skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
30 minutes later and we have round 2 million dollars. This is insane, they could smash the record of the previous Pebble ($10M)
Now if it wouldn't be THAT ugly.. It even looks cheap on the movie :(

I guess i'll stick to a real watch.
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I think you've got to be careful when making a claim that working longer means you live longer.

Ignoring that this is anecdotal, but you're comparing across generations, upbringings, etc.

Our society is prolonging the lives of our weakest members, not our strongest. We've got centennials whose only visit to a hospital has been for childbirths.

My grandmother has outlived her fraternal twin by over a half century, plus a couple other siblings. My mother hasn't outlived any siblings.

Our grandparents are of a generation when vaccines were just beginning, and our parents are mostly of the generation where they were well in place and widely used. My grandad was born before penicillin was discovered.

Comparing between generations isn't possible, because we compare between vastly different medical practise. It's highly improbable that a child born at 30 weeks will live as long as a child born at 40 weeks.

A less healthy individual is more likely to take retirement early due to poor health. It's then poor logic to go on to claim retiring makes you less healthy.

Poor health makes retirement more likely. No one in ill health who could retire is going to work into their deathbed when they can retire and spend more time with their family members and doing their hobbies.

One of my neighbours retired after her kids finished school and moved out. She's in far better health than her husband who worked until retirement age. So anecdotes are really irrelevant. He survived the Russian invasion of Prussia.

If work related stress shortens your life span, and even isolated high stress incidents are correlated with shortened life span. What effect does having your farm commandeered by German Artillery and then shelled into rubble by Russians have on your lifespan? My guess is, not good.
The best method is to secretly hire multiple freelancers for the same task until it becomes clear which one(s) are better than the others.

This can also be done with agencies and even business units in an existing company. Many successful companies do this.

However, most companies hiring an unproven freelancer are looking to save money and time, so they are unwilling to expend effort to effectively mitigate risk.
Pretty sneaky to advertise $159 and not mention the $10 shipping which makes it $169, and KS doesn't even advertise that until you've already clicked through to the 'pledge' (aka purchase, what happened to "Kickstarter is not a store"?) page.

And now that the 'early tier' is gone (great UX on that, they took me to the credit card page, I entered my info, then they reloaded it and went "oops, that tier's full now tee-hee!"), why would you save $10 to pay them for a product that might ship 2 months later if they get around to releasing it? So, no Kickstarter for me, it's actually plus because I'll get to see real reviews and not hype.
>This is more like the wheel rather than syphilis. Something created by humans to serve a purpose, that endures because it continues to be useful.

I see it more like a implementation of a way to allocate resources throughout a society, that increasingly becomes suboptimal over time as the incentives to participate in such an arrangement (not to be read/interpreted as agreement) will become less distributed among individuals.

One would think that with the technology we have at our disposal, societies wouldn't have to rely on co-opting parties that didn't ask to be born where they are told, "it's your obligation", when distributing resources for sustenance and quality of life.
Which is one of the main reasons I still use Firefox.
But that adversary works by causing the sorting agent to run arbitrary, adversary-supplied code every time it makes a comparison. It has to do that because it invents the values in its list on the fly when it detects them being accessed by the sort (also, in order to detect them being accessed by the sort). That's not really the same thing. I mean, if you want to tie up a process, and you can already make it run arbitrary code that you supply, just give it something like while(1); .

If this adversary were forced to realize all the values it fed to the sorter before the sorter did any work, or if it were unable to supply its own code to the sorter, random pivot selection would be a defense.

edit:

I feel like pointing out that a quicksort implementation could defeat this adversary, without hurting its O(n log n) running time, by just comparing the first element of the sublist it was working with to every other element in the sublist -- and throwing away the results -- and then proceeding as normal. This is O(n) comparisons, which violates the vulnerability criterion of making only O(1) comparisons per call, but doesn't affect the big-O running time at all. What it does do, with an eye to this particular adversary, is realize all the values before doing any sorting work. It still doesn't fix the actual vulnerability the paper identifies, which is that you're running adversary-supplied code. I'm growing to feel like your bug report was frivolous.
To be fair, If your program takes user input and calls unserialize on it then whoever wrote the program is an idiot at best * .

> Warning

> Do not pass untrusted user input to unserialize(). Unserialization can result in code being loaded and executed due to object instantiation and autoloading, and a malicious user may be able to exploit this. Use a safe, standard data interchange format such as JSON (via json_decode() and json_encode()) if you need to pass serialized data to the user.

* Unless there is an absolute and specific case where you would need to do this, there might be but I'm struggling to think of one.
Have you not updated in a while? For me it works fine. I see all the icons for all of my services all the time. Click the one I want and get the number. No Scrolling required.

Current screenshot http://i.imgur.com/EzNc2g9.jpg
On Writing a Marketing Plan: Prepare to Be Unprepared
good list of schools
> Current students paying money to the college is stimulating the economy

Ehh, it's stimulating the higher education economy.

And even that's debatable depending on how that influx of money gets spent: Paying 100 extra student workers $10/hr isn't really stimulating the economy since most of that money's going right back to the college.

Plus, it's not smart to put all of your stimulus eggs in one market basket, ya know?
That doesn't mean 50 minutes closer, though. To get to NYC you have to drive up I95 through such fun spots as the whole DC metro.
"Most Corinthian students cover their tuition by taking out federal and private loans. That debt, it turns out, is far more resilient than Corinthian itself."

This here is the problem. If Corinthian can get out from paying its debts, why can't the students?
They'll be shipping in 3 months, so components for the first run have been bought, tooling has been made, all the developer salaries have been spent on the new UI and firmware. Not much risk is being alleviated here.
"Just because something was your idea doesn’t mean the CEO should be you."
I'll get one if the $159 pledge becomes available again, but I'm really looking forward to the "Steel" version of this watch. This is one aspect of the watch that Apple is getting right from the very first iteration. It needs to look sexy and make you want to wear even when the battery is dead.
Yes but it wasn't pure when we first pumped it out of the ground, either. I'd bet natural gas has a lower percentage helium than "balloon air." We are able to purify helium.
We financed almost all of my wife's law school and decided once she graduated and had a job, that we'd pay off her loans as quickly as possible. We're almost done, but it's been two long years of getting by on one paycheck. That, along with having twins, means that we're not spending money like we did in our DINK days.

However, the extra financial discipline has been very beneficial. We've learned to coupon a lot of stuff for next to nothing, redid our retirement savings, set up savings for the babies, and have put together a financial roadmap for the next few years. I'm sure having the kids had a lot to do with it, but cutting your net income in almost half makes you reconsider a lot of things.

Doing things this way will save over $150,000 in interest over the next 30 years. The government will gladly hand you a 30-year refinancing of your loans, with an attractive monthly rate, but the amount of interest that you end up paying is staggering. I know most people graduating aren't in the same position we were in to aggressively pay down the debt and those who can't are starting out life in a financial pit.

Seeing that type of amortization and interest on anything other than a house (and even then...) is pretty eye opening, especially when the amortization schedule has your name on it!
It seems that any work environment with a homogeneous group over 90% has reports of hostile working conditions for minorities. Reading reports about women entering a workplace dominated by men, men entering a a work place dominated by women, or blacks entering a predominated white work place, I constantly hear the same kind of abuse.

"By being the only Y in the work place, people expect me to represent the whole Y group just because I am Y."

"Because I am Y, everyone assume {common fear about group Y} about me".

"People think something is wrong with me because I applied to a X dominated work place and not one of the Y dominated ones."

It seems to me that the hostile working environment is the result of human nature when confronted with a minority. When the number of women in the industry increases, then the hostile working conditions will likely go away as quickly it initial started.
That is nice. Particularly when my kids were small, I would have liked to take them to the daycare in a toboggan, but the pavements were always ruined with grit.
Ahh, and I was most excited about the new E-Ink tech I thought they were showing off in those GIFs. Hopefully something like it can come to the Kindle eventually. Would be great for comic reading (and the animations are so smooth!).
The upvar and uplevel commands allow for some really powerful capabilities, like writing new control structure. They're amazing.
It's not a scam, it's the freemium model.
We are too often overlooked, sadly
Don't really approve of the means too much, but she's got guts. Good for her.
my concern with firefox, at least on the mac, I tend to find video play back just stops whereas I can take the same video to Safari and have zero issues.

I really wish there were a way to more easily identify if the problem is an addon or inherent to Firefox.
I have to admit they did a good job with the new watch, adding color is great and still having the week of battery is huge.
I was one of the early supporter for the first Pebble and have zero regret. It did convinced me of how useful a smart watch can be. I will be a little bit sad when replacing it with the Apple Watch when it comes out: I decided to change ship, but the Pebble will always have a special spot.

It's great to see they have a strong supporter base, and that will force Apple and others to stay active and compete.

I will for sure miss the long lasting battery of my Pebble!
$2million in an hour.

Is that a record?

(What else has sold anywhere near this fast?)
This is way more common than you think. The most successful kickstarter campaigns usually have their demand already assessed (the number I've heard is usually 25%) before launching.
I'm glad they're continuing to iterate on their product. This is certainly a nice improvement. Though I don't really understand the insistence of putting buttons on a watch that are used to interact with the thing. Pressing buttons, on the side of a watch and on your wrist while doing anything but standing still is always really awkward.

I was really hoping their v2 would have axed the buttons. I would be very tempted to pick one up if they did but oh well.
I think anyone who is capable of graduating from a college, even a flawed one, as she did, has a hard time portraying themselves as vulnerable. At what point is someone responsible. She even graduated, so she has a degree and can legally state that. While I'm happy to see educational institutions being viewed with more skepticism as to their value, I think her situation is pretty cut and dried. Many of us had the experience of getting out of college and for a number of reasons, like the economy, not being able to find a job in the field and having to find another way.
Anybody know which display technology they're using? It kind of looks like Qualcomm's Mirasol from the videos.
Going to disagree with a lot of people, but drop out of school for a semester. I did that and I don't regret it in the least. School was a large waste of time and it took me a long time to see that. YMMV.
My question was, what is the macro impact of them defaulting on student loans.

Seems like based on your point, everyone would be better off because PPP would go up slightly. I'm not sure I agree, but only because I am not sure of the impact massive student loan default would have on capital markets for debt holders.

Basically would mean that Sallie Mae could tank significantly.
"Constructive and destructive interference from distributed transmitters" is basically the definition of a sparse phased array... and it suffers from the Thinned Array Curse. Every radio engineer sooner or later re-discovers this classic "curse" :)
Cognitive Exhaustion: Resting Your Mental Muscle
This is something more people should pay attention to when implementing forward secrecy. Session resumption counteracts forward secrecy when done incorrectly.
Ruined your state? Try to govern the country instead
Wasn't there a lot of concern awhile back about electric cars being too silent, and therefore dangerous to pedestrians, etc who can't hear them coming?

Maybe noisy wheels are a better solution than playing artificial engine noises through loudspeakers.
In many cases, I use a fontawesome glyph linked to a hidden <input> element to work around this limitation :(
So the trains that Virgin run aren't actually owned by Virgin. As it happens, they have to lease the actual engines and carriages from ROSCOs (Rolling stock operating companies). This is the way Thatcher set it up and is one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated by her government.

It turns out it's more expensive to lease a train from any of the ROSCO's than it would be to buy one. But the train operators aren't allowed to buy them. They're basically an oligopoly. Every time the government looks at them, they conclude that they're uncompetitive and in need to regulating. However, as with most things related to government and huge sums of private cash, the regulation never happens.

The ROSCO's are unregulated and free to charge what they want. The train operators are forced to use them. This is one of the main reasons that train fares are so expensive.

They are also the reason that our rail networks capacity can't be increased. They basically hold the rail network to ransom. They should be dissolved and their rolling stock should be seized since they basically stole it from the tax payer in the first place.
This was really the first person I heard from that dug into this topic and it was super interesting to learn about. When you're the right fit, when you're not, and how to go about making the transition. Good stuff!
Below what threshold though? L1 cache size? O(64 bytes), no?
Amazon 'Order Details' Email Delivers Malware
Cities aren't fungible, but on the other hand, it can pay benefits to live in a city where there is a plethora of opportunities just in case you need to find a new job.
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So what is the solution here? Make taxpayers foot the bill for the social costs incurred by awful colleges? Once you make that decision, then the line drawn in the sand about what an 'awful college' is and which costs the colleges and students alike can expect taxpayers to be liable for is going to shift over time. You're trading one enormous problem for another one.

She should have known that for-profit colleges are bullshit before signing her life away to one. Now she wants to have her cake and eat it too by refusing to pay her loans, while still deriving benefit from the supposedly worthless degree she got.

We need a better solution to higher education. But this isn't it. I'm glad she's raising awareness of this issue, but she and everyone else involved needs to pay back at least some of her loan. You can't just expect the government to absolve you of your bad decisions.
> Just make community college + state universities free for everyone to attend, and we should have no more problem with this debt nonsense anymore.

Public colleges are already substantially less than private institutions. I doubt subsidizing them further will have a substantial impact on private tuition.

If we stop lending money to pay for education, the colleges will see substantially reduced demand at their inflated price levels and will quickly cut prices to adjust.

Then again, they might not.

They currently segregate their customers into groups by way of "scholarships" and essentially extract the maximum amount of money they can possibly get. I can't think of another industry where such disgusting behavior is tolerated or even celebrated as generosity.
Qualcomm Releases NoSQL QIZX
Hi Nadaviv. Great job on the platform so far.

I wrestle with how feasible it is for systems like this to be decentralized. Bitrated is centralized. If your site shuts down or is shut the service ends. But being centralized makes it convenient and useful.

My question is this: Do you have any goals to become more decentralized as decentralization technology evolves? If so, are there any plans you care to share?
Agreed, where does our tax money go? It seems that other nations despite their level or method of taxation are able to provide for free to subsidized secondary education to their citizens.
I would dismiss it as some crude conspiration-theory, but the fact that only 4 month later a plane of the same company has been shoot down under unclear circumstances over the Ukraine is really quite odd.
I gave my original away. The novelty lasted about 2 hours.
They don't even have an estimated ship date. That worries me a bit.
I'm sure the guaranteed number of sales prior to investing time and money into the project doesn't hurt either.
This reminds me of the Dutch Elfstedentocht, where they have a huge super-marathon skate across 11 cities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht

Would be awesome to see a similar race develop in Canada.
Exactly, it looks backward for those who are excited by the digital trend (a fad to me), but reality will balance things out. Also things have value when rare, now that physical is heading to rare...
> Can you imagine how terrible that would be?

I can, and it won't be terrible at all. Compile times might suffer a little (but that's likely to be negligible with a good Java compiler - I think Jikes is now abandoned, but back in 2002 it was pretty much instantaneous even for huge files, unlike Sun's). I don't think you'd notice it on Scala, and likely also not in other JVM languages.

I've worked with Python extensions that compile indirectly through C, and I have no experience with Nim but it seems to do that very well and very quickly.

What exactly do you believe the problem would have been if Scala or Clojure generated Java rather than JVM bytecode?
This is pretty cool. I wonder if there's a way to do this without having all the semicolon and curly brace punctuation on the right side... Perhaps something akin to coffee script which can be compiled back into PHP.

It'd make debugging/refactoring someone else's 10,000 line mess of PHP logic they wrote into one file in 2002 much easier. :)
This type of display is definitely a must. The size and build seem to be quite nice as well. Only (from a first glance) dealbreaker for me is the price. I'd guess half from what it is. Sure they have to pay a lot of R&D not relevant to producing a single unit, but with a run of 40k JUST for this KS campaign? It's just too much.

edit: Now it seems that the stock will run out by the end of the day :)
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This sounds very different from my experience. Have you ever looked at about:crashes and checked into any bugs hanging off your crash signatures? (And if not, please file bugs!) If you make a list of your crashes available, I'd be happy to take a look and see if I can dig out some explanation for your problems, or make sure the appropriate bugs are on file with Mozilla.

I know for a fact that Mozilla leadership does prioritize crashes and resource usage (in fact, this is one reason for all of the work on the process separation feature called Electrolysis), but of course they will prioritize crashes that affect lots of users. For various reasons, it could be that your crashes are different from those. (I'll assume that you're on the most recent version of Firefox already.)
I'm guessing they have a understanding with Kickstarter. Pebble is guaranteed to break some records with Kickstarter and it will get great press. With competitors like GoFundMe and Indiegogo I'm sure that Kickstarter welcomed Pebble back with open arms. Good for them!
Cocoapods, scale your iOS/OS X project easily
still degraded performance!!
Solr Cookbook, 3rd Edition
>> "Plenty of single people love life here on salaries of $45-60k, and are even able to save money."

Here's some anecdata: I lived like a king on my $30,000 grad student stipend for years in Manhattan. And maxed out my IRA every year at the same time. The trick is just to get an apartment somewhere uncool, then you're rich.
I seem to recall that Readability required transmitting the page I was viewing to their servers, so I found myself avoiding it. I don't know if there were good alternatives, but I do have faith that Mozilla's will be good (although I haven't tried the nightly or anything), so I'm excited about that. Once I used it for a while, it felt like something a browser should just have.
You have two effective options unless you can make school & the project management more efficient.

1) Put the project on hold until you're done with school

2) Put school on hold until you're done with the project or can afford to hire people to deal with it while you're in school.

Unfortunately, there's only so much time in a day and you need to sleep some. Priorities suck.
Bitbucket degraded performance
A Childhood Without Books?
Mark Cuban wrote a great post about when colleges start going out of business.

As a college grad with a lot of debt I advise everyone to avoid student loans at all costs. It's not worth it and there are always alternatives.

http://blogmaverick.com/2013/01/26/will-your-college-go-out-...
Can't we just remove their root certificate from the trust stores then?
> Oh. Why didn't you tell me that you had a real authoritative source? /s

Sorry, reality intruded. I should have known you'd find that a problem. However, you could get a clue from the fact that most companies who have tried to sell Linux have either stopped or gone bust, or do it on a very small number of systems. This is not because they are against making a profit.

> Microsoft's historical business practices WRT both Apple and Linux are well documented.

Up to a point. But most of the inexpert comment I see is badly informed and usually wrong. Still, who reads documentation?

> I don't know who you think you're arguing with

My mistake, I didn't know I was arguing....
Becoming a minimalist: How I did it
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