skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most important features of the blockchain is consensus, requiring nodes to contribute computing power to verify transactions (mining). Part of the genius of Bitcoin is that the incentive to contribute is built into the protocol. What would be the incentive to "mine" a hyperledger? Is it application dependent, e.g. a distributed fee for nodes that settle securities?

It's nice to have an open source, "agnostic" blockchain implementation, but seems like figuring out the magic formula of incentive structure is still a huge piece of the puzzle -- and probably the most difficult aspect of gaining network participation.
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Well spotted :)
arXiv is not a peer reviewed journal.
Love the quote where he talks about fame and how it impacts an artists decision making process.
A journal dedicated to negative results is IMO not the solution here. Academics must publish in reputable, prestigious journals in order to advance their career (a publication in a non-prestigious journal basically counts for nothing). A journal dedicated to negative results is never going to be a prestigious, impactful, or widely-disseminated venue.
I'd say give MariaDB a try. It does everything MySQL does, fully compatibly without the guilt of supporting Oracle.
So far it's given me middle of the Indian ocean and north-west Africa. I'm in Australia.

EDIT: Now it's saying somewhere in North America
I'd be interested in reading any thoughts you have to share regarding other fundamental issues in the field of physics.
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Not at present. I would be interested in learning about use cases for this. Post here or find me online, as you wish.
That probably sounds really dry, but the real benefit of ditching the phone habit was to gain back the ability to fully engage in games, movies, conversation, and even playing instruments. I was finding the short lived reward cycle was invading everything I did,to the point where I couldn't even sit down and learn a 2 minute song.
This stuff is carefully crafted to get everyone on board. Notice that the wording is 'connecting every household'. You can interpret this to mean what you'd like (pay your bill? dig fiber to your house?). For utility companies they read 'subsidized'.

BTW what does the government have to do with proving wi-fi access at an airport? Frankly this sounds like the equivalent of handing out lollipops.
Unless I'm mistaken, the computable numbers are not complete in the Cauchy Sequence sense. Therefore, there can be no hilbert space based on the computable numbers, because a hilbert space has to be complete in the Cauchy sense. It would only be a pre-hilbert space. I believe this means one can no longer correctly use limits in QM; are there other consequences of this?
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I'm not saying DF is free of bugs, but actual bugs in it are going to be fixed, so it's easier to ignore them. If you knew your dwarves are going to get stuck now, and in a month, and whenever you want to play, would it be still fun?
All that really matters is that the outermost layer is signed, and that the signature is required to be properly verified by the recipient before any other processing is done.

Regardless of whether you're encrypting or compressing or signing twice or what order those are in.
> As we are now several hours into this outage and do not have satisfactory timeline for resolution, we have begun the process of migrating our hosts into another deployment zone within GCE. We will have a baseline set of services migrated within the hour and evaluate our ability to operate in a split deployment. Should we need to pursue a complete migration of hosts across zones then we would expect another 4-5 hours to return to full operational capacity.

Wait, their service isn't setup to operate in a split environment out of the box? I think it's time SaaS companies start documenting their IaaS setup so purchasers can do a high level audit before they decide to use it for potentially a core part of their own product/service.
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The question in climate change is not direction, but magnitude and variance. While most of physics does use 3-5 sigma tests due to a large number of experiments, climate science can not do the same.

Furthermore, we have significant evidence that climate scientists are motivated to protect their work against critics - just read the climategate emails. That's not how science should be done, and goes well beyond the replicability issues discussed here.
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Windows MSE can be way more resource hungry than many AVs while providing a worse protection. Symantec might actually be worse than MSE depending on your data etc.

Avira is the best free one right now IMO. No spam you can't opt out of and no pop ups.
On the other hand, Tarn has said that he now no longer understands this part of the code. If he ever needs to modify it he'll either have to learn how it works from scratch, or farm the work out to the community again.

Reasonable, but that's when, surprise, revision history is pretty useful in figuring out what the changes are and why they were made :)
Any journal that refuses to publish a failure to replicate research they originally published without proper reasoning should be closed down. That journal should have such a reputational black mark next to it that nobody would want to publish there and anyone who already had should be at the door with pitchforks and torchers for tarnishing the researchers' reputations.

If it's was important enough to publish research saying "here's something" then it's important enough to publish properly done research showing "actually, probably it's nothing." By definition. Or it's not science, it's fking marketing and the journal should be treated with the same scientific reverence we reserve for pepsi-cola advertisements from the 1990s.
Not out of the box, but this library does exactly that (with lots of functional niceness too). Disclaimer, I wrote it, so I'm obviously biased

https://github.com/louthy/language-ext
Yup. Just as too few companies realize that cloud doesn't mean one remote box replacing one local box, all eggs in one regional basket (or even single cloud provider) is unwise.
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Sure, but a pretty high percentage of the US believes anthropogenic climate change is not real. They think it's either a misinterpretation, or an explicit hoax. Most of the Republican party denies climate change, or at least denies that human activity is playing a significant role in it.

We can't have reasonable debates on cost-effectiveness when so many people deny the fact that there is even a problem at all.
PopClip on Mac. A tiny menu-bar app that does so much, so easily. All cliches apply, including the one where Apple should buy them. This should be part of MacOS. Extensible architecture too.
> if you have a GSM phone this is quite trivial to do.

If you have a face, it's quite trivial to be punched in it. That doesn't make it okay for someone to punch it, much less legal.
TL;DR +1 for IntelliJ

I was hating maven, until I started using IntelliJ. I don't remember ever Eclipse going to zero error count on a maven project whereas the project would just compile if maven was used outside of Eclipse.

IntelliJ just works. FTW it has Eclipse key-mappings as well.
Check http://www.openstenoproject.org/ - they have some pretty great ideas and alternatives (and the software to run them)
>[PASSED] Disable IPv6

I'd like to see the rationale behind disabling IPv6 outright.

Edit: https://github.com/SummitRoute/osxlockdown/issues/4
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Older humans have a lot to contribute to the fitness of their children and grandchildren. Power, resources, labor...
I bark to people all the time about how environmentally unconscious it is to do something on a million client machines which could have been done once on the server and cached. Namely client side JavaScript based document composition. If everyone is going to do the exact same thing, it's just a huge waste of cycles.
I just saw the pages for New York and Toronto and I literally laughed out loud. I'd love to attend one of these.
You realize that this system uses machine learning? And that AlphaGo was custom-built to play Go?

AlphaGo has several handcoded training features, uses Monte-Carlo tree search, and was primed by a huge human-made dataset. It's not like it can be throws at other problems without heave re-engineering.
> they were very good at customer acquisition

The entire reason they failed was because they were paying more for customers than they were getting in return and even more importantly they were not retaining customers very well. It was a bleeding ship for a very, very long time until it went bust.

I could be great at customer acquisition no matter what the product if I'm losing a lot of money on each acquisition. Typically people hold up metrics such as NPR or usage as far more important than installs / initial acquisitions.

> Homejoy had missteps after that initial period. But sometimes you learn as much or more from failure as you do from success.

While I certainly agree from the latter (I know the very first project I ever lead was a HUGE failure and one of the most amazing learning experiences of my life) I'm not sure that necessarily qualifies someone to give start-ups advice. Sure you can tell them how you fucked up but without real experience in applying those lessons it's hard to see much value in it compared to most of the other partners at YC.

Hence why I was curious what her role was. If she's just leading this work or partnering on it then that might be a good fit. But if it's sitting down and giving advice to start-ups I'm not so sure I'd take it without a larger grain of salt than I would most of the other YC folks.
I agree that 27Tb doesn't sound too big for the NSA, but perhaps they are doing very deep and involved "processing" on the data, making the output size orders of magnitude larger than the input size.

Better give them more budget, then they will be able to handle all the data!
Symantec have described some vulnerabilities that sound like these ones, dated 2016-06-28 (no time) here:

https://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/d...

Detailed description and credits sections don't seem to be in complete alignment with details of OP, but I may be misreading.
I am always thinking, if the compression scheme is known, you would need some good noonce to avoid known plaintext (for example, compression format's header is always the same), and also by CRIME, which is to remover the dictionary of the compression.

I think it is best to use built-in compression scheme by the compression program to do the encryption first, as those often take these into account (and the header is not leaked, since only the content is encrypted).
I am working on an embedded system project with a low-powered microcontroller and low-resolution graphic display.

I wrote this tool to design a very small, compressed font.
I imagine this is solely intended as a building block (based on their previous announcements), and the question of incentivizing mining is left as an application-level concern.

Notably, this can be used as a private blockchain which doesn't need to incentivize mining. The operating organization simply runs all transaction verification themselves.
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Yes, I believe there are several precedents. Tavis has found remote code execution exploits in Sophos[1] and TrendMicro[2] products too.

Continuous protection by nature opens up an enormous attack surface, and AV vendors' seem in no way up to the challenge. For this reason, in my company, security policy is to use only what's built in to each O/S.

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2013580/researcher-finds-crit...
[2] http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/01/google-security-re...
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I agree. If you're going to use abstracted infrastructure but you don't understand basic distributed architecture you shouldn't really be blaming your cloud provider.
Darn I've only worked for 2 and had offers at 4...
Microsoft tweaks aggressive Windows 10 upgrade prompt following complaints
I imagine if one were a customer of this SaaS, it's on the customer to ask what availability to expect.

Clearly this vendor thought that their savings on their IaaS bill outweighed any operational or reputational risk they'd suffer from an outage at a lower layer (pun unintended).
The test were done in a simulation. Also, if you want to run high-G maneuvers, you can always control a drone from the ground.
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On my macbook I run Linux for AV.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook
I started Complice (https://complice.co/) 2.5 years ago while in university, with the goal of making enough money by graduation that I didn't have to get a job. I succeeded at that, and have now grown it to about twice that, and it continues to grow, mostly via word of mouth and a few communities.

I mostly work on it one day a week, when I have a super maker schedule day and code for like 14h straight. The other days of the week I answer support emails and sometimes write blog posts. Total time these days is about 20h/week, and if I want to it can easily be 4h or less.

I've written a bit about my experience getting to here:
- http://blog.complice.co/post/129788685472/complice-goals-ach...
- http://blog.complice.co/post/130460454477/complice-at-2-year...
-http://blog.complice.co/post/139686741757/my-complice-origin...

In some senses it worked fairly smoothly for me, but I'm not assuming it's easy. Some basic advice: (the posts above elaborate on some of this)
- do things that don't scale
- charge people from the beginning: ideally get 10 people to literally send you cash for their first month's subscription before you do much work--message friends directly rather than setting up a huge sales site
- then gradually automate it with software,
- (before you get monthly payments running on your app, you can run them with moonclerk (which uses stripe, so it's a seamless transition))

By following these principles, you know that at each step of the way, you're building something that people will pay for, because you have people paying for it. This also forces anyone you talk to for advice to take you more seriously.

Feel free to hit me up on twitter @Malcolm_Ocean with questions or just to connect :)
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At this point, I think Google Scholar should step in and just put a replications section beside every scientific publication. People should be able to quickly and easily know how many times a study has been attempted to replicate and, of those attempted, how many times it has actually successfully replicated.

It's unfortunate that replications aren't taken more seriously these days, but it also doesn't help that, when there are actual replications, you have to scour the internet for them rather than having them readily available to you.
> Perl ... the overall culture of testing

and documentation!
Chromecast already does that for device pairing.
> No spam you can't opt out of

nope
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Here's the California statute: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&gr...

It says that IP assignment clauses that cover non-competing work done on the employee's own time with their own equipment are not allowed.

How it works at Google is that you sign an IP assignment clause that says effectively "All the intellectual property that you create is the property of Google except where prohibited by law" and then they attach a copy of that law to the contract.

After that you can work on personal projects but if you don't like uncertainty Google has a process that will affirm that Google has no claim to your side project. The process has you describe the project and affirm you worked on it on your own time and then if Google agrees that it doesn't compete with them they'll let you know that they're ok with it.
Engineers are given answers and told to look for places to apply all the answers. Scientists are given answers and told to look for new questions that haven't been answered. These are fundamentally different approaches to life. The former, the engineering approach, I would not call "smart."

I don't think it is a coincidence that engineering students are both far religious than science students, with the exception of software engineers. Last I checked something like 90% of structural engineering students were religious, while only like 10% of physics students were. ISIS claims to have all the answers. Liberal/progressive ideologies readily admit to a world without solid answers. The former appeals to the engineering mindset far more than the latter.
Another point that is briefly touched upon is the availability of data. What good is a study I can't verify? I wish there was a tag that could be applied to published papers along the lines of "the original data is not available or the author is unwilling to share it, treat this very septically". If you ever feel like having a sad couple of weeks, pick 50 empirical papers and send the authors emails along the lines of "I just read your paper X, very interesting. Would you kindly provide me with access to the data so that I can Y".

Call me naive but reproducibility is one of the hallmarks of a good scientific publication. I'm also fairly skeptical of studies where the used questionnaires are not openly available...the list goes on (I'd also argue that closed source software should be avoided because "we plugged our data into the not checkable algorithm X and got result Y which we interpreted according to what the authors of the software say we should interpret it as" isn't great either)
In case you didn't know, there's an option in VLC to download subtitles based on the hash of the video.
You mention HPC and Big Data processing as use cases for EFS; Lambda is also very well suited for big processing tasks you want to execute quickly with a large amount of concurrency. You often need persistence across executions, for example when breaking tasks into multi-function workflows, and EFS would seem to simplify this over manually using S3 for it.
If that use case makes sense to you, sure, do whatever you want. But that's such a niche thing, and such a trivial amount of effort to expend (Really? It's worth all the headaches so you don't have to search for your current location? Also: How does facebook know where you're going?). I really can't see that being worth it for basically everyone else.
Indeed. The same person who worked on the Chromecast implementation has a repo with some other examples of sonic networking:

https://github.com/borismus/sonicnet.js
How does that applies to devices with vastly different CPU and network capabilities? Example: my old dual core Galaxy S2 on a 3G connection and my 8 core laptop with 100/50 Mbs fiber. Both are Linux and have cgroups (I googled and Android has them.) I expect the browser to ignore any recommendation on that phone and use 100% of the resources every time. That could change, at least for the network, when the phone is on WiFi. On the other side newer octa core phones on LTE could honor the recommendations every time. One problem is that mobile networks can perform very differently even in the same very small area, just add a couple of meters and one thick wall and performances drop. I wonder if the browser can cope with this variability (probably yes) and if it's worth the trouble to implement the extra performance checks and logic. Is this going to be a desktop only technology?

Another problem is the developer: we could pick horrible choices for those limits and break the usability of the site for everybody but us. We need some tools or heuristics to make sensible choices. It's an extra layer of testing, to be automated by simulating different performance profiles. Should those different profiles reflected into the recommended limits, similar to media queries?
It's surprising that progressives are 'helping' advance corporate interests when their interests are aligned?
At the risk of further derailing this thread, there was nothing wrong with the content of the climategate emails, other than poor choice of words - a poor choice of words that were all too easy to take out of context.
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Yes. It was when someone called me a "race traitor" on Saturday as I walked down the street with my non-British fiance that I decided it was time to GTFO. Don't feel safe.
given they have probably "got" the majority of people who are easily "converted" to Windows 10, any reduction in agression now is just good PR
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This is why every time I see a new Jepsen article come out my immediate reaction is actually of mild disappointment that he isn't going back and retrying Cassandra to see if it works now: by only evaluating the product enough to do an article on how bad things are, and then only evaluating fixes when he is pretty sure the authors are being dumb (redis), it turns the entire experience one into a trail of destruction rather than one of helping anyone (whether it be the database vendor or the audience) build better things. If nothing else, at least linking the article to Cassandra's own testing with Jepsen would make it live up to the feel of the database quality review site people are looking for: it also would serve to reward communities like Cassandra's that have embraced the kind of analysis and testing that Aphyr wanted.

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/testing-apache-cassandra-wi...
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In theory yes, but in practice I've rarely been satisfied with the 'why' of a change unless I was able to talk to the author about it. Everyone seems to leave these things out of commit messages, because they seem so obvious at the time. Bug trackers are often better for this than version control.
I think that's a pretty great idea actually. If anyone here has the reach to get this on their table please do reach out. It would be even greater if they'd use some replication metric in their ranking algorithm for the papers.

The danger however is that this would just lead to only me-too studies being accepted and failed replications still being rejected.

I'd also love if they'd add (possibly Google hosted) repositories where the data/scripts etc. that belong to the paper can be uploaded and archived for all eternity.
My comment was not meant to "jump down" on anyone. Sorry for the misunderstanding. It was a simple question (also because the Laravel answer did not go into that much detail).

The reason why I added "templates without code" is because I have seen too much abuse of php code in templates to even consider doing that again.

While you are probably right that there might not be (but who knows for sure...) one framework that meets all the criteria, it is still worthwhile to ask the community for suggestions.
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If you don't think the result of this was intended by the people who doctored and posted the photos, you're naive. It's a huge stretch to pin deliberate harassment and incredibly strict cultural mores on facebook. I'm not saying no one is to blame, and that this should ever happen, but laying all the responsibility at the feet of facebook is naive and frankly duplicitous