skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are just using it for backup, you wouldn't use S3. You'd use Glacier.

What this offers is a useful way to get TBs of data up to Amazon easily, cheaply, and quickly.
> If, however, you were referring to my use of the term "verbal violence" as opposed to "verbal abuse", it's nothing other than a linguistic mistake on my part. Verbal violence is how verbal abuse is called in my native language.

Ah, ok. Verbal abuse is a sensible term to me, whereas verbal violence is not.
Just spending your time here will get you pretty far. HN is kind of the techcrunch for that.
My only question is where do I sign up? (as a young researcher who wants to work on important problems)
Is the tech industry scaring off cloud customers?
There is a lot to read and it has only been posted here for around three hours. What kind of substantial comments are you expecting in such a short amount of time? The linked article itself is a decent read and the papers (conveniently not directly linked to in the article) themselves are quite long.

>What's the actual tangible reward for investing a year or two of your career in learning Mochizuki's world?

I'd guess that would greatly depend on what Mochizuki's world allows one to do.
Nice article.

They touched on it, but lobster fishing is not really a fishery - it's a farm. To highlight a point from the article: one-third to one-half of most lobsters' diet is herring, stolen from the lobster traps.
link to said bookmarklet?
http://goodlooking.horse
Burning flags go beyond discomforting. They don't exist in a vacuum, the context is "we can lynch you and we won't be punished".
>And they can get away with it only because their unions have created precedents where they create havoc in the streets of Paris with the complicity (or thanks to the weakness) of the political leaders of the time.

And why NOT (ocassionally) create havoc in the streets of Paris? Because it disrupts business as usual and results in some small scale damages and such?

France and Paris, especially, has a long history of championing people's rights with street protests. From the Bastille day, to the Commune all the way up to May 68 and beyond. Tons of things we take for granted would be illegal without such ocassional "havoc".

People that think that protests and demonstrations should be "a thing of the past" because now "we live in a full democracy" are just repeating what has been said all the way from the 19th century -- even if blacks had no rights, women had no rights, gays had no rights, there was no social security, immigrants had (and still don't) rights, etc.

Democracy is not some magic thing that solves from within the parliament. Especially the mockery of democracry we have (with representatives elected once every 4 or 5 years based on a platform that bundles all issues together - so if you agree with them on X and disagree on Y you can't get to vote individually on those things), with political influence bought by corporations and big players, and without being held accountable for not keeping on their promises (you just get not to vote for them at the end of their term).

Democracy needs active citizen participation, and protests and demonstrations are one such method of making people's opinions heard.
I got you covered. We've made a badge you can add to your README.md that will always show your tests as passing even if you don't have any :)

https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen#why
I read Crystal's book, "Pronouncing Shakespeare", a few years ago and found it fascinating. I hope to hear one of these "OP" (Original Pronunciation) performances some day.
I use Linux at home, but I was attempting this at work where it's Windows. I know Linux is much easier in this regard, but most more-beginner programmers are still Windows (or sometimes OSX).
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This is worth answering.

I made single-digit millions from the Loopt acquisition. Almost all the money I've made has been as an investor. I got lucky in that the first few investments I made in 2009 (very small dollar amounts) were really good, so I was able to raise capital to keep investing at a much larger scale with other peoples' money. I didn't have much liquidity until last year.

Takeaway 1: the easiest, lowest-risk way in the world to make a lot of
money is to get fees for investing other peoples' money.

Takeaway 2: if you make money that way I think you should give a lot
of it away.

Takeaway 3: FWIW this is a lot of money for me, but it's what I most
want to support.

As a side note, I was pointing out that living in SV is becoming
possible only if you get a job like that one, and that that's really a
problem.
>IMHO the main reason Pao was not liked in reddit is not her gender or race, but rather that she was too old

You think that's any better?
I agree that academic science has problems, but YCR isn't going to have any impact on academic research, funding nor publications. My guess is that YCR will attempt to be a mini-Xerox PARC: 20 people working on interdisciplinary stuff in CS. It'll be fun, but it'll be small.
> this suggests that people who want to build a new high-density utopia should find some other city to descend upon.

Yes. As far as I understand the situation, of the first world cities of similar size or larger, San Francisco was probably the worst possible choice to base the tech boom in. As it has the most conservative attitude and least desire towards growth and building new homes and infrastructure. And poor quality houses and infrastructure to begin with.

Almost like a joke of history.
The site is a community and is only profitable at the whim of its users. Those users were pitched the idea of a "Free Speech Machine." If the company Reddit doesn't deliver on that promise, the users will go somewhere else- as demonstrated by the Pao blackouts.

Don't be so eager to defend a corporation's right to be profitable. They also have to satisfy their customers/users.
> And most mathematicians have been reluctant to invest the time necessary to understand the work because they see no clear reward: it is not obvious how the theoretical machinery that Mochizuki has invented could be used to do calculations.

I find this _deliciously_ ironic since that is the position most students have towards mathematics in general (replace "calculations" with "anything relevant in their lives").
My academic friends and I are constantly talking about how we need startups to counter/disintermediate the constantly growing administrative overhead at universities. Without viable alternatives there is just no pressure to keep administrative costs from balooning. This is a great start and I hope to see more like it.
Can't stress this enough, but a lot of TCS research only becomes valuable once you put it into the wild, and that takes a lot of interdisciplinary work.

A lot of the stuff in TCS is theory for the sake of theory, and one would want to avoid too much of this.
I just wish Fastmail didn't have servers in the US. Not really quite sure what the benefit is there; email isn't latency sensitive.

If a Swiss company were to pop up with a competitive mail offering, I imagine they'd sweep up a lot of business easily eh? Not that it's much more secure, just harder to imagine Switzerland easily handing over records, whereas with folks like MS, they've shown they'll do it on even non-legal requests.
I like to write debuggable Node.js programs for very complicated builds and rely on npm scripts for simpler build systems. It works good for me. Gulp is also great since it's very debuggable.
Interesting. Sounds like there could be space for a client-side extension that lets users enter API keys for rate-limited APIs, etc.
>2. Manufacturing jobs are for sweat shops

You mean like any other tech company in the US and worldwide? Because this Taiwanese company called Foxconn builds stuff for nearly all of them, and in the same facilities in China, Taiwan and elsewhere...
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Out of curiosity, how old was your advisor at the time (ie is he in his mid career at his peak, toward the end or is he on the younger side etc.)? And is the gap in capability just because of his experience, or is he just a much better scientist than the average researchers?
An AWS service with free shipping and a Kindle glued on. It's the ultimate synergy for Amazon.
I think Pandora stops if you leave the app playing for some hours without any interaction with the app. Most streaming services do that to save bandwidth.
How does one use this web application without dropbox?

A better UI for bookmarks would be cool.

If it truly is client-side only, it won't strain resources to render the static files, so it doesn't really need a dropbox login-barrier.
Maybe not a five year old, but certainly an 8-9 year old.

I grew up in apartment blocks very similar to the image that was linked elsewhere in this thread: http://lh5.ggpht.com/-zHv1hczQcD4/UdgqTs1G3cI/AAAAAAAAqCI/le...

These were mid-rise buildings connecting together to form protective courtyards, filled with gathering places, playgrounds and mini-parks, inaccessible to cars, where 5-year olds could play, and 10 year olds had the whole city accessible to them thanks to good public transit.

>> I'm defending the sort of place I grew up, which combines quarter-acre blocks and trees and parks with having shops and schools and libraries within walking distance.

That sounds like a pretty rare place though. Walking distance to schools and libraries tells me either pedestrian-friendly high density, or a very small town with not many job options. If it's neither, I'd love to check it out. Where was that, if you don't mind?
Ridiculous. The mathematics of one has nothing to do with the other.
I love the idea of seamlessly switching between AoS and SoA for data types.
i.e. Snowball is the price model of AWS.
One-click deploy and one-click test environments so you can focus on development
What is the recommended way to generate a long unique cryptographic hash
I want to serve images that belong to users. For various reasons I want to serve the images unauthenticated. Even though the images would be served unauthenticated I don't want a rogue user to be able to guess the final URL for the images easily.

So I want to use something like what Google Docs does for images embedded in Google Docs. The images are available publicly, however, the url is hard to guess. For example here is a url to an image embedded in one of my docs.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/0gKizTE7velVl87okXLPS9Lwih_qS1koUzIhlVjXi4iG4S5HAAtF-U5QDR_Hq3UYNWFsT9DGA4GYA1sYG7iDoSCxvB5aGy0a2hYKUM5lusvj5fkbVAL1hNxODDDNJMLQg0C0fGQ

How do I generate a similar hard to guess url?
Amazing! This may have far greater impact than all of YC's billion dollar unicorns in terms of making the world better!
>Logical thinking is reasoning; just doing something because it feels obvious doesn't sound like application of reasoning.

Reasoning is not abstract. Logical thinking has foundations and axioms -- and among those the idea that beings primarily try to help/save/advance/spread/enjoy/take-care-of themselves is paramount.
Point of clarification: Researcher salaries aren't included in the indirect costs aka overhead, they come out of the lab's funding. So 50% indirect costs of a $300k project means $100k to overhead/indirect costs, and $200k to research; researcher salaries, grad student stipends, healthcare, etc. all come out of that $200k. Then what's left of that $200k funds the lab.
This article got up my nose a bit as it carries on about trivial things like semi-colons and curly braces. I don't really give a flying fuck if a language uses semi-colons or not (although being consistent about it would be nice).

The number one thing that drives me crazy in javascript is, you forget a var (or let or const) and you've created a global variable in your function. That's just totally screwed. Does ES6 fix this?

Also == vs ===.

Coffeescript basically generates javascript that is largely conformant to The Good Parts with a lot less room for stuffing it up.

It's nice that ES6 is introducing fat arrows and such so you don't have to do the mental reach-around that was necessary for doing OO in Javascript. Yes it's taking a lot of the nice things about Coffeescript and adding some more. But the above fundamental issues are the main reasons I hate writing javascript in the first place.

</rant>
My advisor at the time was 60-ish, and had tenure for 30 years or so. The gap in capability was (to my eye) mostly due to his experience.
I care about safety and I have kids. I routinely drive SF to Orange County with 1 gas stop in the middle. 260 miles at free way speeds is 3.5-4 hrs. Not a huge deal. I often burn through a tank of gas before stopping ~400 miles.

It's not unrealistic. Also, it's not a question of going 260 total. The concern is you can, at most, drive 130 miles from the nearest charging station.
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Scala Back-end Engineer, mid-level to senior-level

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ChimpChange is beginning a transition from Java to Scala. The high-speed, transactional nature of our product presents a fantastic opportunity to apply functional and reactive programming techniques. Not only are we personally interested in these techniques, but the growing load on our API will demand them in the future.

This position will report directly to the VP of Engineering of the company.

Required:

- 3-5 years of experience in software development

- Skill with Scala and Java

- Knowledge And Expertise Understanding of unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)

- Excellent Object Oriented skills

- Familiarity with SOAP and REST.

- Some familiarity with Linux system administration

- Can “jump in to fix a bug” occasionally on short notice

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

- Is an Agile development samurai

- Personable, good-natured, well presented, and conducts themselves with strong, honest values

- Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, along with experience in cross-culture communication

Very-nice-to-haves:

- Familiarity with functional data structures

- Familiarity with Scalaz

- Familiarity with ScalaTest and ScalaCheck

- Participation in the Coursera Scala functional and/or reactive programming courses

- Deployment tools like Jenkins/Hudson experience

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How to GET RID OF STRETCH MARKS NATURALLY: DOES IT REALLY WORKS?
Fwiw, he has been posted before:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Mochizuki&sort=byPopularity&pr...
Impressive amount of effort here. How is this different/better than using a strong static encryption for data and then using "normal" redundant cloud storage services like backblaze? Also, why did you choose Nettle's pbkdf2_hmac_sha256 for key derivation, and how does a user-supplied password end up mixed with server generated ones? (or am I confused altogether?)
Five Years of Building Instagram
On the contrary, I think there is a higher cognitive load in having to reason about the behavior that results from using the + operator between two types when their types may differ. e.g., the Wat talk[1].

The simple fact that you run out of operators limits how many types can usefully exist. In Python you use + quite reasonably for integers, floats, strings, and arrays. By contrast raw Perl has equivalents only for numbers and strings, and is unable to distinguish between integers and floats. That is why Perl doesn't do exact arithmetic with large integers.

But, you say, Perl allows you to use bigint? Well, yes. And that is internally implemented with the magic of overload. Using that you can have any number of types which overload + to do what they want, and you have all of the same issues as arose in the Wat talk.

It took a long time for me to be convinced, but I am now convinced that typed variables and untyped operators (like Ruby and Python do) is strictly better in practice than untyped variables and typed operators (like Perl does by default). And as for the complexity, it is just something you have to live with.

Want evidence? https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node48.htm... discussed this exact problem some 30 years ago. I do not believe that the intrinsic problem is being solved any better today than then.
To use your words, Cuba actively denies its citizens rights. There is no freedom of speech, press, or assembly. Internet access is closely monitored and heavily restricted. For a long time it was illegal to even leave Cuba. My family had to tell a web of lies to escape decades ago. Cuban doctors are forced to work overseas for pittances and have minders to keep them from defecting. The same goes for Cuban athletes, who routinely defect despite the regime's efforts to stop them. The Castros funded communist horrors across South America and even in Africa. Today they prop up their autocratic allies in Venezuela. The idea that Cuba has "one of the world's best healthcare systems" has been thoroughly debunked too.

Further, what you call "economic restructuring" most others would see as illegal confiscation of property. It's little reported today, but one of the original reasons for the US embargo against Cuba is the nationalization of American-owned property without compensation. Communism produced only poverty and hardship everywhere it has been implemented, what makes you think that Cuba would have been any different save for the embargo?

Finally, as someone who's family witnessed the horrors of Castro's Cuba firsthand, and decided to flee to America with little more than the clothes on their backs, I'm saddened to see someone who's clearly intelligent and articulate repeat such brazen lies.

The difference between Cuba and North Korea is just a matter of degree.
Yeah. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with the approach of this site, I've just become skeptical of Free Culture as a source of economic empowerment.
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Forgive me, I'm doing my best to stay above board. This is not an attack...

You misunderstand me.

I think that 11944 was too many papers, and should be narrowed down to papers by hard scientists. I'm saying out of those 11944, a potentially huge number were social studies, news studies, and other fields that have nothing to do with climate modeling. When you remove those from the 11944, what do you have? 10000? 5000? 1000?

It's completely negligent, at the least.

So, how big is that majority, really? And how many of them agree with the IPCCs more conservative estimates vs the scary, less likely ones?

It's really hard to say with noise like this. And no, this doesn't mean I get my science opinions from Rush Limbaugh. That's noise, too.
This claim is really lofty. You also have to consider that Pandora has 80 MM users in a month. Facebook has 1250 MM mobile users in a month. The average Facebook user spends around 20 minutes on it a day (40 minutes for average US user).

Even Pandora's claims against Spotify seem pretty suspect. While Spotify presumably has less active users (75 MM, assuming monthly), I'd bet their users spend more time using the service (given that roughly 1/3 of Spotify's actives have subscriptions to the service).
Because you may want or need to change aspects of the behavior, but not while refactoring.
Just wanted to reemphasize sibling comment's petition for feedback on Domo. I work on the data pipeline team at Domo, and we love hearing ways to make the process simpler for our users. If you haven't already, be sure to ping adammichaelc with your use case and problems.
How does the re-encryption work? Does the data get de-crypted then re-encrypted, or is it always double encrypted? Maybe I'm not understanding the "mutating" crypto part. I think it would help me if you explained that part more.
Would you be willing to let someone just participate? I have multiple lines of research and my physics background allows me to reach further into biology and computation than most biology types. And for a variety of reasons I don't quite have the same funding problems most people have, but I would really like to work with the groups you are able to put together. I would be happy to fill out the same application.

Your log files should be able to unmask me but for additional reasons I'd rather not publicly associate my claims above with my identity.
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The #run directive addresses some major pain points for me. Is there anything analogous in other languages?
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Wow that CloudFlare link is pretty damning. It's interesting contrasting that to both sides of politics trying to talk up the "innovation economy".

To your credit, I'm in Melbourne too and have always thought Fastmail was really snappy, which I assumed was due to Australian servers. So it looks like I was wrong, and your Jmap strategy is right.
I'm not super on board with the idea that the death rate is much of a worthwhile metric for determining how warlike we are as a people. It smells shockingly similar to counting lines of code.
Where is the current best place to buy the book in an electronic format?
It looks cool :)

Can users run storage servers?

Does it work via Tor?

Can servers run as Tor onion services?
I agree, OMG-I-AM-ONLINE, is pretty much the only good thing about it.
I'm cuban, I haven't lived there for a few years now. My wife and her family have been able to speak using video. I have also heard stories of people have been able to see they loved ones after many years.
Other than that, cuban internet is horrible. I have had all kinds. I worked in a 300 employees company where our internet was 196kbs. After that I worked in another with 2 mbps, but this one had more than 4000 employees across the country, so after 5 pm the internet was awesome, not so much on office hours. I never had internet at home until I quit my job to work as freelancer, then I had to pay 60 usd for 80 hrs a month on a commuted connection, which never when above 40kbps.
All of that happened after 2005. And btw, that commuted connection, was because my grandmother was born in Spain, so she had the right to have internet, I was lucky. Other cubans need to use more irregular methods.
Today it's not much better, yes, you can have internet on the park, but it is still very hard to actually use it to get work done. For that, you still need to leave the country.
Correct, however, in online communities invites bigots to target individuals based on the source and not the information.

Source criticism turns into individual criticism which turns into bigotry by certain individuals.
Not quite true!

A good faith effort was made for compatibility. But it was not perfect. Hence http://www.perl.com/doc/FMTEYEWTK/perl425.html was created to let people know where the problems were.
> I'd guess that would greatly depend on what Mochizuki's world allows one to do.

Um, it's abstract math, it's not going to help you build a flying car. Isn't proving a major conjecture enough?

Most of mathematics predates the modern American academic system. This immense body of work wasn't developed by people with a careful eye on the best way to get a good tenure-track job. It was developed by people who did math for one main reason: they were fascinated by math.

I am not a mathematician, but I haven't seen anyone suggest that Mochizuki's world is boring. It's difficult for me to imagine 19th-century mathematicians resisting the opportunity to become students again in a new, promising, and unfamiliar world.

The 21st-century reaction seems to be: I already got that degree, you want me to start over? WTF? Why? What's in it for me? How do I make a name for myself by studying someone else's theory, which might not even be true? And it's a pretty sensible reaction, given the institutions we have.