skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the spirit of "betting is a tax on bullshit", this seems like an interesting opportunity to try it out.

Why not find some way to make panelist rankings public (or some function of panelist rankings)? If you serve as a panelist and you rank grant proposals highly that ultimately don't meet success criteria down the road (spawning high-profile publications, generating citations, coming in under-budget, whatever...) that should reflect badly upon you as a panelist, in a public way. And over time, your "score" as a panelist would modulate the extent to which your rankings are weighted in a panel discussion. Similar to how each major European football league gets a coefficient from UEFA, and based on the coefficients, the number of direct and playoff slots into the Champion's League tournament is decided.

Imagine if academics who want to serve on a panel must agree to also have such a 'coefficient' published about them. Now, their ranking is something they must openly bet their reputation upon, and over time those who place correct bets will be given more weight when panels select grants.

Obviously this isn't perfect. The coefficient scheme could be manipulated in the same way that network connections lead to manipulation of the rankings as it is now. If we don't trust the central body measuring and adjusting the coefficients, that would be a problem (cough... FIFA).

But still, wouldn't some version of this idea -- making academics pay a public reputation price in order to vote for their preferred funding recipients -- be better than letting people rank and vote without reputation effects? In theory, it should also mean that only those with a real stake in the decision will risk the reputation price to vote -- and you could imagine even beginning to open up grant funding decisions to much wider voting bodies. Instead of a small panel, just drop all of the proposals onto a site like arXiv, and allow absolutely anyone at all to vote -- so long as the weight of their vote corresponds to their public score, and that their future score will be affected by the success/failure of whatever they vote for. No more small / closed-off committees, just open speculative voting like a prediction market.
Yes. Congress has, in the past, sent U.S. Marshals out to physically arrest witnesses who refused to respond to a subpoena. That action was upheld by the Supreme Court, too.
1700-Year-Old Mosaic Floor Unveiled in Israel
"If the voice(es) in any way confined themselves to the spectrum of being/knowledge that i as an individual acknowledged that i was in posession of, that would be one thing, but the world becomes a weird place when they go outside your acknowledged "knowns"."

If you feel like sharing, I'd love to hear more about your experience with this.
On the other hand:http://warisboring.com/articles/the-scientists-who-pee-pluto...
I went to a school with both a large international program and what seemed like a large ROTC program. Every Thursday ROTC students were required to be in uniform. I always wondered how the international students felt being surrounded by, what must've seemed to them as, soldiers.

I was especially curious about how the Middle Eastern students felt. Then again most were from Saudi Arabia, who has something like the ~3rd largest military expenditure per capita.

We really are a hyper-militarized country if you think about it.
Sure, but why accelerate it?
Oxford Dictionaries Selects an Emoji as Word of the Year
my favorite response to this was "What are they going to do, facebook poke them to death?"
Here's a good example of someone "working" a popular amateur radio satellite, SO-50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhBs5DlKaVU
This Week’s Night Sky: A Lion Makes a Meteoric Roar (Leonids)
Given the way terrorism works (http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/), "being OK with it" translates pretty directly into denying it a chance to reproduce and thereby killing it.
UPS “Lost” This Guy’s Package, Then He Found It on EBay
Rick Falkvinge wrote an interesting article on the subject: https://torrentfreak.com/anne-frank-scandal-an-underreported...

Relevant quote:

> What’s really infuriating about this is how oldmedia doesn’t call it out as fraud at all, but takes a completely neutral stance. Most outlets seem to be rewrites of the New York Times story, which just neutrally reports “the book now has a co-author”, quotes a few people in the worst form of abdicative “he-said-she-said journalism”, and leaves it at that.
Please don't apologise - yours is a fantastic comment.

You may like this article that talks about people who hear voices but who don't have a psychotic illness.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/aug/13/hear-voi...

They too prefer to manage with meds.
Rust binaries essentially never dynamically link Rust libraries, mostly for the reason Manishearth said in the sibling. The decision to have different default allocators is because there were problems linking to Rust from C libraries which used the system allocator, because Rust previously was exclusively using jemalloc.

Because Rust libraries being used in Rust projects will be statically linked currently, they will be built using jemalloc. Deploying a pure Rust project is as simple as pushing out a binary (std links to libc, so very few Rust projects are technically pure Rust, but its as good as because the system probably has libc).

Also, as a rule, you don't "free" in Rust at all, and code which defines how the memory is deallocated will be defined in the same library it was allocated in. I don't know the details of what it means when two libraries using two different allocators are interacting, but I don't think its as total a conflict as if you were to try to free a pointer with the wrong allocator's free function.
ARM would seem to me to be an obvious target. ASML another.
It's not your happiness that makes me cringe but the borderline cultish comment that there's no "single place on the internet as valuable as this community". Just reinforces the stereotype that this community is full of itself. It would be great if we could all be a bit more grounded.
Did MLK say he wanted it freely redistributed? He delivered the speech publicly. Where does the MLK estate's money go to? Does it go to his heirs, or to the foundation activities?
It absolutely is in the service & manufacturing industries.
The actual "bug hunt" wasn't really touched upon though:

> I don’t remember how exactly we figured it all out
> Anne's dad re-arranged and censored some parts of it and wrote an introduction.

That's editing, not authoring.
Any terrorist attack in France will almost certainly happen in the center of one of the major cities, most likely Paris. So if you live in the center of Paris your micromort should be much higher, and if you live in a small village it will be much smaller.
Also the micromort calculation quoted in the article is for being killed in a single terrorist attack in which 153 people die. If you think there are likely to be several such attacks over the next few years then that increases the micromort value higher.
Waldorf education (Steiner school) has been saying this forever. Formal learning does not begin before age 6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education#Pre-school_a...
I agree that we should "concentrate on the formative years of these people".

But the thing is, it comes with the disclaimer that, it will take 15 or more years to work, and we don't really know that it will work at all. And nobody will get elected on the 15-year promise when there is a boatload of other candidates that promise an easy fix.

Anyways, my point is, that government official has this, damned if you do, and damned if you don't, position. It is not clear at all what he (rather, we) should do.
And it's 4:26 in the morning and there are people sleeping near you.
It was Google's fault. You should never play sound for a user automatically. I cringed when I read that before the article revealed the problem.
>there is a well-known societal problem of women being underappreciated, especially leaders //

This approach begs the question [assumes the conclusion it supposedly seeks to find]: it seems as likely that a certain type of person is underappreciated. That a lot of women are of that type may be true but that doesn't make it an issue of sex per se. Reading between the lines of the essay Mr Graham hints that he feels one reason his wife is underappreciated is because she shies away from vocal conflict. That at least leaves a hypothesis that this is not really about the sex of the person but about character traits that are more often found in one sex than the other.

You might for example say there is a societal problem of women being forced to use stepladders when in fact it is short people that use stepladders and it happens that women on average are shorter than men.

The topic has a little interest to me in understanding attitudes of those in one area of work I'm in (loosely "craft as a leisure activity"). Other workers - almost all the people in this sector are women running their own businesses - always assume that I'm just there to carry the heavy boxes [which I usually can't due to a back injury] rather than actually function as an integral part of the company. In short they read me as the minion and her, my co-worker, as the boss. Basically we're in the sex-opposite position of Mr Graham and Ms Livingston wrt our roles in the business we're in.

From the public side of things I've been asked more than once if there was a woman available to do my job instead of me. Which I find particularly hilarious if then my female co-worker has to ask me what to do.
I've editted the post to add a note on these points, thanks for the feedback!

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Maybe there is a whole human culture of consumption and it isn't the advertisers fault that humans are greedy. No need to play the victim card all the time.
Even on youtube, autoplay is annoying.
I have YouTube set to not autoplay.
When I see 'micromorts', my first thought is that it's an euphemism for assassination, possibly with drones.
I just checked out Youtube Music today and its pretty awesome and you are able to leverage all the great catalog of music uploaded to Youtube. I'm surprised more people are not using it/talking about it. I really do see this as a spotify killer if its gets some steam and some of the discovery features you get with spotify.
Ask HN: What is the future of analytics
Ever since hadoop came along data analysis, exploration and data dependent decisions have increased exponentially.

For ETL we have hadoop ecosystem with abstract languages/tools such as Pig, Hive, Spark , Storm, Kafka, Flume and many more tools.

Then we also have good amount of services offering machine learning and exploration now a days.

I work on mostly ETL and data visualization but I am no longer enjoying it. I like ML but I am not interested in becoming just another analyst and learn math behind it.

I want to work for something big and greater vision.

There are 100s of tools that are available for analyzing and visualizing data ranging from GA, heap analytics, looker, tableau, cognos, business objects and many many more.

What is future and what is it something that will become beyond obvious ?

What you miss in current data analytics tool ? What you find current tool's limitations? Not just tools but what is most pressing factor for you as far ETL, visualization, ML are concerned?

I am ready to build something new that will fundamentally change the game.

Tell me something and I will do my best to solve your problems. If your input turns into something great I will be forever indebted to you.
Well, I suppose it's your job to defend YC and remove anything that reflects badly on them on this particular social media platform, but I'll just have to say that I found pg's essay very patronizing and misogynistic. It did not do anything to make YC appear more "diverse" or feminist in my view and if anything did the opposite.

The only thing that's weird and creepy about this entire thing is the rampant misogyny and anti-feminism in the entirety of the tech community and the central dogma that literal tokenism can solve these problems.
1. client certificates only replace passwords, not arbitrary encrypted data.

2. client certificate distribution is still a mess. At a minimum, there should be a standard way for servers to generate certificates and install them in the browser (with user visibility but without requiring user interaction).
>> After all the goal of shootings and explosions is not to physically destroy citizens, it is to scare them. So when people are not afraid, terrorists do not reach their goals. And if you succumb to fear, terrorists win.

Reminds me of Japanese people's reaction to the ISIS threat, they mocked them on twitter with memes[1]. Also they denied request of religious food for exchange students[2]. Any religion is not superior than others, so there will be legal or philosophical standings for them to be treated special.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/japanese-twitte...

[2] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...
Right; you fight "terrorism" by being okay with "terorrists."
This is just silly. Without PR, how would you have known this paper was published?
Yeah, during newborn delivery there is so much going on, most parents will not notice that this happens at all.

So my question is what leg does the EFF stand on when making this complaint?
Isn't that kind of the point? Successful attacks are incredibly rare, and the risk of being killed in one is therefore very small.
I wish more devices could make use of something like this. In sure there are other safety concerns involved but I'd love to replace the forever dying AA batteries in my mouse with one of these and forget about it forever. What does a nuclear battery cost I wonder...
While I like the idea in general, the result is a bit arbitrary. Why is it "153 people of 67 million French citizens have died in attacks on Friday"? Why not out of 508.2M people in EU? Or out of 2M people living in Paris?

Unless you calculate the micromorts for comparison between countries, limiting the area in such way doesn't make much sense. It's a single event -vs- activities which can be practiced for long amount of time. (someone with better statistics vocabulary can probably explain it nicely)
It's been 2 years and nothing, so clearly whatever the intent it failed.

In a few years a cheap version of the idea may start making the rounds like the mini Segway's. But, again when it was obviously going to fail at that price point why continue?
Your reasoning is incorrect due to the fact that the probability is simply for the average case.

Just because the chance of it happening is small, does not mean you will have to try 1 quadrillion per second for 10 quadrillion years before a collision occurs.

Granted collisions may not occur frequently, but a collision could occur at any time.

FYI, procedures like these would not pass the FAA code regulations for airlines.
Ask Netflix managers how they went through the process of letting a "B Player" go?
Do we have to turn everything into a gender issue? This is exactly what feminists (or maybe people acting in the name of feminists) do wrong - they try to inject their fight for social justice every. fucking. where., whether it's startup economy or landing on a goddamn comet.

And pg is actually very right - reasonable people from all sides of the issue avoid mainstream social justice discussions because they're just ridiculous and a huge waste of time. Participants of those have their stance on discussed issues tied too close to their personal identity[0].

[0] - http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
Everyday passing by is a sample day that you can use to estimate the risks. Even if you argue that terrorism is a relatively new risk in the past few decades and start your sampling from September 2001, we still have more than a decade of sample days to estimate the risk. That's a huge sample.

There might not be enough sample to know how many people would be harmed during a terrorist attack. But there is definitely enough information to estimate the risk of an attack itself.
Even put that way, having someone skilled at observing people do so consistent with operating on data. If they hadn't listened to her, they'd have missed AirBnB, for example.
>Note though that it's only the women who get dinged as "girlfriends" tagging along with their technologist boyfriends when they co-found immensely successful venture capital firms.

If you think this is the only problematic part of this saga, your understanding of feminism is sophomoric at best and you should take some time away from commenting on feminist issues on the internet to read the works of feminist women.
This has been an interesting 5 years for this space.

I had Grooveshark, but they didn't have an iOS app, so when i switched from Android I went to Rdio.

When Spotify launched in Canada, I tried it, and quickly switched over simply because the app was not complete junk. The Rdio song offering was fine, just as good as Spotify as far as I could tell. The Rdio app, was terrible. 50% of the time it would "play" but no sound would come out, the other 50% it would sometimes work / sometimes just crash or lock up.

You cannot have a product that is half assed, when you are still trying to win the market, and even if you have won you still cant for very long.
Some of us first heard of Bode's Law[0] in childhood in the late 1950s, from reading Heinlein's "Time for the Stars"[1]. I have never forgotten a throw-away remark by one of the characters, when Earth's first-ever starship has for the first time entered a different planetary system, to the effect that "the astronomer types upstairs are all excited because the orbits here fit Bode's Law."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_for_the_Stars
I need one of these at $DAYJOB as of yesterday, so thanks!

Any chance of basing it on `igm/sockjs-go` or similar instead of raw websockets?
> But the thing is, it comes with the disclaimer that, it will take 15 or more years to work, and we don't really know that it will work at all.

It's the best plan I have, and I'm not even in a position to put that one into practice but most of the other stuff I hear seems to mostly revolve around either killing people or nabbing them on the way to the venue and those don't stand a chance. Hence my assertion that we'll see a lot more of this before we can put an actual stop to it. Even stopgap measures are going to be very hard to come by.
You can have four panes in the same window, I don't think there's any limit.

Those two commands bisect one pane two either horizontally or vertically, and they can be called repeatedly.
Replace `find [] s = nothing` with `find [] s = left ("variable " ++ s ++ " not defined")`

(assuming types/functions similar to Haskell, I don't actually know Agda)
A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance
Pixel – The Arduino compatible smart display
A few assholes with guns shouldn't scare you into giving up the rights that millions of brave people have devoted their lives to defending.
Summarizing, the paper suggests that you can generate high quality pseudorandom numbers by hashing a counter with a cryptographic hash (such as AES). Since AES has hardware support in modern processors, this is fast: less than 2 cycles per byte of randomness. If you do fewer "rounds" of encryption than used for cryptography, you can pass all existing tests for randomness with run time of less than 1 cycle per byte. Using a counter as the state makes it very easy to skip ahead in the sequence, and to distribute "streams" across multiple processors.
Because we're all human, and you should be proud of your neighbour's success?
Wait, someone still serves a website with cold fusion?
This is actually interesting idea, certainly applicable worldwide :)

I'd add a little more info on each "promise":

- Date/Time

- Promise content

- Promise Scope (number of people to be affected, monetary impact, social impact, etc...)

- Promised delivery date (specific/vague/unclear/unspecified). Lots of politicians are mastered an art of "open ended" promises and this could shed the light on "masters".

- Link to original source (audio/video/interview/TV/Radio/Conference/../)

- Progress indicator.

- Address (email/phone/mailing addr) to contact politician.
So, are people doing something like running one container per vm?

I have yet to do more that run Docker's whalesay container, but I figured the obvious thing to do is to either use an entire blade with one OS on it, or provision a single, large, vm and run many containers.

If anyone feels like sharing, how do you deal with persistent data? Like mysql databases, uploaded files, logs, etc. I'll eventually be googling it, but figured it couldn't hurt to get pointed somewhere by people who have experience. :)
Black swan events being unanticipated, it is futile to worry about them. It's commonly retorted that terrorist attacks should be interpreted as unique because of their intent. Yet no one actually fears the intent, only the end result (death, destruction, injury). Intent is relevant to drafting a response, but not to the public fear. Intent without resources or sophistication is also not meaningful. It is further stated that they are special because they're attacks on the social order. Yet this is a truism, because they only have such an effect if people permit themselves to make it so. More mundanely perceived events like business cycles or crime rates (many small events rather than one large event like a terrorist attack) have the same capacity for social ruin, but are not as feared even as they are significantly more protracted. It's all inexcusable bias.
Wouldn't the set being chosen just resulting in different probability profile, and you get to pick one depending on your personal characteristics?

Ie. 2.5 micromorts is your risk if you're a French citizen, (153 + other death from terrorism) / (7.3 billions) if you're a human, 153/2M if you're living in Paris?

Edit: change the napkin calculation for correctnesss.
There is no guarantee that any PRNG will be indistinguishable from random noise but a properly designed hash function will be as close as any.
The Dutch Anne Frank Stichting has a public page on where their money goes and annual reports but the Swiss foundation does not (I searched their website and could not locate anything resembling financial statements for the past years, but I may have missed them).
gEDA and KiCad are pretty low-cost!
Referring to Fortran programs as "codes" seems to be a common, possibly generational, way of talking about old software in the aerospace industry. I used to hear it around the office a lot. Some of "codes" date back to the late 1950s. It would be interesting to know more about how the language we use to speak about software has changed over time if anyone feels like sharing.
Is your point that when criticizing politicians one is required to criticize other political groups at the same time?
Feminists will never "acknowledge" this as some grand triumph of feminism because the message it ultimately sends to girls is, if you want to co-found an incubator, start fucking a man who can help you.

Is that a feminist message?
Their high-priced lawyers seem to think otherwise.
Reid Hoffman and the Hidden Reason Startups Fail to Scale
Research shows coding increases IQ
My tested C snippets for buffer, queue, stack, event, skiplist.. with examples
"PyPy is not yet the official future of Python."

We're past that point. PyPy is the future. CPython is the past. The PyPy team succeeded in making an optimizing compiler for a language that fought them every step of the way with gratuitous hidden dynamism. That's a considerable achievement. It extends the life of Python by making it competitive on speed.

Go exists mostly because Python was too slow. Google used to use Python quite a bit internally, but their effort to speed it up, Unladen Swallow, was a disaster. That provided some of the motivation for Go.
The Doomsday Invention: Will AI bring us utopia or destruction?