skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so is the paper that describes this available for free anywhere? the trail of links from that page ends at http://apl.aip.org/resource/1/applab/v98/i23/p231103_s1?isAu...

update - similar article (free) from same people http://www.opticsinfobase.org/view_article.cfm?gotourl=http%... (source http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-19-21-2... )

[it seems like this is actually a big deal - they are getting huge throughput]
The two are not mutually exclusive. You can have both. He chose "at risk", you can invest in "the gifted". He chose not for profit, you can chose for profit.
I presume you are referring to your own comment here, because when you strip away the insults, the mixed metaphors and the cliche, you are saying a whole lot of nothing. Why bother even posting it.
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Do you know of any guides to do this? Are you aware of any free software to convert the image data into a usable stream of random data?
I'm sure if you have to pay more for labour then expensive automation becomes a lot more worthwhile. You'd have fewer workers to pay more to.
He passed on many ideas, just to come back two weeks later to the same people with just the same idea and pitching it as the greatest thing known to man.

Just because he considered it shit once dies not mean that he wouldn't change his opinion later.
Wow, this would make me feel so betrayed if I was a customer.
I very much like the space. It makes the ui feel more calm and less noisy.

But even more I like this #usesforwhitespace meme that is going on right now:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23usesforwhitespace/posts

Some fun ideas in there.
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Also used the coprocessor emulator for 3D Studio, nearly had forgot how that went till I read this post. Now I work on two quad core workstations and some stuff needs to go to a render farm in the states. What a flashback. :)
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He specifically said it wasn't ads.
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After the massive number of submissions regarding notch's new game I am in awe, you see I'm a CRUD guy and I've always been fascinated by emulators since I discovered NeoRageX and MAME back in the early 00's, they have always been like magic to me. Sadly I am too stupid to understand the code of even the most basic emulators you can find online, I always figured people who made emulators are just geniuses.

This is why I am shocked to see the number of people that have come up with emulators, compilers and OS's for this CPU that does not even exist yet...are these people geniuses or am I even stupider than I thought I was? How are these people doing it? How can I learn this?

Honestly I'm sick of the CRUD I feel I cannot program anything beyond this, my dream has always been to create a NeoGeo Emulator in Java, since it's the language I use everyday and because there are no NeoGeo Emulators in Java.

If anyone can point me in the right direction on how to get a basic emulator running and to understand the basics of emulator programming with practical examples I would really appreciate it...
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Psychology. It's massively easier to get someone to agree to donate a portion of a future windfall they may receive in the future than it is to get them to donate hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars after they cash out.
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This seems like a propaganda video for Apple (not Foxconn because no one in the west cares what Foxconn does). I'd like to believe it though...
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"oh noes. Not this poo again. Save money, and do the following.
- Get a high res webcam - Open it up and remove the filters. - Hook up the device. - From time to time you'll see random white dots appear.
There you have your ultra cheap random number generator."

It would seem that this method would be muchmore expensive and time consuming than a simple web query.
How precisely would this save me money?
How can a TPM provide as "real" random values as a quantum vacuum? (or cosmic rays, or anything else very much random in nature)
I overwhelmingly disagree. The number two limiting factor on philanthropy is that, despite good intentions, people just don't actually get around to it. Giving away 1% at startup-start is a supremely good suggestion just because it means something will actually happen. If my host nonprofit had $100 for everyone who heard of us and thought it was a good idea and plans to donate to us "someday", it would probably work out to around a million dollars.

(The number one limiting factor is the lack of any efficient market in utilons. See Givewell and Giving What We Can for optimal philanthropy background.)
Can anyone explain how this works? The entropy key site says "The Entropy Key contains two high-quality noise generators, and an ARM Cortex CPU that actively measures, checks and confirms all generated random numbers, before encrypting them and sending them to the server"... but why can't we just write high-quality noise generators in software? How is the hardware better?
You shouldn't trust yourself, because the outside view is that most people don't get around to it. Give 1% at start; you can always give more later.
Can we have a list of startups that are doing this? Quixey would be on it, and I'm pretty sure there's one or two others I've heard of, but I don't remember offhand.
I often play the grumpy old technology curmudgeon role but you've handily outdone me here. Well played, sir!

I used to play Elite too and, while it had some unique qualities, it wouldn't compete with any of the better modern titles for my attention now.
All works of the US government have to be public domain AFAIR. It's great.
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Meanwhile, The US is doing its best to regresss to those times. Frankly, the stories about conditions for workers in order fulfillment warehouses seem on par with the worst stories out of China (the workers are obviously paid more) http://motherjones.com/rights-stuff/2011/09/amazon-warehouse...
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In the USA, thankfully, all federally made data is public domain. In other countries, it's not. It's terrible.
I wonder if using a simplified explanation in anyway voids the actual TOS.
Interesting. Still nothing about the ridiculous Mercator projection.
It says "near-real time", which is really just a synonym for "fast".
Canada law is weird. They have "Crown copyright"

I don't know about Canada, but the UK has 'crown copyright', and it's essentially the same as regular copyright, but the copyright is owned by the government. Places without a crown still have governments that have copyright.

There some weird things, The King James Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Peter Pan stories are under perpetual unending copyright. (Well Peter Pan will go public domain when the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital ceases to exist)
Because you can't get really random number from deterministic hardware (and computers are deterministic, more or less :) ). No matter what you do, running the same algorithm on the same input gives you the same data on regular computer. And the randomness (measured in Kolmogorov complexity [1] of the resulting string) is by definition smaller than the length of the generator program.

And truly random string is such string, that there's no possible program producing this string as output, that is shorter than the string.

On deterministic computers you can only produce pseudorandom numbers, with varying quality of randomness, depending on generator program you use, but it's sometimes not enough (esp. in cryptography).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
In a cooperative that's true, but in a capitalist corporation, the equity is owned by whoever owns it, who can dispose of it as they see fit (barring any shareholder agreements preventing certain sales). It's not like Zuckerberg is going to give his Facebook IPO capital gains to his employees, or reinvest them in the business; he's going to put them in his personal bank/brokerage account. If he had donated 1% of the equity to a charity 5 years ago, the only thing that would be different is that his personal account would have 1% less of Facebook stock in it. None of the employees or the other shareholders would be affected.

When it comes to companies spending on things that their employees might find morally repulsive, I think political contributions are a much bigger problem than charity donations. Especially since those actually come from the company's revenues, rather than being taken out of an owner's equity--- I would have much less problem with political contributions if they were donations of stock by the company's owner, rather than checks written out of the corporate budget.

In any case, the most likely thing that 1% would go into if it weren't donated, in the case of startup success, is just luxury goods/travel for the founders. Do you really think a private jet for the founder is morally superior to donating to charity? What if some of the employees are morally opposed to private jets (e.g. on environmentalist grounds)?
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Agreed, I imagine this will not go over well with 500px users. You would think 500px would respect the IP savvy of artists and avoid (perhaps) patronizing them.
Ipod nano with rubber band looks better than this product, unfortunately. The bezel is too wide, and it shold also be squareish (like the Ipod).
In a way, it already is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

If anything, this pledge is just trying to invoke one percentage of empathy in the mind of this sociopath.
There's so much missing from this video, most obviously the metal polishing steps which saw the deadly explosion last year due to inadequate ventilation.
I think it's the same as many other services from Amazon. It's the fact that you don't have to maintain it yourself. You use their APIs and it works. I don't know if you've ever tried to setup a search engine yourself but it can be a relative pain in the ass, especially if you want to do it at a large scale.

This service provides a search engine that gets you up and going very fast, especially if you don't know how to do it. I haven't tried it yet but if it saves me time and it's relatively full featured, then I'm going to use it for sure.
And I would like to add that in places where people added addresses they are usually much more accurate and detailed than Google's.
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Not only that, but last I heard MS Office does not currently implement the standard entirely correctly...
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I was under the impression that you can't copyright facts.

It depends.

In some places you can copyright a database of facts. In some places you cannot copyright a database of facts. In some places you need to do some 'creative act' to get copyright, some places use a 'sweat of the brow' rule (i.e. that you have expanded some effort, even if it's not creative). It gets coplicated.
I thought Perl was not? At least 5.14 isn't.
Pure software-based random generators are deterministic and thus not random.

When something is deterministic, it is reproducible and therefore not good for creating crypto keys.

Most /dev/random implementations use data from the ethernet driver, the keyboard, mouse etc to get some input which isn't easy to reproduce.
I consider memorizing multiplication table as caching, and find it incredibly useful when doing mental computations.

There is a distinction to be made when discussing 'rote learning'. It's always better to understand than to memorize, but there is a case to be made for memorizing some (more mundane) information as an optimization.
"Do you know of any guides to do this? Are you aware of any free software to convert the image data into a usable stream of random data?"

Look into LavaRnd [1][2][3][4].

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[2] LavaRnd Process in Detail: http://www.lavarnd.org/what/process.html

[3] Construction of a LavaCan: http://www.lavarnd.org/what/can-details.html

[4] Source code (open source): http://www.lavarnd.org/download/index.html
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Software is deterministic, so it is not really possible to generate noise. There are non-deterministic parts of software (for example, thread interaction in concurrent systems), but this is just observable behavior of hardware effects.

The typical thing people do to get large amounts of randomness is to first generate some "real" random noise from some source (hardware thingamajigs, network timings, user interactions) and extrapolate these into longer sequences of random-looking numbers. The extrapolation can be fast and simple (in which case the randomness is not so good), or it can be slow and complex (to get decent looking randomness).
While you're right it is an easy to make mistake with decorators, I don't think the issue is global mutable state as much as uncontrolled mutable state, especially if used against singleton.

Typically, doing this:

@register
def foo():
….

is bad, but this is much better:

@registry.register
def foo():
…

if registry is a global object that is not a singleton. In that case, you can easily use distinct registries (for testing, etc…) and this is not much of an issue in practice. Another way of doing this kind of things is to post_pone the registration, with the decorator just labelling things:

@register
def foo():
…

def register(f):
return WrappedFunc(f)

and then build an explicit list of modules being imported, and look for every instance of WrappedFunc in that module locals(). I use this in my own packaging project where people can define multiple python scripts that hook into different stages of the packaging.
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>> morals should be left to individuals rather than businesses

Good enough description for the state of world.

It's easy for the individuals that make business decisions to ignore morality since you are cutting them the slack.

Ignore the fact that business "morals" have much broader impact than the morals of any indivual.

Enter BP, Exxon, Monsanto, Tabaco COs, everyone on this list very limited list: http://corporatecrimereporter.com/top100.html.

Sure, businesses don't need to account for morality.

Just to clarify, I'm probably taking what you said a bit out of the context, but I think it's worth pointing out nonetheless since you phrased it that way.
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You seem to think that the total amount of charitable donations is all important. More is better, seems to be your argument, regardless of where that money goes, where it comes from or what it is spent on. What if all that money went to a charity you disagree with, say one that promotes eugenics?

My argument is: leave charitable giving to individuals - individuals can choose their own charities or not to give anything. That seems far more democratic to me. It may be that this will result in less charitable donations overall but at least the money will be going to organisations individuals support.
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Last I checked, Sphinx had a huge design flaw in that it indexed directly from an SQL database. In other words, your Sphinx configuration not only needs to have read access to the database, it needs to contain the required SQL queries.

This tightly couples Sphinx to your application and your schema, and creates serious issues for your ops team since every app change potentially needs to modify the Sphinx config. It gets particularly hairy when you want to host multiple applications using a single Sphinx daemon.

We started out with Sphinx for our apps but quickly discarded it in favour of ElasticSearch, a much more elegant and orthogonal piece of software.
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Quake was, IIRC, the first mass market game which used the floating point unit. 486SX owners just couldn't run it. It also suffered more than most games on 486es and non-Intel chips, since the Pentium FPU was streets ahead of any other x86 chip at the time.

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Yeah, I have always wondered why community bulletin boards don't come with a TOS, but internet bulletin boards do.

Someone puts a cork board up in a rec center, they don't feel the need to inform people that they are not resonsible for the content. What is the legal situation on the internet that makes people think they need to do this?

Is it just herd mentality or is there a legal reason why you have to tell people that if they post child pornography that you will delete it?
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The Extensible Reader is really the next step in terms of a common extensible data exchange format. Atm everybody builds this himself for his application, this commes with alot of wheel reinvention. Make it extensible is the first step to find out whats most used. People can find each other and creat common abstractions.
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What are you talking about? The use of the third person singular gender-neutral "they" is very specific. It's just convenient. In fact, I wish English had a different word instead of recycling "they", which is technically a third person plural pronoun. I don't stop using he or she.
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According to http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2009/10/22/tpm-as-rng/#..., TPM may even be using PRNGs. So you're right that the quality of output need not be better than what a modern OS already provides. (I am not aware of any case where a properly-used /dev/random failed to produce sufficient entropy. Note that doing something sensible at boot is part of "properly-used" here.)

It is possible to provide true randomness from a chip, but it's probably cheaper not to.
Alternatively, doubling the tax usually works fine. At least in places where the tax is 7.5%.
Pretty simple. You want random numbers for security.
If you want security, you should not trust a third party. Only yourself.
If you have to generate random numbers yourself; I just provided you a cheap solution.
Those would be SMTP codes. I don't see why it's hard not to understand that "your message was not delivered to this user". The traceback should probably be sent to the postmaster rather than back to the user, but that's an anachronism of the mail servers, which were built back in a time when all email users were technical.
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It seems likely that the owners of the business will face miscellaneous internet judgement no matter what they choose to do with their business.

I don't mean to direct that at you, I mean that there seems to be plenty of actual disagreement on the issue and that there is plenty of room for such disagreement.
Hasn't Via done something similar?

Since we have millions of transistors in our systems couldn't they (their collectors) be used to generate "truly" random numbers?
You just explained the problem yourself. Companies put cash and profits over causes and people. The "1% of Nothing" initiative is only encouraging founders to invest a percentage of this cash to a philanthropic cause. If I understand correctly, employees and other shareholder equity will remain unaffected. Furthermore, if they don't believe in the company's philanthropic efforts, they are still free to work or invest elsewhere.
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I'm not a lawyer, but I have been through the process of litigating a contract in court.

The law does cover this. Contracts are about a meeting of the minds. Do both parties understand and agree to the terms. Things like email, other written communication about the contract or terms are all reviewed at trial. It's amazing how much of the "sneaky" verbage just get thrown out or ignored as unreasonable or not understood.
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If you don't want to build your own generator, random.org provides a service like the ANU Quantum Random Number Server, i.e. provision of unique sets of true random numbers by http request, but generated from atmospheric noise. There's a convenience R package "random" I often use for this purpose. The articles on the website are quite edifying regarding the art and science of random numbers generally. Here's a link to the interface documentation: http://www.random.org/clients/http/