skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To think that your startup can "disrupt" an industry that has the spending equivalent to that of the GDP of an entire country is a fool's game. Most need to focus on longevity versus strategizing a quick exit.

Also, I worked for one, been part of the contract negotiations and have seen at first hand the difficulty many face trying to deal with providers and payors.

Shameless plug, I'm available for HIPAA consulting in San Francisco. I'm a former InfoSec officer.
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I'm really interested in the fact it is in Kazakstan -- watch "the botany of desire" where it talks about how modern humans came really from that region as well as some significant agricultural discoveries...

Apples are originally from there IIRC...

Great doc regardless.
Some computational physics courses in parts of Canada are still taught in Fortran90. I also worked in a lab (in 2005) which still used 5 1/4" floppy disks. The difference between these and NASA, of course, being choice.
> You still don't get it. It's the pedestrian doing the wrong, not the driver.

With cops freed up on traffic duty, they can start making examples of jaywalkers disrupting automated traffic.
Does X really build for so long? It takes about half an hour on my OpenBSD install, with all the base utilities and libraries.
Yes.

I think maybe in 1-2 cities in limited areas I will be able to use an app on my phone to order a Google car from point A to B. I think it will have lots of limits, perhaps limited to certain areas within a city, perhaps limited by speeds, time of day etc.

I don't think it will be long distance, most cities won't have it, highways later, etc.
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Sigh, if only there was a formatter for Swift but the language keeps changing and no one at Apple finds time to work on this.
Wow, the original article uses proper English. The version the OP posted seems like a rough derivative. For example, confusing Hustle version:

"The next great idea came when Michael watched his younger sister, Mariana, play on her phone. She was basically playing a hacked iOS charades game that Michael had created. The game was to take four photos, slap them into a collage, and make her friends guess the word she was acting out."

The much better original...

'Inspiration struck one day while he watched his younger sister Mariana playing on her phone with a friend. She was taking pictures and giggling. “I was texting my friend one day and we were bored so I started sending her a collage of four pictures and making her guess the word and she would do the same,' Mariana Sayman told me. 'Michael saw what I was doing and thought it would be a great idea for an app.'

Michael Sayman explained his thinking, 'I knew this was going to be a huge app. I knew it because my sister liked it before it even existed.'"
I totally agree. Drug use isn't a disease to society, it's a symptom with an underlying cause.

(I didn't get that far, I stopped earlier.)
This was the result of a judgement by the highest European Court. The executive was actually opposed to striking down safe harbour.

I might be living in a fantasy world, but I believe the courts to be amongst the most independent and trustworthy institutions. Any connection between the (highest!) court and the security apparatus or even political leadership would, if revealed, trigger a constitutional crisis of unheard proportions.

I also don't see what motives these judges would have. Too lazy too look it up for the European courts, but most judges are either appointed for life, appointed for a single term with no possibility of a second term or just incredibly hard to fire. They're also well paid and have usually demonstrated their resistance to the appeal of money by being the best at what they do (at least in Germany, judges are recruited only from the top 5% of law graduates) and not choosing to work at a major law firm with a pay check that's easily 5-10x what a judge earns.

Sure, maybe they're blackmailed or something like that, but (a) the judges I know lead incredibly boring private lives so it'd be hard to find dirt on a majority of the panel, (b) I'd expect at least one them to gladly fall on her sword and reveal any such plot (based on my possibly rose-coloured impression of their character). Also remember that some (legal) sex story, affair or former marijuana use wouldn't really be a scandal in Europe. You'd need some actual criminal activity.

tl/dr nah, this is no conspiracy.
This Kickstarter is selling an affordable belt that charges your phone
http://hook.io/ lets you link a gist script to a webhook, very similar. Open source & free.
Los Angeles doesn't have many of those :)

Sure it will be limited in all kinds of ways, but many cities will and want to support the early versions.
* The weaknesses you outline in the introduction are pretty serious.

* How to exchange the topic key is described as out of scope, but totally critical since you also propose renewing the topic key as a way of attaining forward secrecy.

* You totally hand-waved away the exchange of participant keys.

* I'm pretty sure you've exposed some cryptographic weaknesses in the core protocol but I'm not going to spend the time to keep analyzing.

So in short, your protocol is not very useful. Sorry.

The biggest problems in IoT space are key agreement and machine trust among a hugely heterogeneous population. Solutions will come in the form of standards adoption, hegemony, government regulation, and probably a combination of all three. Multicast security is somewhat of a solved problem (e.g. wifi.)

Communications security between actual people is an entirely different and more easily solved problem.
And the "horror" part too:

> 28 Days Later / Shutter Island / Donnie Darko / Let The Right One In
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How will the system_reset command be handled? Will it be a vote system? I feel like there will always be one guy constantly spamming it.
Security is definitively going to be a concern. Tesla currently deals with it by some strong sandboxing the user interface. I've heard of breaches into the controls with other manufacturers but no internet bourne breach afaik.

I think the key is common sense good security engineering with strong verification of security models. We have had a few networked systems that can be target by malicious actors for a while now, like factory control systems; thankfully there's no big motivated enemy out there, but the risk will surely increase in the face of possibility of mass modification (overriding the manufacturer's firmware en masse), even accidental modification by the manufacturers.

Of course, if the user purposely modifies his own control systems he's going to be liable for any damage it causes.
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Could you describe where your system sits on the FIT spectrum that the article discusses? Do you believe that scheme for thinking about the trade-offs between isolation, throughput, and fairness doesn't hold for marklogic?
That's a list of concepts. None of that approaches proof.
I agree with many things you say. Take AWS S3 as an example: it reduces the problem by making objects immutable. Internally, they can cache aggressively without scaling fine-grained consistency on the objects as such. As an S3 user I can aggressively cache on the client too.

Now we've reduced the problem to consistency on the metadata structure which aggregates objects for the user. There are "well known" ways to do this for traditional trees. Other well known options include doing an all search based approach (i.e. always talk to a server for metadata, perhaps with local result caching), and so on.
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OK, on the differences of the retail license, you've got a solid point.

In my country (Romania) the laptops with Windows are easily $70 more expensive than those without Windows. I know this because every time I'm looking to buy a laptop I'm doing my research and end up amazed by the difference, given all the crapware they come with, which as you are saying, should subsidize the price.
Chat is always live on twitch, it's just a wrapped IRC channel.
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https://www.vox.com/2015/10/19/9567289/driverless-truck-rio-...
The Babadook.
Blair Witch was so terrible, I don't know why anyone considers it a good movie. The characters were all so stupid that I wanted them to die just so I could leave the theater.
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It would be very cool if you could sort by percentage differential between the over/under and expected earnings. I think sorting by that parameter would produce some really interesting results.
Yes, but isn't it expected to find that information in the "About" section of the main site instead of needing to search for it? I am just asking for an introductory paragraph like the first paragraph in that Wikipedia article.

I apologize for my tone, but I still think it was a fair complaint.
Check for keys!!! :-)
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Only the style really counts; being massively profitable due to the low budget doesn't make it a great movie. And as to the "lost footage" style, I've always disliked that style and find it ruins any movie it's used in. Shaking cameras are not a feature, they're a bug that was fixed long ago.
I had a similar experience, no other film scared me before or since, but event horizon was terrifying
I think the person you are replying to is correct but the emphasis is rarely on the board someone rides alone. Is just a way a lot of people are going to judge a person before they are out on the water. I will judge the hell out of someone I see walking on the beach with a super shitty board shape, but if they paddle out and rip then my predisposition obviously lead to an incorrect assumption. The most apt comparison I can come up with is a musician judging someone based on the quality of someone else's instrument.

I guess my point is there really is not a problem to be solved by making a cheaper board (other then the economic/business reasons obv). The simple fact of the matter is very few regular surfers will own these boards, and mostly kooks will buy them. However, that is not to say either set of skill levels of surfers, and which boards they own, are mutually exclusive.
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I don't see why both factors can't be at play since they are in reality.
I don't think chimps can breed with humans however.
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Quoting the qflow site:

> Early versions of the qflow digital flow were used to create digital circuits used in high-performance commercial integrated circuits. It's real, and it works!

So, likely, the OSU cell library was really used for commercial fabrication ( http://vlsiarch.ecen.okstate.edu/flow/# ).

I think you're right, OSS can coexist with the proprietary cell libraries and P&R tools. I am (optimistically) expecting that in the near future we'll witness a revolution in vlsi similar to what happened to the PCB fabrication - with the fabs becoming accessible to small companies and even hobbyists. And this should kick start an improvement in both the OSS tools ecosystem and the current closed, secretive world of Cadence, Synopsys and alike.
Does anyone know of a good diy college ranking system? One where you can pick that factors that actually matter to you. I'm always happy to see options other than U.S. News but I'd love to be able to tweak the algorithm myself.

I think these one size fits all rankings are all flawed by their inherent nature.
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I've had good success using clang-format for Objective-C projects. Someone put together a config file that's pretty close to Apple's style:

https://github.com/haaakon/Apple-clang-format

Particularly when using features like blocks clang-format does a better job than the other tools we tried.
Wave Storms have been around for years so this story really doesn't cover anything new.

It's also not really disruption because Wave Storms are considered entry level boards that if anything drives demands for more expensive boards once someone actually makes it a hobby.

When I read the article I was hoping for a stylish mass produced fiberglass board. Now that would truly disrupt the market.
Nah. Format the disk, bootstrap your root partition, edit some config files, install your packages, done. If you know what you're doing and have a fast internet connection, you're talking about 10 minutes to a working OS. Unlike Gentoo, which has a days-long compilation step.
The incentive for academic labs and researchers to go public is very clear: publications and kudos in the community, which leads to career advancement and plentiful research funding.

You don't get super-rich like this, but you get the things that people really want. Respect of your peers, feeling like you are doing something useful, and enough money to run a lab and live a decent middle-class lifestyle, so you can get on with the work you love. That's a good life.

(Also you might want to stay in touch with your grad students who are driven to get rich. Can't hurt.)
Flipboard bought Zite a while back and has been pushing people to migrate their data. Personally, the Flipboard UI isn't as friendly as Zite's, so I'll continue using Zite until it is discontinued. After that, I'll just continue using Feedly with RSS because the above products were more for discoverability.
> inflating small fragments

HN comments don't lend themselves well to long-form writing. But in this case it wasn't really necessary to go past that one small fragment to see that Motl had not in fact paid attention to the details because he's attacking a straw man.

> Your interpretation

No, not mine. Nicolas Cerf and Chris Adami's 9http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9605002v2.pdf). And W.H. Zurek's (http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0306072). And David Mermin's (http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609013). And Hugh Everett's (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-everett/#3, though I do put a slightly different spin on it -- no pun intended.) Arguably even John von Neuman's, and there is some evidence that Heisenberg actually understood the connection between measurement and entanglement as well.

To be clear: I am not claiming to have discovered anything new. My only contribution is a pedagogical one: a reductio-ad-absurdum argument showing how Copenhagen, if it were true, would lead to faster-than-light communication.

> You are the climate sceptic here you are the creationist

Another characteristic of creationists is that they, like you, adamantly refuse to actually look at the evidence presented to them.
Maybe because part of the evolutionary change in policy comes from white people complaining, an act that's futile when done by minorities in this country?
Watching Event Horizon at home, on a big TV, in the dark, with a proper 5.1 channel surround system cranked up is one of the best horror movie experiences you can get. Even if you've seen it enough times that you can quote the whole movie.

"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see." :D
This tool would be a lot more useful if it allowed for filtering by chosen course of study. For example, University of Washington has a median earnings that is slightly below expected, but I can pretty much guarantee that their computer science graduates are earning well above median.
My cat has paws, not hands. And thank God for that, too, otherwise she'd get into too much trouble.
Cannibal Holocaust was probably the first "found footage" horror film and predates Blair Witch Project by almost 2 decades.
The Brookings study [1] mentioned by the the Economist offers this interesting analysis:

1. Graduates of some colleges enjoy much more economic success than their characteristics at time of admission would suggest. Colleges with high value-added in terms of alumni earnings are often focused on training for high-paying careers in technical subjects. ...

2. Four college quality factors are strongly associated with higher earnings for alumni:

Curriculum value: The amount earned by people in the workforce who hold degrees in a field of study offered by the college, averaged across all the degrees the college awards;

STEM orientation: The share of graduates prepared to work in STEM occupations;

Completion rates: The percentage of students finishing their award within at least 1.5 times the normal time (three years for a two-year college, six years for a four-year college);

Faculty salaries: The average monthly compensation of all teaching staff

3. Value-added measures are fairly reliable over time. ...

(Personally, I think the most valuable things gained in college or in any education don't happen to have much monetary value.)

[1] http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2015/10/29-earnin...
Didn't know they had a rad-hard, S-ASIC offering. Thanks for the link.
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https://www.vox.com/technology/2015/10/30/9640230/self-drivi...
"Most of the accidents happened because another vehicle rear-ended the self-driving car. Self-driving cars have not been involved in any head-on collisions, and crashes involving self-driving cars were less likely to cause injuries than crashes involving conventional vehicles — just two out of 11 crashes led to injuries, compared with 28 percent of conventional vehicles."

It's hard to say "you've crashed" when you've been rear-ended.
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The concept of studying in Higher Education for more opportunities, job stability, and income during one's lifetime is not to be dismissed.

That said, if the predominant value of education is in the pursuit of money, then I think using the Brookings Institute model (which The Economist references) that includes two-year and vocational education entities is a much more pragmatic and practical approach. That is, if money is the goal, only focus on money as the outcome. Conflating money with prestige is, to me, foolish. A University is a prestige degree, insofar as there's a pursuit of knowledge, in theory, to produce a well-rounded, educated person...in theory.

I say this as a graduate of two generally highly ranked Universities, who occasionally gets the feeling that I'd be making more money if I'd taken my education budget, got trained in HVAC service/repair/sales, and started my own company.
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If the new heroin users tend to be less violent than the old, there's a case for being gentler... although I can't help but wonder whether there might be some substance behind the NYT's clickbait-y racial angle on the matter.

Large-scale use of heroin is pretty terrifying, regardless. Remember that the Japanese made heroin legal and cheap in China during WWII, as a way of ruining the Chinese people... It's unsettling to see the US paying through the nose for the privilege of similar self-destruction.
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>but I'm at a loss of how to fix it, especially when the >ECMAScript language itself is evolving at such a rapid pace. >Any ideas?

Avoid Javascript on the server, problem fixed.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that insane productivity == success though. Remember this article that was posted last week on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10423455
Your link doesn't support the assertion. Yes, crackdowns on crack cocaine impacted minorities much more proportionally. But remember that the "innovation" associated with crack was the cheap nature of it. A fast high for $10.

Overall drug consumers have always trended white. Police resources are focused on sales, which happens in cities. Retail drug operations are designed around the laws, so the retail frontline people get swept up as users (because they carry small quantities), which impacts minority users harder.
I'm in the Health IT space but we took a different approach. Early on we realized most Health IT companies are really pharmaceuticals but they don't realize it.
What I mean by this is, you need to have the budget of a pharmaceutical to play in this space: 1 - you need to spend millions to win over consumers and 2 - you need to have an existing network of connections into doctor's offices to convince them of your solution. Big Pharmas have both of those. They have reps that constantly visit doctors or hospitals to engage them and they have a well spent marketing budget to build awareness for their product. Most startups can't do either of those.

Then there is the long cycles. We signed some global Big Pharma brand (can't disclose). They actually approach us and were very eager to work with us. But even with that, it took exactly 2 years before we were able to roll out our pilot partnership.

Basically you need to go into this knowing it'll take 3-4 years before you can show any traction.
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Oh ok. Come to think of it, I could just contact Cliff and ask him what the successes/limits are. I'm sure he'd be more than helpful haha.

re the revolution

Oh, then I'm sure Mentor Graphics' latest move might surprise and excite you:

https://www.systemvision.com/
They absolutely apply to MarkLogic. We absolutely prioritize FI over T. Coordinating transactions, along with journaling, security and many other features costs in terms of throughput. Now, that cost is relative - our ingest rates are still very quick and we linearly scale. That said, copying JSON or XML into a distributed file system is way quicker.

I'm not sure the buckets provide much guidance in real life. One can configure a system, for an insert only batch load, to prioritize T without giving up FI for the data and transactions that aren't part of that load. If an FI system can load faster than an IT system, this distinction ends up not actually mattering. Plenty of folks who need FI are using products that don't provide it because of culture + budget.
Yup. We need data at rest standards tied to Medicare reimbursement.
Are you opposed to alcohol use as well? Because the danger is relatively the same.
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As I read it the point is not to restore it to a specific state it has been in before (which would entail a pretty arbitrary decision on which time period to focus on), but to find ways to increase the biodiversity of the ecosystem.

Obviously the easiest (and probably safest) way to do that is to study earlier times where the biodiversity was higher in the specific environment, and see if you can identify some of the causes, which in many cases turn out to be the presence of apex predators.
The article title is poorly written: the cars were at fault in none of these accidents. Most of these accidents were cases where the self-driving car was rear-ended.
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I like how polite Yubi and Hexview are in this exchange; a breath of fresh air from an infosec company engaging with a security company! Makes me feel like there are grown-ups both places, and that the work will help Yubi in future iterations.
>- twitch defuses a clock

FTFY
Ju-On?
> Basically you need to go into this knowing it'll take 3-4 years before you can show any traction.

This x10MM