skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the motivation for requiring a plea of not guilty before going to trial, apart from saving the court time and money? Why not default to a trial in all cases, allow the defendant to stop the trial by pleading guilty, but ensure that not pleading guilty is never seen as being unremorseful?
This is like the opinion that Apple should license their OS and allow 3rd party hardware manufacturers to create Mac clones. Or that they should create a low cost Mac to compete with cheap PCs. This is not their strength. What makes you think they will succeed in a new market segment when they are tanking at what they used to be good at?
> I don't think it's in their interests for this movement to succeed in the business world.

I have to agree with you on that, but I don't think they would go that far to tarnish the image of other cloud providers.

Right now, just about every other cloud service can offer better uptime numbers than Microsoft.
I'm one of the people that suggested cycling there.

A few points:

* Post a better answer. If others agree it's better it'll get upvoted and go higher on the page.

* The question itself has essentially no details. Current problems? Things they've tried? What they might like? What kind of chair they sit in. No hints at all.

* You're prematurely optimizing. Many programmers and other computer professionals sit inside at a desk all day and get no exercise. Almost anything at all that gets them moving is an improvement. The top answer is pretty much "get outside and do any exercise" with suggestions for some of the more accessible choices. Most of those are more likely than getting somebody to go to a gym or doing more complicated specific exercises. Once they start doing any exercise at all you can worry about the specifics of which and how much, etc.

* Part of the suggestion was commuting by bicycle, so replacing time sitting in a car or on a bus with time riding a bicycle

* Cycling with good posture uses your glutes and increases (or at least requires) hip flexor and hamstring flexibility. Uses much of the core muscles in the back that many programmers have problems with.

The stationary bikes pictured in one of your links don't look like they allow a proper cycling posture at all. They're set up for people that don't know how to ride a bike right so that they don't put too much weight on their hands. You might be right about 2 hours pedaling away on one of those.

Definitely very anecdotal, but I work in an office with a decent percentage of bicycle commuters. The cyclists aren't the ones that keep having back problems. (it's the ones that don't exercise at all, or don't stick with exercise)
Yeah that's seems correct. You won't receive a message until you're both online. We use it here at work for interstate chat and it works well as we have our work machines on 24/7. So logging in from a laptop off site will sync the messages. Note that the read status doesn't get synced.
Well in my opinion the article is pretty much a no brainer. Does anyone in business really need to be told this though?
So because x pounds of punishment wasn't a deterrent, we are to believe that x times two pounds of punishment will be? Why not, instead, work toward inspiring people to strive to do good, rather than punishing them into fearing to do evil?
I also agree that spending on RAM will get you more bang for the buck - speeding up the inherently slow paging process before trying to prevent it in the first place doesn't really make sense, especially considering that a RAM upgrade will likely be cheaper.

I recently spec'd and built a new machine including a 110Gb PCIe SSD. As expected, it's pretty impressive for the low latency but it is also expensive and there's a couple of points worth mentioning about the general experience:

What I have noticed is that at these limited sizes, it's not long before your SSD volumes are maxed out and you end up having to choose and manage the datasets that reside on it - so a new PITA to deal with.

What also surprised me is that the technology was still a bit flaky - I had to tweak not only my BIOS but Windows 7 to use it reliably.

Even when that was sorted out, the flaky impression was reinforced when I tried some conservative RAM overclocking on the i7 Extreme - to find that I was starting to get FS corruption issues. So I now have a bank of fast RAM running at some fraction of their potential in deference to retaining FS integrity.

I'm not sure whether these issues are a result of the engineering required to address the SSD over PCIe - maybe SSD's accessed over SATA don't suffer the same issues.

So SSD is promising but not there yet.
So data parallel constructs like parallel for loops can work with GPUs? I mean not just in theory but can the current implementations program GPUs?
Well, I can understand why they critic the police strategy, this would never get this out of control in most countries.
The author doesn't understand PyPy, which is kinda disappointing because it gives him the impression that Python doesn't have any strong JIT implementations available. (Or perhaps he doesn't like admitting that PyPy does really well on his benchmarks!)
"Do you really think that a higher tax rate will stop an entrepreneur from creating a company"

No, but more likely to sell early, give up more easily when the going gets tough, not invest as much in growth (and pocket the profits)... Yes. This is all about decisions "on the margin." It's truly a canard to suggest, as you do, that incentives don't matter.

"there was also a reason why there were bloody revolutions against the aristocratic class"

Please. Would you rather make $70k/yr today or $70k in 1900. Let's not pretend the pie is smaller today for those in middle or even bottom.
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I'm talking about the title on my blog site, not on this site. By fixed width, I mean that when you resize the browser it does not compress the size of that block of text, and so doesn't wrap/unwrap in that process. When I do zoom/unzoom it doesn't wrap/unwrap for me either.
just a friendly reminder that Google Apps had a 99.984% up-time last year.
Miami court deals huge setback to Motorola Mobility's defense against Microsoft
He's mostly smoking funny stuff: He's talking applications of optimization. Okay. Optimization contributes problems, e.g., integer linear programming, in set NP-complete only if one insists on exact optimality down to the last tiny fraction of a penny of cost in the worst problems that can occur, even in principle, in execution time that grows no faster than a polynomial in the size of the problem. That's a LOT of very special and quite unrealistic context.

E.g., it's not the least bit clear that finance needs to attack the worst case problems. Even if so, finance, anywhere close to reality, doesn't need to get solutions that save all of the last tiny fraction of a penny.

If relax worst case problems and saving the last tiny fraction of a penny, then the situation is MUCH different. E.g., once I got a feasible solution to an ILP with 40,000 constraints and 600,000 variables within 0.025% of optimality on a 90 MHz Intel processor in 905 seconds. More generally, here's an easy approach to the ILP problems: Just drop the integer constraints, solve with LP, and then round to integer values. For the LP solution, if insist, then use a polynomial LP solver. Crude? Sometimes. Always crude? No.

He's making a common mistake: He's assuming that because in general ILP is in NP-complete that good work on all practical ILP problems has to be too challenging, and that's nonsense.
API usage has been mainly driven by one huge set of extensions, namely http://smarterfox.com/. So while more people start using our API, a ton would have to use it to move that needle.

The graph is annotated (though sometimes it doesn't come up). The major uptick in Jan was due to the donttrack.us site and the associated billboard and its associated press (a couple weeks after). You can see it in the daily #s very clearly if you scroll down.
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Is there something like this for Europe?
Do you even really need S3 if you're just serving up static pages?

A $5/mo web host or a VPS slice would probably be overkill - you're not hitting a database at all.
You are right -- we would very much like to cultivate a tight-nit community. At the same time, we'd like to go mainstream as well, and we hope the community will help us do so.
I kinda wish there were ways to add URLs to an extant thread rather than starting new threads with URLs. Because, for fuck's sake, this is like the fourth link on this boring topic.
anyone know of any tutorials to create this type of JavaScript? it looks fantastic
That's right. A couple of other data points. a) Ask/AOL also don't have crawlers and have significant share. b) There are a few places to get a decent base page rank feed now, and it appears to be increasing.
Suuuuuuuuuure.
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Bunchify beta requests are live.
10% down is not "like a rock."

Can we not editorialize when editing titles?
I don't have an easy straightforward answer for you. We focus on a few things wrt to algo: 1) figuring out the best sources to deliver for instant answers/0-click info; 2) removing useless sites; 3) trying to detect "context" a bit from the query and make results match it as best we can, which also fits into 1).
Requests/sec is not a good benchmark, especially considering how node.js handles streaming.

For example, if he tested a 1 meg stream of chunked data being served on request, the node.js numbers would be very different.
I suppose talking is a social skill. But eliminating stuttering is a rather tangible goal to works towards.

Being well liked among your coworkers and enjoying their company instead of dreading it everyday is a little bit too ineffable to work on.
Indeed -- we should be getting a lot better at this over time. Thx for the feedback.
Cops are human, and thus vulnerable to exploitation. Do you seriously think that some gang leader somewhere doesn't have local police radios given to him by cops on his payroll?

Periodic rekeying is like physical inventory or periodic password changes -- it helps you identify compromised assets.
If you get a some preliminary rulings go your way it strengthens your bargaining position.
I could not imagine a better job.
Actually that was my fault. I had just switched off the redirect of allthingsdistributed.com to www.allthingsdistributed.com and as such you ended up at the old MT installation. That is now corrected.

You are correct; to map to an S3 bucket you need a CNAME. But DNS doesn't allow the apex to be a CNAME so you will need to redirect that. Route53 solves that for EC2 with the help of ELB. But there is no such solution for S3 (yet).

I am using the www subdomain as much as possible, so the redirect only happens if a visitor actually types in the apex name, in all other cases they will get where they need to be directly. But I agree that it would be better to solve this at a different level.

Launch and then iterate...
Comments to this post seem largely divided between people who identify heavily with their employment and people who identify heavily with their activity. For the former, unemployment is terrible. For the latter, it's merely a financial issue.
A big component missing here is location within a city. Having been in DC and Boston, they're on the edge of buy/rent, but a big question is could I live in the same neighborhoods or areas as I rent. If I can't, it's worth renting even if buying might be better because it's closer to where I want to be.
I felt this a couple of days ago when I couldn't intuitively see something that I thought I should. Luckily, after a while, I tried reducing my vague confusion into specific questions, and answering each, one by one... which revealed more to the thing than I thought there was. No wonder I couldn't see it - that concept didn't exist.

I also simplified the problem, discarding issues of implementation efficiency and convenience/ease of use of the user model, and any tricky wrinkles that complicated it, to reduce it to something I could see. Being able to see that has given me a base to understand the other issues. I've noticed that some specifications use this approach: they have a very detailed underlying conceptual model, then add a convenience model on top. e.g. XPath specification (crazy ancestor, descendant, sibling etc axis -> defaults to descendant so you can just use unix-like paths).

I used to be much better at seeing things... but thinking back, my key characteristic at that time was to embrace not knowing things, embrace mistakes and learn. I was also working on areas that were built directly on top of existing models and approaches... whereas now, I'm developing the theoretical foundation as well. There's a kind of exponential explosion, with so many different and interacting choices at every turn. In some ways, an intuitive/insight approach is necessary, as exhaustively trying each alternative is not feasible.

tangent: In Breakfast at Tiffany's (the movie, not the story), there's some discussion over whether Audrey Hepburn's character is a "phony", but I never understood what they meant in that context. She's beautiful - how can that be phony? Or maybe that she's pretending to be urbane when she's rural?
That's not social ineptitude. That's malicious behavior and destruction of property. There is a difference. Please don't conflate the two.
Just to update, I committed this afternoon the license, everything is Apache 2.0. Thanks for reminding me of it.
... or until you can rent it out, which in many markets is a fairly easy thing to do.
It's really both. To the extent that people are switching to us from Google, that is clearly competition and our goal is to get people to use us as their primary search engine. However, a lot of what we do is very complementary to people who have a general crawl.
The trouble with working asynchronously is that you're relying on everyone to contribute their knowledge diligently. Github has a great culture and this works well for them. In places where it doesn't, brief standup-like meetings help get everyone on the same page at least once a day - a chance to say 'sup.

The goal isn't to decide on anything, just to let everyone know where you're at.
Anywhere I can find stats on that? I'm curious to see what the actual breakdown is.
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You've gone 15 years without ever having the misfortune of being stuck in an environment where all you could do was think about how boring what you're doing is (and, quite possibly, how incompetent those around you are). You've spent 15 years challenging yourself, doing (I presume) interesting things.

Ordinarily I'd put some pithy seven-worder here about how lucky you are and how "motivational speakers" probably shit their pants just looking at you, but I honestly can't think of one that's good enough. Sorry, man :)
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So? What does that have to do with what we're actually talking about?
Offer HN: Get Equity in Our Startup If You Can Help Us Get Traction
Like any start-up, it can be tough to get any significant traction. So, we are offering equity to someone that might have the resources/connections to help us get forum owners to add their forum to Agalanche, a forum aggregator. The equity is front loaded and tapers off as more forums are added to Agalanche. There are already 7 forums on Agalanche, so 93 more to go to reach 1.0% equity.

The Fine Print
-- The equity is vested when a certain number of forums are aggregating:
-- 100 forums = 1.0%; 250 forums = 2.0%; 500 forums = 2.5%; 750 forums = 3.0%
-- The forums that are added should be established forums (at least a thousand topics/threads or so) and not forums you just created
-- The added forums should have low spam content
-- We cannot afford a lawyer to write up a special document, so hopefully a dated/signed/notarized letter should be sufficient for the equity agreement
-- We are not looking for someone to copy/paste Agalanche onto every single forum/website in existence because that doesn't make a good impression.

As another option, if you (or a company) own several larger forums that are established with active users we could also extend an equity option to you if you added all your forums.

http://beta.agalanche.com
Though the taxes are tax deductible, unlike rent. I moved out of a 2br apartment to a large 4br home where my mortgage and taxes are slightly higher than my rent was, but after tax deductions, I'll end up paying less. Being self-employed, I need all the deductions I can get, anyway.
Regarding the platform: I don't know how relevant it is, but Minecraft was written in Java. Android apps are normally written in Java. Maybe this was simply the path of least resistance?
Cellphones and other out of band communications make police encryption a joke anyway. Anything really sensitive or controversial will be communicated via phone to avoid being recorded anyway.

The real reason for police agencies wanting encrypted voice traffic is to be less transparent, especially from the press. Modern government wants information to be dribbled out from the PR office.
Slashdot's wrapper commentary hasn't been clever in quite some time, unfortunately. I had a very low uid there, and witnessed the decline firsthand. Count me in as someone concerned about editorialized headlines at HN -- I really don't want to see it go the same direction as /.
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If the rekeying protocol is performed over the air, how does rekeying help in your corrupt cop/gang leader scenario? Wouldn't the gang leader's radio get the new keys along with all the other radios?
I find the cultural differences with respect to home ownership fascinating.

In the US, people often own their own homes. Rarely do they own homes that other people live in. Apartments are typically owned a single owner/landlord (condos are different). Owning is a common dream, less so in cities (particularly New York).

In the UK, home ownership and the property market is an obsession. It is a common topic of conversation. People are heavily invested in their properties and often seek to buy more of them. There is a strong attitude of "if I don't buy now I'll never be able to afford to live here", particularly in London and the Southeast (less so now I suspect). The North and West are somewhat different. The market is highly speculative.

In Switzerland, the property market is essentially controlled. There is little real estate speculation. Transaction costs are high. Capital gains taxes on properties can be brutal, which strongly discourages speculation. Renting is not frowned upon. For tax reasons, people often buy houses and never pay them off. In Switzerland you get a tax exemption for interest but you also get deemed income from the effective rent the property is worth.

In Australia, owning one's house is a cultural obsession. People often end up owning multiple properties. There are few apartment buildings owned by one owner (it's much more like the American condo system).

I think of all the systems I've personally experienced, I like the Swiss system the most. It treats property as something you need to live not a financial instrument to speculate on.

That system isn't applicable everywhere however. Switzerland is unique in that it is fairly affluent, has a small population and very restrictive immigration. So somewhere like the US has >40 times the population so even excluding immigration, domestic movements of people can be incredibly large creating market pressures in places like New York that Switzerland will simply never experience.

Some years ago I saw an article (I'm sadly unable to find but the topic is covered elsewhere in depth) in the UK which showed that the rate of home ownership was inversely proportional to economic growth. The idea was that home ownership reduces labour market flexibility (which it clearly does). I don't know if the trend still holds up.

In Australia for example a family home can easily cost $1 million in Sydney. If the household income is $200,000 and that family wishes to move to, say, Melbourne and buy a new house they'll pay $20-50,000 in realtor fees and $50,000+ in stamp duty on buying the new house so they need to make back nearly $100,000 of after-tax income just to break even.

Sadly stamp duty is a cash cow for state governments in Australia so isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Yet I think it's a real problem. Transaction costs need to be relatively low. Financing requirements need to be relatively to limit rampant speculation, particularly in overheated markets.
Yes. The entire concept of cryptanalysis revolves around cost factors. It is very relevant when a new avenue of attack costs more than brute force in its best known mode of implementation.

That doesn't make the research a dead end, but it further reduces the relevance of this work to engineers.
Would any of the founders reading this care to post about the traffic bump the Time story brought?
Do you like the arts? I find it completely uninteresting.

Why, particularly, does your girlfriend have to understand the beauty of Computer Science? Just keep making cool, useful, possibly world changing shit, and I'm sure she'll see the beauty there!
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Right, because everybody knows that taking a mother away from her children for five months to punish her for accepting a pair of pants that she didn't steal is justice.

</sarcasm>

Really, I hope you have receipts for every item you've ever received from someone else.

Sure, these riots are wrong on many levels but this is totally disproportionate.
speaking about value of anonymity on Facebook in particular and on the Internet in general...

People pay dearly for the lack (or disregard?) of basic skills and practices (anonymity, wireless, encryption, route through server in another country, etc...) of how to exercise freedom of speech even in the countries where such freedom is known to not even be guaranteed by law, like Britain or Libya.
If you look on Isotope's site, we're just using a StraightDown layout, not filtering anything, and animating the dots within each div individually.

Can't speak to the job growth numbers methodology as they come from SimplyHired.com
Well, how you interpret whether or not what we don't know will occur next can still be considered a fact depends on your core worldview (e.g., compatibilism, deterministic, fatalistic, etc.).

I subscribe to the belief that there are four types of knowledge and beliefs: ontological subjectivity, ontological objectivity, epistemological subjectivity, and epistemological objectivity. Various thoughts can be categorized into each one of these depending on what is being expressed.
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The total cost to the industry of adopting AES was enormous. That implies that deprecating it would at present impose costs that far outweigh the benefits, because replacing AES will be expensive, and there are at present minimal practical benefits to doing so. Remember, plenty of critical systems have been fielded that rely on RC4 and DES-EDE, both of which are also (for all intents and purposes) unbroken in their most common usage.

For Hacker News, the far more important thing to point out is that no matter what block cipher you use, you are never going to get burnt by research like this, but you are almost certain to be completely boned by implementation errors.
Yep. I compared it to a redirection of angst:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/21/fanboyism-when-expression-m...
There's rioting for the sake of a rebellion, hopefully leading to a revolution. Then there's rioting for the sake of looting and causing damage, nothing more.
No idea if it's suitable for your particular purpose, but Unity is a 3D game engine that's pretty cross-platform. No doubt the licenses are pricy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28game_engine%29