skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very excited by this and Numenta's work in general. I've been experimenting with their open source software, NuPIC [1][2], a lot on my own and I see potential. Its very different from existing machine learning algorithms, and they continually tweak it to reflect anything they learn about the neocortex.

[1] http://numenta.org/

[2] https://github.com/numenta/nupic/
Bunch of thoughts about that, which you are free to disagree with–

1. "You are failing (at what you say you want to do)" != "You are a failure."

2. I disagree (but this is a matter of intepretation) that a novelist's subject matter is entirely uncorrelated with their person. Writing is a very personal pursuit, and I think every writer puts something of themselves into their work. But would be happy to disagree about this, and to hear your counterpoint.

3. Re: the Brothers Karamzov quote, I think it's very common for writers to write about things that they can envision but not necessarily enact. They're more like directives than lived experiences. A person can live a life "full of sin" and then write a novel advocating "sainthood". Do as I say, not as I do, so as to speak. But again, would be happy to hear your thoughts.
Astroturfers using nicknames like “KillSnowden” are now also attacking Bitcoin
Correct, the main differentiator would be the notifications and the additional styling on top of the web view.

Goofy was created before messenger.com and had a bit of extra styling afaik.
On the flipside, "Is this task so special that we need to break from the pack?"
> The ability to do that is HIGHLY restricted by labor laws.

The ability to do that under the law is demonstrated by the fact that there are whole major industries where this kind of contracting with talent is normal. (Legal limitations tend to highly restrict the ability to get a remedy beyond money damages for breaches of such agreements, to be sure, but they don't tend to prevent the agreements themselves.)

It tends to be expensive (both in terms of what you pay the talent and in terms of the overhead associated with contracting), but if the talent is really valuable enough, that's the price you pay.

If you aren't willing to pay that price, you shouldn't complain about people "poaching" what you didn't want to pay the cost to have a durable claim to in the first place.
If your life is so strictly scheduled that you can't adjust parts of it an hour or two in either direction, or swap morning activities with evening activities, your problems are bigger than daylight savings time.

Some people work 2nd or 3rd shift, and a few of them even do it by choice. If you think moving things around by one hour is difficult, try shifting them eight hours. Those people still manage, though they often acquire sleep-related health problems and have to deal with more inconveniences in their daily life.
Firefox for Android Crosses 100M Downloads
Yes, but how does making prostitution illegal help against trafficking? It just makes the scene go (further) underground, and the actual victims can't even go to the police now because they get arrested themselves (albeit probably just instead of being deported immediately).

Also, I'd like to see a reference on the 'most' and 'frequently'.
I think Amazon already make these reviews show more, with a "verified purchase" shiny badge on the review (And probably shows up higher than non verified purchases)
I collect memes about life being a simulation. I liked the part in your piece about the "hints," and added it to my collection:

http://mxplx.com/schema/86/
I usually read more than book at once.

«Ready Player One», Ernest Cline -- Because all my friends read it and I've to.

«What is to go to war», Karl Marlantes -- After learning about it in a podcast, very interesting.

«Los enemigos del comercio, II», Escohotado -- Slowing progressing through it, full of footnotes and amazing stories about all the attempts of communism and socialism. Nearly clinical dissection of the original texts and sources.

«The windup girl», Paolo Bacigalupi -- Harsh, hot, cruel, realistic and futuristic. I'm enjoying it a lot.
The Courage of Bystanders Who Press 'Record' – The Atlantic
Recently read:

Blindsight (Peter Watts) - Hard sci-fi with themes of perception and identity.

Ancillary Justice (Anne Leckie) - More of a murder / mystery sci-fi with themes of gender.

Reading:

Green Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson) - Hard sci-fi covering the terraforming of Mars. Very political, takes a broad scope.
I don't remember his name, but one of the creators of Angular said (paraphrasing) "When choosing between libraries and in doubt, choose the one that has more testing in place". This is something I've personally found true the majority of the time.
Search Patterns: Design for Discovery, by Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender.

This is a re-read.
When the author says "committed" does that imply "term sheet in hand"?
You're not missing anything. There's a reason John Rogers wrote “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
^That is true. So I think the reality of OP's predicament is a little more subtle. It's probably "the desire to be/become ambitious" rather than overt, naked ambition. The two aren't mutually exclusive, too.

There are also some nice Zen-sounding arguments that you can't fully realize your ambitions until you relinquish your desire to be ambitious– because you suffer from all sorts of perfectionism and performance anxieties, etc. But it's possible to argue either way– talk is cheap, actions are the differentiator.
All Ideas Are Brilliant Before They Are Executed
A wonder if it's a coincidence that the latest video published today is: Up and Running with LinkedIn.

Seriously, as a long time Lynda.com subscriber, I've noticed a steady increase in the volume of courses in the "business" category. As a designer/developer, I find some of the business videos quite interesting and a nice expansion beyond their core design-centric courses.

I definitely see the synergies, but am a bit concerned that a company the size of LI is going to slowly move away from the designer/developer focused videos to certification-oriented courses; more of a direct competitor to Udacity's Nanodegrees and Coursera's Specialization Certificates. However, there are much better options these days for targeted developer video courses (e.g. Egghead, Tuts+, Laracasts, etc.). This was a great exit for Lynda.com--they have built up an amazing brand over many years.

LI brings such a massive scale with great channels to monetize courses beyond subscriptions. Enticing a relatively small percentage of the LI user base to upgrade to a new paid subscription tier justifies the cost; not even considering the additional opportunities this creates for both employers and job seekers.
Spicer up you love life with Spicer app
>>If so, I'm expecting the same reaction in the future about google analytics.

1) Google analytics is a service for tracking your visitors behavior.

2) Facebook like button is a like button.

You would be surprised if the "like button" silently tracked your visitors behavior -- just as you would be surprised if the "analytics script" silently liked googles own facebook page.

>>From the other hand, {facebook,google,random company} did not force someone to put the appropriate {buttons,code} in their site.

They are not getting sued for forcing someone. They are getting sued for adding unwanted/unadvertised functionality that undermines the right to privacy into their service.
I've picked up wildcard certificates signed under AlphaSSL for around $50 on sale in the past. For personal projects the acceptance is decent.
Among other things upgrading (to 10.10.3) will do, it'll fix the issue in the article.
Interesting article. My first job was working in a park in Monmouth County, NJ. Of the two parks I worked at, one was completely fenced off from deer while the other had small sections fenced off to study the impact of deer on forest regeneration [0]. The caged park had a number of rare plants and if deer got in (which happened pretty frequently), we would drop everything and corral them out of the park. The second park was much too large to cage, but the park system allowed hunters to hunt during certain times of the year.

[0]http://co.monmouth.nj.us/documents/127/deer_annual_report_20...
Slicing Pie Start Up Equity
"Eventually, this webpage got so complicated and unwieldy that I started avoiding making changes to it."

Skipped unit testing didn't you? Uncle Bob Martin would be upset with you.

Without tests, someday you'll be afraid to change Skit as well.
El Reg had a good article on this recently, people like Martha Lane Fox don't become serial entrepreneurs, as soon as they have one successful company they run off to join quangos where grubby commerce won't disturb their new establishment social position.
<i>"For full time specifically, you get equity at a startup. If it IPOs, you make millions if you're one of the first 100-1000 employees."</i>

Not really. You can make millions if you're a founder... As a regular employee you have more chances to make millions by going to Vegas than with stock options.
I work in enterprise myself, and I'm in love with my problem, not my code. But it's a problem of large-scale software development, not a business problem directly.
HP drops out of the public cloud storm
Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme - a collection of short stories

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon - an encyclopedic novel, to say the least
No, it is not mid 2015 yet.
Germanwings Crash Could Actually Have Been the Work of Hackers
Meteor was difficult with earlier versions because it is very heavy on rendering on the client with Javascript. The [Spiderable](https://atmospherejs.com/meteor/spiderable) package has made it easier to serve static HTML to search engines I believe.
I'm working through Introduction to Algorithms by Corsen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein.

I've just finished Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World by Justin Marozzi. A fantastic, thrilling, unnerving read. Tamerlane's ingenuity and political nous appears to have been incredible. Learning about Temur's life may change how you read all other history books. His mere existence changes the context and relative importance of much of Western European history.

I'm also enjoying and recommend Bloodhoof by Gerthur Kristny (trans. Rory McTurk), The Zoo Father by Pascale Petit, and Black Cat Bone by John Burnside. The Zoo Father and Black Cat Bone are among the most powerful collections of poetry I've read that were published within the last three decades, and Bloodhoof is also very good.
LinkedIn and lynda.com
I also have a problem with a Dual-link DVI adapter. If I sleep with it connected, at some point it wakes up and "kernel_task" takes up 100% CPU (all 8 cores) until I put it to sleep and wake it up again. Sucks coming down in the morning and finding my Macbook burning a hole in the desk.
> What are the drawbacks (apart from much fewer reviews of newer items)?

Shill reviewers will then buy, review, and return the items, which will increase the retailer's cost of dealing with returns or and force them to either increase prices or institute more restrictive return policies that end up inconveniencing legitimate purchasers that have to do returns.

EDIT: another problem is that it prevents legitimate reviews from people who, e.g., receive the item as a gift, which might not seem like a big problem, but some items may be more frequently purchased as gifts than for use by the purchaser.
Art Has Value
Thoughtful/erudite 5-star reviews and most 1-star reviews carry useful, distinctive signals.

References to related books can be used to calibrate reviewer taste.
I haven't had any issues with that, and I have two thunderbolt monitors attached in daisy chain mode.

The only kernel panics I've experienced so far have been Parallels Desktop bugs that crashed the system. I'm regularly stressing my Macbook Pro to the max running vagrant images through Parallel Desktop with full integration tests running inside, and this tends to be pretty effective at finding strange bugs in Parallels Desktop.
I built a tool that let you track your teams mood (with an anonymous daily email). Just looking at some old data, it's pretty good at revealing someone is likely to leave a team/company.

Here's an example: http://i.imgur.com/alv97GJ.png (Q1 2013 was not a good time)

(https://www.moraleapp.com if you want to try it out)
My personal computer is a late 2008 MBP, and Yosemite runs fine on that. It's been upgraded to 8 gigs of ram, and that's enough to smoothly do dev work in vagrant environments.
Was Germanwings plane crashed by a HACKER instead of co-pilot?
And with the rate at which Pluralsight is acquiring other companies, it'd be a lot more expensive than 1.5B
> Another point is that after fees almost no funds consistently beat VWAP

VWAP doesn't mean whatever you think it means.
Introduction to Semiconductor Switches
Sure, sure. If a tool or an idea is popular it still may not be any good.

But the thing about groupthink is, it is at its most insidiously effective when its participants don't recognize it as such. It works best when one feels oneself an iconoclast for saying what most everyone around them believes.
Including the Lufthansa A320 in 2001 where the control stick was miss wired so that the ailerons were reversed:
http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/compendium/inci...
The way you put it, it looks like it's a matter of trust rather than understanding. If you don't understand what X does and how, if you don't want to invest the time to analyze it, then you are gambling. The fact that a lot of people use X makes it look like a safe bet, but the point is that even if it turns out to be a safe bet, it's still a gamble. Isn't that cargo cult programming?
Australian small firms take to four wheels
ha didn't see this edit before I commented - we haven't released the code , but I'll have a look at the node package mentionned above, maybe I can contribute a bit :)
Germanwings plane ‘could have been crashed by hacker and not Andreas Lubitz’
It's not too different than Atlanta, there are places to avoid and places that are OK. The west side of the island from Yauco around to the top center are going to be on par with most suburbs in Atlanta, San Juan and east are a more dicey. On the east side Palmas del Mar is very safe.

I've never had a problem here or felt in danger.
Red Plenty is fantastic. Well worth reading.

There was a virtual seminar at the Crooked Timber group blog which is worth reading if you enjoyed the book: http://crookedtimber.org/category/red-plenty-seminar/
urdeskmail at somebigsearchgiantsemaildomain dot uguessit

Not really into "open source", so no github.
"I don't believe in the no-win scenario." -Captain Kirk

A lot of the problems we face in software engineering are Kobiyashi Maru tests. They're no-win scenarios, tests of character rather than ingenuity. There's a certain irreduceable complexity to all interesting problems, so at some point, you're not solving complexity, but merely pushing it from one place to another.
Scan your inbox to uncover hidden security threats like private passwords
True, but if we're going to discuss the piece we have to do so on its own merits.
> The worst thing is that you can't abstain from playing the game. Your retirement money is on the stock market and fund managers will take a big slice of it in fees whether you like it or not.

What are you talking about? There has never been a time where investing was cheaper and there were more options to invest without a fund manager getting a slice.

If you want to discount your pension benefit because you don't control the asset allocation (and I think you should, but that is an opinion) that is fine, but it isn't some sort of "rigged game" that you don't have options in.
Mindfulness in Plain English
by Bhante Gunaratana
I don't really think either Safari or Pluralsight is a good replacement for Lynda. They're both focused on very IT/technical topics (which I enjoy, but that isn't ONLY what I enjoy).

Lynda actually wasn't as good as Pluralsight purely on technical topics, but what they did very well was "everything else." Their niche (if they even had one) was that they did other topics.
> Most funds work on a model of 2 and 20, meaning they take 2% of assets they manage to run the fund and then take 20% of the profits as their compensation.

Surely they also deduce 20% of any losses from the 2% fee? /s
I'm a huge believer in going back to primary texts, and understanding where ideas came from. If you've liked a book, read the books it references (repeat). I also feel like book recommendations often oversample recent writings, which are probably great, but it's easy to forget about the generations of books that have come before that may be just as relevant today (The Mythical Man Month is a ready example). I approach the reading I do for fun the same way, Google a list of "classics" and check for things I haven't read.

My go to recommendations:

http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-50th-... - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, (1996)

http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master... - The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas (1999)

Things I've liked in the last 6 months:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Intangibles-Busin... - How to Measure Anything, Douglas Hubbard (2007)

http://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineerin... - Mythical Man Month: Essays in Software Engineering, Frederick Brooks Jr. (1975, but get the 1995 version)

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/00... - Good To Great, Jim Collins (2001)

Next on my reading list (and I'm really excited about it):

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Interface-No-brilliant-technology... - The Best Interface is No Interface, Golden Krishna (2015)
my guess is that you can't really effectively harden yourself against biting and eye gouging and neither takes it any skill to perform those moves. and they're comparably dangerous: eye going blinds you and biting can lead to potentially lethal infections days after the fight. the undefeated champion would be at risk of being blinded or infected by a desperate amateur without matching skills.

it would take away from the spectacle and ruin an otherwise perfectly healthy athlete easily.

breaking the neck, on the other hand, is NOT an easy task, especially if your opponent is also a trained wrestler. you need skill and strength and at least it's something for the audience. i'm pretty sure though that deaths happened rarely and were mostly the result of accidents. the fighters were athletes after all, not cold blooded murderers. they were in for the money and the fame. same with the soldiers; mutilating your fellow soldiers wouldn't be a good thing.
MongoDB Internals and Architecture
Can we please, please not make HN into a millennial-style* participation-trophy-giving, we're-all-winners zone of empty positive spin, with neither negative feedback nor brutal honesty?

It's starting to feel like we're trending that way with the new policy and the inevitable, sanctimonious "how could you be so negative!?" outrage comments, but I'd far prefer to see us not pull any punches wrt real talk. Not everything in the world is peaches and cream, and pretending so in print has never made any sense to me.

* I am a millennial, and we have a strange obsession with hearing only positive things
These results actually make sense. The 10 year period covered a tumultuous time in our economy. When the market drops 20%, no fees are paid, but no breaks on future fees are offered either. So let's say they start with $100 billion. The fund loses 20% one year, then rebounds exactly 20% the next. If charging 20% of profits, $4 billion in fees are paid on the $20 billion "gain," even though investors made nothing. They've actually had a net loss of $4 billion after paying fees on their "gains".

That is primarily why these numbers seems so ridiculous - the market had a few bad years, and then came back around. The people in charge of deploying this money should negotiate better terms, like paying fees only on net returns over longer periods of time (5 years instead of one year, for example). At the end of the day, it's their own fault for cutting lousy deals. $160 billion gives you a pretty big bargaining chip on fees.
With physical access, one has been able to create admin accounts for as long as I can remember.

- Start up the Mac whilst holding down ⌘-S. This boots the Mac into Single-User Mode and provides a method of interacting with OS X via the command-line, with full root privileges.

- Then check the filesystem to ensure there are no problems: "/sbin/fsck -fy"

- Then mount the filesystem for it to be accessible: "/sbin/mount -uw /"

- Now remove this file so OS X will re-run Setup Assistant: "rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone"

Now just restart, and enjoy the cool introduction animation as you create your admin account.
Virtually no VCs or private equity funds have anything less than a 10 year lockup. Those vehicles can't realistically function without long-term committed capital.
Motorcycle riders have the same issue. On a sportbike, if you enter a turn and your radius is not tight enough you will exit pavement before the road/track straightens.

Human instinct is to slow down, but on a bike this will have the effect of widening your turn radius—totally counterproductive. To tighten the turn radius, you need to accelerate and lean in (which you can do unless you're already dragging a knee).
Grads were generally an annual intake with interviews held around the start of the year (for the following year).

Interns were generally from the UNSW corporate placement program (though I can't remember the exact name for it).

Atlassian are a fantastic place to work - if you're in a position to apply for them I would highly recommend it.

Source: used to work there, hosted interns.
The Advantages of Starting a Startup as an Ex-VC
> See cancer risk factors research papers: they regularly yield results with opposite signs.

You'll have to expand on that - when I think of 'cancer risk factors', I think of data-dredging epidemiological analyses which are predictably wrong by the logic of hypothesis-testing, or I think of biochemical studies which blatantly overfit by failing to cross-validate or keep holdout samples, and lack of replication seems like it has the usual meaning.
> The crux is the airlines choose not to go for either option simply to cut costs, accepting lower safety margin.

Actually it is the passengers that want to cut costs. Us in other words.
I've been running with a Thunderbolt Display for a few years now with few problems. I've had zero problems on Yosemite.
Latency between compute "molecules" will be a limiting factor.
I'm having trouble seeing this as nuanced.

As I understand it from the WSJ article, Zynga signed a contract with some employees, giving them X number of RSUs. Later, before these RSUs vested, they threatened the employees with termination unless they gave back some of those RSUs. Coercing someone via threat into modifying a contract is, literally, a Darth Vader tactic ("I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.")

I understand that, from Pincus' perspective (1) these employees didn't turn out to be as critical to the company as their initial grant might have suggested, and (2) the equity was needed for other purposes. However, that's the risk that Pincus took in signing these contracts in the first place. My understanding is that when you sign a contract with someone you are required to act in good faith to see that all parties receive the benefits agreed upon in the contract. Threatening to fire someone unless they give up a benefit is not acting in good faith.