skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course the 'money' in this is abstracting away the complexities of Open Bazaar with your own app since their example GUI is pretty confounding. For example create a designer clothing app that only lists other designer clothing listings (to not scare away customers who discover a bunch of heroin for sale on OB with the regular GUI), then sell the ranking they appear in your app, or in app ads as a small example.

I don't like the Moderator rating system though, seems too easy to game and has too many worthless stages 1-5. Bitcoin-OTC ratings are more clear. The rating "This is a scam avoid at all costs" opens the door for legal issues of people trying to sue the developers like when Ebay gave up on negative feedback due to too many lawsuits. Of course there is also issues of governments trying to shut down this completely due to weapons and narcotics undoubtedly being sold on OB in the future, I assume the creators have a plan for dealing with that inevitable gov harassment.

The creators/maintainers should also be careful where they travel, if they fly to say, China, Indonesia or Turkey for any reasons they could be arrested there and pushed through a kangaroo court.
I think I still don't get what your suggestion is ... what could a web browser do to alleviate the address shortage in IPv4?
I meant the visual quality
> Coming from academia, I was trained to fiercely defend my intellectual territory, pissing all over anything that seemed remotely close to my area of interest.

Anyone who has ever been through a conference/journal submission process knows this pain. You can usually tell from the comments which of the reviewers is working in your field and wants to shut you out.
Tomorrow, they will let it fall[1]

[1]http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35253188
Oh, fair point - that sounds ridiculous! Is there any advantage to that as opposed to the OSX method (which is to just always show a global menu bar, that acts pretty much like any standard GUI menu, populated with items pertinent to the active application)?
I can't tell if the hilarity of your statement was intended.
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Have you tried Onenote ? How does it compare ?
It's kind of like a human-friendly CLI, so I can appreciate that, but I agree that there should at least be clickable defaults.
Oregon is 6th - not bad at all considering it's relatively new to tech, and doesn't have that large a population in any event.
It usually takes from 3 to 6 months to know where are the parts of the system that you are using, and also if this is an old codebase maybe longer, your boss knows this, relax, keep learning!
NIH - Bethesda,
NSA - Fort Meade,
Johns Hopkins - Baltimore,
U of Maryland
>it's a big deal if a bunch of academics are spending time working on the wrong things

At the risk of sounding a little prickly with my comment - isn't it a little presumptuous to write off a certain amount of research as "wrong"? There are plenty of examples of research that didn't have a clear purpose leading to breakthroughs - safety glass, microwave ovens, and Teflon all spring to mind.

Also, focusing on efficiency doesn't really align with academia's purpose, which (to my mind) has more to do with fundamental research. This article about Xerox PARC springs to mind:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046437/5-steps-to-recreate-xero...
Really nice to see the direction things are moving in... I do feel that the replication/failover story needs a lot of work, but there's been some progress towards getting it in the box. Even digging into any kind of HA strategy is cumbersome to say the least (short of a 5-6 figure support contract). It's one of the things that generally stops me from considering PostgreSQL for a lot of projects. As a side note, I really like how RethinkDB's administrative interface is and their failover usage. It would be great to see something similar reach an integration point for PostgreSQL.

I also think that PLv8 should probably make it in the box in the next release or two. With the addition of JSON and Binary JSON data options, having a procedural interface that leverages JS in the box would be a huge win IMHO. Though I know some would be adamantly opposed to this idea.
I KNOW that. I just wanted to know if the native compilers for the languages you mentioned supported static compilation either through a switch or by default, or if it's something that somebody else would have to write.
Sugar is the real culprit when it comes to acne.
another pitfall is that they are probably wagering that submitter has little understanding of stock dilution and they can inflate the upside while getting him to get things started for free and potentially replace him after funding begins
Photorealism might be what everyone is looking for, but ultimately it doesn't matter. Many pretty games have come and gone in 5 years, but they've all been out-sold (and out-played) by Minecraft.
It's pretty extreme. No sugar, no flour, no alcohol, no refined foods in general. No cheap oils (only olive oil). And no caffeine. Basically, the diet Tom Brady eats: http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/2016/01/04/me...
Curious - why do you think that? The seller obviously sold the tickets for a higher price, and can be forced to give the buyer the price difference, allowing the buyer to buy new tickets at the new price, fulfilling the purpose of the original contract. Why do you think a judge would disagree?
I have read somewhere that Santa Clara County's GDP and population is really close to one of Qatar's.
> An OS's access is potentially everything on the computer.

And that's an understating.

An OS can know all your passwords, can look everywhere around on your network, can sign documents legally impersonating you.
On point 5... love PLv8, which imho makes working with the newer JSON data types really nice.
Bye bye mongodb.
I'm not that familiar with REST. Care to explain what you mean?
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I'll bite. How can you have more than one "default" route without PBR on the host? That's breaking the meaning of default.

Why does link local need to be complicated? Router interfaces facing clients should be fe80::1. That way, every client knows it's default route is fe80::1%eth0 (or similar). Works great for multiple addresses from different networks on the same host, too.
I think one thing, at least among working class, is the blue collar vibe you get from many working class in MA, vs CA, where unionism isn't as strong.
The widespread existence of such policies -- long after slavery ended, sanctioned by the federal government and generations-long, is why folks like Ta-Nehisi Coates can make a persuasive case for reparations.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case...
Yes, but I feel that the "startup inequality" that PG wants to talk about is the outlier. The "Wall street inequality", what PG calls "those specific abuses", is 90% of the real story of today, and so you might as well call that "regular inequality" or leave off the prefix entirely.

i.e.

> Some of that is certainly Silicon Valley executives. But it's the financial professionals that this conversation is really about. ... The inequality debate is driven by the belief that those kinds of abuses are disparate and widespread.
This sounds pretty crazy, but is it possible for the Chinese government to manipulate the American stock markets by playing with its own stock market?

China knows that when its markets plunge, the American markets plunge too.

Is there a way for China to create the illusion of its markets plunging, without losing real value (or at least profiting from the perspective of some influential power in China)? Perhaps they could accomplish such manipulation through a combination of 1) collusion between the CCP and the largest investors in the Chinese market, 2) currency manipulation, and 3) shorting of US equities?

I know this sounds speculative and vague, because honestly I have no idea what I'm talking about. But China certainly has the motive to manipulate American markets. And since the foreign investment is asymmetrical (e.g. the Chinese can invest in NYSE, but Americans cannot invest in Shanghai), China has an opportunity to "play both sides" of a Shanghai market crash and any corresponding American market drop, while American investors cannot do the same.

So... is it possible?
This article's claims are true -- but only for South Korea.

Between the end of WW2 and the start of Korean war, the North has seen an exodus of landowners, former government officials, and other beneficiaries of the Japanese occupation: they left the North for the far more tolerant South. The new government, press and education cadres for the most part consisted of ethnic Koreans from China, Manchuria, and the Soviet Union, and relatively few came from Korean resistance fighters that stayed in the Korea proper. Kim Il Sung himself fought in Manchuria in 1930s and entered Korea in 1945 as a captain in the Red Army.

The politics and ideology were built on Soviet blueprints under Soviet supervision [1]. Soviet influence can still be seen in the Party jargon and the formal political language [2].

It wasn't until the late 50s that Kim Il Sung won the political infighting and secured his hold on power, simultaneously breaking out from under Soviet and Chinese control and introducing the ideology of self-reliance and isolationism.

In South Korea, however, Rhee Syngman did not have the choice of importing unsullied cadres (e.g. a vanishingly small percentage of American Koreans in 1940s had higher education), and so did had not much choice but to rely on the Korean collaborators [3]:

Rhee himself had been an independence activist, and his relations with the Chinilpa Korean elites who had collaborated with the Japanese were in the words of the South Korean historian Kyung Moon Hwang often "contentious", but in the end an understanding was reached, whereas in exchange for their support, Rhee would not purge the elites. In particular, the Koreans who had served in the colonial-era National Police, whom the Americans had retained after August 1945 were promised by Rhee that their jobs would not be threatened by him. Upon independence in 1948, 53% of South Korean police officers were men who had served in the National Police during the Japanese occupation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terentii_Shtykov

[2] http://www.nknews.org/2014/08/north-korean-dialect-as-a-sovi...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngman_Rhee
Given the recent ACM article about faster-than-cpu persistent memory on the horizon, how does that affect memory-hard hashing algorithms?

A machine with a measly 256GB of memory can do around half a million Argon2 hashes simultaneously (using the Python library defaults for memory complexity of 512k), and that doesn't include the memory built into high end GPUs, or what could be added to ASICs or FPGA boards.
They have given themselves the ability to make this right
and go after the seller for the costs of it, but they are
choosing not to, screwing the buyer instead.

You're right in general, but just to nitpick: If there are only 100 real tickets to an event, and 110 tickets have been promised by StubHub, 10 customers will go without tickets regardless of StubHub's willingness to pay the market rate for extra tickets.
I mean broadly almost all unixes, Mac, and Windows. All the big platforms. In embedded systems and plan9, static linking never left. But for mainstream development for desktop and server systems? Static linking has been out for a while.
I think I agree with samth - it's not the academia, but the industry who needs to open up. Especially Google has a reputation of being very secretive.
Been there... It's a terrible feeling.

A couple of vectors to approach the situation:

- Start top down. Understand what the entire system or product is supposed to do at the macro level. Understand the main architectural components, what the role of each is and how they interact with each other and users or the outside world. Once you can understand the big picture, the individual lines of code have a context that helps understand their purpose and how they perform it.

- Discuss with your lead engineer what his expectations are for your progress. Very senior people I have talked to will claim that it takes 6 months - 1 year before a new hire can really start to contribute. Longer if it is a legacy system as you are facing. Something like, 'Once I am up to speed, what kind of tasks or projects will you expect me to take on? Can you give a few specific examples (maybe things that actually are on the list today) and give a time line for how long you'd expect it to take me to get them done? This can be a bit dicey depending on the style of the manager, but it's good to learn their style in addition to their expectations of your performance.
Why does any discussion around the Middle East produce incredibly shallow, edgy comments?

It's incredibly, incredibly, incredibly complicated stuff, and the discourse is all soundbites.
Password hashes focused too long on computation time, neglecting memory usage. It's great to see some progress on that topic.

You mean, like scrypt, seven years ago?
It's a good idea but fairly challenging in practice. The amount of information you need to reveal in a scientific publication may make many companies uncomfortable. My view is that academics should not just be focused on getting another paper on their CV -- there is value in having the industry experience even if no papers come out of it.
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I agree, it could very well prompt a recession. Also looking at the technicals, the 1 year percent change of the S&P 500 is negative, which is a strong recession indicator historically. The 150-300-39 day MACD also looks bad. These indicators have both only been negative one other time since 2009, which was in September 2015.

Lastly the US CAPE ratio is pretty bad too.
One of the major points of the Joel article is that the best option is usually one you didn't name; incrementally fix the "crappy" codebase. At no point do you do a "big rewrite", at no point do you have a big step back, at no point do you lose the ability to make forward progress because the new code isn't ready and the old code is deprecated, etc. Even if it may take somewhat longer to get there, the integral of value over time often still comes out larger for incremental improvement.

Developers want the default answer to "abandon the old mess and write a new one" (snarkiness fully on purpose); Joel's point is that the default answer ought to be incremental improvement. Not that it's always the right answer, but other answers ought to be scrutinized more closely than developers might like.

From a professional point of view, it's actually perfectly fair to consider that greenfielding a new project with hot new tech (or even "newer"-but-established tech, my personal favorite choice) is more fun than trudging through old code. Human factors matter a lot. But we are also professionally obligated not to overprivilege it.

Besides, if you treat it as a serious project instead of a series of hack jobs, in my experience, very serious incremental improvement still offers a lot of engineering challenge and fun. I think one of the biggest mistakes people make is to prejudge incremental improvements as a hack job, when it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Yes, of course they can't steal the source code, nor the OS itself. There OS is used in a broader sense. They want to steal Google's position of inmense power in the Android ecosystem.
EDIT: pjmlp. I don't make a habit of getting people's usernames wrong, but that one's hard to read.
Agreed. At an absolute minimum, they should be doubled. If someone is going to buy this, it's worth at least that.
Why is 'sometimes occluded' important? For each surface your ray hits you need to look at all lights, and if more of them are occluded that's better as you have less computation to do to add that light in don't you?
They could charge sellers the greater of the purchase price or the market price of the ticket at the time of cancellation.
> though it also has some advantages—it's nice to be able to message someone not online

Just because you don't require servers, doesn't mean that you can't have servers optionally as a relay. Your client tell would tell the clients of your contacts to send messages to a server specified by you when they can't reach you directly. For instance the server could be run by the company behind the messaging app you're using and could send you push notifications. You could still switch the server at will without loosing your identity.
Some quotes from the article:

"My first piece of advice: do a sabbatical or internship in industry."

"you have to work on a real product team"

"hold yourself to a higher standard"

"keep an open mind"

Kind of painful to reread it, actually.
But China wants its people to feel wealthy. The property boom ended, then there was gold boom. They wanted a stock boom. People that feel wealthy are happy citizens. They have every reason to keep the stock market high.
That is how these things work. If an org isn't willing to allow forking then they forking shouldn't have open sourced it.
The FACT that Google open sourced it tells me THEY DON'T MIND.
I thought this was interesting but the resulting code was so ugly and awkward that I would refrain from using it. I would just prototype in R and convert to Python rather than using both in this sort of Frankenstein way.
We're into semantics here. Privacy provides a way to hide detail, to prevent confirmation, and to allow people to deny things. For simplicities sake I consider these, or more broadly, anything protected by privacy, to be 'secrets'.

I don't think the word 'crucial' that you added is useful here.
It's security, not PR, stupid! Time to get your hands dirty and IT shit done, stop keeping advertising, your moron!!
They did not follow through on actually protecting the fans, just restoring the original money. They are presenting the appearance that they will ensure the purchase, while the terms actually promise no such thing.
A better approach might be to offer an annual subscription plan with a discount in addition to a monthly plan. That way you will appeal to customers who want to just trial the product and customers who want to pay for the commitment upfront.
It does not follow that because Kim Il Sung fought against the Japanese, he was not influenced by Japanese ideology.

Before you dismiss the article's argument out of hand, take a look at "The Cleanest Race" by B. R. Myers, which is a much more informed articulation of the same thesis (and a very interesting read to boot).
In some cases, people will defer to database level security restrictions. It really depends on how much application logic is in the database. Some applications are designed with as much logic as possible in the DB, including each user being a db user with credentialed access. Others will treat the DB as dumb storage with all access through a programatic API... with thin API shims over DBMS, the db security is paramount.
And on top of that Oregon is actually a desirable place to live as compared with MA or CA.
Contributing to the ranking of MA is probably Boston's "Innovation District"[0] that has been renovating some of the less-nice parts of the South Boston waterfront area.

[0] http://www.innovationdistrict.org/faq/
Cyanogen, you were the chosen one. You were supposed to eliminate the bloatware, not add it!
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I am trying to build a server for myself, which will have database and few web services. I looked up few known options like, Samsung Enterprise SSD, Intel S3710, OCZ Saber. The Intel are higher end models which are ~1.50/GB, expensive than Samsung and OCZ. Samsung has better read/writes and OCZ is better cost effective with 5 year warranty. Are there any other brands available? Which SSD is good for a server? Lets say ~1GB data written per day.
I like it. The Dafny annotations seem straightforward and approachable.

Anyone know of a similar system for Javascript?
When I wrote "shell" I was thinking of interpolation of bash, etc.
Really the idea that the blades are not enclosed is so bizarre. Who would ever think having it as is was a good idea?
It would be kinda cool to find a way to stuff a fast HTTP server into Postgres and run it all directly from the Postgres process serving the request.
Another approach I saw a gym take recently was having a relatively high price but then you "earned" back a portion of the fee every month by meeting a certain activity goal.

It seems like it might be complicated to administer, but I think the psychology works well for an aspirational product because people will like the idea of making a commitment to a personal improvement but will probably over-estimate their future activity.
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Fair. This happens less in my field, but a lot of that could be because, for medical applications, people are far less willing to certify without published validation.
California has a bunch of great stuff going for it in terms of weather, a variety of landscapes, and so on, but between the NIMBYs and the inability to deal with density... yeah, it's got some serious problems too.

I visited Boston once in the summer. Nice place, but no way would I ever live there.
> R is the only real game in town for free software for scientific computing these days.

You have a very very narrow definition of scientific computing, excluding a huge part of the field, i.e. anything written in C, C++ or Fortran. And I've never seen people in aerospace or civil engineering use R, it seems to be mostly popular in statistics heavy, "softer" fields such as biology or economics.

Edit: to give some examples of what I mean: show me a (molecular dynamics|computational fluid dynamics|finite element method|Poisson solver|magnetohydrodynamics solver|electrodynamics solver|general relativity code|quantum many-body solver|lattice field theory code) written in R. I haven't seen any.
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It's already happened with CS education for undergrads, why not have industry dominate the research arm of CS departments as well? If we don't bend over backwards pandering to industry and completely restructure academic thought to pander to profit-driven corporations then how will our bright grad students get jobs at Google? God forbid if we don't obey every command of the software industry one day someone might say they're a CS major at a party and have someone ask "CS? Why? What are you going to do with that?"
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I'd consider any interesting/challenging role, but
would be particularly interested in a "lead" developer
position.
I'm also at a bit of a loss of what point "There may be a second product in the world that is similarly unfocused" is supposed to be making. Yes... Evernote isn't the only one...? And...? (I mean, literally, I don't even know if it's intended in support of your point or in disagreement.)
Well, I just said that there's a huge amount of quality work done in those 800 studies.

And what you suggested isn't at all uncommon in those quality work studies.

Checkout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Cornell%E2%80%93...

A controlled environment of people not changing their diet and lifestyle in a 20 year time span.

There's plenty of studies like that.

There are quality studies where p-values tell that their sample size isn't large enough, but when you do a meta-analysis of studies with same methodology you get a relevantly sized sample.

I do guess you are talking about those "Phd nutrition guys" and yes, they are full of bullshit and aren't scientists, because if you are talking about the real science, your comment is full of disinformation.