skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money past a certain point is not an incentive. Retraining takes time. It's harder to land jobs for which one does not have relevant work experience. The PHP job market is larger than most other web programming segments, so work is easier to find. But sure, if you're hiring, I'd certainly prefer working with Ruby.
re D-Wave

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400

https://news.mit.edu/2015/3q-scott-aaronson-google-quantum-c...

In second, this jumps out at me: "The first issue is that the problem instances where the comparison is being done are basically for the problem of simulating the D-Wave machine itself. There were $150 million dollars that went into designing this special-purpose hardware for this D-Wave machine and making it as fast as possible. So in some sense, it’s no surprise that this special-purpose hardware could get a constant-factor speedup over a classical computer for the problem of simulating itself."

Actually gives me an idea. Instead of comparison to BF competitors, I could actually just compare a massively-parallel, BF CPU to 256 interpreters communicating with each other through IPC running on a general-purpose computer. I'd show the CPU performed many times better. It's the closest thing I can think of to how D-Wave is doing benchmarking. The difference is $150 million is not in either my bank account or addition of transaction history.

"One interesting factoid is that they were able to translate Wikipedia in its entirety from English to Russian using 90% of the currently deployed FPGAs in around 100 ms. Insane stuff."

Didn't know about that project. Pretty cool. Yeah, the FPGA projects have been doing all kinds of stuff like that going back to at least the 90's from my reading. The speedups could be over fifty fold. Some claimed three digits. Other programs harder to parallelize & reduce... which is basically what they do on FPGA... might have under 100% speed up, tiny speed up, or even a loss if it was sequential algorithm vs ultra-optimized, sequential CPU like Intel's. The latest work, which started in 90's projects I believe, was to create software that automatically synthesizes FPGA logic from the fast path of applications in a high-level language then glues them into the regular application on a regular CPU. You can't get speed-up of actual hardware design but makes boosts easier if problem supports good synthesis. Tensilica is another example of a company whose Xtensa CPU is one that's customized... from CPU to compilation toolchain... to fit your application. Container people are compiling and delivering containers. Tensilica compiles and delivers apps with a custom CPU.
> the only way it can refer to sexual assault is if
> you willfully omit the last part of the quote ("
> they let you do it.")

There's a difference between consenting and merely not calling the police. If my dog craps on your doorstep and I leave it there, you won't be happy about it. You probably won't stab me or call the police though. That's how I read the "they let you do it" quote.

If I leave dog poop on your doorstep and you don't do anything to me, I could say that you let me do it. That doesn't mean I didn't do anything wrong.

You don't have to call the cops for it to be sexual assault. You don't even have to physically resist. If someone kisses you or touches you in a sexual way without your permission then it's sexual assault. It's that simple.
I combine my meditation with my cardio. I try to focus on rhythmic breathing and not letting my thoughts wander (especially not to "intellectual" topics since that is my default mode all day).

Works really well.
I don’t see how Express is at all based on Rails. They both have… similar URL pattern syntax that Rails didn’t invent?
I've just recently gotten into http://zwift.com/, it's the only thing I've found that makes riding indoors tollerable, almost fun. The power meter on the bike connects to zwift, the more power you put out, the faster you go. There are a few virtual locations you can ride around, ride with other people. There are also workouts, where you need to hold a certain power for certain time. The workouts are scaled based on the power you can do. I prefer working out with power than heart rate since it responds a lot faster and is less affected by other things going on in your life. Mind you, a bike, a trainer and a power meter is pretty expensive if you don't already have them.
In late July 2008, three weeks before Russia invaded Georgia in a show of force that altered the world’s perception of the Kremlin...

That's propaganda material right there. Disinformation!
Cryptographic protocols are not supposed to be impressive. But on the other hand your shortened description describes the main difference between Signal and traditional OTR, it does not describe how the protocol works after you get the ephemeral key of the receiver.

Additional and to some extent non-trivial difference from traditional OTR is in how these ephemeral keys are used in key exchange, whose result depends not only on DH with ephemeral keys but also on DH exchange that mixes ephemeral keys with long term ones. This causes that the ephemeral key of the passive side does not have to be signed and allows anyone to produce arbitrary session transcripts, both of these points allow significant reduction of size of the exchanged messages.
I agree the scope is very broad.

What do you think of the language used in 2b of https://www.docracy.com/53/employee-proprietary-information-... ?

"To the fullest extent under applicable law, the Company shall own all right, title and interest in and to all Inventions (including all Intellectual Property Rights therein or related thereto) that are made, conceived or reduced to practice, in whole or in part, by me during the term of my employment with the Company and which arise out of any use of Company’s facilities or assets or any research or other activity conducted by, for or under the direction of the Company (whether or not (i) conducted at the Company’s facilities, (ii) during working hours or (iii) using Company assets), or which are useful with or relate directly or indirectly to any “Company Interest” (meaning any product, service, other Invention or Intellectual Property Right that is sold, leased, used, proposed, under consideration or under development by the Company)."
Do managers generally have any incentive to recommend laying off subordinates when they're no longer required? They certainly have incentive to keep them around doing bullshit work -- the higher your headcount the more prestige you have as a manager.
Presidential Elections 2016
that too :^)
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has a problem with its engine
http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/c/7/c/c7c82959d816327d/BuildingPer...

Looks like it becomes a bigger problem as buildings become more airtight. Something to do with peak dewpoint in makeup air being all wrong, not sure because I'm not a HVAC expert.
I love his channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/DevTipsForDesigners
There's a higher-level discussion wherein the compliance guys are supposed to be the watchmen, but if you give them stock or options, then they are suddenly incentivized to do whatever is most profitable for the firm. That's the discussion mentioned.

The counterpoint is that, if you have strong regulators, then they will sniff out the funny business anyway. The resultant fines would hurt the bank's stock, which would still be negative for the compliance personnel.

There, we just had a discussion as to compliance workers' future compensation. And we're not even in the business!
I don't any benefit for anything I do personally or commercially outside whatever people paid me initially. Why should you get a monopoly on an idea because you were lucky enough to think of it first? And in a country where monopolies are banned due to negative impact on society in about every other field? So I'm against the monopolies to begin with.

Even if we accept patents, then you can be required to partner with a manufacturer within a certain period of time. This kind of thing might already exist if we compare it to the record labels for turning copywritten songs into fortunes for labels and authors. Similar middle-men would show up plus DIY kits, consultants, and advice on doing it yourself. The risks you face wouldn't be much different from the current market where trolls like Intellectual Ventures convince broke patent holders to give it to them for pennies using pressure of their bargaining power then make millions off them in law suits.
The big difference is the Mozilla was driven into the ground by better competition, hence validating the market for a better browser.

Twitter has been so far mostly ignored by tech giants, letting it do its own thing. Nobody else is fighting for that particular market niche.
> Isn't it in the company's best interest to not have them?

Usually, yes. But the company might not necessarily only make decisions in their own best interest.

Sometimes, executives/owners just like to see lots of people head-down "hard at work". Sometimes, execs/owners adamantly believe work has to be done, that doesn't actually need to be done. Sometimes, the customer demands busy work be done and pays the company for it. (every Enterprise or Government contract I've ever seen has some amount of this) Sometimes, people just can't agree on what work is busy work in the first place.

I'm sure there are more reasons. Those four come to mind because I have personally experienced all of them at some point in the last decade.
Funny, I don't even see the word "abuse" in Fiske's article.
I'm by no means trying to imply that such a thing should be forced. On the contrary: it should be encouraged, sure, but the decision to embrace diversity must be a voluntary one. No tyranny wanted or needed here; the benefits of avoiding the stagnation of a monoculture should be apparent enough.
Yes, I may be butchering this (didn't read the link below) but perhaps in Descartes's philosophy the pineal gland is like a connection to the soul, sure, like an antenna to an ethereal world, in a physical organ.

I completely discount this possibility and think it's not worth discussing. So, you are right that my mind is very closed to any alternatives to what I've stated, though as in your example of an antenna, we could describe such alternatives rigorously. Not worth our time. (IMO). Thanks for the replies.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pineal-gland/
Yes, we would require a new model, as new IO primitves would be required. Might I suggest ^v/.! as the instructions for writing up, down, left, right and last IO ports, respectively? For reading, we could use &V\,*$ for up, down, left, right, any and last respectively.
This is vastly overblown. People already vastlh distrust algorithms. Psychologists have studied it and called it "algorithmic bias". That when given a choice between computer and human, even when the computer makes much better predictions, people distrust it.

In almost every domain where there is data and a simple prediction task, even really crude statistical methods outperform "experts". This has been known for decades. Yet in almost every domain algorithms are resisted. Because people distrust them so much, or fear losing their jobs, or all of the above.

But humans are vastly more biased. Unattractive people get twice as long sentences. People heavily discriminate based on political denomination. Not to mention race or gender. Judges give way harsher sentences when they are hungry. Interviews negatively correlate with job performance.

Humans are The Worst. Anywhere they can be replaced with an algorithm, they should be.

The referenced propublica result has been criticized here: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/propublica_is_lying.... "almost statistically significant"
"it will hamper our investigation"
Well boo hoo. We have checks and balances and due process for a reason. It isn't about catching the bad guy at all costs.
In the article:

> ...asked 7,000 people around the country how much money they had set aside in savings accounts for the future...

I think that would include CDs and other savings vehicles. It is unclear if that counts retirement accounts.
Looks like the brown information are locked under an authentication :(
Nevertheless it seems like a flaw in the study if it's not counting other liquid sources of cash, such as checking accounts, brokerage accounts, cash itself, etc.
Westworld
That is definitely a very low security risk footprint then; especially if it's an outbound request (eg: outbound GET / POST, etc). No physical ports of anytype (BLE, USB, etc) also makes it a very low risk. So you're ahead of easily 99.999% of all sensors
"And as another commenter has brought up, should be we forced to do things that are "good" for us?"

No, and I never stated or even implied such a thing. The choice to embrace diversity is precisely that: a choice. The choice to eat vegetables is precisely that: a choice.

In both cases, there are purported benefits (I'd argue them in both cases to be much more proven than what you seem to believe, but that's another discussion altogether). There's nothing wrong with encouraging the world to explore those benefits. Said encouragement is not tyranny or coercion.

With that said...

"I know that at Google, you're forced to interview one underrepresented minority candidate for each position you're trying to fill. (Underrepresented meaning black, hispanic, or female) That sounds less like encouragement and more like coercion."

I agree completely. Google and other large companies like it do not genuinely understand the benefits of diversity; they are more interested in checking boxes to make themselves look good. Along with that, they fail to realize that embracing diversity must be a voluntary and wholehearted choice for it to be effective.
No not really. CVS and git are basically the same thing but git is a lot better in many ways. I don't know if noms is really the git for data but those other tools are more like CVS in this analogy: clunky and slow.
You almost never want to use average as your metric when dealing with time. For time, the 95 or 99 percentile latency is going to be measure of how many requests out of a hundred a less than your metric. Esp when the thing you are measuring is a piece of larger system, which is the crux, because of how a resource in turn requests k-more resources. Each request has an equal chance of being over the latency percentile. Even at 10 requests, only 90% of sessions will be under the 99% latency.

See also, Gil Tene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8ydIuPFeU

A nice overview, http://bravenewgeek.com/everything-you-know-about-latency-is...

See also, http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/10/5/your-load-generato...
Would love to see an SMS option! I don't keep fb messenger installed on my phone.
Fedora/RISC-V is finished
The threat has dropped a bit since the Malheur Wildlife Refuge nuts made fools of themselves. That was well handled by the FBI and local authorities.
His point is that "Objectively estimating program size/complexity is not possible." The 'objectively' qualifier is important.

And while that's true, it's not a very useful result. There is a large subset of programs that are easy to estimate. If someone says, "write 20 standard CRUD services," most people can accurately estimate how long that will take. There is nothing tricky there. If someone says, "write a program to solve Goldbach's conjecture," then it is true, you can't estimate how long that will take (maybe someone can, I don't know how).

In practice, for the kinds of tasks programmers usually do, experience shows that 90% of the time we can estimate correctly.
Noms is a great example of the power of decentralized database technology, the interesting research that goes into such systems, and wonderful documentation to browse.

I do want to note some tradeoffs with Content-Addressed and Append-Only systems, as my work on a similar project ( an Open Source Firebase, https://github.com/amark/gun ) made me move away from those ideas (even though they are great ideas).

- Content-Addressed stores are going to revolutionize data integrity and efficiency. But they do have a trade off, it makes it a lot harder to read the data if you do not already know the data you are trying to read! The bottom of the repo metions for instance that a query system has not yet been built. From my experience the reason why is because it is difficult to build query systems on Content-Addressed stores, which is a tradeoff from all the gains you can get from it.

- Append-Only gives you rich features like offline-first support and (if implemented) lovely things like rewind/fastforward data time travel. All very cool. However, do not forget that this then also makes it difficult for you to retrieve the latest whole snapshot of your data. So you are not going to get the read performance that you could.

But the only possible way for us as a community, and people playing around with databases, can figure out what the best system is - is for people to build and experiment. Which is part of the reason why Nom is so cool. It is an invitation to others to actually join, play, and experiment with database technology in an open and encouraging environment. That is incredibly valuable and needed!
Orwell would be proud to know that those that want to uphold the values of western civilisation are a greater threat than those that want to destroy them.
Previous discussion from back in August: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12211754
The foreign words that seem like English, but aren't
>Even a couple of kilograms of Chondrite coming in at 27,000 miles an hour is going to leave a mark on your fancy moon base.

simple space/Moon version of anti ballistic missile defense system like Patriot/Aegis/S-400 should take care of it. Especially if armed with small nuclear warhead, there are still a lot of them lying around without any use.
That reminds me, I need to move my cash out of savings. I'm insane for keeping that much in there without earning anything meaningful.
Indeed. Even better, someone is already doing good work in that space ;) http://hwacha.org/
Multi-media journalists face jail time after reporting on ND pipeline protest
Twain and Stowe Homes Being Renovated for Historical Accuracy
Wonderful to hear about more P2P database sync systems!

I would love to hear how you compare to Deepstream and us ( http://gun.js.org/ ), and http://Horizon.io ?

Edit: Also how on earth did you snag `v.io`? That is amazing and I thought single-letter domains weren't allowed?
Windows registry FUSE filesystem
I newer was in Russia, I'm from Ukraine. I'm similar to Bellingcat, doing amateur counterintelligence.
The Wayback Machine on archive.org has it, at least.
Can confirm. Created this account, say, 5 years ago (just estimating) without Tor, used Tor for regular browsing a lot between 24 and 12 months ago (corporate firewall during internship), and since then stopped using Tor again for regular browsing. Did not experience any kind of block at any point.
Beaver-inspired wetsuits in the works
It could be worse. No matter how bad the BF->Rust code that's generated is (it'd literally just be BF in a less compact syntax, most likely: it's pretty hard to convert idiom-wise), it's probably better than the Troff sources (as written by Joseph Ossanna).

Honestly, it'd probably be worth the effort to just write the Rust up front. The kind of technical debt you'd land in otherwise... euurgh.
Mmm... Seems somewhat sarcastic to me in terms of subverting the simile-as-framing-device (in roughly the same way as "I need that like I need another hole in my head"). But in terms of which side of the fuzzy line between irony and sarcasm this lies, it may be closer to irony.
I was thinking more along the lines of Lua and Python.

JS would need to be significantly reworked to be a good beginner language, IMO. C-style syntax is not the most readable option, and then there's all the weirdness around types and implicit conversions, strange and non-intuitive design of built-in data structures (object vs array similarities and differences, for example), and weird variable scoping rules.

Lua has pretty much everything that JS has that is worthwhile, but done better (e.g. the only data structure is an associative array, but they all behave the same unless and until you start to customize them). Syntax is more natural and easier to explain, too.

Python is nice in that basic programs are as short as they need to be (i.e. you don't need to import packages or define classes to print "Hello, world"), but it does have the concepts that mainstream "grown up" languages have - the aforementioned packages and classes, for example - and they can be gradually introduced and explored one at a time without distractions. Also, turtle graphics out of the box - still the best way to explain things like recursion, IMO. So, you get a great teaching language, and it doubles as a great general-purpose programming language for serious stuff once the teaching is over.
This response comes up every single time this statistic gets posted. I assure you that your condition is not typical for the 69% mentioned in the statistic quoted.

"The Fed asked respondents how they would pay for a $400 emergency. The answer: 47 percent of respondents said that either they would cover the expense by borrowing or selling something, or they would not be able to come up with the $400 at all. Four hundred dollars! Who knew?"

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secre...

1 in 3 Americans has $0 saved for Retirement, and 56% have less than $10,000

http://time.com/money/4258451/retirement-savings-survey/
Has anyone written code that can do quantum decoherence of radiation in an OpenGL fragment shader?

Edit: I'm imagining some kind of subset of QuTiP that could calculate photon (electron?) states from a wave function, ported to GLSL.

Edit 2: Maybe a Born probability that would draw the interference pattern from the double slit experiment? Or a reduced density matrix or something? The word "matrix" makes me think it might be amenable to a GPU, but I don't really know GLSL or quantum physics.
Given that the moon is tidally locked to the Earth, all you need to do is put the base on the near side of the moon and you'll dramatically reduce the chance of being hit by a meteor.

Compare the far side [1] to the near side [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon#/media/Fi...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_side_of_the_Moon#/media/F...
ours https://github.com/amark/gun .

Pouch https://pouchdb.com/ .

You could even do http://webtorrent.io !
Yes this seems much more reasonable.

I am not knowledgeable or awake enough to comment with certainty on the "or which are useful with or relate directly or indirectly to any “Company Interest”" as backtracking to what the 'or' refers to has broken my brain.

But on the whole that is the kind of clause I would expect. It is more than reasonable (I wouldn't invest in a company that didn't) to seek unilateral ownership over company related work, IP and assets.

Thank you for being so responsive, now I feel somewhat obliged to drop GitLab onto our stack of infrastructure proposals.
A 3 week trial period is a far longer than an Amazon interview sequence.
I'm not an expert. Can you explain why those links indicate it is photo shopped? Is it the bright lines... So the cars are shopped as well?
Before any of this: Make sure you can build, deploy, and rollback your software quickly and easily. I find all too often people leave this to the end, when really it should be the first thing you do.

Then iterate and add all the stuff mentioned above.
They are so different it's hard to know what you mean by "basically the same thing"
Are there standalone packages that can perform t-sne, or are we limited to using the versions in R, etc. ?