skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair only means that it is possible to win, not that it is guaranteed.

There's been a lot of talk about games nowadays being "too easy", but they have difficulty selectors for a reason. Gamers choosing an easier difficulty because they would prefer to experience the story with minimal frustration are still valid gamers, they are just tuning their entertainment experience to their preferences.

Disparaging gamers with those preferences by calling them a part of "participation trophy" culture is unfair and uncalled for. Their entertainment preferences are just as valid as your movie or book preferences, regardless of how "difficult" it is for you to experience the media.
I don't think so, basically the HN crew wants to see the nuts and bolts, and he's giving a real reason why problems happen on the platform. I personally find it refreshing when someone from a B2B company helps me understand their internals, it helps me trust them more because either their sound or not.
Personally I feel that "privilege" is an ill-defined concept and should be ignored by intelligent people. I've never seen a concrete definition that a proponent of privilege was actually willing to stand by.

(E.g., people show me this essay http://amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html to explain "white privilege", then rapidly shift the goalposts once I point out that every point applies to me when I live in India.)

I suppose you are right that the relatives of drug addicts, murder victims and criminals might have more problems than others. But then why is happyscrappy talking about black people in Oakland rather than the children of junkies?

Note that India has junkies, criminals and bad parents too. In addition to having bad parents, the children of Indian junkies are also legally barred from working in the US (unlike, e.g., an Oakland child of junkies). It's true that Indians are less murder-happy than Oaklanders, but they have all sorts of other traumatizing events (e.g. rampant eve teasing, a high rate of traffic fatalities, multi-day water cuts).
AFAIK == is always symmetric.
Even easier is to turn half a grape to plasma in a microwave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i2lhO3bSjQ
Yeah, that makes sense. And also, I should hace checked the link.
Shouldn't it be "a UI toolkit" instead of "an UI toolkit"?
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq have the same shape.
Hiring Religion (2002)
Chilling data. It makes things like Perfecto and Vandermeer's Agroecological Matrix all the more relevant.
depends on the user as to what's friendly...?

not used zenefits, but I've got several apps where I end up doing just that, because the target audience is so used to excel, that anything short of excel is a really bad experience for them. as I can't embed excel directly in, down/uploading excel files is the next best thing (for now).
>I'm sorry, but if we had left it to the "market", we'd still have separate "white" and "colored" toilets. We'd have no gay marriage. We'd have no voting rights act.

That's the most absurd thing I've read today. Literally all of these things are the result of oppressive laws passed by the government in the first place. What does marriage have to do with the markets?
My arm chair trader's opinion would be the Fed removing all guidance and specifics about when they will raise interest rates.
They do put it on their website not publicly you need to login with a Microsoft(live or whatever) account.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted (I upvoted you). You make a good point. Valuations are both subjective (your view) and relative (where else can I put my money). This 'boom' could end tomorrow or go on for years to an end. Being early on a market call is the same as being wrong..which is why speaking about frothy valuations is one thing, putting money to work based on those presumptions of frothiness is playing with fire.
SSDs evidence storage issues
Oh, and it's not terrible to ignore people a priori? /sarcasm I'm not arguing for uninformed debate, but rather that economics as a field has huge social and moral implications. Some of these are more important than maximizing the unknowable variable of an unknown function.

For example, let's say that demolishing a minority neighborhood in LA to make way for a private highway will maximize utility for all of LA. So what? Is it moral?

About proposing a predictive model. I don't have to to point out flaws (not sure that I did). If A is false, I don't need to prove B to prove ~A. I concede that that it strengthen an argument.
That being said, I hate to go all tin-hatter on you, but some would argue that "Peter Schieff was right" ;) He wasn't the only one, surely. But man, did he make bank!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416549
I'd say the #1 rule in sales is to ask questions. Call up the businesses you think would benefit from your experience, ask them what their pain points are.

I don't know what your background or area is, but for example if I was to want to sell to a local business I'd want to speak to their marketing person and learn about how they currently acquire customers - and go from there.
Not quite. At least Firefox caches compiled asm.js.
I'm fascinated by your claim:

this can factorize any number on earth in
acceptable amounts of time provided your
machine stacklimit allows

You know factoring integers is thought to be a hard problem, right?

I look forward to your result of factoring RSA 1536.

I'm interested as to why you chose that rather than RSA-240, which should be much easier as it only has 795 bits as opposed to 1536 bits.
Yeah, I think we need to convince more people to try the demo, or maybe just throw a video of the demo on the front page. Out of curiosity, what made you not try it at first? Did you expect it to take a long time? What might have convinced you to try?
Ask HN: What bank will open a business bank account online in the US?
I am trying to open a business bank account for my startup in the US. We formed as a Delaware LLC and our main office is in South America. So far I always got to dead ends regarding the account opening online. Apparently it is dead simple if I just walk into a bank, but I won't be traveling to the US for a couple of months...
SVB was of no help either : (
I will appreciate any ideas or suggestions. Thanks!
One more product that Google retires. I like Gmail, Google, etc but the way Google deprecate their product start to concern me.
Oh okay, thank you :)
it actually looks like things are getting _more_ stable.
The access control API offered by Couchbase Mobile should be able to express the relationships you are looking for. Overview: http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile/get-started/what-is-sy...
I'd agree that Weave is great at what it does, which is providing just-enough-networking to make Docker applications as easy to design and construct as applications running on a normal LAN. This is a huge win, since I don't have to worry about portmappers and trying to discover what dynamically allocated ports are being used at runtime to connect two services.

I use Weave as the default SDN for Clocker [1] because of this simplicity, and also because it is server-less and will work on a single server Docker cloud or a cluster of tens of machines without having to think about architecture. Of course, Clocker supports pluggable SDN providers so if your networking demands are not met by Weave you can change to another provider.

I don't think Alexis (or any other Docker SDN provider) is suggesting that their software should be used for low-latency microsecond sensitive trading applications. You have to use the right tools for the job, and in this case Weave's sweet spot is its simplicity and reliability.

[1] http://clocker.io
You're absolutely right, and I'm am only meaning to talk about the present.
That interest rate policy will have some interesting effects on national/state/local/corporate debt payments.
I mentioned in another comment that I had clients years ago with the view you mention. They were primarily older, larger companies. Startups and small shops liked to see movement. Just based on my experience, I'd expect your employer is traditional and established.

Long tenures can indicate loyalty and good performance, but it could also indicate other situations. Perhaps they couldn't get interviews or job offers from other firms. Maybe they got comfortable and found a place that wasn't too challenging. It could show someone that is risk averse (any job change has risk), or who is non-entrepreneurial. People who are overcompensated also tend to stick around.
I don't think he meant that they can steer the economy towards validating their model. Rather that the conclusion (right or wrong that they maybe) leads to certain actions by our leaders.
Might have something to do with another comment in this thread...

> I didn't even realize they offered this - CloudFlare really seems to dominate the narrative in this area.

Is this something you used? Does its turndown affect you? anyone?
WebRTC on a drone
Fit an exponential curve to that DJIA graph and I think it's hard to say if we're up or down.
Gmail and "Google" aren't going anywhere.
It has worked the same way for years. Probably, knowing pg, since the beginning.
I'm 52. Program full time. Had to learn new technology about 6 times or more (IBM/360, CPM/MS DOS, Win-Desktop, Win-ClntSrv, Win-3 tier, AS-400), now learning Web and Mobile.
I've been a Manager and Developer and all together.
Currently I am working in a team where half programmers are about 50. And we doing a popular international product, growing fast.
Weave has other issues... like they homebrewed their own ECDHE-PSK-based transport encryption protocol on top of NaCl. Homebrewing your own crypto, especially transport encryption which has to solve problems like key exchange, replay attacks, etc is generally the wrong answer.

Also, even if they were using a standard transport encryption like SSL/TLS or IPSEC, PSKs are generally frowned upon for anything other than point-to-point connections.

They describe the PSK as a "password", so what they really want is a PAKE algorithm, however they do not use a password hashing function, so weak "passwords" are susceptible to brute force attacks.

Anyway, all these things are why you should just stick to standard protocols like SSL/TLS or IPSEC.
I don't get the hubbub about Zenefits. They offer a commodity service for no fee, but offer worse plans at higher rates? I've heard there's some merit to using them when your company is really small. But our finance and HR teams whines about them incessantly -- saying how they can't handle larger companies well. I know their ADP payroll integration is terribad.

I just don't get the $4.5B valuation other than they don't make any money.
Using a VLAN (VXLAN), as the post shows?
We'd like to make a way for users to pick their personal bests and, if they want, share them.

I'd be fine with renaming /best to /highest, except that it has been /best for so long that perhaps it would confuse people.
How cute, down votes. The Hezb cabal on HN?
Much better. Also logarithmic, which was another failing of the above graph. With a line of best fit!

Yes, if the market is overinflated, it's because growth itself has failed to happen.
Couldn't the same be said for [insert dynamic langugage here] ?

Fast enough is fast enough, as they say...
Don't basically all of the services do that now? Skype doesn't, I know hipchat does.
Agree. I may try some benchmarks, as I have recently added support for Calico (as well as Weave, which was my original choice due to its simplicity) as another swappable SDN providers for Clocker [1].

[1] http://clocker.io/
TIL: Weissman score has a meaningful formula: W = (r log T') / (r' log T) where r is compression ratio, T is execution time and the ' versions are for a reference implementation. An alpha scaling constant may also be included.
> Since we're talking etymology in the grayed out bottom of a HN thread, did you know that the word "slave" comes from the Latin "sclavus" that means "Slav" and is therefore offensive to people of Slavic ancestry? Will you stop using it now that you know? I hope not, but it goes to show the absurdity of putting hurt feelings before reason.

You're literally arguing against your own reasoning.
The benefits of programming with assertions (a.k.a. assert statements)
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Recently I finally got to try VR— the Samsung Gear VR.

I was a bit disappointed (my expectations were ridiculously high going into it though). I was surprised to find (1) the resolution to be quite pixelated and (2) visible black strips of the hardware bordering my viewport.

After usage, both the resolution and the visible hardware were not issues. They "melted" away and I was "immersed".

But I'm curious: is the Rift expected to be higher quality than Gear in this regard?
Yes, generally That should do the trick.
Honest question: besides Google Reader, what has Google terminated that people actually used?
That's an entirely subjective statement. What do you mean by 'large'?
They used to allow this (as recently as a few months ago). You could download any windows 7 iso and then would have to activate after install. They even provide a utility for making bootable flash drives from an iso (presumably for installing win7 without needing a disc). I have to imagine they stopped offering the images due to the high level of piracy.

With an image from microsoft and an easy to find, spy-ware free, super easy to use executable (I'll avoid mentioning names on here), it was way too easy to pirate windows.

Also, not sure why you still got bloatware with this method. Manufacturers typically offer all of the required drivers individually online. The drivers themselves are bloatware-free but maybe you got roped into installing a software pack for the machine or something?
Yes, as someone who went to MIT I can attest that it is very bad, at least as of the mid-90s-early-00s when I was 35-45. I believe the primary reason I was able to get jobs in that period was that I erased all evidence of my specific age in my resume (in the middle of a job search so I had a nice before and after to compare) and could pass as a college student. Still had to be careful about what I said, e.g. no mentioning PDP-11s....

If it's not your calling, avoid the field unless you have solid and achievable plans to e.g. move to management or start consulting before you turn 40. If you're not "good with people", good or able to become good at playing the "political" game, be very very careful if not "avoid the field like the plague".
Wow, if only we used this much time (10+ years) and resources (Half a billion x the expected 100x) to bring real war criminals to justice.

People have made a career off of this decade long witch hunt with their international kangaroo court trying people in absentia.

FTA:

"The trial judges — an Australian, an Italian, a Jamaican and two Lebanese — are distinguished by the red vests they wear over their gowns, which themselves have red sleeves. The Australian, David Re, is the presiding judge and a veteran of the special international tribunals for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the former Yugoslavia. Like Re, many of the other judges and lawyers involved in the case have made a career of serving in such international tribunals.

The tribunal’s budget makes it possible for lawyers to present their graphic exhibits in the clearest possible manner. During some hearings, prosecutors place impressively accurate before-and-after models of the scene of the bombing on an enormous table at the center of the room. The model makers, who spent weeks constructing them, put special emphasis on precisely reproducing the destruction, even the damage to trees. The proceedings are conducted in Arabic, English or French, and transcriptions are produced in all three languages. I have read thousands of pages of these records and found only two typos.

The process in The Hague is also likely to establish new precedents in murder convictions on the basis of circumstantial evidence. For all the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the investigation, the prosecution has produced no direct evidence, let alone secured cooperation from any of the defendants or their potential accomplices. Its case is largely based on the records of dozens of cellphones that it claims were used by the assassins, among them the five defendants."

No direct evidence, no defendants but a nice chunk of change to sit around and pervert justice for their personal gain.
The vote is today!
If you want to win the war of nit-picking, you win. You are right that the Constitution was not operative yet in 1788.

> Unmarried women could own property, but under the common law doctrine of coverture, married women could neither own property

That's what I said. (And not entering into contracts or earning salary are corollaries of that.)

By "joint ownership," I didn't mean some specific conception of joint ownership that you seem to be referring to. I meant that they owned things together, which means that whoever was more dominant in the marriage would have say---and legally, the husband would be free to completely dominate if he wanted.

> while the Ninth and Tenth Amendments remain in effect today

Go read them---they are not in effect in practice.

I don't care to continue this discussion, so I won't continue discussing it. It's pointless anyway, we are too philosophically different. If we want to argue we should argue about philosophy. Arguing on this level accomplishes nothing.
No but I would at least have more confidence in the driver support for the hardware included.
IMO your balance should reflect your progress toward investing goals, not trying to outguess the market.

You know better than anyone about your own goals and progress, so you can make reliable decisions based on that information.

No one knows what the market is going to do next, and even if we assume a range of predictive accuracy, you're probably low in that range unless you spend a tremendous amount of time getting and analyzing economic data. So, you can't make reliable decisions based on that information.
I see that you already have 25 contributors, so you might wanna try filing an issue asking for someone to take over. A very good advice I've gotten is to grant commit access to anyone who files a PR that gets merged[0].

The best person to take over is probably in this list[1].

[0]: http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html

[1]: https://github.com/eneifert/ZendeskApi_v2/graphs/contributor...
“What is needed is a culture that induces bankers to do the right thing even if nobody is watching,” Lagarde said in her prepared remarks.

Do bankers now get paid for doing the right thing? Because if they don't, it's not going to happen.
Education statistics cut both ways.

Ask the question this way.

Are Brittany McKnight and John Wilson more employable than Lukwesa Nakazwe and Hijani Lungo?

Yes and it is obviously about race. Why? On average, Africans immigrants are more highly educated than native born Caucasians.

It's not about education. It's not about statistics. It's about racism. There have been studies where researchers submitted resumes with identical education and employment backgrounds but substituted "white sounding" names for "black sounding" names and the ones with the "black sounding" names were half as likely to be contacted by prospective employers.

With the same education and the same work experience, "Je'Marcus Johnson" is half as likely to even be interviewed as "Mark Johnson".
Godwin said, "I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about the Holocaust"[0]

I suppose because "Godwin's law" is in the dictionary now you are free to add meaning as you like, but I wouldn't be happy about this stackoverlow like meta trivial pursuit at the expense of logic if I were Godwin.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
For whatever it's worth, the Crossbow technology remains at the core of our Triton container stack[1] -- and we have extended it significantly by adding VXLAN and virtual layer 2 networking.[2][3] One of the comments we have heard from many early Triton adopters is that they enjoy having IP addresses, networking stacks and bare-metal performance. ;)

[1] https://www.joyent.com/blog/triton-docker-and-the-best-of-al...

[2] http://fingolfin.org/illumos/talks/sdn.pdf

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLvi3nPNqiQ&list=PLH8r-Scm3-...
Caltech alum in my 30s, move to the Bay Area.
Correct! Once upon a time people said Amazon cloud was too slow. Then they said it wasn't suitable for large workloads. Then they said it did not make money ... etc etc. I'm not saying we are like Amazon, I'm just saying that making new stuff excellent in all dimensions at once in hard ;-)
I'm 32 and I've been learning how to program for quite some time. Basically, I got bored of my career and wanted to change.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm not wasting my time because by the time I have enough experience I'll be too old to be employable.

Sure, I could always be a freelance programmer, but if that doesn't work out it would be nice to know I can get a job somewhere. But this industry seems incredibly ageist.
It also has a Wifi sync which allows you to sync and keep your passwords off Dropbox.
Been using this for a while. It is especially helpful if you are part of multiple teams.
3 Lead Form A/B Experiments That Drive Users to Submit
Without google the internet would basically be just following links and word of mouth. Far more of the internet is accessible due to search engines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization#Nested_virtualiz...
A few measured pesticides went from a handful of parts per billion to zero in urine samples.

No actual effect on the body was measured.

It was a single family, for marketing purposes.

What a useless article.

Edit:

> And while it can tell us all about scientific studies on pesticide levels in our bodies, it doesn't have the same impact as if they showed us.

> We can debate whether those pesticide levels are harmful, but using a show-not-tell approach to make a simple point about the difference between organic and non-organic is a pretty effective gambit.

At least you admit you're trying to get a fact-free emotional reaction. Is that better or worse than not admitting it?
If we ignore the pieces of plastic I ate when I was a small child, everything I eat is organic.
In some cases, Google may see these small businesses as competition, so that's why they're targeted.
I'm not sure why you think so, but fwiw, irl, I am alexis at weave dot works
And my final comment for the day: Shia'a militant and/or political movements are not the creation of Asad. This is more orientalist bullshit.

> Assad, an Alawite Muslim, took a different and somewhat surprising tack: He withdrew his opposition to a plan, proposed by clerics loyal to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran, to establish a Shiite political party in Lebanon.

I know at least one PhD writing his thesis on the formation of political Shi'ism, starting with organized groups like Amal[1] immiedately prior and going as far back as possible with first and second hand sources in Lebanon, which many would argue was the socio-political movements demanding better representation and rights for the Shi'a started. They might not have been militants or terrorists, but keep in mind Hezbollah do not seem themselves as anything more than a political movement. We are speaking to their foundations.

I am tired of Western fly-by-night MENA researchers: to give all the credit to Asad for Hezbollah is akin in the computer industry for saying Microsoft invented DOS and the personal computer. Just stop it already.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amal_Movement