skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Retail investors would feel "safer" b/c they think the government is protecting them. They will then be more inclined to not bother researching the companies they own, etc because, well, the government has got their back.

Why would this be the case?

A regulation prohibiting market orders doesn't even in theory serve to protect against poor-quality securities that will decline in value, it protects against poor quality market price information and/or order execution that results in an order being executed at a substantially different price than expected.

It might reduce the degree to which retail investors research information on order execution between different entities through which they might trade securities, but the jump from there to it reducing the degree to which they research the underlying securities seems unwarranted (if anything, it would seem more likely to focus their research more on the securities themselves.)

But, the thing is, its not like retail investors are bothering to research and understand the issues it would address now much at all, so its not like it would actually change anything except the degree to which they get bitten by them. (And, conversely, the degree to which counterparties benefit from them getting bitten by them.)
U.N. Chief Urges World Leaders to Speed Up Climate Talks
What about timing? Did you have to hurry to input the second punchcard? Did the cores lose their bits overnight?

Also, what kind of data can you process with 4K? They say "accounting software" and "paysheets", was it actually quicker than writing paysheets manually?
What year was this? Recent?
It actually provides meaningful names, here is more about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7836092
If you want a microgravity settlement a near-Earth asteroid would be more convenient - or just a space station. But microgravity is not good for the health of people living there.
Yes, it can: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7836092
Me? Not GB, CA.

But the point applies, cf C-51.

My statement is true for all democracies, IMHO.
Vaguely off-topic: Why'd you move from the ERL to the ERX? If my ERL burst into flames today, would you suggest that I replace it with an X? Assume that I have $120 dollars to spend and I don't need (but wouldn't particularly mind) extra switch ports. Is there anything that the ERL does better than the X?
Things get interesting when the number of possible code paths increase. One such beast is the Unity Standard Shader. There are dozens of combinations depening on Metallic/Specular PBR, Multi-Texturing, Shadows, Light Types, Light Baking, Forward/Deferred Rendering and so on. Combine this with different backends (OpenGL, OpenGL ES, DirectX, Vulcan) and graphic card abilities and at some point adding new stuff gets quite complex.

I guess they simply throw money and play testers at this problem. (Unreal probably more so than Unity) But how long can you scale this up?
Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses
...almost exclusively a subset of the homeless.

And late-night alcohol drinkers! Maybe you've never done it, but lots of people, of both genders, have.
Why would you be sharing your server with some rando? You don't have to share your Xen deployments with other people if you don't want to, you know :)
why not use a stop limit order? It's kind of like setting a reserve price on ebay -- sell if you want to get out of a particular position, but not if the price gets to be too low.
Much of our platform is still closed-source. GSS is one of many libs we've open-sourced & there are many more to come... We're also the guys behind http://noflojs.org/ http://www.imgflo.org/ & flowhub.io. You can see some of our open repos here: https://github.com/the-grid/
French from France here. Thanks, I was starting to think it was okay for Canadians to translate it like that.
Do you have access to the UniFi beta forums?

I've heard that UBNT is going to release some new UniFi APs soon-ish-ly. You might want to consider waiting to see their specs and price point before performing your upgrade.
Google shut down a secret Google Maps project called 'Google Here'
x86 hardware support for virtualization has changed quite a bit since 2007, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization#Intel_virtu...
Yeah, I was curious how it could prove that in this specific case. Very neat, in any case.
> This seems like an insane metric. For any large enough organization that is difficult to identify who actually works for $company and who is there on "business" - and given that its rare for every developer to have a locked door, you can easily have a situation where a "guest" (maybe a software vendor, or partner, or friend of coworker) is on their way to the bathroom and decides to poke around on your machine.

This is like bricking up all your windows against thieves when you live in sleepy, low-crime suburbia.

Site security needs to have a balance between paranoia and practicality. For public-facing code, history has shown us that it's impossible to be too paranoid. If you work in national security, or your industry is known to be a target for industrial espionage, then certainly strong precautions are in order.

But if you're just building social media sites or whatever, and you're firing people because they failed to stand ever vigilant against the possibility that Bob the visiting vendor rep might stalk the corridors waiting for you to take a bathroom break so he can rifle through your code for exploits to sell to teh haxxorz, you are being absurd.
Ha ha, didn't realize my adviser in grad school wrote chapter 16.
Actually, this was the topic of my thesis for my Master's degree.

Link: http://flowdelic.com/2005/03/03/learning-from-open-source/

Abstract:

In this paper, I study the workings of several successful Internet-based collaborative communities to identify what it is that enables them to succeed, even thrive, despite the highly-dispersed nature of their collaboration. This research reveals that while the practices and tools used by the referenced communities are important to their success, the most critical difference lies much deeper, in the economic-basis of their
organizational structure. This economic mode of production, described by Yochai Benkler as “commons-based peer-production”, is studied to answer two key questions: First, does this economic model, in itself, encourage more successful virtual teamwork? Second, is the peer-production model of collaboration fundamentally tied to the open source model or can it also be applied in a commercial context to create proprietary products?

A key source for the paper was "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm" by Yochai Benkler.

Link: http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html

In this paper Benkler describes a mathematical model for human motivation, which accounts for influence of money. Highly recommended read.

Edit: fixed name typo
Chess, Not Checkers
I fully agree, including the apology.

I've just stumbled upon the update (upgrade?) on my self-hosted Sandstorm instance, which I just installed a week ago to try and learn. It feels (and looks, and works!) better.

I'm one of the perfect use cases for Sandstorm -- I use Xubuntu and I've installed it in some friends and relatives' computers, I occasionally help people with "computer problems" and I might dabble with my systems and local network but I'm by no means a net/sysadmin or programmer, and yet I find the whole... ecosystem? (sorry, I can't find the word) fascinating. It's the best sci-fi you can read.

But there is this huge gap that only I seem to see, and I feel Sandstorm could help filling that gap, between those that know how some of this "real sci-fi" works and those that, like me and lots and lots of my fellows, don't.

Let the documentation improve. Hehe, I'm happy about some software thing...
Nitrogen narcosis
This is more of a primer on "the first two years of college mathematics" than a primer for Machine Learning, honestly. Still, not a bad resource.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, least of all when it comes to the brain. Particularly troublesome with modafinil is that nobody seems to know how it works, or at least not precisely.

We know it's a stimulant of some sort. It appears to act as a dopamine reuptake inhibitor. It increases alertness and resting heart rate. It offers some (temporary) cognitive performance boosts. And it can really help out in a pinch when the user is sleep deprived. The side effects seem a lot more modest and acceptable than those of the amphetamine family, or of Ritalin.

Then there's all we don't know. According to the official literature, for instance, modafinil users do not develop a tolerance to the drug. Unofficially, many users complain of an attenuation of the drug's effectiveness with regular use. Either this 'tolerance' is psychosomatic, or the brain is regulating itself as it would with almost any other dopaminergic drug.

And what are the long-term consequences of using modafinil, either daily or weekly or monthly? We're not really sure. Longitudinal studies are sparse to nonexistent.
Finagle 6.28.0 Released
I'd argue that, these days, yes Slate counts as "blogspam." Autoplaying video ads, pop-up adverts, banners everywhere, and a copy/pasted article that is 1/2th the length of the original with no additional commentary or content.

Slate might have been a legitimate publication once, but then again so was CNet and look how far they have fallen. Sorry, but Slate should be blacklisted for being junk now.
Full disclosure - I am one of the Feathers developers.

I think part of it is a philosophy difference. If you want a one-stop solution you will very likely always end up more locked in and might be happy with Meteor. But, as cool and advanced as the technology is, eventually investors do want a return on their investment and it is really hard to do that without compromising the identity of an open source project. With so much cash in the bank it is also easy to become over-ambitious instead of focussing on doing one thing well. That is tricky in a field that is changing as quickly as web development. The more you add to the project and the more you try to do yourself the harder it will be to react to the ever-changing landscape and you can see that with the challenges of the Meteor package system.

We wanted to explore an approach that doesn't hide complexity by adding more and then putting some generators and configuration files in front of it to be able to say "look it's super easy". The Node ecosystem thrives on tiny modules that do one thing well and Feathers - as a very small extension to Express - does exactly that: Providing a pattern that allows you to create REST and real-time APIs without trying to tell you how to do everything else.
This article could have been better written, mainly by not writing it from such an incensed position (former child prostitute? While I regret that the author went through such a thing, the call to make sex work legal would hardly have made her experiences legal).

The latter half of the article is more substantive, actually pointing out how various approaches have fared around the world. But even this is poorly reasoned and seems to believe we'll agree that the sex trade is just bad out of hand.

The bits of Germany having "mega-brothels" or that New Zealand is seeing an industry of "sex tourism" are hardly indictments from where I stand. If those trades are legal and all involved are willful participants working for a livable wage, what's the problem?

If that's the case in New Zealand and Germany, then I'd say both laws are working as intended.

The goal of legalizing the sex trade is to prevent situations like the author's from happening. A byproduct of that is likely to be a thriving - but legal - sex trade where hopefully everyone is treated as a human being.
holy shit are people still latching onto this? IT WAS A MISTAKE.
Nice!

One thing that I couldn't spot is the number of concurrent connections this setup does? That's a really important use case when testing middleboxes. There are relatively easy ways to generate 10Gbps of traffic, not so many ways to generate traffic with 1M concurrent connections.

The performance is not the greatest in absolute terms, but indeed there's only so much general purpose computing you can do on these miserable network accelerators :-( You'd probably do 10x as much traffic per core on a 5 year old low end Xeon.
> There's no such thing as a free lunch

What about contraception?

> least of all when it comes to the brain

What about melatonin?
Couldn't that device be used off-label?
The electricity metaphor doesn't work. Electricity is a consumable, it costs money to generate and that value is destroyed when you use it. Data is not a consumable because it does not cost anything to created a copy - in fact you might argue that using data creates value. The only similarly between commercial electrical and data networks is that both make you pay for the size of the wire that goes to your house. Electrical networks also make you pay per unit energy that moves through that wire, in order to fund the generation of it. But such a charge doesn't make sense for a data network, because your ISP doesn't supply the data, only the wire.
This article reads like sponsored content in a print magazine. To see it voted to the front page of Hacker News (this readership is the drug's target market) makes it all the more suspicious.
Didn't Finland do the exact opposite, with opposite results? That's interesting given that this countries are neighbours.
This is outright false for many stimulants. The DEA strictly controls the amount of precursor released to the manufacturer's based on their assessment of "legitimate medical needs". This is the case for all scheduled substances that are used in legitimate medical applications. Amphetamine salts and morphine are on that list just the same as Modafinil/provigil.

I'm sure you can guess what (black)market forces do when the supply is artificially constrained.
It seems to be all copper. How come one wire doesn't conduct to all other wires?
What is wrong with NULL
This is awesome! We always seem to get tremendous bang for our buck in building ever larger and more precise tools.

Question though, is there a realistic timeline or project for building a similar telescope as this, but in Space?
Shapeways – 3D Printing Service and Marketplace
It also might become harder to get a prescription or get your insurance to pay for it. In a way it could become similar to medical Marijuana.
As I was told in a HN discussion that non-educational "for GPL" version doesn't supply the same runtime, and the run time supplied is not very good. Maybe it's OK, but with all those restrictions and limitations it just didn't sound like an ecosystem I want to mess with. Plus I prefer to be able to develop and release software with less restrictive open source licenses.

WRT seL4 vs. Muen, I wouldn't be surprised if seL4 does less for you, it's only 9,000 lines of C code, and some of it is artifacts from the manual Haskell -> C translation.
A lot of Microsoft product is leaving aside these old browser. For example, Visual Studio Online is supporting 11 and Edge only (with all other browser like Chrome and Firefox, etc).
Sketch article + sketch pharma company who pays the best agencies to advertise amphetamines with wide uses. This post needs to go.

They got nearly all of their patients to convert to Nuvigil from Provigil after it went off patent; not sure why they're trying to generate interest in their old meds again. Maybe they're the most available maker.
The West Point Professor Who Contemplated a Coup
> ...given Google's pedigree in privacy invasion...

Do... you have a citation for this that isn't 75% conjecture? Before answering, remember that every web site you use has to collect (but not necessarily store) some of what is potentially PII.
If you're partway through the article, you've already taken the clickbait. The point is to confuse you with possibly misleading terms, so you click to read the article and see what they really meant.
Presumably they start with sterile trays, plates, syringes, etc. The toaster isn't airtight, but though the whole apparatus could be housed in an airtight vessel, they're probably relying on the 85C temperature to kill most things.

Also, they're not testing the production of microbes, but rather that of polymers. They know if something comes out that they didn't put in.
A really thin remote that also tracks (CNet Review)
The steps he describes for the London School of TDD help me get into that flow: https://github.com/testdouble/contributing-tests/wiki/London...
It's not really new. It's been around for a while.

These are my personal experiences. I only take it about once or twice a week on average. I've heard that you can build up a resistance and it becomes less effective over time. I only take it when I have something I'm working on and want a boost.

It removes the brain fog and gives you a very slight euphoria.

It is a dopamine reuptake inhibitor but that is not the only or primary mechanism that makes it work as a cognitive enhancer. You feel very motivated and focused.

Just make sure to take it first thing in the morning or you won't be able to sleep that night.

It is not addictive and doesn't have a crash.

At least for me, it has a similar effect as when you boost testosterone through exercise with heavy weights or abstaining from any sexual activity (increased motivation and focus).

That being said, the most overlooked and most effective cognitive enhancers is SLEEP!
Katharsis – JSON:API standard for Java
Putting aside the issue of duping people with fake profiles and bots for a second, this is what I found the most interesting:

"As I wrote last week, I came across three columns in one of those tables called “bc_email_last_time,” “bc_chat_last_time,” and “email_reply_last_time.” ... I concluded that the datestamps in those columns referred to the last time people checked their Ashley Madison messages, or tried to start a chat. ... But I was wrong. It’s a lot weirder than that. Those columns in the data don’t record human activity at all. They record the last time a bot—or “engager” in Ashley Madison’s internal parlance—emailed or chatted with a member of the site."

So basically, all of those conclusions drawn in the previous article about 99% of the female accounts being inactive or fake were made based on a complete misunderstanding of the data. To their credit, they've done some deeper digging now and posted a correction on the other article, but after seeing so many other "news" sites unquestioningly repost the same flawed statistics, it just boggles my mind how quickly misinformation can spread. Not that I support the site and its scummy business practices, or its users and their scummy personal practices, but can we at least make sure we get the facts straight before breaking out the torches and pitchforks?
Nightcore – Clarity
From the privacy policy:

"Importantly, the Google On app and your OnHub do not track the websites you visit or collect the content of any traffic on your network. However, OnHub does collect data such as Wi-Fi channel, signal strength, and device types that are relevant to optimize your Wi-Fi performance."

The first sentence is even bolded for emphasis.
Those organizations do investigate medicare fraud with the HHS. And do you really believe that more than $60 billion is being spent investigating? That would make the auditing organization roughly 6 times as big as the IRS.

Given how big a deal the FBI made out of a medicare fraud case that garnered nation attention just a few weeks ago, I'd say very little is spent tracking down fraud.

Here's the biggest bust ever, and it amounts to catching around $100/million a year in fraud, a tiny fraction of the $60b total. http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2015pres/06/20150618a.html
Modafinil is easy to order cheaply from India, even to countries like the US.

To many other countries importing the generic versions (mostly Sun Pharma manufactured) is fully legal for personal use.

So if anything, the biggest change brought by the widespread use of it is growing access to a wide range of places to buy it cheaply if it for whatever reason isn't covered by your insurance.
Those may be a little too micro. Maybe an artificial gravity space station that slowly orbits Ceres :) Now we're getting crazy. But really, that may be an optimal setup.
"...he had not really wanted to commit suicide, said Brugger. He had jumped to “find a match between body and self”."

Wow, it's like Inception, except for real!
Re: "claiming that things that compute are somehow categorically different is an appeal to magical thinking" - This is not the case. The distinction that's being made is one of perspective and purpose, i.e. implementing method to get result. Or am I getting this wrong?
> [I]f you already have [the Fritz!Boz 7490], the OnHub is literally a waste of money, because it does everything slightly worse.

Don't take this the wrong way, but this is pretty much equivalent to saying "If you already have a good router that you're happy with, a similarly priced router with similar features and performance will not interest you.", which is a statement that should surprise no-one. :)
We've removed the example for now. If you do decide to try us out, and are unsatisfied with your translation, we'll retranslate it.
How “oldschool” graphics work, part 2 – Apple and Atari
Legal request – Change domain name to drop Docker
AFAIK only OpenCL 1.1 (or 1.2?) is available on nvidia though, not OpenCL 2.0 or 2.1. So, unfortunately, if you want to support nvidia (eg AWS GPU instances), then OpenCL may not be the best choice :-(
How legal is it? Ok it's MIT license, but if I use a UI design, do I infringe on Microsoft's imtellectual property? Is UI design copyrightable? I have the same question for another UI framework, which by default comes with the creator's design guidelines: Is it enough to change the color of the header to avoid brand confusion and be safe from infringement?

From what I can gather, UI design patents actually exist. However Apple won against Samsung but lost a case against Microsoft, which demonstrates that it's still important to patent UI functionnality (such as the bounced scroll) in addition to the graphical elements. http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/4020/protecting-a...

Any further answer is welcome.
For modafinil the predominant source for non-prescribed usage is Indian generics manufactures like Sun Pharma. There's little the DEA can do - these are not small underground outfits. Even less so because modafinil can be imported legally into a large number of countries.
uhh... What's your point? Game development requires knowledge of game development and that you won't have a good looking game without decent art assets?
As with many things, it is if you can show it in court. Which requires the time and money to fight it in court which costs time and money. And as we already know based on similar abuses of the lower class, that means it isn't an avenue of resolution for those without such resources.

But to make it even worse than the average case of 'yeah it is wrong but you aren't rich enough to fight it', by the time you are notified there is an issue that needs fighting you are facing a huge bill that, if it isn't paid, can result in loss of driver's license (good luck keeping a job) if not imprisonment (good luck fighting in a court while in prison).
I don't think this wiki page is intended to show specific examples. But here's one I really like that isn't a typical MVC web app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHnuMjah6ps

The process he's using there falls in line with the higher-level experiences described on the wiki.