skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Have a work schedule of about three goals at a time. Start at the beginning for each and take each to where you don't have control any more. Then move on to the next set of three, then repeat the process.
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Citation graph analysis might be useful, but I'd have to think about it a bit.

I suspect you can make a nearly risk free bet that if there is a significant amount of money being made that depends on the results of a contentious issue in the existing science, there are deep problems in the related literature.
>"So how many people are going to pay more taxes to raise the money for the government to do all these things?"

If you were to ask me, I'd say "not me". And not because I don't want it done, but because I already pay taxes with the assumption that this is what a government of a supposedly enlightened society should be spending it on. I.e. to care for its weakest members, the ones that need it the most.
Silicon Valley Keeps Winning Because Non-Competes Limit Innovation
All of their headlines in the Most Read sidebar are obvious clickbait. It really is such a shame.
Does a single patch to any part of the Linux kernel make you eligible for suing over these or do you have to have copyright over a part that is clearly relevant?
Bah. It's still better than nothing.
Fair enough but one thing you are ignoring is:

> Technology failures. The American strategy for air superiority, not just with the F-35 but also with the F-22 and other modern aircraft, is based on two fundamental technologies. The first is “stealth“: using technology to help our planes to evade detection by radar. The second is “BVR”: using long-range missiles to shoot down enemy planes before the pilot can ever even see them. (The acronym stands for “beyond visual range.“) These technologies are the key to the plan for how a smaller, more high-tech force like ours can defeat a more numerous but lower-tech one like China’s.

This also holds true for China and BVR strikes against US naval assets [particular Aircraft Carriers] are critical to China's ability to actually invade Taiwan.

The truth is we simply don't know what the real outcome of a battle/war would be but things like the OP are pretty much useless unless China can hit us BVR because they are slow enough BVR strikes against them would be viable.

US's BVR problem for is it is really limited to aircraft and they need to be able to stop China in the air/water because a protracted land war is untenable.

China's BVR problem is the fact they can't stop us throwing as many missiles as we can afford/manufacture at them while maintaining a supply line.

I know which problem I'd rather have and it sure as hell isn't supplying an invasion force while my opponent can throw effectively unlimited missiles from BVR at me. Sure, I might be able to stop 80% of them but the US can build basically unlimited quantities of them in a serious war.
I'm pretty surprised we haven't seen an official Oracle version of ZFS released with Oracle Linux.
you get more than just seed money being part of YC

It's not clear to me how much value that adds over, say, raising from a few reputable angels in the Valley.

As a non-alum, it looks like the YC applicant pool has become so competitive — on maturity, not ambition or potential — that by the time they want you, you don't need them. Not that you ever need anyone.

One exception I can see is that if your startup will mostly have other startups as customers, YC could effectively gift you your first customers.
Top New York law officials call Apple's encryption stance irresponsible
>We may look back on this moment as the start of a runaway greenhouse effect.

Sensationalist, scaremonger much?
> I don't think banks actually care about individual user login security too much. Credit Cards reallllly suffer from security breaches though

But the only reason that banks care so much about credit-card security breaches is that the law forces them to do so. If the law didn't make credit card fraud the bank's responsibility, then they'd be just as lackluster about preventing it as they currently are about securing login credentials.
How advanced is the Structured Streaming functionality? Looking at the JIRA [1] I cannot find even design prototype there, which is kind of strange if they want to have it ready by end of April. But as there was a presentation on the topic at the summit [2], I hope it's just developing it without discussion on JIRA.

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8360
[2] https://spark-summit.org/east-2016/events/keynote-day-3/
Interesting comment...

Given the limits imposed by Job's comment, which parameters the construct, it may be that the set of "B Players" are (failed) A players, who've involuntarily been forced a step down the ladder, or, alternatively, they are C players who've convinced some unspecified hiring intermediary that they're on the rise...

However one becomes a B player, by definition, one is constrained...one can only hire C players...dimming the prospects for success...so, for B, there appears to be little chance of ascending, or re-ascending, to A player status...

Whimsical, but fun to think about...
i have a 3 yo daughter and a 1.5 yo son. this story is terrifying.
What's are the benefits of this lib over RxJS, Redux, and Flux.

This isn't a criticism. Raher there are aready some well established FRP libs in JS. What's unique about this offering that would make users want to adopt it?
A Letter from the Founders of Drip
Really now. Please don't speak about issues you have no clue about. According to the Jerusalem Post, "Egyptian authorities have kept the border crossing almost totally closed" since mid-2013 [1]. Now, if Egypt's crossing is closed, do you think Israel would keep theirs open? Hmm. Read [2] for more juicy details.

Conclusion: Gaza is completely isolated from the outside world. 1 million+ citizens in a confined space. Long live Israel.

[1]: http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Rafah-crossing-between-Eg...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_barrier
> No configuration, nothing.

You still have a server to run, auth to check, etc...

Here's a real database with no configuration, no nothing, actual real plug-and-play:

https://sqlite.org/index.html
On Marrying the Wrong Person
Mint is logging in on your behalf, unless you have a different service than I do.
Not track the money, track the results. We have no idea if this is helping to decrease homelessness or not. There are no metrics. That's a huge amount of money to spend, and not know if it's actually helping, or if the money is just being wasted.

Accountability means that if it doesn't work or if the money is being wasted, then someone needs to be held accountable.
Exactly this. I've been arguing for years that those simple string/array/link list/tree manipulation questions are simply a microcosm of the qualities that make for good developers in general. If those trip you up then you need to consider that there are serious holes in your abilities, not that the test is bad.
Which also incidentally would solve the pool shrinking problem as well.
Useless islands are good for expanding Exclusive Economic Zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone
Doesn't that make the case for Uber even worse? Where Uber shines is being cheap and more available than the closed system of Taxis. With Taxis everywhere (and them being so cheap, I paid about HK$40 to get from the airport to Happy Valley) it seems like Uber wouldn't have a place in the market.
Given current Bay Area rental rates...maybe go home (?)

From the article: "We are talking about a trip from Madera taking 40 minutes to downtown San Jose...." Note: Madera, on the map:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Madera,+CA/

Note: obviously, so much unknown, impossible to say whether 40 minutes represents reality, at this point.
> "We're profitable in the USA, but we're losing over $1 billion a year in China," Uber CEO Travis Kalanick told Canadian technology platform Betakit.

I didn't realize they were profitable here. When did this happen?
Looks like it depends on how you count. Atlanta moves the most people, Chicago moves the most planes, Dubai move the most people between countries. Dubai is also #3 for the most people regardless of origin and destination which makes me think they'll remain tops for moving people internationally; all the other top airports would have a much larger proportion of domestic passengers (unless flights between Hong Kong and the rest of China don't count as domestic).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_busiest_airport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_world%27s_busiest_...
You may be right, but it isn't that one-sided.

1) Sacks was COO when all of this happened. These were specifically lapses in policy and operations. Are you sure he is immune to the repercussions?

2) "[H]uge and growing" as of last year. Every one of these articles discourages new companies from signing up and talented people from joining the company. Trust is a tremendous factor in health insurance, especially when there are many other options on the market.

If I have other options, why go to a company under investigation with a horrendous culture?

3) Based on the state of their operations (poor), company culture (dismal), and customer feedback (even worse), I would push back on them being "well-positioned."

$500 million can buy you a lot, but if culture, brand, and operations were that easy, Comcast could turn itself into a modern company in a few months.
This is great news. Among other incentives, ZFS has some truly excellent features for improving reliability. ZFS's built-in checksums, for example, can result in much happier stories during the onset of disk failures: where a RAID array can quietly return incorrect sector contents without noticing, and be unable to correctly differentiate between the correct and not-so-correct sectors in the event of disk loss followed by disagreements discovered during rebuilds, ZFS simply does the right thing by making checks during normal operations, and uses the same checks to confidently do the right thing during recovery. And snapshotting. Oh, snapshotting.

On the other hand, I've always wished we could get a modern re-take on ZFS. As anyone who's tried it will tell you: dedup in ZFS essentially doesn't work. ZFS, internally, is not built on content-addressable storage (or, it is, but since splitting of large files into blocks doesn't take any special actions to make similar blocks align perfectly, it doesn't have anywhere near the punch that it should). As a result, dedup operations that should be constant-time and zero memory overhead... aren't. Amazing though ZFS is, we've learned a lot about designing distributed and CAS storage since that groundwork was laid in ZFS. A new system that gets this right at heart would be monumental.

Transporting snapshots (e.g. to other systems for backups... or to "resume" them (think pairing with CRIU containers)) could similarly be so much more powerful if only ZFS (or subsequent systems) can get content-addressable right on the same level that e.g. git does. `zfs send` can transport snapshots across the network to other storage pools -- amazing, right? It even has an incremental mode -- magic! In theory, this should be just like `git push` and `git fetch`: I should even be able to have, say n=3 machines, and have them all push snapshots of their filesystems to each other, and it should all dedup, right? And yet... as far as I can tell [1], the entire system is a footgun. Many operations break the ability receive incremental updates; if you thought you could make things topology agnostic... Mmm, may the force be with you.

[1] https://gist.github.com/heavenlyhash/109b0b18df65579b498b -- These were my research notes on what kind of snapshot operations work, how they transport, etc. If you try to build anything using zfs send/recv, you may find these useful... and if anyone can find a shuffle of these commands with better outcomes I'd love to hear about it of course :)
Why Antonin Scalia Will Be Remembered as One of the Great Supreme Court Justices
Thank you! I happen to work in the edtech industry, and student privacy is one of those totems that i'm always scratching my head about. All of these edtech companies are always being accused of collecting student data for marketing purposes, but honestly, I don't think homework or attendance records are particularly valuable to anyone but a student, parents, and teachers. I think it's pretty asinine that anyone would think that that type of data is monetizable. I think the problem is really our (as technologists) fault. We tend to refer to any data as data, when we should be specifying what types of data we are referring. Personal details vs activity data vs application analytical data, etc.
ZFS on Linux runs natively though. This is not the fuse version.
5.2% as of last summer, and the numbers continue to skyrocket, I would bet at least 6% as of now, 5.2% represents a 15.4% increase in just one year. 7 states also have Constitutional Carry, no license required (Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Maine, Vermont (never banned carrying) and Wyoming (for residents)). Gun sales, both total and type, are reflecting this.

Since some very populous states, including #1 California and #4 New York are mostly no issue, the percentages are even greater in the 43 Shall Issue or better states, a number are getting up to 10%. The percentages are even greater when you adjust to the age eligible population.

So quite a bit higher than "no one", although of course having a licence does not equal routinely or always carrying.
"Never get involved in a land war (or car service price war) in Asia."
Paper from a few years ago comparing Google's OCR system to commercially available benchmarks:

http://www.educatingsilicon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/p...

A lot better for text in photographs. Comparison might be different on dense document text though.
Googling "Will you do it if I stay here with you?" with the quotation marks returns four results, two of which are this comment.

One is a google book with the exact passage, and the last is a blog post quoting said book.

Just something interesting I noticed.
It is true that Fido itself always uses biometric as an example. The casual finger print sensors on all phones and laptops will probebly be the most widly deployed authenticator.

Biometric authentication companies are part of the support base for the Fido Alliance and they always push Biometric into the front as well. There seems to be no company that is about to release a pin or password hardware authenticator that could advocate for the alternative.

Also the press loves the hole 'remove passwords' storyline.
Create a hedge fund and run your proprietary algorithm. If you succeed over the long term and generate a consistent market premium for a given risk exposure, you've got a story. If you don't do this, you've got an unproven claim like many others in history, the vast majority of which were proven false when put into practice.
I think that people who are using emotional energy, as you put it, disagree on this point.

And, to be blunt, they're wrong.

There is literally no reason whatsoever that humans will all agree to curb greenhouse gas emissions. That would require that everyone 1) agree climate change is happening, 2) it's their responsibility to address it, and 3) it's worth the "cost" to try and address it.

The vast majority of nations that contribute the lion's share of greenhouse gas emissions are developed western countries. The vast majority of nations that will bear the brunt of the consequences of climate change are poor, eastern and African nations.

So those nations that could have the greatest impact have the least motivation to do anything.

Thus we will continue to pump CO2 into the atmosphere until the immediate opportunity cost of doing so outweighs the immediate opportunity cost of not doing so (since humans are primarily driven by short-term economic needs). That basically requires non-CO2-producing resources to be cheaper than CO2-producing resources, and that won't happen for a long time, particularly in the transportation sector.
Diego Garcia is not part of a defensive line, it is a force multiplier. The problem with using an island chain to defend yourself is that you must keep all the islands supplied, and this is a logistical nightmare. A single island is much easier to supply and defend.

Diego Garcia is a single island, more like Malta than the Japanese islands and islets. Diego Garcia's capacity for basing large strategic bombers close to potential conflict zones is a huge force multiplier, much like basing aircraft in Malta allowed the Allies to disrupt axis resupply efforts to North Africa.
Re: the Hilbert curve - is there any research into an image compression application of it?

Split the image into RGB (or HSV) channels, stretch each of them into a stream using Hilbert curve mapping and then either try a lossless compression or a lossy JPEG/FFT-like one. A hunch says this could show some interesting results.
I have a 5 yo son and an almost 1 yo son and a family history of Schizophrenia. You ain't kidding! That's some heavy stuff in there.
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What matters under the Copyright law (and thus the GPL) is whether the module is a derivative work of the Linux kernel or not.

ZFS was originally created for Solaris, and works on multiple operating systems. So ZFS itself is obviously not a Linux derivative. If the original ZFS could be directly linked with the Linux kernel without modifications, it still wouldn't be a Linux derivative.

But ZFS had to be modified to work with Linux. It can be argued that those modifications are Linux derivatives. We haven't had a definitive ruling on this yet.

ZFS from Solaris / BSD --> not a Linux derivative, even if it was directly linked into Linux.

ZFS with trivial modifications to work with Linux --> not a Linux derivative

ZFS with extensive modifications to work with Linux --> judge's ruling required

The only reason that linking matters is because Linus's statement that binary modules are OK would have some weight with the judge. However, Linus is not the only copyright holder of the Linux kernel, and other copyright holders have disagreed with Linus on this statement.
We’re all mental patients now
The problem isn't what happens after the shooting starts, it's how these developments make the starting of shooting more likely. Nobody in the West wants to get into a war with China, but by covering the region with sophisticated defenses the Chinese could conceivably put the West in a position where they either have to accept Chinese hegemony over the region, or launch the exact war they don't want to fight in order to restore the old status quo.

Like, say China keeps building up its defensive network in the region, and then one day they announce that henceforth no freight or passenger vessels will be allowed to pass into Vietnamese (or Philippine, or Taiwanese, or Japanese) airports or seaports without first getting Chinese approval. Vietnam would obviously oppose that, and so would the U.S., because they are important trade partners with each other. But the Chinese could just say "if you don't like it, come fight us over it." And then the only choices available to the U.S. are to accept the new status quo, effectively abandoning Vietnam to becoming a Chinese client state, or to launch World War III to keep the trade routes open. That's not a position anyone in Washington wants to be maneuvered into.
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From Einstein’s Theory to Gravity’s Chirp
How can someone stop doing something he's not doing? These wars were started by Hamas, attacking Israel. These attacks never stop, and haven't stopped since the end of the last war, there's a rocket landing in Israel wvery week or two. Thankfully, these attacks are not heavy enough for full response, but blaming these wars for someone else than a terrorist organization that is trying to provoke a conflict is ridiculous.
This has been posted multiple times. What they are asking Apple to do now is fundamentally different. They are asking Apple to create a custom firmware and push it to a phone that disables security protections that are there to protect YOU!

You think anyone really cares what's on that terrorist's work phone? They can already easily get call and text records from the ISP. Same with email records etc. This is a move to get Apple to create a backdoor into their phones.
I thought that's what the TechCrunch article said that the OS Update does, isn't it?
Triaging by data is just the first step. Once you decide it's an actual problem you have to be able to reproduce it. To confirm this is happening, you have to get production phones, then do an out-of-process rework, then do this for different OS versions, OS upgrade methods, iTunes version, etc... Reworking this sensor is not an easy task so you have to have someone do it for you and get their time, etc... It's actually a pretty big project to do this correctly.
I suspect it's not just for the consumers but for the image of the city. Cabs are one system that visitors interact with immediately, before nearly anything else. Grotty cabs make a bad impression.
I'm questioning the need towards 2020 for anything that is limited to 8kb of memory? 8MB maybe, but 8KB ?

I am holding in my hand a device the size of a postage stamp (or full sized SD card) that has 64MB of ram and 16MB of flash rom and supports eight simultaneous wifi devices (the zsun usb adapter). It uses two chips to accomplish this (Qualcomm MIPS cpu) and a third to support an external microsd card.

http://i.imgur.com/F8P40Uo.jpg

The usb connector is almost larger than the board that holds the two chips.
I'd like to think the banking industry in Australia might follow this lead, but I'm not hopeful.
I think there was an internal schism at Oracle regarding BTRFS vs. ZFS.

The Solaris fans (generally from Sun) preferring / promoting ZFS, and hard core Linux fans (mostly Oracle) - who tended towards BTRFS.
Not correct - I had to sign up for an account just now so I could get API keys to hit the endpoint.

Besides, the account is limited at the moment. I get the following error:

{
"code": 1306,
"message": "invalid institution permissions",
"resolve": "Your Client ID does not have access to this institution endpoint"
}
Any time I hear the term "Apple hater" with no justification or reasoning, I can't help but think that person is of the lowest intelligence.

(Or Android hater, or any other tech "hater" for that matter. Why can't we accept that companies do different things without proclaiming ourselves as "haters"?)
It is sad that Mathematics is often taught either as narrow examples that miss the big picture or abstract definitions which are more general but feel artificial.

The best teaching often jumps back and forth between the two.

Mathematics can be thought of a simulation of properties of the world inside people's brains which verify the result. Sadly, there's no shared comprehensive framework outside our brains for visualizing [1] and organizing all of it, since it's very flexible [2]. And thus most people miss out on experiencing the beauty of many results.

I sometimes wonder if LaTeX augmented by context (and visualization) would help, and I wish Mathematica was open source to aid this. At the same time, we are faced with incompleteness results that put into question any formal organization of mathematics [3].

[1] https://vimeo.com/36579366

[2] www.jeremykun.com/2013/02/08/why-there-is-no-hitchhikers-guide-to-mathematics-for-programmers/

[3] http://inference-review.com/article/doing-mathematics-differ...

Sorry for the long rant.
The US certainly has its faults, but compared to China on human rights it is really no contest, especially as it pertains to the last 60 years. Mao's cultural revolution killed 30 Million people. Communism hosts a toxic culture incredibly prone to corruption.
Institutions not Industries
Naïve question from a bystander: how much better is Lucene compared to bleve ?