skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a long ways from being a VC, but I see one reason they might prefer the larger, higher-burn-rate company. I think one of the hard jobs for a VC-funded startup is growing really fast (to become big enough to be worth-while when the VCs cash out). The company with more head count may have a head-start on that growth (assuming they actually hired the right people). So if you're a VC looking to place a bet on a company becoming huge enough to offset all your other failed bets, a company that's being very cautious about growth might not be what you're looking for.
Around the time of fight club being popular, usenet was the place to find pirated media and software. The inspired formulation of the "rule" gathered steam because it seemed no one in authority noticed this while they freaked out about napster and descendants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79u7bURE6Ss youtube video
FTA: "Traditional math teaches an algorithm. Common Core teaches the concept of 'proportionality' [over a period of six years]"

My 11 and 13yr olds are dealing with this Common Core bullshit right now. This article might give an insight into why CC is so bad, yet they think its so good. Like when we demo a software product that we've all been working on for six months, and discover that users can't figure out how to make it work: it only works for us because we've been using it continuously for six months. Maybe Common Core can teach Proportionality if you sit down with a kid and give them all six years of it over two days. What happens in reality, is that my kids (a) don't understand the confusing ways its presented and (b) don't make the connection between the different expressions of the same underlying concept. Its not useful. Its actually immensely frustrating for everyone.

I think they have it exactly backwards. Teach the algorithm. Rote practice. Then teach the concept.

I'm reminded of my first year thermodynamics lecture at Imperial: "We're going to teach this to you every year. The first year you wont understand it. The second year you'll think you understand it. The final year you'll realize you never really understood it, but at least you'll be able to use it."
Just realized they are available for my address - but only as Fiber to the Node (operated through ATT's Fiber + copper to house).

Has anyone actually used this? I imagine it wouldn't be as cool as FTTH, but maybe better than Comcast (which shows as 25M down for me even though I have 50M signed up).
Yeah, and make me un-dead! :)
I.MX8 “eCockpit” SoC arrives, with media and IoT versions coming
Ask HN: How to find a creative idea for new project?
I am third year CS student but I can say that I start programming one year ago. Before that I was coding only for my homworks. I started coding with my friend in a project. But we are seperated and I will not continue to developing that project. I learnt about web frameworks thanks to this project. Now I want to start a new project but I can not find any idea for what to do. I think I am not only person in this situation. Can you give me advice?
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I actually enjoyed this post and voted it up. Provocative, probably too harsh, but one of those rare comments that are incredibly unpopular, far too snarky and yet made me think and showed a lot of insight.

I'd take the downvotes as a job well done. I don't suggest you do it again though.
Well, that's what I was of course familiar with.
Aside from torrenting, how could you possibly use more than 30GB a day every day?

If you do use that much surely its fair you pay extra as you're probably using more data than the rest of the block.
Unless you remove the concept of a teacher and replace it with a person who helps you with your school work when you get stuck, schools won't be fixed.
I don't know if I quantified US election manipulation; I think it's fair to take it for granted that most 20th century Central American elections were manipulated by the United States. Does this satisfy your requirement?

Your allusion to Sentry Eagle feeding information to HUMINT is pretty transitive; by that logic, Taco Bell helps HUMINT because they have a franchise in the CIA food court. (Not to mention, a CNA program has nothing to do with information gathering)

True, stated vs observed are different. I believe the US and French stated match the observed, while the new Chinese statement hasn't been definitively established (detected Chinese intrusions in U.S. companies have sharply decreased, but maybe they improved tradecraft). Russian statements recently are bizarre and serve to promote their new "question everything, including facts" PR push.

Most likely the path forward to deescalate the defensive Russian position is to limit aggressive NATO maneuvers, e.g. reconsider emplacing the missile defense installations in peripheral NATO states.
I don't think it's a great idea to apply Darwinism to fields outside of biology, especially in the social sphere. It led to a lot of bad science in the past.
C++11 c++14 c++17 does that mean that we might see a match statement in c++20? It would be a significant addition - similar in complexity to anonymous functions.
Using Varnish Custom Statistics and DataDog to identify real performance issues
If you can't think of a new project to work on right now, consider contributing to an open source project that needs help. Simply getting started on something will usually get your creativity flowing and ideas will come.
Heh. https://www.grpc.io
And I just got an anonymous down-vote. Love it.
Building cli tools... you can build cross platform as well. Major benefit here is, you just need to distribute single binary, no dependency hell.
I was confused by the article.

"Reducing the V8 heap page size from 1M to 512KB results
in a smaller memory footprint when not many live objects
are present and lower overall memory fragmentation
up to 2x."

Is it common to say something's shrunk by 2x? Why not say 0.5x (or 50%, half, etc.) I understand growth of 2x and assume this is a mistake, though I'm open to convention.
Off-beat Zen (2012)
My guess is that you're missing a cultural referent, and you're unused to programming language discussion comments that aren't contentiously positive or negative, but are rather whimsical.
Hang on, are you describing work or the game?
I dunno. Spoofing for reflection/amplification is only going to work for certain services(e.g., DNS, NTPD). So perhaps if you don't spoof, but instead capture a large enough IoT botnet, you might be able to generate traffic that's harder to spot and segregate. I think we need to watch this space and see how things develop.
IoT’s Achilles' heel: API call performance
What about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham_law_o...

The people who live to be 120, etc are already stragglers. Also, there are a huge variety of statistical distributions with fatter/thinner tails, so "not statistically distributed" isn't a real thing...

If you download some mortality data, start exploring it, and looking up previous work you will quickly learn all of the above. Try it out: http://www.nber.org/data/vital-statistics-mortality-data-mul...
> After all, "unlimited" is not really unlimited (moving bits does require physical materials which are limited) and primarily means that low data users subsidize high data users.

The "low data users subsidize high data users" thing is widely misunderstood. People imagine that if it wasn't for that one guy in a hundred, instead of paying $49.99/month that one guy would be paying $99.99/month and everybody else would be paying $15/month. But do the math; the one guy in a hundred would be paying $99.99 and everybody else would still be paying $49.50.

And in practice what happens is that the user whose bill just doubled cuts back their usage. But those people are the early adopters you're shutting down. So nobody can ever build a service that requires above average data because it would blow the user's usage cap; all such services become DOA which means the ISP can forestall upgrades indefinitely. The internet never gets any faster and nothing that requires faster internet ever happens.

You want to be subsidizing that guy, because it isn't that expensive and tomorrow you're going to want the upgrades the money paid for.
Trevor Dickinson at Adelaide Amiga and Retro-Computing Event
Agreed, the arrows engage the moral brain and encourage rationalizing emotional gut-feelings. Up is always a metaphor for righteous and pure, heaven-like; down is contemptible, hell, punishment. No sense in fighting these deeply ingrained metaphors with rules and reminders, it doesn't work.
Thanks. I missed that on first read.
At the top, it explicitly says so:

> This is version 1.0 of our scorecard; it is out of date, and is preserved here for purely historical reasons. Please visit Surveillance Self-Defense if you're looking for recommendations on specific tools to use to ensure your privacy and security while we work on writing an updated guide to secure messaging. Again, you should not use this scorecard to evaluate the security of any of the listed tools, as many of them have been changed since the scorecard was last updated (some for the better, some for the worse).
During my graduate studies I did something similar [1]. We modified stock RC cars and put a Kinect-like sensor on top, and then raced them around a track. In terms of reaction time, the fastest car was going 128 MPH at full scale.

The car is mostly open source, from the parts list, assembly instructions, fabrication files, and software. The only wrinkle is that we used Matlab, because that's what we use in our lab, but really you can use anything you like. ROS and open CV would be a good combo.

Here is the video of the "final exam" for the course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwRjv3D7lGo

If you watch, you can see the local planner had to be a little more robust than just a lane follower, since there was significant "clutter" at various points in the track. So the students had to have some logic in there that filtered out that noise and kept the car in its designated lane.

[1]: http://vader.cse.lehigh.edu/roscar/
That this is the case and explanation is unacceptable (not that I blame the parent, but I would like to add the statement, as we might otherwise forget, that information could be available without the tracking-mafia).
> available in real time

No way people will be cool with this.

> with some sense.

Considering how 'old' you are, you sure argue somewhat childishly.
Most well-written textbooks list the assumed background knowledge in the preface/introduction.

Exactly. And a surprisingly large number of books aren't well-written, exactly because they don't include that bit.
Yeah I can. Find a problem that has not yet had a software solution for it yet. For example the people that made medical software systems that turns patent and medical records electronic and do electronic refills over the Internet, etc, made a lot of money. But that has been solved.

If you can't find a problem that has not yet been solved, you might not be looking hard enough or in the right areas.

You also can write an alternative to an existing software program but make it for the web or in a mobile app, etc.

Start out simple like use data from the baseball website to calculate baseball stats, and show you can customize it for a Little League or armature team.
Although I'm a citizen and resident of the US, I can't help but smirk when government officials are outraged and shocked that another nation state is trying to influence our electoral process.

Question for someone more informed than I: With the Citizens United ruling, what's to stop another country from pumping money into US elections?
There must be something individual to each customer on cable, otherwise Internet access wouldn't work.

In the proposed system, either the government would pay for the upgrade to ADSL, or the network operator would recoup the investment through the access fees. (Probably both, depending on the area's expected ROI.)
I dunno, it isolated itself from the tech community years ago by not being terribly effective at stopping viruses and malware, and it's still making a lot of money.

News of their death is sadly very much premature.
Sentry Eagle feeding SIGINT to HUMINT is nothing like Taco Bell.

What an absurd thing to say.
My daughter is a senior in high school. She used to love math. Then they switched to Common Core. Now she hates it. Having looked at her textbooks, I don't blame her. Confusing concepts presented quickly, with no depth, and it's unclear how those concepts solve the problems presented. Say what you will about the old way to solve for "b", at least you learned how to do it.
It's confusing. I'd think it means it shrunk 0-2 times by an indeterminate amount.
Workbench distribution: AmiKit for Android devices 1.8.0.03
Seems like a very domain specific thing. I've never heard of it in my discipline, and every article I've gone to upload supports a direct LaTeX upload.
> telomeres always shorten with each mitosis

mmmh not always, there are at least one exception.
After a job trial in a German IT company. #genderbias
7 Ways to Maintain Your Psychological Edge While Trading
Git GUI app GitKraken no longer free for commercial use, now using SaaS pricing
Uber targets trucking
cal is /usr/bin/cal, a separate program, nothing to do with bash.
Thank you for this. I've never seen it before.

I'm curious about how the letter was found after his death. Who decided to make it public? I'm glad I had the opportunity to read it, but I doubt it was ever intended to be released to the world.
I don't understand any of this comment. What is the 3Mbit/sec in reference to? I get significantly faster speed than that all the time. Edit: Oh, you're trying to assert that bandwidth==cap subdivided to the second level. No, that's absurd.

I don't understand how switching to a local DSL provider would benefit me. I don't like Comcast at all, but cutting my typical bandwidth by more than 75% doesn't seem like a net gain. I like Netflix more than I hate Comcast.
Nope, you have it right. Mongo is a lot of fun to play with out of the box. Once you have nontrivial data models, redundancy and load, not so much.
This is why my wife and I decided to make a serious sacrifice and send our kids to private school.
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Node, Express, Angular, PostgreSQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, RESTful APIs, Heroku, Git/Github, React Native, jQuery, pug (formerly jade)

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/kaymckelly/kaymckelly.github.io/blob/mast...

Email: geekscatv2@gmail.com

In addition to the technologies listed above, I've been working on teaching myself Java, Python, React, and Angular 2.
Location: Seattle, WA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Node, Express, Angular, PostgreSQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, RESTful APIs, Heroku, Git/Github, React Native, jQuery, pug (formerly jade)
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/kaymckelly/kaymckelly.github.io/blob/mast...
Email: geekscatv2@gmail.com
Also, a republican led incident response firm attributed the hacks to Russia.
It is interesting that an extremely technical community has been booted from their regular meeting spot by the supposedly tech focussed company Symantec.

SVLUG is quite an influential LUG. The loss is all Symantec's, though they don't appear to realise that.
Events from Facebook
Mylan to Settle EpiPen Overpricing Case for $465M
It seems as if anyone who had actually hacked the server would have the emails in a more raw format which could be authenticated in the event that one or more of the emails are newsworthy.
> Jason Healey, a senior research scholar on cyber issues at Columbia University, said the Pentagon’s Cyber Command should disrupt Russian hacking operations. “Go after their command and control,” he said. “ ‘Counteroffensive’ is the key word here.”

Oh lovely- get back at them with their own medicine, normalizing a continuous cyberwar in nominal peacetime. Its great- as fun and lucrative as regular warfare, except without all those issues with optics because no one understands all this cyberbusiness regardless. Want to be rich in ten years? Throw a pile of CS grads together to start up a cyberwarfare consulting company, and you can still carve out your slice of the new military-industrial complex.
Thanks I know, I said that I don't know the specifics and that others (lawyers) will have to decide on that.
I am thinking to contribute to open source project for a long time but I can not find courage to do that because contribute to open source project is look like very difficult to me, I can start to read and understand the toy projects but I can not find the way for understanding and contributing big projects like mozilla firefox or pyton.
Pre-warp then. Those WARP commercials made me really want it when I was a kid, even though they (on purpose) never communicated what was so amazingly bout it.
No.

Lots of languages can give you a dump in 1 standard of C. You can't specify what C standard, or what platform to output outside of ARM/x64. NIM, Cython, C++ (via clang), [Ada/Cobalt/Fortran]-GCC, Perl, Agol, Oracle PL/SQL only support x86_64 and ARM.

Your argument was

interoperability and portability

1) Rust outputs to the same object file format as C, and can be natively linked against C/C++ code. So interoperability is no issue.

2) You have no portability gain as you have 3 choices x86, x64, and ARM. All of which Rust already supports.

Also your main request

$ rustc your_program.rs --emit llvm-ir
$ llc -march=c -o your_program.c your_program.ll

or if you want C++

$ rustc your_program.rs --emit llvm-ir
$ llc -march=cpp -o your_program.cpp your_program.ll
There's got to be a lot more to the story that I don't understand.

Why wouldn't it have been obvious 16 years ago that a thoughtfully designed data model was necessary, possibly using graphs, to account for variability and other attributes of the genome?

Surely it was foreseeable that tooling would be crucial and that a solid software foundation would be invaluable to enable efficient and flexible processing for years to come?

Who were the lead developers supporting the original public genome project and what were they thinking?
try http://hckrnews.com ...
Not necessarily an issue:

"Approximately 7x10^15 mature cells are produced in a
human lifetime and these could be produced in 53 cell generations (2^53 = 9x10^15). In 60 cell generations a total of 10^18 cells would be produced, enough for over 1000 years of human life. Thus it is possible that, even in extreme old age, the mature cells of the body are fewer than 60 generations from the zygote."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25459141

It may be that rather than limiting lifespan, telomere length is a result of other constraints on lifespan. There may be no point to making them longer.
For example, proving that an employee is performing or not is relatively easy with most manual labor jobs. This is why performance reviews are often used in these lawsuits (particularly wrongful termination). This is not true for something like programming. Remember that they were designed back in the 1960s.
That's lame, I thought you had edited something after the fact. I take back what I said!
As a general rule, knowing that something is illegal isn't part of the required mental state, even for acts that require doing something "knowingly"; that usually refers to knowing the specific facts that make the act illegal, not knowing the law under which those acts are illegal.
If anyone is interested in learning more specifically about the Battlecode competition, I wrote a blog post giving a brief overview of the competition a few years ago: http://cory.li/battlecode-intro/

Also, we open sourced our winning 2012 bot on bitbucket here if you want to see the type of code that goes into it: https://bitbucket.org/Cixelyn/bcode2012-bot
U.S. court reinstates Apple $120M patent win over Samsung
I like the idea of reciprocal teaching. You view well made lectures from home, and practice at school, where an expert can help you when you stumble.
Really?

My hard disks are fine, so right now the only stat changing is that, so that's what `rgrep smartd /var/log` turned up, so that's what I posted.

Did you consider looking at `man smartd.conf`? Did you consider that reporting and logging the temperature is entirely optional? Did you consider that you can configure it to log and report and email warnings for exactly the stats that you want? Did you consider that, for example, the stock Debian/Ubuntu package will pop up a window in your X session when stats which actually indicate potential failure change, like sector reallocations, read errors, etc?

Nah, just jump to the conclusion that all it does is spam logs with temperature readings, and downvote away!
Not sure if I'm expecting too much, but the html in the editor is quite terrible – <span>s used for everything, including headlines, <br> to separate paragraphs etc. HTML5 has dramatically increased the potential for semantic html and I wish more people would make use of it.
Comcast has admitted that the cap does not reduce congestion and they use a separate system to manage congestion.

https://www.publicknowledge.org/assets/uploads/documents/UBP...

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6057
I think it is education the is the biggest differentiator of this generation and that boils down to school district (and everything this entails race, wealth etc).

That something so important is decided at an early level of one's life that has wide reaching implications is quite frankly a disgrace.

Only the most endeavours break the cycle and they are too few and far between that are not really encouraged on most levels of society around the world due to the norms.
I haven't read the book, and only have a high school knowledge of economics, but that seems fairly intuitive to me.

Wealth is effectively "liquid power" and "power" is the ability to get other people do to what you want. One of the absolute most obvious things you'd want them to do is... give you more power.

So I think it's a pretty natural outcome that, absence other forces, any power imbalance will tend to magnify over time.

Times in history where the entire economy is growing very fast basically mean new power is raining down on all people uniformly. That will tend to reduce disparity in the same way that adding the same positive number to both the numerator and denominator leads to a fraction closer to one.

Of course, this simplified model treats every person as an island. Where the story gets more complex is when you consider people working together in a group. And I think through most of history when you've seen power imbalances get reduced, it's because you've seen people work together to form groups that have greater power than the smaller number of individuals they are pushing against.

One of the things that really scares me about the US today is how much we've culturally lost that ability to organize and work together. And, of course, the small number of increasingly powerful people and groups like it that way, as they always have.
Awesome compilation of facts. It's getting to the point that the only people who am ant see a Russia-Trump connection do so willingly.
>And what bold advances has Russia made?
> They neutralised Georgia after Georgia attacked and killed several of their soldiers.
> They seized Crimea after the new western-imposed government threatened to end the perpetual lease of the Sevastopol naval base

wow, what universe do you live in where conquering a whole nation is justified by a few lifes lost or stopping a commercial agreement? disgusting