skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I assume this is demonstrating someone's gibberish generator, like: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

Even if it isn't, I wish people would stop saying things like this:

"I have a theory of phenomenon X that shows it has a cause different from what was previously believed. Therefore X is JUST AN ILLUSION!!!!"

The word "illusion" is as tricky to deal with properly as the world "reality" because as Barbie might say: "Ontology is hard."

"Illusion" is used in two distinct senses:

1) when a phenomenon has a cause that is different from what is naively assumed, the naively assumed cause is said to be "an illusion". Thus, the "bend in the stick that passes through the water's surface" is said to be an illusion because while the bend is perfectly real, it is in the light, not the stick

2) "illusion" is also used to mean simply "not real" or "non-existent" in an absolute sense, as in, "The illusion of safety the TSA gives us."

We muddy our language (and therefore our thinking) when we conflate causes and phenomena. The mind is both a cause (we refer to "the mind" to explain things) and a phenomenon (we all experience our own minds and most of us who aren't psychopaths have reasonably effective predictive models of other people's minds.)

So when someone says "the mind is an illusion" what can they possibly mean? Obviously it's nonsense to say the phenomenology of the mind is not real: that would be like saying we see the stick in the water as straight, when we manifestly don't. So presumably they mean there is a cause that gives rise to the bend in our perceptions that is different from what we naively think it is. In that case, saying "An alternative causal account of the mind" would be vastly clearer.

"X is an illusion" is a formulation that is good for one thing only: identifying charlatans and nutjobs. For that, it is very effective.
Same switches, so they will feel similarly.
To me, a "duolingo is the best tool I have for learning english" sounds more natural to me as an american.
I'm not exactly a social butterfly, so from my perspective I've been getting much more out of my job by not having to work in an office.
I wonder, if I write some HTML/JS code and deny the write to modify, can I send Flash a cease and desist for violation?
I think the problem is that it was expensive, so they were kind of locked into marketing it toward people who go through money like socks — similar to why Tesla started insanely far upmarket and has slowly been working its way down to the ordinary consumer market, which is probably where the most benefit will happen.
If I need to get a message to a machine or troll someone, I do a psexec -s cmd to their box, then do:
msg * "insert message here"
I used a couple emoji. Snag Symbola: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Symbola.zip
The best site I've found for translations and conjugations (through the duolingo comments) is spanishdict.com [1]. They have verb conjugations for every tense and offer a wide variety of example usages.

[1] http://www.spanishdict.com/
I thought I'd also heard that the port of Colossal Cave Adventure from FORTRAN to C helped to spread UNIX around campuses.
Tarsnap Mastery
Those characters are still based on the Roman alphabet, though. Non-Roman alphabets such as Cyrillic are trickier. For example, I can copy-and-paste Cyrillic, as in русский, but I don't know offhand how to produce those characters on my keyboard, much less on my iPad or mobile device.
Bought my daughter 4 bags (red, green, blue, yellow) with 1000 bricks in each bag. 500 transparent bricks (4x2) for windows.
Made in Italy, manufactured according EU standards, contaminant-free according EU code, indistinguishable from the originals. Cost: about 200 EUR

Our local LEGO store sells buckets for 11 EUR and you can fill them with whatever you like. One bucket with figurines and tools and other stuff was enough, so far.

What happened to LEGOS?
More choice for less money
(If you and your children don't fall for the ads)
Show HN: Slackarma – Give Teammates Reputation Points in Slack
Naw, Alex is a deep and abiding chunk of urineyellow crap.
Visualizing Video Game History Using Ggplot and D3js
H+ launches Holus: a Holographic tabletop display platform
This case has been tried before, but in a different industry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Industries,_LLC_v._Blizzard....

Basically MDY made a bot for world of warcraft. It would play the game for you to earn in-game gold.

Blizzard did not like this and had forbidden it in their ToS (Just like ADP has disallowed certain aspects of what Zenefits does- automated access, etc..)

Blizzard won the case. The main element was 'tortious interference' - MDY was interfering with the relationship between blizzard and its customers. It does not matter if the customer wanted to use the bot or not- MDY was encouraging the user to violate blizzards ToS.
You had set a strong root password, correct? So in what sense had you not already "done something" that successfully defended against "this stuff" ?

You could ask Rackspace to implement a feature where newly setup servers have most incoming traffic dropped until the customer finishes setting up. You're also free to -j DROP all packets from outside the US if you think that would help.

But your wording makes it sound like you think there exists some collective action the government could take to prevent you even being scanned by "others". If you believe this is the case, the burden is on you by far to propose a specific concrete solution and thoroughly convince others that it is necessary.

I, for one, don't see how it's possible for an ambient authority to "secure" a network based on peer to peer communication without destroying it in the process.
Move semantics are here: http://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ownership.html#move-sem...
The docket is available (free) here:

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/2lue6fyli/california-northe...
The thing about Uber and Lyft operating ina gray legal area is that their products worked perfectly.

Zenefits' web application is a shitshow of JavaScript errors. It is amateur hour over there.
Careful with those assumptions, friend.
Top Secret Documents on Poland's Secret Tapes Affair Are Published on Facebook
If it makes money, it's smart. If you're filling a need, then it's smart. Sure it's risky but anything you do has some measure of risk. It might even be worth it because it's risky and therefore less competition.
ADP, LLC v. YourPeople, Inc. et al
The obvious question is what about type function functions, when you want to abstract away the type functions?
Hey guys, I just launched Slackarma. To give someone a reputation point, all you have to do is type "++ @teammate" and to check reputation points, you just have to type "++ leaderboard." I would love to hear some feedback!

Also, the code is at https://github.com/gdroel/slackarma
I think the pendulum's swung too far in the other direction: a proper mix of theory and practice is self-evidently the way to go--especially when immersion is not feasible--and the only part worth debating is exactly what mix to use. I never used Duolingo much because you have to type on a phone which is pure pain, but here's another reason I'd avoid it, and ultimately a more important one.

(Also, in case you haven't yet worked it out or looked it up somewhere else: you need to use "dem" with masculine and neuter indirect objects, often translatable into English using "to" or "for", and with certain prepositions. It is the dative masculine/neuter definite article.)
Great news. That will allow ZFS in a FreeBSD driver VM, providing storage for other guests, even with a Linux dom0. Is FreeBSD 11 expected this year?
> I hope that you translate your passion into using technology to truly help make the world a better place.

I wouldn't hold out too much hope for that. It sounds like they quit because they would rather play with pokemons.
My grandmother Florence Swope frequently quoted some rich guy - Andrew Carnegie or Rockefeller but I don't recall - as saying "If you're down to your last hundred dollars, use it to buy a suit."

That struck me as good advice so I actually did just that one time, however it set me back $450.00 at Nordstrom Rack. Real nice suit, I really enjoyed it.

Eventually I donated it to a thrift store in hopes that it might help someone else get a job. This because I wore it to a bunch of interviews for coding jobs. My experiences led me to conclude that no one believed that I was really a coder, see because computer programmers never wear suits.

Carnegie or Rockefeller? I couldn't remember so I tried to find a citation, and was unable to. I'm convinced now that grandma was just making that up.
The definite article "the" in the title might give the wrong impression. As far as I can determine, this is merely a proposal and has not actually been implemented, much less adopted by Hadoop.

Also, the abstract says: "Results show that it has a significant improvement in execution efficiency and
stability of job scheduling." but no results are actually mentioned in the paper.
He got a cease and desist letter from the copyright holders, not the injectors. I believe his ISP was injecting.
European Authorities Dismantle Cybercrime Ring, Dozens Arrested
I've just published with Packt and the experience was better than the previous times I've worked with them. The reviewers they had on board spotted lots of issues - both with wording and the technical aspects - and the project coordinator was quick to respond.

My biggest issue with them is that their tooling is poor, from using MS Word templates to having no version control process for documents and code.

I agree with other posters that the quality of the book will strongly depend on the writer.
Sony’s Compact RX-100 IV and RX-10 II Cameras Pack a Big Punch
> What would speed things up for me is the ability to easily import translations from Google Translate into my flashcard app.

You might like to try my webapp for reading and learning a language:

http://readlang.com

It allows you to read shared texts or upload your own (.txt or .epub) or read any web page with a Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readlang-web-reade...)

You can click or drag across any word or phrase to get an instant translation.

Every translation is converted into a flashcard, along with the context sentence.

You can practice with Readlang's own spaced repetition flashcards or export to Anki if you prefer.

Hope you find it useful!

(I've been bootstrapping this for the past 2.5 years)
NASA seems like the wrong agency to be doing this kind of work. NOAA would be more appropriate.
"I think you should recant, but only if you have arrived at the conclusion honestly"

Were you home sick the day high school discussed the word "sardonic?"
What if the argument took place privately? Is the mistake the venue, the participation or the action/argument itself? The applicant invited a public debate - should the CEO just avoid the debate and let it play out?
Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP Creator) Quotes
Two Kinds of People
This is pretty asinine. While Amazon is a horrific company to work for for engineers (a very anti-engineering culture, despite the constant propaganda to the contrary they are a retailer, not a tech company. AWS is an exception to the rule.)

Amazon was the most diverse company I ever worked for. Women made up %40 of our engineering teams, and as a white american I was generally a minority.

Their hiring process is totally asinine & incompetent- literally my boss was dealing drugs in the parking garage to other employees during work hours, and his training was a degree in criminal justice, he could barely operate excel-- yet he was in the hiring loop for programmers.

Yet they are diverse.

In fact, diversity is the only thing you can't complain about when it comes to Amazon.
FWIW I saw on /r/duolingo that French could be getting a new TTS soon http://i.imgur.com/haowkeG.png - for certain values of soon.

edit: ah sorry, missed the August bit on the last line. Probably not the value of soon you need.
I wonder if had Microsoft open sourced C# earlier the choice would have been different. Seems like it.
That is the common wisdom. However some people, most known perhaps djb, actually argue against it. Pluggable algorithms may allow for downgrade attacks, and in a world wide complex system there will always be holdouts for some reason.

They argue you would be better with hardcoding your system to known secure best practice. When the time comes to change it, you specify a new protocol version, as there will be new and better practices not only in algorithms but also in how they are used (mac-before-encryption being the canonical example of this which took far too long to change).
Yeah, doesn't seem like many people read the article, just the title.
ys1010 is (accurately) describing the marginal rate which effectively applies to all income above a threshold (although the different taxes/charges have different thresholds). It’s quite the thing when it kicks in.
I think they're gas/electric or all electric motors. The next gen GTR is twin V6 + electric and has top speed of 197mph. Think of how far a Tesla could get 10 years ago vs today too.
The birthday paradox helps with the case of finding any two random inputs that have the same hash. The problem with MD5 is that it's feasible to craft two specific inputs that happen to have the same hash.
Starting a business with rails makes sense and still do. And later moving to another technology that scales better makes sense too. After all, you will probably be a millionnaire at the time you need to scale your product so why worry ?
If it's the holy grail, then erlang has had it for a couple decades... and whether it actually works in nginx I don't know, but it does work in erlang.

The way it's handled is that the process where the previous socket was connected remains in place until it terminates but all new sockets connect to the new code.
For some helpful visualizations of these data, check out:
climateinternational.org
Hopefully Apple will add Hypervisor.framework support for Intel's hardware-virtualized graphics, https://01.org/zh/blogs/skjain/2014/intel®-graphics-virtuali...?
For some helpful visualizations of these data, check out
http://climateinternational.org
Btw there is a new feature in the kernel to help avoid using the accept shared memory mutex -- EPOLLEXCLUSIVE and EPOLLROUNDROBIN

This should round robin accept in the kernel, and not wake up all the epoll listeners.

https://lwn.net/Articles/632590/
Decorators are an ES7 proposal -- they don't exist in ES6.
That is a good data point. How small is a 'small' meeting? 5 people? 10 people? 20 people?

When I was at Google they experimented with some smart whiteboards, it was not a successful experiment but most of that was trying to 'sync' between multiple rooms was a pain and at the time a "40" screen considered pretty big.

My interest started when I looked at replacing the whiteboard I have in my home office with something that was dual use like this. The newest generation 'NUC' computers can drive a 4K screen at 30hz so one of the cheaper 4K TVs might be a replacement.
Thank you for the transparency of your decision. It's always welcome from the community.
You can get a knockoff "Big Bag of Bricks" 1000 pc set for $39.95 on Amazon[1], but at ~4 cents/brick it's only 23% cheaper than the 580 pc generic LEGO set from Walmart[2] for $30 (~5.2 cents/brick). It doesn't seem like there's an exorbitant margin on the cost of making a small plastic brick. You're just paying a small premium for the LEGO brand. I agree with the author that the pricing seems fair (and has even gone down!) but we don't perceive it because we didn't buy our first LEGO sets and we acquired huge collections over a long period of time.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Building-Bricks-Blocks-Pieces-Compatib...

[2] http://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Creative-Building-Box/4291088...
IT Shared: The Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra by G. Strang
The basic problem is that a huge number of people claim the mind is noncausal in the first place. On that basis, we might well say that the epiphenomenal, dualistic Mind is an illusion, even though we all know that the actual, causal mind is very real.

Also, I started feeling nauseous when the author said the words "energy consciousness" and closed the tab. It's not just you.
The Four Fundamental Subspaces
>I net enough to pay off the mortgage, so I’m doing that, which will leave the entire household debt-free and cut our expenses drastically

The lead seems buried here. This isn't someone quitting, this is someone in a position of incredible privilege, essentially retiring (or at least going on "funemployment" for a little while).

There are far darker ways to make far less money, that are far more worthy of dramatic storm cloud drawings. Maybe once they see past their burnout they'll realize how incredibly privileged they were to even accomplish what they were able to (working remotely no less!) in the first place. Burnout really is a sad and scary thing.
How house music was created
Probably not quite what you're looking for (I'd like to know more about the documentary, too), but here's a 1h49m Youtube video of the author giving an overview of Platform Masters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjW0xsW7_A

and the author's website:

http://www.ulillillia.us/mainindex.shtml
iCloud Hacked: Researcher Demonstrate Security Bug on iOS 8.3
Basically, yes. Don't let it discourage you. It's a great way to earn a living, but it has downsides - so go in with open eyes. It's not a life for "I just want to code" types. They're better off with full time jobs.
Don't follow the rules to comply? Then you don't get the tax savings.

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Forei...
I did technical reviewing for one of their books. Did they offer you a technical reviewer? Maybe they look for one but if they can't find one, they go ahead and publish whatever crap they have anyway.
I was hoping to find Japanese last time I checked their site. Any good way to learn it?
The money doesn't appear out of thin air. It takes time and stress to earn each euro. Especially if you work for yourself or in a startup, you are probably working for someone else so you do not comprehend the perspective of someone who is trying to make his own way in the world.

The tax system here puts a huge disincentive to work hard and earn a lot, at least there is an option if you have your own company to defer and stretch your wages over longer period BUT that comes with all sorts of risk since IT IS NOT YOUR MONEY but company money and corporation tax.
> and Github, for their part, cravenly pulled the code as part of DMCA request.

That's a very weirdly-opinionated statement. Isn't GitHub legally required to obey the DMCA request?
I'll add another data point. We're in the process of moving our entire API stack to Go from Python. First it was in Django, then Falcon, now more & more pieces are in pure Go, with a little cgo sprinkled for good measure. Apart from being a language that's easy to pick up if you're familiar with Python, Go is obviously a heckuva lot faster and way easier to deploy.

We cut down our EC2 instance usage by 2/3 with more improvements yet to come. One machine alone can handle 1000 API calls / second - and our API calls are performing complex calculations, not just disk I/O.

It also allows us to deploy our API within customer's networks if they choose, which we previously accomplished using Virtual Machines - which sucked.
md5, ha. Here's a trick for how you can find small modifications to a chosen file so it matches whatever arbitrary MD5 you want - in your head: http://tinyurl.com/o2hmdtj

nobody takes it seriously.
People in the UK do jail time for offensive tweets, that is quite a bit different.
It's interesting, because if Zenefits had already IPO'd they absolutely would not be able to take this approach. Too much shareholder risk. And this is just as much a David Sacks thing as it is a Parker thing. I have to believe after my 10+ years in Financial Services that David Sacks already disliked ADP from his PayPal days. Zenefits is going to lose this battle, but it's about the war.
"The way it's handled is that the process where the previous socket was connected remains in place until it terminates but all new sockets connect to the new code."

That would imply that two separate processes are bound to the same port right? I thought that was not possible.
Ask HN: As a startup, do you conduct market research?
Hi,

We're building a market intelligence service and am wondering if there's any way that we can help startups and other small businesses. Would love to hear input from the HN community on what kind of market research you do and what types of data do you so.
Thanks!
Aren't they switching to a Cherry clone?

http://greetech.en.alibaba.com/productgrouplist-221165431/GT...
The times I've worked with them, No Starch was quite happy with LibreOffice, if that's any better.

O'Reilly's insistence on making everyone use git (including non-programmers) seems a bit nuts to me.
Good point, fixed https://github.com/eaze/ng-classy/commit/90ad4d8f493daad38f4...
Rails does not require a process per a request model. It is great that you had success moving to Go, but you could have moved to a different model with rails and likely solved your problem.
Ask HN: REST API to Render Isomorphic JS(React)?
Just wondering if someone put already together a Nodejs project that renders templates with React components and that can be consumed from any language through a REST interface.
And perhaps if you don't know, you can tell me your opinion about if you think it could be a good idea.
I'm aware of projects like https://github.com/reactjs/react-php-v8js
or with go-ducktape
https://github.com/olebedev/go-react-example
But maybe keeping all javascript/html/render concerns in a separate Nodejs api could be cleaner. And reusable for any language.
Thoughts ?
> should the CEO just avoid the debate and let it play out?

Yes. Getting into acrimonious debate with a prospective junior hire about their future career prospects is almost the definition of a misplaced sense of priority.
How much of top-level play do you think is a "guessing" game ala RPS? If you scout properly & manage properly, can you make it to the mid-game safely everytime, or is it luck of the RPS?
I have never heard the term "American" programmer. Why?
Those numbers kinda surprised me too.

We serve millions of requests per day and have some slow responses (75+ ms) but on any given day our servers handle 175 requests per second without breaking a sweat. =/
I wonder if 'being mindful' could be exchanged with studying Philosophy? The practice of "non-judgmental, present-moment awareness" sounds a bit like the PSR.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sufficient-reason/
Not required exactly, but if they refuse to take down the content, then they can be sued for copyright infringement themselves. The DMCA removes their liability and makes the fight between the uploader and the copyright holder. But if they step outside of the "safe harbor" they become potential targets.
Launching Lollie – A Platform for selling stuff at escalating prices
As someone with a lot of these pricy adult sets I find the presentation in this article weird. Lego described as a "victim" of aging consumers etc. vs. this being a deliberate calculated strategy by Lego to go after the adult/hobbyist/collectors market. It's actually the latter, and the result of a deliberate effort to turn the company around from near disaster early in the 2000s. There have been several good articles written about this. I have no problems paying for the big sets. If you don't like that, buy the smaller sets, they're just as much fun as they were when you were a kid.