skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[7] Mesos, abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively. - http://mesos.apache.org/

Mesos was invented at UC Berkeley but developed and battle tested at Twitter.
One distinction that I like to make is that in my own life, I've definitely been poor, but I've never been in poverty. I've been a student and I've been unemployed almost without money to even get food occasionally, but I've always been in a position where I could ask my (middle-class) mother for a bit of cash to tide me over (or even move back 'home' for a while.

I have never had to ask, but that option/safety net has always been there. That, to me, is the difference between merely being poor (a transient state) and living in poverty (no simple escape route).

Hell, even simply knowing that you can escape poverty is an advantage that some people don't have.
We had a bunch of these bastards at work and at various universities local to me. I seem to recall them all hating each other and many not conforming properly to the standards. Dial and pray.

Still sometimes find these, but more often the 9600-56k more modern ranges in random server rooms and offices, still running all kinds of things that no one understands or wants to touch. If I didn't hate consulting so much now, I thought about going into this at some point to charge breakneck prices to do archaeology for these companies. I'd feel bad though replacing or touching such beauty, not to mention they often are the backbone of many businesses so that's why they are so paranoid to go near.
Marathi food is the least spicy food I've had in India. (Exception: Kholapur.) You'll get significantly more spice anywhere else. Within Maharashtra, try misal pav or kholapur egg curry.

But yeah, even the spicy regions are (mostly) less spicy than "American Bengali restaurant signalling authenticity with too much spice" that I expected before I got here.
iPhone 7: A New Beast or an Over-Hyperbolized Cyclic Mythos?
Their abuse team is going to be their downfall.
Yes. My first connection from high school to the town's university computer system.

The high school teacher was later (the following September) in my freshman comp sci class learning assembler. Very strange to have your math teacher (doubled as computer teacher) in class with you.
> I noticed three tones in particular, and wrote some code to pin down their frequencies.

What kind of code does one write to get the exact frequency of a sound in your head?
The plan isn't 9-dimensional, and it's never "an election." The next leader of what is, at least for now, still one of the powerful nations in the world is about change. Only a fool wouldn't take advantage of having a rapt audience for three national debates to hammer "Russia bad" down our throughs if their hopeful foreign policy hopes to nail down our oil security for the next 50 to 100 years.

What if Russia is not the evil empire?
Some more:

Z621 – Parental overprotection

Z631 – Problems in relationship with in-laws

R460 – Very low level of personal hygiene

Z731 – Type A behavior pattern

R461 – Bizarre personal appearance
Obligatory Onion News reference:
http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary...
I grew up privileged -- and in most decades, fairly rich. But I definately feel guilty about expensing things. I think that's just because my personality is pretty diffident.

Though, as I started earning money myself and not living off my family, I became more open to enjoying the perks that are offered me.
This is a big step, but my first thought is "How many times will this be pushed back before it is implemented?". I get the impression that the browser vendors have to drag most CA's kicking and screaming into programs that offer greater security.
The -gram suffix has been used for various communication services for more than a century. Sorry, but on this trademark I'm GRAM negative.
"guidelines say to stick to original sources"

I can understand that perspective. That said, I liked the blog post, both its content and formatting. Very inviting. Looking at the PDF now, both its formatting and its length, I don't know if I would have taken the time to read it. I think they complement each other.

And I'm glad for the original submission as well. Lots of great discussion in the comments.
Second sentence.
When I was a teenager I had the idea that 60 cycle hum has a similar, unsettling characteristic. The key of C is probably the most popular, and 60hz is a B note which causes a dissonant tension when played together.
40 Gigabit Ethernet
So DE Shaw Research is barking up the wrong tree?
Ask HN: CMS with the following features?
I've been trying to decide between keystonejs and grav.

With grav I can host on a shared server no problem, but keystone is a node app so I need a VPS.

Grav uses Twig so implementing React seems like a pain. Since keystone is node, React implementation fits perfectly.

Trying to find something that's right in the middle . Any ideas?
YC W17 Invites/Rejections
Has anyone received an invite/rejection email for the W2017 batch yet?
Major banks mark first-ever international trade using blockchain tech
I would suggest that Twitter is a niche. It is in a brand management and customer engagement niche, and without some giant platform change, I think that trying to profit by increasing the number of eyeballs is always going to be challenging to the bottom line if the business value does not dramatically increase. The noise in twitters ecosystem from all those users, while interesting and good for research data sets, will eventually be a counter business/profit feature. The value proposition for users, in my mind, has been access and audience, but the value should have been focused on authoritative sourcing and customer recovery/engagement as soon as they took outside investment.

Not disagreeing or anything your comment just brought this to mind.
First off, it's ALWAYS "an election" when an election is on. The immediate goal of winning the election is probably 99% of her reasoning for hammering Russia about the hacking attempts. It's the best political answer to anything about the content of the leaked emails for like 5 different reasons.

She also laid out her parameters for any potential future intervention in Syria, in the same debate, and there was no talk of massive escalation, just the same secret ninja stuff we're presumably already doing. America doesn't have an appetite for another nation-building experiment, and we've got way less interest in Syria than Russia does.

I realize "just take her at her word" sounds a little naive, but you're not exactly on firmer ground when you say "no, trust me, I know her secret plan".
Lawsuit reveals drama at Magic Leap
You're assuming a $500k house price? That's quite a bit above the median in the US. The median is closer to $200k, which would be $12k for the real estate agent fees (assuming you don't use redfin, of course). And of course you can price that into your sale price.

All of which is to say that optimal housing strategy depends _very_ strongly on the realities of the local market. Buying a house for $200k on a $50k salary is quite different from buying a house for $1.2 million on a $200k salary...
Own Your Identity. Join a Decentralized, User-Owned Internet
Who says you cannot do deep learning and molecular dynamics? There are a couple of recent examples of neural networks to predicted energies and gradients allowing faster computation and larger time steps in MD simulations.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08259
> Banning could actually mean something. You were not really anonymous (at least on the local ones) since you can be identified by your phone number and maybe banned that way

Hypothetical question: if we would see a new emergence of mobile based BBS's, using some novel protocol without identifiable phone numbers but with ability to assign unique IDs to users and solve those problems, could it take off today?
I agree. I did molecular dynamics simulations for my PhD. The last year I spent some time exploring feature representations that capture atomic environments up to their symmetry invariants (rotations, reflections, permutations of identical atoms, etc.) The use of machine learning for MD and quantum chemistry has exploded in the last year and a half. I'm a bit sad that I just finished my degree right as this kind of work is heating up.
The Wikipedia random article button.
Creative had an mp3 player that was shaped like a portable CD player [1]. I guess the idea was that it was a form factor that people were already comfortable with. If you're looking for a reason why Apple ended up on top of the portable mp3 market, this example always seemed to sum it up for me. Apple has its faults, but (with reference to the fake Henry Ford quote) it's never been the sort of company that sold its customers faster horses.

[1] http://mikeschinkel.com/images/creative-technology.nomad-juk...
That's great, although that's a long shot from this project. Ideally a project like this should contain much of humanity's knowledge and history, include multiple languages, and be in a form that can last thousands of years. And then mark it's location somehow so people in the future can find it.
I think the real problem here lies in the lack of auto-update. Devices will always have vulnerabilities, constantly being discovered, which once weaponized will be just as trivial to own a large swath of devices as telneting for root was here.

The UCC provides an implied warranty for suitability for intended purpose. The FTC defines unfair and deceptive business practices to require a baseline level of security commensurate with the sensitivity of the data that could be exposed or the potential damages that can be inflicted. As in most cases, new laws tend to make things worse, we just need to do better with the old laws.

It's not that it's illegal to sell someone a Io(S)T device that can be owned for running a DDoS, but I am willing to bet it is illegal or at least creates significant liability for the manufacturer to sell such a device that also has no way to be fixed after that flaw is discovered.

What would be nice is a simple industry standard labeling that indicates a device has auto-update functionality, along with a large numeral indicating the number of years from date of purchase that updates will be provided. The same decal could be used on computers, phones, routers, and IoT.

Just like we trained consumers to look for the WiFi Alliance logo to know the router or card they are buying will "just work" I think we are missing a label which would drive consumer confidence and encourage good behavior by the manufacturers.

Probably an industry consortium already exists for something like this, but I just haven't heard of it... Because there's no such thing as a new idea, right?
But one of the big ways in which English-speaking countries are dropping the ball on equality is by making everything depend on university degrees.

We lose the opportunity for people to rise by becoming good plumbers (and then becoming owners of growing plumbing related buisinesses). Instead we try to fake equality by getting more and more students into soft degrees where the graduates still end up working at McDonalds.
It's funny how NM chiles can be hard to find. As soon as I cross the border they go from a main ingredient to "it's a what?"
I was too young to use BBS when it started but the topic fascinates me, especially after having read Hackers and The Innovators.

Not to hijack the topic, but has anyone watched the show Halt and Catch Fire (available on Netflix)? I'm curious how accurately that show captures the culture of that era.

Would love any additional reading recommendations around BBS' emergence as well. Already bookmarked the documentary series: https://archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary
not a subject matter expert, but there doesn't seem to be controversy around the original concept of "priming speeds up recognition of related words". What seems to be controversial is priming modifying how things are interpreted, or even decision making. On the other hand, anchoring seems to be well accepted, and anchoring isn't far off from this version of priming.
Wow, that was amazing! And the complex combination of tricks and glitches, along with the math to understand them, was very artfully done!
Delta functions [pdf]
On the flip side, if the company goes bankrupt, bond holders are at or near the front of the line to be made whole.
AFAIK HN has more than one qualified crypto persons.
I've never had American BBQ that is even remotely spicy. In my experience it is very sweet.
I see a lot of folks who are a lot smarter than me crapping on this, but I think it could be really useful. I've thought about the problem before of how to share complex rules between front-end and back-end safely, and came up with a UI for it:

https://dabernathy89.github.io/vue-query-builder/

I honestly didn't put too much thought into the actual structure of the JSON, so I wonder if there is someway I can now integrate JsonLogic into the query builder.

Good work!
Newsgroups were a bit different I always thought than BBSs, but were still much closer in feel to various message bases. The problem even from pretty early on was spam and moderation. When you did have any ad-hoc or defacto moderation, it was usually divisive and heavy handed in a way that didn't have the same vibe as a BBS.

On a BBS, a sysop would disconnect you mid session if you were being an idiot. You'd be warned, banned for some amount of time or forever. On newsgroups, it just got much more out of control with bad actors because the scale was so much larger and the authority was so much less in terms of credibility, fear, and activity.

In defense of Reddit and HN, it's just hard to scale things up with more people and deal with the related concerns of post visibility, spam, moderation, and more. I know you're not saying this, but sometimes people point that 4chan is more like BBS messages, but it's not true because most BBSs were heavily moderated, complete with co-sysop users who would log on just to do this or moderator users with escalated privileges. If anything, BBSs were the most moderated of all, it's just that some people didn't mind if you talked about certain things or used certain language because it's their BBS and they just did what they wanted.

Regarding email-length replies, I obviously love them. I generally don't agree with short = powerful in most cases except in code sometimes. Of course short replies can be focused and have a lot of value and I certainly appreciate the people that do that well. Unfortunately, short for many people means <drop 1 sentence random mental garbage> thought and leave or <me too thought>.

Finally, regarding text, I couldn't agree more. I sometimes wish all websites just gave me a command line as a second interface. I know I can use curl and APIs for a lot of similar stuff, but yeah, no, that is not the same as hitting "f" for files or even just simpler unix commands. Lobste.rs kind of did this as a joke if you want to check it out, but it's not quite right IMO but good for fun.
I'm curious to see the UI you came up with - is it something you can share?
http://www.exitmundi.nl/ - a collection of end-of-world scenarios
It's Work
What is he going to answer? Any reply at all from him/her would immediately be taken as an admission that posting about it online is the reason for doing it in the first place.

When reading stupid comments online, it usually better just to walk away. I try to do it most of the time, but even I get lured into it at times.
Indeed, Comodo view it as positive to make "optional", defeating the purpose:

https://blog.instantssl.com/ssl/certificate-transparency-cla...
And still no code for "close encounter", tsk tsk
Back in the day there were BBSs running on just about any type of microcomputer, CP/M, Apple II/Mac, Atari 8bit/ST, Commodore VIC/64/128/Amiga, TRS-80, etc. Most overviews focus just on the IBM-PC stuff (or what the author used back in the day - like Jason Scott an Apple II user). The smaller micro BBS were their own vibrant little universes.

The Commodore 64 boards had a quite a few BBS systems from pretty spartan 6485-BBS, Compute's Gazzette BBS (yeah they even had a magazine type-in BBS: Dec'84 & Jan'85), up to more advanced ones like Color64/128, C-Net 64/128, and Image BBSs - the high end ones used either a bunch of 800k 3.5" drives or hard drive (comparatively expensive but was worth it for speed and storage), or RAM drives.

Near the peak of Commodore BBSs some publishers and SysOp worked up their own Commodore BBS networking schemes where BBSs could exchange emails and forum postings (like FIDONet, but specific to Commodore), there was even a couple multi-line Commodore BBSs, and a few got the different makes of BBSs cross communicating as well. Such things were a labor of love, as us SysOps footed the long distance bills to exchange messages on top of the cost of an extra line, hardware, etc. (the automated exchanges happened during lower cost calling hours, like 2am.)

Now a days there are still a few that either held on or have started new Commodore BBSs - with most BBSs now being accessible via telnet (though I hear there are a couple dial up ones out there).

Of course there was a bits of rivalry between computer models as well as BBS brands...

Any former SysOps/Callers out there?

Me: Joe Commodore SysOp of Silicon Realms BBS 1987-2004
As a working programmer that is curious about category theory, I feel like this misses the mark completely. I watched this yesterday, and this is what I remember:

1) I will tell you why category theory is relevant to you, the working programmer.

2) Here are the 2 most important data structures that you don't use in your day job.

3) Look at how they relate in this mathy not applicable way.

4) Conclusion: lambda calculus is awesome.

What I would like to see is:

1) I will tell you why category theory is relevant to you, the working programmer.

2) Here is a realistic but simplified problem and a solution written in python that is obviously the wrong approach to solving the problem. With category theory, we know this is the wrong approach because the math is wrong (and don't go into the math).

3) Here is another example that seems like a decent approach to solving the problem. With category theory, we know this is the wrong approach because the math is wrong (and don't go into the math). Doing it our way has these benefits...

4) Conclusion: learn category theory to become a better programmer.

If you can't do that, find some other way to illustrate the concrete benefits of learning category theory. If there aren't any concrete benefits, it's like telling baseball players they should learn physics to have a better understanding of baseball.
I would think you'd be getting more upvotes, since the Deagan work is so completely rational and reasonable, and makes this whole thing such a non-story...

For another example: http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/199804/1998.04.05.0...

(And by the way, the Deagan building is awesome! Glad the whole Ravenswood corridor is getting redone and readapted.)
Prince also believed in chemtrails, there's youtube videos of him talking about them. He comes off as a massive tinfoil hat-wearer.

I'd definitely be more inclined to trust in his musical intuition than his scientific aptitude though.
congrats Garry and team! Any entrepreneur is lucky to have your team in their corner.
Strange messages coming from the stars are probably from aliens, scientists say
> For NTSC, the film release is sped down by a much smaller amount (0.1%) during the 3:2 pulldown to adjust from 30 to the exact 29.97 fps that NTSC needs.

No. For NTSC they just drop (throw away) 1 frame from every 1000 frames, so there's no speed-up or speed-down in audio track.
No, but for parity with a standard wrist watch the Pebble is your best bet.
In Silicon Valley, some workers hanker for an office door of their own
Timeout when checking vwo.com
I've spent probably ten hours in the last week doing market research for my startup pitch deck in the SFPL. I have five books checked out and more on hold. Anyone who isn't constantly using their library is both wasting money and missing out.
What would the open data utopia actually look like?
At one point I had a solid-state Sony NW-MS7 Memory Stick Walkman (that wasn't quite an MP3 player because it was limited to only playing ATRAC files). For 1999, it was a usable and forward-looking piece of tech. Pity they crippled it with aforementioned ATRAC-only encoding (requiring file format conversion and re-encoding) and expensive Memory Stick proprietary media.
Roblox Cheats Generator Hack Tool (2017) Download
Amazon IoT Button
The second sentence makes no such claim. If you scroll further down you'll see

> Why do we use A = 440 Hz? (spoiler: no Nazis)
Virtual Arcade BBS in Cleveland, OH. Avid user.
It is neither. As the summary at the top of the article says, it is a transistor that draws very little power.
Find the best drone pilots anywhere
Please, feed me more specifics while I salivate. In as well-defined a problem/mission statement/objective as possible, what are you doing (and with what / how), and where do you intend to reach?
The neural network community uses proper "training"/"validation"/"test" datasets to asses model performance, and has developed algorithms to fit complex models to large amounts of data using relatively little computing power. I think it is possible to build completely new and accurate models of biophysical systems with neural networks with relative ease.

Using models like variational autoencoders it might be possible to draw truly independent samples in a single step, instead of relying lots of MD steps to find novel conformations.

I could go on, but I have to get to bed now :-)
War Stories from Google's Vulnerability Reward Program
Totally agree. Guidelines are after all guidelines. I was trying not to be too polarized about the dupe flag by offering some middle ground. I like the post and generally disagree with the dupe flag that was on it :)
The iPod hit the market pretty much together with 1.8" HDDs which proved to be a pretty nice sweet spot for a while. Flash costs became pretty unattractive in comparison for desirable capacities while larger drives led to clunky devices.

Not sure how one counts innovative but Apple chose a good horse to ride for storage that led to it being in an increasingly enviable position among MP3 players. (Which Apple parlayed into popular flash players and then the iPhone.)
h-suppressed graphs?

VESPR graph stuff?

compressive sampling / measuring of typical states?

ligand complices?

ligand transport?

membrane dynamics?

predictive toxicology?

cheaper hartree-fock approximations?

quark shit???

time to daydream
gog is pretty awesome and it'll be a drm-free game download anyway. I've always felt pretty good about paying them for games.
> but the marketing, polish, and IMO most importantly, that they had a real software company

I think it is important to remember that when the iPod came out, iTunes already existed. Not the iTunes store, mind you, but iTunes as a solution to (legally) rip your existing CDs (and automatically get the tags/meta-information from OCDDB or so), and manage songs downloaded from Napster (less legally).

So, people had a good platform to listen to music on the desktop, nicely managed with lots of meta-information (tags, time last played, rankings, etc).

Now, with the iPod, you could JUST PLUG IT IN, and it would download the whole shebang within a couple of minutes (via Firewire), and offer it in a nice interface. THAT was a quantum leap in usability compared with all other devices on the market at the time.

I had a minidisk player, and you could add artist and song titles manually on the device (selecting a letter at a time with a left/right cursor), and my, what a pain it was.

Just having your whole (carefully curated) music library on the go in a a few minutes on the iPod was AWESOME.