jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Instantaneous gravity exists in Newtonian mechanics but not in modern theories. Gravitation is thought to be transmitted by gravitational waves, which have a finite speed of c. It is not possible to transmit information at a faster speed than light in special relativity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Relativity#Gravitationa...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity#Causality_an...
I'm biased, but I think anything post-pc makes for fascinating thesis material.

Maybe watch the Arduino documentary for some inspiration? It's only 28 minutes: http://arduinothedocumentary.org/
"support charity" seems to be okay, though. This is what the Humble Bundle[0] calls it.

[0] http://www.humblebundle.com/
This has been, slowly, changing. Some applicants, rightly so, have felt that they are being discriminated against because of their skin color or family name. A few government agencies have removed names and photos from submitted CVs so the application is entirely merit-based. I haven't included a photo in my CV. I can't think of a reason why it should be necessary and no one has given me a valid reason why any job, except being a model, would need one.

When I have brought this up with my friends they fall back to the "customary" excuse. If the only reason a company won't look at my CV is because they don't know what I look like than it's not a place I would ever consider working for.
If you spend so much time, passion and money building a product like Dropbox you will try to defend it from every kind of threat: today the "piracy" topic is a hot one, sounds like its worse than killing someone, and Dropbox is hit by this "piracy" threat. I fully understand and respect Dropbox founders positions, and the DMCA issue is clearly a bug in my opinion (i wouldn't automatically send those kind of communications upon a system-forced file deletion, however).
I implied that they could be more civil if there is a chance that the owner of the internet connection is not the criminal. They could knock on the door, politely ask the owner to answer some questions and do the rough stuff after they are absolutely sure that that guy is the one they are looking for.
> knowing that I was way smarter than they were.

You're not smarter than them. If you were, you would have thought about your career, instead of sloppily stumbling into the first thing that appealed to the teenage version of you.
TLDR; Half a page of lorem ipsum as a vehicle for these two:

Vendors such as AWS are known to run their own data
centres at a level of Tier II or low Tier III maximum

Other vendors such as ourselves take the approach of
locating in premium high TierIII or TierIV data centres

Content-free PR FUD. Flagged.
I toned down the colors. I think the background image is still a little busy. Will change that soon.
Good coverage of this issue on this week's On the Media: http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/04/22/02
Not sure if this is what's being discussed in the comments already, but it seems like you should be able to XOR all the numbers in the array, and then compare that to the XOR of all the consecutive numbers (which will xor to 0 if n mod 4 == 3).
Harmful enough to performance to be avoided, was what I was thinking.

Maybe it is a bit too sensational though...
I use Netflix and Hulu Plus for all of my television watching (I don't have cable tv). Both of these seem to be tied somehow to the playstation network login, even though they use non playstation network credentials to actually authenticate me as a paying user. As mentioned below, Netflix still works, but with an annoying sequence of failed login attempts before letting you in and Hulu sometimes works with the same process sometimes doesn't work at all.

So while it's obviously not the end of the world, it is extremely frustrating to sit down to relax and watch a show and to be told that you just can't because of the playstation network, not because either of the content services arnen't working.

I think the biggest problem is that Sony has been totally opaque throughout the whole process. This has been going on for more than a WEEK now, not just two days, and until the blog post had not acknowledge in any way that there was a problem. Even though message boards were littered with people reporting problems.
I need a great rural wifi provider. In Colorado where I spend a lot of time you have a choice of 1 or two providers (we can choose between mho.net or skybeam) and their service is sub-par. MHO seems to work to lose you as a customer with quotes like "Well I see that you're getting 1 Mbps instead of the 5 we sold you but I just don't see a problem on this end". I've actually confirmed the sucky bandwidth with iperf and one of their techs, but they still won't fix it.

Skybeam seem to be the better provider and are booked a month out for new installations. They all provide up to 5 mbps max.

It seems that there are a few legacy providers in the area that are resting on their existing customer base.

All the technology is wireless with directional antennas that look like small satellite dishes. Seems like a great oppty for recurring revenue with relatively low startup costs.
Self-promotion: We're working on that (among other things) @ http://payfacade.com.
It's nice to see that yet one more person has come to their senses. Not much new in that post, but sometimes that's ok.

The code itself is always the first, best, and final authority on how it works. Comments should add something beyond that, or they should not be there at all. The Thou Shalt Comment mindset is responsible for most bad comments. Ignore it and only comment when it will do the reader a service.
Summary: "Bad comments are bad. Good comments are good."
Right now I see at most a four minute buffer. That's one thing I would like is the ability to change. Or the ability to specify my bandwidth settings so that I could allow a HD movie or tv show to buffer at higher quality for longer if my connection wasn't good enough and then start watching when there was enough of the show buffered.
Hey Spyro,

I made the change on the 16th, so it's been nearly two weeks now... Hopefully it will return, it was very nice to be able to say "I'm ranked just after python.org for 'learn python'" :/

Thanks for your help!
I don't believe templates would work very well. The variations of sentences are too great such that you will result in very low recall.

An alternative solution is to attack the problem backward, training on terms (words or phrase) from sex-related conversations (such as adult chatroom transcripts). Then, from general corpus (Twitter or generic chats) identify terms that highly cooccur with those sex-terms. I would still use a Bayesian classifier, with strong prior against labelling something as a TWSS.
Neat. However on this page http://hobolobo.net/what-is-this-thing it identifies Chrome (version 11.0.696.14) as IE, why?
PyCharm is awesome. [shameless plug]: if you're using VisualStudio, give http://pytools.codeplex.com a try... free & open source from msft.
"When you get very very tired—and I had been up four nights all night long; Steve and I got mononucleosis—your head gets in this real creative state and it thinks of ideas that you'd normally just throw out. I came up with this idea of taking one little cheap (less than $1) part with 4 bits in it. If I spun it around at the right rate, the data that comes out of that chip looks like color TV. And I could put 16 different patterns and they all look like different colors, sort of. Would a digital signal that goes up and down actually work on a color TV the way there are sine waves and complicated calculus to develop how color TV was established in the television world? Would it work?
"

- Steve Wozniak, from the Founders at Work interview

http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html
In the UK something like this exists already, in a limited form: British Telecom has a service called FON which anyone with one of their wifi routers can opt in to for free. When you opt in, you agree to share a limited amount of the bandwidth on your router; in return, you get the ability to connect through the router of anyone else who's opted in.

It doesn't always work quite as well as you might hope - connecting can be a bit of a pain sometimes - but it's a great idea. They've provided a real incentive for people to share their bandwidth.
Could you explain why the free movement of capital implies or requires secrecy - and how this is different than other trade agreements freeing up the movement of capital that haven't been as secret?
> My own point of view is that linear algebra is by far the most successful part of mathematics: 'Most' questions you can come up with have satisfactory answers. This is in contrast to, say, number theory, where there's a bunch of nice elementary results and a lot of interesting questions that seem nigh impossible to solve.

I view that as "if you can find a way to express your problem in terms of linear equations, there are well-known techniques for finding solutions."
But I want to know more about the equations!

What does y^2 = x^3 + ... have to do with an ellipse or the arc length of it?
The IO bandwidth of the system will limit you more loading 35TB of data in ram on a single system, even if it is streamed. You'll need more than one disk, and network card to do this in a timely fashion.
Just to note, but if it's possible that your worst case is that all lines are unique, then you've effectively read the entire file into memory. But this just gets back to your point:

> rather than thinking about the data itself

…i.e, in this case, we need to realize that the set will require on the order of the size of how many unique items there are, and that in the worst case, that's O(n).

Of course, if you can guarantee that the size of unique set will fit into memory, then you're fine. But you might need a bit of knowledge about the data to do so.
SEOmoz. Great company, great team, amazing growth, great founder.
>Wouldn't it be smarter for me to just give you $1 directly via PayPal?

Which you would get by... selling some amount of bitcoins to an exchanger. And the person you give $1 to would turn around and buy the same amount from another exchanger, less overall fees both ways.

It amounts to the same thing, unless you view bitcoins as a dead-end worthless location to put money in, because you never use them. Which is irrational - it's pure loss for you if you never use them.
That's the beauty to creativity, there is no rules for how to get there :)
I'm sorry, but there's something to be said for a good article. A good article isn't one whose first two sentences are flame bait. As such, I couldn't read the rest of the article.
As a former retail manager of a brick and mortar store, I have to say that anything that brings competition to the payment processing industry would be huge for retailers.

Obviously, a retailer of Apple's scale has that much more to gain from disrupting the industry. Even moreso if they plan on having to negotiate with payment processors when they bring an NFC solution to market.
Is Square attempting to market consumer uses for their product? It seems like a device and service to process credit-card payments isn't really right for the masses of consumers that flood through Apple stores.
Sometimes articles are over my head too. Sometimes I work on figuring them out and learn something. Sometimes I give up because I don't have the time or energy. However, I don't blame the author for my ignorance.
Nice work!

I'm in the process of building a game portal, would you like a subdomain like http://privatejoe.gumyum.com ?

I could create an A record right away.

Also you should check out my game sometime at http://four2go.gumyum.com
So weird, my Kindle 3 crashed twice yesterday, something that's not happened in the 3~ months I've owned it. And I have a leather cover. Curious if this is why.
A law isn't a law if you can't enforce it, so "applies" has kind of a strange meaning in this context then, doesn't it?
How was it the right decision? Silverlight was cross-platform, then they made a Windows-specific fork which is WinRT XAML/WinUI (most people don't realize this but this stack originated as a repurposing of the Silverlight codebase directly, it wasn't a rewrite), now they are apparently hoping to make it cross platform again (see e.g., https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/winui_winrt_windows... )

It seems like they could have taken a less roundabout route to get there.
Telemetry could be an indicator of when they've pushed the user too far in swallowing the horrible design decisions.
This was posted 2 days ago on their site:

We want to give everyone a super quick update on shipping of the current batch of Librem 5 smartphones.

There’s a delay. But, never fear, it’s only a delay of just a couple days.

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-birch-shipping-update-delay-o...
What I've realized is most people don't believe in freedom of speech. They believe in freedom of speech that they agree with or enjoy.

It's really a shame, from the perspective of someone who seriously does not care what others speak.

It's like most people lack the ability to simply ignore what they find distasteful. They instead feel compelled to destroy it.

These tendencies are at the core of our current online reality. It's a scary world out there!
> The whole point of the GDPR is to protect data belonging to EU citizens and residents. The law, therefore, applies to organizations that handle such data whether they are EU-based organizations or not, known as "extra-territorial effect."

They can say this all they want, but if you have no presence in the EU, and your jurisdiction does not have any agreement to apply GDPR regulations to you, then this is at most a strongly worded request.

Barring explicit agreements to the contrary (treaties, extradition agreements, etc), by definition a country's laws are only enforceable there.

If PDL has no business in Europe, no plans to expand there, and there's no treaty or other agreement making the provisions enforceable against them, the EU can say whatever it wants but PDL has no legal obligation to do anything about it.
yxIjdy;6;d
> As long the Internet is not subject to government packet filtering based upon content (ie, the US doesn't become China), there's no way to prevent the eventual outcome that someone can say bad things and it reach millions of people.

Here's the cool thing about trade group regulation like MPAA: we have much less to worry about with respect to slippery slopes. If there's someone who's too small to be a member, then yes: they do get to distribute their content. This means that people can still host individually horrible pages and blogs that few care about. But managing legal liability / responsibility for all those horrible blogs would be a real challenge for wordpress or github, e.g. Writing legislation to thread those kinds of holes but still be upheld in courts might also be difficult. But that's the threat.

If the lion's share of deceptive "news" and bogus claims are spread via Youtube/Twitter/FB, just think of how valuable it would be for those three to come together and have a trade group like the MPAA that would set standards for them to audit content.
> So the pay isn't great so its probably hard to get people to write them, as its more of a labor of love than a profit making endeavor.

Plus it can be a career cornerstone especially for authors who do consulting, to have written an O'Reilly book on their topic, I would imagine.
And did they handle surrogate pairs correctly?

My team managed a system that did a read from user data, doing input validation. One day we got a smart quote character that happened to be > U+10000. But because the data validation happened in chunks, we only got half of it. Which was an invalid character, so input validation failed.

In UTF-8, partial characters happen so often, they're likely to get tested. In UTF-16, they are more rarely seen, so things work until someone pastes in emoji and then it falls apart.
The comment I replied to started with "You should give hard mode a try." In hard mode, WARMS is not a valid followup guess.
What case? Why don't you turn down the Cuomo rage.

Let's just consider those that died. Where do you put just those 15000 elderly patients so that they still get adequate healthcare for their existing conditions without killing them with Covid exposure just like already happened. Just going to lock them in a hotel room?
Here’s an option from an earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24977699&p=2#24979163

The Brother MFC-L2750DW is still working great.
Scanning electron microscopy is necessary for analyzing wafers (we have one in the clean room at our university), but I'm not sure that the tunneling features are necessary. From what I understand, you can usually see deep enough with the SEM to see the bottom of the wafer. He does mention the use of SEM and STM as separate topics, though, so I'm not sure that it was a slip of the tongue.

Take a look at this very accessible article on Sparkfun.com for some more information on analysis of circuit topologies. They're analyzing 4-year-old circuits.

http://www.sparkfun.com/news/384
Benjamen Bayart said: "The printing press allowed people to read. The internet will allow them to write." Sorry, but people won't have that right if everything is in the cloud, because it will be controlled by a handful of giga-corporations. If you think this future is likely, I humbly suggest you screw that, and fight for an alternative.

Here's one : (1) 5 years from now, people will begin to distrust for-profit corporation with their privacy. (2) 10 years from now, the FreedomBox will be ubiquitous. (3) 15 years from now, consumer awareness and demand (triggered by the FreedomBox) will raise upload capacity up to download capacity. Likely results are ubiquitous (and unstoppable) self publishing, e-mail that's actually private, and distributed encrypted back-up that just works. This should help flourish public debates and actual democracies.
Ha! http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3168/3014911710_e31650fd3d.jp...
The kind of user who could modify chrome to subvert the will of administrators is the kind of user who could figure out a way around the root restrictions in the first place, most likely.

If it is a virus/exploit issue that you are worried about, my bet is that an auto-updating chrome is better protected from these than a root-restricted but out-of-date browser.
The reason OpenBSD was thought of so secured is because they audited the entire code at one time and continuously audit code for new holes. The reason they audited the code in the first place was because way back in the day the main OpenBSD server was compromised and backdoors were placed in the code. They do not like people to know this.
yeah, but their 'exit' is similar to twitter's current round: it's a measure of how much somebody thought they could/would be worth. I'm asking how much they are worth now!
Well, that kind of blows. Aren't they just patenting charging for dummy terminals?
I've always used the term to mean "a temporary, short term hack that will serve the purpose until we have the time/resources to create/implement something that can be long term."
At least with the people I know, most trivia is the sort of thing they already found on the internet. If you browse Reddit and none of your friends do, you're pretty much guaranteed to know some bizarre fact. Similarly with programs like QI, it's often quite easy to know where people get their facts from (the conversation usually ends with "You got that from QI didn't you?" "Yes. I did.")

On the other hand I find it incredibly difficult to shut up when someone says something wrong about computing (or usually about some current affairs topic in computing). Don't be that guy.
> Ruby itself was effectively moribund until Rails

I think you might mean "unknown" rather than "moribund", but just in case: no it wasn't, it was quite successful, RAA wasn't CPAN but was quite rich, there were steady improvements to the language and the community outside japan was growing (i.e. most of the european ruby user groups started before ruby on rails). It was just growing slowly, rather than skyrocketing.
Michael Faraday worked as an assistant to Sir Humphry Davy for some time. He used to travel along with Sir Davy and his wife. During these travels, it is said that Davy's wife used to treat Faraday shabbily, because he came from a lower economic class. Faraday was hurt so bad that he wanted to leave it all and go back.

Good for us that he endured and chose to stay on.
Gobble (YC W14) is looking for foodie+techie folks that love a Hell's Kitchen style challenge. We're a small but well seasoned team looking for the creme de la creme of designers and engineers. Join us in solving the problems that busy people face when trying to eat healthy and fresh meals daily. Our "full stack food" company makes easy one pan dinner kits, so anyone can make a Michelin-worthy dinner in under 10 minutes. You'll get to taste everything - whether it's Shepherd's Pie, Miso Salmon, or Butternut Squash Ravioli - and be one of our Master Chef judges every day.

From short stacks on the menu to technologies in the full stack, you’ll make key decisions across the company. We do not have too many cooks in the kitchen, as you’ll be one of the first five engineers. Think you can handle the heat? We’ve got wild organic growth and lots of meaty problems.

Lead Designer (Graphic Design, UI/UX Design)

* Strong visual, interaction, and UX design experience
(web and mobile applications) (3+ years)

* Data driven design
(create and runs A/B tests to increase conversion and engagement)

* Strong experience with HTML/CSS(/Sass)
(skip the PSD and get right in between the braces)

* Been through the Javascript grind? That's a plus!

Senior Full Stack Engineer

* SOLID experience with Ruby/Rails/Backbone.js
(5+ years)

* Experience with TDD (RSpec/Jasmine)

* Experienced with Chef or Salt, and the server side of things?
That's a plus!

Mobile Engineer

* Experience developing consumer applications for iOS/iPad
(3+ years)

* Strong understanding of latest developments in the iOS world
(iOS8 + Swift)

* Got some Android chops too? That's a plus!

Our team of in house chefs trained under Michael Mina -- Let us know what you bring to the table. Send your resume, link to your GitHub, code/design samples, and links to any deployed software you've worked on to chops@gobble.com.
Atomic Object - Developers and Designers - Detroit, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids MI (atomicobject.com)

The Right Fit: We don't care so much about your specific technology background. We're much more interested to know that you learn quickly, are disciplined in your work, and have already demonstrated interest and aptitude by having become proficient in a variety of languages and tools. We look for people who are passionate about development, who program in their free time, who are continually uncovering new things, and who enjoy sharing them.

A Variety of Technologies: At Atomic, it's not uncommon for someone to move from developing a new web site in Ruby to creating an internal application in .NET to building a mobile application in Objective-C or Java. We're passionate about quality and owning our clients' mission, so we select the best tools for the job.

A Broader Mindset: Atomic is a consultancy. As such, you'll be empowered and expected to interact directly with clients every day. You'll need to become comfortable and effective at understanding and discussing business goals, budgets, and timelines with clients. Additionally, you'll help market our services in a variety of ways including presenting at conferences, contributing to our shared company blog, networking within our client's organizations and among your peers, and expending your creative energies in ways we will not attempt to predict.

Interested in working for us? Send us an email to get the conversation started. We'd love to talk with you. jobs@atomicobject.com