skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would that mean emission limits are set lower than technically achievable?

Car manufacturers still provide more powerful cars every year. I always wondered, how they can claim their engines emit less while they get faster and faster. Everybody knows that a modern car does not consume so much less fuel than a car of then comparable standard 20 years ago.
But lets face it, consumers require more power, less fuel consumption and less emission - in this order. Probably the development of on paper values has been disconnected from the real world for marketing reasons (that is no excuse, its an observation). Before everybody throws stones at Volkswagen only, please measure other cars (again, no excuse).

From time to time I rent cars of different brands and at the gas station I see proof that there has been little progress in fuel efficiency. That said, Volkswagen and Audi diesels seem to be the most fuel efficient engines around for the pure power they deliver. The only diesel I know that felt more advanced was a Volvo V60, but mostly because of a geniously constructed gear system and a perfectly rectangular torque (so I had to change gears at 3500 rpm).

In Europe (and that means in this case in Germany), car manufacturers invented the fleet consumption and emission. That means, the consumption and emission of a whole class of cars is averaged. This is to trick high powered engines on paper into an acceptable consumption and emission range.
The goal is clearly not transparency and openness.
Been down for 8+ hours here and still unable to connect. They said an hour ago that it's being rectified. [1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/Skype/status/645980952930447360
If I had a bug that met the criteria I'd give Apple first dibs. That way the bug would get fixed, and I'd still get my $1M.
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2.3M Indians apply for just 368 jobs
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All hail chinese moot!
I get a video has expired message.
What drivel, consider Theil's comment, "We could be finding cures to cancer or Alzheimer’s."

This is somebody who watches Star Trek and figures that if they can use dilithium crystals to control anti-matter plasma conduits, well gee how hard can it be? We should get right on that.

I'll cut him some slack because he wasn't actually alive in the 70's but seriously, cure cancer? Is he not aware of the billions of dollars of investment in that problem? Did he not even realize that the cell biology research that came out of figuring out AIDs wasn't even freakin' POSSIBLE in the 70's? You couldn't do analysis on DNA in the 70's because the machines that did that, would take until the present day to give you an answer. Think about that.

Famous quote from Marvin Minsky along the lines of you want to solve a problem that will take a million hours of compute time, you can either spend a ton of cash and buy a super computer, and start it on its way and wait 114 years, or you can invest the money you have in a savings account, wait 20 years and then buy a computer at Fry's that will solve it in an hour.

We couldn't even build the tools to build the tools yet in the 70's that we regularly use to put cool features into an iPhone today.

So basically I'm offended on behalf of every engineer who lived and worked in the 70's at his comments.

And then lets take the flipside, given that we do have all of these amazing tools at our disposal, do you think people are not trying to cure cancer, in all its forms? So Peter has some genius idea that the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's staff of doctors isn't considering?

Technology did not "stall" in the 70's. It has been accelerating at an exponential rate for decades. I can't believe he really thinks that.
That's an extremely dismissive comment. He did something, and is telling people. Good for him.

http://carl.flax.ie/dothingstellpeople.html
They took everything he had, and promised that if he gave
himself up to the System, in return the System would take
care of him.

It turned out to be a lie.

We’re all Jason Bourne now.

I read this with a tongue in cheek but walked away with a profound sense of camaraderie and Tyler Durdene feels.

This last few setences. WOW. As a Jason Bourne fan, I can now be him.
Not dying from starvation is the goal.
To say that the plane is "WWII era" when it is not, is simply incorrect. I don't understand how it would be considered acceptable practice to state something that is misleading and untrue for effect. If it is a clear exaggeration then maybe you could argue hyperbole, but I think that this is just a poorly-researched article.
Most of the chans (2ch/8ch/4chan/420chan ect) are just FreeBSD boxes and cgi/perl scripts

http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/interviews/moot-4chan.h...
As the article points out, this isn't real invisibility - the object being hidden from specific wavelengths is still in front of something that isn't, so while you may not be able to a guy on the street, you'd see a guy shaped hole in from of that starbucks he is walking by.
If you think that's social justice, then the KKK aren't even racist. Are you sure about that statement?
I didn't really care for Old Man's War. It's a fun read, but it's popcorn. It was a bit too juvenile nanotech wankfest for me.

Nominally it looks at subjects like long life, implanted AIs, etc., but it doesn't really do anything with them other than go "squeeeee look at the tooyyyyyys".

EDIT:

If you want to just bask in the sheer glory of superior firepower and gallows humor, and maybe even occasionally see something with a little bit more to say about politics and men who fight, I'd suggest the Hammer's Slammers series by David Drake. Future tank company modeled loosely off of the Foreign Legion just after WW2, the most mercenary of mercenaries, probably the coolest and most reasonable command-and-control for ground forces I've ever seen in a scifi book not set in the near future, and so forth.
When I saw the headline picture of A29, it reminded me of P51 Mustang. So maybe the author was thinking somewhere in that area.
They also said that this didn't affect business users. Which sounds a lot like, "Non-cheapskates didn't have any problems!"
Sure - for the 2009-2015 time period.

But the claim was not "everything is correlated almost to a degree of 1". The actual claim was "when things go wrong everything is correlated almost to a degree of 1". Look at the data from 2008, not 2009-2015.
He was sole founder, but allegedly had shadow investors.

Sale/takeover - Similar sites that sold, Reddit, myspace ($35m), Digg. 4chans value to particular buyers, potential with a pivot/reculture. It's a smoking hot site for PR if you can fool/fake the users, and right now it's election time.

What would you say 4chan is maximally worth to the buyer who can extract the most value from it? I can see someone dropping $40-$50m.
You'd need a prescription to get it. And I don't believe it's legal for a person with the prescription to sell or give prescribed medicine to other other people.
I recently hacked something together that's using Tabletop and React to render 'products' that can be entered into a 'database' using Google Forms:

http://jsbin.com/zaberiqami/1/edit?js,output

The top part of the code is separated from the bottom plumbing, and is sprinkled with comments in Dutch for my students to edit ('8th grade', Dutch 2VWO).

I actually used it more as an example and inspiration to talk about databases in general. The group is a mix of students from the previous year; by setting the bar high and encouraging them to change the parts they knew something about, I could gauge their individual skill level a bit. Pink product listings ensued. JSBin really is an awesome tool I couldn't do without.
An account shares access to the same file system, but can be restricted as to which files and directory it can see and execute.

An account in a chroot jail gets its own view of the entire file system that is completely isolated. The root folder for the specific account is not the root folder for the system as a whole. But the account still shares RAM and the CPUs.

An account running in a container gets a chroot jail plus its access to system resources, such as RAM and the CPU's are restricted. So you could restrict an account to using a maximum amount of RAM and a maximum number of CPU cores.
Deep Belief Networks at Heart of NASA Image Classification
This is one reason we're moving off AWS and Azure at the moment. Not because of them but because it's so damn easy to accidentally fuck something up on this scale and that would be endgame for us. There is not much between deploying a correct and a faulty bucket policy that instantly exposes your entire archive over the internet.

If it is a CIFS / NFS mount on your own infrastructure, then not so easy.
How we lost revenue by improving our signup process
That's the whole point of the "game". To show this bug.
> According to the guy who ran the site.

Do you see the problem?
Sure. The buying and selling tools is not the issue (depending on where you live), it's using them.
Thanks. I have heard the Carbon X1 mentioned many times, of course, and I will take a look at it again.
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Weird, I also had troubles with Skype today and tried Hangouts - it worked very well (means not that terrible experience as usually). Coincidence?
I miss the ENTERPRISE QUALITY CODE.
plus big pharma doesn't do R&D: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ma-set-replace-rd-pharma-zach...
Frankly, and this is not specific to GG, but I don't get why would one join a movement if one disapproves of how it got started. If one doesn’t want to be associated with assholes, maybe one shouldn't associate themselves with asshole-created groups.
The Register is the tech world's gutter press, full of barely researched inflammatory articles. I hold about as much regard for them I as I do the Daily Mail.
I have used the web client for the past six hours with no problem at all ...

https://login.skype.com/login
I don't know who you are, but my reaction is that a comment like this shouldn't be stated in the exact tone you've chosen/reacted with. (I looked through your past few comments, and a lot of them are the same way - "There is no shortage of scammy software companies like AVG, but what always cracked me up about AVG was their logo.")

I like the fact that HN is a particularly civil place - it's in the guidelines. Now granted, AVG or Martin Shkreli aren't a member of the HN community in a very narrow sense (though I'm sure AVG engineers read it), unlike a startup founder. But I would appreciate it if you would hedge your statements, lead with the facts, and make them subjective.

It may sound like reserved understatement if you do so, but people here know how to read between the lines. I don't object to any of the facts you've presented, in fact your view is appreciated here, and you don't have to be "neutral", you're not Wikipedia.

I just wish you would take a moment and phrase it more carefully. HN has a rule, no gratuitious negativity, and civil discourse. (Again I'd like to emphasize that I enjoyed reading your take and the facts you've presented.)

EDIT: This comment is now at -4. I'm sorry, downvoters are not following HN policy. "Simply put, Martin is a sociopathic criminal with a well-established, and consistent track record of deceit, recklessness, failure, and just plain old stupidity" without references, and "In all my years of investing, he is one of the most unique scumbags I've ever come across" is extremely inflammatory. As you can see from the number of replies that it has generated. We don't need to make HN reddit.

The facts speak for themselves - when they're presented.
The Japanese government payed him to take down politically sensitive posts on 2channel[1]. He's probably the worst person to put in charge of a community according those who were subjected to him in the past.

[1] http://www.anonymous-japan.org/fake2ch/
You didn't make any such claims, but the fact remains that fielding the research benefits of military spending without those caveats we've worked out is misguiding, which is how the whole thread started out.
Hire a researcher with toxoplasmosis ;)
2ch has been, for over a decade, one of (if not always the absolute) largest discussion forums in Japan. No matter what the base system is, there's some serious infrastructure there.
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Hangouts slows down my 15' i7 retina macbook.. I can play 3d games, edit 1080p video and browse with over 100 tabs open... but google hangouts will slow me down to a halt.
Perhaps "fantasy" would be a more apt descriptor than "innovation."
Here's my litmus test for taking an IoT thing seriously: If nowhere in the entire ecosystem of that thing does anyone try to replace light switches with taking out my phone and fiddling with an app, I'll at least listen.

It demonstrates to me how fundamentally unserious the IoT is that people keep coming back to trying to replace a light switch. Light switches are really good, guys. They're fast, everyone understands them, and they're reliable. Don't get me wrong, anything can be improved, but:

1. Every IoT lightbulb thing I've ever seen has been strictly inferior to the light switch.

2. Even if you did manage to actually improve it, how much are you improving it, at what cost? I'm not going to pay $100 to make it very very slightly more convenient to turn on my lights.
Don't confuse "4chan" with /b/ or /pol/. There is a lot to be proud of in 4chan.
Or preventing unfriendly third parties from gaining access to such resources. Both China and Russia are better positioned geographically to take advantage of those territories.
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> Someone said that if any object in the Universe has a non-zero second derivative of velocity (aka jerk, or "acceleration of acceleration") it's a sign of intelligent life.

Not sure what someone could possibly mean by that. Pretty much every celestial body has non-zero jerk. For instance, earth's acceleration is (to pretty good approximation) a constant times the $-e_r/r^2$, and the time derivative of that is definitely not zero.
I actually don't think it's much of an ode to war or anything. I go to the Naval Academy like Heinlein did, and when I read the small details of military life and the grandiose calls to serve, I read them as criticisms or as satire.
Non-state actors? Religious zealots? Power-hungry dictators? Alligators?

Getting rid of the vicious sheep dogs would make the sheep feel safer entitle wolves showed up.
And all the Fallout fans reflexively thought, "War. War never changes," with music from the 1930s or 1940s playing in the background.
so you're saying you studied CS so that you can be better than people, not because it's a good & stimulating career. Remind me never to hire you.
Plenty of people have ran huge sites by themselves. Marcus Frind of POF comes to mind. He had over 30 million users a month back in 2007 and no employees. It's not that hard if you know what you're doing.
Who is "they"? Apple? Because they USED to sell laptops that were serviceable, and have slowly over time migrated to once that aren't. Not because of software, but in order to reduce the size.

And EPA? What?
Gamergate doesn't actually have "ranks", it is a multi-homed, decentralized mob. That is the genius/horror of it. Welcome to the future of memetic warfare, it has already reached escape velocity from 4chan.
There are some of us who still adhere to semantic HTML.
Yes, it could be done. I'll implement that feature.
Christopher Poole Sells 4chan to Japanese Entrepreneur
>in the rare instances when I've offered this advice or help after one or more requests, it has been invariably met with an attitude either that I am wrong/stupid for coming to such a conclusion... or a flat out request to give them another shot.

Yeah, I've hit this and it really is annoying to deal with. I have one candidate we rejected 4 or 5 years ago because his resume was questionable, and once a year he still emails me asking for a position (and I'm not a hiring manager!).

I have had it go the other way, too, though. I had a candidate who didn't meet some criteria. He asked why, and I told him. A year later he had done a bunch of work to improve himself and we hired him.

So it can work both ways. But I definitely agree that the more common case is for the candidate to rationalize away why the company is wrong.

And I think companies that got feedback from candidates would do the same thing: "He said we didn't offer a big enough salary, but our pay is exactly the median of other companies around here. He's just a prima donna!"
All of them optimize for those well defined regulatory test cases. It's all shades of gray as long as they are just tuning parameters to yield favorable results in the test scenarios without bothering with possible drawbacks in other situations. But things suddenly turn solid black when a method of optimization is employed that is explicitly disallowed in the rules.

It's not unlikely that this infraction was enabled by "motivated disbelief" questioning that software alone can be a "defeat device". And without court-actionable "defeat device" this thing would clearly be in the gray range, even if the "up to forty times" that are being talked about would probably make it one of the darker shades.

They might have even checked this with some lawyers, who can sometimes be very eager to look at the law in the way most favorable to the client: "Yes, it may hold in court" (and if not I will still get my money, also, the negative PR caused by the lawsuit even if you wirll will be your problem, not mine)
I invoke Godwin to refute this assertion.
"A crew operating a high-tech fighter plane made a terrible mistake" -> "Had the crew been close enough to the ground to see their enemies, the mistake may have been avoided" -> "A-10's require pilots to be close to their enemies" -> "A-10's and planes that rely on dated technology are superior to those that utilize the latest and greatest weaponry."

This argument is useless without determining how many incidents like the example described at the beginning of the article occur, whether they could be avoided with an older plane, and whether the cost of the mistakes made by the newer planes outweighs the advantages they provide.
> The name is tarnished, full stop.

You know what other names are tarnished? Liberals, Socialists, Democrats, Conservatives, Republicans, Christians, Muslims, ecologists, feminists, etc. Every sufficiently large movement has had its name dragged through the mud by its opposition. It's how things work. Gamergate is fine and continues to do good, whether the adversaries want to acknowledge it or not.
Physics is not financial economics.
Okay, so considering that 4chan didn't accept donations, didn't have any form of user-generated revenue until the (very recent) 4chan pass thing, Poole has always maintained that the site was a money loser.

Also, cheap to run? The bandwidth costs alone would be HUGE.

Not sure why you think he has a motive to lie about this - and if he does, again, put forth some evidence rather than spurious accusations. Calling the guy a liar with no proof to the contrary is just so much cheap sniping.
For all those who haven't read it, check out the "sequel", The Forever Peace. I place "sequel" in quotes, because it's only thematically related, there's no continuation of characters or plots.

In fact, it's set much closer to the present, and the use of remote-controlled robots makes it feel super-current. Unlike The Forever War, it envisions one way war could end. The final line of the Vice story is "When war is unthinkable, it will stop", and in The Forever Peace, Haldeman shows one way it could be achieved.

As much as I love TFW, I personally think The Forever Peace is a stronger novel.
I'm curious, why do so many pages (like this one) now have huge fonts and lots of empty space? That text is like... 3 times too big.
Creating a Secure Password That's Shared Between People
IOS had a security flaw only a few months ago that let a hacker get past anybody password by rebooting the device after a failed attempt.
As a practical example, /out/ and /diy/ are two of the only places on the internet where you can get useful information about gear. Everything else is tainted by ad money.

When the competition is 99% pimping and astroturfing for advertisers, being 10% useful and only 90% noise makes /out/ about ten times as information dense as any other place on the internet. This is why people who don't read or agree with /pol/ none the less welcome /pol/ as it keeps the advertisers away. Given the choice of ruining /out/ or making moot a billionaire, oddly enough the users of /out/ prefer having a nice clean place to hang out, sucks to be moot.

/fit/ ironically does not discuss actual fitness, but is more a social group for people into fitness to discuss seemingly everything except fitness related issues. On rare occasion /fit/ will actually talk about gear and then the advice is good AFAIK. There is unfortunately some bro-science on /fit/ mixed in with real science, then again asking ecological science questions in /out/ would get equally dumb answers, but the dumb answers on /out/ would be more self aware of their own ignorance, whereas on /fit/ its here's my anecdote, "anecdote" being latin fancy speak for "fact", or at least the guys on /fit/ like to think so.

/out/ has a bad fascination with gadgetry, there must always be a pointless eternal thread about giant rambo-style "survival" knives, as a containment thread to keep them out of the real discussions. The concept of the containment thread or containment board is possibly a 4chan innovation and a real advance in social media and online discussion?

/b/, which is almost yet not entirely a cesspool, has had better literary criticism of this site than /biz/, which is funny. The standard deviation of quality on /b/ is extremely high. The std deviation of quality on /out/ is much lower but the average quality on /out/ is much higher than /b/. If nothing else, as a lab of observations about anonymous discussion, its interesting. I'd propose a general rule that the more focused the board, its heights of brilliance will be lower and further between at the same time as the average level of discourse increases.
Kibi – Data Intelligence Browser is a really excellent fork of Kibana for Data Intelligence use cases. Check it out at http://siren.solutions/kibi-a-kibana-fork-for-data-intellige...
Do you have a link for 2008?

He said "... bad advice as they are now positively correlated."
Yeah, yeah, I've read Ayn Rand too, but she's wrong.

Even from a selfish perspective, public health is so crammed with positive externalities it pays for itself.

Nobody's going to force chemists to make drugs. Instead the way tax works is that you force everyone to pay a fraction of their productivity into a fund that gets spent paying the chemist to make drugs, the pharmacist to deliver them, etc. It's very similar to insurance except that it doesn't have the perverse motivation to deny you care, and it's compulsory because a civilized society values people not writhing in pain and dying from uncured curable disease more highly than losing a fraction of their time working for the state to prevent it.
Makes it easier to read.
AFAIK the software doesn't decide when the DPF gets cleaned, it just happens as a natural consequence of driving fast -- "blowing the cobwebs out" so to speak.