skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are more ways to "publish" work than in academic publications. I'm not sure to what extent it is unrealistic to expect academics to be keeping up with what is going on at industry conferences or on github or by talking to people at user groups or wherever, but the reality will always be that academic publications are not the only, or the most up-to-date, source of information.
Why China’s stock market bubble was always bound to burst
I do not think ACM article is very relevant here, because what is speaks about is, essentially, the fact that what we traditionally thought of "disks" is now getting as fast as RAM, because persistence is achieved via new technologies.

A machine with a measly 256GB of memory can do around half a million Argon2 hashes simultaneously

Not necessarily. There is always the limitation of memory bandwidth. Although, I do not see saturating that bandwidth as a design goal of Argon2.
Sadly, if you live in the states, you are likely correct to feel that way. I haven't had many racial incidents in the tech workplace, but I have had enough to understand that it definitely could be held against you in the long term.
Only if enabled. It's a tick box in the settings menu for "search" that I've disabled since it was introduced in Win8. I'm sure it's useful for some people since they typically open a browser to search more often than they search for local files (and Microsoft wants people to use their services). Still, for me, web results just get in the way of local searches and I'm used to typing in the Start/Win menu for local, not web so new installs get their options adjusted accordingly.
The place to fight this is with getting the IRS to recognize that this is a money-making business masquerading as a religion for financial gain.
New VR Headset Invites Users to “See with Their Ears”
They propose additions use cases for the array in their papers. These include a LIDAR based detection system. I'm on my phone right now so I can't link the appropriate one. Let me know if you are interested and I can find it later.
He's getting 4 free ticket from Budweiser in section 112 and 4 free tickets in section 106 personally delivered by the CEO of Tickets For Less. Now, Stubhub has apologized and promised to get him to the game.

If I were him I'd deny the Stubhub tickets regardless of how good they are. Budweiser tickets are middle bottom level section (great view) while Tickets for Less are offering behind the backboard seats. Both are better than the original location he purchased.
Is this the only source? https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/3yv2db/aws_ebs_vo...
I totally disagree about Mint. I have accounts across so many different services (bank, credit cards, loans, investments) and it saves me so much time because I only have to log in one place and I can see the full picture of my finances. I also like the trends feature so I can breakdown spending into different categories. Plenty of financial services have stats on their sites, but mint unifies all of them.
How Axions May Explain Time's Arrow
Sequencing to identify gut microbiota is now common in research. The general makeup of gut bacteria is relatively stable, so weekly or monthly sampling should be adequate.
Thanks! That was exactly what I wanted to know.
Very true. I wrote the GRE with a bunch of my friends in 2009, and all of us got 800/800 in the math section. We spent >95% of our prep time on the verbal section. The math section was very easy, as long as you were careful about double checking your answers.

I've heard it has become a bit tougher these days, from my sister, due to a change in format.
I'd think they can supplement them, but not overtake them.
Millennials Are Outpacing Everyone in Retirement Savings
I'm describing a growing network.

WLAN support doesn't require new hardware because of IPv6, it requires new hardware because old 3com 3c509 cards didn't support WLAN. Increasing number of customers require increasing number of customer-facing routers and router ports because each customer requires a connection, it's nothing specific to v6. And so on.
Sigh I really wish it was easier to use a non-tracking OS.

Personally, I use Hardened Gentoo and actively avoid downloading binaries + a lot of other tweaks to the "standard" Linux setup to patch what I see as obvious holes. Perhaps I need to elaborate more on a blog post.

It is very inconvenient yet for me I accept it as a price worth paying. The great thing about Linux though is that there are many middle roads. On one hand, you could just use Ubuntu (hey, they even turned off the tracking stuff in 15.10) and the Tor Browser, and then you've pretty much eliminated most of the casual advertiser-level tracking (if you follow basic hygiene). On the other, you could go and build your own custom distribution with packages audited by you and always built from source, only after having verified personally all the developers' GPG keys...
Hey Steve,
This is really inspiring, man!! I know what its like. I would suggest that you keep going at it. Especially since things are finally working out.

I see you mention user support as a potential time suck in one of your comments. I founded a startup which essentially provides user support on behalf of busy founders. I'd be willing to offer free support credits to you (in addition to a helpdesk software which is free for all) if it would make life easier for you. I'm hoping it might save you some time. We love people who bootstrap and let me know if we can help in any way. My email is in my profile. You can check us at:
busibud.com

I know how hard it is for a solo founder to take care of everything himself and what it feels like to put 15 hours a day without an end in sight.
app killer?
Trivers' Pursuit
RT is a rasterization method it doesn't not save you from actually having to build the scene as in textures, materials, and transform it to the players viewport, for this you need many other things than RT which is why info about it would be appreciated rather than saying we can do RT at 1/10th of the power consumption NVIDIA does.
> CCP cares way more about maintaining control than in ensuring stability.

That may be true. But I think they also see lack of stability as threatening their ability to remain in control. So in practice, they care a great deal about stability.
Firefox knows this any time a site has a pinned certificate and that certificate doesn't match, but chains to a certificate in the system trust store that didn't ship with Firefox.
Early on in 2009-2013 there was a lot of hype in the Bitcoin community over this. Lots of people (including myself) worked on Bitcoin marketplaces and most of them were marketed primarily to sellers because lots of Ebay sellers feel cheated by Ebay. But that is precisely the selling point of Ebay/Paypal. It's a buyer's market so Ebay/Paypal made the correct decision to be biased towards the buyers and that worked very well for them. My friends started buying on Ebay because everybody was assuring them that there was no risk to it. I took the leap as well precisely because of that reason.

I don't think escrow is a better preposition even if it is nominally cheaper (there is of course more risk involved, it takes longer and is more complicated, but it is also more private; not sure if it would be overall cheaper when considering all the above).

I'd be glad if someone finally managed to take on Ebay but I don't have high hopes. At most people have managed to fill in some niche where Ebay is doing a poor job, usually because it requires some specific knowledge of the merchandise being sold. Open Bazaar will probably follow suit and of course it will be that kind of merchandise.
Such nonsense. I know plenty of people doing great systems research that just doesn't align with the goals of current technology companies. Just look at the proceedings of the top systems conferences and there are plenty of good papers and ideas out there.
You have the choice between direct payment transactions which is more risky and should only be used between known parties and then there is a 2 of 3 party multisig escrow transaction that allows a moderator to be an arbitrator for problems and funds are only released if 2 of the 3 parties agree.
A 6in4 address ends in an IPv4 address so it doesn't actually add any IP space: A 6in4 host can't allocate additional IPv6 addresses that are routed over IPv4.

An IPv4+ address reserves 32 bits for the network address, and has (say) a 64 bit host address after it.

This means that IPv4+ hosts can be allocated by anyone with an IPv4 address.
Video of Israeli Jews and Arabs Kissing Removed from Facebook
I don't think the "5% problem" is a problem for Evernote. To be honest, I don't think the 5% problem is a real problem for anyone other than designers and programmers.

Everyone bitches about too features until they need something. Evernote's tagging capability and ability to capture, categorize and find information on all major platforms is best in class. They bolt on lots of features because people use that core function for lots of stuff.

Example: My sister used the Evernote web clipper to gather research for a big school project. She used tags to organized and had todo lists, etc linked to the subjects and cross-references.

Example 2: A friend did what my sister did, except the research was embedded in something like 40,000 pages of scanned paper that was OCR'd, annotated, etc. All in Evernote.

At it's most useful, Evernote is something that you use for everything. The problem is it's not reliable. It's too easy to lose data, and impossible to get data out.
That's a fair point. Another way that it played out is that people like my parents were under the impression they still had to pay $9.99/month for AOL email as recently as like 2 years ago.
Here's the original paper https://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/PSPI_9_3....
I'm so pleased to see that I was not the only freak out here doing that!
RT is by far the least efficient method of doing that.
One of the issues with RT is that it actually creates "unrealistic" lighting at least as far as computer entertainment goes the global illumination tends to be way too uniform and washed out.
It looks great on the big screen when your eyes can adjust to the brightness of the screen which is the most luminous object in the room but it looks really washed out on a monitor in a well lit room.
Caveat emptor: http://www.thestreet.com/story/10457663/1/the-perils-of-the-...
You're getting your fat sources from unsaturated fats then? I believe the body converts those sources into the fatty acids found in saturated fats when needed and vice versa (same w/ Omega 6 to Omega 3). You literally cannot survive on 0% fat intake it just doesn't work. You'll get vitamin deficiencies in short order. It's why I'm leery of any diet that prescribes an extremely low fat content (sub-10% daily intake).
Swift Array's Implementation
Most meteorites date from around the same time as this one. Its not the age that was noteworthy. Its the tracking system and search process that found a football-sized object somewhere in the Australian Outback that is remarkable.
Brazilian economy crashed hard last year and it is only getting worse.
Your study is on rats and funded by the dairy industry. That ought to give you some idea of how desperate Big Ag is to exonerate the poisonous saturated fat.
Realistically there are only about 1 million bitcoin users in total worldwide. It is still very early days. We are aiming to make OpenBazaar a common ecommerce standard using Bitcoin that will allow people to build trustworthy marketplaces on top in many different ways. It's not just about overrunning eBay, it's about providing a global, user-driven and open-source network that will grow in scale as Bitcoin does. The escrow capability is certainly an experiment in many ways, but it also is being done in other countries successfully and we think it's one of the best ways to create a marketplace of trustworthy arbiters rather than have a centralized corporation with rigid policies that treat customers unfairly in most cases.
I am in a position to hear a lot of comments on Paypal from freelance artists, and I often hear of them freezing someone's account over some transaction or for no expressed reason at all. I often wonder how they can get away with this, I would imagine if a bank did this they would be in hot water quickly with a regulator. It all seems a bit shady.
What a truly incredible sound, with incredible sound quality, too. I highly recommend that everyone drop what they are doing, put on headphones, and listen to that. Just when you think it cannot get any better, it does!
Awesome list - you should do a blog post!
Great comment explaining what OpenBazaar may become - https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3nlg5g/is_openbaza...

"Interesting. This isn't just a decentralized marketplace, there seems to be something bigger going on. If you look closely at the screenshots, you will see there seems to be a social integration within it too. Notice there is the ability to follow stores. I'd imagine that would mean there will be a feed to consume all the new items and content from the stores you're following too. This isn't going to be the application you pop in to buy something once a month with Bitcoin, it's going to be a social platform with commerce layered in that you visit every day.

This seems like what every artist, social media star, author, photographer, musician, etc needs. Build a strong following, post an update of a new song, content or anything and people can pay to play/read it right away. New types of pay to read blogs will likely start to emerge in the market. New social media stars will emerge by creating edgy stores where people can pay them to do/draw/write/sing/play/cook/photograph/wear/eat certain things. A new social channel will come to life and the content and stores will be like something we've never seen on the internet before. It's going to be very very interesting people.

This is huge!"
What if they had a tiny kickstand for when they're stopped?
I have a small side business that does < $1000 a month in PayPal transactions, but I regularly withdraw money from my PayPal account to my bank account specifically because I don't trust leaving my money in PayPal.

Why don't larger business do more frequent withdrawals from PayPal to a proper bank?
must have been a bittersweet valentines day for satoshi too ;)
Upgrading to the new permissions system in Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Except it went from 6% to 10% in a year.
I can't speak about the relative sophistication of British cryptanalysis during WWI, but Bletchley owed much of its sophistication to the Poles. The Polish Cipher Bureau was responsible for bringing mathematical and computational techniques into cryptanalysis while the French and the British were still largely employing linguistic analysis. Few realize that the Enigma was actually broken and reverse engineered by the Cipher Bureau before two new rotors were added by the Germans less than a year before the War, or that Turing's bombe was developed from Rejewski's bomba.
> Both are measures of very different things, and both are very different to actual money.

I don't really agree with you.

GDP measures the value of goods and services produced by a country over a specific timeframe.

Market cap (in this context) measures the value of all companies listed in the stock exchange.

Both are ways to measure an economy, and both are measured in units of money. What's the difference between money and "actual money"?
The article's message is that non-defensive writing traditionally presumed the author's openness to (in your case) changing their mind, and that today we have all become defensive writers because there is now an expectation that someone will use nitpicks about inconsequential points to discredit the entire piece.
So are you mostly short on the S&P 500? If I was guaranteed a recession, I would be.

I'm long on the US stock market because if US companies are good at one thing, it's their 5% YoY growth.
It would be interesting to find out who's sitting in these seats at game time and how they got their tickets.
Yes, sir/ma'am! I mix nuts, seeds, avocado, or similar plant-foods into almost every meal because you're right - unsaturated fats are essential, and conduce vitamin absorption. I also have a daily smoothie with a generous helping of ground flaxseed, chia seed, or hemp seed to get my tasty omega's. My own experience and research has led me to conclude the optimal amount of fat in my diet is less than 10%. Oh, and my acne is gone completely.
As someone that spent seven years in industry as an engineer and is now three years into a PhD, I lament the failure of industry to adopt old crypto research that has clear immediate application.

I like your post because I think it is the duty of academics to communicate their results for maximum positive effect and to represent real world impact accurately, but I also have to ask what can industry do to expose itself to excellent research which is sitting unused?
Yes, it uses a 2-of-3 multisig escrow by default. The third party is selected on an open marketplace.
None of those are actually simulation codes. The first and third are pre- and post-processing tools. The second is an interpolation tool. The fourth uses Poisson distributions, which is very different from solving the Poisson equation.
I've avoided having to trust PayPal with any sum of money since I first heard of their freezing practices years ago. Back then (not sure if this has changed) they weren't regulated like a bank so they could get away with some pretty shady behaviors.

I always suspected that they were taking the collateral and making short-term investments, this is the first time I've ever seen them try to do both with the same company at the same time...
Is there any reason to prefer Argon2 over scrypt? The article dismisses it as not popular, but doesn't say why we should invest in making Argon2 popular over scrypt.
I wrote a few sentences about gender equality at my last job for the company blog. Some people didn't like it so they escalated it to the CTO without contacting me. As a result, the editor who approved my piece was super stressed and apologetic. She quit a few months later. I wasn't surprised.

They wanted me to add the word "more" to the title of the second point. Which makes sense, but that's literally a one minute conversation. My boss was like "Sorry for going behind your back. I didn't realize you were going to find out."

https://www.redfin.com/blog/2014/10/why-i-work-at-redfin-kev...
Meanwhile I've been trying to sell holdings when they go below the 12-month moving average, since that strategy would have made me a ton of money had I used them during 2001 and 2008, but instead I've just been whipsawed to all hell. Not sure any of these indicators really make sense in the long run.
I think you're underestimating how pervasive the stock market is in doing stuff. Say, foxconn wants to build a new factory. they put up stock as collateral for a loan to pay for it. Stock crashes. They have to sell existing assets to cover the loan.

Even if they retain control by selling to a trusted partner, the asset shift is painful. If you can imagine foxconn getting into that trouble, it's very easy to imagine them not being able to manufacture IPhones or Galaxys for a few months while they negotiate contracts with the new asset owners. Any idea what that would do to Apple stock? And, you know, your 401k?

This is an extreme example, but captures the spirit. when suppliers go out of business, or even run into trouble, all the companies that depend on them slow down, have to renegotiate new contracts, possibly miss deadlines. It can be ugly.
6in4 != 6to4. In 6to4, only the router needs an IPv4 address, yielding a /48 to play with.
> Oh, fair point - that sounds ridiculous!

Don't say that thing until you try something for yourself! In the latest versions of unity, the global menu is integrated with the title-bar of the window itself. It means, you move the mouse pointer to the title area (which the user naturally does to invoke a menu anyways) and the menu appears there. Moreover, once you get into the habit of doing this, it comes naturally, so the above point that it is non-intuitive to user is just ridiculous. And speaking of:

> Is there any advantage to that as opposed to the OSX method

The advantage is that unity makes a more sensible use of your screen-real estate. Firstly, by combining both title bar and menu bar into one, you have just one bar on the screen when the window is maximized (which is how about 95% of users use it about 99% of time).

Secondly, since menu bar is hidden by default, the only thing you focus on is the window or app content, and the title which also relates to the content. I personally find this kind of workflow much better to work.
I get the feeling a reactionary effect has been an increase of traffic on anonymous image boards like 4chan. There the only value you have is in your argument; there is no profile to judge.

People can say whatever they want there - and they certainly do - but if their argument is invalid or poorly constructed it is shot down or ignored, which serves as a lesson about the strength of a point made in a sterile environment. Of course there are plenty of trolls and people who argue the opposite point for the lulz, but that's just a cost of the medium.

There is no perfect form of communication. If there was, we'd all be using it.
They have other ways of maintaining stability. Ways they have been relying on for decades before there ever were viable financial markets. They can simply fall back on those.
How Bad Is Microsoft’s Data Land-Grab?
2008 was more of a housing bubble. I think this crash looks a lot more similar to 1999 - when valuations were ridiculous (see: http://assets.bwbx.io/images/iIS_j8I_fYlI/v2/-1x-1.jpg) and people were borrowing money like crazy to invest in an insane bull market.
I'm just starting to need a real solution for taking regular payments and Paypal didn't even cross my mind as a serious contender. The business model they've cultivated engenders similar levels of trust to car salesmen and the people who charge lost equipment fees at Comcast.

I'm looking at Paysimple for their integrated invoicing and transaction handling but I'd love to hear what other people use.
Well, on one hand it's not a big deal because it's all the EULA and you've presumably read it and agreed it to it before booting up.

On the other, it's a pretty big deal because I view my computers as extensions of my brain. And I view the ability to do things privately in my brain of paramount importance.

Now, I understand why software builders like to build in telemetry (it allows them to tweak their products to be more popular and sell data to advertisers) but I cannot accept such a thing for a general-purpose operating system.
Think of it this way - for the calorie price of a tablespoon of olive oil (all fat, nothing nutritious), you can have a huge, ~10 oz salad filled with veggies, fruit, whole grains and legumes. Have a look at PubMed for "low-fat vegan" clinical trials - people are put on plant-based diets with no calorie restriction and end up losing weight. Also, this recent video does a great job explaining energy density in foods: http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eating-more-to-weigh-less/
When is it not true?