skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that, once the suggestion of replacing single member elections with anything approximating proportional representation is made, the focus on managing the electoral system we DO have is lost.

Tons of measures made by political scientists about gerrymandering implicitly value PR or nearly-PR as the standard of justice and fall into this trap. But I think there's opportunity in the SMD systems for fairness, like the Gelman-King stuff that looks at equalizing the winners bonus provided to parties. That is, taken alone, it doesn't matter if seats are awarded disproportionately to votes won, as long as the system responds in the same way when the tables are turned.
Atomic certainly didn't need $18MM to get to beta. They also use a canvas to edit on.
。“FlashAir Developers”是一个技术信息网站，供东芝FlashAir应用程序、服务与设备的开发者使用
> A company would pay Ann $50,000 if it could.

I've always wondered if this is even possible. Imagine you are a Trust Fund Kid who happens to be a skilled developer as well as a giant troll. You could under-bid on salary offers. But would the company still hire you? Would you be able to prove your chops in spite of the negative signal of valuing yourself below market? (Of course, you are probably rare and won't have an effect on the overall market for developers, but I still think it's a fun thought experiment.)
Start-up losers: F-– Up Night celebrates Australia's biggest tech fails
It's unreadable on the iPad. The text is gigantic, and it won't let me pinch to zoom out.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
I'm fully expecting to vigorously pick off the low-hanging fruit from the tech trees when they're released, getting sucked into some of the harder problems on one, before bouncing between them as I get stuck and frustrated :)
Protection already exists. Police, judges, or other VIPs can have their info blanked out with the first level checks at the DMV.
They lost dozens of B-52's during Linebacker
I suspect that's the point -- evoking a motivating and memory-enhancing dopamine shot -- a la the Van Wilder tutors.
Cancer reproducibility project scales back ambitions
Nice project, and a curious featureset overlap, too...

> We have a concept of "reliable pub sub" [...] Does the redis store you have do something similar (I can not see backing lists in the redis store implementation in store.c)

Dig a little deeper... https://github.com/slact/nchan/blob/master/src/store/redis/s...
I used lua scripts for all the fancy redis logic, that's where you'll find the backing list accesses. Messages are stored as hashes, referenced by id in lists, along with some other channel metadata.
So a longpoll or EventSource client knows its last message id, and can request the next avaliable message as long as said message has not yet expired. Websocket clients don't have this information, and I'm not yet sure how to relay it with each message while remaining content-agnostic.
Basically, regardless of the protocol, you can send a If-Modified-Since + If-None-Match or Last-Event-ID headers and it will resume from that position in the message queue for the given channel.

> I see you can do auth upfront but can per-message security seems not doable

Per-message access will definitely not be implemented. You could, however, do this client-side by, say, encrypting the messages and sharing keys with authorized subscribers. That's kind of roundabout though.

> We don't bother with per-channel URLS [...], we often subscribe to 10 channels on a request, the multiplexing seems a bit limited

The main use-case I had in mind for multiplexing is that of a single channel per user, and some shared broadcast channel. It's currently limited to 4 max because I wanted to get this code out the door. Unlimited multiplexing will be supported in the future, and you could trivially rebuild the module to support up to 16 right now (At the cost of some memory per message per subscriber per channel overhead).

> When we subscribe to a channel due to the "reliable" nature of the store we are able to tell the server what the last id is we subscribed to and catch up from there

Yep, Nchan does that too. (except for Websocket, and hopefully I'll find a workaround)

How does that work for feature parity?
Transporting 200 lb of human is more efficient than transporting 200 lb of human plus 2000 lb of vehicle.

Transporting something a short distance is more efficient than transporting something a long distance.

Both of these factors work in favor of densely packed cities being more efficient.
Predicting a Child's Height
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I guess I don't see the distinction. If I see your license plate at the supermarket and post online that "license plate AAAAAA was seen at Whole Foods on December 6th", how is that qualitatively different from a license plate reader scanning your plate and storing that "license plate AAAAAA was at coordinates XX.XXXX, XX.XXXX at 2015-12-06?"

Unless you want to draw a line between information which is directly observed by people and information which is collected by machine, this seems like a difference of degree, not of kind.
XSA-156: x86: CPU lockup during exception delivery
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Incorrect. Just because humanists are atheists, doesn't mean atheists are humanists. You've failed to understand the difference. Humanism is a belief system some atheists follow, all atheists are not humanists. Being an atheist doesn't make one a humanist, surely you can understand that distinction?

Knowing someone is an atheist doesn't tell you what they believe, it tells you what they don't believe; knowing they're a humanist tells you exactly what they do believe. Humanists are a sub-category of atheists.
If I remember correctly, nuclear deterrence with planes flying 24/7 in the skies was still a thing until the early 2000s. It took a long time for the Air Force to scale down that role.
>This is why if we can ever build a quantum computer, it would be exponentially more powerful than a classic computer.

The truth is a little more complicated than that. If we could precisely inspect the quantum state of a system, then quantum computers trivially give us an exponential speed up. However, once we measure the result of the computation, we collapse the state down to a pure state[0], and all future measurements of the system will give us the same result. This means that we would need to repeat the computation an exponential number of times to get the full result with a bounded probability of error.

As it turns out, there are some tricks we can do with interference to improve efficiency, and for some problems achieve an exponential speed up.

[0] Or rather, according to the many worlds interpenetration, we become entangled with the system; however this is one of those cases where the Copenhagen interpretation is actually easier to use.
Love stuff like this, very cool, I see their also working on a "external HDMI scandoubler" for amiga. Might as remake a whole amiga and sell it patents probably expired, someone did this for the Amiga500 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimig although with an FPGA.
Is your town participating in this project?

http://wiredwest.net/map-of-wired-west-towns/
Yup. But in the Manhattan Project, the Ph.D.'s seemed to get that experience quickly enough. Besides, where to find people with experience turning chemical goo into blocks of explosive and machining them to fit precisely in a 3D puzzle so that when the 40 or so detonators fired all at once, the explosive would make a nearly perfect spherical wave shrinking down to compress the nuclear fuel? The guy who did that first in the Manhattan Project did it the first in all of history.
This is also related to the binary complex number format discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10648847

The set of complex numbers with all zeroes to the left of the radix point forms a fractal that is two dragon curves joined together: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_base_systems#Base_.E...
They'll probably still hurt. This thingie basically shoots you with a teensy tiny bullet and then slurps the resulting blood.
The quote was later attributed to Karl Rove: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
Incidentally, why do people prefer native apps instead of browser based on the desktop?

Is it because the tab is hard to find on the browser...or is there a specific advantage to the native client?

I find it jarring when people use desktop clients over browser...especially when it is very likely that most of the engineering teams at these startups are most likely web based.
Don't the desktop apps lag in features behind their web interfaces?
It's not that easy to get a local privilege escalation on an up-to-date system.
If the instance name is new, instantly. (As long as nobody queries it prior to the record getting created, of course.) Otherwise, the TTL. We use either 1 or 5 min TTLs where we expect changes for exactly this reason, and in practice, it isn't a problem.
Slightly unrelated, but I find the scaling factor based off experience interesting. Speaking as a junior, I am convinced that in 2 years or so when I would probably be classed as intermediate I will be worth far more than 10% more than I am now. Beyond that, I work at the moment with people who would be in the advanced/master range who are I think are definitely worth more than 20/30% more than me.
Neat, but zero results should be displayed as '0' rather than left blank.
A realtime Waze overlay would be fantastic.
If You Do This, the NSA Will Spy on You
Ticket hacking and "Mixing" airlines becomes a problem if you miss a flight. This can be highly risky.

What I would be more interested in is this problem:
Often I get reimbursed for a flight from A to B.

Often I can fly A->C->B and make a nice (paid) vacation in C. Hence I look for the most interesting routes possible for a decent price.

Especially exotic airlines can be a great deal here. Currently I look up the airport to see what airlines are served by this airport and then see if there is an airline that has it's hub in an interesting tourist destination.

Better solution?
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

This quote appears here regularly and while I generally agree with the underlying message we should put on our nuance-goggles and consider the amount of energy expended by reasonable people repairing the unreasonable person's path of destruction, and that the progress gauge can go backwards as well as forwards.
I'm really hyped for this. If this is as much fun as the microcorruption CTF I'm going to be glued to my computer until I solve all of it!

I like what I'm seeing so far, AVR sounds like a fun new challenge.
I've been reading that for an hour or so now, you could easily get another 'Soul of a new machine' out of your project. Maybe not as dramatic but that project could easily serve as a benchmark of outsourcing done right. I'm going to sleep now and I'll re-read it tomorrow. Thank you very much for that link.
911 services should use Google Maps! Seriously, this is a non-trivial problem. GPS data alone does not have the precision. However from all the data that Google has collected from driving those mapping vans around, Google should have accurate topography data (elevation is important for making GPS more precise for non planar geographies) and should have building locations through, say, visual analysis of the street photos. With the additional inputs it can make a better guess of your most likely location. The improvement is probabilistic, not guaranteed. And it is only available if your phone is capable of communicating at the right level with the service (provided by your app in the Google Maps case) that has the enhanced information.

But even then, in multi-story buildings GPS may be hard to acquire in the first place.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_9-1-1#Wireless_enhanc... for general information.
BTW, the research in one of these papers shows how they pass the Turing test. So there's that.

The quality of the generated answers of our mQA model on this dataset is evaluated by human judges through a Turing Test. Specifically, we mix the answers provided by humans and our model. The human judges need to distinguish our model from the human... The experiments show that in 64.7% of cases, the human judges cannot distinguish our model from humans.[1]

Looks like we'll have to apply the first law of AI: whatever a computer can do is no longer AI.

Edit: To be clear, this is Baidu NIPS paper, not a Google one.

[1] http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5641-are-you-talking-to-a-machin...
That decline correlates perfectly to the huge increase in gun ownership in 1992-94, as gun purchases got a huge boost in advance of the onset of the Brady Bill and the "assault weapons" ban.
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This post seems completely divorced from reality. There are many overlooked issues:

- To hover, you need a thrust/weight ratio >= 1. Taking off vertically requires an even higher thrust/weight ratio. A modern Boeing 737 has a thrust/weight ratio of 0.15. So a comparable VTOL aircraft is going to need engines ≈7x more powerful than current ones. But those don't exist. The most powerful jet engine in the world (the 777's GE90-115B) can't lift a 737 straight up. An electric version? Forget about it. The best production electric motors are almost two orders of magnitude less powerful than the GE90-115B.

- Hovering and vertical takeoff are fraught with safety issues. With multiple engines, any failure creates a deadly thrust imbalance. You also have to avoid vortex ring state. And while VTOL craft like helicopters can autorotate, it takes a skilled pilot along with the right combination of velocity and height.[1]

- Landing on skyscrapers means you'll have to deal with higher winds than near the ground. While you can orient the craft in any direction, wind is not constant. Gusts and swirls from the skyscraper will make landing difficult.

I could see VTOL electric craft replacing helicopters, but passenger jets are not going away any time soon. The physics just don't work out for larger VTOL aircraft.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_height%E2%80%93velo...
Thank you sharing this perspective!
Ponerology
In case anyone was curious about this part:

>"Critics have dismissed the cancer-study endeavour as time-consuming, out-of-touch with the realities of basic science and unlikely to produce interpretable results. “It’s a naÏveté that by simply embracing this ethic, which sounds eminently reasonable, that one can clean out the Augean stables of science,” says Robert Weinberg, a cancer biologist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts."

http://retractionwatch.com/2015/07/06/cancer-research-retrac...
If this is true then you can help by visiting these sites to trigger xkeyscore, and sending links to all your friends and family to click too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10680925
Could you take inspiration from Evernote?
Not quite no one. Certainly applicants themselves are privy to the details of cases they themselves bring. I guess applicants are always agencies of the executive branch.

Is that where it stops? I wonder, do FBI agents discuss details of it's FISC cases with, for instance, NSA agents? And can the FBI, for instance, obtain details of a FISC case brought by, for instance, the NSA?
I've always wanted to write something like regular expressions for lists of objects. So, for example the example of writing a parser, one could use a regex to match chars to tokens, then write another that gathers tokens into blocks and etc. Essentially, bottom-up parsing without resorting to parser generators that take over everything. A similar tool would be interesting for querying trees directly.
Some companies provide free or subsidized child care on premises. Is that any different? (Ethically, not legally.)
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Try Ansible instead of Puppet/Chef, it's much easier to use!
I am curious if hirers will use stockfighter to hire folks low-level embedded work, or if this will be an arbitrary shibboleth for general jobs, biased toward people interested in this sort of game. I hope starfighter expands into more diverse areas of interest.
"Legal at 35=G Inc will allow me to publish this article only if this section is not present."

I love the FIX meta humor. Order Cancel Replace Request: tag 35=G.
> I'm in the wrong business.

nod nod

If you've both the people and technical skills required to do engineering sales, you're probably seriously limiting your earnings by remaining a programmer.
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If you buy your goats from the local market, they are more expensive in the valley. But if you buy them from Amazon, they are the same across the US.

Where are you buying your goats?
Employment discrimination encompasses pay differences, not only hiring and firing. While its not federally illegal to pay differently based on family status, it is illegal in certain localities, like Alaska [0] or Cook County, IL [1].

0. http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/statutes/title18/cha...

1. http://www.jmls.edu/clinics/fairhousing/pdf/cook-county-huma...
I can't take credit for this; an ex-HFT friend gave the name to me. :)
> ...is it actually lawful to advertise salaries that vary with the size of employee families?

I'm no expert on labor law, but why wouldn't it be?
Thank you!

Although... I still can't tell if this is the Starfighter tech tree or the Stockfighter tech tree. I think the confusion is intentional, and I do like that. I think. :)

edit: nobody thought notch was joking about 0x10c, and this is clearly in that vein. but an AVR is a real CPU, and suddenly... mind blown?
This is exactly right. Back before Java 1.0 was released I was working on a capability based security model for it. The class loader would hand out what was essentially a virtual method of the instantiated class based on the capability's allowed. Revoking capability consisted of updating the template which would fail to resolve the revoked methods on the next call but leave the ones which were still on the stack.
Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley to Block ISIS Accounts
Further the color channels offered by today '8-bit' don't correspond to the RRRGGGBB packing of the systems they emulate.
posted multiple times. most comments are here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10687053
Starfighter is the name of the company. Stockfighter is the name of the game. So there are multiple tech trees in Stockfighter, of which this post is about one. Starfighter the company doesn't have tech trees.
Regardless of CGI, I do advocate writing web services that respond to "GET /help" with a developer-facing synopsis of available routes. Pretty much the same thing.
That slur expired many years ago.
Shameless plug: I wrote a Python library that not only lets you declaratively define all your options, but also works with config files too. Don't write your own logic for this. Just use https://github.com/ipartola/groper
>every day there are so many white people leaving comments on the Chocolate Rain video pretending not to understand what he's talking about that

I don't think that's a charitable interpretation. Whether you're black or white, his song is very metaphorical. The underlying tone can generally be understood, and the lyrics aren't nonsense, but it's difficult to comprehend any of them when taken literally.

Of course it's easy to see that the song is related to the plight of black members of society ("chocolate", school books, prisons, "living in a gate"), but the metaphors he uses are definitely not obvious, nor is his exact message obvious without close analysis of the lyrics.

It's pretty ridiculous to assume someone's confusion is an intentional racist aggression. Also, many people genuinely aren't aware of past and present issues black Americans face, so their not recognizing them doesn't somehow mean they approve of them or are dismissive.
The original contract to EADS was scuttled because of the Government Accountability Office, which found that the selection process had been handled improperly -- specifically, that the Air Force "did not assess the relative merits of the proposals in accordance with the evaluation criteria identified in the solicitation", and that the Air Force "conducted misleading and unequal discussions with Boeing" [0].

I lived in Seattle at the time, and it was widely remarked by Boeing IDS employees that the protest Boeing filed was a remarkably unusual step. They lose out on contracts all the time and just move on to the next thing; it's generally considered bad form for a defense contractor to throw a fit about losing out on a contract. But there were a lot of shenanigans, as detailed in the GAO report, which is why the decision was ultimately reversed.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20080625201918/http://www.king5.c...
Nope, fixing that issue is our top most priority right now.
Totally agree. There have always been plenty of crappy articles and simply being long doesn't mean being on point.
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Incredibly poorly written.
Interesting that their json variant uses trailing commas. Too bad that's not more common.
Great project! Is there any concept of ack/nack a message? Let's say the subscriber get a message and failed before processing it. Does the message go back to the queue?
If one was so inclined, where would one start looking for these sorts of roles?
> The Starfighter Low-Level Tech Tree (sockpuppet.org)

I'm not sure you read this thread. Starfighter the company definitely uses technology.

edit: was your post using in-game voice? i'm totally about staying in character :)
Paying more to people with more dependents effectively discriminates against several classes which are protected in the US:

- Those who for medical reasons cannot have children.

- Those who for (lack of) religious reasons do not have lots of children (families with 6+ children have a different distribution of religious beliefs than the overall population).

- Homosexuals.

On the other hand, paying less to people with dependents (why?) effectively discriminates against:

- Heterosexuals.

- People who for religious reasons have lots of children.

- Disabled dependents (not a protected class in the US, but maybe it should be!).
OMeta is an interesting place to start, there's implementations for a ton of languages. Here's a good description of the motivation for OMeta and the .Net implementation: http://www.moserware.com/2008/06/ometa-who-what-when-where-w...
Is Amazon too big to fail
Harvard trades on a reputation earned centuries ago. Since people don't really care about the accuracy of the research, there is nothing to challenge in the content. People who agree with the vague conclusions get to say "Harvard is on my side", and then twist the vagueness to suit their purposes.
"Please, don't re-use the same password to «fool» the robot while restoring your password — this will result in your account being vulnerable. Yes, several people have done that."

Wow, this is the scariest part. You already have your details leaked, get notified about it and still decide that resetting the token/login to the original value would be the best thing to do.
People with nipples? Japanese? I don't know...
Good luck blocking Tor...
https://jackschaedler.github.io/goya/
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Like schoolteachers, famous for self funding their classrooms.