skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. In fact, it's the government's job to respond to a joke petition as a serious petition. Maybe we all want a Death Star?
Hear, hear, Justice Stewart. [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
Why isn't this enabled by default? And why does it work in such a shitty way (with a popup protruding over the browser window)?
A shock collar. Seriously.
It's clearly a reference to Danielle's original blog post. He wanted to format his title "Why i won't be..." and "closing down betapunch" must have been the first thing that came to mind. I'm sure such an overwhelmingly negative (and popular) blog post calling out your company as kind of shitty makes you consider shutting down when you're a small operation.
While there are jokes within the response, I do not believe this to be a "joke response". The points he makes are good, and the call to action regarding careers in math and science is a fantastic way to handle a response likely to be read by 14-16 year olds throughout the reaches of the internet.

Paul Shawcross is still a long way from making amends for what he's done to help cripple our human space flight program, however.
Apple Rumored To Be Testing Foxconn Subsidiary's Touch Panels For Next iPad mini
Pros and Cons of Gmail's New Compose Feature
It's possible there's some SEO strategery going on here, too. </conspiracy>
No, because prisons are places you can't kick people out of (as that would defeat their entire purpose). If students are committing acts of physical violence, send them to juvy hall. Problem solved.
I may not have picked the best wording, but basically I'm agreeing that overall the disparity is very high. The upside is that games like Man City v Man U or Real Madrid v Barcelona end up being very entertaining.
Perhaps in much the same way that McDonalds is one of the most successful restaurants in the world.
I'm in San Diego too. Do yourself a favor and switch to ATT Uverse Internet. ATT (maximum) gives you a consistent 3MBps versus Time Warners (maximum) 6MBps that averages closer to 1MBps.
Netflix, for one, can lessen their compression which is actually pretty apparent if you pay attention. You see artifacts everywhere and it looks nowhere as good as the HD torrents that I could get.

Also, transferring files between servers would be less painful. Syncing between servers always takes me a minute or two at least and completely throws off my coding flow. Instead of choosing to host it locally and fix things on the server, I could just quickly sync files and fix things on there.
Microsoft's Holiday Disaster: PC Sales Shrank For The First Time In 5 Years
Paving the Way For Open Source Weaponry
Why must Lenovo reach a roughly 10% share in each of the target markets to achieve long-term profitability?

"He vows to keep investing, regardless of returns, until the firm reaches a roughly 10% share in each of the target markets. Only with such scale is long-term profitability possible, he insists."
This sounds really interesting, but the pdf is huge. Is there a TL;DR of this?
This is actually not a bad idea.

Or something similar but maybe even better: Set up a cross-ISP subsidy program. Whoever has the fastest connections in the country receives a subsidy and whoever has the slowest connections has to pay it. Don't even put bandwidth numbers in -- just rank them all by the speed of the unmetered connections they offer for less than $80/month, then the slowest 33% pays a substantial tax to subsidize the fastest 33%. Presto, instant competition to be the fastest, even though they're all in different geographic areas.
essentially ...

"Windows 8 wasn't going to be as big a catalyst," said Shaw Wu, analyst at Sterne Agee. "It's so different, it's almost uncomfortably different from past Windows, and there's a risk that Windows 8 ends up like Vista."
It's worth noting that this article is now #4 when Googling "betapunch". Danielle's article is now #5.

It's progress!
Algol 68 is really not that complicated. It goes to a lot of trouble about a few things that didn't turn out to be too important (e.g. the "book model" of I/O), but it is a model of simplicity and elegance in comparison with C++.
You mean standards like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_medical_record#Techn...

those?

Or do you mean yet another standard that supposedly solves all the problems, ala The 15th Standard?

http://xkcd.com/927/
Yes. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4091618
We looked at several security and sandbox technologies, and NaCl was closest to our requirements: near-native performance, easy access to the NaCl software development team and supported C and C++. Strictly speaking, we use it as a "Native Server", rather than a "Native Client" (it runs on server-class machines, not desktop browsers).

We've talked with Vijay Pande (of Folding@Home fame) about making "Folding@Chrome", but that would be opt-in (IE, you'd install a Chrome App).

If you have an alternative sandbox and security framework, I'd be happy to hear about it.
I assume you don't have your pet project then. Otherwise, you wouldn't ask :-).

Normally the most difficult part is adapting your code (if exists) to the supercomputer anyway.

What about cross-referencing non-coding parts of all existing genomes? With RNA secondary structures? I bet there would be a big benefit, if only finding a lots of non-coding RNA that does something, since it is known that this part of genomes does most of the job.
Interesting solution to this problem. But just like the others, I was confused by the way that the next page overlaps the current page. I think a simpler solution would be to just columnize the text and maximize the usage of all available screen space. So I implemented a Chrome extension to experiment with it.

Shameless plug: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/purify/kjiappjpfpa...
Samsung cancels Windows RT plans in US
I can't tell you how jealous it makes the others, whose governments a sense of humor lack!
"From his perspective, I will just be another employee."

Let's be optimistic and imagine the company going from $0 to $1,000,000 in revenue this year. Five percent of that is $50,000.

But you don't get paid off of revenue, you get paid off of profit. So you're looking at less than that. Probably much less even without the CEO creatively extracting money as expenses - let's say in the form of a $200,000 CEO bonus and/or leasing servers to the company.

Keep in mind that capital which is raised is not profit. You won't get 5% of it or any portion of it.

The deal smells like bullshit.
National Climate Assessment Report released for comment
I just read the copyright thread, and someone mentioned how the Coca-Cola recipe is still secret, not copyrighted or trademarked. I kept thinking that with enough computational power, someone could eventually reverse engineer it from some mass spectrometer analysis (or maybe some molecular technique). But you'd need a good DB of organic molecules and their origin to start with.
Hilarious, this made my day :D
Three prurient Reddit mods have been booted over corruption charges
That makes absolutely no sense. What would happen is that urban ISP's would win immediately, and then rural ISP's would be stuck basically cementing that lead in place by subsidizing the leaders' capital expenditures.
In the US it's often really hard to establish any kind of cabling network due to right of way laws. This appears to be the worse in metro areas with the richest NIMBYs such as San Francisco or Palo Alto despite having the large populations interested in super-speed internet.
I am a programmer. Every day I am happy and, frankly, a little mystified to find that I get to make a great living doing something I love. But that's why I originally pursued it: because I loved it. Not because I was chasing a paycheck.

I am horrified that we have so little place for others whose passion is in other directions. Man can not live on bread alone, and society can't flourish on software alone. It is heartbreaking that in our increasingly efficient world, where production of food, shelter, and even medical care for all should be trivial, they seem to be harder to reach for many.

We should have more room for the humanities now, not less. It should be possible for more people to pursue philosophy and literature and theater and art and music for the rest of us to enjoy.
I think the problem is rather that "FiOS" is not the class of internet connection that most places in the United States currently have.
Moon close up video
as above
That's clearly not Danielle's intention[1]. Be careful to not accuse someone on mere speculation.

[1] http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/01/why-i-wont-be-using-b...
Warming Planet: giving global warming what media and gov't won't - attention.
I don't care what it costs or whether it saves money or not. I just want to be able to walk into a medical office and not fill out all the damn forms over and over again.
I think the Farce is strong in that one.

Seriously though, all it takes is a bunch of Star Wars reference to garner a bunch of Likes? No wonder there are so many actors in politics.
"The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it."

The White House blog doesn't link to the source article, so here it is:

http://www.centives.net/S/2012/how-much-would-it-cost-to-bui...
Ok, so the two 4s have nothing to do with each other. Thanks for the clarification.
About a year and a half ago, I started disabling Java on new or newly reimaged computers for my users. I got quite a few complaints. It had many more uses than I expected.
I can't agree more, but I can also empathize with someone who has been programming their life with no real PR-type job, and runs their company as a one man show.
Not available in my area. I've looked into the options extensively and the only thing in my exact area other than TWC is AT&T DSL and I'm pretty far from their closest central office here so the speeds would be the absolute minimum.
The 3rd Dimension - with WebGL and Three.js (London)
(You may know some of this already, but for the benefit of everyone else...)

The original Amiga chipset only had 12-bit colour, so instead of 8 bits per channel there were 4, and you had 4096 colours, not 16.7M. One thing I did was create a copper bar (the "copper line" gradient you mention) where every second line flickered between the colour above it and the colour below it. This let me create 31 blues instead of 16. It looked pretty good at 60Hz.
Apple Files Patent for Wind Turbine
I've got optical fiber here (20 Mbits) and my parent's ADSL connection back in France feels faster.. The GFW makes things very slow for any connections out of China and in China bandwidth for servers is insanely expensive (a lot of companies offer by default 5 MBps dedicated bandwith only when hosting), so a lot of servers are saturated...
You're first assuming that there is such a thing as a rural or urban ISP. Have you seen the coverage map for AT&T or Comcast? They're all over the map.

But more than that, there is no reason to think that building a high speed network in a rural area would be impossible rather than merely expensive. So all they have to do is to do it first and they'll be the ones receiving the subsidy. And actually digging the hole in the ground is what costs a lot in rural areas, the terminating equipment doesn't cost anything more just because the wires are longer. So they install fiber to the home once and having paid that cost, the future upgrade costs become equalized with urban areas because all future upgrades come from upgrading the terminating equipment rather than having to put any new wires in the ground.

And if we ever want to have fiber in rural areas then that has to happen eventually anyway, so why put it off?

And, even if you're right, the result is still for urban ISPs to compete with each other to be the fastest and for rural ISPs to compete with each other to not be the slowest. The losers of that competition then have less profit for their shareholders -- or, if they lose very badly, their network is auctioned off to someone with more capital who can make the necessary upgrades. I am not seeing how we can lose here unless "we" are greedy telco shareholders who don't want to pay for upgrades.
This is why I try not to overtweak my computer. Sure I could rice the whole thing out, but then I'm useless on any other machine. I try to strike a happy medium where I'm reasonably productive but can still use another computer when I have to.
Whoops, that's a pretty big oversight. I was aware that the C64 had vblank and timer interrupts, but not that it could do hblank interrupts.
How to treat heat like light
How good would this be for the matrix step of GNFS attacks on RSA? I guess the first step would be lots of discrete machines to do the first step, but doing the matrix reduction on this might be good?
I'd be interested in just knowing the techniques used to go about this rather than the answer itself.

Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/683/
Japan to increase military spending
I actually asked about this on the mailing list some time ago: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.judy.devel/244

tl;dr: patent was done for defensive reasons.
Could the Wii U be Nintendo's last console?
Estimated cost of death star $850,000,000,000,000,000
Estimated current US debt $16,437,339,543,399

Cost of Death Star per US citizen $2,705,101,099
Estimated US debt per US citizen $52,311

(Figures from (http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/) I have no idea if they're realistic or not.)
I don't think it's actually that different, through not as easy to calculate as e did.

Quote, Wikipedia: "Titan has 18,688 nodes (4 nodes per blade, 24 blades per cabinet), each containing a 16-core AMD Opteron 6274 CPU with 32 GB of DDR3 ECC memory and an Nvidia Tesla K20X GPU with 6 GB GDDR5 ECC memory."

So it's pretty much standard hardware just a lot of it. Except that the graphics card is basically a consumer tesla with some extra juice, but it's still just a card built with what's possible today. Nothing extra fancy.
The last copyright extension might be the last Disney could push for. If they pushed it significantly further, they would lose the copyright of their older works to the Brothers Grimm.

Walt Disney's first animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was published in 1937, 74 years after the death of Jacob Grimm. The Mickey Mouse copyright extension is 70 years after the death of the longest surviving creator.

That said, they could lobby to increase copyright terms for post-1927 works only, or corporate works only and leave natural persons out in the cold. It's uncertain whether these moves would be too politically extreme for Disney.
Computational folding is nice, but it's not the only computationally-intensive activity in proteomics.

For some proteins with post-transcriptional (ex. alternative splicing) or post-translational modifications (ex. attachment of functional groups, formation of disulfide bridges, proteolytic cleavage) it is difficult or impossible to arrive at the correct folded structures from computation on nucleic acid sequences alone. For such proteins, the structures can be determined experimentally. That means coaxing pure samples of protein to form single crystals and then subjecting the crystals to X-ray diffraction (XRD). Backing out the structural information from the XRD patterns takes serious horsepower (though admittedly not necessarily power with Titan-class interconnects). XRD does not give information about the location of hydrogen atoms in the structure though. For that information you need to do neutron diffraction (the de Broglie wavelength of the neutrons is short). ORNL is actually one of the few places that do neutron diffraction. The OP could connect with some of the neutron folks there and assist them with their research. If not for proteins, maybe for superconductors.

I had a chance to run some Monte Carlo code on some of the machines at ORNL as part of a supercomputing workshop there during the reign of Jaguar. It was an amazing experience. Enjoy it, OP! I hope you get to take a trip there and see all the racks too.
Humans are a learning algorithm in a body. Very, very few learning algorithms incorporate original thought, because it's computationally expensive. Extremely, extremely expensive. Genetic algorithms are close to the only ones and the best reason to use generic algorithms is when you have no example data whatsoever, and even with datacenters full of machines, a lot of patience is required. Otherwise, genetic algorithms are going to get clobbered in performance by almost every other algorithm.

Which brings me to my point : imho the chances that humans are capable of real original thought is nil. Don't get me wrong, humans are very capable of creatively combining ideas from very different disciplines and non-human sources to arrive at surprising insights and works. But I'm pretty sure humans are not in fact capable of creating something out of nothing, even when it comes to intellectual works.
Amazon's MechanicalTurk
Not much. There was a supercomputer that was just recently dismantled in Arizona and someone asked the same thing. I calculated a gross return of approx. $200/day. That's not counting electrical costs, which will probably put you in the red.
In Denmark we have a state mandated solution for electronically signing documents and communicating with the state. logging onto public services such as the IRS, child-care services, motor registration and all sorts of other stuff is done using this service. In short, if you want to deal with the government electronically in Denmark you'll have to use this solution. It's also been adopted by all Danish banks, and is the only alternative for netbanking. In other words, if you're not a luddite your only choice is to comply and use this service called NemID (EasyID)

Yes, this runs as a java plugin. And yes the company behind NemID has come out publicly and said that it shouldn't be a problem, that they don't encourage users to disable java and that everything is safe.

In other words, if your intent is malicious you can start targeting Danes with java drive-by downloads, and be fairly sure that if you hit a machine in Denmark that has the java plugin installed that machine is used for netbanking.

It's a disaster waiting to happen.
There's no betapunch "guys" - It's just him. There's no one to step in and there's no one to hire - this an app run by a single person. He doesn't have income to be able to hire people to take care of this for him. He got himself into this mess and he's trying to get himself out of it.
I'm with the original commentor. The first question we should ask if not "does this provide value to the individuals in a specific group?" but what are the unintended consequences for everyone in the economy?

This is explored very well in the book "Economics in One Lesson": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_in_One_Lesson
Unless its Chuck Hagel or Rand Paul.
No, the point was integer-ops vs floating-point. AMD kills NVIDIA on integer-op performance, which SHA256 uses.
And Norway decided to authenticate people using java applets for government sites and a separate, but similar, system for online banking. This was quite a number of years ago, but it still being rolled out on new sites today.
Do you see music releases being available on this at any point in time?
As an American taxpayer, I applaud this use of my tax dollars.
Get in touch if you need help acquiring users.
“Buffy vs Edward” remix is back online, but no fallout for Lionsgate
I've see Code in B&N but never did more than quickly skim through it. And I've never heard of the other two. Thanks!
I feel like data helps you reach the peak of local maxima. And perhaps that lines up with absolute maxima for mature industries. But I expect people still need to be involved to get us in range of the target.
One fiber run to a high rise in Chicago hits as many customers as wiring up an entire town in rural Illinois. The idea that ISP's that serve less populated areas could somehow beat ISP's that serve mostly urban areas is completely ridiculous. What would happen is that the urban ISP's would win the race, and the ISP's with low density service areas would just go out of business perpetually paying the subsidy.

It's like trying to incentivize competition in baseball by requiring losing teams to subsidize winning ones. Basically everyone would just be paying to make the Yankee's roster even more iron clad than it is now.
I don't get why do small startups screw up small apologies. Here is a simple guide.

1. Understand the problem. What/why/how/who/when did you do wrong ?

2.Contact said person and try to make things right by fixing the issue. Key word is try, but do it genuinely.

3. Write a good press release in the form of a blog post. Title it: Our apology for $problem.

4. In the press release include:

- We are sorry this happened.

- This is how we are fixing/going to fix it.

- If you have been wronged by this get in touch at $email.

- Thank everyone for their feedback.

5. Publish a second press release as a blog post stating what you are doing to prevent $problem.

6. With the gained attention, market a new product/service/special to show people you are focused on doing good busines. Call it the "We are sorry special pack" or whatever.

Make sure to post it on every social media site out there so that people know you are taking care of your customers.
> Or do you think you don't need to assess common sense at all?

shrug If we're talking developers... The ability to drive to the location on time, answer questions without going blank are good indicators of common sense for me. Extracurricular activities, anything from volunteering at an animal shelter, to making civil war models to home brewing beer, are huge in my book because they are a good indicator of a grounded individual. That mixed with some pair-programming should give more than enough information. YMMV.
From 1999: Amazon invested in both Pets.com and HomeGrocer.com
The Pirate Bay Documentary Trailer [video]
That's not passive. If we're including not passive we could suggest sites like Bountify - (https://bountify.co/)
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/11/groupon-acquires-realtime-l...

"No word on what the purchase price was, but this sounds like one of those fancy acquisition/hires that we talk about all of the time, mostly surrounding Facebook and Google. Is Groupon about to get more hip? We’ll find out."
Javascript ES6 has tail call optimization
Me too. Even more important is that a host on multiple networks may have the same PTR value for each address, and thus one can lose information in the reverse lookup. "host w.x.y.z" ( or Solaris "nslookup -type=ptr z.y.x.w.in-addr.arpa" ) is available if you don't recognize the IP address.
My point is that "super speed" Internet is pretty useless when wifi networks max out at 20-40 Mbps in practice. And while not everyone has access to 30 Mbps+ Internet, most people in urban areas do.
> Why on earth would anyone trust descriptions that they cannot verify?
>
> Trusting without the ability to verify goes against everything scientific.

Hasn't this always been true about scientific papers? Descriptions can be verified by reproducing the experiment. Why is a paper any less trustworthy just because there's code involved?
Phil has a good point in the comments, though: why waste expensive doctors' and nurses' time reducing the data to structured form when this work could easily be outsourced?
Congrats to the team as Glassmap, and good on Groupon for going to get some talent from outside.

But I always hate when an announcement like this ends with "... and our service will be discontinued as of..." which means Groupon wasn't interested in the business so much as the talent.