skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious if we would be able to prevent these sorts of things even if we couod gather all this data. How quickly could we link threatening posts on an online forum to recent gun purchases? That would be a tremendous amount of data processing and moving it around.
I also get furious reading this! My advice: Thank them for everything you've learned and explain that you are about too seek other ventures, but you really like working for them, and wish them the best. Then leave as fast as your contract lets you. Take out any semester if you have any left and go on a vacation.

When you have officially quit and your contract is off. You can get hired again and can negotiate a much better contract. Also look for other jobs! And write down everything you've accomplished and the value you add to the company.

And in the future, if you even smell bullshit and think something is unfair, you have to open your voice and argue! You also need to "ventilate" far more often, so that when you "ventilate" it will only be small issues instead of the "huge pile" you just dropped.
Training Paul isn't just a BG byproduct. When he figures it out Thufir Hawat smiles and tells him it was the plan all along. I don't recall Leto or Thufir knowing about BG plans towards Paul.
Here's the paper:

Better Computer Go Player with Neural Network and Long-term Prediction by Yuandong Tian, Yan Zhu

http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06410

"Adding MCTS to darkforest creates a much stronger player: with only 1000 rollouts, darkforest+MCTS beats pure darkforest 90% of the time; with 5000 rollouts, our best model plus MCTS beats Pachi with 10,000 rollouts 95.5% of the time."
This isn't to say that there aren't ugly compromises and back-scratching going on. But it largely happens inside the parties, rather than on the floor.

The wikipedia article on party discipline points out that in Westminster systems, the Executive branch is formed out of the Legislative branch. Consequently, inability to control votes in Parliament literally means you are no longer in government. Most MPs greatly prefer being in government than being in opposition, so there's another inbuilt incentive to vote the party line.

In Australia's Parliament each chamber is elected on a different system. The House of Representatives is single-member electorates. This means that one of the major parties typically forms a majority that can in turn form an executive government able to pass motions of confidence and supply. In short, to govern. Only twice has this failed to occur, leaving the governing party to rely on independents to form their majority.

The Senate, by contrast, is formed from a multi-member scheme with an electorate per state. There are 12 senators per state, half going to the polls at election time. In practice this means the majors capture the 2 of the top 4 spots each, one of the majors captures the 5th spot, but frequently a minor party wins the 6th spot.

This means there's a mix of voices in the Senate. While a lot of legislation gets passed with the agreement of the majors, for anything contentious, the government will need to negotiate with the cross-benches. Right now it's a quite varied bunch.
I once thought I wanted to be a linguist, precisely to study stuff like this. Then it turned out that the fundamentals of linguistics are incredibly dull, so instead I went off and did literature. These "aha" moments are rare and beautiful promentories in the midst of seas of velar fricatives.
Icelanders Flock to Zuist Religion to Get Refund of Religious Tax
I just think that by looking at China you can better understand the reasons why there is no European Google.
Another way to look at this is tax money that the government would have spent is now spent by the citizenry directly.

Giving people money rather than, government, banks or as corporate tax breaks is a novel way to redistribute wealth - in direct oppositition to the paralysing bailout / austerity cycle much of Europe is suffering from.

The surprising sucess of Bush's economic stimulus cheques shows money distributed this way stays local longer stimulating economic activity in small business which provide long term employment and community investement - entrepreneurs are in great part the wealth of nations.

This removes the poverty trap, alters everyones risk profile for startups, and future proofs an economy against robocalypse - looking forward to seeing this in action.
Material Design UI for Atom
My wife and I have lived in the mountains in a small town (Sedona Arizona) for about 16 years. Things are too spread out to walk to stores but we have the exercise advantage of nearby hiking trails (my favorite being 80 meters from our house).

We have a perfect lifestyle but we are now talking about living for a while in a city where parks, restaurants, stores, librairies, movies, etc., are all within an easy walk.

I think that the one world government forces will continue pushing people to live packed into urban areas for both resource efficiency and tighter control of citizens. Not a good thing in general, but after a long time of living in an out of the way place, a few years of urban lifestyle sounds good.
It works well as a key in maps when you aren't really interested in having a data structure containing those things. Also, returning a tuple and destructuring it with tie is pretty convenient.
Perhaps I'm assuming a casual familiarity with some of pg's earlier essays than no longer exists. Although I think the reason I'm getting downvoted isn't for being unclear, but rather for shitting on people's self-identities.

As for being ahead of my time, if you look at the job market today it's true that you do have a lot of people paid purely for their ability to code. These are mostly W2 employees, who work at the kind of places where you start out as a junior developer making 60 - 80k, and then make double that after 8-10 years. And given the current state of society, this is actually a pretty good career path.

However, we also have consultants who bill on a project basis based on value rather than skill, who might easily make 400k a year even as junior developers. (E.g. c.f. patio11's essays.) And we have entrepreneurs and founding team members who get paid largely in stock, the worth of which is largely determined by how much the market values the product.

It's kind of weird because as an industry we definitely need people who have ridiculously good technical skills, to the exclusion of all else. But for the most part programming is a pink-collar job that just happens to be done mostly by men. (In that it requires education, but there is a lot of downward pressure on salaries because the people involved are perceived as being largely interchangeable.) This is why I'll sometimes describe myself as a software developer, but never as a programmer or a software engineer. Because although I know how to code and I might even spend most of the day coding, I don't ever want to work at a job where I'm paid based on my coding ability.
90 Wh/kg is actually a pretty decent energy density (LiPo batteries are now approaching 200 Wh/kg, but less combustible LiFe chemistries are around 100 Wh/kg). Does anyone know if there's any information on how the stability/thermal characteristics of the sodium-ion compares?
Our startup got a billboard in London (designed in MSPaint)
Zuckermandias – A recasting of a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)
I know that ISE had some sort of automatic cancellation feature from the beginning or very close to the beginning, so not sure if PHLX was the originator of this idea. Also, nearly all electronic options exchanges have a "mass quote" feature that allows changes in prices over a large number instruments at the same time. I would expect that this feature is available on every US exchange and only a few overseas exchanges lack it, and managing the generation of mass quotes vs exchange message rate limits is one of the more complicated parts of designing option quoting systems. Finally, there is also a "cancel by underlying" feature that cancels all options on a specific underlying; if it is the case that the mass quote doesn't allow quotes to be cancelled (i.e. modified to 0 size), then the usual approach is to cancel by underlying and then immediately requote at the new price level.
http://hptg.com/industrial/
...that is impressive.

Now I know that, I'm actually looking forward to playing with the engine more than before - a concentrated braintrust of a few skilled engineers is always more ideal than a sprawling mass of seagulls (to borrow ideology from Finding Nemo :P).

The flip side, of course, is that all of you have to keep your game up to quite a high degree or you're out. Respect. (I think what the Edge team as a whole has managed is really amazing - I mean, a brand new browser...)

[Also... I have to ask... I've been wondering since before this announcement: is it an even remotely vague possibility that I'll ever able to natively run EdgeHTML on FreeBSD or Linux one day in the distant future, source or binary? :D]
Async is not new. life has been doing it for millennia. Your heart does not stop beating while you breathe, yet both systems are interrelated. The body accomplishes this through the use of 'buffers'. Pause one system long enough and the other will fail. So we have evolved a 'scheduler' - the hindbrain that starts to scream louder and louder when the event queue of one system becomes too long. It might be instructive to model this in silicon. Have one cpu core be the scheduler. Have every set of interrelated processes (that are Async) register their variables with the scheduler. The scheduler then keeps track of these sets. When a variable in a set changes, pause that process for two cycles.
Interesting that there is no mention of better ideas.

(for example, people will choose to internalize ideas that are economically valuable, and if they happen to have applicability beyond that, they are likely to end up better thinkers as a by product of seeking that economic advantage)
> "I'm tired of getting my hopes up, but hope is one of the few things I have left."

Tech isn't that important, even if we have those things it'll barely change anything worthwhile (aside from battery tech, I'd agree with you on that one).

Also, why can't you enjoy what we already have? If you lived through the days of dial up Internet you'd know what we have now is much faster and user friendly than what we had before.
The US has a strange concept of democracy sometimes.
Genocide is the word you are looking for, not exterminate. Besides, why stop with ownership by modern, Native American indians? Genetic ties have been established through Anzick boy to people near Siberia.
Expected this to be an analysis of the replacement of the "Sawzall®" trademark name with the generic "Reciprocating saw". Milwaukee used to be the only manufacturer, now everybody makes one, and in cordless versions too. It would be an interesting language study to analyze the construction and demolition domains to find out at what rate do people stop calling them Sawzalls, and how is this age or experience dependent?

And no, Googler, they're rarely used for cutting regular logs. Green wood is likely to pinch the blade and cutting will be slow. That's what chainsaws are for. Sawzalls are useful for two reasons: The blades are cheap, thin, flexible, and replaceable, so they're ideal for demolition. Need to remove a sill plate that's been nailed to the concrete? Push the sawzall blade under it and cut the nails flush. Need to remove a header to resize a window or door? Just cut it with the sawzall. Also, the blade is short, so you can cut curves in thin material. Need to cut a profile out of that installed gypsum board (language migration - was "Drywall®") or cement board? Skip the hand saw and use the Reciprocating Saw/Sawzall.

What would be further interesting is at what rate do these trends appear and disappear in other, faster-moving domains - for example, Skype still has an advantage because some people use it as a generic word for video chat. How does this affect Apple, Google, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and other providers? How long does this last? Do people still "check in" to CVS/SVN when they really mean they "git commit"?
I'm trying to imagine here what it would take to beat Google in it's own game.

The most frustrating searches I've had with google are always about some thing I have seen before, but can't find again.

It would be relatively easy to optimize for this if you can have some kind of bookmark app and search history available. So that search would prioritize stuff I have bookmarked or found previously. It would be probably be valuable for the search engine to know what products I have bookmarked. The catch here is that I'm not going to trust google with that data.

So essentially delicious with very powerful search as by product.
They can be described in a single sentence, but detecting the difference between spoofing and legitimate activity can be very difficult, especially when some participants are trading cross-border and cross-asset; their orders are reacting to events which are not local to the exchange where they occur and legitimately change at a high rate because they are being affected by many different factors.
I had a similar problem. I encrypt the backups. The container partition that holds the encrypted partition had a corruption. TM took forever to backup, and then failed. Deleting the encrypted partition didn't solve the problem. Although this is not related to TM, it had the same effect. I didn't try to restore from this backup, looking back that was a mistake, just to see if that still worked. I had to erase the disk, create a new container partition and a new encrypted partition, and now it works.

I use Crashplan as well, two external disks, one offsite, one of 4TB with three partitions, one for TM, two to sync a backup using Superduper - the paid version that just backs up the difference. I hope this is good enough.
What is Software Design? (1992)
Not mentioned in article but bodes well for drones, aerial mapping, etc.
One person wrote and linked an automatic tool exploiting the attack you detailed in the original blog posts comment section.

[1] - https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/evilredis
> I don't get this fascination with hunting down the truth behind a single person. He died, whether then or 20 years later, case closed.

It's significant because it gives us a rare insight into Mr Hitler's late-war psychology.

The traditional story, at least in the English-speaking West, was that he finally realised that he had failed himself and Germany and took his own life to escape the inevitable wrath of the Soviets.

An alternative narrative that I have encountered is that he saw the whole conflict as a competition between national character. He felt that the majority of the German people had failed him and Germany, in which case it is difficult to understand why he would have committed suicide.
Will the election of Donald trump allow the cultivation of such nationalist behavior here in the U.S. ?
Ouch, the changelog: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/changes.html

136 serious regressions: https://gcc.gnu.org/
I suspect that a little bit of modulation cleverness goes a long way towards eliminating crosstalk.
Irrespective of technological hurdles, it takes money for the future to arrive, and "good enough" is often good enough.

I still slap myself in reminder that we actually landed on the moon... and came back alive.
Accelerating Visual Studio Build Times
Acme_tiny_auto automates Let's Encrypt handling for more hosts in simple steps
But the definition that they use is "a stereotype is a set of beliefs about the personal attributes of a social group." How can that be interpreted as anything but something that holds true for each individual of a group?
Want to earn a lot of stars at GitHub?
What a DEC-20 Cost in 1976 (2007)
Just to follow up, since I was curious to do a bit of searching:

* Wikipedia's article [1] mentions two other startups working on sodium-ion batteries. Faradion apparently has a 150 Wh/kg sodium-ion battery [2]. According to the Wikipedia article, "These cells can be completely drained (to zero charge) without damaging the active materials. They can be stored and shipped safely."

* A Physics Today article entitled "Surprising stability for sodium-ion batteries" [3] summarizes a Brookhaven National Laboratory that despite an expected worse performance for Na vs Li, (with a tin anode), they found that "after that initial damage, subsequent desodiation and nine further charging–discharging cycles produced no further fractures: The expansion and shrinkage were reversible and produced a minimal decrease in charge capacity."

* While searching I found an interesting paper on a NA-SO2 formulation "A room-temperature sodium rechargeable battery using an SO2-based nonflammable inorganic liquid catholyte" [4] which has great numbers (discharge capacity similar to LiFe), but seems like one of those battery formulations that never make it out into the real world.

That's as far as my passing curiousity took it, but if anyone works in the field, it'd be interesting to hear their thoughts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-ion_battery

[2] http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i29/Challenging-Lithium-Ion-B...

[3] http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/n...

[4] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4525335/
I'm more excited by the possibility of a small light-weight LIDAR device that can be attached to drones for terrain mapping.

My wife is an archaeologist and we've seen lots of discoveries of buried historical sites found by flying over areas with airplanes and expensive (and large) LIDAR systems. It would be great to be able to disrupt that with prosumer equipment.
How can you make a software intentionally insecure and then also bind to all interfaces by default?

This isn't very difficult, just make it bind to localhost by default.
From the article, the CDC finds reduced landline use correlated with smoking and drinking, and thus poor health outcomes. There's a sort of inference that one has to do with the other.

Many pay as you go cell plans can cost less than land plans, especially with all the taxes and fees. It's a luxury to own both. Therefore poor people, who are more likely to smoke, are thus more likely to both smoke and have only a cell phone.

Regarding drinking the correlation is that people who only have a landline binge drink less. This is clearly because the tiny 8% that have land line only are mostly much older retired and rural people who just are not part of the cell phone generations. Binge drinking is correlated with youth and so this metric follows from age and not phone use.

Not having a land line does not cause people to smoke or drink, nor is not having a landline a dangerous daredevil maneuver. It's an economic one. And having only a landline is a factor of age demographics.

In my own case I can certainly afford both but I only have a cell because the land line has constant heavy static making it useless for understanding speech, and since phone lines are now shared responsibility of many companies, none take responsibility for fixing them. Equipment falls apart and falls into disrepair. Service calls take weeks of calls to get done and the service personnel have to come in from out of state and are incompetent and incapable of fixing problems. As a result, no one in my entire area maintains their land line any more since none of our phone lines work.

It's an infrastructure issue just like decaying and falling apart bridges. Cell reception just works and is cheaper. However my case and that of my neighbors, that of decaying infrastructure is possibly atypical or a minority reason for cell phone only use compared to the income and age reasons of others.
I know Vonnegut was reluctant to embrace the SF author moniker, but surely the characters in Player Piano and Cat's Cradle merit a mention?
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Subs are weight limited. There is current trend to make control surfaces out of glass fiber to save weight. The vessel has to be buoyant despite 80mm thick steel skin. Spain just had trouble with too heavy sub.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336953/Spains-1-75b...

Long cables are strength limited. At some point you have to put floats here and there so it doesn't break under it's own weight

And then there is the parasitic drag. Long cables have large surface area.
That's not the fundamental problem if you want a real-time communication link for something like, say, an inspection or a search and rescue operation - transmitting radio through water is. Water is a pretty bad medium for transmitting RF energy.
What surprised me about this was that it is OK to use metal bowls in the microwave - problems come from pointed areas of metal, which a bowl doesn't have.
Doesn't surprise me. There's been few breaks in prior SFI/CFI's. That's why I'm not relying on CPI until strong peer review happens. There's added risk since CFI concept is really a cheat to try to avoid full data or memory safety. They think they'll get security and great performance with the cheat. They usually get the performance. ;)
It is not nuts at all. Over 20 years ago I bought a house in the Berkshires. The town I am in has no broadband, and probably won't get it for years. If I were buying a house now I would NEVER consider this place, which I otherwise love. What's more, it might be impossible to sell.
I like to say that if you have 1 copy, you have none. If 2, 1, if 3, you have 2 copies, the absolute minimum. And try to decrease single points of failure, e.g. I use rsync for rsync.net and BackupPC to local disk, and tar to LTO tape after giving up on the opaque and baroque Bacula.

You need one offsite to prevent your house burns down and takes your machines and local backups.

I'm a long term fan of tape, from the first time I used UNIX(TM) in 1978 and a DECTape saved me when I was learning the power of the -rf flags to rm.

LTO tape systems for the home are not insanely expensive (then again, this is my minimum system today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483361 ECC is a requirement for me). Street price for the HP LTO-4 internal SAS EH919SB I'm currently using is ~1,300 USD (and it wasn't difficult to get it at around that price in 2011).

Add a LSI 2004 chip based SAS-2 controller such as the "Avago" LSI 9211-4i at $167 from Newegg right now to drive it, and a semi-disposable flash drive to feed it quickly so the tape doesn't "shoe shine" (the tape moves very quickly, if you don't feed it quickly enough it has to stop the tape and backup enough so that it's at speed when it starts forward again and hits the location where it ran out).

I.e. at whatever speed write a 10GiB slice of your backup to the flash drive, then write that all at once to the tape. Considering media costs, if you start from scratch today you'd probably be better off going LTO-5 now that LTO-6 is shipping, the media costs the same as for LTO-4 despite a near doubling of capacity. I've got enough LTO-4 tapes that I'll keep using them until my LTO-4 drive dies, then buy an LTO-5 drive, which per the standard can read two earlier generations, and write 1 earlier, and new LTO-5 media for it.

Current LTO-4 and LTO-5 tapes from HP or Fuji (I wouldn't trust anyone else) go for $22-23, uncompressed capacities are 800 and 1.5 GB respectively.

And then store copies off-site, and copy your most important stuff at least once a day to a site like rsync.net, which saved me when a tornado trashed my apartment in 2011.
And I get downvoted for a bad joke about Soviet technological espionage! You guys either have a much better sense of humour than me, or a much worse one. :-)
Yep. For Macs, that means something like TM + Superduper (or CCC). I do a weekly backup with SD which I copy to another machine on my network and backup offsite.
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The agony and ecstasy behind the first Rainbow Six
Yes, iirc, neither Leto nor Thufir knew much about the BG plans.