skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO the analogy doesn't hold up very well. Outsider art is often very good, and outsider programming seems like a weird idea (do startup hackers have less training than BigCo employees?) But that's beside the point.

If you're looking at the tiny subset of outsider science that's chosen for correctness and publication-worthiness, of course you'll be enthusiastic about it. But these people, like Marjorie Rice, aren't really facing any obstacles from the establishment! If their work has merit, they usually get a warm welcome.

The elephant in the room is that >99% of outsider science is extremely bad, and can't understand why it's bad even after repeated explanations. Pretty much all the people complaining about the scientific establishment are like "fermatists", who used to hover around math institutes to have their proofs of FLT checked. If you're not familiar with such people, I urge you to actually look at a sample of their work and form your own opinion.

After that I think you'll be less eager to throw accusations around. A scientist's life is hard enough already, without people telling her she's an insecure evil fascist for rejecting torsion fields, the EmDrive, or Time Cube.
It's amazing but also mentioned several times throughout the article.
You can think of the brown color as a feature, not a bug.

Yes, it is effectively burnt oil and you probably shouldn't eat too much of it, but it will give steaks for instance a great crust and I think it adds a bit of flavor as well.
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"then tiling it across the plane": see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10046349.

"just generate a bunch of them, and split them in two"

Try splitting a 'random' polygon into a set of identical convex (regular or irregular) pentagons.

"what's "irregular" about it?": this has been answered, but for completeness: the sides and angles of the pentagons aren't all identical.
http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-te...
They're your most realistic option right now. They are actively developing it and added things like newer algorithms (e.g. SHA2).

There's CipherSched but that is basically a completely new program/rewrite which is very far from done.

However, I don't agree with VeraCrypts choices. They've changed several things that make mounting slow (0,5s -> 10s), which is annoying, especially if you mistype the password. Providing the option for increased security isn't bad, but they refuse to give users overrides to disable those slow security options because they are of the opinion that users can't assess the tradeoff for themselves. Which leads people to just go back to truecrypt because it works way better in their minds.
Installing Kibana to work with multiple elasticsearch clusters
Welcome to Liberland, the World’s Newest Country (Maybe)
Gotta love the cast irons, inherited one that's about 50 years old, took me a while to season it properly, but now it's working like a charm. When you take good care of them, they will last for several generations.
This is pretty sweet. I should really try and understand BPMN better. I'm assuming you work on this project in some capacity: if so, you might be interested in looking at my software (http://kite9.com) which does automatic orthogonal layouts.
Ask HN: Privacy Badger locking down gmail accounts?
A bit of a long shot perhaps, but my pretty stable gmail account is showing me "Unusual Usage - Account Temporarily Locked Down".

Now, the only 'new' thing in my browser pattern usage is the new EFF "Privacy Badger" extension... No new mailing list, no new device added or anything like that.

So, I'm being a bit suspicious, but I'd curious to know if the typical user that is the HN crowd have noticed anything like that in the last couple of days... I'm, not 'blaming' anyone here or anything, just fishing for a clue...

Bottom line is still highlighting the fact that google 0wns you entirely, and with zero support line, if you rely on /any/ of their services you're entirely and totally screwed if/when they decide to pull the plug on you... Luckily my 'real' serious email is still on a VPS with dovecot!
A politician can make any kind of spending seem bad by just calling it a subsidy regardless of the social benefit. But when it benefits people they like it can just be quietly ignored.

The real test should be if it ensures that people pay a "fair price" for a product. Paying a little more for clean energy is perfectly reasonable.
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> Disclaimer: this site is not affiliated with, nor is it the official site of TrueCrypt

AFAIK there are several forks out there. But who is behind them? Can they be trusted?

BTW, for those looking for the code, this is the only reliable host for the Truecrypt source code:

https://github.com/AuditProject/truecrypt-verified-mirror
There's a lovely building at North Greenwich which is Penrose'd.

http://wordpress.mrreid.org/2011/02/26/penrose-tiling/
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/foa%E2%80%99s-peninsula-patterns-f...
Do you always use your MBP connected to a power outlet? If so, try running it until its battery is drained about 50%, then plug it into your inverter and see how much power it draws. My guess is it will draw about 50-60 W.

I've been using a pedal-powered generator to power my computer, phone, tablet, and LED lights for the last 5 years and have tested several laptops and other devices using it. I've found that most laptops draw from 12 W (11" Chromebook) to 25 W (older 15" Dell) when their battery is charged, but 40-60 W when charging.
The power supplies of most devices seem to have about a 50% safety factor, so a device that has a normal max power consumption of 50 W will use a 75 W power supply.
Shade balls fill reservoir to conserve water in drought-hit LA – in pictures
Goldman Sachs to Give Out ‘Secret Sauce’ on Trading
Ask HN: What is your front-end stack of choice if you start a new web-app today?
If you begin a new front-end-heavy app today, what is your stack of choice?

The front-end world is changing at a dizzying speed, and it's making me nauseous. I'd love to adopt React, but I'm curious how other people are using it as part of a complete production-ready 2015 web app.

* Angular 2 is not yet ready, and will not be backwards compatible.
* There are a million choices for flux implementations, and it seems like the community hasn't yet converged on any one choice.
* Are people successfully using Rails with their flux implementations in production?
> The real test should be if it ensures that people pay a "fair price" for a product. Paying a little more for clean energy is perfectly reasonable.

You could argue the other way and say that paying a little more for dirty energy is perfectly reasonable because someone has to come after them to clean things up. There is a cost to that.
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045156
Varoufakis vs. the Media (media manipulation analysis)
Free markets when supported by strong property rights can have strong protections to prevent harm or pollution.

Non free markets, although regulated, don't necessarily perform better and can even perform worse in this regard. The FDA is a great example of an agency which often can be seen to work harder to protect the industry than the individual. For example, look up the story of Vioxx. A drug which killed 50k people, passed all FDA processes and when the manufacturer was caught hiding data showing this would happen the product was not even removed from the market as that would have opened the door for lawsuits against the manufacturer.
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I don't have a personal opinion on the matter, as I'm not familiar with the wide variety of JS stacks, but the most visually attractive projects I've seen so far were made with Rails + EmberJS (and React is some cases).
The posted link doesn't work. Here's a paywall link: http://www.wsj.com/articles/goldman-sachs-to-give-out-secret...
Shanghai Telecom Triples Cost of Access to Overseas Websites
good work :)
What's the point group for the first tiling on that webpage? It's a periodic tiling (unlike a Penrose tiling, which is only quasiperiodic), so the crystallographic restriction for two dimensions says the rotation subgroup of the point group must be one of C_2, C_3, C_4 (not C_5!) or C_6:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CrystallographyRestriction.html

I can't tell by eye-balling it what the symmetry is for the first one, but its periodicity says it must be one of those. Quasicrystals with 5-fold symmetry are not exactly periodic.

There are only 17 wallpaper groups. Since this is a wallpaper, what is its group?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group
This is an odd conclusion to come to. Are there a lot of users of True/Veracrypt that don't understand this? I guess I just don't see my grandparents using either of these packages, and I can't imagine a lot of "normal" users "trying out" a new encryption program.
The End of the Universe: A (Slightly Premature) Lament
Especially when those industries are killing us. Imagine government subsidies of cigarettes or heroin.
If. Then. Throw. Else. WTF?
That's a very elegant solution.

I wonder if it could also encourage the non-migrating migratory geese that stay here year round to continue migrating the hell away from here?
Why not https://truecrypt.ch/?
As far as I can tell Teflon fumes themselves are only confirmed to be acutely toxic; in humans they cause flu-like symptoms and damage the lungs. The articles I have found do not say anything about there being long-term consequences for those who didn't get the acute symptoms.
Y Combinator Is a Stupid Idea (2010)
Check this project: https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking

It seems to list an awful lot more url. Probably after startup though.
I'm not sure what parallel reality you're living in but what you're saying is not universally true. Here in India , it makes a huge difference where you went to college. Whether it comes to jobs , opportunities or even raising funding for your startup having that top college pedigree makes all the difference. Almost all the top startups are by alumni from the well known places.

Some companies won't even give you an interview if you're not from a top place. I myself sometimes regret not being able to get into a good place.

So , even I wish that what you said was true. But sadly it isn't.

Grades matter a lot , atleast as a signalling device if not anything else and kids are making the most logical choice among the options available to them and noone can blame them for it.
Do you have any suggestions about good solar startups with good patents/tech/people?
Maybe you have to login so they can adapt the paper's conclusions to match your social graph.
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045254
> 2. "Rare earths" are not so rare. Their prices have tumbled substantially as new mines have opened up and substitutes have been found.

Yes, but mining them is an environmental disaster.
For the record, I submitted the article with the original article title, as I always attempt to do. (Some articles have more than one "original" title. In doubtful cases, I read the source code of an article, to distinguish top-level headings from sharing titles from HTML titles, and choose the title that I think is most informative for a Hacker News readership.) In this case, I submitted the title from The Guardian with the "Attack on pentagon" title, and some member of the moderation team here changed it after a while. I'm gratified that this submission has received so many thoughtful comments both from mathematically trained onlookers and from amateurs at this level of mathematics like me. (The author of the original article has deep training and experience in mathematics, and is a regular mathematics columnist for The Guardian who likes word play in his column titles.)
The weather is rainy. Think of London or Ireland, something like that, but less cold. Insects are not a problem here, in northern Spain.

How far the beach is... it depends on the roads, maybe 2h on average but it can take much longer (5h maybe?). I live in Santiago de Compostela, there is a beach about 30 mins away.
There are hills almost everywhere, but not many mountains.

Map: https://goo.gl/hqklRv
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Spain)
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Just because a person is older than you doesn't mean they're either stupid or completely non-technical.

Plenty of older people started using computer in the middle of the sixties. So what if we started with card punch machines, tape readers, and mainframes?

Just exactly what do you mean by "normal?" How much computer exposure does it take before one loses that quality and becomes, well, "you?"

There are lots of grandparents coding away in cubes across the world or tinkering with their prized home-brew desktop rig. Take a reality pill, kiddo.

If anything, there are fewer younger people who will tinker with crypto because the vast majority of them think they're invincible, indestructible, and immortal, when they're really just inexperienced and gullible.
And who does the authorizing? Because if it isn't the Secretary of State, it's going to be the President, and he is not going to stick a dagger in Clinton's back at this point, not after her being a most loyal and effective lieutenant.
Have you factored in the CO2 footprint of solar panels? Producing pure silicon is energy intensive, then there are various metals involved, so you've got mining, refinement, smelting, and bulk transport costs. The panels also have a limited lifetime so you need to think about the disposal or recycling cost in 15-20 years. Pretty sure I've missed a load of costs too.
I was reading the Lonely Planet guide while in Nepal (another extremely poor country). Apparently many of the people in the country farm, and the farms are owned by absent landlords. So basically these people are working the land and having to pay 50% of they produce to people not even there. Do you think they are grateful for the "employment"?
Are you sure you can't? Apartment building rooftops in China are typically covered with solar water heating panels. Sure it's not PV, but it's solar and it serves tenants all the way down the building, not just those adjacent to the roof.

Perhaps you just need to check with your building owner.
Funny enough, eggs are the example used to discuss the impact of TTIP. In the US eggs at the supermarket are very clean. In Europe, it's forbidden to clean the eggs in any way. Often enough, you will have feathers and feces on eggs bought in the supermarket.
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How much electricity can you generate? Just thinking off the top of my head, I'm a sucky cyclist so can only manage about 150W power output sustained, probably. I'm not sure I could handle more than an hour of stationary biking before I collapse in a puddle of sweat ;-) So that's about 150 WH...

Is that about right (ballpark), or have I missed something? It would probably power my laptop for the day, anyway... It's something to think about (since I love cycling, even stationary ;-) )
3 steps to setting more accurate project deadlines
We use NXP MCUs that have a few different code protection modes. The mode we use in release code disables JTAG and Flash access, but allows erasing the entire Flash. This makes it hard(er?) to read and modify our code, while still allowing us to easily wipe a returned device and re-program it using a suitable firmware image.

Selecting which mode to use is a simple matter of setting a specific value at a specific position in the Flash image, very handy.
A much better fix would be: don't count the two worst tests towards the average. This would allow you to screw up every now and then.
Actually, it's not the ghost.io, it's a custom theme. Soon it will be replaced.
It might be easier to read the list of all discovered problems. Then everything else is in play.
Kala also means performing art in Sanskrit (and Hindi and Bengali afaik)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalā

:)
I think it's pretty telling that most courses outside school aren't structured...

Course: Math, Grade: A-F.

...but...

Course: Math E, Grade: Pass/Fail.
Course: Math D, Grade: Pass/Fail.
Course: Math C, Grade: Pass/Fail.

...etc.

I think the former mindset unfortunately can be quite common in the tech industry. "We need an A grade programmer". When what you really are looking for is a "C grade programmer with A grade ruby, B grade security, B grade network knowledge".
Something can be accurate and still be misleading.
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Why You Should Use PDO Instead of MySQLi
This is probably why it was renamed to Jupyter Notebook.[0]

0. https://blog.jupyter.org/2015/04/15/the-big-split/
Since when did symptoms of depression include malice aforethought?

Let's not equate mental illness with a desire to do evil. He could have just as easily forgiven his supervisors.
ARM is popular enough that there's a precompiled cross-compiler in Debian --- you get lucky there. It's even reasonably recent.

But there isn't a MIPS toolchain. Or an m68k toolchain. Or a sparc toolchain. Or an alpha toolchain. Or an SH toolchain. There is a Hitachi H8 toolchain, but it's based on 3.4.6. There's an MSP430 toolchain, but you don't want to use it, as it's achingly old and can brick some modern MSP430 devices. etc.

Typically, when working on an embedded device, the very first thing you do is spend far too many frustrating hours trying to beat gcc into shape, and that shouldn't be necessary. The fact that the packages for all these things aren't built and pushed to Debian automatically every time a gcc release is done indicates that something is very wrong somewhere...
Just use it. I only use saturated fats in mine (mostly lard and butter) and I use metal utensiles which helps to keep it smooth. I avoid vegetable oils because I find that they go sticky (they're also not as good for you to cook with as animal fat).
I have to wonder, if the outcome we are interested in is whether students understand the material, can't we do both? Some optional mid point tests, where the student can chose to keep the grade or bet it all on that final assessment?

I mean tests only exist to convince us that they know the material. Why does it matter how it works, beyond the test being an accurate reflection of their understanding?
Actually not the case (and I'm not sure it ever was). We were under this misapprehension for while too.

You're allowed to have a development database to "create one prototype" with a very loose description of what that is. It also "limits the use ... to one person .. and one server". As for testing - "all programs used in a test environment must be licensed".

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/databaselicensing...
FTP is dead! Why Deployments are the Future
It's of course a bit far fetched, but it would not be particularly hard to convert the interpreter to RPython and get performance/JIT for free
I think having a "recruiter" is a problem. When I interview for technical positions, I know that if I am speaking to HR people or a recruiter, that I am unlikely to get any valuable information out of them, and they will almost always try and get my current salary information from me. I would far rather speak with the technical team that I will be working with.
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If it was attempting to search the whole filesystem for interesting files to upload, I think that might be somewhat noticeable - at least for those who don't have an SSD, or have a HDD activity light in plain view. If some process on my system suddenly decides to scan the filesystem, I'd definitely notice the HDD seeking.
"Free open source"? Did they actually get an open source license this time?

If not, this website could be in violation of the license, but as discussed before, it's very unlikely the TrueCrypt authors would pursue this copyright violation.
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I'm reading "Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++" and one of the first programs illustrated is actually a calculator.
Being new to parsers in general, I love to see how two different approaches work: in the book the author implements the code by creating a formal (BNF-like) grammar first whereas in this articles the author draws diagrams first.
The logical extreme version is to take the median score.
So I should probably ask the same question in the other thread :)
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My experience has been the same as OP. It's not a parallel reality, its the US. It definitely does not matter where you go. If you work hard and and keep pushing yourself into more challenging positions, you'll be a highly competitive candidate for employment no matter what school you went to. Some may argue that those who get into good schools have a greater propensity to push themselves and achieve regardless of their situation - we hope that's true. But I have never in my experience seen such blindness toward graduates of lesser schools.
The Problem with 'Eat Local'
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Becoming ultra popular isnt an advantage at all. Look how much crap gets produced with JS or PHP, tons of crappy libraries shallow the few good ones, people write throwaway code like there is no tomorrow and real (tm) developers have to maintain this mess. And yes, I have seen code in my day job written in Java or Scala that was nearly impossible to even understand. Much Code.

Again it's obvious that the JVM is dramatically more in use than BEAM, but I like it so far. Up to now people only stumpled upon erlang when they actually needed it, now with elixir & co a few others discover that BEAM might be exactly what they need. This shows in the ecosystem, and the community of #elixir is by far the nicest I have met so far.

Just personal experience, yours might differ (obviously). Just to reiterate: Becoming too popular results nearly everytime in garbage for everyone. Just look how much stuff gets crammed in JS nowadays.
Does this work with the multiprocessing library?
We are talking about works which then has had no patches for 20 years. Even compiles of dead languages do get minor patches over time, if nothing else then to fix memory leaks, crashes, infinitive loops and compatibility with new os kernels. You would for example have to enable low memory address exception in the kernel to run many 20 year old programs, since many programs back then assumed they would start at address space zero, which modern kernel forbids for security reasons.
(in the end of the README file)

Conclusions: ...
You absolutely can implement it for your own use, research, etc. distribution and sale of code implementing patents is potentially problematic.
JLong: Blog front end rewrite deployed Using redux, channels, react-router, more
Here's an initiative by Jimmy Lin to standardize implementations of IR used in Academia. Reproducibility of results is now made possible:
https://github.com/lintool/IR-Reproducibility
This is some pretty good work.

Vowpal Wabbit does pretty well, which isn't surprising - it has always benchmarked well.

I'm not really familiar with H2O at all, but those are some pretty impressive results. Not only is it competitive in terms of speed with Vowpal Wabbit, bur it also looks like it achieved the highest absolute score too (AUC = 81.2 on a GBM using H2O-3).
Yeah, it's a pun. So what? The title being a pun doesn't make it any less misleading. Puns and clickbait are not mutually exclusive.

My real gripe is that there's a time and place for everything and a newspaper ought to know and respect that line. You don't mislead someone skimming your headlines into thinking the pentagon has been attacked for the sake of a joke. I like clever headlines as much as the next guy, and I understand that for the sake of a joke you might leave some ambiguity in the air and mislead your reader slightly, but this goes far past that.

I think his editor should have caught this.
Reproducible benchmarks of IR tools