skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
U.S. Is Drafting Potential Sanctions Over China Cyber Hacking
This may be less interesting to you, but SMC seems like an ideal platform for data-science and software related job interviews. A few years ago I interviewed with Enthought. We used Google Docs for the real time coding!
This is basically just asserting SSA.

One problem with the halfer claim is that if you learn it is the first awakening, you then place much more probability on it landing heads (basic Bayes theorem application), even when the coin is yet to be flipped. How would you resolve that?
You're flipping a fair coin again and again. Every time you flip heads, you add 1 black ball to a (initially empty) bag. Every time you flip tails, you add 2 red balls to the same bag bag.

After a large number of flips, you pick a ball randomly from the bag.

What are the odds that the ball was added when a heads was flipped?

What are the odds that the ball is black?
Very interesting article. Clears up the preconceptions I had about using /dev/random over /dev/urandom ("it's more secure!") and explains why in very straightforward language.
I believe your mental model is so tied-up in your ability to create a company based on the SaaS model, it is preventing your ability to comprehend the power behind a platform like Sandstorm. Somehow, you seem to get the power of Docker, but not a simpler, user-friendly version of the same idea.

You obviously are not a believer in the Sandstorm platform, and are thinking about things in a way that I would call traditional (at least for the last 10 years). You could very well be correct, but many of us on this thread think you are incorrect. It's as simple as that.
>smaller, low-power embedded/IoT device

Do you want a GC there anyways?
Do rent controls work?
Of course insights from drugs may not always be fully reliable, but what drug did you take, and did you try taking more?

Almost everything gets better with practice. Memorization experts have often used visio-spatial 'memory palaces', imaginary places they can fill with items to remember. Simply trying to use that technique might help build visual recall flexibility.

Perhaps it'd separately be worth trying a sensory-deprivation soak-tank?
I think you just noticed what Sandstorm is, in part, created to do: Make open source solutions competitive. Sandstorm, as-is in beta, already allows me to do more than I can do with Google Drive. To my needs, it's not just competitive... It's winning.
I don't know, but the solution is education. There more educated the consumer is, the less a company like google or facebook can get away with.

Clearly, there is not enough education about privacy and how your data is being used to extract money from your pockets.

But when it comes to agility, yes, it's more about improving upon (or finding) the value proposition of that product.

If uber could cut down the time it takes to find a car from 5 minutes to 1 minute, wouldn't that be better for everyone?

How does a company on Sandstorm compete with a modern SaaS company that can change an algo behind-the-scenes and instantly improve experience?
Are you guys planning on adding paid/premium apps to your app store?
... with zero volume.
Robots and Social Equality
You chose to use the phrase. If it doesn't make sense, don't use it. Saying "indeterminism" is fine.
It's fascinating to me that they've already hit 4.9 and we've yet to see a major AAA title running UE4 -- all the big Unreal titles we've seen so far this year (Batman: Arkham Knight, Mortal Kombat X) have all been UE3.
Sure, but they also didn't get into what would make their approach special.

Are there any well used GC that aren't tricolor?
Yeah, that's a good way to put it. I can "feel" myself navigating my house in my mind, can draw a floor plan, etc., but I can't picture it. More like knowing "I can expect a chair there, or a wall there" or whatever.

I kind of suspect it might be similar to how blind people experience "visualizing" something where they've got the contours well-mapped in their head, but of course I have no way to know that for sure.
Live stock market hedge powered by Machine Learning algos
Olive Oil for Ear Infection
Totally agree with what @ChuckMcM. My initial comment was for a long term vision but I guess people don't think its a cool idea. Also for all who are all excited about Mars it is not that simple to produce water. You will have to grind the soil into fine particles, heat it and then collect the vapor and condense it. While you have lots of traces of water already present on Ceres why not use that?
Also Ceres is at a reasonable distance it's not like you are going to Pluto.
One of the big log search startups was doing postgres query engine integration on drive controllers at least 10 years ago. (sorry, don't recall which)

And as far back as 1964 IBM was doing K-V in hardware on the drive in their count-key-data devices. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_key_data
Yes. I find that when I imagine a scene there might be a lot of details missing without extra effort to imagine them. If I imagine a beach I might immediately get a detailed convincing image just like watching a video clip, with waves, birds, etc, because beach scenes come to mind very easily. But if I have to visualise some vague memory or novel scene I do get a very vague impression that isn't really an image at all. If I ask myself: "what's the carpet?", "what's on the walls?", etc, I can slowly add details until I get a proper image by piecing together memories.

On the other hand I am very bad at recognising people or visualising faces! Even if I try to visualise my own face or the faces of my parents or a celebrity like Bill Clinton I get something that's very uncanny, distorted and missing details. The part of your brain for recognising faces is signicant in size and very specialised, so it makes good sense that you might be able to visualise faces but not other scenes or vice versa.

BTW, I am a VERY visual thinker, I even do algebra in my head by imagining equations floating in space in front of me and moving terms around "physically". But I'm not an extrovert. If I can't visualise something (e.g. much of abstract algebra) I'm hopeless at it.
The power of Docker is enabling companies to move faster. Docker lets developers and companies to continuously deploy with fewer bottlenecks and issues.

Yes, I realize it can be used for other things. I'm not sure if there is value in those things.
My aunt has been an Elementry school principle for a long time. She says it used to be lots of helicopter parents, but now it's "snow plow parents". They try to prevent anything troublesome from reaching their children.

I have 4 kids, I let them make mistakes and am pretty hands off on the day-to-day. I can hardly get along with the parents I meet at school. They have no lives outside of their children and hover 24/7, and their kids behave poorly for it.
"Comment deadline extended to October 9."
No. Comment deadline extended to SEPTEMBER 9. No idea where October came from.
(If someone can show otherwise, please let me know.)
For myself, visualizing isn't exactly 'seeing'. It's just sight-like, in that the same general information about shape, color, arrangement, etc. can be pulled up, with effort. Closing the eyes isn't strictly necessary, but helps avoid the distraction of actual sight.

It's very sensitive to attention/intention: asked to visualize a person, I'll mostly imagine the face and general build – not even picking specific clothes – unless that person is very associated with some outfit. But if I think more about some specific prompt – say, "what were they wearing at some recent event", or "think about their hairline" – I can call up (or pick) reasonable details.

I suppose you could say it's no more vivid than it needs to be, and with concentration it becomes more vivid/detailed, but never quite like the solidity of a photograph. (Well, maybe while deeply concentrating with eyes closed, or half-asleep, or actually dreaming, there can be moments of seeming realism...)
Here is the English version of Copiale cipher in PDF:

http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/copiale-translation.pd...
> If you've been convicted criminally, the possibility of some direct civil liability shouldn't scare you.

This makes no sense whatsoever.
> And who would you delegate to instead? Someone you know even less about, probably.

AI. Get AI to sift through all the data, summarize it, and then select a set of best qualified candidates in the world. This same AI would also have global surveillance.

People are often crazy and politicians are often idiots.
> Well, it wasn’t a "this device is shit"...

That's not how I interpreted it. ;)

The situation in Germany appears to be very different than the situation in the US. If folks get a router and/or AP from their ISP it's almost always a flaky pile of shit.

If this doesn't become yet another abandoned project with in a year (or vaguely-rubber-stamp compliance effort inside of two), the Google folks will likely put a sizeable chunk of R&D effort into ensuring that they push the state of residential wireless APs forward.

As it stands now, there are ALL SORTS of really cool things that WiFi APs should do, but just fucking don't for reasons that are beyond my comprehension.
Nice broscience[1]. Setting that to one side for the moment, do you actually claim that bread tastes anything like sugar or that it's used to flavor practically all other foods as sugar is?

[1] http://www.aaccnet.org/publications/plexus/cfw/pastissues/20...
Yes, very much so. GC on powerful servers is a well trodden path. Low power devices much less so.
> I accept your apology about being aggressive, especially since I may have been a bit too empathic myself (about work). The "lie" is about you saying that when work is done, people move on. I think the truth is that people say work is done so that they can move on, but work can never be done.

Sure, but the perfect has always been the enemy of the good. If we actually applied this advice, we'd never ship anything. At some point, things are good enough to send them off and go home.
In iOS they're called snapshot tests.
Can you draw things from memory, and get the general shapes and colors right?
I still feel like you're assuming modern SaaS companies changing things behind the scenes "improves" the experience.

Those sorts of mindsets are why my views on Google has heavily soured over the years, the same way my feelings soured about Facebook.

But I definitely agree that consumer education is key. :)
Schools and parents need to stop blaming each other, and work together to show children that we value learning.

Yeah, good luck with that. Private institutions, especially colleges and universities, are exactly where they want to be right now. Parents have an extremely inelastic demand for sending their children to good private schools because signaling is so important in this terrible job market - this allows universities to raise tuition with impunity. Combine this with an ever-increasing pool of candidates for roughly the same number of spots at ivy-leagues and other comparable institutions, and colleges are set to make a killing on tuition.

Why would private schools have any incentive to change a system that benefits them to such a degree?
I am very interested to know what are the specific capabilities that you are able to unlock that Google drive can't deliver upon.
May Be Illegal to Take Photos of Your Dinner in German Restaurants
Youtube-dl [1] is my go to tool for pulling video content out of a page, and its source [2] is a nice lesson in de-obfuscating the sites it supports

[1] = https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
[2] - https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext...
> Like I said, it doesn't matter if you're in a car that gets 30mpg or one that gets 50mpg

But what if the car adjusts its fuel efficiency dynamically? If that's the case, it might be something worth investigating and understanding, no?

> Stop trying to make this harder than it needs to be, or more complicated that it needs to be. Consume less calories than you burn, and in the long run you will lose weight.

Correct, but if certain levels of caloric deficit can cause physiological changes that affect rate of weight loss, altering the difficulty of losing weight, why be opposed to discussing that idea? Why not maximize efficiency of weight loss?
It must be really stressful being a kid these days :(

Now that I look back - the way we treat kids is just plain awful.

When I was a kid I used to write using my left hand and my teacher and parents used to scold me to try and change my habit.

It used to be really stressful and everything they tried did not work, 15 years later and I still write with my left hand and am not a terrorist so it seemed all that work, stress was a huge waste of resources. But more importantly my time and I am not sure what damage that stress must have caused my mental health.

Parents are also under enormous pressure and due to college debt need to save a lot of money and literally cash out a huge amount of their life-time wealth for the services of their kid's education.

By current projections in 2030 the average tuition is going to be 100,000 dollar per year for a private college. That is terrible news for kids and parents both.
Why doesn't Linux follow FreeBSD and provide a single interface (under two names, maybe, for compatibility)? Is there any reason to use /dev/random?
This one has an easy explanation. The child was making noises while sleeping, perhaps having a bad dream, prompting an adult to pick him/her up. The child was exceptionally sleepy, groggy, slipping in and out of awareness. The adult walked back over to the other adults, and the pizza, while holding the child.

If you've ever seen how out of it a very tired child can be, you understand that's more than enough to explain the sense of out of body + seeing above the table. We're talking about a four year old after all, their comprehension of the awake/asleep line in that circumstance would be extremely low. Even for an adult, it can be easy to confuse whether you're still in a dream briefly upon waking.
So many people these days seem to be writing about something "begging the question", whereas I am partial to reserving that idiom for a very specific logical fallacy, and simply saying that something "raises the question" in all other cases. Alas, language evolves with popular usage, and this may be a dying distinction.
Resolving Conflicts in Findings: Vaccine Promotion Is Tricky
I kinda miss the copy/paste link for certain types of documents. But yeah, sometimes the assurance is nice that absolutely no matter what you need my account to log into something, even if I happen to have a URL in a screenshot or something like that.
An Overview of the Spring System (1994) [pdf]
Although Go was conceived as a language for the server, that's becoming less apt as time passes. Its being used in many places that the language designers hadn't initially thought of, such as iOS and Android. So the trade-offs they need to make today have to consider all possible use cases, not just the server one.

Also, I think its really important that pause times be as short as possible on the server as well. If they aren't, you'd probably see an unhealthy spike in 90+ percentile responses.
Internet was my prime consideration as well, and all of those places have excellent internet. 20+mbps 3G/4G mobile internet at reasonable prices on top of solid connections at most hostels and airbnbs you could stay at there.

Rural Taiwan is especially nice because you're just a high speed rail ride away from Taipei, most likely. The others would probably involve a cheap and very short flight to the nearest metropolis, in case you miss the city life.

Okinawa can feel a bit touristy, but you can get away from it if you do some groundwork.

I spent a month out of an airbnb in Krabi town. Lived for about $200/mo, spending weekends doing touristy things and eating out most of the time. I got familiar with just about every shopkeep and restaurant owner in the hood. Random streams and gardens to hang around in and pass time and ponder the universe. I enjoyed it, and miss it sometimes, but the place helped me discover that personally I am a city-junkie and needed to get out of there.
Google's VP9 Compression for Video Streaming
There are always outliers, but I believe that in America today, academic achievement is almost entirely determined by parental involvement (whether it's time or money).

> How do you respond to the criticism that the problems you're describing affect only privileged kids?

I was really disappointed by this question and the answers the authors gave.

Firstly because, this kind of parenting actually does have a large impact on underprivileged kids. It's the reason their failure is virtually guaranteed relative to the privileged kids. The underprivileged kid is one student, competing against the privileged kid, who is essentially a multi-person team of cheaters with a bankroll.

Secondly because, the answers the authors gave to the question pretty clearly demonstrate that they're only thinking of this subject from their perspective. And it sounds like their perspective is that of the parents to the privileged kids.

This could've been an article about parental involvement in academics and the impact it has on fairness and meritocracy and social mobility. Instead it's some rich ladies talking about how their kids would've been even more privileged if they did a little less of their homework for them.
PHP Performance – Why is it important
8-Bit Generation – It Lives. (And Has a Kickstarter.)
You should publish the hash of the script, then the user should download it to disk, verify the script and then execute it. The same as would apply to any binary download - if a binary can be compromised so can a shell script.

Alternatively you can code review the script before executing it, which is a plus.
Well, first of all, I can run the sorts of apps directly on Sandstorm that I might otherwise have to order AWS or GCE style hosting for. I can publish a website out of this as Drive is actually retiring that functionality.

Also, unlike many Drive apps, where I have to share my information with a third party provider, or "trust" the app, Sandstorm doesn't let my apps betray me. Privacy is inherent in the design.

But the key thing, is if I don't like my host, I CAN LEAVE. I am at the point that I loathe storing my data with Google. I love Gmail, and I wish I could take it with me and put it on a server run by a company I trust. But I can't do that. With Sandstorm, I can. I can run the app I want on the host I want. I have control of my app, my experience, and my data.

Google ruins my experience on a weekly basis. They change things without my permission that breaks my workflow and makes it hard for me to go about my day. I KNOW my Sandstorm hosting will do what I want it to do.

Google can't do any of this for me.
All the mainstream engines now support a linux target (and in fact UE supported it for donkeys years) but so few developers release it, partly due to a dependency on an external service or framework. But I'm hopeful now, especially if that service is steam.
Garbage collection, or something like it, is very useful when implementing lock-free data structures, which are very important in systems programming. Typically they get implemented using some kind of RCU (there was even a post about doing that in Rust, recently), but it's good to have options when you're tuning performance at that level.
Extensive discussion 6 months ago; too early for a repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9102110
Serving a very similar role to Salesforce's Lightning Design System: http://www.lightningdesignsystem.com/. Build your extension in the native UI, but go ahead and use it anywhere if you want.
Ego. They've put a lot of work into the entropy-tracking thing and they don't want to admit that it wasn't needed.

(Ego is the reason for a bunch of other security misfeatures in Linux. Securelevel comes to mind, where Linus explicitly said after fifteen years, okay, this was in fact the right model all along, you can merge it, just call it something other than securelevel so I don't have to eat my words about securelevel being a mistake.)
Actually, it's the same GC already used by Lua and Luajit. Read the note at the end of the section on tri-color collectors?
Light-speed interconnects may lead to ultra-high-speed computers
Hashes are useful when software is hosted on third-party mirrors or CDNs. If the software is hosted on the same server as the webpage about it, then anyone in a position to replace the download can and will replace the hash as well.
It's not a limitation, just a tuning knob that can be used to trade off GC cycles against memory usage. If you're in a low-memory environment, tune the knob to use more CPU.
That's not new information. You know that you will be in the experiment before the coin toss. Information does not flow acausally.

To contrast with Monty Hall, after the MC opens the first door, you do have new information: you glean information from the MC's choice, which he made based on his knowledge of where the prize is.

In this problem, the researchers take no action visible to you after the coin flip, and your memory is wiped before each new observation you can make. So your knowledge about the flip's outcome is exactly the same after it occurs as before: 50% chance.
Poe also wrote a pretty disturbing short story about a doppelganger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilson_(short_story)
>>> "Schools and parents need to stop blaming each other, and work together to show children that we value learning. We can talk about the importance of education all we want, but our kids are too smart to fall for that hypocrisy. As long as we continue to worship grades over learning, scores over intellectual bravery and testable facts over the application of knowledge, kids will never believe us when we tell them that learning is valuable in and of itself."

And whose fault is that ?

Maybe the fact that there are too few jobs.

Maybe the fact that wealth inequality is so skewed that only a handful of people are generating all the demand in the labor market.

When I survey the state of science in 2015 - there is literally no shortage of avenues to explore. If the demand side of the free market worked well, then their would by now be a pill to cure cancer and would only cost 1 dollar.

That is so much innovation locked up in the minds of kids born today. But we spent more and more time teaching them more and more useless stuff since the job market is unable to generate enough demand pushing people to have better CVs, etc.

A high school kid today can start innovating and doing all sorts of cool things for very little capital. There is not even much need for schooling. Most of the greatest minds of the past did not even have a formal education - what they did have was a lot of free time.

Boredom and Laziness is the source of human ingenuity, not mindless exercises with no real purpose.
Yes, that's true, but this GC lets you get more throughput by using more memory, so you can still decide how you want to make that trade-off. But no amount of knobs can save you from a long stop-the-world pause, so they made absolutely the right decision, in my opinion. With multi-core server CPUs, throughput is relatively cheap to obtain. Latency is hard, you can't just throw money at the problem.
Yes it's a dead distinction in all but a very narrow area of discussion, even then in which it should be stated more plainly.
I've found sqitch to be a little heavy. It's basically recreating parts of git as tables. Would love to see a lightweight postgres tool that can keep track of a dag of migrations.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10145933
I'm a little confused by this ???

Why would you give the victim of, say, an assault... money ???

I thought the idea was to give that person justice ??? And for that reason, we put the perpetrator in a prison that, of course, we pay for.

What exactly is wrong with that system ???