skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a stupid question, but isn't it require to run these long-time simulations multiple times anyways? So one could evaluate these all at once by introducing randomness (vibrations, small rotations, dihedral angle changes, etc) once an interesting point in time is reached, and then simulating in parallel from then onward.
In practice I've found the start-up times aren't all that different. The drag is more pronounced on older hardware, though. A current i5 or i7 system with an SSD is usually roughly the same.
That's obvious right? Perhaps the frames that needed to be edited out weren't conveniently conducive to a seamless end product. And, editing out too much wasn't an option for obvious reasons.

But, as another commenter stated, we can't know the answer until we know what the original video holds.

Interestingly, if they then release the full video which shows nothing, then suspicions around the overall case will presumably be calmed. That would make me wonder if it was an intentional red herring to engender more trust and reduce suspicion around her eventual death. After all, why else release obviously edited video that would raise suspicion only to later quell it with unedited footage that was always available?
Most mainstream material that is presented to the public, even through schools and particularly through the media, is fluff. For instance in History, the pyramids were not built by slaves, Germany won the Great War in 1916 but the Entente did not accept a peace agreement, the Civil War wasn't about slavery at all, Hamilton borrowed from the French to start the national debt on purpose, etc.
How much do you trust news websites? Rate them by trust on Penocchio
#4669 checking in with some hot grits.
I second this request. Google took me to investopedia to learn "pro rata", but that wasn't as helpful as reading these comments. The startup community has so many buzzwords. My understanding of the jargon has increased a lot in the past year I've spent time on the site, but I still don't know much.
See my link to a college math study (in a separate comment thread); you can improve predictions of math skill significantly above random (50% -> 55%) chance simply based on appearance.

I was totally shocked when I saw this, but there is at least some evidence that appearance predicts more than I would otherwise expect.
CX breakdown of jet.com
The real advantage comes from the fact that JRuby isn't enslaved to a GIL like MRI, so you get JVM threads out of the box. Even with the JIT, JRuby (at least 1.7) isn't appreciably faster than MRI when running a single-threaded app: http://www.isrubyfastyet.com/
Interesting. What do you think is vague about the five star system? Or is it any rating system that would be "garbage-in"?

Being interested in video games, I've thought a lot about rating systems. Older magazines used to use 10 (or even 100) point scales, and you quickly realize all the rating ends up taking place in the top 30-40 percent of your scale anyway... so why not limit the gradations. For my money, 5 stars makes sense... you've got a middle of the road "average" 3 star movie, and then two stars above and below.
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"If it had been from anyone other than God, they would have found much inconsistency in it." (The Holy Qur'an, An-Nisa'; 4:82)

"Truly, We have revealed this remembrance, and We shall, for sure, preserve it." (The Holy Qur'an, Al-Hijr; 15:9)

Digitized version: http://vmr.bham.ac.uk/Collections/Mingana/Islamic_Arabic_157...

In case you know how to read arabic: http://tinyurl.com/nr5gvz9
What I read is that it's faster for long running applications (example: web apps) because the JIT can optimize the code. It should be slower for anything else, example: tests (very unfortunately).

I don't know what the edit-reload-check workflow could be with JRuby and how well it can integrate with editors (few Rubyist use IDEs, http://www.sitepoint.com/ides-rubyists-use/).

Anyway, I'm doing a bundle install with jruby on a Rails project right now. Let's see if it completes and passes the tests.
>take off to Ibiza and watch the money roll in while lying on the beach. Passive income if there ever was, it seems such a good idea!

I wish the blog author would have addressed the employee-empowered hands hands off approach suggested in 4 hour work week by Tim Ferris. That book seems to suggest (mostly) passive income approach is possible if done right, but this blog doesn't address that alternative to its suggested bad-outcomes.
literally query that search phrase, and the top 5-10 sites answer your question
https://www.google.com/?q=startup%20jargon%20for%20dummies
Bug in latest version of OS X gives attackers unfettered root privileges
> I'm glad Snowden said DNS should be encrypted.

And yet, when HBO screwed up their dnssec config and Comcast blocked the site, how did users react? By demanding Comcast stop verifying!

(Fully encrypted DNS can only fail in even more ways than dnssec.)
You're right. I like the fact that it compiles to a single binary, but getting it to work is a PITA.
> Interestingly, if they then release the full video which shows nothing, then suspicion's around the overall case will presumably be calmed.

Sadly their actions have created suspicion. Further releases of video will be doubted by a wide range of people, from calm but cautious scrutineers to rabid conspiracy theorists.

Truth doesn't matter at that point.
It might partially be due to how it makes the list of good movies look bigger than it really is.
That's necessary, but not sufficient. We need both sane policies and technical measures to ensure that nothing less than those policies is possible. If we only have the technology, policy-makers can and will make life difficult both for the users and makers of these technologies; more draconian regimes will simply never allow those technologies to take root to begin with.
Remote code execution in IDM
Bucharest and Budapest are often confused.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Sleep+Is+the+New+Status+Symbol+for+Succ...

< The WSJ (and others) allow full viewing when referred by Google >
Also if the "third party/asker" decides who wins. The third party could try to colude with one player.
With a video sharing service, you have large amounts of data transfer, and data storage. You're basically pushing large BLObs around your servers and to your users.

If you have a relatively simple page, you could get by with low compute - you're just transferring HTML, CSS, and the binary. HTML5 video players are simple and easy to find, I've done it in just a few lines for a demo. I actually had more problems converting the video than getting the HTML5 player to work.

What resolution would that 3 minutes of video be? That might impact your plans. And how many people do you expect to see a single 3 minute video? Multiply the video size (in MB) by the number of expected downloads to get an idea of the bandwidth for that video. Multiply that bandwidth by the number of videos to get an idea for how much bandwidth you'll need for the whole site. Of course page loads and overhead will add to that, I'm not sure exactly how much but I'd add 20% to your bandwidth estimates just so you have some spare bandwidth.

You should absolutely look into CDNs. They reduce the load on your servers while getting stuff to your users faster. I think Cloudflare might have a free tier, and other CDNs might too.

Azure isn't as well-known as Amazon; if you're expecting to be able to Google blog posts when you have problems, I'd go with Amazon. And there are other cloud hosts, ranging from nearly Azure size, to much smaller.

You might choose a lower-cost more-distant datacenter, and a low-cost or free CDN, to start your MVP. If you're interested in using .NET or IIS, then look into Bizspark.
You know I really like your ideas here. Once a while ago I told people to leave twitter for the same reasons. It's pretty much a cesspool and doesn't foster worthwhile communication or in depth discussion. I’ve since looked at all social media through this lens. I know it’s bleak. I won’t deny that.

I was actually reading a comment on Reddit that basically complained that Reddit didn’t foster a sense of community. The main complaint was that there was less emphasis on who was talking rather than what they were saying. I thought, well isn’t that backwards? Don’t want we want the free flow of ideas without being tainted by comments like ‘that guy is believes this or that, so his contributions are irrelevant’?

I think you’re right. Let it burn. Just walk away.

Still I sort of wish there was someone studying the cultures that grow in these places. I find the inside jokes and relationships (even on Reddit) between the users, mods, and admins to be very interesting. I think that kind of study could help us understand how we communicate on social media. We could use a Jane Goodall of internet social media communities.
Hi! First of all, I'm new here :) My name is Juan Carlos, but everybody knows me as Derrick Roccka. I'm 25.

I've visited hacker news a lot of times, but I never signed up. So, let's get down to business.

I'm a person who has an anxiety disorder. One of my biggest "problems" is that I'm always trying to create. I force myself to come up with new ideas that make me feel motivated. Unafortunately, this has a really bad side. Though I can imagine really interesting things, when I can't acomplish the "eternal to-do lists" that I have in my head, I feel extremely frustrated. I've tried a lot of things to avoid this kind of feeling, but with no success.

I'm grateful to you because your article gave me a few clues about one part of my problems. Obviously, I have a lot of technical limitations, like everyone, and this world spins so fast. Anyway, being alone didn't help me in the past and I'm pretty sure that won't do it in the future. It seems an easy thing to detect, but you really made me think about it.

About motivation... what can I say that you didn't hear before... You're completely right. I'm like a kid (and I'm sure you guys feel the same): when I'm bored, I quit. That's probably wrong, but I really suffer when I have to do something that completely blocks me. And this is a "double-pain" because there's a new thing in my to-do list that I'm not going to complete, once again.

I hope that your article and your project is helping a lot of people like me.

Thanks for all and sorry for my bad english!

See you later!
You can simplify your code a little bit and add some wildcards :)

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7d45e0f746b46684ec45
I currently manage a rather large test suite (around 700 different tests) using Selenium, which is all written in Ruby and Rspec (although I've also used Cucumber), and uses the gems Capybara (an abstraction layer for querying and manipulating the web browser via the Selenium driver) and SitePrism (for managing page objects and organizing re-usable sections).

The entire suite runs in around 10 minutes on CircleCI, using 8 parallel threads (each running an instance of the Firefox Selenium driver), and it is rock solid stable.

It took us a while to get to this point, though.

The hard part is handling timing due to Javascript race conditions on the front-end. I had to write my own helper methods like "wait_for_ajax" that I sprinkle in various page object methods to wait for any jQuery AJAX requests to complete. I also use a "wait_until_true" method that can evaluate a block of code over and over until a time limit has been reached before throwing an exception. Once you figure out ways to solve those types of issues, testing things with Selenium becomes a lot more stable and easy.

I have also used the exact same techniques (page objects, custom waiter methods for race conditions, etc) to test mobile apps on iOS and Android with Selenium.

It can be a challenge, but once you have a system down and you know what you are doing, it's not so bad.
Especially love to see someone who actually experienced communism first-hand make the parallel with progressives' behavior.

There's not much of a parallel. Calling on game makers to make more diverse games is the essence of free market capitalism — consumers driving change with their words and dollars.
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Meteor relies heavily on two things:

1) mongo's ability to have a live cursor that updates if the query returns new objects or changes within the objects currently being returned.

2) they have a minimongo which lives on the client. So code can do queries and not worry if the code is running client or server.

If meteor wasn't so tightly tied to mongo - I would hands down recommend it to a company doing node.js development.

Meteor is much easier than node to grok. ( no callback hell, no promises ) Meteor reads top to bottom the same as all the other languages out there. Node reads like a twisted spaghetti hairball that your cat vomited up.
Coke.
i would put the position title on the job history

i would change the "i like" x to "i do"

i would put a portfolio/i made section page (and a little a little interactivity)

just my opinion tho :)
Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson: http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitalis...
Writing down passwords is not insecure.

Better to have a written down strong password than an easy to remember password not written down.
Netflix, having crushed the video store industry, no longer needs this. What's the alternative? Redbox?

"Even though Net­flix has a good deal of demographic information about its users, the company does not currently use it much to generate movie recommendations; merely knowing who people are, paradoxically, isn’t very predictive of their movie tastes."

"Targeted" advertising suffers from that model. Demographics matter only a little. What you've bought (which Amazon knows) matters far more.
It is indeed confusing. Looks like proof readers also missed it.
I was especially curious to see the male-to-female ratio in the report. My personal belief is that this is a big problem.
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What a fascinating paper! Although I know the speed of light is finite and have considered many of the implications of relativity, I never thought of the effects on the apparent occultation of two celestial bodies at significant distances from one another relative to the observer. The moon's transit between Earth and Mars would not appear reciprocally the same to observers on both planets. Obvious in retrospect, but the layman does not tend to consider relativistic effects in this kind of simple geometric reasoning.

There's enough distance between us and the Moon that if you had a flashlight bright enough, you could easily perceive the delay between switching it on and seeing the Moon's surface brighten, as the light made the return trip. Something to think about next time you look up at the Moon and wonder about its scale and distance.
I agree there are some problems with the ui, but at the same time the number of devices they design for is quite large (desktop web, mobile phone, set-top boxes, Apple TV, Google TV, Amazon TV, etc). Creating a UI that is consistent between all of them must be a bit daunting.
I'm fortunate enough to have someone to talk to, discuss ideas and show the latest and greatest to. It's my wife. She's technical and can do some programming, but most importantly she's interested in helping me and knows how positive and energized I become by working on my side projects.
A lot of Netflix's success comes from finding great, unknown movies and allowing you to discover them. They're great for Netflix because they're cheap for them and provide high value.

When Netflix users only decide what movies to watch based only on the titles they recognize from marketing campaigns, their disappointment with Netflix's selection will be higher.

Their optimal strategy is to have a recommendation engine that routes users to good, but unknown movies that they know people end up enjoying if they just take the dive to start watching them.
There's a related problem: if you enjoy both good movies and some so-bad-they're-good movies, how do you rate the latter?
These vans are the most dangerous cars on long car trips to and from Romania. I've done quite a few of them and I don't think there was a single year when I wasn't either nearly pushed off the road by one who misjudged how much time it would take to overtake or where I've seen one of them upended in the ditch or in some other curious location (the one that I remember most clearly was one that had overtaken me about an hour previous that had somehow managed to cartwheel and land with the rear wheels over a pretty steep drop on top of the guardrail).

These guys should really drive at least with two drivers on those long trips if they are going to do it nearly non-stop, 3 hours of sleep really isn't enough to maintain your driving abilities, that's just playing the lottery.

The corruption (both the Hungarian and the Romanian variety) described in the article is very real, I've seen this many times up close and it is a source of much frustration with me. If not for that element Romania would have a much better chance to keep its talent and to move ahead.
If one can make this work this would be huge. One could offer casino style games at a house edge of 0% (house edge = the amount that the house wins on average on every bet). This would not only be a super compelling value proposition to gamblers, it would be a huge step towards eliminating problem gambling: A gambling addict that plays at a 0% house edge would not loose money in the long run.

I run a small bitcoin casino called fastbets.io. We should talk to see if there is a potential for a collaboration (feel free to email henry@fastbets.io).
From your link: "The trigger for these mass extinctions appears to be a warming of the ocean caused by a rise of carbon dioxide levels to about 1000 parts per million."

That is fucking miles away. At the other end, C3 plant life goes extinct if CO2 falls below 250ppm or so? So why don't you alarmists get your knickers in a twist about that "tipping point"?? If we hadn't dug up and put some fossilized carbon back into the carbon cycle (where it bloody well came from in the first place) then we'd be facing that extinction scenario instead.
That's a good point, but sexual assault is the perfect fit for greedy prosecutors who want to score a big win before an election.

Sexual assault is the only crime where there is sometimes not even real proof that the crime actually happened. As opposed to a murder or a theft or financial montages. Most of the time all we have is the word of a woman saying it happened. Sexual assault is the only crime where we lower the bar of "beyond reasonable doubt".
Hey all, I thought I'd share something I've worked on. I hope to improve our global community by sustaining free software projects and scientific research (among others).

You guys can also come check out the blog: http://blog.polygrant.com
The first organization to figure out how to make a proper free-market prediction market platform will make a killing.

Casinos seem like a perfect way to make it happen as they already have special regulatory exemption for a transaction type BB doesn't like.
Full-page screenshot for those who can't view: http://i.imgur.com/hDXXvIm.png
You could always choose to ask for less money. Some VCs might turn you down if you say "actually, we don't need that much, thanks", but it seems unlikely that all will.
I was referring to the end of the first part of the article.
White House Finalizing Plan to Close Guantanamo Bay Prison
On the other hand, rewatching is probably 90% of my usage and that's very helpful. I suspect that's why they leave it there: a lot of the audience uses Netflix like TV and they just want something familiar on in the background.
I’ll bite: How do you think this happened?
I like your suggestion. Being able to give the devs feedback as to what is broken means that at iOS launch time, the app store is full of good apps.
Oops! You're right. I was thinking of servo-shell and the few other wrappers. They're very, thin shims around the renderer.
Might want to take down localhost too just to be sure.
I don't want to complain because it is a free product. But there is no doubt a big lag with activerecord. Rails 4.2 is still not supported: https://github.com/jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter/issues/59...
That is very contrary to my experience. A Rake task in a Rails project almost always takes somewhere like 15-20 seconds just to start up (on MRI it's around 2-5). Just today, I tried to run the Middleman static site generator. Where on MRI, Middleman starts building after around 3 seconds, on JRuby it starts building after around 10 seconds. And I'm on a 2012 Macbook Air.
I know :) but I still find it amusing. In a similar vein, in most Hollywood movies Romanians are presents as thugs, but with Russian names.
Local test servers I guess? I doubt someone goes through by hand finding these links.
A Closer Look at the Energy Needed to Run the Cloud
Is the Pro Rata agreement going to work only after receiving further funding or is it once you join the program?

Couldnt that keep outside investors away?
Why is this a problem in your opinion?
Yup, such a quick way to get me to close a tab though!
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Part II is a recommendation engine we built for the PH.
I don't really agree with you. And even if you're right about sexual assault being uniquely suited to this, what difference does it make whether the alleged victim is a millennial, or even a woman?
You can't really know that.

Sometimes the things we miss are the most obvious.
http://www.businessinsider.com/bastoy-prison-tour-2014-10?op...
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My thoughts are generally in line with yours - big problem from the consumer's perspective is tendency for most titles to end up in the 3.8 to 4.2 range. Not very helpful when I'm browsing titles.

The stars are also just a snapshot of feeling, and don't account for any context like expectations, identity, mood etc. Maybe I'd give Black Swan five stars because it was impressive and won awards, but it doesn't mean I necessarily enjoyed it or would recommend it to others. Perhaps a system based loosely on Net Promoter Score ideas could be more helpful
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Ask HN: What is the best way to get paid for discovering zero day exploits?
Let's say I discover a security exploit and want to profit from it. What do you consider the best way to make monetary gain from this discovery? I have found the Zero Day Initiative (http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/) but I was wondering if any other mechanisms were considered legitimate by HN.
Apple Music is a nightmare and I’m done with it
At least with the previous JRuby, for us the answer is "usually no." If you do any large string ops (hello JSON), or parsing, or use any ruby gems which use exception handling for flow control (which is cheap in MRI, but like 9ms per exception in JRuby) in a loop then you will be slower. Also, SSL connection negotiation is exceedingly slow in JRuby 1.7x (like 100ms) and this made our microservices tough. Using HTTP Client with keepalives helped with this.

In a hello world, you might come out ahead in 1.7.x. Maybe 9000 is better?
agreed , this type analysis only open a direction to look further in and do not provide any absolutes (as most data analysis).
> I call this my "Radiohead metric"

I don't use Pandora very much any more but when I did I'd just create a station based on a single artist and then usually listen to it without further interaction. All my stations would converge on Radiohead within ten - twenty tracks regardless of starting point: Joy Division? You must like Radiohead. Passion Pit? Radiohead. Billy Holiday? Radiohead. It was amusing but also more than a little bit annoying, and part of the reason I moved on from Pandora.