> port 22 on your Ubuntu app). You can also launch VPN server and then ssh to your servers from inside your virtual LAN :-)

Web traffic is handled by the Portal system, so port 80 and 443 are "intercepted" by default. They proxy HTTP traffic to your apps based on the paths that you specify. You can forward /blog to one WordPress instance and /otherblog to another WordPress instance.

3. The compute power levels are meant to be relative to standard usage, but benchmarks are probably better for hackers, so we'll do that.

4. Thank you!

Great feedback, thank you!
Show HN: Create mockup images of responsive websites
Uhh, what is the connection here? And how are you so sure that status wars did not happen as much, if only in different forms, during the days of "enforced monogamy"?
Fingerprint as part of 2 Factor Auth is nice. Instead of getting a text and copying it into a text box, I just swipe my finger. It's much more convenient and provides even better security.
I'm actually glad to hear that.
Node-datadog-metrics: User-friendly monitoring for your Node.js apps with DataDog
I don't see the problem with the design of the RP experiment; it might still falsify the hypothesis.
Without weight constraints of a car, you can use larger fire-containment-cell sizes, significantly lowering manufacturing costs. Also, you are ignoring the value you can get back when you recycle the battery, which may be part of how Tesla is offing the $15,000 replacement.

I still don't know if the numbers would work out though.
> That seems like a huge disadvantage to me. The bottle neck in any software project (> 1 person)

Even single-author projects have the person who wrote the code months ago and the person reading it today. :)

> is usually the time it takes to read and understand source code. Some estimates[1] claim that up to 78% of development time is spent just reading code.

Sure. This is a big deal.

I'm not sure the software-conservative approach of locking down the syntax and flexibility of expression is deeply helpful, though. My experience is that comprehending syntax (while it can be a barrier) isn't the biggest portion of that 78% you're talking about -- maybe 15%. Wrapping your head around the semantics of what a piece of code does is a much bigger portion.

The semantics of what the software does are the true language of the program you're writing, so in a sense the choice isn't whether or not you're going to have a DSL or not, it's just how concisely the syntax of the language will support the expression of it. And I've found that the less flexibility you have in syntax, the more likely it is over time that you'll have to type/read over larger amounts of code in order to capture the expression of a given semantic goal.
I strongly considered going the route of journalist-developer after graduation but couldn't really get any information. Seemed like all the opportunities were with Buzzfeed and their ilk and while they may occasionally flirt with good journalism overall I'd rather work for BigCorp. Still I think I'd love to do this kind of work. Anyone have details about pay or places hiring?
Neat. What's the purpose of the "slug" when creating the room? I was expecting it to be the URL slug, such as http://localhost:5000/#!/room/my-room (and quickly noticed hyphens in the slug name caused a validation error...).
This paper is very readable - thanks for the link.
Would you really say that a society where no one is ever held accountable for what they say is the alternative to what happened to Sacco?

Imagine if someone with a lot of twitter followers interpreted the statement you just made here as a veiled death threat, unleashing a raging mob against you, ultimately leading the utter destruction of your life as you knew it. Would you say that you were being held accountable for what you just said and that any society that did not do that to you had to be one where no one was being held accountable for anything they say?

Demanding that people should be held accountable for what they say is so generic that it allows for any kind of reaction to just about anything anyone could ever say. The islamists who killed the Charlie Hebdo caroonists could have said the exact same thing.

Proportionality is important.

Also, Sacco's case clearly shows that there are always lots of people out there who are waiting for an opportunity to bully others, regardless of how contrived and intellectually disingenuous the pretext may be. Portraying a joke about racism or race relations as a racist joke is just daft. I can't believe that many people honestly felt that Sacco was being racist. They just wanted to bully someone.
Is Kandan still actively developed? Doesn't seem like there's been anything new for a couple of years.
Yeah, you're never going to find the "perfect" set of skills all wrapped into one person. Even if you could find someone with all the right skills for right now, they're gonna need to grow and evolve
Hmm interesting...Yeah its about 8-9 seconds.

Why does this happen? Did anybody inform you of any reason why, or what you said?

I can't find anything in my history that I think would deserve it (although subjective), but maybe it's some karma received over time algorithm.
>With that in mind, I would not want to learn a new language for every project I was a part of

Well, you have to. Every new project comes with its own vocabulary and semantics. You have to learn those whether they're expressed in terms of data/function abstractions or syntactic abstractions. Sometimes—perhaps less often than many Lisp programmers appreciate, but sometimes nonetheless—those new concepts are simply easier to understand when expressed syntactically.

>The majority of programmers cannot design a good language, and if Lisp gives them the opportunity to try then that's a BadThing™

There are many programmers (I say "many" because I haven't actually met most programmers, but "most" might be true, too) who cannot design good data abstractions. Would you consider that [your favorite "OO" language here] allows one to form data abstractions to be a "bad thing?"
There are jerks in every industry. Just gotta work hard and be glad you're not one of them.

I'd like to believe the industry attracts just as many people who are trying to make the world suck less... like every person who was just disgusted by this story.
It's mainly for XMPP (room slugs are used as the identifiers there).

Also try typing in #ROOMNAME in the textbox! You can link to rooms like that.
Why Startups Should Reject Most Partnerships
Make sure to also read the same user's comment later on in the thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/1rhn38/heroin_users_o...

My favorite quote:

>I used to torture some of the people I sold drugs to by asking them if they knew why they got out of bed in the morning. "Why do you get out of bed every morning?" I would ask. Most didn't have any idea. When they realized this, I would pounce: "I know why I get out of bed," I'd say, almost imperially "it's because I'm sick as shit and need to do a shot." So there.

And from the first comment:

>In spite of my immediate delight with heroin and vow to use it as much as possible, it took over 6 months, and really closer to a year, of consistent use before the body became physiologically addicted. That said, addiction is rarely only physiological in nature. More often than not, it is caused by social factors.
If you understand quantum mechanics, it's pretty easy to map the process of quantum decoherence to the increase of entropy. It can be more clearly said, then, that quantum coherence is a measure of negentropy: in classical terms, uncertainty, but in quantum terms, the amount of computational power the system has—the amount of certainty it can be used to create.

If you think of our universe as one big quantum computer, it started with some amount of negentropy, and is slowly "burning through" it by resolving quantum predecessor states to their ultimate physical conclusions. When all the negentropy is gone, the system will be in a (quantum-)predictable state.

(It might be a classically predictable state, too, now that I think about it; if the universe only contains atomic hydrogen spread evenly across the universe at an exactly even temperature, then I think you get "for free" both a reading of the position and momentum of all those atoms, no?)

Anyway, that's all to say: you can measure the power of a quantum-coherent state in "bits of negentropy"; when that state collapses/decoheres, you will know N more bits of information than you knew before it collapsed. The negentropy (potential to answer questions) in the system has been converted into entropy (answers to questions).

And that's the strangest thing about all this—that it falls out that "ability to increase certainty" is the ultimate conserved resource in our universe, the ultimate clamp on thermodynamics. A certain clump of particles, as a closed system, can only be used to increase your certainty by N bits; after that, the system is useless for answering any further questions about anything, ever again.

And, on the other hand, think about things like electron spin: as long as no decoherence is occurring—no certainty is being created—thermodynamics doesn't care if something is acting on something else with a force, or anything like that. There's not really such a thing as "energy" in the universe, no requirement that every ongoing force have a "casting cost" in negentropy. There's only decoherence. Heat-death-universe hydrogen atoms are perpetual motion machines, for free, only and precisely because their perpetual motion will never compute a thing.
Yeah, I feel it's more about earning respect than making a living.

"I made $10k just for a quick hack"[1] has enormous bragging value - it's both a large enough payout for that, and it can actually be used without going to jail. Much better than actually bringing Facebook down.

[1] It doesn't matter how much work went into finding the exploit, one can still brag about doing it left-handed in 5 minutes.
I mean, you can always fork it :)
Impressive RaspberyPi 2 static/ wordpress stats
Someone finally said it! I have often remarked that much of the so-called anti-racism is in fact designed to keep a lid on actual racism itself. People are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
US Marines testing ball shaped “Bot” for beach landings
This is the second time I've ever felt this effect. The first time was with the 2048 variant Hexagon 16384 [0]. I'm starting to suspect that it's something having to do with spending a long time staring at a set of regular circles.

I wish I knew a neuroscientist so I could ask them about this effect.

[0] http://rudradevbasak.github.io/16384_hex/ with HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437009 and my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7443465
Biomedical Results of Apollo Missions
I would go further than this article's assumption about diminishing returns.

It seems clear that when it stops being rare, locking people up for minor crime isn't merely pointless but is in fact woefully counterproductive.

Incarceration at the level seen in the USA, I believe has the net effect of actually creating extra crime through many well documented causes, including the destabilization of families and their extended communities, the crime-college effect for minor offenders at the same time as a reduction in their legal employment opportunities on release, not to mention the fact it lends significant credence to any robin-hood style narratives any professional gang cares to adopt, so helping them recruit.
That's not been true since 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN#Banks.27_liability
I think you understand what I mean but are perhaps being dense for the sake of argument. There are people who hold simile views to yourself and these people take it up on themselves to bring people's employers into arguments that they have no part of or perhaps would be otherwise unaware of. That's not to say the employer cannot have a response to comments and posts of this nature but they are not allowed to deal with it in a professional manner because the mob is baying at their door.
The benefits of light to moderate drinking might have been exaggerated
> it's just a lot harder to right a self-interpreter in lambda calc.

Here's one for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_lambda_calculus, all of 29 bytes long, including parsing:

0101000110100000000101011000000000011110000101111110011110
0001011100111100000011110000101101101110011111000011111000
0101111010011101001011001110000110110000101111100001111100
0011100110111101111100111101110110000110010001101000011010
If the new trend (towards old companies collapsing) is described correctly, it is pretty sad. I think that a large part of why people open businesses as opposed to just doing 9-to-5 is the desire to make a long-term impact. Something that lasted 500 years seems like a much better candidate for this than a hyper-successful company that collapses after 5.
> it is atrocious since the linked study arrives at the completely opposite result Wikipedia claims.

Wikipedia allows public editing. Did you amend the incorrect claim?
Order Size in the HFT Era: Identifying Trader Type
> And segregation wasn't offensive to most southern whites.

Does racial segregation offend you, then? If so what are you actually doing about it? Are you putting your kids in a diverse school? Are you encouraging them to date people from other races? Are you married to one currently? How much of your social circle, other than acquaintances, involve non-whites?

There is no way you are going to "fix" societal issues without demonstrating a resolution in your own life.
Reminds one a bit of The Great Panjandrum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjandrum
"At first all went well. Panjandrum rolled into the sea and began to head for the shore...Then a clamp gave: first one, then two more rockets broke free..."
Probably Apple, there is another mention of them later on in the document.
Will Chan of Chromium wrote a good post explaining the congestion issues with opening many TCP connections - https://insouciant.org/tech/network-congestion-and-web-brows...
Beyond ‘Ruin Porn’: Startups See Something Worth Saving in Detroit
This is the saddest thing. It's so trendy to have offended narcissistic egos today that people don't even recognize when someone is on YOUR side, defending YOUR cause with sarcasm!
> Does anyone know if anything resembles this? I mean, I could very well leave a low-powered NAS to help the IA serve their content, store it for later use, etc. And I imagine (hope) that a lot of other people would too. It would be a way of donating electricity, space to a worthy cause.

The Internet Archive serves torrent files for every object they store, so in theory, anyone could have a NAS that would crawl those torrent files and then join the swarm/seed for all of those objects.

That would be a hell of an open source project. The Internet Archive would then be a metadata repository and seeder of last resort. #shutUpAndTakeMyMoney
Or when you do find something really exploitable you already have a financial incentive to be good.
See: spicy food.
Is the 500 year company a dream that keeps getting better and better or is it a dream that turns into a nightmare for the people who would otherwise disrupt it?
While interesting, I think journalists should try to avoid doing comparisons that are meaningless.

I stumbled upon:

"...Of those, 3,886 have been around for more than 200 years. As a point of comparison, only one in every four U.S. companies founded in 1994 was still operating in 2004..."

What is the relevance there? To me it sounds as useful as saying "as a point of comparison, only two in every 6 companies founded in 1978 where still open in 1986". Why that range? how does a company opened up in 1994 and closed in 2004 have to do with the 200-year companies? Wouldn't it be more useful to say "as comparison, only 4 US companies are 200-year old or more"?

Did I miss something here?
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That's not necessary malicious on the part of the power company.

At a previous job, we built a system for a company that prepared batteries through multiple charge/discharge phases. During a discharge, the power was pushed back onto the grid.

The major challenge was matching the waveform of the grid power (occasional spikes confusing the zero-crossing, drift on the timer elements etc.). If you don't, it reduces the efficiency of the power company's transformer leading to replacement with a larger one, or damage due to the excess heat. You can imagine they're going to recover that expense from somewhere (and you and your dirty sine wave are pretty clearly at fault).

I would expect the home systems to be less precise than our industrial client's equipment.
So basically without a company a person is nothing?
and a helping of picross http://picross.net/

though this implementation is a little gimped- rotating to the correct of the three possible states (on,off,nil) often requires two clicks, but a doubleclick is no good..
Automated verification at Facebook is state of the art
She publicly broadcasted something that was, at best and assuming one gives her the benefit of the doubt, extremely insensitive and in any case indicative that she is perhaps not the best choice to be a communications director.

If an accountant got caught stealing in her off hours should she expect to find herself still employed?