skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since I do use journalled filesystems for my real data, your comment implies I should create yet another partition for /tmp using a filesystem that optimises performance over durability/integrity, eg without journalling.

I consider files in /tmp to be temporary, and do not expect them to survive a reboot. (Actually I prefer they don't - less administration and housekeeping.) They also have random lifetimes ranging from fractions of a second to several days. And random sizes from zero length to gigabytes (eg making an ISO image).

With tmpfs RAM is used which provides the best performance since the filesystem is trivial. Memory pressure will cause swap to be used as needed. Files not accessed will end up in the swap and taking no RAM.

By far the fastest I/O is the I/O you don't have to perform.
Secure Analyzing and De-Redundancy Data in Cloud [pdf]
That might be how something works, but it's too kind to call it "science".
I think we should definitely experiment with how we incentivize research, but one of the problems with profit is that it's hard to quantify. Basically it's easy for companies to make profits disappear. I.e. Lookup Hollywood accounting.

I read once about a prize based on QALY gained (quality adjusted life years) over current best practices. One of the best parts about this is you could give it for unpatentable advanced like diet/exercise/herbs.

Lots of money is wasted trying to take an unpatentable ideas like intermittent fasting/curcumin and turn them into patentable drugs.
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Tesla is as much a car company as GM, BMW, Honda, and Toyota. >90% of Tesla's revenue is from selling cars. They certainly have aspirations to be more, but they aren't there yet.
I'm a former facebook employee (just created a new HN account so I can speak freely).

While there are some good answers given, people also need to keep in mind that many of the facebook employees who post online are part of an organized public relations campaign. Facebook has an internal group where employees share links to posts like these and encourage employees to respond positively. This group is called 'Humanize' because it wants to give the impression that these responses are coming directly from real employees while hiding the fact that they aren't exactly casual responses.

I don't know whether any of the particular responses in this thread are part of this PR campaign and am not calling out anyone directly. You can usually assume that popular and controversial posts are being actively managed by the Humanize group. But it's not clear if this post has enough traction to being on their radar.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with Facebook asking employees to share their experiences publicly. However, like most online reviews, it's not ideal that people do not disclose when their posts are part of an organized astro-turfing effort. It's not clear to readers that some of these responses have been composed or edited by PR before they are posted.
> If it were my business, I would still be at the mercy of giant incumbent competitors, and any dollar I spent on common infrastructure would benefit them more than me. They could then use that advantage to slowly force me out of the business.

> The largest firms have the most to gain from improvements in the industry's infrastructure. [Large monopolistic firms are] the only ones capable of improving infrastructure, aside from a government.

Under deregulated energy markets in the US, common infrastructure (specifically the transmission grid) is placed under the control of a non-profit Regional Transmission Operator or Independent System Operator. In practice the transmission lines are built and maintained by private for-profit companies, but their profits are fixed by regulation and they have to ask the RTO/ISO for permission to do basically anything.

The point of this restructuring was to break up monopolistic control over the transmission grid so that new, small generation or distribution companies could join the transmission network at a fair hookup cost. Additionally, it helps deal with the issue of who pays/profits from improvements to common infrastructure.

http://www.energysmart.enernoc.com/regulated-and-deregulated...
The comments here are all good, but nothing about this question is specific to developers. For those who have personal finance questions, I would highly recommend the Boggleheads wiki and forum:

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php

It's filled with the type of thoughtful, over-analytical people that I think the readership of Hacker News would appreciate.
I used to be skeptical about this... but if the Signal protocol sees more widespread adoption outside of the Signal app and Whatsapp, it could be a good fit.

I'm very open to hearing about reasons why this wouldn't be the case, though.
Well most of the landing pages nowadays look the same.

I like both pages, but I don't think it feels like a copy of Stripe's design.
No One Can Track You: Randomized Authentication in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks [pdf]
What is linux-gate.so.1? (2005)
With all due respect to physicists and their work, physics doesn't belong in the foundation of mathematics. If our understanding of physics changed drastically tomorrow (an admittedly very improbable event), all mathematics not directly related to physics should remain unaffected. On the other hand, computation does belong in the foundations: constructing and verifying proofs (even informal ones) is computing, and it is the role of foundations to tell us how those computations can be carried out in a pleasant way. Any change in our understanding of computation should lead us to revise how we construct and verify proofs.
It's more like they want to avoid the utility death spiral:

* http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2014/02/04/utilities...

* https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/this-is-what-th...

That is the major thing in their heads currently for solar.

Also since they are monopolies, gov'ts use them as hidden tax vehicles / subsidy givers as part of their monopoly status, which can make it hard to run an actual business. They make money via infrastructure access and selling electricity from power plant assets on the open market, not your specific kw/h power usage.

Most utilities should be thought of as extensions of the government in practice.
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Cog 1.0
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Perhaps we should take a hint from Urbit and start naming our projects Zog-wip-let-bon, etc.
Predicting Evolving Chaotic Time Series with Fuzzy Neural Networks [pdf]
Logitech MX Revolution mouse, c2005.

Gone but never forgotten.
No, but if I voluntarily use another countries' web service, I'd say I'm handing data over to that country's jurisdiction. We should be wary of companies who can't even guarantee our data is remaining within the boundaries of our own laws.

A lot of the "cloud" is an obfuscation. At the end of the day, our data lives on hard drives on servers that are physically somewhere. We should know where that is, and what laws apply to it. When I selected a web hosting provider, I picked the one that disclosed it's datacenter location, the physical security and environmental protection measures, etc. I know the physical place I am entrusting my data to.
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GPG is still the domain of nerds. But yes, we all still use email and as long as we do I will use GPG with my coworkers who know how.
There are limitations caused by the software configuration of most AS's. Significant work is being done on novel approaches to IP routing with better security, scalability and control guarantees by ETH Zurich, as part of the SCION project. It's sponsored by the EU, Google, Swisscom, the NSF and a few other entities.

Link: http://www.scion-architecture.net/

This is already "live" in the sense that it is implemented and there are 14 router nodes active, and it is meant to be incrementally deployed. I haven't gotten around to hooking up a client myself, that will be an interesting weekend project someday. Any interested ISP can set up their own node and join this project.

Some cool things about SCION and its extensions:

* Isolation domains: can be used to enforce traffic to never leave a given routing sub-plane, for instance a country or a state

* SIBRA: volumetric DDoS mitigation and enablement of the creation of "dynamic interdomain leased lines"

* HORNET: high-speed onion routing
AIDE is tolerable enough at the Android development complexity level equivalent to "just edit an HTML file in a basic editor" level of web front-end development (and maybe beyond, that's just about all I've done in AIDE) and it actually runs on Android, which is nice.
It's no more a "comforting lie" than your driving instructor telling you to check your blind spot. Not everyone does it, and bad things happen as a result, but all the more important to teach it.

I'm actually surprised to hear of high school teaching good scientific practice. I don't remember ever being taught that. Widely may it spread.
It's not easy, if discrimination is really so wide spread as people would have us believe, then we need to start finding out why. If it's just people being asshole, then there's not really anything we can do, and we need to avoid these people and their companies.

If I understood your earlier comment, you were pointing towards there being underlying problems not limited to company hiring processes, or perhaps even outside of companies in particular. Here it looks like you're talking about companies again. I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on discrimination/disparities outside of companies. Or did I misunderstand your earlier comment?
This seems to be a tone detector, not a truth detector.
I guess I've always used it wrong, however...

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/09/136017612/bad-apple-proverbs-t...

>Back then, nobody ever talked about "just a few bad apples" or "only a few rotten apples" — the whole point was that even one was enough to taint the group. These days, those are the phrases people use to imply that some misdeeds were an isolated incident — a couple of rogue cops, a handful of unprincipled loan officers, two or three sociopathic soldiers. Then there's the version that goes, "There are always going to be a few bad apples." That's a counsel of moral realism: as in, there's evil in the world; get over it. It's not a sentiment you would have heard in a 19th century sermon, much less from a grocer you were complaining to about the wormy fruit he'd sold you the week before. "Well, Mrs. Gold, we all have to expect find a few rotten apples, don't we?"
So these results can't be replicated in controlled situations. Some of this applies to how our bodies work, with many more "uncontrolled variables" than experimenters even thought of.

In which universe should we guide our behavior and believe things based on "science" like that.

Thought Experiment: Compare a mass murderer to a scientist in cases like this.
If you want to talk about an actual currency to use or store of value, check out Monero. Although, I certainly would not encourage you to buy it as a speculator.
Interesting project, but I'd personally want to see a lot more involvement and vetting from the crypto community at large. Especially when it creates new protocols like DH key exchange over email.
Yes, but the methane here is generated from CO2 and H2, then combusted back to CO2. With no leaks, that cycle is carbon neutral, and leaks can be minimized.

If this infrastructure is built out, it may also provide the path to pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere or ocean and permanently sequestering it. That is something that I think we'll probably be very interested in doing in coming decades. Having affordable technology for that (perhaps $20-80/ton?) would enable CO2 emissions for those cases that really require it, and possibly also some clawing back of the worst parts of anthropogenic climate change.
Simple. You can only publish to Nature etc. if your results are replicated twice by others and you open up all your raw data.

Short time later only real science will be published.

The amount of published results will massively go down and Nature and other will not makes as much money.

Now you know the reason why publishers publish results that can't be replicated.

Or listen to anything from Feynman about real science e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWr39Q9vBgo
I always used to say Weebly - and I've helped quite a few friends and family build little brochure sites. The big change with a new version a couple of years ago made less enthusiastic, though I haven't looked at Wix yet.
Well at least Eth lets us write in a variant of JS. JS is amazing. Basically impossible to write buggy code in it.
Just put your swapfile on a ramdisk.
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AFAIU, the Signal protocol doesn't work with email, only with sms. Am I mistaken in this?
I am also an Android Developer (who has lots of experience on other platforms like Linux [embedded and desktop], Windows, etc) and like Android Studio mostly just fine.

It is all relative, I guess. I started writing Android apps when the Android SDK on Eclipse was the official solution and compared to THAT Android Studio is an incredible improvement...

It does have its warts, for sure. I don't even bother trying to use the GUI layout designers and just stick to hand-writing the XML. I don't use the emulators, I stick to testing and debugging on-device. (I have had the emulators in states where they worked just fine, but the requirements for lower-level HAXM support to get them running at an acceptable speed do cause a lot of problems in the real world).

I don't understand why it ships with "Instant Run" enabled by default since in my experience that feature still cannot be trusted in any but the most featureless demo apps. That feature should still be treated as very experimental and disabled by default so as not to cause serious confusion among people who don't understand the implications of using it.

All-in-all my list of complaints is pretty small, though... smaller than the list I've had for any IDE I've used regularly since Visual Studio 6.0.
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So, customized Google OS, but using the official Docker package? Oh wait. How could there be an official docker package for an OS noone known existed?

I assume customized kernel as well? and where does the overlay drivers come from? How much custom back-ports and custom development?

The article is not on point to say GKE replaced docker entirely then... but you are not point to deny and pretend that you are running Docker on anything remotely common.
> in fact on average they have to have gazillions of pre-images each

pretty sure "on average" they have at least a few gazillion orders of magnitude more than a few gazillion pre-images each ;)
> web-based "cryptocurrency"

Do the article authors have at least 0.01% understanding of what bitcoin is? Or what web is? I'm very suprised of technical incompetence of authors writing about technical stuff in top newspapers.
SMTP TLS doesn't and can't validate the certs. It is trivial to MITM it.
I'm sure this will be an unpopular opinion since most of us agree with what Mitch is saying and rightfully want change, but as a founder, this sort of behavior from an investor seems to be a giant breach of trust.

In early rounds, founders are looking for investors who will trust management to make decisions in the best interest of the company. EVEN if they don't agree with those decisions, it's expected that they'll be a team player and provide support in whatever way possible.

I'm sure Mitch thinks what he's doing is in the best interest of the company (and it probabily is!). But, he surely doesn't have perfect information on what's going on (only management has a full picture).
Atom's performance will most likely be more constrained by the algorithms they use than by JS execution speed.
The article is looking at efficiency in terms of time to transmit a given message. For that you want to assign the shorter codes to the symbols with the highest frequency. Morse did a decent job of that, except that assigning '---' to 'O' seems way off, since '---' is in the top 5 for longest code length, whereas 'O' is one of the 5 more frequent symbols.

I wonder what would change, if anything, if instead we considered things from the receiving side, and put a bound on the acceptable error rate? That '---' for 'O' really stands out when listening to code. The only other letter that was a '---' in it is J ('.---'), which only occurs about 2% as often as 'O'. Maybe 'O' being so distinct and easy to hear, and frequent enough that you will have an 'O' every 10 or so characters, helps keep the listener synchronized?

Early Morse code was sent fully by hand, and so the timing would not be precise. The timing is supposed to be, in units of the length of a dot: 1 for a dot, 3 for a dash, 1 for the space between adjacent dots and dashes within a character, 3 for the space between characters in a word, and 7 for the space between words. A good, experienced operator would hit that timing very accurately, but less experienced operators could be quite a bit off.

Someone whose timing is off might shorten the gap between characters enough that it might run dashes from the end of one character and the start of the next together. For example, in the word 'awkward', the 'wk' sequence becomes '.-- -.-' and if the person did not give as big a gap as they should between the words, you could run the trailing '--' from the 'w' and the leading '-' from the 'k' together giving a '---', but even in that situation I don't think it would sound like an 'O', because with an 'O' you go into it trying make 3 evenly spaced things, and we are good at that. We might get the spacing off, but we'll get it off the same way uniformly throughout the 'O'. An accidental 'O' from running two things together won't have that uniformity, and so I think it would stand out.

In other words, I'm guessing that the apparently anomalous assignment of a seemly too long code to 'O' actually servers to make communication more accurate in the presence of inexperienced senders and receivers.
It's kind of odd that over 9 months ago it was known that Microsoft would stop honoring SHA-1 certificates starting from 1 week ago. Anyone know if this is just a pure coincidence? See https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/04/29/sha1-deprecat...
US Federal employees don't have copyright on their work. That statement in license.md refers to how it is clearer how to get to a permissive license via the contract-theory mechanism, GPLv3 is more reliant on copyright as the mechanism of providing its protection of software freedom. This is still a work-in-progress and needs public/community review.
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In my other comment I mentioned the CS results I've largely struggled to reproduce is because they include enough detail for you to get the gist of how it works, but not enough to avoid going down some rabbit holes. Also, not all publications include code. Many venues don't require it.
One of the mental hospitals gave my friend Wellbutrin. They took it away when they found her insufflating it. Thereafter they didn't care about her complaints of depression, and just forced her to take the suicide ideation pill ("anti-psychotic").

I guess Wellbutrin has mild stimulating properties. SSRI drugs were approved on the basis of fraudulent science. The MAOIs were reasonably effective, but caused high blood pressure when the patient also ate fine cheese.
> Autocorrect incorrectly assuming the word you want to use replaced that message taking three days to arrive at its destination.

Seems like you don't remember email on your PC.

Or simply sms without autocorrect. OP has a point, but this indeed is a bad example. As far as I can see autocorrect for messaging being wrong didn't replace anything, it's something new which just doesn't always work properly. Which is exactly the point of the article.
It's not just frequency/density but also the value for forward error correction: codes (code points) that can more easily be mistaken for others should have such different semantics that an error is obvious. For example though e and a are the two most common letters in the English language, perhaps use the shortese code for e and the next shortest for q, so that a misunderstanding causes "went" to become "wqnt" rather than "want. And indeed perhaps e does not deserve the shortest code because of its importance.
> Murders (as a statstic) are controversial but indisputable.

Homicides are (to a reasonable approximation, but even then not quite) indisputable, murders (or even "criminal homicides") aren't, even approximately.
You mean something like Douglas Crockford's seif https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11273630 project?
For me so far the most pleasant to work with has (contrary to its name) been Nightmare (http://www.nightmarejs.org/), which is a Node.js library that drives Electron. It has a really pleasant API and its developers claim that it is faster than PhantomJS. Unlike PhantomJS, however, it is not truly headless; it needs an X server like xvfb to run.
Well I'd agree that an independent google for every jurisdiction won't happen, but I'd bet on independent googles in major legal blocs (e.g. the EU) for exactly this reason.

Whilst this case my seem straightforward, the precedent (that data held in other countries can be requested by a court in the US based on the fact that Google is a US corp) would lead them necessarily to establish legal entities to prevent that spreading.
I'm talking about Windows supporting binary compatibility with Ubuntu, so the Ubuntu userland can be run on Windows.
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I'm skeptical about willpower, too.. but what about "cognitive resources"? I bookmarked this because while I don't know if it's the whole and full truth (how could it be?), it certainly seems interesting, the whole talk is but here's the start of the relevant bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKTxC9pl-WM&t=8m23s
>What's wrong with the faucets that instead of turning, you push down and they run for a few seconds before stopping?

dirty hands touch them a lot and you have to touch them multiple times during handwashing, re-dirtying your hands

if the stream actually lasted a reasonable amount of time it would be less of an issue but i dont think i've seen that ever