skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry, you probably already filtered me out. I have plenty of ponies shown publicly in many places, including github profile. That degrades my maturity level to a little girl - and I'm not even a woman! [/s]

Any company judging "maturity" of actions done by someone in their spare time is not worth working for. It's just not their business to decide whether someone is "mature" or not, so if they cannot manage their business properly, why should I want to work with them? They probably won't be able to maintain healthy relationship with their employees anyway if they're so keen to filter out perfectly fine candidates over something so unimportant and nonharmful as low-grade sense of humor.
The publishing criteria for a siggraph paper is that the description has to be detailed enough that it could be implemented by a grad student experienced in the area. It doesn't have to be directly usable.

I've heard that working code counts for more that it used to, but the main goal of academic research is the exchange of ideas and techniques, not making working production software.
There's an interesting discussion about this here, which has input from some of the vBulletin developers and support staff:

https://theadminzone.com/threads/vbulletin-com-forums-hacked...

Apparently, details of 479895 users have been dumped.

Might include credit card details, based on some older screenshots.

In other news, something like this was kind of inevitable. It's happened before, and it may have something to do with the questionable code quality of the latest version or changes by the newer owners of the company. But that's a long story.
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First ran into this via Atul Gawande, who was recommended it by Oliver Sacks[1]

"I see something like you in this plate, but I do not see you. I hear something like you through this telephone, but I do not hear you. That is why I want you to come. Pay me a visit, so that we can meet face to face, and talk about the hopes that are in my mind."

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/14/oliver-sacks
Is Play any good these days? Tried it when it was new, was an utter mess. Found a couple of bugs within the first hour or so...
A new deal with Nokia could help Artemis Networks solve its credibility problems
I know we are supposed cheer this as victory for Open Source. But anything a government of India (Current or former) does with Technology, I would take it with a grain of salt.

Here are recent Indian Government (or Indian States) Projects:

1. Cheap 35$ laptop. We all know how that turned out.

2. Here a App developed by a State Government with Multi Million Dollars budget recently:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apgov.apsp...

Yes it has only 1000 downloads after multi million dollar budget and not even localized to local language. This is by a state CM's personal pet project who claims to be pro Technology.

When Governments like this announce any initiative, look beyond headlines, Someone is making merry of tax payers money.
Related previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9917712
Oh wow, today I learned!
I read this inspiring story about Cvent's CEO http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2014/01/06/from-d... It is great for him to bring the company to where it is today but that article doesn't portray a great engineering culture.
Ha, yeah. Post should be renamed "... virtual classrooms ..."
Yep, there's definitely a different message that comes across. Mostly one about how Linus Torvalds can abuse anyone he damn well feels like without repercussion.
This is confusing. Smells like there is a lot of friction and uncertainty inside Google...
better implement immutable data structures
See also: http://www.nature.com/news/artificial-intelligence-institute...
I agree, wealth and power are closely related right now. But why? We could focus our energies on the distribution of power instead of the distribution of wealth. We could create a world where power and wealth were not so closely correlated. Arguably, our original constitutional government was a lot closer to that than we are today. That was when we had apportionment of 1:100000 in the U.S. House. That was when State governments elected their senators. That was when it was assumed that any State could withdraw from the Union, that any county could withdraw from a State. It was before a massive, centralized federal government.
Smart guns finally poised to change U.S. gun market?
I worked in the BOSS linux team from 2010-2012. I can probably answer some questions.

Let me address the most common sentiment..
Why BOSS when we already have Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat etc.?

Support - gov bodies moving to linux need guaranteed support at optimal cost.

Localization - if you are working with Indian languages primarily, BOSS linux provides a better experience out of the box.

Some customization - some depts. request and get further customized versions.
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Nice work by you and your team so far Leah! Quick question - what's the rationale behind having the two "Page TBD" top links in the nav? Is that to make sure the CSS/design works using placeholders or do you keep them knowing there are groups within the FEC that will definitely need 2 spots on the nav bar?
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I'm beginning to suspect CIA influence at the DMV.
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That wouldn't eliminate the problem. Demand changes over time, and supply is fixed. There are quite a few ways to invest in tickets. One is to buy all the tickets on an event that is expected to sellout immediately. Another is to find an event that you expect to sellout at some time before the event that will allow enough time for demand to build, and you buy tickets before it sells out. In the end, ticket prices change over time, therefore there will be a market. Even if the primary seller (e.g. TicketMaster) raises prices, if you bought at a time when they were cheaper, you can resell at a profit.

Event ticketing is a market, and as such there will be people that want to invest (even if it's just fans who intended to go and then decided they couldn't, or the money they could get for the tickets is too much to pass up). Scalpers (brokers) provide a service, liquidity. Often they go too far, and use technology to get tickets in unethical ways (ignoring site policies, bypassing captchas, using software to tie up thousands of tickets they have no intention of buying, etc). But the fact that they continue to exist is because there is demand (and now TicketMaster is in on the game as well, their TM+ service allows you to resell tickets on their site along-side their own, unsold tickets).
"Doesn't have time"... yet*

*This equation changes if suddenly the pace of semiconductor process miracles starts slowing down
> When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large and bureaucratic as possible. Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

I assumed that every place I ever worked was just managed by morons. I never considered that they could be infiltrated by saboteurs!
"cheat"?

You seem to think programs not written to your notion of "idiomatic" code "cheat".

I think that's just name-calling.
Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Dataquest.

Vik is a great guy. One of his blog posts made it to the front page of HN a few months ago. I liked what he had to say, so I reached out to him for advice.

Not only was he willing to take time out of his busy schedule meet up with me for coffee to talk over my situation, but he also put me in touch with 2 or 3 of his close friends who were kind enough to share their perspectives with me as well. All for a random guy in college who was confused and looking for someone to talk to.

People like Vik make the HN community great, and I'm sure Dataquest will do great things with Vik in charge.
You guys need a marketing team. I've never heard of this before, and I am constantly searching for new services that will stream soccer legally without having to sign up for cable. Also, it would be great if you can add Brazilian leagues/cups to the line up.
If you get HTML/CSS control isn't that game over? If I can get HTML loaded into your Gmail tab, then I can setup a fake login or "Please re-enter your password to continue" that has a form action of myserver. (Which then just redirects you to wherever you were.)

Injecting scripting is cute because it's far more flexible, but I'd guess an HTML injection is enough to get a fairly high rate of success, albeit a bit more noticeably.
Yep. Today triggered by this tweet:

https://twitter.com/veorq/status/661242728513187840?lang=en
> Yet another reason to disable custom fonts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492028
This is cool. I've been looking for something like it.
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I think the bias for the more experienced workers has a lot of flaws they can't cover in a study like this.

For one, why are they bringing up a disability if it won't affect their job? It's not related to the application nor is it appropriate. I don't talk about being pregnant in interviews but once I'm in the interview I can bring it up in person. Things have worked out well for me with this approach.

Secondly, if I were looking at a resume for a very qualified person the first thing I would do is google them to see if they made up their credentials. After finding nothing because this person was made up for the study I would not pursue them.
What point are you trying to make exactly? Targeting that demographic makes a ton of business sense. These are young people who like to go out and have fun with their friends and have disposable income. They are also typically tech savvy and are likely to spread the word through social channels, leave Yelp reviews, etc.

That isn't "going after the 'cool' demographic narrowly like sheep." It's knowing which target audience to focus on to maximize the chance of success for your business.

While you could make an educated assumption about his age based on how common that name is among certain demographics, the jab about "his dad has money" is just plain trolling, based on absolutely nothing in the article, and adds zero value to the conversation.

From the article:
"It's a social thing to do on a Friday night that isn't going to a bar and getting drunk. And everyone has to put their phones away and everyone has to interact with each other."

We need more of this kind of thinking and less jealous whining like the parent poster.
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The thing that annoys me is that compounding (of interest, or economic growth) is order-dependent: given an average but unequal rate of either, you always maximise the outcome by placing the higher values earlier, and the smaller values later, so that the low rates (of interest, or of economic growth) compound upon what is already a maximally expanded base.

So speaking of averages is actually rather misleading.
"We can analyze RNA, agricultural biology, different pipelines for cancer research—all of these have widely varying pipelines and some are just nuanced, but they all require something different to be loaded into the FPGA before that run.”"

Therein lies the rub. I was a sysadmin for a biotech company doing this kind of stuff, and in the end we evaluated fpga/asic and just couldn't justify the costs, not just hardware costs but time and barrier to entry costs, such as having to hire more programmers. I also kept a close eye on GPUblast, but it just wasn't keeping up with official, and due to pipeline specialties, mostly revolving blasting against all kinds of data, it didn't fit the bill. That's the main issue, that people doing blasting and related often have very specialized pipelines and different types of data and would almost be required to spend a lot of money to get such a system to work for them. It much less about the speed of the computation than it is about moving the data around. When you start dealing with 100Tb's of output a day...

What we did end up doing was two things, one, we wrote worker system that basically distributed the computation to almost every computer on the network, and two, I figured out that due to how embarrassingly parallel the computation was, AMD's newer opteron chips actually outperformed Intel's, and I build some beast servers, and took computation down from average of 1~3 days to ~4hrs. (think 64 actual core's via quad cpu motherboards... truly some of my favorite servers I have ever built.) Bottom line is that IO is the main bottleneck, so even things like ROCKS clusters or other distributed systems don't work as well as many of the big data people like to think.

We also had a very different than normal pipeline mostly revolving around which data to blast against and the methods we used, which were considered the core IP/proprietary, but the real IP was in the analysis.

As FPGA's, Asics, and GPU's make it easier to get the data, you still have to understand it and analyze it, and that is much harder than people understand IMHO.

I left for personal reasons, and I'm still under a non-compete, but I am very thankful for the opportunities I had to learn the bioinformatic's side under the eccentric genius I did, and perhaps one day I will turn some of my knowledge into a system that is useful for those wanting to do this kind of work. Also, I will never forget it as the first place I ever got asked to build a petabyte system...

For example, IO limitations were mainly centered around accessing large amounts of data that wouldn't fit in 128/256Gb of RAM setups, which ended up usually on disks. Even on ZFS/btrfs raid0 ssd's, interface limitations were being hit daily..(sata, backplanes, etc) and the recent PCIE-SSD revolution would really be able to make a big dent in that particular issue.
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It's obviously written to be a promotional piece for CBS All Access. Really the only response that will benefit them financially at this point is for people to get interested in the service because Star Trek is coming. Depending on what other countries and services it is available in, it might be possible to use a VPN to stream it on competing services in the US.

Although it says that it will only premiere on TV and then move to the streaming service, I wouldn't be surprised if it is later added to the TV schedule, maybe once the second season starts, in a reverse trend of the current TV->streaming release delay.
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I don't know the first thing about it, but does App Runtime for Chrome seem like a viable way forward to you?
Your Intern links seem to be broken.
I'm sure for the vast majority of Chrome OS users, the technology powering their device is of no significance compared to a reliable and consistent UI.
Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign
Once again, s/politician/human/ and your statement is more honest. So, why do you phrase statements to make people believe that politicians are some special class of humans that think differently or are somehow immune from other standards of human behavior? By committing to a much narrower band of truth regarding the human propensity to spin arguments in our favor, act in our own interests, and deceive ourselves and others you seem to suggest that you are, by your own standard, deceiving us.

Have you run for political office before? Perhaps that is your source of authority for your claims.
No, it's just whining that the FEC isn't doing what cryoshon wants. In reality the FEC can't do much because it's stuck in partisan deadlock and things like the Citizens Vs. United ruling allow them to do even less.

This website has nothing to do with the infighting between political parties, it's about giving citizens the actual data. Change will come not from the FEC magically agreeing on anything, but from people finding out where the money is going and voting for people who vow to change it. This is literally the best the FEC can do!
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Following that, wouldn't the best idea be to increase the requirements such that you need something ridiculously intense to compute it, like a Tianhe-2? Something that requires more intense hardware may be the best algorithm, but at some point you need something practical.

If all other methods are insecure, then you wouldn't want to encourage those and would want to warn others. But, is it really that much more secure than the others?
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