skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this would change the number of minutes people spend watching TV. They would simply watch one more program in the available time.
Yeah, some people aren't getting sleep this week.
Once you know that your code has been corrupted, it would take a team of consultants put together by someone like ptacek a relatively short period of time to find the holes (and, at the same time, discover 10x or more code weaknesses that weren't deliberately put there.)

If the toolchain wasn't corrupted, and this was in the original source code (C?) - it's not going to be too difficult to find in code review, if you are looking for it - but how many companies are willing to spend the time (and $$$) to review their presumed secure code for holes added by third-parties?

Now that Juniper knows that their source-code/tool chain has been breached, they will be prepared to spend the money to clean it up - which, for any reasonable amount of code, will cost millions of $$$ if not tens of millions.

I'm wondering if patio11/ptacek didn't show some pretty amazing foresight in tracking down the resumes of the top security intrusion people in the industry - I have to believe that the Ciscos, Junipers, and other security hardware/software companies in the world are going to be in desperate need of Top People, and are going to be ready to pay large sums of $$$ for fast service in this space.
Ahh yes. Another "ads are bad" post.

People always seem to forget that most of the Internet is free BECAUSE of ads.
But REST is just like websites. It's a term that was literally coined to describe the web, including websites and browsers.

Why does it drive you nuts?
There is a high likelihood that Joe became a Night Owl because of inconsiderate colleagues.

Many developers will report higher productivity either early in the morning or late in the afternoon/early evening if they work in an office environment:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/108133/are-de...

Why? During these times, they are less interrupted or distracted by other people in the office.

Ideally, Joe could explain the situation to his manager/colleagues and find a way to work productively in the office during office hours.

My personal experience, however, despite discussions and requests not to be disturbed other than at predefined times, I still get interrupted far too often. Other people will place their "need" to get something from you over your productivity almost always.

I am currently the only developer at my office. When I work at the office I am almost always the last out the door as I start getting productive as everyone else leaves for the day.

To retain some productivity and sanity, I try to work from home 2 days per week. It is telling that on those days I often feel mentally fatigued before the end of the day.
I have a feeling they just "bought" the IP from a third-party and never actually tested it.
> By comparison, the median income for a person with any bachelor's degree is about $50,000

Yes, but if you have a PhD, in a field like CS (which is what we were talking about), these numbers are crazy. Why would I take a job teaching Trigonometry in rural Spotsylvania county (which Google wants to spell check to Transylvania and let me tell you, it is not that wrong) making $50k a year when I could be living in not-rural-the-South making five times that writing Javascript for whoever? The suggestion of K-12 ed is so close to "adjunct" that it might as well be the same.

The GP suggestion of doing K-12 ed with a PhD is still off the mark because you don't get a PhD because you want to lecture - you get it because you want to do research. The "teaching" that most PhDs value is mentoring junior researchers - you don't do this as an undergraduate lecturer, and you especially don't do this as an underpaid babysitter.
Your reader looks awesome. Did you open source it?
"Inside Out" made me fucking furious. No child should have such an calcified perspective of mind or language shoved down their throat at such an early age by a global corporation.
In C++, dereferencing a pointer doesn't give you a value: it gives you a "reference". While a compiler is possibly allowed to do so, I would be shocked to the point of saying "this compiler doesn't work" at a compiler that actually went out of its way, even with optimizations turned off (as this isn't an optimization issue), to access the memory at the address of the pointer in any way if the reference was never actually used.
You wouldn't have to implement sha1(), I bet it's already there. It'd be the same as calling strcmp; the difficulty is hiding the hash (although it probably wouldn't be the only "magic number" in their code), but given enough time and creativity you could come up with a clever solution. For example, you could check one byte of the hash at a time in different parts of the auth function.
> There's something about a corporation controlling, optimizing, monetizing, and branding dominant components of a childhood that just doesn't seem right.

And especially such one as Disney...
Even if the rhetoric was out of bounds, the right remedy would be to "improve", not "leave".

But the use of the term was fair.

There is a political and ideological aspect of the fierce-copyleft outlook that cross-fertilizes with Marx-ish thinking. Eben Moglen is often eloquent on these themes. It's not necessarily an insult to observe this.

And in this kind of casual, vernacular use – uncapitalized, even! – people also understand 'marxist' to describe language that has been shifted, by certain stylized theories of production and exploitation, from its plainer meaning in other contexts. That's a reasonably expressive way to describe the very particular and ideologically-qualified definition of "Free" that the FSF prefers.
Try the Kobo offerings.
People go to restaurants for lots of different reasons. That's what a 5-star rating system doesn't capture. I think simply rating "I am/not likely to eat there again" would be more appropriate. A site could aggregate enough of that data to find users with similar tastes to you. I.e., Yelp should be more like Pandora and less like Rolling Stone.

I don't know anything about this particular restaurant but it seems like he's accidentally targeting the wrong audience. Wine pairing menus, fancy plating, an article in Vice, Kickstarter... none of these things strike me as targeting his desired customer, which is someone with modest expectations and expecting just dinner, not an event to review.
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Mindless Statistics [pdf]
Sometimes I wonder if I'm in a bubble. My PI thanked me when I told him I had discovered that out our data was systematically biased and it would take weeks to correct the issue.
You can shorten that to `-pEHkKr 1`, so you know.
Even Microsoft is not immune to date bugs - remember their Zunes freezing on a leap year?

http://bit-player.org/2009/the-zune-bug

This was in software, not hardware, more serious than just the date being wrong, and they didn't even provide a fix other than "wait until the day passes":

http://gizmodo.com/5121822/official-fix-for-the-zune-30-fail
That is not an unsatisfying answer at all. I believe a hardware abstraction layer may get us to an api like experience (and have been developing one myself), so wanted to get your opinion.

I didn't want to mention my project before as I wanted to get your unbiased opinion. Great answer. thanks.
I watched it and I thought it was cute. I would like to hear more about what made you so furious - it's a perspective I didn't get while watching or with other people I spoke with after. Maybe I'm already disney brain washed.
An even better question - is this the most interesting of all possible untestable theories?

String theory's critics are sure that it isn't. I've even heard it said that it only has the prominence it has because a noisy generation of physicists elbowed out competing projects.

If you don't have a testable theory in the short term, should you carry on trying to refine that theory in the absence of evidence, or should you spend more time on competing theories that perhaps have more chance of being open to experimental verification in a reasonable time frame?

The list of open, unsolved, and unexplained issues in physics isn't small. Continuing to prioritise one theory and gambling that it works out eventually is a classic sunk-cost error.
Other comments in the HN discussion indicate that 9.5 introduces an optimization to JSONB handling. It seems that you've always been able to edit fields in your documents, this just makes Postgres do less rewriting than before.
It seemed like new star wars was a remake of the old star wars. I think people people know what they like and they just want it repackaged in a slightly different form. Surprised they haven't gone out and brought out hasbro and mattel.
Why are Verizon gift cards selling for more than face value on eBay?
Netflix would be a bad idea, if the next step after acquisition is that all non-Disney content providers announce that they will not be renewing anything. Valve hasn't got very much to do with their core "childhood" strategy; they hardly seem to make games anymore, and what does Disney need a PC game distributing network for?
Introducing jQuery Browser
Yes. And in this case, competition (on the demand side) drives up prices.
Show HN: QMe (alpha testing)
I know a lot of people are probably going to want to yell at me but I think it needed to be remade. And I say this as a fan. I don't think a non-fan would pour over Star Wars vehicle cross sections. What they did was remake it in the best way possible given their constraints (old diehard fans) and I think it was done smartly and tastefully. Done this way you get new fans without losing a lot of them to appeasing old fans and old fans without losing a lot of them to appeasing new fans.
Why? If you see gas taxes as a Pigovian tax, then the externalities created are related to the volume of petrol burned, not the price at the pump.
"The suggestion of K-12 ed is so close to "adjunct" that it might as well be the same."

No, it is not. K-12 pays a lot more than adjunct wages, and almost always has good health and retirement benefits.
When you get that much media attention and you still fail, there are no excuses. It means mistakes were made and expectations were not met.
I don't think it's the media attention which killed the restaurant. Getting people's attention requires luck, keeping people's attention requires skill.
I hope they do. Nintendo has been pretty awful at hardware for a while now but I still love the characters.

Rare being bought by Microsoft was very unfortunate, however.
Yes most PI’s are happy to avoid the embarrassment and only want to publish good data.

The problem is not that most scientists are not trying to do the right thing, but that they are under enormous pressure to pump out the results. It only takes a few falling to this pressure to destroy the public’s faith in science - the consequence of this are catastrophic.

We must solve this problem or we will not have science.
This was completely expected: while Uber and Lyft can mostly carry out arbitrage against the patchwork of local regulations on taxi services across the country, air travel is federal and there are no conflicting local rules to take advantage of at different times, just the FAA saying "yes" or "no" nationwide.

And it also shouldn't be controversial: everybody knows Uber and Lyft are taxi services, despite their occasional "we're not a taxi, honest" dodges, and doing the same with aircraft... makes you an airline, and trying to go back and pull a "we're not an airline, honest" is not going to fly.
Exactly. It's inconvenient to read the article and comments in separate pages.
After all Firefox announced 64-bitV of Firefox to its stable channel
Why publish via MIT press if the authors want to be able to distribute it freely, why not self publish?
Restaurants and tech startups aren't the best analogs. A lot of tech startups are trying to become the biggest thing they can be, and are therefore often designed in a way to be somewhat scalable. A lot of restaurant owners are happy being small, and would rather have a tight-knit community feel than having to become the Next Big Thing, with rich tourists from all over expecting to be pampered.
It's a little self-limiting in the end, at least. The more Disney throws recycled characters in our face as part of a bland franchise-entertainment product, the more compelling real original work will become, and the more likely they are to ruin the childhood magic.

I also find hope in recent developments overseas, and anticipate the impact of works such as Puella Magi Madoka Magica on the future of children's television here in the US as well.
Why Nanotehcnology isn't an Industry
Have been using the ReST philosophy (or pattern?) for almost 15 years without any issues. ReST itself does not define the use of a specific technology and is not a standard by itself, it is pretty abstract. Using the URI and HTTP standards are just a way to apply it. Other technologies can be used as well, like SMTP / MIME or something developed yourself as soon as the ReST constraints can be applied. Adding the ReST constraints is what brings the advantages. It is really flexible and allows for easy composition of "layers" through "connectors". A caching proxy is an example of a "connector". If ReST could be compared to something in programming it is very similar to "monads" as used in functional programming.

Recursion can be done by the use of nested "resource identifiers" (SSI or ESI for example) inside the returned "representation". A "connector" may then decide to do another request to replace the "identifier". If the "connector" uses caching it may not even need to do another sub-request. I use this to do something like what Facebook's Relay does. As the full state is always being sent along with every request it is very easy to scale because the servers, wherever they are, always have enough context to be able to work with it. A server may even ignore what it does not understand for the next layer to handle it called "partial understanding" which is supported by XML for example. Unfortunately when using JSON most of these advantages are lost. That is why I prefer a less verbose "XML Infoset" similar to JSON while still keeping all the advantages.
For me, it drives me nuts because zealots do a lot of handwaving to get from "the web itself is RESTful!" to "and it's the best possible way to build an API".
I think I'm the only person who's written a complete C++ compiler by himself - preprocessor, parser, semantic analyzer, optimizer, and code generation. I also mean a C++98 compiler, because that's pretty much where I stopped.

I don't know how much is involved in going from that to C++14, as I haven't done that.

10 man years is a good estimate for creating a C++ compiler, not including the C part nor the optimizer/codegen.
Emotions are so much more complex than our terrible labels for them, and much of your emotional sense of self comes from the language your parents branded you with for the most cultural convenience: '"Anger" is bad! It's your fault in not handling "it", not ours or the systems', but "Anger" in-of-itself doesn't exist outside of language, just the nebulous array of feelings and reactions we've been to coniditoned to label as "Anger", what this film effectively did was create an false emotional framework for children to rely on in the future, which should fucking terrify you because so much of modern society and capitalism is built on neurological manipulation to get you to buy things and not disrupt systems of power. The movie was nothing less than brainwashing.
I built a similarly simple feed aggregator for anyone to use at https://plumfeed.com Shows the most recent post of each feed. I've found it particularly nice for blogs and comics that update once a day or less.
Renters Spent a Record-High Share of Income on Rent This Spring
So based on that [3], open source then.

What are the high speed and feature-wise comparable open source solutions to a the compromised Juniper switches?
The snark is extremely dry, so it is entirely reasonable to have misunderstood it. But the effect of adding an unconditional day to November would be to increase the year to 366 days (and 367 on leap years), which even the ancients knew was totally wrong. And the effect of adding a day to November and take it from e.g. December is just to affect how we do human accounting; there's no astronomical concept of December 1 that needs to line up with anything.
Yup. People get static and strong typing murder up.
Many of you will downvote me for sharing this, but parents will appreciate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwUwchCeeI4

DO NOT let your kids watch Disney!
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The things Disney are buying were always controlled, monetized and branded. Lucasfilm, Pixar and Marvel were not little community driven charities.
It goes both ways.

One can say "oh well, they are looking at code and weeding this out, these guys know what they are doing" or you can say "these are a bunch of either amateurs or they are malicious and in bed with some high stakes player who is not our friend, stay away!".

So it kind of depends. Who do you turn for your high throughput switches.

I am not familiar with that market at all, but wondering if just buying asics, fpgas and some hardware then loading an open source OS on it is viable....
Do you always only read the first sentence?
https://github.com/atom/electron
I know. But I'd like to have an internet with donations, not ads.
That was my first guess. Based on how password looked it could have been a multi-line split or some sort of other such trickery. A set of macros perhaps...
Toy projects to work on
Fungi are incredible.

Check out this post about how mycelial networks act as an organic internet for plant species to communicate.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden...
Even if it did (which I don't think is true) you're still doing a radically different job with a radically different exit plan - as an adjunct, you have the sliver of hope that you can get out and get a job doing research. As a K-12 educator, you're never doing research again. You've effectively changed fields.
A better statement of jwmerril's razor: points drawn from a probability distribution have a higher likelihood than points coming from far away.

I don't really know why you don't think that the asymptotic forms are evidence in favor of this - a prototypical probability distribution on the real line is a bump somewhere with a decaying tail. And that "somewhere" is far closer to the origin than points out in some arbitrarily distant tail.

Now obviously if you want to make stronger claims about a specific origin, you'll need to specify a particular probability distribution, and justify why that's the right one. I agree that a non-asymptotic Occams razor is an additional assumption.

But you also get pretty far with the asymptotic theory. Consider a theory of "green" as compared to a theory of "bleen" (namely that green turns to blue after some time T). You have a prior with some probability that only green exists (say 50%), and also a 50% chance that green turns to blue after some time T. But now you have a continuous distribution over T.

Now suppose you want to make a prediction - e.g., H = "the grass will be green, not blue, at t=50". When you compute a posterior, you reject all values of T < 0 (supposing the present time is 0). Also, all values of T > 50 actually yield the same prediction as "only green exists". So the only way you can get a prediction of blue at time 50 is if 0 < T < 50. Of course, the more time you spend gathering data, the further into the tail you move and the less likely it is that your posterior will predict blue. I.e., Bayesian stats even with very few assumptions gets sensible results eventually.

I do in fact hold the view that Bayesian probability is a consistent theory of the scientific method, and also of how humans should update their beliefs when new evidence is gathered.

(Minor nit: your continuous asymptotic form isn't slightly wrong for this purpose, f(x) need not approach zero. Counterexample: f(x) = 1 for x \in [1, 1+2^{-1}], [2, 2+2^{-2}], etc, f(x) = 0 elsewhere. That integrates out to 1/2 + 1/4 + ... = 1, but lim_{x -> \infty} f(x) doesn't exist.)

[I'm also a bit surprised you are being so heavily downvoted. I don't think you are right, but you are hardly so crazily wrong that you should be greyed out.]
Except for that it wasn't supposed to be a remake, rather this was just a case of everyone involved phoning it in. I think Andrew O'Hehir said it best, "it's the Citibank of movies, literally too big to fail." Right now everyone has been brainwashed into loving it because of Disney's billion-dollar marketing spend. But much like Bush's popularity after 9/11, sooner or later reality is going to catch up.

As a kid part of the magic of Star Wars was that you could sort of imagine there was an entire universe of interesting stories and characters beyond what was pictured in the movies. But J.J. Abrams has made it abundantly clear that no, actually, there was never anything else there.
If your websites serve ads then by definition your content isn't free. As long as you believe that ads actually work and influence people then you are imposing a cost on your users.

There are websites which are actually free to end users. They don't serve ads, they might have a donation page, and largely exist because the operator simply wants to publish something. Most of the 'old web' embodies these qualities.

The assumption that the only way for websites to make money is via ads or paywalls is completely pervasive and it's simply not true. These two options are the most naive monetization strategies. My favorite counterexample is the Welcome to Nightvale Podcast. Their podcast is gratis and without ads. They make money through donations, selling swag, their book, and by performing live shows -- all which sell out extremely fast because I've been trying to get tickets recently.

The Internet is quite expensive because of ads.
Oddly enough, Halti is already Finland's highest mountain: the current highest point in Finland is just a little lower (1,324 m) than the actual peak that the Norwegians propose to hand over (1,365m).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halti
Beautiful irony: the only part of the site that doesn't work well on my old android browser is the popup telling me my browser is out of date.
The internet is free because of commerce. Pages are large and slow because merchants have no mechanism (other than ads) for transmitting money to where the costs are incurred.
Nice! It's a cool project, and ambitious, but definitely worth doing. I'll be rooting for you!

Let me try to poke a hole or two in it for you. Not to discourage you, of course, but just to try and get you to think of some of the harder, less technical problems you may run into.

First, there's a fine line between a HAL and a full-fledged operating system, so be careful there! It's also hard to justify adding overhead or third party code to a system in many cases, especially if you're manufacturing for six sigma. You want every system to be in your complete control, because it turns out that making reliable products is _hard_.

I also don't see something like a universally-used HAL becoming mainstream anytime soon; for almost all production purposes (I don't know the number, of course, but perhaps on the order of 99%) a 50kHz chip with a 30-year old design is _exactly_ what you want. In most cases, you want to use a tried-and-true workhorse that you can get for $0.012 each, and not have to use a $2 chip that's powerful enough to run the HAL.

BUT a universal HAL could be great for hobbyists. Port your code easily from arduino to a powerful RISC to some other platform. That'd be great :)

BEST of luck!!