skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are a few blogs up about major battles where their servers are just being thrashed and how they were able to stay up. They also mention that their users warned them about this battle before hand which was really cool.

So, I know that I'm expecting too much, but remember that the only way CCP can handle large fights is to simulate them at 1/10th realtime, and get advance notice of said fights so that they can move the simulation for the target system to a single, beefy server ahead of time.

It's a goddamn shame that they don't have the resources available to figure out the -admittedly difficult- problem that is

* Reworking their simulation to be parallelizable across nodes

* Dynamically shifting slices of a battle within a system across physical nodes
Okay. So this is a chat application surrounded by a 'not so' elaborate hoax concerning floppy drives someone supposedly found in a vacant lot. It's made pretty obvious though; a screenshot of an Instagram photo with over nine-thousand likes and comments shop't.
Which can't run on most mobile devices in the world... It would be shocking if any iOS only app was on the top of most used mobile apps.
Results for "bald" are somewhat puzzling.

https://imgur.com/hrNitqk
HAHA - I thought the same thing. I ACTUALLY scrolled back up to the top of the article to see if it was truly posted by him after reading that line....
Does anyone know how they did their chemistry representation? The entry at http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ChemicalData.html for Aspartame has a charge separated SMILES of

COC(=O)C(CC1=CC=CC=C1)NC(=O)C(CC(=O)[O-])[NH3+]

and it's in Kekule form, without aromatics. By comparison, here are the (isomeric) SMILES from various other sources:

Wikipedia: O=C(O)C[C@H](N)C(=O)N[C@H](C(=O)OC)Cc1ccccc1
ChEBI: COC(=O)[C@H](Cc1ccccc1)NC(=O)[C@@H](N)CC(O)=O
ChEMBL: COC(=O)[C@H](Cc1ccccc1)NC(=O)[C@@H](N)CC(=O)O
ChemSpider: COC(=O)[C@H](Cc1ccccc1)NC(=O)[C@H](CC(=O)O)N
DrugBank: COC(=O)[C@H](CC1=CC=CC=C1)NC(=O)[C@@H](N)CC(O)=O
PubChem: COC(=O)[C@H](CC1=CC=CC=C1)NC(=O)[C@H](CC(=O)O)N

None of them used a charge-separated form, so Wolfram likely did some local processing of the structures.
I wouldn't want to be sheltered from such a fact but being reminded of it is jarring and changes my feeling towards YC.
Very well put. I remember seeing a post last month about the researcher from Duke University who resigned for similar reasons:

https://www.facebook.com/jfgariepyneuro/posts/46644277686075....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10177775

It really is nice to see an organization like YC take an interest in research. I applaud Sam for making that considerable donation and hope the outcome is better than expected.
Safe AI [1], on the other hand, has [2] running on < $1M and [3] running on $10M (!) from Musk. Throw in Yudkowsky's recently expressed interest in startups [4] and you can guess what I am guessing.

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1

[2] https://intelligence.org/donate/

[3] http://futureoflife.org/AI/AI_beneficial

[4] http://hpmor.com/notes/119/
"harm or cause damage" has been redefined such that what this now means is "free speech as long as it's positive". These days, making someone feel bad is considered harm. Obvious hyperbole such as you would use with your friends is considered a serious threat. With these kinds of qualifications/limitations of free speech, what's left is something else.
http://morguefile.com/ is a lot better.
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As a fairly traditional religious type, I'm not too worried that, say, the folks in my Bible study can't explain the theological basis for natural law, any more than I'm worried than the folks who use my software can't explain how a compiler works. You can gain value from something without being able to explain the details - though it's also true you can do yourself quite a few favors by trying to understand at least a couple of levels down, whether as a Christian or a computer user. (And by the way, reasonably nuanced philosophical perspectives are by no means incompatible with belief in supernatural evil: just ask Thomas Aquinas, or, for that matter, I suppose, me. :-)
Thanks so much for sharing this. The stories may be known but the individual point of view is priceless.
Service Workers is a definite game changer. However, one thing to remember when implementing them is that you will need to be entirely on HTTPS.
A reminder about how most Americans actually live:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-have-less-th...
Usually people say “dirty checking” when they mean “keep checking in some kind of event loop whether external entity modified some object, and if so, do something”.

In React there's no such event loop where it checks virtual DOM—React knows if it needs to compare virtual DOM trees (not arbitrarily check models for changes, for example) because all changes are explicit and happen either due to `setState()`, `forceUpdate()` or `React.render()` top-level call.

So React doesn't do dirty checking in the sense Angular does, unless by dirty checking you mean all kinds of comparisons.
Alan Kay's group got $5M from NSF to "reinvent computing". The money lasted 6 years, in which they produced a reasonable prototype (called "Frank") of a complete personal computing system in only 20K lines of code.
I think a lot of the debate over evolution has to do with doctrines rather than concepts. I think a lot of it also has to do with a grudge between western science and the roman catholic church. It's a well deserved grudge I believe, but it doesn't get to a better understanding of science or religious thought.

I think the creationists are not necessarily dumb but I have no doubt that the evolutionists are not faithless.
I share some of your sentiment, yet...not. I was one of the top three students of my graduating high school class. I turned down a National Merit Scholarship, in part to go be "normal" and walk away from the sick inculcation with being an obnoxious brainiac and social outcast, hiding my insecurity and emotional pain over the social end of things behind a wall of contempt and superiority. I have managed to wash off a lot of that shit, but being a nobody for years and becoming quite poor -- even homeless -- has failed to make me normal by any stretch of the imagination. I have given up on being normal.

I still hope to find ways to put out useful information that will benefit people who are more "normal" than I am and I do have my concerns about the world being designed and run by so many people who absolutely cannot relate to the day-to-day experiences of most of their target audience/customers. But I don't know that hoping for "normal" people to do the design work is in any way useful.

I don't know what the answer is, but it seems like a lost cause to want people to do brilliant design work and also be normal. If you are that brilliant, you simply are not normal. Period.
hey would you mind linking me? just unsure if you're talking about the landing page or the how-to page i work for the amp team and would love to fix it and give our marketing site some love.
They could've called it what most people think it is: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sneakernet

No commonly understood dirty version of that, and I suspect most people would've thought it a very cool name as well as appropriate.
Yeah this is what annoys me so much here in the UK when the topic of high density comes up, historically high density housing was used as cheap social housing where very little thought or art was put into aesthetics/services or providing for tenants then when the inevitable maintenance cost cutting makes it slum-like everyone recoils at the idea of living there.

And yet The Barbican Estate in London is one example of just how beautiful high density housing can be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLgkDCoH14g of course now (and been central London) what was once affordable high density housing is the preserve of the wealthy.
I believe that what you're referring to as "a lot work to do on top of that" is the correct solution, the ultimate OSS project.

The fallacy of the many time series db's out there is that they discarded the relational database as a viable storage option prematurely and are now trapped solving the very hard problem of horizontally scalable distibuted storage that takes many years to solve instead of focusing on the time-series aspect of it.

Sooner or later something along the lines of pg_shard will become standard in PostgreSQL and other databases, thus you don't really need to write your own sharding logic, you just have to wait. OR you can write it if you want. You have options.

Aggregations is what GROUP BY is for. Removing old data is a non-issue if you're using a round-robin approach (see my blog link), it also makes aging different series at different rates easy.
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I'm guessing it's deliberate but if there were any page to push the ardent anti-adblocker over the edge to installing an adblocker.. that's it.
Well, the only issue I can see with that now a days is if one such report is actually needed only for compliance purposes. Then, five years down the line, an audit happens and 1825 copies of that required daily report happen to be missing...
One idea might be they were looking for complete ownership of the transactional data sets especially when paired with listening insights from that same consumer.
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I'm never certain what to make of 'Found footage' type art projects like this. There's certainly value in building with a retro style, and I see the fun in pretending it's an artifact of the retro time it comes from. I'm just not certain what to do with it. Perhaps that's the point; It's a toy that excites some and bores others, and like-minded people can collaborate and chat about the toy that has excited them.

I'm also sort of expecting a flood of bronies on said chat soon. I'm not certain if that will create more or less shitposting than HN.
It is correct as is, but ...

I realise that I haven't properly documented the rule that applies for note lengths, which is that the first note in the song and in each bar default to 1 beat, and all other notes default to the length of the previous note.

Also, if you write a song and the note lengths in a bar don't add up to the correct bar length, then Melody Scripter will give you a parse error.
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Greed is the problem.
The Reddit PR blitz is on!
It's strange to me the huge gap between $5-9k and "over $10k". I wonder if that gap has more to do with upper/middle class or young business owners vs working 9-5?
Ask HN: How do you set up your work day, schedule/life to maximise flow states?
> cares a little about compatibility?

Yes, they care. But they care more about their ability to make breaking changes without the stench of a major version bump.

You have to ask, why is it currently not 1.0? The roadmap you linked doesn't mention it. There's a reason. So what is it?

By the way, I know you're a huge React cheerleader and that's fine, and you think I'm being critical of React here and you need to defend this. But I'm not, this is a problem throughout the JavaScript community and really the fault lies there, not with any one particular project which is doing something a lot of others are also doing.
Excellent anecdote and encouragement - I think it's spelled "pharaoh" though.
RDS MariaDB already supports encryption at rest, so you don't need to wait for 10.1: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Overvi...
Nope. I assumed you already knew that you couldn't prove they didn't break the rules when the admins said they did. Unless you think you can prove it without internal information.

It was also pretty obvious that they were attaching the imgur staff.
There are dash cameras that are designed to be run 24/7, and you typically need to hardwire them to your battery. That way you can capture any vandalism/comprehensive damage that happens when the car is parked. From what I understand, they can go several days recording on the cars battery, so you could check the actual power usage or look for an always-on camera system that is designed for such use. You'd still need to run the car every couple days to keep the battery fully charged, but if you drive a lot it would work fine.
Neat. How does it work? Like, do they compile one system's triggers to some sort of intermediate language, and then compile that back to the target system's language?

Does the resulting code resemble something a human would write?
These types of articles are always frustrating, in that they very rarely provide an even halfway decent explanation of the math or science involved (if they do, it is buried deep), and are instead little more than a repetitive explanation of the importance of the work, judged by quotes from as many people as humanly possible. This article (which says very little) is still probably too long with all the fluff added around the actual discovery.
Some of the comments in the article seems a bit disingenuous. The Dhaka vs DC graph was kind of funny, because the quality of life in Dhaka is probably much lower in large part due to that density. But more to the point, I agree that no one has a right to the density they've become accustomed to, but that doesn't mean that an increase in density won't amount to a drop in the quality of life to them. Take for instance the comment where someone sad something to the effect that without going all Hong Kong, SF could increase density by 30 or 40% by utilizing unused/undeveloped parcels, and adding a few floors to existing buildings. Thats probably true, but that has no effect on the public spaces. So you now have 30-40% more people on the sidewalks. 30-40% more cars on the road. 30-40% higher density. For some people that is a positive thing, but for those that think it is a negative thing, no amount of hand waving is change that.

By hand waving, I mean assertion without argument. You may convince them that more and better restaurants will open, and that may genuinely change their mind, but many people I've talked to that prefer the high density lifestyle have a hard time grasping that there are those of us that genuinely do not. I live in a city of 120k in one of the least densely populated states in the US. It was 50k when I first came here. It has been genuinely intolerable for me, and I spend all my free time getting away to significantly less dense areas, and I am actively looking for jobs in areas lower than 50k (hard to do in technical fields). Of course I'm an extreme example, but the point being that trying to portray the quality of life concerns of people that prefer lower density as irrelevant is not an honest comeback. Disregard those concerns as being counter to the larger good, but don't pretend that people that hold those concerns will be happy about all the things they will gain at higher densities.
Equality doesn't mean hiding the parts of your identity. You may want that total anonymity where I can't even tell if you're a human or a very smart dog but some people enjoy bringing in parts of their identity to conversations and that isn't wrong or anti-equality. It is akin to saying "I don't want to see race". Well that may seem equal but you're really just ignoring something that many people find very important to their identity.

And there are plenty of times on 4chan when people identify as male without any aversion to the label. It sounds like some people just don't want the "others" to identify themselves.
The only problem with this is that this will be a zero sum game.
If peak power consumption drops electric companies will start charging higher rates for off-peak hours or drop the off-peak rate completely.

Anything that will eventually lower the revenue of the electrical companies won't really be supported by them, however if they can employ batteries to "flatten" their peaks they might be contempt with keeping the current rates as long as is financially beneficial for them.
The whole sama thing doesn't compute for me and has negatively impacted my otherwise stellar view of YC.

He dropped out of Stanford, founded Loopt (which raised $30 million and then acqui-sold for $43 -- and I'm sure Sequoia got the bulk of it), was then made a YC partner and finally appointed president. His Wikipedia page says he's made some angel investments in successful companies like AirBNB, but my question is: "With what money?" Maybe he sold some private shares of these companies at some point. There's nothing wrong with that. But again where did the original money come from? Family?

I just don't get it. Please explain to me how dropping out of college and having your only startup fail leads to (a) being handed one of the most prestigious and influential positions in SV and (b) having so much money you can donate $10 million dollars like it's chump change. How does that make any sense in this universe?

pg started YC and deserves all the credit for basically inventing the accelerator archetype. He can do whatever he wants and I guess he thought sama was the best guy for the job. Maybe he is. Heck, I'll even admit that I think he's done a good job so far, although I also think plenty of people would be equally adept at watching a golden goose lay eggs.

I think SV -- and YC especially -- perpetrate a few huge myths which cause people to have unrealistic expectations of their lives and ventures. ("There aren't enough engineers!", for example. Just last week, sama was saying how easy it is to live in SV if you work at Facebook, make a $150k+ salary and got a $75k signing bonus... a situation he was pawning off as "average" but is actually highly above average.) These lofty, then unfulfilled expectations then cause depression in vast amounts of people, both inside the Valley and out.

To me, sama is a colossal SV myth, incarnate. "Look! If you're smart enough, you can rocket to the moon! Even if you drop out of school and your only startup fails!"

I don't understand the full story, apparently, but I just hope people aren't fooled. There is more than meets the eye, here.
the last thing I want in six hundred to thousand pounds of lithium batteries in my home.

Think for a second.

If there was danger to the batteries then like a propane tank or similar thing, a home battery would be in an enclosure some distance from one's house.
Here is a link where the Director of the CIA openly and proudly admits to killing people based on meta-data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQiz0Vavmc

Surely you don't think they have gymnasiums full of junior analysts trying to manually correlate phone call metadata? At some level an algorithm decides someone specific crosses the probability threshold for our definition of "terrorist" and it's all rubber stamps from there until the hellfire blows up a wedding[1], funeral[2] or hospital[3].

[1]: http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/21/turning_a_wedding_into...

[2]: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/dro...

[3]: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/05/world/asia/doctors-without...
I'll throw in my own 2 cents, in agreement. I have tried to use SPDY, Nginx 'microcaching', Drupal caching to make my own Drupal 7 project load as quickly as possible. I still need to make the font and bootstrap calls local (potentially dropping the fancy font for Georgia or Verdana, even Helvetica...) to really bring the load times down further. There are other settings to tweak still, but it's one example of Drupal not dragging its feet too much.

It certainly let this 'dev' create a usable piece of software, at least.

> https://www.linguaquote.com

PS - also looking forward to Let's Encrypt and http2 in Nginx.
And what I'm saying is that people -- real people, not some unnamed "person" from some unspecified country or culture who may exist at some point in the future -- are already turning to violence as a solution, without the need for robots. Bashir Assad doesn't have killer robots and neither does Vladimir Putin and neither do the mullahs of Iran, but somehow they're managing.
Yes would love to see transcripts or video!
Think about this from a non-IT point of view. If you went to a store and paid for your groceries with a card, would you expect to go to the checkout, hand over the card, and then have the cashier stop you for thirty seconds while reading a form disclaimer that by paying by card you were consenting to information about the location and amount of your purchase together with your own identity and the details of your card being sent to the operators of the card scheme, who may be based outside Europe, for the purposes of completing the transaction, and only then (assuming you haven't given up in frustration) ask you to put in your PIN to confirm the purchase?
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This is about the PCP theorem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCP_theorem

An interesting application are SNARKs, a fully generic type of non interactive zero knowledge proof of knowledge. They can be used to preserve transaction privacy and fungibility in cryptocurrencies for instance.
There are age exceptions for agriculture, where kids as young as 12 are permitted to work as long as they have written permission from their parents.

I assume these exceptions exist because of an historical limited labor pool during critical time periods for farmers, such as harvest. For example detasseling corn is a common summer job for teenagers in the Midwest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detasseling

Here are more details on the rules:
http://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/whd/flsa/docs/hours.asp
Right. I guess it really depends how people define "dirty checking". What I was trying to say is that at the end of the day you do diffing on some data structure: model in Angular and virtual Dom in React.

Loop vs. one pass is an important distinction, agreed. But when we bring Angular we should be noted that Angular 2 doesn't do those checks in a loop but does comparisons in one pass only.
I also found that affirmation strange. Pandora isn't even global because of licensing issues.
> You can bring new things to have them stressed, break them, and find out the laws of unintended consequences

Sure. But how will they do it without people?

Say you want to stress-test the new sewage handling system. How will you get the sewage? How will you get 35,000 people pooping in a day with a certain distribution?
It's a fine example for "yeah, but I REALLY don't want to live like that".
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Thanks for your answers, and for DDG! Waiting to see more of Dax and other improvements. The DuckDuckHack documentation looks better now so I will try making an instant answer for Dax's name.
I'd love to see research on shaking up governments and the existing political process with technology.

Now, there are flaws to the use of electronic voting systems and the level of transparency required, but that is not what I mean.

What I mean is that every time I have run a large community the social structure that naturally emerges is not the one that we all allow ourselves to be governed by.

I'd like to research how tech could be used to empower lay citizens to shape their society in the way that they imagine it should be.

For example; I was interested in Google's internal experiment with voting transparency and delegation, and how it allows for a different kind of inclusive democratic process that isn't reflected in our existing systems.

One of the moonshot goals of the forum/community startup I created was to start to provide tools to support communities that shaped their own political and social structures, with an express goal of training them in the possibilities of being engaged in their society and then letting them use the tools to shape the real world in the same way that they shaped online societies.

Simply, I'd love to see research and later innovation into how societies and democratic functions could be.

When we talk about changing the world, I really mean it.