skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember seeing some research (with positive findings) that encoding techniques such as pulse-width modulation (PWM) create beats at ~10-20hz and can affect the brain. This was like 3 years ago. Has anyone read about this recently?

I want to know if i can iDose with my wifi...
In addition to the point skoob makes, there are also the considerable economic and societal costs of an epidemic. These costs are borne by the society as a whole, and therefore the society as a whole has a prerogative to minimize contagious epidemics.

By your same reasoning, the Holocaust should not matter to you as long as you’re not a Jew or a homosexual. The point is that mass sickness has an appreciable effect on you even if you don’t contract the illness yourself.
I've been looking through that book, and it's just what I've always wanted from a compiler book. Though maybe I should have expected that as soon as I saw the name "Shriram Krishnamurthi" on the cover.
This one's easy: Facebook-killer!
Restraining Order Granted for Microsoft's C-Sharp Compiler
>>> "a gerbil attacking a tiger"
> It isn't the corporate size that is the issue

Argh.

And note I originally gave IBM as an example of just ONE possible target after Google. So you selectively challenge one point and then even on that point dismiss the other issues (like the "low blow" argument where Oracle doesn't even have to sue the target, be it IBM or some other deep pocketed corporation.)
Make friends with spiders and house centipedes. They are the natural enemies of most every house pest, including bedbugs, and mostly harmless to people. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
"And when and how did it resurrect itself?"

Immigration and tourism from countries with less vaccination.

Combined with reduced vaccination in the US.
Even today people reject well researched stuff like this out of hand within minutes of being confronted with it.

WWII was a complicated affair, no part of it (beginning, middle, ending) will benefit from a simplistic view.

For each of the parties there is a different viewpoint, and some of those viewpoints have been repeated so often and so loud that for many people to consider that there might have been an alternative is hard if not impossible to accept.
Zivity lands tantalizing deal with Playboy for more exposure
I don't think you're nuts - committed collaborators can sometimes be extremely hard to find - but as someone who's seen the flipside of being a bootstrapped single founder, I'd say make sure to mitigate the risks you take to yourself.

Just don't let the downside of failing be taking on crushing debt. It happens, and it sucks.
And they never stopped doing surface application of DDT.
Check out the computer science section on http://www.academicearth.org.

Most top computer science programs put these courses online for free.
>>You still like Perl, and that's fine. I hope I've given you some sense, however, of why some of us prefer other languages.

Frankly, we have all seen the arguments -- when Perl is mentioned on e.g. HN there are always lots of Python lovers which love to tell us them...

It is BTW nice to have OO built in -- and it is nice to have a better OO system in Perl's Moose. And so one. And so on. And so on. :-(

IMHO, the main problem with Perl is the complexity/learning time; the good part is that it is fun. I promised myself a few years ago that if I should work more with computers, it would be things that made me happy.

You were at least polite and informed, but after all those language war lovers, if I change it will be to Ruby. :-)

But sure, come back when it is neat in Python to copy/paste code with variant indentations [Edit: -- and write decent one liners, I never use the REPL]... :-)

Edit: And sure, chromatic wrote that -- as answer to yet another Python trolling...

Edit 2: We have seen the arguments. Before Moose, the Perl OO was derided as a killing problem -- now Moose which is arguably better OO than Python -- is dismissed. And so on.
You'll have to cut your access to your power supply and go on generator (anything outside the faraday cage risks frying anything electrical inside), you'd also have to disconnect any groundings to pipework. Long runs of copper will be inducted during a huge flare, so the ground/earthing connections can at best knock off all your breakers and your generator, but at worse can surge from ground->neutral (frequently connected as a double safety) and fry things that way (note: I only heard of this happen from a lightning strike, but we're talking end-of-civilization-solar-flare here so it's worth note).

If you need internet ensure it's connected outside your faraday cage, run the Ethernet through a surge protector (with the modem or other devices power supply, which is essentially just for kicks at this point) and run the Ethernet inside the cage and connect it to a wireless router powered from outside. Connect all computers via wireless and your systems will be safe.

However, if everyone elses shit dies, your screwed as it is. You'll be one of the only people trying to connect to HN.
In a political climate where one party's most frequently used phrase is "ram down our throats", this would just fuel the fire even more.

Especially with the momentum the Tea Party movement has.
Except for that tiny niche we call "gamers" you may be right.
It's not - I had virtually no college savings when I went to college, my parents borrowed almost the full amount (mostly in their names, so that my sister and I would be mostly debt-free when we graduated). Five years after graduation, it's paid off in full.

$50K/year is, however, low enough that you can get some really generous financial aid if you manage to get into an elite college. Nowadays it'll give you a full ride at Stanford/MIT/Amherst; in my time it was more like a 2/3-ride. Or a full-ride merit scholarship at a state school, if you could otherwise get into an elite college.

Also, weren't we talking about making $100K/year and spending like you have $50K/year? If you do that, in 4 years you've got your kid's college education fund.
Just from visiting the site I did not understand what "requesting" is. Would I browse some other dropbox user's filelist and ask him to send me one of the files? Reading above it rather sounds like "Provide a place for someone to upload a file and then find it in your dropbox".
How hard is it to upload a demo page? I can't stand CSS tutorials with screenshots or images as a demo.
I think the article makes a different case, not the Soviet military was what they feared, but this:

""The Soviet entry into the war played a much greater role than the atomic bombs in inducing Japan to surrender because it dashed any hope that Japan could terminate the war through Moscow's mediation," said Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, whose recently published "Racing the Enemy" examines the conclusion of the Pacific war and is based on recently declassified Soviet archives as well as U.S. and Japanese documents..

"The emperor and the peace party (within the government) hastened to end the war expecting that the Americans would deal with Japan more generously than the Soviets," Hasegawa, a Russian-speaking American scholar, said in an interview.""

So even if the actual effect of the Russian attacks may have been small the fact that a country that seemed neutral to Japan suddenly joined the allies and attacked made a material difference in Japan's perception of the situation, in turn leading to a quicker end of the war than would have been the case otherwise.
You clearly missed the point of your liberal arts education. How sad.
Wow, that is unbelievable. So, I reckon they're making as much as physicians in Ireland do, at least family doctors or internists.
Keep in mind, the availability of nuclear weapons was unknown until they came into use. Also, it was unknown how effective they would prove in practice. The plan of record was to invade the Japanese home islands, using carpet bombing and chemical weapons to gain as much advantage as possible.

Also, the production of atomic bombs was constrained to around 3 or so bombs per month by late 1945. Which is significant but would have been only comparable (rather than greatly superior) to the destructive power of the conventional strategic bombing campaign. Even without atomic bombs Japan would have been utterly devastated by the end of 1945 had the war continued (every city destroyed, most of its shipping destroyed, most civilians starving and/or homeless).
I do contracting to pay the bills while I build my own web app. It is difficult but by working 80 hours a week I'm making progress. Hopefully the sacrifices I have made are worth it in the end.
> In the world of high-stakes poker, it is commonly understood that the only way to make a million dollars playing poker is not to want to make a million dollars.

Hence the saying; never play poker with scared money.
Sandisk has already solved this: http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/06/23/sandisk.outs.s...

In a few years we'll have those with 64gb/128gb capacity.
I am an experienced(7 years) middleware developer making a living working for the man. I have experience in Performance, scalability, high availability, Caching and the JEE/J2EE application protocol stack.

I harbor a desire to lean boostrap my own entrepreneurial venture and become profitable with no resources other than my own sweat equity. After getting customers and becoming cash flow positive I want to grow the startup and exit in a meaningful way.

I need help in understanding how to do market research, how to identify a target market, if a problem is important to solve and whether it is worth solving. I need a reality check to see how I measure up with other entrepreneurs.

The BOS conference will be an ideal avenue to learn from illustrious programmers and techies who have already overcome these challenges and self-doubts. BOS will show me the way and put me on the path to eternal enlightenment.

Why I cant afford it.
Monetary situation + principles. Rule #1 of lean startup is to "Not spend money you don't have".
At the beginning of the learning curve, there's little better for grasping topics than hearing someone else explain them. I've learned more (almost entirely by virtue of genius co-workers) in the first 6 months of my current, first, developer job than I did in ~2 years of self learning and freelancing.
More readable single page version: http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=253515,00.asp?h...
Wrong. Understanding stack layout is much richer than emitting machine code. Admittedly, throwing the term "machine code" around is already a loaded term. Do you mean x86 code? Do you mean Java bytecode or CIL/MSIL? Do you mean C?

In any case part of understanding compilers is understanding what you're targeting... unless your only goal is to accept or decline a program for a given language.

And if you read the context of my post, my point was exactly what you said regarding pragmatics of understanding compilers. Sure you can say "kill sets are the figment of a design choice relating to languages for which destruction can exist". But that's like saying you know computer architecture, but nothing of registers, TLBs, caches, voltage, pipelining, etc..., because those are simply remnants of a special case of computer architecture, albeit a popular case.

If you came to me and said, "I'm a compiler expert" and you knew nothing about stack layout, I'd seriously question your credentials. Maybe I'd be off base, but I'm pretty confident I'd be right a lot more times than not.

Update: And I did want to add one more thing on the stack layout discussion. Stack layout is a "fundamental" device in the Turing machine model for handling important language constructs. Sure you can argue that with the lambda calculus you can avoid some of this. But, I still think you miss out on understanding a KEY part of compilers. It would be like leaving CS education and only learning about Turing machines, and never the Lambda Calculus. Obviously, you can rationalize it by saying its completely redundant, But I think most of us would agree that you wouldn't have had a full education.
This wouldn't work anyways.

Especially for datamining-is-our-core-competency company like Google it should be relatively trivial to match your old and new identity.

There are plenty of ways how to do it. There are only 7 billion people, you just need 33 bits to uniquely identify someone [1].

On social networks you leave much bigger trail of clues (photos, timelines, locations, friends, activity patterns, likes/dislikes, writing samples, etc).

Put together enough of vague data and your identity will pop out. Remember EFF's Panopticlick [2]?

[1] http://33bits.org/

[2] https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Costs (due diligence, fund raising, overpriced salaries, legal) would make a VC like this unprofitable.

Banks are the solution for institutional small-scale low-risk finance, via debt. Retail/commercial bankers are excessively conservative in some ways now (due to regulations); the traditional "small town bank" which originated and held loans to small businesses, property finance, etc. within a specific community was a much better option. Banks have a low cost of capital (from deposits), and should have minimal marginal overhead making each loan. By having "community membership" as one of the metrics for giving a loan (i.e. you've lived in this town for 20 years, and have been a customer, are known to be able to run a certain kind of business, ....), due diligence costs for making a reasonable new loan are a lot lower than for a VC.

Angels (who effectively use sweat equity to cover their own overhead) are the other.

The thing you are missing is that each series A deal a traditional VC does has a 50-100% the invested capital cost in overhead, opportunity cost, etc. At that point, shooting for 3x returns becomes a lot less appealing, especially over 10 years.
Some melt, for your face...
I'm the founder of a CE startup based out of Toronto, Canada. Due to the nature of our products, when looking for our first office space it was important that whatever space we ended up leasing was noise friendly. I have a small project studio that had just started picking up steam and attracting some cool bands. So one day I was at the studio bitching about the cost of noise friendly space that you could actually bring a prospective client to, and a conversation followed from a couple of members of a band that was recording that day. Turned out that they were taking care of a free standing one story building for a family friend that was attached to a graveyard. Actually it's where the tomb stones used to get made (DUN DUN DUN). Anyway, they brought me over to check it out and it was perfect. I asked them how much, they speculated on a price (which was very reasonable, below market at the time) so I told them if they could get me into the space for the price they were suggesting I'd let them stay in the upstairs loft space in exchange for helping out with the utility bills. Win win. The deal went through, so now my start up has a fantastic office space, and an in house rock band(aweeesome). It's been a really interesting experience as we've both been hurtling towards our respective launches, it's amazing how much cross over there's been with regards to product launch even though the product is so completely different. Back to the title; some melt, for your face. I was speaking with Dave today (lead vocals/songwriter) and he told me that they've been working hard on a "home movie" project. I was around the day it was being filmed but wasn't really sure what the content was supposed to be used for. I just watched it and I thought it would be a great first contribution to HN. Generally speaking I'm a lurker but I promised myself to start contributing more to the communities I gain the most from. So, enjoy some good ol' Canadian rock n' roll on this fine summer day. http://www.thegoldendogs.com/
This is basically useless as-is for things like banking security, because the security of SSL is premised on inherent resistence to "active" (MITM) attackers.
I think the meaning was your service becomes obsolete once Dropbox decides to implement a similar function.

(Nice idea by the way.)
Yes, the idea is to look at the structure of the problem and use the structure to prune the solution pool aggressively. The usual method is Branch-and-bound algorithms, but the wikipedia article does not seem to convey the idea especially well, so dig around for a better reference.

Sometimes we are lucky however and there is more structure to a problem than what BB-algorithms usually give. For KNAPSACK, remember that we have a burglar with a knapsack who has just broken into a house. Each item in the house has a given profit and a given weight. The problem is to maximize the profit while still keeping the weight low enough to be in the knapsack. In the 0-1 KNAPSACK problem, there is only one of each item, so we either have to leave it, 0, or to pick it, 1.

The inherent structure is that we can order the items by the ratio p/w of the profit over their weight. Item with a high p/w ratio tend to be items we need in the knapsack, whereas elements with a low p/w ratio tend not to be. It turns out you can preprocess and prune some elements this way before you start on the BB algorithm.

But for this problem it turns out that there is a critical item, the break item and a window of items around it. If you can identify this window, solving that is enough for solving the whole knapsack problem. There is a theorem from the 80'es stating this. It turns out that for knapsack problems with thousands of items, the window tend to be fairly small, some 20-30 items.

Pisingers codes work by being extremely clever at finding the window. It is a smart BB/Dynprog hybrid and as soon as the window is found, it is almost done.

Of course, there are knapsack instances where the window is almost all of the item set and then the algorithm fail. But it turns out to be rather hard producing an instance from a real-world problem which exhibit the large window structure. Hell, Pisingers codes are often faster than sorting the items by the p/w ratio - which makes for a great discussion on complexity :)

So what did I mean by trivial instances? In the SUBSET-SUM problem, this is a trivial instance: {-3,-2,-1,1,2,3}. This one too: {1,2,-3}. Or how about this one: {1,-1, 337}. In the first two, the whole set works. In the latter, it is easy to see that 337 can never be part of the sum as its inclusion lead to a value so great we can never hope to get back to 0. Even if we construct extremely large sets, it is easy to construct them in a way such they can be pruned down to a small set and then solved.
Ok HN :-/

However, for those interested in model package loading automation, I started a section on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/d1ulg/automatic_mode..., may be I'm wrong...

Sorry for bothering you...
Have you configured many IPSec connections? It's a fricking pain in the rear. Nothing is every compatible "out of the box" and there are so many knobs to tweak and configure. Which is probably part of why everyone just uses SSL anymore, even for VPN's.
The point is that Cape Town is African and beautiful and provides a unique vantage point from which to observe the world.

More directly, Africa's juxtaposition of financial poverty and spiritual wealth, can teach humility and offer perspective.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happen to them all.
Interesting idea and like the landing page aesthetic. iPhone app in the works?

You may also want to check out Philo (www.playphilo.com) in addition to Miso. Philo just closed its seed funding from Northbridge and DFJ Gotham.

Good luck.
Oddly enough, this may be because the bulk of what happens in multiplayer gaming can be considered "youthful indiscretions".
From what I've read the main behavioral changes are dropping a grade point, falling out with friends, misbehaving in school or increased truancy.

During my day (I'm 22) this was called "falling in with a bad crowd".

For the actual medical symptoms, these are so average run-of-the-mill symptoms that it shouldn't be randomly attributed to wifi. I know in my school my greatest cause of nausea was fresh paint, a stink bomb going off or bad food in the caf.

IMO these parents are ignoring the simplest and most obvious answer: their kids are being kids and their illnesses are them trying to skip school. I had my fair share of nausea when new games came out; I even had a bout of 'nausea' during college when I picked up the Firefly box set (I'm from the UK, never saw it on TV but had a mega-huge recommendation from someone I trusted), I watched 1/4 of the first episode before I called in sick.
I'd be offering quite a limited service - not some sort of anti-libel service. We'd just get streamlined at removing specific software from specific websites, and then go to those developers and say 'Hey, we can prevent people stealing your stuff.'
i really don't like any aspect of this at all. so, my encryption is not guartanteed, i don't know if it's working, it doesn't cover all network traffic, and isn't shipped by default with any operating systems. i'm never going to use this and i'm never going to recommend it to anyone for any purpose. (sorry, i drank a jug of haterade this morning)
true, true - and that might be a strong argument to use a specialist.
Can we rename it "Jenny McCarthy Whooping Cough"?
Creativity Demands Space
Is there a problem?
It's an interesting question. I agree with you that this will the number of (relative) successes. Someone will probably point out that this approach would preclude certain historical investments which turned out to be very important, but those kinds of high risk investors will always be around. This idea is well suited for the VCs currently struggling to not lose money.
The stuff that matters has already been secured. It looks like tcpcrypt is designed to encrypt everything else.
What stack discipline would you use for translating business rules written in pseudo-English sentences to prolog?

Compiler construction != native machine code generation.
The article makes three main points:

1. The Japanese were hoping to reach a more favorable peace by USSR mediation.

2. Manchuria and Korea were providing essential resources for Japan's war economy.

3. Furthermore, after the USSR war declaration, Japan stood at risk of losing the island of Hokkaido for good, if they prolonged resistance.

You're not really addressing any of these points, except (tangentially) the last. Regarding that, the Soviet Pacific Fleet was certainly strong enough (and had plans) to mount an amphibious invasion of Japanese-held islands:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_Landing_Operation
I spent the last 3 months living in a tent in the mountains of New Mexico. Between my laptop and my cell phone's tethering, there was no issue at all getting work done. And it was an incredible experience.

If you were willing to move to warmer climates during the winter you could do this all year no problem.
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My research focuses on the human genetics of lipoproteins (casually referred to as cholesterol, though in truth they are soluble cholesterol-fatty-acid-protein-vitamin globs). I'm happy to address questions people may have on this.

Though he makes some true statements, I feel that his thrust is misleading, and I'll plan to expand on this in another post. For example, you do need cholesterol to transport fat-soluble vitamins (K,A,D,E) - but the amount of cholesterol that you need is so extremely miniscule that there is no way, short of a Mendelian lipid disorder, to get your cholesterol low enough to worry about vitamin transport.
You might like Steven Rambam's traditional "Privacy is dead, get over it" talks on the HOPE conferences.

http://wiki.hope.net/Main_Page in the middle of the bottom is a list of the conferences, click through and then on "talks", you will find recordings there. I listened to 2 or 3 and things repeat but they are still always refreshing and fun (and a bit over the top ;) ).