skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Central banks, which are answerable to bodies of citizens, albeit indirectly through institutions.
I've always found 'declarativism' in general to be very hard to understand. I was terrible at maths until I became a programmer and was able to concretely explore the mechanics of number using imperative programming languages. For many years, post-high school mathematics was incomprehensible to me and languages like Haskell seemed like absurd contrivances when placed next to the concrete reality of C compilers and CPU clock cycles.

It was only by butting my head against mathematics again and again, and by easing my way into functional programming via Javascript that I began to understand declarative thought, and what it meant to perceive logic in a static picture rather than as the expression of some concrete action. I still don't get it it's foreign to my way of thinking, but I know what it looks like now.

I enjoyed this article a great deal, but my hackles did rise somewhat at the author's assumption that declarativism is somehow closer to human thinking than imperativism. It is more abstract, yes, and maybe more familiar to a natural mathematician, but I do not believe declarativism has a special status with regard to human thought.

I don't think it would be a poor hypothesis to suggest that many people reason using a much softer, more "narrativ-istic" kind of thinking than is represented by mathematics. This kind of thinking is closer to imperative programming which often seems like you are telling a story about how to solve a problem - the details of the computer's memory and CPU being the indispensable forest and woodcutter's axe of the tale.

I think that a lot of the proponents of declarative programming (and functional programming for that matter) are mathematically talented people who are cognitively inclined to understand things in that way - just as the positive features of imperative (and object oriented) languages are similarly attractive and seemingly fundamental, to other kinds of thinkers.
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New Iris interface speeds up cybercrime investigations
This is basically the path you go down when you start to consider 'non-bitcoin' blockchains. Sure, you can do it, but if you want security, you go where the hashing power is.

Network effect = one blockchain to rule them all

Well, at least you'll have to connect in with the 'one blockchain'. Sidechains would be a great way to address this. It's important to remember how early days Bitcoin is, and cryptography and blockchains in general. They're still well within a research phase; it's hard to say what sort of solution they'll come up with.
Volley for iPhone: A friendly place for helping others, on the go
No, what this does is reduce the need for clearinghouse entities, such as Depository Trust Company, National Securities Clearing Corporation, the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation, and The Options Clearing Corporation. There's a back-end bookkeeping system in finance which tracks who owns what. That's where blockchain technology applies. Banks can't do this themselves, because there's a mutual mistrust problem. So there are all those clearinghouse companies, which maintain the databases.
For those that didn't see the first part
https://lwn.net/Articles/654783/
The internet evolved over the phone lines, where providers were legally banned from blocking traffic. They were made to play nice. The fact we still have a free internet is the result of that legacy.
> "It doesn't seem to communicate any particular era or emotion"

I'm not wholly sure about that; the strict adherence to line thickness and limited set of curvature angles make me feel like it was adapted from the "font" created by necessity when using road-painting equipment to write asphalt road signs. It which lends the font a "we couldn't do better in one case so let's at least unify on something" feeling that's slightly modernist, similar to logos from the 70s that use unnecessary all-caps to look "digital" because they work with green-screens that don't display lower-case.
In the live.fi example, it sounds like Microsoft may have failed to prevent a random user from registering administrator@live.fi as a personal account. Citibank probably won't allow a customer to get that e-mail address!
How the Body’s Trillions of Clocks Keep Time
Show HN: Frisby – a REST API testing framework
This comment from the article is very interesting to me

"Most of the billion dollar companies we examined are in highly competitive markets.
Take messaging for example. There were plenty of ways to communicate before Snapchat or WhatsApp, but these startups still managed to experience breakout success despite the stiff competition. The social and communication sector actually had the highest concentration of billion dollar companies in our survey."
It's been a very long time since I've seen the movie, but I was going to make the same point that the director does: it was never intended to be realistic, just a fantasy which captured the right feelings. It's probably not a good movie for other reasons, but I think it was successful at doing that.

I've heard similar criticism of William Gibson's work, that his 1980s-flavored cyberpunk makes no sense scientifically now. And that's true. But it still completely works as a fantasy world.
For what is worth, microcommits + rebase for fast-forward merges are the basis of the workflow used in the GNOME project.

As far as I know, it's more or less also what it is used by kernel people before hitting the tree of a maintainer (and it's non-ff merges from there).
No large financial institution will launch an attack against their own network.

Hayes's LIBOR rigging scheme would seem to indicate otherwise.
I read this as "we, the banks, want our own blockchain which we control and you should trust". Only you shouldn't trust it because the whole idea of a blockchain is that it cannot be influenced/controlled.
I enjoyed the idea, particularly around the observation that thousands of people are photographing the same statue when you can just look up a much better picture on the internet. I saw the censorship angle as a sidenote, and a warning that tools developed for one purpose (in this case the retractable button) can be re-purposed as tools for oppression. It's better art than most. I don't see the need to be hypercritical of it.
I watched it on netflix the other day, and it still makes me cringe when phreak says "twenty eight point eight"
It doesn't make much sense to give a number for speed without some specifics about the crawler environment, such as:

- How many servers (if distributed)?
- How many cores/server?
- What kind of processing takes place for each page?
Does it just download and save the pages somewhere (local filesystem, cloud storage, database) or it extracts (semi) structured data? And so on.

Specifics aside, these days it's not hard to crawl millions of pages/day on commodity servers. Some related posts:

http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-to-crawl-a-quarter-bil...

http://blog.semantics3.com/how-we-built-our-almost-distribut...

http://engineering.bloomreach.com/crawling-billions-of-pages...

http://engineering.bloomreach.com/crawling-billions-of-pages...
> If only trustworthy entities are part of the network

Then you don't need a blockchain at all, just use a centralized ledger.
I once heard a story of a firefighter that used to love to watch the movie Backdraft just so he could point out all the inaccuracies. This was somewhat of my interest with Hackers in my younger years. Today, I get caught up in the 90's nostalgia. The article makes an interesting point that the movie is "one of only a handful of movies in the cybersecurity film canon". On top of that, I can't think of any cyber-ish movies that come close to matching the era and attitude of Hackers.
> What if a stock will fluctuate based on lunch time buying surges and after work happy hour, and birthday ties to kids having a birthday on Saturday and their social networks socioeconomic propensity to buy stuff for them last minute at stores r us?

What's wrong with this?
It's not a significant number of pages per day, honestly. For me, the limiting factor is almost always how many concurrent requests I feel comfortable making to the remote server. For big sites, the proxy I use generally caps it at 5 req / domain (concurrently).

I generally use distributed crawlers, which means I can scale to millions of pages per day (assuming different domains). The biggest limiting factor is the database layer, how many writes can I do in a day.

If I need to go faster, I just spin up another crawler worker, which connects to the queue and starts pulling jobs.

I believe anything under a million pages / day should be do-able by a homebuilt, single-server system.
Combine lots of languages with lots of regulatory areas and you end up with numerous smaller communities. Add this to Metcalfe's Law and you have disproportionately smaller opportunities for company size when social effects are important (as they are to most Internet-based unicorns, though not to companies Europe does do well at - like car companies and manufacturing, say).

Mathematically, say one network with size 100 has opportunity of 10,000. Ten networks of 10 have opportunity of 100 each - totaling a far lower 1,000.

Note how several of the top "unicorns" are from China (Xiaomi, Lufax, Didi Kuaidi, DJI, Zhong An, Dianping) or India (Flipkart, Snapdeal) - other countries with (mostly) unified languages (formally, if not in practice) and vast middle class populations (due to their overall gigantic populations). Other unicorns outside of big territories are Atlassian and Spotify - but they're valued so highly because they work in the US market almost as if they were US companies.
How Am I Suppose to Blog, Do Social Media and Engage When I Don’t Have Time?
I love this film for the cheesiness of it all. But the odd thing, the whole heist angle was fairly accurate considering what most large scale 'hacks' are about: money.
Not gonna happen. They're delicious and bacon has been elevated to a quasi-religion by Reddit.
It might not always be enforced in practice, but StartCom's policy doesn't allow use of the free certs for a commercial purpose:

> Class 1 certificates are limited to client and server
certificates, whereas the later is restricted in its usage for non-commercial purpose only. Subscribers MUST upgrade to Class 2 or higher level for any domain and site of commercial nature, when using high-profile brands and names or if involved in obtaining or relaying sensitive information such as health records, financial details, personal information etc.

https://www.startssl.com/policy.pdf
Come on, he's the king of Nynex!
These are all good questions/points

History is something we need to contend with, not just for neural networks, but also for analog computing which has a similarly troubled past.

For NN history, there has not actually been a market for NN accelerators until recently. You can see this because:

1. No NN algorithm was worth accelerating until AlexNet came along in 2012

2. What commercial products even use NN now? Currently it is mostly just voice recognition which is processed server-side.

Right now we are not attempting to go after any markets that a GPU would be sufficient for the reasons you mention; we're sticking to products that can only work with our technology. By the time we went after an overlapping market our credibility would be established and that wouldn't be an issue.
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> Pumping money into the pockets of the drug cartels only further entrenches the current system; it does not provide pressure to dismantle it.

I would disagree with this sentiment. There is plenty of pressure in Mexico to decriminalize/legalize drugs as a result of cartel violence.
For an actually good hacker film, see 23 (1998), about the story of Karl Koch.
They listen; they just don't have the staffing to write an individual response to every comment.

The latter statement really calls the first into question. Similarly, they care about my vote, except to the extent that it's completely lost in the noise of thousands of other votes.
Cool but I want to encode the textual representation as a URL and have a service return the SVG so I can embed this in e.g. a GitHub Markdown document. See e.g. http://yuml.me
Yes but historically Europe have had much more success with creating large companies so the question is what changed?

Historically the EU used to be much more divided which is exactly why the harmonization process seems to have such a paradoxial result.
Khan Academy has a whole series on it: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...
Nearsightedness in children cut by spending more time outside
Facebook is working on a 'dislike' button
> some countries impose rules which make starting up with little to no money impossible

You mean the € 25k required to found a German LLC (GmbH)? As of a few years ago it's possible to found one with a single euro as long as you use a certain fixed percentage of the profits to built the company's capital (the company remains "UG (haftungsbeschränkt)" until you accumulate the € 25k, then you can transform it into a "proper" GmbH).

The paperwork involved (including notary and lawyer/accountant fees) still mean you should have about € 2k disposable before you incorporate, though -- not to mention the ~ € 500 you may accidentally pay scammers if you're not careful.

That said, Facebook and similar startups couldn't have started in Germany simply because of German privacy laws. At least once a week I hear of a new US product or start up that simply wouldn't pass basic privacy checks in Germany.
While I wouldn't put it past the NSA – why would we assume the NSA had infiltrated Hacking Team?
I submitted this, mostly because I was wondering what more recent algorithms would be added to the list if you were to do a new "best algorithms up until 2015". The most recent algorithm here is from 1987. What new things from the past 30 years might qualify for future best-of lists, assuming they have enough time to gain widespread adoption?
An extensive scope of reading material, most likely. If you like reading enough to read across multiple decades and centuries then one can usefully make such observations from one's personal corpus. This isn't something that can be easily automated as machine learning is not yet that good at the semantic level, but I concur with the grandparent poster that the ironic use of quotation marks is a relatively new journalistic trend.
nice we need more lessons like this.
Columbia students claim Greek mythology needs a trigger warning
And now you've just increased your administrative overhead and costs. Tax evasion tends to be pretty expensive unless you can afford it.
The Power of PCAP and Retrospection in Practice
If you're saying that initial market size and uniformity is a big factor behind Silicon Valley-esque places (a large gathering of investor money and tech workers), then I agree with that point.

I think that protectionism disallows existing giants from carving up large slices of a market. Having to compete against the tactics of big giants is a capricious barrier to market, and probably not a good nurturer of innovation.

Had many countries severely gimped or barred Google / Microsoft from entering their country, while funding internal alternatives, the world might look very different.
> This is a feature, not a bug.

I actually don't disagree with you; but my original point is that the US actively prioritizes giving companies space to operate without government intervention over protecting the rights of its citizens.

It generally makes the US a worse place to live, but a better place to start a business.

> Also, I don't know where you got the idea that in the EU you need to prove what you're doing is not harmful or illegal before you can do it, but you're completely wrong.

Maybe poorly worded, but in the US the prevailing attitude is that it's better to ask for forgiveness than for permission. Because our government is generally underfunded (domestically anyway), it doesn't usually go out looking for problems anyway. So you can often get away with disregarding regulations as long as you don't make too much noise while doing it. And even if you get caught, you hire lawyers to negotiate the penalty down to 10% of what it would normally have been.
The way Slack lets you attach emoticons to someone elses comment is pretty good.. Why stop at just like/dislike?
The earlier film, Sneakers [1] had some of the same ethos embedded, especially in the climax.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film)
It was made as a political protest of legislation that was intended to block the amount of photography of buildings whose design was copyrighted. Unfortunately, it wasn't really a /good/ protest of such, so the discussion has become more a discussion as to if there's artistic quality in the banal.
It's 2015 and I'm happy I finally have clients that let me set the baseline of Internet Explorer support to IE 8. Not long ago I still had to support IE 6.

I have no idea how American start ups can get away with demanding users live on the bleeding edge but apparently cultures can be very different.
Agreed, this article is based on that huge assumption with no evidence provided.
They're looking into a rolled up manuscript that was dug up 260 years ago after being burned in a volcano eruption almost 2100 years ago. That's pretty cool.
I was talking to one of the bitcoin core devs and his opinion was that purely in terms of power consumed, litecoin could be more secure than bitcoin. Bitcoin certainly has the network effect in terms of usage going for it.
Banks don't operate on trust -- they operate on checks and balances and intermediaries. For example, when you spend your money using a Visa or MasterCard, the payment processor (intermediary between your bank and the merchant's bank) takes a cut for helping remove the need for trust from the transaction.
Launching a product in just 3652 days
I might be wrong but I think it's because the sorts of companies that become "unicorns" nowadays are more dependent on cultural, language or social network aspects (Snapchat, Facebook, Airbnb, Pinterest) than manufacturing, drug, or oil companies ever were (all areas Europe has excelled in).

If biotech or robotics ever take off in a huge bubbly way, I imagine we'll see a much larger of Europe unicorns coming to the table as those areas play to European strengths again.
If web developers want to build applications for anyone outside the West, they'll need to work on faster page loads. A large percent of the world views the the internet on mobile devices with a slow connection.

Blocking content until a large JS file is downloaded, at least one more ajax request is made, and another round of downloads occurs is unacceptably slow in a developing country.

Isomorphic applications or server side rendering gives a company a competitive advantage in these markets.
Bruce Schneier's PasswordSafe (according to this paper the safest of all those considered):

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

Available for:

- Windows

- Linux

- Android
Nothing aside from the fact that you have literally eliminated the "common man" from even remotely participating in the market...

The entire momentum of the stock HFT market is skewed against everyone except the HFT masters...

how about, perhaps, build an engine that can do this and allow for people to buy into slices of it??

I just think that we are literally on the precipice where we will shrink from a perceived "1%" in power to a ".000001%" in power...

Ten years tops...
I don't know much about marine topics, but I thought the primary benefit of sonar was maintaining a safe distance between your vessel and immovable objects that you might run aground on.

Is there some qualitative difference between military sonar applications and the sort that measures more passive threats from the marine environment?
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This story is about Cisco IOS ROMMON. AFAIK that limits the issue to enterprise-class routers. Such routers can be replaced with PC-based routers running open software.
I am OS guy . so I don't have so much experience in other than C.
Yesterday I was watching youtube video about prolog , and I amazed by Logic Programming concept.Maybe for most of you it is ordinary concept , but for it was wonderful and I have plan to continue it in my spare time.
Burglars Hit Santa Clara Drone Store
This could make it a lot easier to implement/audit a Tobin Tax. I like it.
This isn't how NASA politics works. Congressmen of both parties see NASA (and DoD, for that matter) as a way to channel funds to their districts. Nothing more. Republicans in national office, just like Democrats, are perfectly willing to support spending that's going to create jobs among the people who vote for them.

That's why research and bureaucracy is spread all over the country instead of being more efficiently consolidated in one place. That's why mission control is done in Houston instead of Florida. That's why the shuttle SRBs were built inland in Utah instead of somewhere they could be shipped to Florida by barge (with no need for the famous o-rings).

You don't like Republicans. We get that. But maybe you should become familiar with the subject before making blanket statements like that.
Sorry, I'm going to keep those details secret for now :)
Running for office is the most important part of a democracy.

It's also unreasonably expensive today.
Ethereum is a good example because it's proof of stake vs. proof of work. Other proof of work blockchains (e.g. Litecoin and Dogecoin) are very similar to Bitcoin.

Proof of stake makes a lot of sense for these organizations if they want to run their own blockchain.
I can't give you chapter and verse on this, but when the first autobahns were built, they were composed of straight sections and constant curvature bends. This was perceived by engineers to be the rational way. Landscape designers (who were also involved) eventually convinced the engineers to adopt more sinuous curves, which of course also create transitions (clothoid or Cornu spiral sections) which made the roads easier to drive on.
Some background on why Prolog for parsing: That was traditionally a popular use of Prolog, because something similar to BNF-style grammar rules can be written almost literally as Prolog clauses, and you get a parser for "free". Very easy to prototype, plus since it's just Prolog clauses that can be used by the rest of the Prolog program and vice versa (not black-box tables generated by YACC), you can muck with edge cases, integrate error reporting, call out to information-extraction heuristics where relevant, etc. The technique is "definite clause grammars" (DCGs), and can either be written directly in normal Prolog, or with some syntactic sugar that most Prolog implementations include. Here's a tutorial: http://www.pathwayslms.com/swipltuts/dcg/

Compared to when DCG parsing was most popular ('70s-'90s), there are now more alternatives for easily working with grammars, though, including non-black-box approaches nicely integrated into languages, like combinator parsers in Haskell and LPeg in Lua. So it's not quite as unique today, though it's still a nice way to prototype parsers.
That's why I always get pumped when I think about @antirez killing it building Redis from Sicilia!
wow that graph at the end. wonder if node is in the midst of a "language bubble".
Would love to hear more in detail about how free trade hurts the population at large.
I looked at Zim[1] actually once upon a time. I eventually settled on WikidPad[2]. It had enough features to capture my ideas in the ways I wanted, but I really needed multiple device and cloud support. Ideas happen all over, not just at the desk. This was why Workflowy blew my mind when I discovered how to use it to fit my needs.

[1] http://zim-wiki.org/
[2] http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/