skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I'm working on an auction platform, and I created something called Atomic Store [1] to enforce consistency in an Akka-based append-only log deployed on a cluster. But it relies on the logs being singletons. I suppose another way to do it would be to have the logs not be singletons, but have them use two-phase commit, or something similar, to keep the whole thing synchronized.

[1] https://github.com/artsy/atomic-store
>underlying physical phenomena (described via quantum mechanics) is fundamentally random

This is one interpretation of QM. There are many theories explaining eigenbasis collapse (the "random-looking" phenomenon), and some of them are deterministic.

The important thing here is that the data stream is hard or impossible to predict. It doesn't have to be truly random, because we don't even know if "truly random" is a sensible thing to ask for. What we're actually hoping is that you can't predict the result of a measurement, whether or not it's because of randomness or something else.

Most RNGs also don't rely on the uncertainty principle (or, more generally, non-commutative measurements), but instead on e.g. radioactive decay. This is an eigenbasis collapse mechanism (with the two eigenstates being "this thing hasn't decayed" or "this thing has decayed"), but it's not based on uncertainty. This is easier to build physically.
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Here's a link to the book in PDF and plain text https://archive.org/details/MathematicsAndTheImagination
I don't know much about law. If that's the case, how does legal marijuana work in Oregon, Colorado, Washington, and other legal states? Is it federally illegal but the feds just don't interfere?
The murder suspect has the right to refuse to testify against himself. The interesting part here is that this poor fella doesn't face any charges right now, so he has no such right. This is what makes it possible for the judge to jail him.
Name from the article would sound like Maxim Igorovich Popov.
2002. Part of a weather forecast tool to determine where to best place salting trucks during winter storms http://inws.wrh.noaa.gov/page/tou
There's no criminal case right now, so the fifth amendment doesn't apply.
Yes both good
Around 1989 I wrote a PC program that replaced an Epson HX20 storing injection molding machine programs on small cassettes. 2000 I got a call the molding machines had been sold and the old IBM PS/2 ditched. The new owner asked me if I still had the program. I re-mounted my old QIC streamer sleeping in a box, installed Borland Turbo Pascal in a DOS box in OS/2 and could recompile it from source. Got the same price as I originally sold it for again ;-). Still in use. The Epson HX20 is gone though...
Looking at the article's history it seems to have been a one-time contribution by an editor.
Please explain how that works.

So you've got a completely independent "fully automated" economy of robots creating "goods" (as defined by humans) and exchanging them with one another while humans starve to death watching that?
This is how common sense works, though, and is covered formally by probability theory. I'd also argue science works by probability theory more so than deductive logic, so you're only right that this isn't how logic works.
So I spent 3 years in Epitech, which forked into 42, and the first 4 weeks aren't a competition but more like an onboarding thing. You basically learn C in 4 weeks, with coding tests pretty much every day. It sets the base and it turns out to be a great way to quickly know if you really wanna be a software engineer.
After these 4 weeks, students start working on group projects and regular CS classes (although teachers are senior students).
There's an entire community of video game hackers (smwcentral.net) using a cross-assembler I wrote in 2001 named xkas. I added a few minor patches and by early 2004 I had released the final version, v06.

I never really intended for anyone to use it seriously. I made it for myself, but went ahead and posted it online anyway. It is a 1500-line single-file, nearly-commentless, nearly-spaceless abomination of code with no documentation, and an endless list of critical bugs that every user keeps encountering. They have elaborate workarounds for many of these bugs.

It became a negative feedback loop: "Why do we use xkas? Because everything else is written in xkas", and so now even more code was created and written in xkas. And so even though I've since written a proper assembler that's dozens of times nicer, no one can/will use it.

Lately, people have been writing their own versions (in addition to countless forks) that try to offer backward compatibility with all the crazy parsing errors and (mis)features of xkas, like left-to-right evaluation of math expressions, and the most convoluted macro evaluation system you've ever seen (one user proved it was Turing complete and wrote a Brainfuck parser in it.)

It's surreal. I feel terrible that so many people are stuck with this mess, but even I can't stop it anymore :/
I kept thinking Seveneves would adapt wonderfully as a three-season television series, with one season for each part of the book.

Oh, those season finales!
> Often the issue is not so much to draw public attention, but that drawing public attention is the simplest way of getting the attention of and access to a senior enough executive.

I really believe that's true and wish it could be applied in more cases. Basically spread the problem to people who are normally not affected by it.

I would bet that TSA queues would get solved in ~2 months if all government workers and politicians (to the highest position) were excluded from TSA precheck and could not pay for priority queues.
Isn't it the security of the seed that determines whether a CSPRNG is an appropriate source of entropy? I was under the impression that if your seed is secure and you're using a CSPRNG then there isn't a problem with using that generator as an entropy source.
There is also the reduced feature free version called Komodo Edit: http://komodoide.com/komodo-edit/
That's a pretty meaningless statement. Just because you can explain something with the concepts in covered in econ 101 doesn't mean that you understand it after econ 101.

Few people who understand even basic economics are surprised that a mid-sized US city can't keep up with the demands of being a center of the most successful industry of this era. Nor that people who aspire to be the next Steve Jobs are willing to pay more than hippies who would rather not work.

The reason it is an advanced economic question isn't because that the economics is complicated, but because the real life factors are. If you think it's simple and you're convinced you're right you should go be an analyst and make a lot of money.
The rate of car theft in New York has fallen by 96% over the past 30 years[1]. That's mostly due to technology, but there are other factors. Some of the last 4% will be solved by changing society to make car theft unnecessary for poorer people by ending poverty. The rest, probably, will always be there. I believe this demonstrates that we can effectively end crime. In three more decades if the rate is 1% what it is now I reckon that's pretty close.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/upshot/heres-why-stealing-...
Come on... Say all that and not mention the name of the map? Is this 'petrosianshina', the clone of 'Vampirism Fire'?

Being russian I can only name this as something with millions of subscribers and is not dota.
There's a nice way to extend von Neumann's basic idea naturally to the most efficient extractor: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/coinflipext.pdf
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Really interesting read - I just accepted a position with the US Antarctic Program as senior computer technician at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station this upcoming summer season, and I'll be spending a good amount of time at McMurdo in transit on the way to and from the Pole.

The research I've done on what to expect in Antarctica (and stories I heard during the interview process) are really, really interesting.

While McMurdo is the largest permanent base on the continent it's still incredibly isolated and self sufficient - and the polar station / field camps, an order of magnitude more so. Literally the closest thing we currently have to a permenant Mars colony. The USAP doesn't let anyone stay on ice longer than a year to prevent potential mental health issues.

If there's anyone else here involved (or previously involved) with the USAP here, I'd love to connect.
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Cynically: you can't write papers about this.

Practically: lots of cryptographic protocols just ask for a source of randomness, but don't care where it's from.
Yes, although I think maglev trains use continuous linear motors while if I understood the original proposal correctly, the hyperloop would be more like a series of railguns evenly spaced along the route.
Yup. Have a few Sun SPARC boxes from the 90s. Just one of those things, including the disk array enclosures, takes up half a rack.
Apple is not alone. I was an early ouya backer, and when mine arrived, it was water damaged (looked like it had been under water, not just rained on). The usual channels netted no response. I tweeted a photo with the text "I asked for shipping, not submarining", and got action within hours, and a replacement in days. Sad, but true.
>All the talk about looking for earth-like planets to find extraterrestrial life could be a big waste of time if we eventually learn that present-day conditions on Earth are not conducive to creating the fundamental building blocks for life

The only way we can do this is by exploring other worlds. We can only infer what happened in our past, but if we see life elsewhere we can assume some general set of conditions that caused it. If we look and don't find it, then we must assume life on earth is a fluke.
after using komodo for few years, I decided to switch to sublime, and I did not like it; sublime has no clean way to remote edit files

I switched back to komodo 10 Beta, and it's been amazing so far.
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what's an "exciting" language in your opinion?
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You use a randomness extractor like http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/coinflipext.pdf (or more sophisticated) to generate the actual unbiased random numbers from your source.
Dunno. Probably not. But it's not worth the time or energy to deal with them beyond giving them back their two lattes worth of money.
Isn't it for the applets?
Cool. But note that this is not a problem that you're likely to run into in practice. Nolan and Gelman claim that you can't actually bias a coin.

http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~nolan/Papers/dice.pdf
Depends on what you mean by randomness.

In general, natural processes seldom produce perfectly unbiased streams of independent coin flips. There's usually some post processing.
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Living in San Francisco for 4 weeks or 4 years costs a lot.
I'd wager that the margins are diminished because a well-accepted minimum bar has been established that is fulfilled by templates, frameworks, and libraries, that have all reached critical-mass.

Also I've spent several months of development time over the course of my life designing and implementing dashboards in angular 1.x and just the other month I googled "angular dashboard templates" out of boredom and frankly I could've saved weeks implementing $10 solutions that ultimately were better then what I came up with on my own (superior responsiveness, better styling, whatever).

Oh and finally all the start-up design jobs are tied to start-up funding. If the funding goes south companies in the Bay Area will be much less willing to drop $5, 10, 20k on design work.
A long time ago (around 2006) I started using Komodo. I started off with the "Edit" version and quickly upgraded to the full IDE. I loved it. As someone else mentioned, there's nothing better really for remote dev work. The editor works nicely on Win/OS X/Linux and presents roughly the same behavior on all. For Win it's extremely nice, as it presents an ease of use for remote development that I'd only ever gotten within Linux using ssh. You can edit locally over sftp/ftp/etc. and save just as easily as if you were logged into the remote terminal directly. There are a huge number of features that are useful for Python/Perl (like regular expression checkers) that visually show what you've screwed up within your regex. If you've ever tried to write a regex for something that is especially complex, you'll know what I'm talking about, this is quite a nice feature (perhaps duplicated by some open source tools). Komodo also provides syntax highlighting for quite a few other languages (although,I found it lacked HDL support at the time which I would have liked). It's not just for Python/Perl/Tcl, provides support for C/C++/Java as well (at least it used to, haven't tried in a little over a year). If you're looking for an IDE, I highly recommend this one. It is as simple in appearance as a text editor+++, but in reality is is quite a bit more. It's probably one of the best cross platform editors that I've tried, and I've tried quite a few. Honestly, I use vim almost exclusively these days. If I ever had to go back to developing on a Windows machine, or developing for Python/Perl exclusively I'd definitely consider going back to Komodo more often....
- Looks to be a mix of Python 2.7 and I see some Java processes running.

- Can't see any native Puppet integration / support.
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Probably doesn't prevent the granting of a patent, however it makes it impossible to enforce the patent. Mike and I published this in 1998 http://www.rage.net/wireless/wireless-howto.html . A Cisco legal team found this in 2008 and contacted me because the owners of patent #7035281 were coming after them. Doing a simple write-up of what I thought was obvious at the time - stick a wireless card into a Linux PC and have it route packets - may have saved all of us from having the wifi router in everyone's home restricted by patents. So whatever ideas you implement, be sure to blog about them and make sure archive.org gets a copy.
For one, XOR doesn't remove bias. (If both sources are biased, so will be their XOR.)
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Hard mode in Scrabble is giving definitions to all those weird words you memorise just for Scrabble....
Photons with half-integer angular momentum are the latest twist on light
I've had bugs relating to EMI issues crop up in testing before. The device in question had a compressor mounted inches from the touchscreen. It turned out the EMI from the compressor would generate phantom touch input on the display. It looked like a bug until I added a bunch of debug logging to the device.

Even if the computer is behaving predictably, the environment can do a wonderful job of making it go haywire.
It already is 'election week' in Australia. You can vote early, and you can postal-vote. The weekend vote is much easier to get the masses out voting, because most people don't have work (or school) to deal with on the weekend. At the last federal election I voted on the Wednesday beforehand, simply because I was passing by an early voting station.

And the queues at Australian voting stations on The Day aren't anywhere near as long as in the US. I've heard some horror stories where some people have had to wait 4+ hours (on a Tuesday) to vote in the US.
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> Spotify is the best for discovering new music from other users

I guess you've never experienced rdio? There we had a real thriving community of music lovers. Albums were discussed in comments under the item in questions, comments were rated, replies could be added. Popular and recent comments of your friends were featured on your frontpage. The heavy rotation section revealed a single users' (or a group for that matter) current taste at a glance, I could start any user's personal radio station.

Compared to that Spotify is a social tragedy - the activity tab has to be one of the most disappointing areas of the service. I can shout, but nobody can get back to me or discuss anything there.
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Hopefully I'm totally wrong here, but it sounds like this 15-16 year old kid had a cool idea, and a ton of investors and angels jumped in and started running the show? I hope he doesn't get screwed out of this.
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My "personal" website that I made when I was a kid at 2001. I think that I uploaded it to the Geocities free hosting and soon forgot about it. Then a few years back when I googled my name I stumbled upon it haha It is still up after more than 15 years on god know which free hosting and server, it was so funny. And of course it is used as a joke now by my friends :) And of course I have forgot my credentials long long ago (even if I knew where to login in the first place).

http://dzigi.itgo.com
http://dzigi.itgo.com/o_autoru.htm <--about me page with my pic as a kid haha
you might want to refer to the manual sections on tolerance and gentleness for a good exposition on why this kind of proselytizing is counter-productive =)
I benchmark most interpreted language http frameworks in the low tens to hundreds of requests per minute range at best without any app code and you're telling me that CPU performance isn't an issue?
Think it's closely related to their Netezza line; a 'Big Data' storeage solution that also features a FCPA-centered design for the storage/T-SQL engine.
...or the AD industry...
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How are you going to force Thrymyr to look in the mirror for an hour per day, if you can't even get someone out to vote? Who would be motivated enough to apply that penalty?
There's a great list of these at

https://web.archive.org/web/20070227031854/http://members.ao...
This is student work from a course, is there continued development? EDIT: from bitbucket looks not
This is exactly what I do, but the fact that it's wide open and relies on you to use a different (and de-coupled) service for permissions was surprising to me (at the time).
Only truly truly dependable with 99.9^ % certainty is to build your own CPU and RNG.
I once found a bug in a weather applet that only occurred when the temperature exceeded 100 degress. The 3-digit temperature caused a cascade of formatting issues that rendered part of the applet unreadable. I believe the author used Celsius, and so would never have encountered this bug on their own.
thanks for writing this up for us. This is great.
"If Stephenson wrote Huckleberry Finn it would be 4,000 pages long and mostly about paddlewheel design"

-- https://twitter.com/baconmeteor/status/663076130077802496

I have heard good things about this book, but it has been a while since I could get into Neal Stephenson's work. My favorite is one of his earliest, Zodiac. It's the only book of his I've read that doesn't just...end.
> You can just make a clear, coherent complaint in your own forum and occasionally [like in this case] it actually brings about a transformation.

But only if you have enough followers or readership.

The Ars Technica writers have often remarked about feeling guilty for taking advantage of this privilege. They try to resolve things, then after failing, mention they're going to write a story about things, and suddenly get the VIP treatment. But not everyone can write an article for a major news site.
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Yeah, that seems to be because I use sublime text for rendering. Sublimes Syntax coloring was updated recently, so the code is now interpreted and colored differently.

When adding a new font, I like to only render the new one because of the sheer number of screenshots, files and time it takes to redo everything. Currently the site contains 2569 individual images. But I'll look into it later today. Maybe I can fix it. It's distracting right now. Good eye for noticing though :D
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Why not just put your cat in front of it and use sha3 on the image?
Good job guys, i really enjoy this stuff.
Space shuttle software was purported to be bug-free
As has always been the case, effective use of modern C++ requires knowing which subset of the language to use and which to avoid.

I agree with the author's criticisms of many C++ features. At the same time, I think that a proper simple, modern subset of C++ exists that is much more productive and safer than C, without sacrificing performance. You can also optimize progressively, for example start with using std::string and std::vector and then replace the stock implementations if they aren't performant on your target architecture. I would not, however, recommend using C++ for GPU kernel code - a mix of C++ for CPU code and C for GPU kernel code works best. It is not ideal, but it's the best toolset available for serious industrial development.

FPGAs are exciting, but they've also been the "next big thing" in general purpose computing forever. Obviously it makes sense to use FPGAs for certain HFT and embedded applications, but that's not the same as general purpose computing which is what C/C++ is for. Not to mention, FPGA compile times can take hours or even days, which pales in comparison to most C++ template overhead.

I would also say that for IOT, I'm not sure why it is obvious that "$10 FPGAs" should dominate. Why not a $2 microcontroller? Embedded devices have been around long before "IOT" became a buzzword, and we can see that microcontrollers, FPGAs, SOCs, and custom ASICs all have a role to play depending on the application.
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> As an aside, the Haxe compiler is written in OCaml. I think there'd be a delicious juxtaposition if it was re-written in Reason. Writing Reason to generate OCaml to create Haxe to generate Java to generate bytecode...

It should be easy to convert the Haxe compiler into Reason with refmt. Maybe unless if it's using camlp4 syntax extension... But I guess you could add a camlp4 pass before running refmt.
Can't even what?
I can't remember their names off the top of my head (not near a PC) but there are packages available for some Linux distributions that use your audio (i.e. microphone) and video (i.e. webcam) input devices for generating entropy.
>(one user proved it was Turing complete and wrote a Brainfuck parser in it.)

Okay. That is hilarious.
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Why are we still using Mainframes?
Why are we still using Mainframes? Do we have any alternatives? How easy is it to migrate?
I was about to say the same thing as your parent. I recently had a nice feature toggle experience using a strategy pattern with DI.

Basically there was one 'if' statement in the DI container configuration code that looked up a config. Basically

if (newPricingStrategy)
bind IPricingStrategy to NewPricingStrategyImplementation
else
bind IPricingStrategy to OldPricingStrategyImplementation
Those look a lot like Dune's wind traps. Coincidence?
You are in A wondering why you are in A. You are also in B wondering why you are in B, and so on. It's all perfectly consistent.