skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a C programmer I make a concious effort to ignore the possibility of using C for site specific code on the web, so I find C++ a stranger choice. For Java (or Scala), the problem is the baseline for running a VM. When I think of average Java webapp, I think of intranet apps doing nothing but needing 8GB of RAM. Java allows for good upward scalable design, but in average use it is like airlines buying fleets of spaceshuttles in case a new route is requested.

I think go solves my issues with using C, but introduces two others.. No one writes stubs to interact with go, just C, so I am not writing a permanent "neutral" resource. Go has (had I should hope?) the crazy static linking thing. I reject the possibility of using a static copy of any common code. Everything that could conceivably have a security bug should be forceably swapped by a rude package manager, such that my program breaks before running indefinitely with a disclosed security bug.
Indeed, having seen the movie The War Within, I have to agree with you strongly.

The title does not resonate with the expectations to the content.
After learning about their mac client backdoor, I removed all their software from my devices and stopped using the service. I'd suggest everyone do the same and use the web interface if you absolutely need to consume or share with other parties who still use them.
Dropbox has been modifying the Finder since 2008, nothing new here.
"I think your concern about weekend mechanics is also unwarranted because most of them aren't morons."

Go to an AutoX competition or two and I bet you'll be changing your mind on that opinion very quickly.
If you believe that patents, in general, are more good than bad, because they coax trade secrets out into the open after an amount of time, then they are just as valid for inventive software as for i inventive hardware/chemistry/biology/mechanics.

The problem comes when the bar for "inventive" and "novel" and "non-obvious" is too low, and a guy or girl in a garage facing the problem to be solved is just as likely to reinvent the solution independently. Often, it's the problem that shapes the solution, rather than any particular inventiveness.

It turns out, other engineering disciplines also have this problem, but because their times to market are much longer and more expensive, and their times of prior art are much longer (and thus the foundations are more well known/documented) it doesn't quite rise to the immediate existential threat that it does for independent software developers.
I haven't used Dropbox in forever. If you really need sync, SyncThing's your best bet, but all I really needed was access to all my files from anywhere.

SSH and Git work pretty well for that.

I'll take a trusted piece of open source sofware with strong security running on my own server (openSSH) over a magic pocket any day.
So there is a judge out there, and his son is a practicing lawyer who reps. PT and PT victims. Basically legal racketeering.
It would be interesting to see emails dumped from these guys, and how much corruption is taking place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG9UMMq2dz4 its like 5 min in.
The Jargon quote was “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity”. [1]

[1]: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/Hanlons-Razor.html
Interesting. Who puts the tasks in? How do engineering and product work together to prioritize short term business value vs long term business value?
"Passport-protected open network"...heh, that reminds of the "anonymous functions" in PHP (the ones documented with the sentence "Creates an anonymous function from the parameters passed, and returns a unique name for it") :D
Headline should say [2010], though the thing the post is about is from 1996.
No worries. Obviously, this isn't an area I know anything about. Yet. :)
Sorry to pry, but may I ask which neuro-muscular disease you're referring to? A bit fascinated by the inability of many doctors to make proper diagnoses when dealing with neurological issues.
File system integration, maybe. Not finder integration.
"Justice"
I'm not surprised in the slightest. Caltech has a reputation as one of the best research universities in the world and getting a degree or doing research there requires a lot of work because it's so competitive. I've spent many nights as a kid running around Caltech in the dark while my mother worked on her experiments till midnight or later (all of the turtles come out at night!). Publish or perish goes tenfold for the elite schools which have a never ending supply of talented postdocs.

Though I'm not surprised that this letter came from someone in the chemistry department. ChemE especially has a reputation within Caltech as one of the most difficult paths for both undergraduate and graduate work. The ChemE specific classes usually require a much bigger time commitment and the tests are notoriously difficult.
Also came here to post this. I'm not sure why an NYT article would pass editing to have such a click-baity title yet bury its core premise inside the middle of the piece.

Hope it's not a sign of the way their journalism is headed.
Then the idea that belief becomes a self fulfilling prophecy should be explored and understood.

That one poorly understood idea (nature vs nurture) affects another poorly understood idea (that belief of something may help cause it to be true) and may somehow harm you is no reason not to explore them both, since you'll just stagnate.
How Political Correctness Limits the Free Exchange of Ideas on Campus
Yeah, but the really interesting part of this article is the program they designed that seems to actually work.
From what I can tell, this is much more common in synthetic labs than physical or analytical labs. I think most of the physical chemists I knew in two different universities worked fairly normal hours, the labs were mostly empty on nights and weekends.
Earnest skepticism: how can you trust Open APS without the rigorous testing required from companies like Medtronic? Sure, FDA regulations are not perfect. But they sure work in a large number of cases. While the DIY spirit of Open APS is commendable, hypoglycemia can be extremely dangerous and the risk is too high without FDA-level rigorous testing.
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Ask HN: What Has More Sensors Than a Smartphone?
Is there any single computer product (car, airplane, satellite, space ship, dishwasher) that has more classes of sensors than a smartphone?

I'm not talking about absolute count so if an airplane has multiple radar systems, that only counts as 1 class.

Edit: Here is a list I started a few years ago - https://github.com/conopsys/SensorKit
And I always wondered how those photo enhancers in Blade Runner worked...!
Glad it's not dead, it looks like an interesting project.
If you don't mind me asking, what do you mean by mild?
Stiff Person Syndrome.

It is extremely rare and occurs in only about 1 in 1 million people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiff_person_syndrome

For this particular illness, 6 years is the average amount of time it takes to diagnose. Just to help put it in perspective.
Note that design patents are totally different from method patents. If there is a physical/method reason to infringe a design patent to achieve functionality (say, "not eat through pants pocket cloth") then a design patent can, theoretically, not protect that feature.

Monster Cable used to use a design patent to threaten other cable manufacturers, too, seemingly largely without actual standing.
nice although keywords and photos are more practical query methods than sketches which are harder to input and thus less expressive (i.e. sketch of a bear returning teddy bears and not real bears).
Mars rovers, maybe?
The biggest difference between individuals and societies: our cells cannot propagate or survive on their own, whereas individuals can.

As an analogy for society, a colony of bacteria or fungi would serve better than the human body.
It's a violation of labor laws. Universities argue that they can bypass labor laws by calling it education but there have been some recent rulings against that argument in postdoc unionization cases.
The commit mentions that hello.rs work, anyone happen to notice if a copy of the resulting hello.wasm is posted anywhere? Or the steps to build hello.rs to hello.wasm?
How does this compare to Google's Nacl/Pnacl
Fascism is also highly inefficient.
> At a high end (multiple Michelin stars) restaurant you can't have the servers walking around with iPads and space is at a premium.

Perfect application for voice. Not in front of the customers, but as soon as you're out of sight you can quickly update on the customer (behavior, likes etc). You want realtime processing, but it can be transcribed offsite and automation added later.
That's enterprise B2B. Even so, I've made sales to F500 enterprises that went as smoothly as you can imagine and with minimal overhead.

B2B, IMO, is far easier than B2C. A business will pay serious cash for something that solves a problem without blinking. Consumers want to nickel and dime you to death.
> Dismiss its wage problems at your own peril.

It's far worse than this. In my field, even in industry I have had far more lucrative offers from quantitative hedge funds than any industrial research labor. Let alone staying in academia, where it literally starts to become a factor of four (or more) difference in salary between a postdoc and finance.

The only reason I did not bite is because I am fortunate enough to have no college debt even after undergrad and phd. Most are not in a position to be so picky.
I started this list a few years ago, but check it out.

https://github.com/conopsys/SensorKit

I've got the iPhone at 37 and I'm sure I'm missing some.
One simple way to measure it is with a feedback loop.

For example if the company starts paying all developers time and a half for hours beyond forty per week then it is practical to measure the amount that the developers work in dollars/pounds/pesos and compare that measurement to the dollars/pounds/pesos hiring another developer would require.
This is not true for everyone. I find Dropbox especially useful because of its Finder integration and the whole experience feels really intuitive and not something i didn't expect..
Actually, it allows both postdoc AND grad student unionization.
Yes, a scan of LM-2 is better than nothing.
Dupe - submitted twice by the author.
To normal people, those are the same - and convenience matters more than some seemingly arcane technical nuance.
Even if you can remove the overlay somehow, you still can't remove Condoleezza Rice from Dropbox's board, which should be plenty of reason to avoid it entirely.
Finder and Windows Explorer integration is great. This may be a bit intrusive, and it is a beta option, and it can be disabled.

On Windows, immediately adding Dropbox to 'Favourites', and the icon integration to show sync status is an awesome feature. It is invasive for Dropbox to hijack your icons and overlay a checkbox? Yup. But incredibly helpful in my opinion.

Maybe it isn't everyone's cup of tea, but the close integration with file browsers on multiple OSes is (was?) definitely one of the differentiating aspects of Dropbox, polarizing or not.
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If you intentionally install a beta version of a piece of software, you get to deal with bugs. If you don't want bugs, you stick to stable versions. You are literally choosing to test new, buggy functionality by not using a stable version.
Wow. What sort of programming do you do? Do you mind sharing how to get to such a level, skills needed etc?
Do you have any footage from the gate cam?
I don't use a smartphone presently, but I also don't need one. I consider both options equally undesirable and will hold out until a worthy competitor arrives, or necessity imposes itself. I'm a bit curmudgeonly regarding technology that sits in my pocket, following me everywhere, handling my data, and prefer it be subordinate to me - not autonomous, closed and teeming with third-party interests.
Don't count on your research job in industry remaining stable if it can be outsourced to a university lab. The ceiling on your pay is that of a postdoc's plus university overhead.
Sure, this kind of pressure from an advisor breaks labor laws, but a postdoc is going to do this anyways because their contract is short-term, and if they don't rack up an achivement in that time, they're either have to be 1) lucky 2) a superstar, or 3) going to be kicked to the curb in terms of finding future employment.

Science is often not something you can arbitrarily knock down into a 9-5. E.G: The enzyme assay has to get done after you prep, and the prep is an 8 hour block of time after your cells are ready, and you have to do 10 hours of enzyme kinetic work... So you stay up all night. And it took you 10 months to figure out that this is the correct procedure, and now you have one year left in your contract, and you probably ought to be publishing and getting ready to give lectures for academic positions... So that's a straight month of 6 nights a week 100 hour a week work.

You hold postdocs strictly to labor laws, and they are going to be at a disadvantage to the postdocs that are crazy enough to do what needs to be done. You hold all postdocs strictly to labor laws, and hard science simply doesn't happen.
Mentioning that it is written by his widow was a large factor in me clicking the link.
Thanks for indulging my curiosity, have heard of it believe it or not.
Capitalism is failing – users are irrational we are using that against them
Figure out your life, with help from a couple of Stanford professors
They operated agents in the US disguised as a variety of laborers and professions during the red scare, both posing as communist/socialist organizers as well as patrons. It was estimated many communist and socialist organizations received a majority of their donations from undercover fbi and CIA agents. In many cases, their meetups were almost all undercover agents.
Looks like it was released in 2008 so you could probably just check the related work section of the nacl paper (which I think waskre recent).
The problem with academic science is threefold:

1: you are expected to feel privileged for doing something you vaguely enjoy. (how many people actually enjoy running columns and NMRs at 12am?)

2: you are expected to be altruistic in your ambitions. Curse those vaguely better paid lizard people who are working in industry to forward some profiteering enterprise rather than "science"

3: there are huge barriers to entry (tech excluded) so you will not do something entrepreneurial and make a name for yourself without the university. To make sure of this, we will name claim on anything you do for the next 10+ years anyway.

It's no wonder to me that many of the talented people. Leave to go do banking or consulting - they work less for more!!
Does it have seemless integration with drag n drop plus sll this setup automatically on install? And on each supported platform? This combo is Dropbox's market.
> How many studies have been done verifying that enterprise SSDs perform significantly better than consumer SSDs in any metrics?

Define perform. But short answer, lots.

To be fair, consumer SSDs these days are pretty solid, and will perform great for most workloads - even many workloads which enterprise drives would be used for.

The big difference though, is with extremely heavy write workloads. The endurance of enterprise SSDs in terms of how much data you can write before the drive will fail, is a couple orders of magnitude greater than consumer drives. For example, I have an 800gb Intel S3710 SSD. It's rated to handle 10 DWPD (drive writes per day) - meaning that one could write 8,000 gigabytes of data a day, 365 days a year, for 5 years (~17 petabytes), and the drive will still be chugging away just fine.

A 1TB Samsung 850 Pro (which has some of best endurance of consumer ssds), on the other hand is only rated to 300 terabytes of data written. So the enterprise drive has a 60x improvement in endurance.
Death of a startup founder
As I understand it, police often don't want to live and work in the same city. There's the risk of running into the guy they busted for slinging drugs while grocery shopping with spouse and kids, and avoiding that by living the next town over is an attractive proposition.

Requiring a degree is likely going to skew the racial mix of OPD more.
website re: the book & related resources:
http://designingyour.life
Scikit-learn 0.18 has been released
If you find yourself in need of a customizable animated atomic model...wellps
Here's the inherent problem – insulin is a lot more dangerous on it's own than with any sort of hybrid loop system. The safety having a system like openaps - which includes a LOT of fail safes - is far greater than what a type 1 diabetic can do on their own. 1 in 20 people will die in their sleep because of hypos because he or she simply isn't fortunate enough to feel the blood sugar dipping and wake up to treat. The OpenAps safety measures are far far greater than what we have as a normal person regulating their day-to-day insulin dosing. I will sleep a lot easier knowing that I have something else watching, determining whether the boluses he's given might be corrected slightly so that he doesn't go low or high. Read about it at openaps.org – look at the reference design, and read about the fail safes where the pump will revert back to preprogrammed basal rates if batteries run out. Quite frankly anything with Type 1 diabetes is terrifying. At the end of the day, the risk with type 1 is too high for us to wait any longer.
I think her intent was simply to invoke empathy for what happened to her husband (to try to put us in his shoes). It wasn't meant as any kind of a broader social or political metaphor.
That sounds reasonable for bulking. I was actually referring to the increments on the weights you're lifting. If curling 25 lbs is on the edge of your ability to finish 4 sets when you start, say, is it reasonable to expect you'll be curling 35 lbs one month later? And 45 lbs a month after that? In my experience, real strength gains come more slowly.
I think that's about as French as it gets.
I have been using Box at work and it is rather nice. It is fairly unobtrusive. Granted, I don't use the desktop integration just open stuff over the web page, upload files when I need. There is an interactive notes and presentation editing.

I think Dropbox's problem is mostly Google. I used Dropbox at home but once Google got their drive up to speed and it integrates with other things like Gmail and such, it is hard for me to justify using Dropbox. So I uninstalled it and just use Google for everything.
It's nothing at all like that.
One big difference (from my experience) is that consumer SSDs would go into the market first while enterprise products would continue to test for 6-12 months for more maturity. The consumer SSDs would go through frequent updates of firmware and flash revisions while the enterprise products would be frozen for much longer. With an agreement, you can guarantee the exact same product is available many years later. When I used to do SSD firmware development, I would back-port particular fixes to an older version of firmware so a customer could minimize risks of changes. For consumer side, we would just say try out the latest version.

I think the market is going through a shift as more redundancy is used at the server level and the SSDs are considered more as a commodity.
I switched from Onedrive to Dropbox about 3-4 months ago for several reasons.

1) I have zero usage for MS office, and if I did I could just use my wife's version she got for being a student. So this isn't a value add for me.

2) I find the web interface and the windows integration much better on the dropbox side

3) Most importantly, Onedrive has zero support for tracking versions of non-document files. Since I have the extreme need to quickly exchange files between my several computers the last thing I need is for some ransomeware to get activated by some 0-day and compromise my primary backup. Yes I have secondary backups but it is not nearly as easily as rolling back files in dropbox.

4) I REALLY did not like how integrated windows is with OneDrive, going as far as making it a royal PITA to not make it the default save location for new files, and the complication of now having 2 "My Documents" folders.

There were other misc issues that I had with Onedrive that I can't remember at this point in time but I really did not like one drive as a whole and have been happy since moving to Dropbox.
Interesting indeed, thanks for posting.
Fairly similar to Native Client [1], whose originally paper was released the next year (2009): they both rely on x86 segment registers, for example. A core difference is in how they guarantee that the guest instruction stream contains no dangerous instructions such as system calls - which is hard, because x86 instructions are variable-length and unaligned, so you have to avoid the situation where the guest code jumps to an address which is in the middle of some legitimate-looking instruction, and the processor interprets the bytes starting there as a different instruction. Direct jumps can be validated ahead of time, but indirect jumps can't - including all function returns. Native Client prevents this by requiring the sandboxed code to be compiled with compiler passes that align all valid targets of indirect branches to a given alignment, and insert mask instructions before indirect branches themselves; then it validates that no instruction streams starting at any aligned offset do anything dangerous. Vx32, on the other hand, wants to be able to run semi-arbitrary existing x86 code, so it has to address this with a layer of indirection. Rather than just validating instructions, it translates each basic block to a modified set of instructions - essentially an x86-to-x86 emulator. Indirect jumps are translated to a hash table lookup (mapping original code addresses to their corresponding translated versions), which achieves safety at the cost of significant slowdown in some cases.

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
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Because there's always a trade-off between robustness and usefulness, and it's not at all obvious the FDA hits the right balance, especially given the extremely asymmetric incentives they face. If they approve a drug that kills a bunch of people, the repercussions are bad, but if millions die while waiting for a drug to undergo a decade of testing, the FDA isn't blamed.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/08/is-...
That they are usually just predictable visual "enhancements" like trailing images, pulsating or undulating motion, or shifting colors. I see these as mild compared to something like intrusive movement in the peripheral vision, or hallucinations that react to the external world.
> PIs with unreasonable expectations because they know they can get away with it.

Not only that, but they know the next lab down the road is working just as many long, hard hours.
It's gotten even worse since then. A quick trip down memory lane:

2003: 14 cases
2004: 59 cases
2006: 236 cases
2013: 1386 cases (24.5% of federal patent cases)
2015: 2540 cases (43.6% of federal patent cases)

The majority of those cases in 2015 were assigned to a single judge, despite the fact that there are 5 active judges, 3 senior judges and 3 vacanies in the district. Two of the vacanies have been unfilled for over a year.

Whether or not the Eastern District (and specifically Judge Gilstrap) are actually more favorable to patent suit plaintiffs, this is straight up abuse of venue and that causes it's own issues. The cost to a defendant to litigate their case in Tyler, TX is an unnecessary burden.
Let's say if I wanted to buy shares from a competing company to hedge my bets. I imagine they wouldn't want to sell to me directly.