skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure the salary range is still around that point; there's definitely a salary barrier that is hard to climb over. In Canada for example if you make past 80k you must be a rockstar and a senior dev. The value generated to compensation ratio is out of whack except at a few top tier companies.
Percentage of GDP is misleading because the economy is a Great Depression scale crash, no business, no jobs, and high reliance of the population on the government simply because there is no other source of money. When the economy tanks, strain on the safety net increases, this should be obvious.
Oh God, why did I click that!?
In addition to the other comments, you could always try to use another analytics product in parallel (from time to time randomly in the year) to quickly validate the accuracy of the results. This will serve as an indicator and also validate assumptions regarding the integrity of the analytics.
Generally, yes, a failing transistor can be a fatal problem. This relates to "chip yield" on a waferfull of chips.

Faults don't always manifest themselves as a binary pass/fail result; as chip temperatures increase, transistors that have faults will "misfire" more often. As long as this temperature is high enough, these lower-grade chips can be sold as lower-end processors that never in practice reach these temperatures.

Am not aware of any redundancy units in current microprocessor offerings but it would not surprise me; Intel did something of this nature with their 80386 line but it was more of a labeling thing ("16 BIT S/W ONLY").

Solid state drives, on the other hand, are built around this protection; when a block fails after so many read/write cycles, the logic "TRIM"s that portion of the virtual disk, diminishing its capacity but keeping the rest of the device going.
Why they include an animated gif of someone turning another gearbox with a far lower ratio puzzles me.

But I'm going to go with "yes, this is useless, unless remade with much better materials". The current version is imprecise, high-friction, snd can't even survive one rotation of the output.
And for comparison, scale fans, let's remember that we're talking about making 7nm features on wafers that are nearly a foot and a half wide, using near-as-dammit x-ray wavelengths.

A few teething problems would be expected.

7nm has been struggling for a while, 5nm is likely to be late, and I don't think anyone really knows what happens after that.

Longer term, industrial manufacture is probably going to have to move to something exotic like nano-assembly of individual atoms, with some extra finagling to work around tunnelling effects. (Easier said than done...)
There is a workaround - but it will reduce the amount of data points available to GA and put stress on your box: Use server-side tracking calls.

As said, this will remove all data points which are usually gathered by the GA-Javascript. Same thing is possible with Piwik.

You _could try_ to have custom JS that would gather those data-points like e.g. screen resolution.
Seems 1:1

http://imgur.com/blog/2013/01/18/more-characters-in-filename...
Agreed, and I'm glad companies like Amazon with deep pockets are deciding to jump into the pool with github, as adoption of these competing products are probably going to be very slow short of some sort of event like what happened with SourceForge.
This isn't a problem with GA, it's a general problem with trying to track outbound link clicks - when your browser navigates away it kills execution of scripts, often preventing an event from being fired back to the server.

There are solutions, but they're all pretty unpleasant. The most common is to use an onclick handler on your outbound link that only navigates after the tracking event has been fired. Google Analytics cover this in their own documentation here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1136920?hl=en
We welcome Amazon coming into this space, there is room for multiple code hosting services. At GitLab we'll focus on the needs of our open source community: a complete, user-friendly and scalable product at a good price. We hope that other cloud platforms will consider running GitLab for git hosting. It is not a reaction to Amazon, but we did announce our seed round today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9857901
so far in building LaunchKit with skit (https://launchkit.io/) that hasn't happened. (I was worried about that, too.) it's surprisingly natural. I find the server-side parsing/running actually catches a ton of stupid typos (with nice error messages) quickly before I have to find them in the Chrome developer tools...
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Real Question: Why would you use these instead of something like Knockout.js?
Sweet or bitter?
This great article supports that.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/the-death-of-...

It has a great graph of engineering effort vs Moore's law which made it cheaper to just wait for a faster chip then put in the effort.
The 3 hardest words to string together: I was wrong

(see also: the War on Drugs)
A national health body is pointless in the context of the US health care system. Nobody here is going to fix that problem.

But we can still self-experiment based on dietary hypotheses. An anecdote is not data, but it can be a counterexample! When someone says, "You can't lose weight by eating mostly fat," and someone else says, "I lost X weight on a diet that was 60% fat," that casts strong doubt upon the validity of the hypothesis.

Even so, this is yet another rehash of the "food energy hypothesis" poster versus "body chemistry hypothesis" poster. We have seen it before, both on HN and in other places. I have never observed this particular debate to yield useful results, anywhere. I am, personally, a "body chemistry hypothesis" person. I don't think humans are glorified bomb calorimeters. And I don't think that the "food energy hypothesis" folks provide useful guidance to people who are currently overweight. So what; who cares? That's just, like, my opinion, man. Hypotheses are judged by the experiments that support or refute them, not by the number of people who believe they may be true.

So don't be like the national health bodies. Let the science speak for itself. Nobody should be touting any sort of dietary maxims when the available evidence is still inconclusive, especially when they have no meaningful accountability if they get it wrong.
At first I thought this was a new service, but it's been available since April.
Xamarin offers a free starter edition[1] and you can request free full licenses for use with Open Source projects[2].

Getting started on your own project or doing an Open Source project that relies on Xamarin's tools is perfectly possible. In fact we use such free licenses to produce OS X and iOS versions of the Tomboy note taking app[3].

[1] https://store.xamarin.com
[2] http://resources.xamarin.com/open-source-contributor.html
[3] https://github.com/tomboy-notes
"A fraction of what it was" is a common idiom, which uses
fraction in the ordinary sense.

"Fraction" is related to words like "fracture" and "fragment". When you fraction something into pieces, they are always smaller than the whole (barring strange spatial partitionings: Banach-Tarski paradox and all that).

Maybe you were playing hooky in grade 3 when the teacher explained that 101/100 is an improper fraction, which can be rewritten as 1 1/100: the whole number 1, combined with a proper fraction. See? "Improper!" Mathematics recognizes a special status for fractions where the numerator has greater magnitude.

Also, ever heard of the "integral" and "fractional" parts of a floating-point number? See the ISO C99 function modf, for instance.
Hostname can also be easily faked
Pretty interesting. Now, we have more choices.
The other day, I've found this project on Github called OpenSTF[1] which allows you to set up your own devices labs. It's pretty interesting and I've got to try yet.
Generally, I'd prefer to set up my own device labs rather than testing with 3rd party services. It depends on your target market. For us, the apps we made are target for the local market (people and devices). And the phones sold in our market are different with the phone sold in States and I don't expect to have some China devices to be available on 3rd party services.

[1] : https://openstf.github.io
What's up with the Amazons spam? There's 5 different submissions on the front page right now. They could have all been one. Bad form, AWS team.
The bug's been fixed!
Jean-Baptiste Quéru, head of the Android Open Source Project, has a stunning comparison how the US has more "redistributive" tax polices than the EU, explaining disastrous consequences for the EU.
This is a shame since Mercurial is so much better than Git. Git is downright painful in comparison.

It's actually discouraging to see so many developers choose to work with something so problematic as Git, to be blunt.
Hey, Rap Genius bought genius.com! :)
There was no debt forgiveness after WW1 and that helped lead path to WW2.

It was about learning from history.

You cannot compare this to the disastrous economic mismanagement by successive Greek govs.
> API is an acronym

Actually, its an initialism (an abbreviation from first letters where each letter is pronounced as a letter) rather than acronym (an abbreviation from first letters pronounced as if it were a word.) Were it an acronym, many style guides (particularly British ones, IIRC) would support presenting it as "Api" rather than "API".
Isn't it yet another case of AWS doing a cheap replacement of existing company:
https://apigee.com

I doen't have experience with their product, but on surface they look similar.
Programming an embedded device without wires and without wireless
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I think this is unfair. Scientists often have a narrow-scope breakthrough in an extremely technical area and when they're asked to dumb it down for a wider audience, the tech press / university PR team runs wild. Something like curing diabetes is going to taken hundreds or thousands of small incremental improvements and breakthroughs so when they say "Could lead to a cure!!" they're usually correct but the nuance is often missed.
> Why did Germany deserve better terms after their adventures? Or if it's not a matter of deserving them but just a purely pragmatic question of those terms being useful to avoid a future catastrophe, why doesn't that pragmatism apply here?

It was even more "pragmatic" than that; it wasn't about preventing German civilians from starving or anything so humanitarian, it was the US wanting to stop the spread of communism. There's no similar "threat" in Greece today. Maybe if IS starts getting recruits near Greece the calculus will change.
This is apparently a very sensitive subject for many ;)
I agree, and you could go further with that argument. Most humans already live in the universe where there are powerful entities whose goals are not aligned with what they would consider ethical.

In the talk, Stuart Russell mentions funny examples like make paperclips as a goal, but if we consider the goal of maximizing monetary profit, we can easily see that it is already being done without regard to other values, such as human life, preservation of resources or biodiversity, or even any relation to production of anything useful (consider all the "financial innovations" that allow inflation of Ponzi schemes and bubbles).

And some people even bow to that goal..
Unsurprisingly, such a person exists; though it probably differs by region and various other factors.
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> Is it possible that this does not equate to totalitarian rule?

Sure. Totalitarian rule is when government persecutes political opponents to ensure that power does not change hands. It has little to do with surveillance. Surveillance is just one of the means to achieve this goal. All it, does it helps to lower the cost of enforcement. No totalitarian rule so far collapsed because enforcement was too costly.

Besides what providing you with the commentary has to do with the surveillance itself?
This would be more awesome if it could make URLs without poop in them.

Just saying.
It does need to be paired with growth, however, there is no indication that Greece is prepared to start growing their economy.
> Search engines require us to be blogging and generating tons of content, but is that really where a small team like ours should be spending its time?

No, may I suggest a better investment of time-- learn to prospect and pitch targeted individuals. Do you have a clear idea of the true Economic Buyer for your services?

The challenge then is to engage that person in a dialogue, see if you can help them, and make a proposal. In a global market place, this can be done via phone, better still on Skype video.

You can definitely hack your way through this process. Here's an excellent read on prospecting and pitching business> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15863998-new-sales-simpli...
German debt relief came with the creditors rewriting the entire constitution. I think if Greece is willing to go for that, they can probably get themselves a deal!
> If your open source project becomes famous could you earn a living out of it?

Yes, it is possible. It is perhaps a bit unlikely, though.

You would need some way to get money out of a product that is being given away. Selling advertising is one model. Charging for support is another.

> Do you know any examples of a project that became famous or most used and is hiring a team of devs to work on it.

Certainly. You probably know about them, too: Firefox, Red Hat, Ubuntu, ....
The one thing that is appealing to an "AWS shop" and something that GitHub and other services have a harder time emulating is the integration with IAM (user authentication and provisioning) and the CloudTrail (audit trails). For any reasonably sized organization, ensuring that users get provisioned / deprovisioned is a tricky, error-prone task. Having IAM as a single toggle is nice. Using their SAML integration into something like Okta, OneLogin, or other IaaS-providers ... even better. Getting user activity into centralized logging via CloudTrail (Splunk, Sumo, ELK, et al.) is best practice for security teams. AWS makes all of this pretty easy, but at a price.
Google has a pretty mature TCP testing framework, called packetdrill:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

It supports all the features you need, from packet structure to timing:
https://code.google.com/p/packetdrill/
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There were campers in retail spaces even before laptops and mobile tech existed.

They weren't as common and were harder to spot but back when I worked in an independent bookstore pre-broadband era, there was always a subset of the customer base that would use the bookstore and it's cafe as their home.

Basically, if you've ever worked in retail you know that certain subtle signals give the hint to the majority of customers of your intentions without saying a word. Changing lighting for instance is huge.

However, there will always be a certain subgroup of people that have a sort mentality, based on maybe mammal instinct, that if you mark a small amount of territory in a public space, it belongs to you to and you can therefore use it in any way you like for however long you like until someone challenges you for the territory and wins. This type of person, when armed with a laptop and cell phone, becomes a particularly obnoxious problem when they're a coffee shop nomad. Moms with strollers often fall into the same category, but it's a social minefield raising the issue in public.

Anyhow this is why coffee shop owners, no matter how hard they try, will not be able to remove a small malignant group of knowledge working nomads without a daily fight. The rest of us get the owner's hints, but the "It's My Territory" people will always find a way to give the Average Joe Laptop Worker a bad name...
Why? Reserving virtual memory has nothing to do with actual memory usage.
We know shockingly little about nutrition, but this paper is a great summary of what we do know from both association studies and randomized trials:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/123/24/2870.full

In particular, table 2 summarizes what we know about each type of food (sodium, saturated fat, trans fat, carbs, sugar, ...) and what type of study we know it from (e.g., randomized trial or association study?): http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/123/24/2870/T2.expansion...)

The best type of evidence you could have is a randomized trial of clinical end points--divide people randomly into (say) low fat and low carb diets, run the study for a few years, and measure what percentage of people have a heart attack. That's column 4, and it's nearly empty. The only things we seem to know are that total fat seems to be neutral, and substituting polyunsaturated fat for saturated fat reduces heart attacks.

In the absence of that gold standard evidence, we're relying on weaker but more convenient types of study designs -- randomized trials that measure surrogate metrics (e.g., blood cholesterol and blood pressure), or various types of association studies.

As of now, those seem to be telling us that alcohol, dietary fiber, and unsaturated fats help our risk factors for a heart attack, and trans fats, sodium, carbs, and cholesterol make our risk factors worse. But those conclusions can easily change since they're based on a surrogate, and indeed, we've already seen the recommendation against eating cholesterol reversed:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/nutrition-panel-cal...
cool , feel free to email me direct, or better yet - fill out the survey so I can keep track :)
The % of GDP is irrelevant. A dollar spent by Singapore's private-but-not-really-private SBS on a maintaining a metro line is intrinsically no different to a dollar spent by Greece on its metro line. Both employ people. Both are productive investments.

Austerity is about shrinking public sector spending. If it's done during a period when the private sector is also shrinking its spending, the effect on employment and growth can be cataclysmic.

The Heritage data isn't wrong. The Heritage just picked the wrong data to make an intentionally misleading point.
> which plunged Germany into nationalism and anti-west sentiment and gave rise to the socialist regime which brought on WWII.

The national socialists came to power as a consequence of the severe deflation in the 1930s, not the hyperinflation 10 years earlier.
you wasted valuable time and resources of law enforcement. good on you
BTW there's a reason for that. The IETF decided (it must be a couple of decades ago) to restrict itself to matters of the internet. Things like file formats are thus out of scope for RFCs. There have been exceptions, RFC5952 is a good example and I know at least two others, but by and large RFCs are about the internet now, not about file formats or other worthy subjects.
To further emulate the German success, don't forget that you'd have to force severe indoctrination of the next several generations from school age up by requiring certain horrific historical retellings, and force similar thought policing by making certain forms of political support, speech, and activity, however peaceful, utterly illegal.
I understand what you're saying, but do you really think most of a modern Android (to take the theme to its Javaesque extreme) stack is the most efficient way to accomplish processing?

Compare that to some of the code people ran through 6502-derivatives.

Abstraction may be more efficient in terms of programmer time, and performance efficiency may be high enough so as to be immaterial, but the two shouldn't be conflated.
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> "Was kicked out of project X for violating their code of conduct" might do.

Or might not. Especially if either project CoC's in general or Project X's specifically are known for being interpreted and enforced capriciously.
On a brief look, it appears that all of these choices (Including Amazon's new one) only support Android devices and not iOS?

I believe Xamarin Test Cloud includes iOS, although I'm not certain if it integrates outside of the Xamarin framework.
http://xamarin.com/test-cloud

Seems like a gap they should all be trying to fill.
Any thoughts about debugger support on the Mill? It seems to me that this could be a bit of a headache. For example, the usual technique for breakpoints is to trigger an interrupt at the desired instruction, which then causes a context switch to the debugger process. How will the debugger be able to access all the bypass-network/belt/spiller data?

My off-the-cuff thought is that since the spiller has a mechanism for dumping its state in memory anyway, there is probably (or should be) a way for software to force it to dump this state, which could be used by the debugger to read all the required data from a specified (probably model-specific) structure in memory.
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I think I'm confusing you, but I don't think I'm confused.

I agree with you that people have inalienable or natural rights. However, I claim that your position does not give you an adequate basis for believing that. And your position certainly does not give you an adequate basis for persuading anyone who does not already accept it.

Perhaps I expressed this badly in my previous post, but that's what I'm trying to say.
AWS Global Summit [1] is taking place in NY at the moment. Hence the new product announcements.

[1] https://live.awsevents.com/
I don't think anyone on the AWS team really thinks of the console as being the primary UI for AWS. The primary UIs are the API and CLI interfaces.
Sheesh, that's a bit like being asked "how can I learn computers?" It's a very broad question. Better questions might be "what within the domain of business knowledge do I need to understand in order to achieve my goal(s)?" And then naturally, the most important question feeding into that is, "what are my goals?"

I think if you want to have a better basic understanding of how large economies work and how that effects political policy, I'd recommend studying macroeconomics.

If you want to understand the basic functioning of a business and how it relates to customers, I'd recommend marketing.

If you want to understand how businesses are evaluated, how they borrow and spend money, how they evaluate internal processes, I'd recommend finance.

If you want to understand how businesses optimize their processes, and design efficiency into their processes, then you should study operations research (aka operations analysis).

If you want to understand how a business keeps track of what it's doing internally, and how it's performing internally and how resources are allocated, and how it handles loans and taxes, then study accounting.

If you want to understand how to acquire talent and insure that employees are being treated in a way that respected laws on fairness, and how to manage worker's comp, pensions, health insurance, etc. then study human resources.

If you want to know how businesses handle their relationships with their communities and the media, then study public relations.

I hope this helps a bit.
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