skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's a pretty tall claim. Have you got a citation? I'd also argue that there are ways to grow meat much more environmentally friendly and not all that more expensive than traditional feed lots.

FAO of the United Nations - report 2006
http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM

There are newer reports but I just want to point out how long the information is out.

This is the direct citation:

> The livestock sector is a major player, responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2 equivalent. This is higher share than transport.

What's also a little bit comforting is that the impact is reducing (production is getting more and more efficient).
Although as Chinese became rich and started eating meat insanely fast doubling the consumption of the USA, same might happen to peoples of India and Africa.

Increase of demand might neutralize the efficiency increase.

> You're a fool if you believe this. ...

Well, this is not really sheep I had in mind. I was thinking more of the free roaming - no owner - kind of animals.

> Please learn about natural systems a little bit before spouting things that sound insightful but which are actually devoid of any reality.

I completely do not get how my half-assed comment about sheep escalated to your comments about my education (or lack of).
The street price of the Honda/Toyota came with the new generation in 2011. They went cheap on a few things with the Jetta.
I'm not sure that I agree with this ruling.

Although Google says that they're using it for one specific purpose, I can imagine that they'll use it for other things like improving their search and ad technologies. If that's the case, then wouldn't Google's work be considered derivative of the original content?

Why should the authors involved not be able to re-sell those digitalized versions to other companies (especially other search engines)? There are probably lots of companies that would like that data set and be willing to pay for the use of it (including me).
Thanks for posting. I'm the author. AMA
Clever. One of the more interesting challenges that I've run into in the last few years is just the sheer amount of raw data out there. It's mind-boggling how many problems can be solved if we could sift through that data quickly, from human trafficking down to weather. I'm particularly fascinated by her intuition that writing patterns and templates can identify pimps. I'm not sure how long it would have taken me to come to that conclusion.. but now that it's out there, it's obvious.

I wonder what other problems we can solve with the same toolset.
It was the dreaded "thick printed output" in ancient days of IBM mainframes. It meant your program crashed overnight. In the old days you batch compiled and batch ran your program from punch card job deck. If you were a poor student you probably ran your jobs at night because your dollars went three times farther then. Researchers on fat government grants and school administration could afford day runs.

For the most part these dumps werent too useful beyond the contents of machine registers. You could probably figure out where you died in the code. If you were computing a scientific array of numbers in memory you could probably see how the computation got and whether it was generating garbage. Also in the old days you bought like 16 kilobytes or 64 kilobytes of core, so a full dump printout was super large.

I think you could tailor the format of the dump with the Job Control Language. But I dont remember.
Monkey. Keyless entry by making your existing intercom smart
When I see the length of some of the articles featured on HN, I start to think that HN is just a giant conspiracy to stop me from getting anything done ;-)
Unfortunately they changed the Cloth seats into Leather in the newer generation. [Leather is a problem in the warmer states]
I agree once you know about it is much easier to manage. When I get it, I definitely know what is going on and can now manage it most of the time. However, from time to time I just can't prevent myself from falling into a very bad trippy situation. The problem is, when it does devolve into paranoia, I can feel the trauma for a few days afterward.

All that said, it doesn't prevent me from actually seeking it to get a lucid dream though. So yeah, I agree a technology that helps it would be interesting.
Thats the thing about VW that I'm not thrilled about.
I would love it if the publishers and google figured out a proper way to pay to read books that were still under copyright. I'd love to get rid of all my bookshelves knowing that if I wanted access to a particular book I could pay a few dollars and get it.
> don't use weak moduli.

By this do you mean don't use 1024 bit keys? Would using 2048 bit (or larger) mean that the NSA wouldn't be able to buy a computer that could do the computation within a year?

Why don't we all use 2048 bit keys then? Is the communication and processing overhead so high that we'd rather be vulnerable?

Edit to add: I'm not an expert, but I'm competent enough to force a certain level of crypto on my computer and to know not to trust the communication when a website forces a fallback to a lower level. But sometimes I wish there was a level of explanation (of why we want to do certain things) that was above what you would give to "Joe off the street" and below the explanation that you would give to a graduate student in cryptography.
I haven't read Dick, but a similar passage appears in Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace:

The proposed solution to what the telecommunications industry's psychological consultants termed Video-Physiognmoic Dsyphoria (or VPD) was, of course, the advent of High-Definition Masking. Mask-wise, the initial option of High-Definition Photographic Imaging — i.e. taking the most flattering elements of a variety of flattering multi-angle photos of a given phone-consumer and ‚ thanks to existing image-configuration equipment already pioneered by the cosmetics and law-enforcement industries — combining them into a wildly attractive high-def broadcastable composite of a face wearing an earnest, slightly overintense expression of complete attention.
React Native apps aren't compiled ahead-of-time to native code; they use JavaScriptCore on both iOS and Android. Should be very easy to detect.
Guess I've been lucky. I can't recall anyone ever being snotty or rude with me when I say 'no'. I usually just ask them to email me details. Usually they don't, but sometimes they do.
It is only operating subpar when the test is being performed. Not during normal use
QUIC is what WireShark says I am looking at. I can see the DNS lookup, and then a stream of encrypted UDP packets with not much plain text in the payloads.

I get what the other poster says about asking the provider, but I wouldn't have much confidence in the answer.
Directed graph traversal, orderings and applications to data-flow analysis
"sucks less" is a nod to the fact that all software sucks in some regard. Yes, also the software written by the suckless people. (It's also the motto of the mutt email client) Acknowledging that there is something wrong is the first step to making better things. Also, IMHO "We aim to do stuff that sucks less" is a bit more humble than saying "We aim to write better software", but in the end, both probably mean the same thing.
One other thing, my motivation for doing that kind of work is basically the same as yours: Fascination with the sales process.

Truth is, that process can be approached technically. There is more of a science to it than one would believe at first glance.

For those who do that, the rewards can be significant. One example is qualification. Work smart, not hard. Opportunity costs on poorly qualified deals is huge! Often, the fall back is just to entertain a ton of deals and hope for good numbers.

A technical approach to this will yield dividends. Good qualification requires a keen understanding of the prospect, their ability to buy, their willingness to buy and what their value perception is as opposed to what they are telling you it is. Their process is critical too. A poor selection process can have a major league impact on the overall potential for success.

Critical analysis of these things will focus you and your team onto closable deals more of the time.

It's been a lot of fun, and I really do enjoy the more complex, high risk, high reward scenarios. When you are part of, or are leading a great team, it's all kick ass great!

The other place I've found I really enjoy is competitive analysis. Competing products overlap, and or offer different approaches to value. How people see that value is complicated, and the competitive analysis can yield very high value information useful to your team, you as a sales person for qualification, and the product managers seeking to maximize the product.
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Private VC investors take the gains rather than the public.
The Open Academic Robot Kit, with Raymond Sheh
Please note that SAS employs 5,479 people in Cary, NC.
A Network-Based Comparison of Popular Privacy Extensions
Russian Hackers Infiltrated Dow Jones Servers for Pre-Public Information
The premise of this question is that each year YC operated produced identical returns. No.

* The alumni network has gotten steadily more valuable

* The signaling value of being accepted into YC has increased dramatically

* YC's direct influence on investors has increased steadily

* The incentives to apply to YC have increased accordingly, setting up a virtuous cycle (you had to be a bit of an oddball to be in that first class)

* Each batch now funds many more companies than YC did in its entire first year

Meanwhile: it takes lots of years to get to a point where you're ready to file S-1; since the nuclear winter in 2001, you need to be doing a huge amount of revenue with a profitability that can be modeled in simple Excel spreadsheets to do it.

So if you figure YC hit its stride 5 years ago, the year Stripe applied, they're right on schedule.

Consider: Square was founded in 2009, with gold-plated credentials, has done very well, and is only now filing for IPO.
I think this is unsustainable (any non-trivial change to your html resources would require updating and restarting httpd). This is not DRY.

Jetty's approach to this problem is really interesting. Using HTTP referrer headers, it builds up a tree of resources that are often fetched together. Then, it optimistically pushes companion resources down.
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/blob/master/jetty-s...
I would encourage you to try meditation. It's not a cure for depression, but it can have effects that help. In the Zen tradition, Brad Warner's books have been very helpful to me. http://www.amazon.com/Hardcore-Zen-Monster-Movies-Reality/dp...
But what does the software /do/ ?
I was curious if there were any real iceberg pictures. I think I found a few:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthpicturegalleries/...

http://www.divephotoguide.com/underwater-photography-special...
I must have misremembered. David Foster Wallace it is.
Framing someone for dealing heroin is criminal and morally terrible. The guy's certainly paying and going to prison for it, and for his other crimes. This is justice doing its job.

The question that I'm trying to ask is whether public shaming, especially to such a large audience, is really a civilized response. The consequences are also devastating, and reduce the possibilities of getting a second chance at life, something that I strongly believe in.
He made a couple of really important points in that interview though;

that the stock market is now dominated by short-sellers, who in their lust for short term gains, will start rumors about your company and due to regulations, you can only respond in certain ways.

that, in his words, you need "fleets of lawyers and accountants" to meet all the regulations, something only a billion dollar plus company can afford.

that your company's stock will get "batted around like a chew toy", which will really mess with a smaller company.

It sounds like the stock market is a buyer's game these days.
"If we all use a single "strong" prime number with our crypto then the NSA has a huge incentive to pre-compute results from that single strong number. Now that we know that the NSA is doing this"

We don't know the NSA is doing this. There's no evidence whatsoever beyond conspiracy theory stuff.
Thanks and congrats! I have been using Ansible since version 0.2 when there were like 5 modules. Since then I have introduced and promoted it to every company I have been working for. Well done!
I wouldn't trust wikipedia on any political controversy.

EDIT: I have no knowledge about this particular controversy though.
One thing to keep in mind is Rotten Tomatoes isn't a ranking. A movie that gets a 100% rating COULD be just a "good" movie, but not a perfect movie. 100% just means that every review consider it in a "positive" light. Not that every review thought it was the best movie ever made.
The numbers can't really be compared to each other.
Another thing to keep in mind is the number of reviewers. 2001 had 70, while Gravity had 306. 2001 had 3 "negative" reviews while Gravity had 10.
I didn't provide an example of the flexibility for sake of brevity.

The key point I want to make with regard to flexibility is the ability to have multiple "instances" and switch between them based on run-time values.

For a trivial example, consider searching an ordered array. Let me define the typeclass:

class Container a where
type Item a
size :: a -> Int
contains :: Item a -> a -> Bool

Now consider that I have the type SortedArray that I want to make an instance of Container.

instance Container (SortedArray a) where
type Item (SortedArray a) = a
size = sortedArraySize
contains = ???

What should my `contains` be? I could linear search or I could binary search. Depending on the size of the array, either could be faster (due to cache performance and constant overheads). For small arrays, linear search could be faster, and for large arrays, binary search could be faster.

I could write my method like this:

contains x xs = if size xs <= 64
then linearSearch x xs
else binarySearch x xs

But having that 64 hard coded in is sort of lame. Suppose I am writing software that will run on unknown hardware. I don't know the cache properties of it. Perhaps 16 is better. Perhaps 256. Since my application could be super high performance, I need it to be nearly optimal.

So on application start-up, I call a function which instantiates arrays of varying sizes and tries linear search vs. binary search to find the point at which one outperforms the other.

How can I use this value? I can't inject it in place of that 64 above (without unsafePerformIO...).

The solution is to instead represent the typeclass at the value level:

data Container a b = Container
{ size :: a -> Int
, contains :: b -> a -> Bool
}

Now I can have code that looks like:

main = do
n <- findOptimalSearchSplitPoint

let sortedArraySearch x xs = if sortedArraySize xs <= n
then linearSearch x xs
else binarySearch x xs
let container = Container sortedArraySize sortedArraySearch

Then I just inject that container "instance" wherever it needs to go.
From page 12 of the actual ruling[1]:

The Law of Fair Use: The ultimate goal of copyright is to expand
public knowledge and understanding ... while authors are undoubtedly
important intended beneficiaries of copyright, the ultimate,
primary intended beneficiary is the public ...

[1] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2461545/agvgoogle... [PDF]
Bit of a tangent, but reading this was really interesting in the context of the book I'm reading now, "Ra."[1]

It takes place in a modern day world where "magic" was discovered decades ago and is now a formal science with graduate programs right up there with engineering and physics. It has rules, and in fact one character just created a magical quine (which was apparently thought to be impossible).

If every sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, I wonder what the turning point was when people stopped thinking of electricity as magic and instead thought of it as science.

When you get into talk about electrons, how they flow, how they transfer between atoms, and how we end up harnessing them, it is very easy for the D&D nerd in me to mentally replace "electrons" with "mana".

Absolutely fascinating world we live in.

[1] http://qntm.org/ra
I'm sure it can't have escaped the attention of the defense lawyers.
NSA almost definitely can't buy a computer that can break 2048 bit conventional multiplicative group discrete logs, and if by same insane space-alien-technology chance they can, the implication is that conventional multiplicative group discrete logs are probably entirely unsuitable for secure cryptography: no amount of jazz-hands with parameters will save you.

Reminder: 2048 bit discrete logs aren't just twice as hard as 1024 bit discrete logs!

Yes: 2048 bit RSA and DH are significantly slower than 1024 bit, and that's a big part of why they're still in use.
@ddingus Thanks! These are all great.

I am definitely interested in sales more than pre-sales. I want to qualify leads and work smart instead of building proof-of-concepts for badly qualified leads.

The question is how do I get started in this.

Do you have any suggestions for how to find VARs?
Hacker News has apparently destroyed my ability to tell...
The real world isn't Reddit. There is no "no-doxxing" rule in reality.
Sounds like you might be suffering from "imposter syndrome". A good number of high functioning, highly productive people who really care about their work suffer from this. It's normal and once you learn to control is, it can differentiate you from your peers.

http://lifehacker.com/overcoming-impostor-syndrome-what-to-d...
How can we restore the reliability of money?
So the distinction, to me, between an investment and a bet, is that an investment actually affects the subject. Placing a bet, notionally, has no impact on the event the bet covers; the fact you have entered into a bet over the outcome of a horse race is completely independent of the outcome. On the other hand, if you put your money into training a horse, and win back a share of its prize money, or stud value, or whatever, that is an investment, because your money contributed to the overall realization of value.

Insurance, I'll grant, is a bet, but it's a bet where you have skin in the game - a bet against yourself, to hedge against loss outside your control. A bet you want to lose.
How to Shuffle and Sample on the Command-Line
"FWIU of the situation, we have reason to suspect the government has 'cracked' the default large primes that are commonly used by a bunch of different software packages, including web servers."

This is just nonsense. Am I the only sane one here? Can no-one else see that the response is hysterical? There's no evidence whatsover that any of this has happened. It's conspiracy conjecture.

Look, I know the cultural narrative on HN is that the NSA is the all-seeing-eye, but can't we have a sensible discussion about this? Because it's embarrassing for me to be active on a website that reverts to the mean conspiracy theory of the world.
If you grow grass-fed meat instead of grain fed you eliminate most all of the net CO2 emissions. There are still gross CO2 emissions, but once you stop drivings tractors and making fertilizer, there's very little net impact of animals save perhaps the sequestering effects. Net CO2 emissions are from "extra" carbon going into the atmosphere, gross CO2 emissions are from CO2 emissions of recently sequestered carbon.

So burning wood from clearing brush in your backyard would be gross CO2 emissions, but burning gas in the chainsaw would be net emissions (at least until people start synthesizing fuel from CO2 and water).

http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/in-defense-of-the-cow-h...

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss574

http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/catalog/39886

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep10892

https://www.environment.gov.au/climate-change/emissions-redu...

> Well, this is not really sheep I had in mind. I was thinking more of the free roaming - no owner - kind of animals.

Those animals too will not plan their reproductive urges around the environment so they will also tend to overpopulate and underpopulate in cycles. I don't really consider that caring, that's just nature taking its course.

> I completely do not get how my half-assed comment about sheep escalated to your comments about my education (or lack of).

If you want to be sarcastic, make it obvious. You made a lot of matter-of-fact statements prior, so why shouldn't I take it at face value? Show empirically that sheep do care, or say that you meant it sarcastically. Internet comments don't make it obvious that you're smirking.
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Couldn't read much past the statement:

"Electricity is briefly defined as the flow of electric charge, but there’s so much behind that simple statement"

Electricity is the force not the flow. The flow is the current. The term, "Electricity" in every college course I had on it in getting my degrees is always the EMF (Electromotive Force).

Sorry to nit pick but I just have a real problem when articles are written from sense of authority (An electronics company) and don't get the details correct. It can kick off a cycle of incorrect learning and confusion if you're relatively new and getting into electronics.
Let's not forget that getting someone in trouble and/or threatening harm/death are not the same thing as actually causing physical harm, and that is not the same as actually causing death. Just because someone is part of the underworld doesn't mean they have no qualms about ordering someone's death, and the only thing holding them back is the money.
Sorry, you're too spammy:

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Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease
I wrote a long guide about this a while back.

http://blog.sourcing.io/visa-guide
If you have been running your company for a year or more outside of the US, you may have some luck with the L-1 Visa for intra-company transfer[1]. The visa is for managers/executives who are coming to the US to work for a US arm of a foreign company. Seems like it can be used for establishing US based offices as well.

[1] http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/l-1-intracompany-transfe...
Theranos Isn’t the Only One Chasing Needle-Free Blood Tests
Except, you know, actual leaked documents and it being the most reasonable expectation for their claimed capabilities.
Doesn't the fact that a judge's career depends on promotion by the executive branch create such an incentive?
Even though it's not technically a job title, I always start daydreaming whenever a new leap second announcement comes out: https://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/bulc/bulletinc.49.
It's always addressed to "authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time." If I had that kind of job responsibility, I'd always be threatening to cut people's time rations.
Actually some goat-skin books were recycled for new books. Existing parchment with uninteresting texts was cheaper than acquiring new parchment. Sometimes the scraped old text is faintly or can be seen with hyperspectral imaging. There was some famous Greek author whose work is only know this way. Lots of books are referenced in other books, so ther eis some idea of what is missing.
One could wonder if the same rule would apply to music.

Would it be okay to have 30 seconds of any song available free online, just so that you could search for a lyrics of the song you heard on the radio, and then match it with 30 sec audio clip to find out whether the song is the one you were looking for.
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