skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
R and Python have some similarities, but saying a they are largely overlapping is a bit of an exaggeration.
> Should we always take news like this with a grain of salt?

Yes.

Except this fear is part of our income source like the TSA, except they are more like 100% IT is a bit less.
Does N here refer to the length of source code or the number of passes? When the source code is big, even the identity pass takes time, right? I don't understand how it become constant addition.

Could you quickly comment on that the majority of compilers being quadratic or greater?

By the benefits on the GPU, it refers to the size of the code for the passes or the size of the source code? I assume the passes are run serially, right?

[I'll read Andy Keep's paper.]
"They have had huge problems with their regular cloud instances though (not the local storage ones), they are based on Ceph and were from time to time unuseable. Also it's sometimes a gamble if the system creates your machine or if it will get stucked, we also had the problem that we couldn't delete instances, they somehow where stuck. Their whole system is based on OpenStack and it seems they have problems managing it (who doesn't)."

I'm curious to learn more about this. I'm currently using OVH public Cloud, and before doing so I was trying to find some review about it. I must say that so far I have no issue with it, but I have been using it for 2 weeks only.

When you say unusable, do you mean it was down or simply too slow? I read a lot of complain about the speed of the storage, but nothing about the stability of their cloud.

Any details would be appreciated.
How does "slowly dumping energy into a magnetic field" work?
after seeing the announcement about vultr in another thread, I took a closer look at ipv6 support and it looks like DO and scaleway do not provide a proper /64 for IPv6 -- or even a /112, which means you can't use openvpn.
I don't completely understand how demonstrating the chain of investigation should require the disclosure of the vulnerability. I really hope the execution of the law isn't going to depend on 12 random people understanding the finer points of cryptanalysis.

I wish there were some way to get a private but independent verification that X technique allowed IP addresses to be collected if they did action Y (e.g. logging onto playpen). Then the investigation could be questioned without the government disclosing their vulnerability, which seems like a standard we wouldn't hold most to. If someone were on trial for copyright infringement could they subponea for the full source of FairPlay as a coercion to get the case dropped?
Fast internet has nothing to do with it. You can easily get faster internet in many European cities than in SV.

Culture and capital are the two differentiators, and they're hard to recreate. Investors are willing to bet money on so many crazy ideas.
Ctrl-c works though.
<= instead of < would make the first few numbers come out correctly:

for(var n=2; n <= Math.floor(Math.sqrt(candidate)); n++)
Software or Softwear?
I was thinking of heuristics like structural complexity of the sentence:

"The film that came out last week was good."

Every word is very simple but in combination they produce complexity that is challenging to many learners.
As I understand it those issues are covered by the accused's lawyers being able to examine the evidence on behalf of the accused, which would extend to having it examined by an expert witness who can attempt to impeach it.
Cheap but Private Dedicated Hosting
Hello All,

I am looking for a new dedicated hosting provider due to both resource needs and the previous provider. I have already looked and ruled out OVH, Online.Net, or any US/UK/CA/AU based hosting.

By private I mean focusing on privacy of the data I'm hosting, and a sense of dedication to it's privacy by the provider. As well, the hosting country should have some decent data privacy laws.

The server will be hosting email, blogging, file uploads (malware not allowed), and other assorted services.

The min server specs are: high bandwidth (>3TB/mo), need fast speeds, medium RAM (16-32GB), >4 core xeons (or comparable), main drive of >=500GB SSD for most applications, and >1TB for storage.

My range is about 75-125 USD per month.

What are your thoughts? I'm considering flokinet.is, or possibly Hetzner.
Thanks for the info!

The Oshkosh eaa meet was always a lot of fun to go watch when I used to live in WI.
WSL isn't "bash support," it's a full Ubuntu userland running on a Linux kernel syscall emulator sitting right on top of the NT kernel (so NOT touching the Win32 userland). There are bugs, but the idea is to continue to improve things so that anything you can apt get on a regular Ubuntu install, you can apt get on WSL.
You've got to look around. There are a lot of options today. You have everything from Tinyhomes (for which you'll finds tons of manufactures in each country .. easy startup idea really with a lot of shared eco-friendly components out there), to Yurts, to fully finished multi-piece homes that don't look pre-fab at all/you wouldn't know unless the owner told you.

You're not going to find any huge suburban type houses, but there are a lot of small to medium options, all with their own strengths and tradeoffs.
I use Vultr mainly because it has an AU presence, whereas Linode, DO, Scaleway, OVH, do not.
Shame on this comment.
WSL is great but I dread all sorts of malware / ransomware / virii etc. One wrong click (have you ever been tired) and while obviously I have backups that's a lot of stress and lost productivity to get back where I was.
Rstudio is an IDE. If you want a gui for R, check out Rattle.

My shop is going the opposite direction, from R/excel to SAS+Cognos. I'm not happy about that decision, but the pay is good and the problems are still interesting.
So then why the house prices in many cities in Canada went down in last couple of years except Toronto and Vancouver ?
It is possible to have similar symptoms but a different core issue, especially when comparing 2 countries with very different regulations.
Stock options are complicated
Why don't you just learn the vocabulary of patterns used in a compressed representation, like LZ77? Then you can condense any language to make it more readable for your "organic pattern matcher" just by passing the source through gzip.

Here is the thing: I have a pretty good idea of what

flatten(x):=converge(fold(concatenate,x))

does without knowing what exact language it is written in, or having to crack open a reference manual for it. This is not so of your sample of puerlile line noise, which is completely arbitary. If we feed it to, say Golfscript, it will do something completely different.

Also, if I delete a ) character from the above expression, I can guess that it is probably not well-formed:

flatten(x:=converge(fold(concatenate,x))
^ not matched

flatten(x):=converge(fold(concatenate,x)
^ not matched

Then names like flatten and converge are atoms. We could condense this code by giving them single-character names (using some Unicode glyphs perhaps or whatever). Let's just use roman capitals:

F(x):=V(R(C,x))

It's not actually that long in the number of tokens or atoms.

Anyway, most computer scientists and software engineers stop measuring code by character count by the time they get out of puberty.
OVH is currently building a datacenter in AU. I guess (hope) I some point they will offer their vps/cloud there as well. But so far their pricing is higher there then EU/CA.

https://www.ovh.com/us/discover/australia.xml
I don't think this is a fair criticism of the text.

However good Unix might have been in the 1970s, why am I still running it on my mobile phone? How good is it today? It seems that the major argument in its favor is legacy.

(Honestly, it seems to me that most of his criticisms could be moved away from stepwise. I'm guessing most of the configuration on my phone is stored in binary files. Someone could write the object-wise commandline utils he wants, and then create the architecture to make them more efficient. We could move there. Should we?)
Not so much about misunderstanding as it is about omitting other details. For one, IOS is a completely closed box whereas AOSP is completely open. You can argue for or against security by obscurity v/s security in open software, but at the very least it needs a mention in any fair comparison. Secondly, most of the blog focuses on average case behaviour. In Apple's case the average, best and worst case are all the same since they make only one device and one OS. In contrast, android is a vast spectrum. Now if you were to give out advice to people with sensitive data, you should compare the best case for both of them, which he briefly does, but not quite as detailed as it warrants. For instance, is iphone necessarily better than a Pixel running AOSP or something like CopperheadOS ? I'm not so sure. IOS's centralized behaviour also makes it an easier target in some ways. Want to attack all browsers on an iphone ? Attack webkit. There are other security fails such as relying on either itunes or icloud for getting data in and out of the phone. Much fuss was made over Cloudfare's lack of a bug bounty program. Apple didn't have one either until quite recently either.
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I'd include database engineer in that bin. We used to call people DBAs but that seems a bit limiting now.
This is a great box, I use one myself but people need to know that SSD is network attached which comes with its own slowness. It's OK it's just something you need to be aware of.
This sort of approach is also used in reinforcement learning https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01182
These conspicuous consumers... are a very important part of the economy :) Think about how many engineering and design jobs there are just creating fancier/faster/prettier/etc versions of basic goods. And if the consumer if happy, whats wrong? A lot of that money would just be sitting in a bank somewhere otherwise. Yes, I know some people would donate it to charity.

"but there are plenty of people, men and women, for whom "

Sorry, I didn't mean to generalize all people. I should have said "a large portion of people".
This should have been titled "A brief history of Google Fiber" instead.
> When really, stuff like that exists because women were expected to forego career for marriage, etc.,

Well, that's the whole point. Family courts are still heavily biased towards women. As long as women and men are not treated differently, and alimony and spousal support are evenly distributed between genders, then yes, "bring it on".
US federal regulations, including user data security, widely recinded
Elm-bootstrap 1.0.0 has been released
It will only be cheap if the finishing of the house becomes cheaper.

The raw materials + labor for a 'casco' (that's what we call them here) are not the biggest factor in creating a space that you can live in.

It's all the wiring, plumbing, window sills, insulation and so on that make up the bulk of a construction project.

That's also why those 'built in 24 hour' structures then need a lot of work (far more than the initial 24 hours to lay the base) to finish them.
I changed the title. The original was click-bait and not informative.
Keith Johnstone (pioneered improv theater) makes a pretty convincing argument in his book Impro that status is the most important thing to humans (and that much of our interactions involve status). It's the invisible fabric of our life in society that we aren't supposed to talk about.

Also, plenty of psychological research has shown that status is usually valued more than money in one's job, where status encompasses things like "my boss tells me I'm doing a good job" (which means more coming from your boss or the VP than the intern) or "my team appreciates the work I do".
> Then they became a phone company who also made computers and tablets.

You're describing the changing world we're living in. Apple is merely reflecting it.
After quickly scanning the text, I have no idea in what way a "framework for DSL Libraries" is different from, well, a programming language.

It appears that the levels of abstraction are solved a bit cleaner, but also not fundamentally different.

(no expert, though. Maybe someone can translate it)
You have a lot more to fear from the Guadalupe River and Coyote Creek (the latter also fed by Anderson Lake spillover).
Mac OS uses bash 3.2 :)
Paul Graham's "How to Be Silicon Valley" http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html
X-men comics will provide you with an intro-level understanding of at least one of those.
Turkey's Erdogan makes Nazi jibe over Germany rally ban
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> Creating an exactly equivalent design, with curved walls everywhere, would be phenomenally expensive with conventional practices.

You could easily make a house with round walls today if you wished to do so. But you wouldn't because you'd curse yourself every day when you want to place furniture and lay floor coverings.

Curved spaces seem like a good idea until you actually try to use them.
> Is it a different story in China?

In China, both genders are equally judged on looks. It's common for job applications to require headshots, which I find odd, but apparently that practice also exists in Germany and some South American countries.
Interesting. Why did you choose OpenVZ? OpenVZ makes me think of fly-by-night, oversold VPS providers that are barely even adequate for a personal site. Another concern is that with OpenVZ, any Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability can be used to escape the virtual server. So I hope you stay on top of kernel security updates. But of course, that requires the host to be rebooted.
> Stick built houses are not as durable

Unless you happen to live in an area with earthquakes... if you do, the flexibility (literal, not metaphorical) of 2x4 construction will really shine.
But ugly.
I live in developing countries. It's true that smartphones are the only computer people have or need, which is a problem.

Mobile devices are still consumption devices. It's hard to create complex, multi-layer structures on phones: the screen is too small, the processor is too underpowered... take your pick. But creating a good SaaS or a good UX on a phone is darn tough.

Here comes speculation:

Websites/services in developing countries are painfully bad.

This is due to a number of factors outside technology, but it's also true that universities here graduate people who never grew up with big screens and unwalled gardens, never grew up creating rather than consuming, and don't have a sense of what it's like to go from blank screen to working prototype to polished platform.

Neither do most people in developed countries.

But at least computers are widely available in developed countries so that the x% of kids who have an affinity for these things end up getting started early.

Someday mobile devices will match and surpass desktops and laptops. But that day is not today, and meanwhile developing countries are years behind not only in physical infrastructure, but in online infrastructure as well.
What surprises me is the vitriol with which people fight back at these efforts. I live in Oakland, and seeing people lose their minds about 980 has been quite interesting. Whenever I take 980 it is mostly empty, and removing it would make downtown and west Oakland way more accessible from either side. Should residents of Walnut Creek driving to Alameda (who from what I can tell are the only people that regularly use 980) dictate Oakland's urban future? I would say not.
>Building shells aren't really that expensive. The interior parts cost more.

And land in a desirable location with a building permit costs even more, if it's even available.
Anecdotal, but our SAS decision support environment went down Friday. I can report back after the post-mortem if you like.
Ah, that Apple mantra. It's not hard because it's hard, it's hard because you don't do it OUR WAY. Do it OUR WAY and everything is easy.
Yeah, it was basically a fixed double-wide mobile home with better materials. I can't remember the movie offhand, but there's a fight scene that takes place in half of a prefab house on the highway.

The house is still there, still looks fine. A little cramped for adult me, but a perfectly fine place to live and grow up. The house I live in now could fit that house inside of it and have plenty of room to spare. My parents still live there, have all the amenities of a modern home. They turned half the basement into their master bedroom suite and the other half into a nice extended home office.

Housing crises are not going to be solved by tiny houses on half-acre properties. The houses are a tiny fraction of the overall property values -- and are made in a factory, on the cheap, in mass quantities. Making structures has been solved for hundreds if not thousands of years, making land is the problem.
Yes, this, thank you. The "but it's a computer!" sophistry falls apart the moment you take one look at the user interface. The reason people are starting to get annoyed with Apple is their continued phone-ification of the desktop.

It. Doesn't. Work.
For context, he got a little boost recently from his "strawberry cake" illusion tweet : https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka/status/83674359846907084...
A great progress point! Budget phones now have 1GB RAM, a million times more.

The GPUs of budget phones have 10's of GFLOPS... to make a comparison with the ZX81, what's the fastest Z80 routine you could write to multiply 32-bit floating point numbers? Or perhaps, how fast is the routine in the ZX81 ROM BASIC (by Steve Vickers)?

Thw ZX81 had a 4MHz Z80, but in "slow" mode, about 3/4 of that was occupied in rendering the screen, making it effectively 1MHz. In "fast" mode, the screen went black...
a job with negative value. You hire a worker to dig a hole and the second one to put the dirt back.
While this is generally true, it's a little more nuanced. For example: Android has a larger market share (by a lot globally), but apps are frequently developed for iOS first. Why? Because it's easier. Device fragmentation plays a large role in that, but part of the cost of the project is dealing with the development ecosystem (good or bad). As Apple makes the development less appealing (because of sub standard hardware / OSX) android will seem like a better option.
Simple way to work with gestures in iOS
A key feature of AnyDSL is that transformations of code from higher level of abstractions to lower levels is not done in a compiler

Look, you can call it a "mumbleencabulator" if you want, it's still quacking an awful lot like a compiler...
> Half a million for 600 square feet. C'mon man

Why half a million when you could have 600 square feet for 1.3 million in Silicon Valley?

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Sunnyvale-CA-94085/195...
It reads straight out of Kafka you can't be present at your own trial, because the evidence against you is secret.

I might be willing to grant that legitimate cases of national security warrant this, but routine criminal proceedings? Fuck no. That kind of exclusion of the accused is terrifying and delegitimizes the proceedings in my eyes. The state can't try you in secret just because they don't want to talk about the evidence, and we know the state routinely abuses secrecy laws to cover malfeasance.
Culture and Revolution
> Where it's been different than this has been when getting referred to your everyday startup

Yeah, that's the kind of company I was referred to. I assume you don't work in startups? :)
I'm playing WoW and sometimes something goes wrong with my ping from Astana to Frankfurt (where WoW servers are located), but Paris still works fine. So VPN solves that problem.
People who can write 10 paragraphs criticizing Apple products are likely to be people who use Apple products.
Mathematics for Computer Science [pdf]
I just realize this, but perhaps Apple is doing the same thing like MS is doing for Windows 10, only in reverse?

MS was successful on desktop but failed on mobile, so MS is adapting their desktop OS for mobile devices.

For Apple, its the other way around. Apple was successful on mobile, but failed on taking over the desktop. So they are adapting their mobile OS for the desktop.

Their end-game is the same: to create a larger ecosystem via universal apps that work in both mobile and desktop.

The funny thing is perception. Apple's moves are viewed negatively but MS moves are viewed positively (at least here on HN).
+5 bad@$$ points sir.
Using Tor Browser as your primary browser is a bad idea because it's way behind on security features and you mark yourself out as an interesting target. Using Chrome over Tor is strictly better from a privacy viewpoint than using Chrome on its own. So it depends what you're optimising for. If privacy is your absolute priority, the Tor Browser reduces the number of cases of information leakage but still requires you to have the discipline to avoid any other methods of leaking your identity. If you understand all the issues around that then you probably also understand enough to ignore Tptacek and use it anyway. But if you don't, using the Tor Browser leaves you in a worse position than you'd otherwise be in - you're less secure and you're probably leaking PII anyway.

There are cases where using the Tor Browser makes sense, but it's a terrible blanket recommendation. If you're not actively trying to hide your identity, using it will make you less secure than you would otherwise be.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13795580
Building houses cheaply is largely a solved problem, and offhand I don't see any particular reason to think this is actually any cheaper than techniques that have been around for decades, in terms of producing a practical finished dwelling.

If you want to house a lot of people cheaply, build a big, ugly apartment building. Or twenty. No big deal. The cost comes from the fixtures, finishing, the land, and (most especially, in desirable areas) the building permits.

This is cool, but it's hard to see what problem it's solving.
the underlying explanation of all the other answers is: "its on the Rhine and quite north". The Rhine is historically the most important river of the area, so big cities and populations sprang on it. And, strangely, the Rhine is/was an important connexion to the UK, hence the importance of Frankfurt even on a quite large scale.

Today it still makes sense to go there because Germany is the wealthiest country around, and from there you can serve the entire Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam-Frankfurt area, which includes a lot of people: http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-143547/Population-de...

edit: before I get punched by an autist, Frankfurt not ON the Rhine, but it has an incredibly quick access to the Rhine without being subject to its floods.
It's a press release, not a data digestion guide. The data you want is in the second link I provided from the BLS. We should hold government to high standards, but in this area, the methodology is printed, and data is available.

There are some many areas (such as wiretaps and spying) where we could be pressing the hold the gov't to more transparency, or even discussing the actual problem of long term unemployment instead of casting aspersions on data manipulation which is straightforwardly accessible. I think the term "unemployment" simply does not mean exactly what you want it to mean. To move forward, one might need to coin a new catchier term in which to associate the problem for which you want greater awareness.