skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah.

I expect that -if you make a close study of history-, you'll find that "[America's greatest strength is its ability to assimilate people and ideas into something greater than the sum of its parts as] long as [those people] are white and [those people and ideas are] christian..." is a statement that isn't supported by the facts.

Xenophobia and racism was and is real, yes. But, -culturally and ideologically- the US has been and remains substantially less homogenous and substantially more willing to accept immigrants into its borders than many other countries.
>But what the Corps tells itself about the Lewisville Dam is different from what it tells the public. “We want to get the message out that there’s a potential for something bad to happen, but we don’t want to unduly panic the public,” says an official involved in the communications. “So we sugarcoat the message a bit.”

It may be time to change strategy. Is it the politicians holding the purse strings of the Army Corps of Engineers? It may be time to light a fire under their asses. Panicked constituents can do that.
Perhaps those lack useful vulnerabilities?
Anki – a program which makes remembering things easy
Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
previous posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6661536

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588
I'm not familiar with the HN API, but is it possible/can someone come up with submitters:commenters:inactive accounts for say the past year to see if it comes out close to 1:9:90? Does the "1% rule" seem to apply to HN?
Luttwak is a welcome guest of italian TV talk shows because: (a) he speaks Italian and (b) he has a usually different, and often interesting, point of view. Even if one does not like its macho-neocon slant, he is a rather smart guy.
I think the article describes exactly the two factors in play:

> The more you look for it in networked environments, the more frequently some sort of 90:9:1 ratio seems to emerge once the market matures.

First, of course something will show up the more you look for it.

Second, "once the market matures" is completely up in the air. Was the market immature in November 2009, when IE had 65%, Firefox 24%, and Safari, Chrome, and Opera each 2-4% of the browser market? Is it mature now? I don't think "immature" is the word that comes to mind to describe the browser market, for many. Yet there's certainly no 90:9:1 ratio in browser share currently.
Socio-economic perceptions and signaling could still be at play here. Does someone not buy the cards because the person is black, or are they less likely to buy the card because they worry that it might not get delivered, or that it might be stolen.

I wonder if you'd see the same effect for a women's hand as a man's hand.

I also wonder how many fewer bidders you would need to show this effect. In small illiquid markets the loss of a couple of bidders could put more downward pressure on the top bid.

The part that was most convincing that the authors identified the correct effect though was that the price was also affected by the race of the person on the card.

Looks like there is an opportunity for racial arbitrage.
slightly OT but:
1) the whole article reminds me of A Clockwork Orange
and
2) all those Eastern Europe Warez Collections that found their way to central/west Europe in the early nineties. If it wasn't for 3DStudio 3/4 on DOS, I think my visual/spatial thinking would be way worse, making it even harder to wrap my mind around view/projection matrices etc..
edit: typos
Welcome to the power law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law)
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One difference between gravity and electromagnetism is that there are positive and negative charges in electromagnetism, that tend to cancel each other out over large distances.

I don't think this is the thing that the theoreticians are looking for (no Nobel Prize for me), but it is a unique feature of gravity that gravity has only one polarity. And I don't remember how this goes with the strong and weak forces.
How does this article support the"Obama is a Muslim" trope? His point is that some of the Muslim world might view Obama as an apostate because of his parentage, over which he had no control, and his renunciation of Islam and conversion to Christianity, which he did.

"But of all the well-meaning desires projected on Senator Obama, the hope that he would decisively improve relations with the world’s Muslims is the least realistic."

He certainly had that right.
If anything URLs aren't used enough in SPAs. They can help users share a state, for example, the results in the page when a certain filter is applied. Even data-intensive web applications can benefit from sharing and embedding. And everyone, including my parents know how to share a link.
I know it may not sound like it, but you could be depressed, or in any case treatment for it may help. Talk to your doctor, or get a recommendation for a therapist.
My watch company.

Started it in September and started selling before the watches were made. They're still in production and will be finished soon.

Wouldn't maybe call it "passive income", but the sales keep coming through WOM. (http://gardannewatches.com)
I can't believe they use an existing domain, shire.org for their example.

I'm one of the owners of a domain name that's people use as dummy address when they sign up for stuff. I can't stand getting mail like that.

There is a reserved name for examples, it's EXAMPLE.COM.
I've worked for startups as a full-stack dev for about 5 years, and spent the last year trying to land a position in as a technical manager. This specific pursuit has lead to some of the most bullshit encounters I've had with startups. What are some of your bullshit experiences?
Frd
You can have a proper TUN interface over SSH too;

https://libsecure.so/t/things-you-might-not-know-vpn-over-ss...
Also Zipf law. http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/ranking/adamicglot...
I would say yes, but again, playing music at very amplified volumes and tweaking its tempo is not a common use-case.
What is the history of the `.` notation? In Javascript

obj={key: "val"};obj.key === obj["key"]; => true

and the same in many other languages, like Java, C#, Elm, Haskell (I think) et cetera. The only ones in common use I can think of now is Lisp & C (but of course there are thousands).

This pattern of putting the key to get after the object seems popular, but what is the history behind it?

And why is it uncommon to have something like get(obj, key)? Or like in Clojure, `(get {:key :val} :key)`? Seems more consistent, and uses less syntax.
An introduction to gradient descent and linear regression
In fact, with browsers the 90:9:1 ratio was present around the turn of the century when the internet was much more immature and the trend has been away from that.
ContentMine.org seems to have similar aims.
The article fails to provide a single example where those are the specific ratios (versus arbitrary curves), provides a number of counterexamples, then concludes "proven!" To wash off the stupid, I found myself re-reading this excellent primer by Ben Golub (Harvard Dept. of Economics):

https://www.quora.com/In-what-conditions-would-you-expect-a-...
Handy Backup Small Server is a backup software
Machine shop clock making videos
Torch, the scientific computing framework for LuaJIT, is based on the great Lua language. This makes it a good choice - LuaJIT per se is a faster than any Python interpreter/VM.

Caffe is C++, and the rest are Python (Neon, Theano and TensorFlow).
On PowerMock abuse
tsocks is gold. Used to use something similar a while back, glad to find it again.
I'm not quite understanding. The yes-sayer worked alone on the project and is now leaving? If so, why's it a problem for you?
I was thinking about websites meant to be accessed by the public.
As a scientist, I am most efficient when I skim with a goal. Typically, I would search for an answer to a very specific question (related to my own research) and just ignore whole parts of the book/article.
These sites are generally way overpriced for conversions into data centers, even niche high-security types. The key problem I ran into when I looked into it when the Long Lines sites first started getting parceled out way back was access to the Internet backbone. Only a very few were anywhere close to where the backbone was, or was planned to be in the next 10 years, and those were snapped up very early. They also are unfortunately too small to warehouse equipment if you wanted to hold spares for a Carrington Event-grade solar flare (I would be surprised if they were rated for that level of EM disturbance anyways). Also, I found out a typical term of sale was you promise to dismantle the tower at your own cost, or pay an eye-bleeding amount for tower remediation.

I don't see very economic re-purposing possibilities even today when more are within fiber rollouts. With their current price points, no business plan built around one of these I've tried has ever penciled out sustainably. Has anyone else tried to run the numbers and come up similar results (you don't have to share the plan, just that some business purpose pencils out)? I don't see a lot of businesses buying them, and I'm guessing the majority of purchasers of these sites are private individuals with either deep pockets or a mania for industrial-grade and -scale home improvement.
"Once the market matures" seems to make this a tautology. Oh, the ratio isn't 90:9:1? Must not have matured yet.
There's still no good linux laptops* that come with Linux as the main OS. MacBook Pro blows away all the compeition.

*I've seen poor reviews of System76s stuff.
Are these just made up or are they coming from somewhere?
My point is that we have no means of ensuring that those VPN providers actually provide any anonymity; for all I know, all of those who claim they don't log could actually be logging and selling all that data, making their use worse for my privacy than directly connecting to the Internet.

It comes down to the point made by cperciva in his post "Playing chicken with cat.jpg": http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-19-playing-chicken-w...
I feel a bit like this sometimes. It is one of the reasons I embrace small JavaScript modules on npm. You can write a 100-line module with a narrow scope. It can quickly (even on first release) reach a stable and frozen API, and it will prove useful for years to come.

It allows you to experiment with a wide range of topics while still providing useful contributions to the community.
Wasn't part of the need for Maildir indexability rather than reliability?
I see it the other way... 80 years is nothing! There's way too much out there to learn.
For those interested in learning about the field: focus on the concepts, not the frameworks. This is true especially of machine learning, which is highly conceptual. I don't think these frameworks are suitable for people not familiar with the concepts. For example, I think it's a good exercise for beginners to implement a basic (no convolution) two layer neural net in plain Python using matrix operations in numpy.

Regardless, these frameworks are more similar than different (one exception is Caffe, which is very focused on computer vision and makes it really easy to do stuff in that area, but makes it really hard to do anything else). In the course of exploring the area, you will probably touch all of them at some point (when you're trying to use a researcher's code).
A great book on the impacts of climate change is Six Degrees by Mark Lynas, who read 3000 peer-reviewed papers on climate change effects and summarized them, with extensive references. A lot of it is based on what's happened in previous warming periods. The book has six chapters, one for each degree of warming.

Ericd's comment is a good description of the effects at three to four degrees, depending on how widespread a collapse he's talking about.

That alone underestimates the risk. Many scientists worry that somewhere between 1.5 and 2.5 degrees, positive feedbacks will kick in and take the planet several degrees further even if we stop emissions entirely. Hansen's book Storms of My Grandchildren has a good account of the geological evidence for that.
Well you've got a good point actually however the parents statement (that I was replying to) does say this which requires a bit more tech literacy, eh:

"Gladly the router was open to dd-wrt"

On a fun note not sure if you remember the old "Get Netscape Now!" icons that were at the bottom of nearly every 90's webpage which, to your point, was as if someone visited your site and would actually pause to download and install a new browser (over dialup no less) if it didn't render correctly. [1]

[1] http://sillydog.org/netscape/now.html
they send it to groups of people, doesn't even mean you personally have been targeted.

I got the notification too, it was around the time protests in turkey heated up for the first time.
In Search of Tomorrow: On the Future of Eve IDE [video]
They're conversations so common that they're memes now.
Using tsocks+ssh is silly when ProxyCommand exists.
5 Disruptive Startup Events Which Demand a New Plan
I would agree with the preference for Clojure-style syntax, though using a getter function makes more sense in a language like Clojure with immutable maps (as opposed to most of the languages you mentioned). At least in OO languages the dot operator feels too much like a class rather than a map/dictionary. An acceptable alternative is the C++ STL map square bracket indexing.
This is a bit misleading. No framework is doing computation in the language you write your model in. The code you write in any of these frameworks just calls wrappers around the underlying C/C++/Cuda implementation.
I worked at a storage company and the scariest thing I learned is that your data can be corrupt even though the drive itself says that the data was written correctly. The only way to really be sure is to check your files after writing them that they match. Now whenever I do a backup, I always go through them one more time and do a byte-by-byte comparison before being assured that it's okay.
My favourite:

Founder Institute

- run by international group of millionaire magazine-cover entrepreneurs

- doesn’t invest a penny in its companies

- charges founders thousands of dollars for mentorship

- well-regarded startup accelerator

-------------------

I was once offered the position to head the local chapter, after having a private phonecall with Adeo, I declined as I couldn't see the value offered. The next person took it, and as expected, the local chapter failed spectacularly and the people founding it were out of a lot of work and didn't get anything in return.

It's still a mistery to me why that organization has credibility.
>I'm not sure why physicists think gravity is a force and Pauling exclusion principle isn't.

>Gravity is fake "inertial" force caused by shape of the space time.

Because all forces are like that? Electromagnetism is just a force created by the shape of the electromagnetic gauge field.

In mathematical terms: it is the curvature of the gauge connection. In exactly the same way that gravity is a force created by the curvature of the metric connection.
Isn't it better/easier to measure maturity by looking at a product's major generational milestones or releases? ie. the 4th iPhone, or the 4th Tesla. Does that help? Most new things seem to follow that growth curve of early adopters, mass market, etc.
The magnet is also incredibly weak compared to what it could be. As it happens, the most recent "What If" from xkcd describes the difference in a more equal manner: http://what-if.xkcd.com/140/

Spoiler: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"
So assuming these are real, this guy gets fired (or just plain ditches companies) very often. Sounds like the diametrical opposite of a good employee.
The question is valid, but it is phrased the way a two-year-old would ask it. Better phrasing would be: is there some reason to gravity being so weak compared to the other forces?

It turns out if you start with "sky is blue", and keep looking up answers to all the ensuing "but why?" questions, soon you will learn a lot about (in no particular order): Rayleigh scattering, tri- and tetra-chromatism, phenomenology of perception, blindsight, electromagnetic radiation, black body radiation, nuclear fusion, etc. etc, the rabbit hole goes deep. Sometimes stupid questions have really profound and unobvious answers.
Yup, I'm at 52.5 degrees North and it is pretty grey most of the (short) day in this season. That is balanced by 16+ hours of daylight in June/July of course. One wonders how seasonal variation during the developmental years of a child factors into this.
A tiny x86 OS
Lua.Space – Blog opening and contribution guide
I'm learning a bit of Unity 3D on the side and wait. 2016 won't be the year of Linux on the desktop and maybe not the year of VR or AR.
I helped found the VR Systems Lab at my company in the 1990s and later was the lead on a contracted project for Disney.

I think that long term, VR will be huge, but I expect slow growth, agreeing with this article.
Depends on what you code for.

IMO the best option is a language that supports both concepts (In the .NET case, let's say, C# OOP with Lambdas, or F# functional with types.)

I found this series quite informative, as an OOP developer: http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/thinking-functionall...
A good read. Having never heard of the man he seems like an extraordinarily successful variant of the self-aggrandising “arm-chair general” found in pubs throughout the world. Right down to the highly questionable claims to have seen military action. This and other of the claims could certainly have been fact checked here. It comes across as though the journalist didn’t want to offend him by showing up the obvious lies.
There have been 30million PS4s sold, by next Christmas that number will be even higher. He doesn't think Oculus, Valve, and Sony will ship more than 3 million combined.

Oculus has already shipped >200k dev kits. Assuming Oculus and Valve/HTC ship at least a million (>5X the number of enthusiast/dev kits), the 3 million total would have to mean Sony only gets a <5% attachment rate. Not likely.

Sony's headset will be competitive to with the Rift recommended PC specs (a GTX 970), even though it has way less power: the PSVR is primarily targeted at 60Hz reprojected to 120Hz, and it has a 1080p display that is RGB stripe instead of the Rift and Vive's pentile-esque 90Hz 1200x1080x2 displays. These two combine to mean PSVR will only have to push half as many pixels, for similar quality levels (PSVR actually has more subpixels than Rift and Vive; they throw away 33% of the subpixels you spent gobs of GPU power rendering). You aren't going to play games with fidelity of console TV stuff, but you aren't going to at the Oculus recommended spec either.

He doesn't explain why he thinks it will take until 2018 for Sony to get into the millions. We know the PSVR is design is finalized. As long as it is out significantly before Christmas 2016, they should get into the millions much earlier than 2018.
The point of companies having their own service like this, is so that the kickback to the charge company goes to them instead.

So instead of 1% of all mobile purchases going to Apple, it goes to walmart instead. With the scale of business Walmart had that can be upwards of a billion dollars a year.
This makes me wonder why GPG isn't more secure by default. If these are the "perfect" settings, why aren't they the defaults?

What happened to making the right thing to do the easiest thing to do?
sshuttle will blow your mind then.

https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle
Still no signs of understanding the value of static metaprogramming. C# used to be promising.
A combination of NPR, local TV news, national TV news, RSS feeds (tech, NPR, general news, etc.), and general "browsing" of sites like reddit/hackernews/etc.
>Now look at desktop OS sales: the ratio stands in the most recent quarter at about 91:8:1 between Microsoft’s Windows, Apple’s Mac OSX, and “self-build” machines which probably get Linux.

This is a drastic oversimplification... Some of those Windows machines will have Linux put on and many "self-build" machines will have Windows (or Hackintosh OSX). The vast majority of the Windows and OSX sales will likely stay as Windows or OSX boxes, so the data is still largely valid - but I feel this particular measure is a bit of a reach.

Furthermore, we can say this is isolated to technology, but in my opinion this happens in Facial Tissue sales just as often as tech. This is a law of human preference: on average 90% of people follow the herd, 9% go for a close alternative, 1% go hardcore.

This is even true of characters in TV shows! 90% of people favour the hero, 9% are into the side-kick, 1% dig deep into some random character, possibly even creating new backstories.

[edit: clarity]
People interested in Swift at this level should also read Lattner’s comment on /r/rust about the possibility of extending Swift to include Rust’s statically checked ownership and borrowing concepts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3vadg8/swift_is_open_...
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It's also very slow, since tunneling TCP over TCP has pretty bad performance. You either want to use UDP (OpenVPN), or terminate and proxy the TCP connection (SSH port forwarding).
Makes sense; if you have a smaller aperture, you get better depth of field. When is brighter out, your pupils contract, reducing the aperture. Basic photography/optics principles.
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You have seriously underestimated 1) efforts needed to develop and to maintain such resources – your best hope is to work with government-funded institutes; 2) resistance from the convention of a particular research field – you can rarely bend how people in a field work on things; 3) culture differences between biologists/doctors and programmers – biologists/doctors think very differently, which is frequently overlooked by programmers; 4) bureaucracy – everyone thinks he/she is the best; when you work with top groups to make things happen, you will find how problematic it is; 5) technical challenges – as you care about pheonotype data: there are no good ways to integrate various pheonotypes from multiple sources.

Everyone in biomedical research dreams about integrated resources. I have heard multiple people advocating SPARQL as well. If it had been that easy, this would have occurred years ago. In the real world, no one is even close. If you want to attract collaborators, learn Linus: say you have a working prototype and demonstrate how wonderful it is. Your ideas are cheap. The difficult part is a clear roadmap to make it happen.
> Then you think of James Cameron going to where the pressure is 1000 times as great, and what would happen on failure, and you think "holy fucking shit!!"

Indeed, see Byford Dolphin diving bell accident (very NSFW/NSFL):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin
In plan9 mailbox files, like many others, are append only.

All files are periodically (default daily) written to a block coalescing worm drive and you can rewind the state of the file system to any date on a per process basis, handy for diffing your codebase etc.

For a while the removal of the "rm" command was considered to underline the permanence of files but the removal of temporary data during the daytime hours turned out to be more pragmatic.