skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And classical logic is the one used in mathematics (and methatheories) because those are the most useful axioms in that setting. (would you agree that's a fair statement?)

For example, it's not useful to think an equality has 30% chance of being true, or not having a truth value, and so on. It allows building structure on solid foundations.
It disappeared. Any other link?
The article doesn't even attempt to answer this question.
Fine for Corruption < Profit from Corruption

Nothing to see here. Move along, citizen.
I said, "to hell with this" and dropped out, so I may not be the best person to ask, but I think "common knowledge" is more difficult to question than most people think. Especially when you don't recognize it as such.

Overall, the frustrating thing to watch is that the kids saddled with six figure student loans, a generic degree and no special skills were just playing by the rules. They were trying to find their passion and studying really hard just like good boys and girls should, then life kicks them in the teeth.

I think people in college now are much more cognizant of it, but five years ago people didn't talk about student loans as much.
Are you suggesting that Chuck is wrong, and that it is risk-free to run two computer power supplies together in parallel even if they are not designed for this purpose? Are you also suggesting that all consumer electronic products are representative of good design principles?

Or are you grinning because Dmitry has so far gotten away with a risky approach? You, Dmitry, and Chuck probably all know more about electrical engineering that I do, but I've done just enough with low voltage power supplies to share Chuck's concern. The result is cool, but there might be a better way to get the same result.

Alternatively, perhaps Dmitry meant "parallel" in the sense of "separate", rather than electrically parallel. That interpretation might make more sense, since the "just hook them up in parallel" approach seems so obviously poor.
If you're interested in model generation time, have a look at JuMP (https://github.com/JuliaOpt/JuMP.jl). More discussions on the speed of modeling languages at http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1431 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01982
Mods can you please change to the source URL instead? (Not that I'm a fan of linkedin...)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-purchased-domain-googlecom-...

Edit: Here's a mirror for those that happen to have linkedin.com nullrouted in hosts or something: https://archive.is/HKPhn
s/heckles/hackles/

:)
The art of the deal by donald trump
I think the case for a collective consciousness for humanity is much too weak. An insect colony does way better. At least most individual insects tend to act toward the common good, rather than waging war on other insects in the same colony.
Virtue or Utility? Being an Ethical Online Citizen
Spring boot is fine, but it was basically created as an answer to Dropwizard, so why not just use the original thing?
Are there burndown charts, yet?
Absolutely agree on the data point-- there's one key feature missing at the moment to help us further curate the categories so that they more closely match to the activities.

And we've been debating making the gift-finder page the homepage, and we may make the change soon.

Stay tuned and thanks for the feedback!
Well I'm not sure how the article backs up your statement. It was Microsoft who started the patent litigation against Motorola, and it was Motorola who decided to not pay Microsoft. Google was only tangentially involved due to its acquisition which happened after the litigation started, so I'm unsure how Google is getting a free pass - Google really didn't do anything (as far as the scope of the article goes).
Wow is that painful to read

I <3 the #newAsana. Check out what @asana has been up to: https://asana.com

I had to use Asana a year and a half ago for a side project, it was on par with Rally as being the biggest steaming pile of poo I've ever had to use. Hello world-type ticketing systems were better than it.

Having said that maybe the new asana is better. Hopefully there is someone out there giving Jira competition.
Betterment comes out in favor of fiduciary standard for wealth managers
All income from content creation could be seen as passive, but there's an initial amount of work that is much more difficult with little chance of success.
Secret developers of the video game industry
Popmotion – JavaScript animation, physics and input tracking
Ultimately so did the taxpayer. Those bailout loans everyone likes to complain about were some of the best investments the federal government has ever made.
Hasn't the developer command line supported this since...well at least two years? I've used it hundreds of times. Super handy. I guess I'm glad it's in the UI now.
So will MS stop demanding money from various Android manufacturers now? In general I hope they'll change their attitude from patent aggression to patent disarmament. We need more changes like this.
I use ms word for everything: words, letters, programming, hate mail, memos, thoughts, poetry, laundry lists, lists of lists, suicide notes, et cetera et cetera et cetera
Golang proposal: Dense mark bits and sweep-free allocation
Any econ101 book will do. I'd suggest Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.

Short version: Supply (housing) is being artificially restrained from being built out (through regulation). While demand (those moving to the area) keeps increasing. Low supply and high demand = higher prices.

Solution: Build more housing.

It's a simple problem, navigating the bureaucracy is the hard part.
They've gone through the process to put the "test" update to production servers, so I'm pretty sure this is intentioned. Though they might thought this is ok wo/ harms.
I am fairbooks... I am fairbooks... I am fairbooks... I am fairbooks...
Life expectancy at birth is mainly dominated by infant mortality x birth rate (which is part of why Africa is so abysmally low). It's much more interesting (and pretty) to look at the 3D chart of life expectancy distributions at age N. Unfortunately this is really only available for a subset of developed countries, and not even really for a lot of subpopulations within them without a lot of digging.
Perhaps part of the problem is that a lot of people still don't understand that developer time is one of the biggest costs in developing and maintaining software.
Patents seem to have a net negative effect, blatantly anti-competitive.
Anthony Bourdain's World Domination
The point was more the notion of fingerprint data itself being collected, and not necessarily for device access purposes.
Creating an app that lets me watch porn without my wifes finding out. It gots to be Android and iOS.

Also building a wax replica of steve jobs, my hero and lover.
Show HN: Tribes – create new habits with friends by keeping track of each other
Hey guys, I wrote this app in order to mimic a mastermind group I have with friends which has had a profound effect in bettering our habits. We tell each other what we want to accomplish and stay on top of each other to make sure everyone is doing what they said they would. The idea is that if you have friends watching you, you'll be more likely to actually accomplish your goals (e.g. exercising, reading, etc). All feedback is appreciated!
It's not a coincidence that the two cities which have the most regulation on housing are also the two most expensive cities (SF & NY).
Adding Control puts it in the clipboard instead of a file on the desktop
Well, that's what they did. It's called lying (or in legalese, violation of contract) and the repercussions are that their relationship with Apple is damaged.

This might well be the last pre-release thing they ever receive from Apple. So, sure, things aren't black and white, but they didn't exactly leave room for Apple to respond positively, especially given Apple's rather well known positions on leaked information.
I can imagine that such an attack would be dealt with a mix of manual intervention and technical measures, something in between the Google.com search page outage that happens once in a blue moon, and the false routes for YouTube.com IPs that have been propagated several times during the past few years.

Big companies that rely on Internet presence are quite pro-active, and there are teams of people whose job is to prevent something like this from happening in the first place.

DNS is not a secure protocol, and you can redirect connections intended for google.com from the same local network easily, yet the world still keeps turning.
Small-world experiment
So, what's a concrete example application that this makes practical that wouldn't be possible otherwise?
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/nerves-rattled-by-hi...

It's already done. About 5 hours after the post was first opened on the forum. There's also an article on ZDNet.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-accidentally-issued-a...
Interview with Oculus Rift inventor Palmer Luckey
The propagation "speed" is the effect of clients honoring the records' TTLs. Clients and intermediate servers are responsible for pulling updates to whatever records they believe are stale; the DNS itself just sits there serving queries.

Clients and caches sometimes disregard the TTL or use their own, so sometimes changes to a record "haven't propagated" to some clients, but what's really going on is something that's supposed to keep its info fresh decided not to.

Though it's possible for clients to get out of date, the story of a built-in propagation speed you can't do anything about is based on misconceptions. The record owner has a lot of say in how and when their records get refreshed.
> They blatantly violated the agreement for obtaining the pre-release hardware, and then expect people to honor their own license terms?

I assume that most people were taught things like "Two wrongs don't make a right", or some other Aesopian adage at some point in their lives to similar effect.

Just because they violated Apple's NDA/EULA terms does not entitle anyone else to violate theirs.
Coherent in the sense that there are repeating patterns. and themes such as descending sections (skipping the same notes each time), repeating bottom-C regularly etc.

If pretty much anyone can tell if there's a clearly sour note, then why would the majority of pretty much everyone choose for that note to be there?

To be honest, this is the first I have ever heard of a Markov Chain, however, in Wikipedia one feature of it is:

"the probability distribution of the next state depends only on the current state and not on the sequence of events that preceded it"

If consensus heard the whole preceding sequence and chose the next note based on joining the sequence so far with the new note, surely you wouldn't expect it to be like a Markov Chain.

Personally, I think that in the final song, parts of it will sound a bit lost but it will be commonly pulled together by the areas which are highly voted (common sense on what should come next). Whether that sounds listenable in the end - we are yet to see.
To save you time: All of which are empty.

This made no sense back then. It still makes no sense now. You can't harvest useful amounts of RF energy.
In their blog post on medium[1], they mention that it is built on git. webdesignledger.com[2] claims that it supports full version control.

[1] https://medium.com/@FolioForMac/building-a-better-time-machi...

[2] http://webdesignledger.com/folio-version-control
How long would it take you to find a collision in SHA1 with $10,000 to spend on equipment and electricity?

Reading the intro to [1] specifically the 4th paragraph, would suggest that sometime in the next fifteen years, a breakthrough for finding a collision should probably be developed, and if you wait for when that happens, say, 14 years from now, then $10,000 should still buy you enough computing power to do it within a year, at the computing prices that exist then. Computing power increases much faster than inflation. So the answer is "15 years, 14 years of waiting and then 1 year of computing. +/- 30 years and 70 years, respectively."

in other words: it's just pure speculation. not a real answer. a real answer is "we don't know, but with current computers and current algorithms, > 100 years, it just can't be done with $10k in equipment. however this is likely to decrease soon."

you're basically adding the same caveat to life expectancy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1
> t's highly ineffective. People with college degrees start unnecessary wars. People with college degrees ruin economies with finance schemes designed for maximum personal profit over the interest in a healthy society. People with college degrees beat their partners and children. People with college degrees abuse substances, and they fall prey to the ravages of induced mental health issues and poor physical health choices like obesity or sedentary lifestyles. ...

Certainly it could be much more effective and we shouldn't lose sight of how much room for improvement there is. But I'd bet that, as a group, college-educated people are much more productive, healthier, and probably happier. Of course, that doesn't describe any particular individual.

Have a great time on your travels. I think it's almost impossible to understand the world without experiencing cultures far from our own. (I'm assuming you aren't Indian.)
I recently purchased prius which has much better mileage than my previous car so I'm monitoring each of my trip.

I actually observed this and it is true in my case; I do get better mileage when choosing a route through a canyon than when using regular freeway.

I suspect though that the real reason is that it basically affects how I'm driving. When I ride in a canyon I can't accelerate much because there are constant turns, while on straight freeway I most likely will accelerate.

This also would explain why most of the time I get better mileage in traffic (the EV is used most of the time).
I see your point. But there will be a lot of opportunities for software patents to be tested in court. When people look at history and see companies agreeing not to sue each other, what direction will that push the argument? I hope a good one.
Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China’s Rich Kids
next thing you know, they will say that it belong into an extension... but Firefox is still my favorite
>cozy relationship between too-big-to-fail banks and their self-created bureaucracy

don't know who is cozy but almost everyone in the sell side is being saddled with endless amounts of compliance requirements and unless you enjoy staying into the middle of the night reccing books 500 ways and tagging customer forms and tickets the life has become less and less enjoyable.

i am pretty sure i am right when i say the life was good when the regulators were more laissez faire in the early 2000s.
Interesting -- any idea how the performance compares to Ipopt or Gurobi?
Alan Kay: Computer Applications: A Dynamic Medium for Creative Thought
I'll go as far as to say that when it comes to degrees like Art History, prestige (i.e. reputation of the school's department) is what matters the most. That way, you will get to do the interesting research and make the necessary connections to advance your career.
Great read! Definitely a weird/surreal experience to have.

I'm wondering if there were inconsistencies / mix ups across memories or if they all came back as they actually happened. Right now he's assuming the flashbacks actually happened just as he is seeing them (and correlating with people to confirm), but I'm curious to see if his brain made up or mixed up memories.
The iOS and Desktop clients do not instant-sync, or I assume they wouldn't both have sync buttons (or a "Synchronize Automatically" preference, that has "Every 5 minutes" as it's most frequent option).

I'm aware of instant-sync in the web client, but typically (especially in this case) prefer desktop clients to web.

In the unfortunate case I referenced above, I spent an entire morning writing in Evernote (Mac desktop). At lunch I had another thought to add, opened Evernote on my phone, and apparently the same note was already open - so it overwrote all the work I set all day to it's earlier state. There was no way to get it back, as it didn't consider it a conflict and it had no backups due to being less than 8 hours (I went through this with their support team). It's a broken product.

Sync shouldn't even need to be one of their goals - it should be a solved problem by now.
Steve Jobs on the cost of his college: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc&t=2m17s
We asked Lord Drayson if there were any limits on the number of Freevolt harvesters in a given area, or if there was a critical number of harvesters that would then impact cellular or Wi-Fi signal reception. He said "no" in both cases.

Both these answers are simply wrong - they are absorbing power from the RF spectrum. Of course there will be some impact.
The Great Man theory is an interesting point of view - I would like to read more about it. One immediate observation though is that the majority of the Wikipedia article is a criticism about the theory.
I tried to get back into OneNote last night (after the frustrations brought up by posting in this thread). I appreciate the cross-platform aspect, but I really don't like the interface - especially on desktop. The really weird text-box thing just blows my mind, I just want to write.
Similar situation here: My discrete mathematics professor last year pretty much used everything from the MIT OCW Mathematics for Computer Science books. Homework, exams, lectures (even the jokes in the video lectures!).
Wow, this post is incredible--I can't thank the author enough for writing it! It's so thorough and has so many pieces of wisdom to offer in building a complete analytics solution from top to bottom. I'll be returning to this often.
Life expectancy by state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_life_ex...

Looks like it's Hawaii, Minnesota, Connecticut, and Colorado at the top, with Mississippi, West Virginia, and Alabama at the bottom.
Amazon Most Wished For
Global LTE speed is a super unfair comparison. The US has a lot of rural areas where it's not economically efficient for wireless operators to install high speed LTE transceivers.
Caffeine sharpens mind but not body, ADF research shows
Not Gresham's Law per se, as it is specific of money. But what you're describing is essentially a form of adverse selection (see Akerlof's "Market for Lemons"). If employers lower their wage offers below the reservation wage of graduates from prestigious schools, then they would leave the "undifferentiated" job market.

But there might be more to it. Graduates from better schools might still accept job offers if they could hope to get a raise once their true value is discovered.
In some situations you actually can essentially create lawsuits out of thin air. In class actions, you can pick and choose people to be "class representatives" and file a suit.

Patent trolling is a pretty good example too. You buy some patent you find and then start suing anyone under the sun.

But this sort of competitor patent battle isn't easy to start by a lawyer. You'd have to convince your client to start it. But a huge F500 doesn't just have one lawyer, they have their own in house lawyers who make the choices. And then go find a firm to carry it out.
It can be also related to a set of patents published by China earlier which MS used to demand Android patent protection money. It could undermine their patent aggression efforts.
Google has HSTS so requests will be prematurely terminated, however it'll still be a huge DDoS attack.
Dropbox Is MySpace, Box Is Facebook – ReadWrite
I had the same experience. Anybody who had it or is 'interested' please contact me at pigeon@tutanota.com
Show HN: Multiplayer Brain games
Totally off-topic, but about 10 years ago I played an MMO called Star Wars Galaxies. My character's name was Zaphar Waverunner (at this point I can't remember if it was a totally random name from their generator or if I modified one in homage to Zaphod Beeblebrox). I'd never seen that word in another context until I saw one of your posts here recently.
That depends on the expiry time ("Time To Live / TTL") set for the particular record. Minimum TTL is 1s, and maximum is 2e32 -1 seconds, or slightly over 136 years[1].

Resolver libraries and daemons keep cached results in volatile memory, so in practical terms, if a high TTL is set, the spoofed result will continue to be used until the given machine is rebooted. For some middle boxes, this can be years.

[1] RFC 1035 section 2.3.4
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt
The Distributor as Auteur: Can a scrappy company save the film industry?
Mexico’s Missing Forty-Three: One Year, Many Lies, and a Theory
Ally Bank offers me 100 basis points ...
Who do you think is earning my brand loyalty?

Ah yes, the company that made billions of dollars in subprime loans to deadbeats. The company that required a $16 billion bailout from the US Treasury. The company that had a fun time robo-signing foreclosures.[1]

But it's OK. They changed their name, so we can all forget that they were a major contributor to the financial crisis. They're no better and no worse than BofA. None of those companies will get any "brand loyalty" from me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ally_Financial
I'd also be interested in how the U.S breaks down by states and certain regions, like SF or Palo Alto/Mountain View, Manhattan, Boulder, Austin, etc... Since the U.S is very heterogeneous, it probably leads to a lot of variability in life expectancy across different regions. The countries at the top of the list are very homogeneous and wealthy. Wouldn't be surprised if the top cities in terms of wealth and education exceed life expectancy of the top country on the list -- Monaco.
How not to return API errors
Wing = drag.
Inside the Apple TV and Remote – iFixit
I think the point is -- if the TTL is set low, most ISPs simply ignore it to a minimum setting of at least a few hours. So changing/pointing a Google hostname to a victim might not have that big an impact if done only for a few minutes.
Can I ask how you got over it?

I am going through the same thing, except I was in a hard high school program but ended up in a university with an easy Comp Sci program. I am a senior, and the graduate class I am taking this semester is the first time I have been mentally challenged by the Comp Sci department. Because of this, I tend to "give up" easily in other things that I am interested in but are harder (mathematics), or I am not motivated to build apps for fun and portfolio, even though the ideas and the languages come easy to me.
> This was the only archive of truecrypt code I could find

There'a also https://github.com/AuditProject/truecrypt-verified-mirror (maintained by opencryptoaudit.org)
> If variables don't mutate

I think we are talking about two different things when we say "variables". When I say "variable" I mean x, y, a, b etc. That is the variable. It has a value, you can see it in the shell (repl) or when printing it. Look at what happens to variable x:

iex(1)> x=1
1

iex(2)> x=2
2

It was 1 then 2. It changed. Mutation is a synonym for "change". I think it is a pretty simple concept. Did the framework create a new memory cell, put a 2 in there and now x behind the scene dereferences that. Did it update the old cell in place. Was it on the stack? That's not the point. The point is x now has a new value. x is a variable that means variable x mutated.

Compare to Erlang:

1> X=1.
1

2> X=2.
** exception error: no match of right hand side value 2

You can't mutate variable X. variable X is immutable. Again, I think that is pretty clear and simple.

What you showed in your example is how data is immutable in Elixir but not in Ruby.

> The advantage of this is concurrency, etc. etc.

Actually most data, except larger binaries, are copied between processes anyway. So concurrency advantage is mostly theoretical. In the future they could be switched to reference counting for other things. But that is a hidden implementation detail anyway.