skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One argument for conservatism: if physicists want a commenting system, why hasn't SciRate taken off?: https://scirate.com/ The interface is clean, it has a lot of nice features, etc. It's gotten some traction in quantum info (my field), but the comments are rarely used. You can chalk this up to network effects (chicken-and-egg), which direct arXiv hosting could solve, but that problem can probably be eliminated by taking the minimal step of allowing the authors to link to the SciRate page from the arXiv page.

No, I think the major feature about having the arXiv host comments directly is that it would force physicists to engage with folks who comment on their paper, because otherwise there would be unanswered criticism attached ("stapled") directly to their public-facing papers. Maybe that's what we want, but that's a huge step and there are a lot of ways for it to go badly.

Here is a mockup that Paul Gisparg made for author-curated links on arXiv article pages. See the "Author suggestions" column on the right: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ginsparg/arxiv/1212.3061-mockup.h... Allowing links to places like SciRate plausible solves most of the chicken-or-egg problem by allowing the author to designate "the" place for public discussion without picking a particular site to win or lose, or bundling release of a paper with forced public discussion.

Shameless plug: folks here may be interested in my blog post about the future of academic papers and how the arXiv influences that: http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/04/16/beyond-papers-gitwikxi... There was good discussion on HN last year when it was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9415985
Oculus Says Over a Million People Used Gear VR Headsets in April
Propagator? :-)
Is this for London onsite contract work only? remote ok?
It's not clear what point you're trying to argue. Yes, the particle collision data constitutes a measurement in the sense that it is entangled with whatever medium the data is being stored on (and, in practice, a while lot else), even if a human hasn't looked at it yet. Measurement as we usually mean it when talking about this stuff in the context of QM means a human looking at a thing, but sure that need not always be the case. I mean if you want to split hairs we can go back and forth all day, but that doesn't strike me as an interesting or enlightening avenue of discussion.
Thought this was going to be a story about how yet another company decided to ignore a security problem, but was pleasantly surprised. Well done Lifx!
Here is a simmilar project in Golang https://github.com/vole/vole
BMW or Mercedes make million different models of their vehicles. Some of them make a lot of money, some of them are probably losing money and always will - M or AMG products are very expensive, but they sell relatively few cars every year - their brands keep those cars to be leaders in their sectors, not because there's a huge amount of money to be made on them(good example of that is the Veyron made by the VW group - VW said that they will never make profit on that car, despite it costing over $1 million USD, because the research to make it was so costly. The only reason it exists and you can buy one is so that VW can say they make the fastest car in the world).

Tesla on the other hand, makes 3 models, they are not trying to cater to every single market, so they can afford the focus and very high profit margins that come with it.
> GitXiv[1] also has a comment section and voting features, and nobody uses it.

Likewise SciRate is a reasonably popular arXiv overlay, but the comments are never used: https://scirate.com/
FWIW I'd like to see this kind of model join the publishing landscape. It's galling that academics do peer review unpaid for the most part, only for publishers to get in the way of access. Open peer review definitely needs working on.
As SolarCity Crashes, Is Elon Musk Overrated?
Java's type system is limited (no higher kinds) and methods that might throw exceptions can't be handled as values in a generic way.
OT but there was no other way to contact you. Try a Scosche Rhythm + for workout heartbeat measurement. Works without flaw on Polar devices without the use of a cheststrap.
Good Luck, I know this is a very touchy subject, sorry you have to go through it.
This looks like a CV to me that he can use in the future whenever he applies for a job/promotion
Can people join this network without downloading an application - will it be available in the browser? The reason I ask is most decentralized applications up to this point require a download to start your own node (zeronet for example). Availability from the browser I believe is important for decentralized applications because it lowers the barrier to entry for consumers.

PS., not sure if you noticed, but some of your comments on this page are marked dead. I have no idea why this has been done to you.
Considering how high are AWS' network transfer prices, I'm not surprised at all.
Dark money: London’s dirty secret
Boost Graph Library and C++ 17
PC clones were only allowed because Compaq did a clean room reverse engineering of the BIOS, exactly to prevent this kind of scenarios.

http://basus.me/writing/essays/reverse.html
Open Data Structures Book
I'd do that if I was still working there. I can probably still get hold of a horror case but it'll take negotiation :)

(And yes, optimizing merge matters too, indeed it was a huge part of git's raison d'etre -- but, again, one usually merges with the stuff at the tip of tree: merging against something you did five years ago is rare, even if it's at a branch tip, and even rarer otherwise. Having to rewrite all the unmodified ancient stuff in the weave merely because of a merge at the tip seems wrong.)

(Now I'm tempted to go and import the Linux kernel or all of the GCC SVN repo into SCCS just to see how big the largest weave is. I have clearly gone insane from the summer heat. Stop me before I ci again!)
Even on desktops or when laptops are plugged in we should concern ourselves with power usage. If something can be optimized for power usage, it should be.
Yet many do.
I get exactly the effect you mention here all the time from LI: recruiter spam from people who tell me they've read my (junior dev) profile, then offer me Lead Dev positions for their young company, while at the same time saying the requirements for the role are 10 years of "progressive software dev experience" (which I don't have and is definitely apparent from my profile).

It's baffling. Don't tell me you've read my resume if you clearly haven't. These people are not helping themselves by blasting a canned message to those who match whatever keyword they're filtering for.
Hyperloop test video lasts six seconds
Think this looks great, thanks for sharing, have yourself a wonderful day.
Count-Min Sketch and Calculator
Isn't it well known that Apple is working on a car?

Is it? It is well known that they are hiring bunch of engineers with automotive industry backgrounds and are working on something related to cars. However I've also heard from friends in the industry that they're not really hiring people with backgrounds related to building actual car chassis.

I think the jury is still out on whether there will actually be an Apple car (as opposed to an Apple (co-)branded car full of Apple tech).
And Pascal invented the calculator

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_calculator
Would be awesome if you could still find that paper. I'd really love to take a look at that.
Or as a short hand for "I have read your message and I am thinking of a response."
US Congress 'bans Members' Yahoo Mail'
A classic example of finding a technical solution to a human problem. If you have a hundred tabs open, you're problem is the hundred tabs and not your browser.
I hope they just give these guys a bag of money and leave them alone to do their thing. They can then connect their work to other guys with a commercial focus where appropriate, without interrupting the flow.
Paradigm shift: from Siri to Viv
> E.g. in Python you have to write "(lambda x: x + 1)" where in Scala you can write "(_ + 1)";

Can you give the lambda variable a name in Scala? In Python you can write "lambda city_name: add_state_suffix(city_name)"
Yield return in C#
Humans have evolved pigs to have extra rib
Android Pay: Stubborn Barclays bank bungles mobile for second time
UX and UI Design for the SwiftyBeaver Mac App
Devtron: An Electron DevTools Extension
10 years C#, SQL and I can't find a fucking job
The vast majority may be useless, but a significant minority are valuable (e.g. maybe ~ 10% in HN). Why throw away that value?
poor code !
One of the biggest innovations around the iPhone was the unlimited data plan and removing phone control from the carriers. IMHO, that is what changed everything. People could get a smart phone AND finally use it. SJ basically willed the change onto the phone industry. Does Apple have a personality who can do something similar again?
Let's say Google loses this case. What are the implications for my free, open source software? And my closed source commercial software?
Apple? I wonder why you say this? Thy haven't publicly announced anything to do with cars until now as far as I am aware. Admittedly they are very secretive about things like that, but I would be surprised if they had any sort of lead over the competition other than with the brand name.
The problem is "sophisticated". You can't have speed with "sophisticated" if that platform you are releasing software on is "sophisticated". At its base, the system must be simple enough.

If AT LEAST html would be a strict language like xml is, maybe that'd be better. But XML is not even human readable. YAML is.
It's a shame that it's using BitTorrent Sync. Use of something open source, with an API, like Syncthing, could allow for a smoother experience in finding users to follow, rather than manually copy-pasting shared secrets.

I have had my eye on https://ind.ie/, who forked Syncthing in order to build a social platform upon.
I think your question is oriented towards X being a business problem.

Netflix has users (say 100M) who have been liking some movies (say 100k). Say The question is: for every user, find movies he/she would like but have not seen yet.

The dataset in question is large, and you have to answer this question with data regarding every user-movie pair (that would be 1e13 pairs). A problem of this size needs to be distributed across a cluster.

Spark lets you express computations across this cluster, letting you explore the problem. Spark also provides you with a quite rich Machine Learning toolset [1]. Among which is ALS-WR [2], which was developped specifically for a competition organised by Netflix and got great results [3].

[1] http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/mllib-guide.html
[2] http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/mllib-collaborative-filt...
[3] http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/~mary/cours/stats/centrale/...
I actually started using AMD cards two years ago after I started having problems with the Intel drivers. The drivers were somewhat rough initially but lately they have been very solid.

I just got a new computer and had to wrestle with PCI-E/graphics issues for the whole week but I got them solved now and it wasn't actually the Radeon driver as I originally suspected but rather Intel again (as I understand it).
Running a virtual machine with PCI-e passthrough using IOMMU virtualization (e.g. intel_iommu in linux) is a popular option in gaming while using the Intel integrated for the Linux desktop.

I recently saw someone get better benchmark (Futuremark) results with Win10 running in a VM on Linux than native Win10.

I haven't tried this personally yet, but I do intend to.
Ask HN: The future of Google marketing?
There are so many inbound marketing resources out there, but most of them feel like endless repetition, even if the person is putting out a new twist to an existing story, the twist usually comes from as slightly different personal experience and take on internet/inbound marketing.

Clearly there still exist a lot of techniques for manipulating Google, and making Google work in your favor. Perhaps not as frequently advertised anymore, as it once used to be, but this kind of marketing is also having a toll on real journalistic information.

I read this piece a few weeks ago:

http://thebaffler.com/salvos/rest-advertising

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11352159 (HN Discussion for that same article)

and it has stuck with me ever since.

Are there any HN users here that have some interesting insight to share in regards to this context? Perhaps more articles similar to what The Baffler piece is about?

Intrigued by the future of search marketing, but also the way information is going to be presented.
Excellent catch! I love Wikipedia with all their faults but probably we need not so difficult to build tools to recognize anomalies between Wikipedia cultures... sorry, languages.
Court Orders Pirate Bay Domains to Be Forfeited to the State
There are rules regarding libel and slander -- they're not as overly strict as some other countries, but media isn't free to say absolutely anything about anyone.
Is it still commonplace for them to get a percentage of sales as a bonus?

I know someone who worked on Tomb Raider 2, 3 and 4. he's not poor.
The original Opera announcement, which probably should have been submitted instead of a news article reporting that the announcement was made, is already being discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11681930
You can always create a simple utility that converts the EDN syntax to JSON. That way you get the syntax you want with a trivial and correct automatic conversion.
I'm suprised that they are burning aĺl that plastic away. If they could place the electronics in a vacuum chamber and heat it up plastics and rubbers would decompose in lots of petrochemicals and natural gas that they could distilate and resell. Plus it would make the collection of materials far more safe and easy.
The APL Programming Language Source Code (2012)
The original Opera announcement, which probably have been submitted instead of a news article reporting on the contents of the annoucement, is already being discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11681930
The Intel drivers have had many serious regressions in the last year, so they are not the pinnacle of quality anymore. Both the X driver and the kernel drm bits. One major regression set was introduced in 4.3 with the atomic modesetting changes. It's almost like Intel has cut funding for QA.
Good answer, thank you.
Interesting for unprotected websites but it's easy to detect and to block: no valid js, no valid meta header, no valid cookie, suspect behavior...

Selenium is a much "elaborated" solution, but still, can be detected most of the time.

Disclosure: I'm DataDome co-founder.
If you want to detect bad bots and scrapers on your website, don't hesitate to try out for free and to share your feedback with us https://datadome.co
Chat tied to a location to talk to people nearby
I would say the chances of one of those companies you mentioned being more successful than both Apple and Google are extraordinarily high. Nothing in your statement conflicts with mine.
I'd like to write a small scraper for a website that uses NTLM authentication, the headers it sends are:

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5
WWW-Authenticate: NTLM
WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate
...

Does RoboBrowser support these kinds of protocols? I tried to get it to work with Scrapy, but it seemed non-trivial...
The new AMD drivers will have only user space binary parts and everything in the kernel will be open source and integrated upstream. This way, you can have the latest and best AMD driver code for Vulkan and OpenGL bits.
I have never heard of peer reviewers being paid in my discipline (materials science). Even the editor is usually a volunteer, though sometimes they are paid a small honorarium...
Most law libraries do not let you check out their copies of the legal code. Also most law libraries tend to be in court buildings, and not at public library branches. My public library has lots of hours outside the normal 0900 to 1700, my city's law library is open from 0800 to 1700.

Your point about purchasing a paper copy of the legal code is spot on. In my state, I asked my local government workers (clerks, law librarians, etc) where to buy a copy of my state's code. There seems to be only one source and it costs more than 700 USD.

For someone who lives on the opposite side of town from the courthouse, or spends more on rent than a potential law book, reading law on paper can be impossible.

There are online versions, but somehow I think that most people wouldn't be willing to suffer through the mountains of legal text on their phones. The interfaces I've seen sometimes even break tab navigation by using javascript references to each item, making them a pain to use on a big screen.
My Single Founder Y Combinator Experience
A google search did take me to that, which doesn't answer my question at all. A false story is not a story getting out of hand. It is a false story. And it doesn't address the main question of "how out of hand does a story need to be to make censorship good?".
I mean, you could say the same thing about HSTS and key pinning. Domain changes hands, but "oops", HSTS was set and the old keys were pinned.

Is that actually a problem? No, it's not. Similarly, as the owner of a new domain, why would I want the old content? The only reason I can think of is that I brought a company outright, or something. In that situation, if I don't want to change the content, everything still works. If I want to change it, and they did something stupid -- like unversioned paths using this proposed flag -- then yeah, I'm in a weird spot. That seems like the most trivial and unlikely of scenarios, though. It requires such a complex chain of events to occur.

I think it's safe to say that malicious usage of the flag is entirely out of scope when considering the validity of it, again, because it requires a contrived situation.
Babbage's Analytical Engine: Spring 2016 Report
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11673103
And isn't this something that Nvidia artificially disables in consumer cards while AMD has no such limitation for passthrough?
You could view Crimea just as minor oscillation in the wake of collapse of Soviet Union.

Conquest of strategic locations is just as important as before. Suez, Panama, Gibraltar and Singapore are pretty carefully looked after. But there has been significant decoupling between ownership of arable land and economic power. So you don't see same kind of land grabs that marked most of middle ages and lasted until WWII.
> "That was research for research's sake. It was, explicitly, not directed at ever making money, but instead, advancing the state of the art."

Advancing the state of the art can lead to making more money, the research results can be monetised, whether they are or not all depends on the intent of those leading the particular institution.
Angular is so hot right now this is a useful program, good work guys!
If Philosophy Won’t Diversify, Let’s Call It What It Really Is
Just when I finally was happy with calendaring and got organised. So annoying
Among the more impressive specimens, you can also see an A4 rocket (better known as V2).
FlatDB – database designed to persist data using just PHP and flat-files
I'm David Kosmayer the CEO / founder of Bookmark. We are an entrepreneurial platform which is centered around our drag and drop website publishing technology. We have in depth e-learning courses and community to help entrepreneurs be successful. I'll be around all day. Please ask me anything.
FBI Director Believes 'Viral Video' Source of Violent Crime Spike
And before that DRI back when we used to build our own X11 from CVS.
A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years
Everyone I hire, including myself, is learning on the company dime.
Why throw away that value?

Because others can extremely negative - to the point where they may put some people off publishing in open forums.

The very small amount of value that they may add is easy outweighted by a single person not publishing.
Does it make business sense to create a HN type site for a vertical market?
Is there a business opportunity for doing similar HN type news site?
looks more like degenerate art
Voice ID
I want to use an AMD GPU but would like to have one that is comparable in energy requirements to Intel's GPU. I just don't want to have a GPU that uses 150 or 200 watts but the Intel drivers are regressing so much that AMD seems like a safer bet.
Tend to agree -- JSON is a bit annoying. What about YAML? I love it for configs. Two of my favorite devops tools use YAML (docker-compose and ansible)
Because right now we have a system that works. Email the author. I've ALWAYS gotten a response.
Wellcome has required it for a while.

Any papers you plan to use in the Research Excellence Framework for 2020 (for those not acquainted, an exercise every few years where UK universities get to say "look how good we are, we published this many papers, please keep funding us") must be available as open access. It isn't necessary for these papers to have gone the gold open access route (where you pay a *!&^%-ton to the publisher), so you could instead upload the non-published version to a preprint server (which is a lot cheaper).
The main question is: who pays to make the standards?

W3C's biggest sponsors are corporate companies such as Google or Microsoft. It gives these companies a lot of weight.
I don't quite follow your proof on the last two steps; would you mind explaining? You say it's by logical operations, but I'm missing something because I see:

(A && B && C) || (A && D && C) == (A && B) || (D && C)
Do you have any links or tips for getting DNS verification working? Is it simply setting a token on the domain's DNS, then having LE issue a cert with all requested subdomains?
Multiple 7-zip vulnerabilities discovered by Talos
It's =>, not ==. We need to show that (4) is contained in the union of (2) and (3).
Some fairy tales may be 6000 years old
> first

explorer 9 disagrees.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/159269-internet-explore...

Safari says hi as well

http://www.imore.com/os-x-mavericks-preview-safari-power-sav...
Disney ends Infinity, shuts down game production
Wal-Mart Keeps Tampa Police Really Busy
> "Zuse is an interesting example of history being written by the victors."

This may hold true for the Zuse story, but he's also an example for german history about german scientists. While the Wikipedia article (both german and english) mentioning his ties to the NS and the german defence industry of that time, you probably find no hint about that at universities where lecture halls are named after him. For example in Hamburg, where the only "real" lecture hall at the CS department is named after him. In the small exhibition about his scientific life beneath this lecture hall you don't find a word about that (at least the last time I was there).
Disney Infinity cancelled, Avalanche Software shut down
>That ad today for the all-girl we-got-board-games thing was just... painful.

To what are you referencing here? I must have missed this story.
Any questions are welcome!
It should be something you have to opt into, with one cancellation button not overridable, similar to fullscreen mode.
Determining which statistics and creating a technical definition of "desired tech stack" might be where I would start. Though I'd be the first to admit that where I would start may be orthogonal to sensible.
In some countries, like Brazil, softwares are not copyrighted, nor ideas. They are considered as "art", like a book, so you can't copy, use, etc., without authorization. But you can get the idea and rewrite it. You can't use the same buttons from some Microsoft product, but nothing stops you from deciding that a disk symbol means "save".
> Disney ceases console game publishing, roughly 300 jobs cut.