skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that's pushing the network effect a little too hard (only able to book for people with accounts) -- not to mention that you slow down booking to a halt, effectively blocking new users (If I plan a trip with 10 friends, I'll have to wait for all of them to get an invite before I can pay for the trip etc...). I'd strongly recommend making it easy to pay you as much as possible (assuming you take a cut).
Except that there's really nothing wrong with Common Core and if you talk to most teachers they're for it (disclaimer: my wife, sister, and sister-in-law are all teachers, and my parents are retired teachers).

Common Core is used as a political boogeyman against people who don't really understand what it's trying to accomplish.
I really enjoy these posts, and would be a happy Backblaze customer if they didn't have this (unpublicized) policy of deleting external hard-drive backups after 30 days:

Backblaze works best if you leave the external hard drive attached to
your computer all the time. [...] If the drive is detached for more
than 30 days, Backblaze interprets this as data that has been
permanently deleted and securely deletes the copy from the
Backblaze datacenter.

This probably reduces the total amount of storage used, making the $5/month economically viable. I'd happily pay more if it weren't for this though, currently paying ~$12/month for Bitcasa.
Is Concept Envy a Good Thing?
> extra layer of `Maybe` doesn't buy me anything.

Wouldn't that layer be there all the time anyway? Either in the form of a sum type (Just a | Nothing), explicit nil checking, or ignoring nil's and getting a runtime error.
In school we're doing a case study on Coors and Anheuser Busch Inbev, and effectively any "premium" beers sold by the big beer companies are the same cost to make as the lite versions. They price them higher because of higher perceived value by the consumer.
It makes them look bad.
Good news everyone, his employers are hiring: http://www.gal.ae/careers/Jobs.aspx

Just don't "slander" them.
So many people know both English and Mandarin already. If you know both English and Mandarin, there isn't a real advantage there. Disclosure: partial Mandarin speaker living and working in China for 7+ years; my value add is not Mandarin.
Careful, Larry Summers got fired for saying that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers#Differences_be...
I rather expect these results will be used as proof of sexism at the next level. Women outperform men in school (not a problem) therefore men are only achieving through the patriarchy in business.

I say that I expect it, but I've already had friends telling me this is the way it is.
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Easy to play armchair quarterback, but if each server is storing the complete list, why not just use a queue to push out the change?

for {
message = blockWaitingForMessage()
if message.action == "add" {
lock()
blacklist[message.domain] = true
unlock()
}
}

On startup you'd need to bootstrap a server. Use a database as your source of truth, and wrap an internal-only api to fetch all domains.
I was wondering this as well. Symbols are just atoms and atoms are great. The biggest issue with symbols in ruby is how gc is handled and that has improved in recent releases.
Yev from Backblaze here -> we do have that on our website (https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html and https://www.backblaze.com/remote-backup-everything.html) and in some help articles but I hear you. It's a topic that comes up, but when we've done the calculations in the past, keeping a copy forever as an archive raises our costs to the point where we'd have to raise our prices and we're not too keen on that! We have notification emails so that we let you know ahead of time before data is removed though, so it's rarely become an issue in terms of "accidental deletions".
OK, so make it a conversation. Have them draw on paper, or talk it out.

I'm probably on the wrong side of reality since plenty of people make lots of usable stuff while using vastly suboptimal approaches. OTOH if someone doesn't known very basic stuff, it seems unlikely they're gonna Google stuff and become wise. We're not talking about anything advanced; these are basic algorithms and data structures. Some people just aren't going to be able to handle the concept of memory layout so might as well figure that out sooner than later, right?
While we're at it, maybe we might relate this to consuming values by using them, and creating explicit copies when we need to consume them more than once. This avoids having to deal with any kind of garbage collection or reference counting, but you have to do the copying of the whole data structure instead of copying the (sometimes/often) smaller pointers to the data itself (random access).

There was some work on this by someone, called something like Linear Lisp. It looked like Forth with parenthesis.
This is really common in Australia - I've found the biggest giveaway of a fake-craft brand is that the alcohol content is generally 4.8% (which just happens to be the governments definition of a full-strength beer).
This has nothing to do with the SSL certificate. The site is configured to use RC4, which used to be the recommended cipher to avoid certain attacks (particularly BEAST). However, RC4 has other weaknesses, and this is no longer recommended. Current versions of Firefox will actually refuse to negotiate an RC4 connection.
Top Sierra Leone athlete arrested after he was found living rough in London
> So the real question is: why do Chinese companies tend to outperform foreign ones in China?

Isn't that obvious? Foreign companies are limited or just entirely prevented from doing business in China. China is basically a closed market: you can maybe play if you follow some strict rules your competitors can ignore, but rule #1 is that a foreign company can't in any way lead.

Look at the countries around China and things are quite different. Chinese internet companies in general do very poorly outside of China, even in adjacent countries or even open Chinese territories.
I've never heard of blue moon referred to as a craft beer. I always had the sense that it was only a step down from bud light in terms of corporateness.
> the whole fire fast mentality that is starting to pop up

I am going to hug my country's employment law. "Fire fast" sounds inherently abusive towards employees.
Drones spying on cell phones for Advertizing campaigns
The article says that it is unlikely that Kalim has a significant equity position in Etsy because he is not listed amongst the principal shareholders in the S-1.

The definition of principal shareholder here is: officer of the company, director on the board, or representing 5% or more equity stake.

Thus, Kalin could have as much as 4.99% of Etsy and still not be listed.

I would guess that Kalin has a significant equity stake in Etsy. It has no doubt seen dilution over time, but if I were a betting man, I would bet that unless he has already sold his shares in the secondary markets, his net worth will be a princely sum indeed.
While it's great for medians, reservoir sampling for calculating high or low percentiles, particularly with high dynamic range data, will probably have very high error.
Hacker Finds a Simple Way to Fool IRIS Biometric Security Systems
Ethical engineering is important. With great capability comes great responsibility. This is why I think it is good for engineering students to take as many courses in the humanities and liberal arts as possible, to get better perspectives on the world we're all building for.
Yeah, it's likely a terrible idea to start "modding" a pre-built home without consulting builders, getting the correct permits, etc. There's probably few non-nutcase reasons why a person would do this, as your link attests to. Still, a man can dream about having an indoor shooting gallery, or whatever. The best option would be to construct from scratch.
but consider: if a sufficiently magical technology could make an atom-for-atom copy of the mona lisa, we would still feel that there was some quality that distinguished the original. the most satisfying solution I've seen is to consider an "object" as a four dimensional world line, elevating "position x at time t" to an intrinsic property. that keeps the two spheres distinct even if they swap positions, since they would never swap world lines.
The problem is not boys. The problem is school. School is like a modern day prison for kids, particularly boys. Kids were not meant to sit still for 8 hours/day listening to lectures, then go home and complete hours and hours of bullshit assignments and busy-work. I hated school back then, and if I had to go back now, I'd probably hate it just as much.
HN is not male, therefore calling HN immature can't be anti-male shaming tactic.
Not in Georgia either, they really need to list states available or not available on the page. Heck even share location usage would be nice to say, sorry we don't support your state
The real thing, expedient stuff developed or collected at Oak Ridge, and actually tested in the field. Which you can't say about e.g. a number of Civil Defense shelter designs dreamed up by bureaucrats inside the Beltway that have insufficient ventilation (heat and humidity of too many people).
> Actually, its quite possible for licenses (though probably not gratuitous licenses) to disallow this;

No, it's not. Licenses do not restrict rights of the copyright holder, ever. They are a (conditional) usage license for people that are NOT the copyright holder.

EDIT: Yes, if the author is no longer the copyright holder, then this can occur - but this would certainly be a very strange and misleading way to describe that scenario.
Dear Author of BioFabric: thank you. thank you for being willing to experiment with graph layouts when so many others just fail too soon. Great work, and keep going! It's vastly applicable work. visualizing graphs (and dags specifically) shows up all over the place)
What about someone who is mentioned in one or more articles, but does not have their own. That seems like it's around 2.5 on your scale. I'm not sure how common it is, though. Might be very common (?).

(Primary known example is myself, BTW. I'm mentioned in 2 articles that I'm aware of.)
I've made my fair share of hairball networks over the years. but I don't think this fixes the issue. The problem is that biological network diagrams of sufficient detail to be accurate, are far too complicated to be useful. Plus, biologists are often sloppy with their data model for these things: mixing genes and proteins for example. In those cases, what does a line between two nodes even mean?
Live Mobile Streaming: Game-Changing for Twitter
Some in Ferguson Who Are Part of Problem Are Asked to Help Solve It
I understood why they did this 9 years ago, when I first bought auto-insurance online, but it's certainly not a technical requirement it be done this way now. My hunch is there's some kind of regulation/agreement between insurers that quotes not be made available on a website, and emailing the results is a loophole.
This is my personal experience. So take it as a sample of one.

A CTO, a decade younger to me, sought my advice on a similar situation - Founder-CEO divvied up equity in new and unfair ways without telling the CTO. The CTO wanted to raise hell, and take his loyal team members with him and basically handicap the company.

I advised him against doing this.

My view is - Even an unfair portion can mean real (but reduced) value, only if the company succeeds. And to that end, a rational angle will be to not act in a way, that damages value.

I told him to let his displeasure be known and leave but with his calm intact. And whatever, he had to do, meditate, jog, or whatever, to bring a calm mind to the table, he should do it.

He resigned, told the team that he built, that his initial pitch about the company doing interesting things are still true (which he truly believed), but he was leaving.

Fast forward a year and half, the company got sold for two-digits (Million USD), and he got a handsome payout, and the founders apologized.

He still wonders if the outcome would have been the same if he had acted in a way that damages the company.

Your first responsibility is to your peace and calm. Abstract yourself out of the deal, a business deal at that. Not worth your angst.
Good, but not great. My browser seizes up briefly when loading a new section of infinity scroll, and the infinity scroll definitely breaks the scrollbar. I scroll to the middle, no, wait, now I'm at the top, I scroll to bottom, now I'm reading something else entirely, no, wait, now I'm in the middle of the page again, no wait, different article again.
Protocol collaboration and peer review built on a GitHub foundation
This story reminds me of this:

http://ericpetersautos.com/2014/05/13/heebie-jeebies/
Awesome! Another way would be to spoof the GPS signal entirely. No hardware hacking required!
http://gpsworld.com/drone-hack/
Can't find a lick of information about Starfighter online - is that on purpose right now then? (Pre-"plug"/launch?) Definitely curious, give us the 2-sentence version if you can?
I think people should be more concerned about standardized test scores like PISA. Because you need good evaluation of education to improve education. Education is just one input variable to achievement, so measuring achievement is not good for evaluating and improving education.
>All I can say is that I'm sorry you believe that.

So what you're saying is you have absolutely nothing to hide, you are so self confident that you aren't embarrassed by a single thought or action (or at least not embarrassed enough to hide).

And in addition to not having done or thought anything that you are personally embarrassed by, you don't hold any opinions that could cause trouble for you (personally or professionally) if they were made public?

I'll quote Paul Graham's essay on this point.

"Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?

If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told.

The other alternative would be that you independently considered every question and came up with the exact same answers that are now considered acceptable. That seems unlikely, because you'd also have to make the same mistakes. "

> I literally can't remember the last lie I told.

I believe you might not remember the last time you told a lie, but that doesn't mean you're 100% honest.

Secret Santa at the office gives you a Christmas gift that you absolutely hate. What do you do?
Lots of widely-noted phenomena do not stand up to actual evidence. (http://www.minnpost.com/sites/default/files/attachments/rtx1...)
Seriously, these things can be bought COTS in WAY better shape for 35€ ( http://www.pearl.de/a-PX3490-1511.shtml ). If you want to hide it, just wrap it in black tape. I wonder who chose to self-build this thing with cheap-ass kits being available...
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-09-22/tech-start-u...
Internal Family Systems Therapy: Can you really hack the voices in your head?
The 16 Coolest Gadgets We Saw at Mobile World Congress
Not sure forensics tools are needed; getting the phone number and IMEI should be a Hayes command[1] away. Throw the SIM into something like a Telit GM862 (which runs Python) and you have a full scriptable phone. I played with that module seven years ago and there are bound to be better ones now.

1. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set
UTorrent Quietly Installs BitCoin Mining Software
You mad, bro?
Applicant Tracking Systems: A Tool, Not an Enemy
I think that what this really misses is that companies aren't necessarily monolithic entities. You need different groups of people doing different things. "Commandos" are useful as skunkworks groups, trying out completely out-of-band ideas to see what sticks. "Infantry" to take the things that do stick and develop them into something stable. "Police" to receive the hand-off and maintain oversight.

In other words, if you swap out "company" for "product", then you can use this as a lifecycle without ever actually losing the employee.
Have you looked at [Moves](http://moves-app.com/) for the pedometer app? I used it to get location history in one of my recent side projects.
I know this is a draft, but it would seem the authors are not taking this very seriously. It has numerous mistakes and is written almost sarcastically tersely.

Further, expecting recursive resolvers to do anything at all is an uphill battle. A lot of the reason DNS moves at a 'glacial phase' is that millions of DNS servers exist in all forms and ages. Changes can and do 'break the internet' for folks.

I don't understand why they just don't return TC and call it done.
I came to this expecting something about the movie. Instead I was rewarded with a staggering amount of history on the scam every one of has had perpetrated on us.
Out of curiosity, did you assume that they just hadn't thought of services like that and didn't run any numbers to see if what they were doing made sense?
"Need to be" number 1? Sure, I suppose that would be a bad desire to have. It's impossible for anyone, individual or nation, to be the best at everything. But what about "want to be number 1"? I would love to be number 1 at everything. Balanced with some reasonable expectations, I think this is great; in fact, I think we should encourage more people to feel this way.
Yes, this is why implementers trying to tackle this often just return TC. Changing the implementation or not allowing ANY queries at all breaks things, qmail for one iirc.
The key point here is leverage... because property is funded in part by debt when you increase your equity from the first sale then you can purchase a more expensive property (with even more debt) or possibly multiple second properties... in fact you can even do this without selling the first house by just increasing the mortgage.
Is misnomer the right word in that context?
Install AdBlock, Disconnect, uninstall Flash and Java, and use a JavaScript blocker and you'll make a good dent in a website's ability to track you.
It looks like they've thought of that. The link says that google generates a google voice number specifically for the call to protect your privacy.
2000 square feet is 50' by 40', now go over that inch by inch with a metal detector, and you'd better be sure you didn't miss a single spot, and oh there's vegetation and terrain.
I think the gap in income in the first years after leaving University, is at one point because a lot of woman at least a higher percentage then from men may have not enough confidence in themselfs so at one point dont struggle for higher payed jobs, those jobs they still dont completly satisfy the qualifications for, while a higher percentage of men is more willing to just try to get such jobs even without appropriate qualifications.

Also in my opinion a higher percentage of woman then men are not willing to get a job which has a lot of conflict potential , so at least a higher percentage of men are willing to try more stressfull and demanding jobs which also pay better.

These effects add up showing why there may just be a gab in the first years. This is mainly a problem of preferences.

The gaps later on and in higher positions i think are still really a huge problem for woman in all professions, so i would certainly not include them in this really simplified explanation.

This is truly only my opinion regarding the small gap right after getting a degree.
It seems like society is facing two serious problems on both edges of the bell curve: 1) undereducated men can't find good jobs and 2) well-educated women are still not getting the share of CEO, politician, and other top professional jobs that they deserve. I cannot think of any sense in which one problem cancels out, compensates for, or assists with the other.

They're both very serious problems, and we should all be looking at solutions for both.
Host: isn't part of HTTP/1.0, though, and if you try to send it, some servers will respond to you with HTTP/1.1!
full list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Molson_Coors_brands
I wouldn't say "only" there, but isn't it true that men are achieving through the partriarchy in business?
This is true, but only to a point. In principle, if the reasoning is flawed in some obvious way (say, writing a memo on executive power during wartime without citing Youngstown Steel, the leading case on the subject), other people with requisite training will sooner or later recognize that, and the error will be corrected.

Of course, this requires public scrutiny to work. Hence the problems with secret legal memos and secret court opinions.
A lot of this also comes down to ops & the features you really need – e.g. your example above didn't include the costs of the geographic redundancy or strong data integrity features which are standard with S3. A lot of places simply don't have geographically redundant datacenters and either lack the support team to run something like a replicated cluster filesystem in heavy production usage or, more commonly, don't have enough usage to really push it into clear win.

In the case above, the cost differential at 700TB is roughly the cost of a single sysadmin and so the running operation would probably be a wash versus S3 unless it had heavy data churn to maximize the S3 expenses or a good way to amortize the staffing needed for 24-hour-a-day support across other projects. Many places have budget processes which favor spending more on known upfront costs than getting permission to add full-time employees in the hopes of being able to beat those costs down the road.

I'm hoping that something like OpenStack Swift matures to the point where some of the complexity at the software + ops level starts making the DIY option routine. You'll never get rid of the minimum sysadmin commitment but that becomes a lot easier if it can be 5% of the night-shift because the software doesn't require a lot of care and feeding.
Mistakes, Humility and Brand
GiveWell displays the mistakes they've made on their website - http://www.givewell.org/about/shortcomings.

1) I admire the transparency and humility.

2) I'm not too confident and I don't really know (because this stuff is complicated), but I sense that this is a brilliant branding move. a) I think it establishes a trust with users. b) I think it makes users feel more comfortable and motivated to submit feedback and start a dialog.

Perhaps more companies should do this.
Which he had to sue for.
call me crazy, but i drink Blue Moon and other beers because of the taste - which is nothing like Coors Light - not because i indiscriminately flock to craft beers. i'll pay more because it tastes better, not because of some story.

i'm in Breckenridge now, maybe I'll get a Coors factory tour in Golden and thank them for making a beer that doesn't taste like piss.
Graph drawing by high-dimensional embedding (2004) [pdf]
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Thank you for a great reference. It seems to me that Figure 1B (girls' versus boys' variance scatter plot) clearly shows greater variance for boys.