skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd hardly call it "cruft" - this is the beauty of computer systems and software - abstraction!
The engine was later used the in the Wu Tang Clan fighting game Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style, some X-Men Games and Rock Em Rock Em Robots game so it wasn't all bad.

Agreed on it being fairly decent too, but nothing to write home about (sans the violence).
> If an investor community grows up here, it will happen the same way it did in Silicon Valley: slowly and organically.

I love this. I'm in Kansas City and find myself constantly cringing at the number of projects that all try to be a silver bullet that will magically transform the startup ecosystem here or in any other midwest city. If you want to make some place a good place for startups, then you have to play the long game.

You can't be beholden to any political cycles. You can't jump on the startup bandwagon because it's suddenly fashionable. You can't run for the hills as soon as the economy takes a substantive dip.

The only answer is to put your head down and try to build whatever you can, and stick with it. If a large number of people do that, then over time, good things will happen.
SPAM Filters: A Reliable Protection Against Phishing Attacks?
Like how Brian in Family Guy just barks at black folks.
Solar roadways
What's needed are a bunch of users using the protocol.
I would love to see this happen.

(I'd also love to see Portland Oregon, mentioned as an alternative, get the world-class research university it lacks now.)
Is there a "production-ready" front-end for Fortran on top of LLVM? PGI announced one but I haven't seen anything released yet.

Edit: and most of the work with this kind of project is about integrating into the Front-end, so LLVM-based or not does not really help for the amount of work to put in.
Hmm, there's nothing on the announcement about how to upgrade your existing backups?

Say you have a large backup stored on S3 or Google Drive - has anybody used this, and can tell me if it upgrades it seamlessly to take advantage of the new features (e.g. LZ4 compression), or if you need to do a fresh upgrade?
According to Wolfram Alpha, an iPhone 6 Plus which weighs in at 192 grams would have about 3.558×10^14 joules of kinetic energy at .2c, or about 85 kilotons of TNT. That's roughly 4 times the energy of the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Not the biggest boom in the world, but certainly nothing to scoff at.
> In a word, baloney. I got a great deal out of college, far more than I would have with self-study.

I'm not just saying this off the cuff, there's pretty strong evidence that the thing you are paying for is the signal. Consider anecdotal evidence in terms of what people consider valuable - in many colleges you can walk in to any class without presenting any identification and just start learning, for free. If you asked the Professor if you can sit in on the class even though you are not enrolled in the school, I'm fairly certain a huge majority of them would say yes (I've done it myself for multiple classes at a law school).

> I know that people claim you can learn math on your own, but I've never encountered one who did. Not in 40 years of working with engineers.

There's a huge selection effect there, in that you can learn these things easily (especially now) on your own by using it, but people can learn these things are also generally the people for whom college is easy, so you would expect them all to have learned it in college anyway. See the Wikipedia article on Signalling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_%28economics%29#Job...).

The point is, learning is generally a beneficial side effect of our education system.
Have you seen the XKCD What If on this topic? [1] It doesn't get into the details of éntendue, and even makes a joke about the topic's complexity, so it probably won't satisfy your technical demands. But I've found the arguments about reversibility (light paths through lenses are reversible, so how could one point map back to multiple points?) and area increase (lenses do not intensify image values but can change the overall image size) intuitive enough to help quell myself and my friend's arguments about the matter.

[1] - https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/
I'm confused, this is just counting starting braces no?
I'm bothered by the empathy and understanding displayed to this liar who with his friend have murdered and raped thousand of minorities in the Middle East.

You're not the first to feel for these scumbags. You do realize he's lying? Pieces like this is good for getting his friends released from Gitmo, so they can go back for heir crusade of eradicating non Muslims from the Middle East.
If your browser support the no page style you can use that.
But what you see, is perhaps the effects of popup. It's on the lower right side, maybe pressing escape works. (it does on linux.
> It is far from being a level playing field.

So that makes it fair to unfairly stereotype others?

> I think it's quite OK to call out your fellow stereotype when they're being dicks.

Call out your fellow [members of a group that contains you] when they're being dicks, sure. We need that. But don't stereotype them to do it - we don't need that.
There are too many nonlinearities in real circuits and valves to perfectly model with current technology(or programming methods), but you're absolutely spot on that 99% of people can't tell the difference, even musicians. It's only the person playing the instrument that tends to care
If you steal a slice of pizza 3 times you can go to prison for a very long time. If you steal billions over years and years and wreck the economy while doing so, you won't face any personal consequences.
Gmail makes it very easy (via the "Filter messages like these") to filter all messages from a mailing list. You can apply a label and skip the inbox so you just browse the list when you need to.
Shouldn't MIT pay royalties if it's using Harry Potter references in its marketing material?
What do you mean? Sending messages from mobile to a single user using the messages menu works doesn't it?
How Lyme disease is spreading in the United States
Oh, wow. No.

First, people who qualify for a transplant list and are not already wealthy probably cannot afford your insurance. I say this as someone who has a condition that accounts for a very high percentage of lung transplants and as someone who worked in insurance (and still writes insurance articles as a freelancer).

Second, please put your creativity towards helping people avoid needing multiple transplant lists to begin with. I find this "we are Borg, resistance is futile" stuff really horrifying. I wish a LOT more effort went into helping people like me keep their own lungs healthy rather than into heroics like better transplant operations where the doctors get good press and high self esteem and high pay and the patient is covered in scars and on anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their life.
> and a plumbing system that requires most houses to own a plunger.

Getting off topic for the article at hand, but what's different in Australian plumbing in that area?
"fuck you got mine" pretty much sums up capitalism as we know it today. Don't hold your breath for change
I remember Persona! It's a shame it never took off. Maybe it was ahead of it's time.

Fabric offers something very similar with Digits: https://get.digits.com/
Yea, it does. You go live under the threat of Taliban, Hamas, ISIS, etc.

Sorry but you keep ignoring the people who the Taliban threaten the most aren't just Americans.
Goldman Sachs completely destroyed the American economy?
Thanks so much for letting me know. I'll check into that to get a corrected link for my clickable prototype. Until then, here is a high-level explainer video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7QmHojsXQ0
most are mailman or moira https://ist.mit.edu/email-lists

people just make filters.
"But if a university really wanted to help its students start startups, the empirical evidence, weighted by market cap, suggests the best thing they can do is literally nothing." This is an important insight and will be totally counterintuitive to universities.
You're definitely missing a significant subculture that exists among MIT undergraduates. The kinds of MIT-affiliated events that you describe are certainly not the ones where you are likely to discover it. You are correct, though, in observing that not all MIT undergraduates fit into that subculture and many will go into finance, law, or medical careers. And there is certainly nothing wrong with that.
Doesn't seem like it can handle processing on real-time streams of data. They don't really seem comparable.

From the readme:

"Airflow is not a data streaming solution. Tasks do not move data from one to the other (though tasks can exchange metadata!). Airflow is not in the Spark Streaming or Storm space, it is more comparable to Oozie or Azkaban."
OK, explain the plunger comment please?
Poor chicken. :C
It's as if he's never spoken to a Carnegie Mellon grad as to why they get the hell out of Pittsburgh after graduation...
Modulated retro-reflector. We pulse firing a lower power laser at it and it reconfigured the mirror to modulate the returned signal. Essentially an interstellar DLP projector.
The Illicit Spelunker Capturing Underground Scenes at Chernobyl
QUOTE: "I’m sick of these jumped up ego driven gnome developers that think there reinventing the wheel and its just as well they were never around when the wheel was being invented and they were in charge of the project because we would all be walking today"

If I spewed out prose as incompetently as that, when I was let loose near a keyboard, I'd be a bit more reticent when it came to criticising the competence of others.
Do you ship epub?
Because the customers are, for the most part, sophisticated investors who know what they are getting into and these fines are more politically motivated theater than actual punishment for inflicted harm.
What I'm loving most about this link is the enthusiasm of the community on that board. It's really sweet to find these small communities on the web that still feel really tightly knit.

This is especially amazing: http://i.imgur.com/Pk5GpCO.gif
Doh - RTFM as usual. Thanks.
My, that was a bracing rant, compounded with a hefty dose of entitlement. I don't care for Gnome Shell either, and I can't really figure out who it's supposed to be for. I guess the Gnome devs must like it. But nobody is forcing it down my throat or the author's. And speaking of forcing things down throats, some of the acts the author suggested the Gnome devs should perform were quite unnecessary.

If you don't like it, don't use it. Don't complain that this thing you got for free isn't what you wanted.
>2) If banks acting in this manner is the standard... why? Why isn't a firm carving out the "niche" of not being assholes?

If the only acceptable goal is short-term profit, actions and belief systems which maximise short-term profit are rewarded, and actions and beliefs which have a negative influence on short-term profit have negative incentives.

This is often called "markets" being "efficient."

In reality it's just an unstable self-destructive system with an inherently broken fitness function.
To quote the article: "I’ve removed the internals for clarity"

The content of the functions is just not relevant to the point he's trying to make
Live-Coding Chrome Extensions in React and Redux
I think misrepresentation is fraud, particularly when we are talking about selling listed, US securities, but I am not a lawyer.
Apply HN: Remember – Intelligently search all of your files from one place.
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We connect to your computer, phone, wearables and the services you use (Facebook, Twitter, mobile apps, etc.) and make all of your data searchable from one place. Going a step further, we run machine learning algorithms on all of your files to understand context so you can search using natural language.

We lose so much time looking for our files; be it notes, messages, photos, videos, audio recordings.

"Let me show you a video I sent Jack it's hilarious!" Stares at phone for 15 minutes looking for it

"I have a breakthrough idea about mitosis, let me write it down." Never gets back to that note again

This must end. We want to help maximise human potential, and we think this as close as we can get to having perfect memory with today's technology.

Founders:

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One wonders whether the entire seven-page article were written solely for the sake of the final sentence.
No-one would listen to Stephen Fry if he was poor
It's impossible to do these things inside Excel, I guess. Things like xlwings or https://www.blockspring.com/ try to make Excel better, but there are way too much assumptions going down there.

The experience with "objects" with the Blockspring add-in, for example, is terrible terrible.
From article:

> so I made pie charts from the parsed data and traced and colored them in BMF kitchen.
There's no reason this isn't possible with a VST plugin, if you're willing to do it the old fashioned way of grabbing some speakers, playing(monitoring) the playback out, and standing next to them with an instrument. Now, if you're talking about emulating all of that in a VST, then yea that sounds like an incredibly difficult thing to control with traditional MIDI/sound controls
> Fukushima was caused by shoddy planning.

> In 2002 they already knew the seawater pumps were located too low, but took no action

A relatively-unasked question is, "How many nuclear power plants have analogous failings?"[0] Fukushima could be an outlier because it is more shoddy. This is an argument for nuclear power. Or every nuclear powerplant could have a different subset of shoddinesses.

I'd be interested in having the same attention paid to all nuclear powerplants that was paid to Fukushima. Then we'd be able to tell whether Fukushima was an outlier.[1]

[0] This may be publicly available information, say published by America's Nuclear Regulatory Commission. I as a layman haven't found it and doubt I could read it.

[1] You might say, "Why are we overanalyzing nuclear power relative to $SOMETHING_ELSE?" I agree with that criticism. My point as regards the parents is that the parent is implicitly making a statistical conclusion (other plants are safer than Fukushima) when we don't know as much about other plants as we do Fukushima.
Well, yes. The point is to convince others that it is possible to agree to disagree on this issue. That's not always a given when one side sees the issue as a moral crusade.
> This is just one reason why it's insane to trust the government to carry out extrajudicial killings on people who, at the very least, pose no immediate threat.

Pose no immediate threat to who? To the government doing the killing? True (but see Paris and Brussels for counterexamples).

Pose no immediate threat to humans? Absolutely they pose a threat.
So--- we should both encourage flexibility in jobs. But we should also encourage a more equal split in custody. If 82.6% of custodial single parents are female, we're doing something wrong.
> instead of arguing what is proper OOP or not.

Every programming paradigm and every programming language suffers the distinction of what is "proper" and "improper".

There's proper functional programming and improper functional programming. For example, it's possible to write bad code of passing GodUniverseState records to "functions" that the Haskell/Ocaml compiles without error. However, that's not "proper" functional programming. It's just messy global state masquerading as a functional program.

There's proper SQL usage and improper usage. For example, writing a stored procedure to loop through one table with a cursor, and then looking up a column value in another target table is "improper SQL". SQL has built in "joins" to do it correctly (and also performs faster as a bonus).

Even Python has a category of "not Pythonic".
I’m surprised they didn’t delve into the idea that theories aren’t seen as useful in the real world. It’s relatively easy to take the bait of exposing falsities that non-scientists believe and make an article about that, but I would have been more impressed had they tackled an informed misconception.
> The rough summary is, if you need to do distributed multi-node computation with very low latency -- that is, end-to-end data processing time measured in millis or seconds -- then Storm will help you out.

I still don't really know what kind of computation that is. Any specific, real-world examples? I'm genuinely curious.
Sort all from: EC-Discuss
into folder: EC-Discuss

... Try to sort through it when you are bored...
Realize you don't get anything out of it anymore -> Un-Subscribe to EC-Discuss email list.

Clarification: EC-Discuss = East Campus (of MIT) discussion email list... it is known for this mass email of random nature.
​Badlock: Patch your Samba and Windows server now
There was no admission of a criminal offense. Or even an accusation.
Raspberry Pi Zero production ramped up and includes a mystery 'new feature'
Nobody was predicting a major nuclear accident in Japan before 2011. It makes me wonder how many other obvious mistakes are out there.

Contrary to your post, Japan has a strong reputation for safety and reliability in engineering. That kind of cultural explanations are very spurious anyway. I can come up with similar ones for many countries.
It has good in-kernel support for virtio drivers (e.g. kvm, bhyve, vmware) and can also run domU in the latest release.

It doesn't support "vmware tools" as such, but does support the virtual interfaces for network, disk, ballooning etc...

http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/virtio.4
Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek to have ever lived
Drive on an interstate. Safely park your car, get out of it and spend sixty seconds looking at the ground and the road. Now, what five things are wrong with "solar roads"? Go on.
> we might think in the sense that some people always unfairly make more money

Some people also very fairly make more money and work their butts off for it, sacrificing along the way.

What do you say to those people?

I enjoy your hypotheticals tho.
I'm less worried about a reactor going critical than I am the safe storage and management of the waste. Anything from providing materials for a dirty bomb to general pollution to just generating a safe-but-expensive mess to manage for a really, really long time.
Tell me one registrar where you can be sure that this will not happen and I will move my domains today. I wouldn't even care if I have to pay 100$ per year for a domain.
What about the energy dissipated by collision with the interstellar medium? Won't that slow the probe considerably?

Apologies for significant errors and appreciation for corrections in the following hasty and unchecked calcs.

Wikipedia [1] says the ISM density ranges from as little as 1e-4/cm^3 for hot, ionized regions to 1e6/cm^3 for cool, dense regions.

Let's say it's all neutral hydrogen, which conveniently masses 1g/mole. A mole is 6.02e23 particles. A single H atom masses about 1.66e-27kg. And let's say the ISM has a hydrogen atom density kind of midway between the extremes: 10/cm^3 (=1e7/m^3).

Let's say the spacecraft presents 2.54cm x 2.54cm (1 square inch) = 6.45e-4 m^2 to the ISM as it moves. I think this is small compared with what the project is proposing, but we can scale as needed.

At 20% of C, the spacecraft sweeps out a volume of [(3e8.2)m/sec](6.45e-4m^2) = about 3.9e4m^3 every second, which contains about 3.9e11 hydrogen atoms, or a mass of about
6e-16kg/sec.

If all those atoms hit and stick to the spacecraft, they all get accelerated to the spacecraft's velocity. At 20%C, relativistic mass increase should be small, so let's ignore it. The energy needed to accelerate one hydrogen atom to 20%C is about 3e12J/atom.

If the spacecraft is hitting 3.9e11 atoms/sec and spending 3e-12J/atom accelerating impacting atoms to 20%C, that's slightly over 1 Watt that's decelerating the spacecraft.

Over a 20-year trip (6.31e8 seconds and assuming no deceleration), that's 6.31e8 W-sec, or 631 megaJoules of energy needed to sustain 20%C because of collisions with the interstellar medium.

A Watt isn't much, but over a 20 year trip, it integrates to a pretty big energy requirement, or a significant deceleration of an unpowered, very low mass spacecraft.

It looks to me like small, light probes won't maintain their high initial velocity very long into the cruise phase without ongoing propulsion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_medium
Given unlimited funds, could a school like OHSU or PSU realistically gear up to 'world-class research' status quickly?
The Great San Francisco Earthquake: Photographs from 110 Years Ago
Paymentwall opens up for Iran
If I was starting a new company I would without a doubt push towards doing frequent deployments all day long.

That said, I would would never push for it at my previous company. At this company it's something they've been doing since day 1. It's always been built into our process, culture, and hiring practices. At my previous company the "agile" process was just a shortened waterfall process. Though many of the engineers were very talented, and responsible... there was more than a handful that I would never trust to "self test" their code, or to monitor it as it deploys.
IANAL but I was able to look this up.

"While the exact wording of fraud charges varies among state and federal laws, the essential elements needed to prove a fraud claim in general include: (1) a misrepresentation of a material fact; (2) by a person or entity who knows or believes it to be false; (3) to a person or entity who justifiably relies on the misrepresentation; and (4) actual injury or loss resulting from his or her reliance."

http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/fraud.html

The statement below appears to cover 1 and 2 and we already know 3 and 4 to be true.

"Goldman received information indicating that, for certain loan pools, significant percentages of the loans reviewed did not conform to the representations made to investors about the pools of loans to be securitized, and Goldman also received certain negative information regarding the originators’ business practices."

https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/839901/download

rayiner, given your legal background, do you consider this type of misrepresentation to be criminal fraud irrespective of what regulators have achieved to date?
If you can make this work then it is one of the best ideas so far.