jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A slightly more informative article, which references the paper published in nature (unfortunately, I couldn't find a copy of that that wasn't behind a paywall).

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101124/full/news.2010.630.ht...

Note that the photons weren't made into matter. They were made into a Bose-Einstein Condensate, which is where all of the component particles share quantum properties and interact with the rest of the universe in "lockstep".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensat...
E.g. http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/dist/cloudsec.pdf shows that the whole "crypto in the cloud" idea isn't so hot.

Still, the speed with which this attack runs is impressive.
This thing doesn't make sense to me. MapReduce framework is usually applied to super large data sets. Lots of researchers are working on how to minimize network IO either by increasing data locality or smarter scheduling.

Transferring all of those data to the client browser is a significant hurdle.
I'm struggling to think of an incentive for these more developed startups to apply to YC beyond association with the group in pursuit of larger investments. Have you identified any deeper motivators?

You mentioned receiving more applications from this pool. In terms of the application, do you weight in favor of these qualities?
Turkey when starting a sentence or in a title is still capitalized. English is often a context based language. This is one of those times. The meaning is evident if you read the rest of the title.
I got somebody else's page when I tried to view HN, along with a dialog box that said IETester has stopped working.
Sent you an email, peng
Unity deploys to console. You just need to be licensed to build to different console platforms. And saying Unity is not that great is an ignorant statement. What about it isn’t great? And how is DragonRuby better?
Self modifying programs exist, sure, but (as you note) aren't much used. Meanwhile the "software" layer in biology is a tangled mess.

> If our computers could grow their silicon wafers and lay new circuits then we would have something similar.

Yes, that's why my analogy included reconfiguring the FPGA (ie hardware) that's running the program on the fly. You highlight a number of examples where a reasonably clear line between the biological "hardware" and "software" can be drawn at a given point in time. However, you fail to explicitly mention any of the biological mechanisms involved in reconfiguration, some of which I would consider to blur those lines!

The addition and removal of synapses over time is an obvious but fairly slow and boring example. The software is very slowly modifying the hardware by small amounts, but the two are still clearly separate.

Epigenetics is more interesting. Any number of convoluted signalling pathways feeding back on the machinery that controls gene expression, with (in some cases) heritable effects. The distinction here remains fairly clear to me at any given point in time. The proteins are the hardware, the DNA the storage, and the program is manipulating the storage so as to modify the synthesis of future hardware components. Easy enough.

... or is it? Often the quantity of some component that gets synthesized is itself used as a signal. Does synthesis being used in this manner mean that the hardware has become part of the software? How far do things have to go before the hardware can be considered to be part of the software? But things get even weirder!

> the separation of information transmission from the protein assemblies of neurons is similarly separated

Not always! Ever come across GPCR heteromerization? This happens at your synapses (among other places), more or less in real time, in response to various convoluted signalling pathways. It can change how the receptor responds to a given ligand, or even allow it to respond to entirely different ligands. So in some cases, an important part of the "logic" for the neurotransmitter response is being played out by the physical configuration of the receptors. From my perspective, it looks decidedly as though the receptor (ie hardware) has become an integral part of the software.

Other examples abound, but this comment has gotten quite lengthy so I digress.
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Yeah it's pretty amazing watching these people question the reason I'm using platforms and services from companies that are highly resistant to caving to demands for censorship in the tool I built that is, in part, for resisting censorship.

The obvious answer of "it's to successfully resist censorship" just doesn't make it into their brains for some reason.
Yes, it was a fairly popular BaaS offering during 2014-2016

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=parse-platfor...
Funny how the super-rational HN crowd throws science out the window as soon as it starts to actually matter. I guess there really are no atheists in foxholes, nor statisticians in a pandemic.

The authors of this study excluded one patient from the study because they died, and several other because they were admitted to ICU.

Assuming the dead patient did not get run over by a car, not considering death as relevant information for your study seems... bold.

They switched outcomes from what they pre-registered.

They did not even measure viral load, their primary outcome, in the control group. They looked at the patient and went like “she’s really sick, that’s a 23 at least”.

This, and the other problems mentioned, make this study suspect. And at the point where actual fraud is a possibility, the top line numbers stop being meaningful.

So in that sense your comment is like my Grandmother’s insistence on Pascal’s wager: “I know there’s no God, but paradise sound too good not to try”
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I just tried to figure out the simplest rigorous explanation of linear transformations. Here's one in terms of straight lines. Let's say we have a transformation of the 2D plane, i.e. a mapping from points to points. We will call that a "linear transformation" if these conditions are satisfied:

1) The point (0, 0) gets mapped to itself.

2) Straight lines get mapped to straight lines, though maybe pointing in a different direction.

3) Pairs of parallel straight lines get mapped to pairs of parallel straight lines.

Hence the name "linear transformation" :-) We can see that all straight lines going through (0, 0) get mapped to straight lines going through (0, 0). Let's consider just those straight lines going through (0, 0) that get mapped to themselves. There are four possibilities:

1) There are no such lines, e.g. if the transformation is a rotation.

2) There is one such line, e.g. if the transformation is a skew.

3) There are two such lines, e.g. if the transformation is a stretch along some axis.

4) There are more than two such lines. In this case, you can prove that in fact all straight lines going through (0, 0) are mapped to themselves, and the transformation is a scaling.

Now let's consider what happens within a single such line that gets mapped to itself. You can prove that within a single such line, the transformation becomes a scaling by some constant factor. (That factor could also be negative, which corresponds to flipping the direction of the line.) Let's call these factors the "eigenvalues", or "own values" of the transformation.

Now let's define the "eigenspaces", or "own spaces" of the transformation, corresponding to each eigenvalue. An eigenspace is the set of all points in the 2D plane for which the transformation becomes scaling by an eigenvalue. Let's see what happens in each of the cases:

1) In case 1, there are no eigenspaces and no eigenvalues.

2) In case 2, there is only one eigenspace, which is the straight line corresponding to the single eigenvalue.

3) In case 3, it pays off to be careful! First we need to check what happens if the two eigenvalues are equal. If that happens, it's easy to prove that we end up in case 4 instead. Otherwise there are two different eigenvalues, and their eigenspaces are two different straight lines.

4) In case 4, the eigenspace is the whole 2D plane.

In this way, eigenvalues and eigenspaces are unambiguously geometrically defined, and don't require coordinates or matrices.

Now, what are "eigenvectors", or "own vectors" of the transformation? Let's say that an "eigenvector" is any vector for which our transformation is a scaling. In other words, an "eigenvector" is a vector from (0, 0) to any point in an eigenspace. The disadvantage is that it involves an arbitrary choice. The advantage is that eigenvectors can be specified by coordinates, so you can find them by computational methods.

Does that make sense?
There are plenty of reasons why birth rates fall when everyone is well off. We’re not bacteria that mindlessly multiply when there are resources to do so. Educated, affluent population directly correlate with lower birth rates. In some countries that actually a big problem with no clear solution in sight.
The guideline is: You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it.

Writing a title to better fit the gamut of HN interests without making it inaccurate/false/salacious isn't gratuitous and unlikely to be spin.
no one mentioned sugarsync?

can some people chime in with a multimachine option that also allowsaccess by smartphone?
I am not picking on anyone, but these type of technical jokes are posted with an increased frequency these days. I don't like it personally because most of the members come here for serious discussions. If these types of stories keep rising to the front page, maybe (just maybe) HN may become close to reddit and in that case, lets just change our password to a random string and logout.
It's interesting that a search mentioned in the article, "Christian Audigier glasses," still shows DecorMyEyes near the top for Google. It's also near the top for Bing

It's nowhere to be seen in Duck Duck Go.

Bing seems to just be copying Google, both its good and bad results, which is disappointing. Given that everyone is optimizing for Google and not (as much) for Bing, it shouldn't be hard for Bing to do better.
Land of Lisp (.lol)
Our eyes are positioned next to each other on the horizontal plane. This is why a screen ratio with a larger width rather than height makes sense.
holy cow, you must be Ryan Lackey. Apparently you aren't doing Blue Iraq anymore?
I do think of HN as one big social experiment for PG. It seems he wants to show reddit that the community does not have to degenerate after a number of members (but of course reddit wanted to make money and they are).
It's ironic that Apple is also preaching "Everyone Can Code". In other words, everyone is or can be a power user.

Computers are becoming more and more essential to our lives, so deliberately dumbing them down is a disservice to everyone, who should be learning more not less about how computers work.

My dad was in sales. My first exposure to computers was when he bought an Apple II way back in the day. He used VisiCalc, naturally, the "killer app" for the Apple II. Was he a "power user" or a "normal person"? I'd say both!
No. It's pretty bare-bones. Save before a disconnect, restore after re-connect.

And it's hWnd based, so if the window handle ever changes it won't work. Also won't work for admin windows, unless run as an admin.

But it worked well enough for me.
Yep, sometimes I feel like having a drive around, and then I remember how long it takes to load and play something else instead.
If you end up in a lobby with undesirables and are forced to switch, you've got another long wait.
Learning k8s is not a problem, but if you are faced with the decision to implement either k8s or Nomad at a company, it's worth evaluating both and what fits better for your team.

Recruitment should not be an issue since anyone who understands k8s should be able to grasp Nomad, and vice versa (although in the latter case, with much more effort).
If you want to do something that makes a difference in the world what's wrong with that?
i mean, that's what you pay for wine
The problem that he seems to be alluding to is that general problem of WYSIWYG cp. bespoke software - in particular, when tools like GTM are used in a way that adds to requirements cruft and detracts from software reliability.
I don’t agree with this video. I bought a 55” plasma for $800 over 10 years ago. And I bought a Sony Triniton for $1000 around 2000. The price of TVs seems to be fixed around this price point and we seem to get more features, bigger screens, etc and the price stays about the same.

The highest end TVs I see also have ads. So I don’t think this factors into the price at all. It’s just bonus profits on top of existing profits.

If ad data subsidized prices significantly, I wouldn’t expect it in $4,000 TVs. Am I supposed to believe that the TV would be $4,050 without ads? It seems strange that high end TVs would care about these small amounts.

I think this is just a cover story by marketers to garner sympathy.
It isn't. This is just the CLI client to their API service. All scanning happens on their servers based on data extracted by the CLI.
I work at a startup that uses Java. When it started, the CTO knew java so thats what they picked. Now, the company has grown to around 10 people with over a million users. They're monetizing pretty well and are well on their way to being very successful.

As (almost) always, performance issues are with the db. And, as always, you should think about the data structure that you're using.
Is it common to say "Sir" when speaking to a police officer in the US? Where I come from, the police officer is expected to call you "Sir" and act as your servant.
i read about it but they said you can form a company but can not work for it . Now its high time i need to get in touch with immigration lawyer.
Quantcast is -- a huge amount of hadoop and performance sensitive code, and the majority of our external website.

1 - we self host

2 - the relevant performance issue when using java to develop web apps is it's slower to build. I'd be pretty surprised if there were many cases where java / tomcat is slower to execute than rails or django. Now obviously all three are smoked by cached pages, but since a lot of our data needs to be updated daily, that isn't the easiest design for us.
It's just a standard consequence of underfunding. No one gets paid to develop scikit-learn full time. An academic gets paid by getting grants. When you look at a lot of the best libraries out there, how were the top contributors employed at the time?

Generally speaking, you'll find that most of them were employed by companies who were willing to let them burn money to develop the library. Universities don't have that luxury anymore.
funny is what you make it. absurd, depressing, uplifting, idiotic.

I consider this the best comedy on the planet:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2396224/

I also like the stuff by this guy brad neely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCiBPjckTg

don't let other people tell you what's funny or you'll be watching carlos mencia and everybody loves raymond.
"The proportion of people aged 65 or over is forecast to reach nearly 40% of the population in 2060"

This takes for granted that in year 2060 people will be old like they are today. That change in human biology won't happen.

One of the areas our company has worked is DNA(software) processing. You probably have heard about "mother cells" for a reason. Those things could do incredible things. They repair the body constantly(if you are young),when you lose them, you age.

Breakthroughs on this area wont probably happen in single years time. But over decades it is a different story.

This will create another problem for humanity(humanity has always solved problems by creating new [smaller]ones). But at the same time we will have fusion and ability to travel (cheaply)outside the earth by 2060.
This isn't a lightsaber, it's a powerful portable laser.

That's kind of like claiming you've manufactured the world's first gun when all you have is arrows with bullet-shaped heads.
> [Smart people] think the world isn’t complicated, period.

um.. what!?

The world is a complicated mess in just about every aspect except in those axiomatic systems we developed to create simplified models -- but the map is not the territory. The world is by far larger than those specialized areas we're good at.
I didn't mean you specifically were attacking Apple. What I meant, and what my point was, is that Apple is attacked for keeping control of it's platform, but now we see what happens when one doesn't.

Your gun analogy doesn't fit. Google doesn't control their distributor so the product they make may never see the light of day. It's not about someone using Google's free offering to injure someone, but rather taking it, making their own (inferior) creation and passing that off as Android.

I welcome competition in the space to be sure, but people screaming about Apple keeping control of their product (would you expect anything else from Steve Jobs?) are missing the point IMO.
Shouldn't calling something "obsolete" mean it's no longer compatible or practical? Links work! They will always work!
Meh, just admit you didn't realise how packages are signed and move on. TLS shouldn't and cannot be used to sign installation packages. After all, TLS stands for _Transport Layer_ Security...
To add a git to abat's comment, sometimes "white" volunteers will be willing to go places where local people don't want to go, like remote or dire poor villages. The most hard working people will have found their way out, and they will focus on maintaining or improving their situation rather than going back to help (except if they are really successful). At some point these places will lack educated and forward thinking people, and volunteers coming out of nowhere can actually have a positive impact, at least on the mental side. Highly inefficient globaly, but not always meaningless.
Uber puts out one of these press releases every time they run up against a possible regulatory hurdle. They consistently reek of misplaced indignation, and this one is no exception.
To be fair, Github wouldn't need to leak anything to get on the top of HN. Just about any thing they post on their blog gets on the front page for at least a few hours.
There's an interesting proposal for reming that radiation belt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt#Propo...).

But shielding seems to be doable with pretty thin layers of metal.
The Cyprus riots were not due to a bank run; they were due to the government's decisions to prevent citizens from withdrawing their money. From the article you linked: "Riots are now being reported in Cyprus as citizens are furious at the Troika’s decision to rob the citizens to pay for the bad debts of banks."

I'll give you the others, however. The fact that two are from over a century and a half ago however seems to support my implication that bank runs don't necessarily lead to riots (and more specifically, that not bailing out banks won't necessarily lead to riots).
I noticed this too, it vanished from New Posts right after I viewed it, thought it was deleted until you posted this...
As I recall, there was an attempt at "Kickstarter for open source" before. Only, it might even have been before Kickstarter (in which case I guess it was a "Fundable for open source").

I never heard of it again. I like the idea, but it might not be the easiest to get off the ground. Why not just use Kickstarter? (Except that they're doing union busting, I know).
Wildcat striking is illegal under Taft-Hartley if I recall correctly. You have to be orderly about it. Management shouldn't know til the union is organized. They have every right to frustrate organization; so you've got to go about it with care.
But you can't make foreign intelligence assets "stay in the US" as it were. I bet every single large tech company in the US has rather substantial numbers of Chinese (and other countries') spies embedded within it. They also get caught again, and again, and again. And remember it's only the idiots who carry secrets on their person that get caught, rather than just upload data straight to some servers in China. I bet there's quite a bit of that going on as well.

The recent few cases are just baffling. The guy resigns and gets caught on the border exfiltrating trade secrets. For one thing, why resign? Just go - you'll get fired automatically when you don't return. For another, why carry this stuff in your suitcase? Just upload it to AWS in encrypted form sail through the customs with no problem at all. They are clearly not sending their best.
Maybe you're just jealous then. So go to China, don't blame me.
I appreciate and welcome this move by RISC-V foundation. With semiconductor industry being used as a major soft power, countries which don't have such power betting on RISC-V[1], it's wise to move to a neutral country.

My only gripe being, there aren't many neutral countries which can stand up to powerful militarized nations.

Edit:
The reason, I mentioned lack of military power of neutral countries is because of the existence of law such as 'Hague Invasion Act'[2] which allows U.S. to invade Hague to liberate its personnel tried at International Criminal Court for war crimes. Neutral countries need military power to protect its Neutrality!

[1]https://shakti.org.in

[2]https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-be...
So by your logic an employer would be required to pay every employee a wage that would allow them to support a family even if they don't have a family to support?
Yikes. LA area those numbers look more like $24 an hour on average. Perhaps in exceptional places like the SF bay area it would make more sense to invest in large scale public housing projects, with rents capped to 1/3 full time at minimum wage.