skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We may be able to evaluate decisions based on the new regime of copious data, but it's a stretch to suggest a connection with morality.

The efficacy of a choice can easily be measured with great and copious data. But the morality of a choice is a different way of looking at decisions, and it's not obvious how morality be evaluated with a quantifier like massive amounts of data.

> If outcomes are good: moral. If outcomes are bad: immoral.

The words "good" and "bad" have the same problem as "moral" -- quantification is orthogonal to "goodness". Big data can only quantify, it can't judge something on moral grounds.

In 1600, everyone believed that astrology worked and was a personal asset. If we had had big data at that time, studies that only quantified would have revealed that nearly everyone believed that astrology was useful.

At that time, everyone thought astrology was factual, and everyone was wrong. No amount of data collection could have gotten around this structural problem.

Today, everyone seems to think antidepression drugs work, and if we judged the value of antidepression drugs using quantitative methods, we would have a clear winner. But as it turns out, antidepression drugs don't work, and a data-based, quantitative measure of their popularity is very misleading -- it only reveals the degree to which the placebo effect drives public beliefs.

It's the same with moral questions -- big data has a limited role if what's being measures is a mass delusion.
I am most interested in the Plex/XBMC support. I have been looking for a small footprint XBMC box with enough power and this seems to fit the bill.
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In my freshman year of college, I discovered something neat about perfect numbers and Mersenne primes (verified by my math professor):

The first perfect number, 6, written in binary is 110
The second, 28, in binary is 11100
The third, 496, in binary is 1111100
The fourth, 8128, in binary is 1111111000000

See the pattern? Its a number of ones equal to the mersenne prime that generates the perfect number, followed by one less number of zeroes.

Just an interesting tidbit I discovered completely by accident in college that I always thought was cool. :)

Of course it derives directly from the fact that mersenne primes (and perfect numbers) are based on powers of two, but I still thought it was cool (probably because I discovered it accidentally and independently without trying to)
I really like your app. It crashed once on me, but other than that, very nice. Having the ability to post/reply comments would make it superb!
Yes, the discovery of Lucky13 and the following helplessness by many not-really-ops-but-doing-it-anyway people were the motivation to write that article in the first place. To get a minimal baseline security out there. Those who know better, will do better. There’s enough additional links to get hooked up. Can’t do more. :)
Ambiance also attracts long-staying customers. Either way, I agree: the furniture is there to keep people in the store.
There aren’t any plans for the money, because this isn’t about the money. It’s about accomplishing a goal.

And that goal is "raise 1 million dollars". So yes, it's about the money, about nothing but.
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Before founding About.me he was a Co-Founder and CEO of Sphere, when it sold to Aol in 2008 for $25M[1]

He's also a founding member and partner at True Ventures which he has seen exits such as: Oddpost (acquired by Yahoo!), Iconoculture (acquired by Corporate Executive Board), MusicNow (acquired by Circuit City), and Centive (acquired by Xactly)[2]

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[2] http://www.trueventures.com/member/tony-conrad/
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"Every game on OUYA is free to try. We believe you shouldn't have to buy it unless you love it"

That's pretty cool. Count me in.
I've long wondered:

Is 2^(2^(2^(2^(2^(...(2)...)-1)-1)-1)-1)-1 prime for all levels of recursion?
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> This platform will grow like crazy, because the tools are open source, and Android is a very strong brand.

"Grow like crazy" seems a little optimistic. Android has grown in large part because it dominates carrier showrooms, where most "normal" people buy their phones. I also wouldn't call it a strong brand, and you may have noticed that "Android" is mentioned much less in advertising, with companies now advertising their brands (e.g., Samsung Galaxy) more often than not.

The OUYA is also under-powered - a Tegra 3 is already old tech. Mobile tech, which the OUYA is built on, is growing much too quickly for this thing to gain much traction.
You are extracting something I didn't say, or at least didn't mean to imply. RC4 is better than TLS-CBC as it is implemented by virtually all libraries. A constant-time implementation is obviously preferable, but considering the mess this makes of client libs I doubt many will adopt it. RC4 will be better for those until TLS 1.2 and e.g. AES-GCM are supported.

As an example, see Adam Langley's comments on not fixing (i.e. making constant-time) CBC in Go: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/HF5O5vAKRcQ/3cYW...

Also, blaming browsers when we've known about timing attacks against this verification for years, and OpenSSL is patching it now, is probably a bit of a stretch.
OK. Can you block on a sysv semaphore and a socket at the same time? How do you integrate event loops using these two primitives at the same time?

(EDIT: hint your runtime can't, because the kernel doesn't provide a way to do that. I guess I should be more explicit).
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Even better idea: work at a library. These are buildings designed to be quiet, meditative places, and they want you to be there all day. In addition, several libraries now allow coffee, and most have great Wifi.

Where do you find a library? If you are in the US, public libraries are a great downtown option. As a student at Stanford, I think great libraries are one of the biggest privileges. However, I think you don't need to be a Stanford student to get in! Like other universities, Stanford has a Federal Depository Service (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Depository_Library_Prog...), which means the public has a right to enter and read federal publications at no cost (Strangely, I couldn't find a open-to-public library at Harvard though)

Hope this helps...
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Math doesn't really work that way.

Edit: Less snarkily, the integers are mysterious and not at all well understood and chock-full of effects like the one you mentioned. It's fallacious to simply argue that because there are infinitely many primes, there must also be infinitely many primes of a given type.
New Relic has the most aggressive sales staff I've seen after CDN providers. With their absurdly high prices, I'm surprised they need any funding.
I address some simple framing of how to define "good" and "bad" in the article. I think we can borrow from US Declaration of Independence- anything that helps preserve and promote the "self-evident, inalienable rights" is good.

Edit: my first comment above was a tl;dr - but I suggest reading the whole article.
It's like the Million Dollar Homepage, except more brazen.

The goal seems to be to raise a million dollars. The secondary goal seems to be to treat the Internet like a basket of schmucks.

My advice: save your money and give it to a good cause instead.
>Are you using a framework, or developing one?

No.

>Who gets to choose the concurrency strategy?

The person writing code?

>Clients are the clients of the API I'm talking about, which is a hypothetical "lightweight thread" based API where everything just works as per original post.

In that context, I am the client. Here's how it works:

forkIO myFunction

That's it. Very simple, scales to millions of "threads", and if compiled with -threaded, those millions of "threads" are spread over a set of OS threads so I also get parallelism.

>The really cynical part of my mind is going "please tell me about this magical solution to integrating different event loops and concurrency models" and the less cynical part is open to your suggestions.

The key is just in the "demanding better from languages" part. You don't have to worry about a dozen incompatible green thread libraries if it is built into the language.
Not to be pedantic but Triple DES could be broken relatively easily by the government, which is why it was replaced with AES. I completely agree with what you are saying in the post, I just wanted to bring up that Triple DES is considered insecure.

Sources:
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1003/1003.4085.pdf
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/360000/358718/p465-merkle.pd...
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I believe it's moderated by Ouya, but I don't know how strictly. Amazon isn't involved beyond selling the hardware.
Can you clarify your statement? Would you agree with subsidizing loans to good students, with impoverished backgrounds, choosing a degree which is in high demand in the marketplace(just an example)? I, for one, am apalled at the gov't subsidizing the huge number of art, fashion, music degrees that they do. I would be curious to see the default rates on these sorts of loans.
1. It's a major unsolved problem in mathematics - definitely not "easy"!

2. In this case it hasn't been proved that it can't be proved.
Would be interesting to see how this affects the current console gaming markets..
I'm definitely happy they're building that in, rather than having two versions of every game like people tend to on the App Store. It's a bit of a mess on account of that.
Awesome. I'll have to apply the binary notation approach to answering the question I just posted below.
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I backed Ouya because the idea of being able to "easily" publish the same app on phones and a console was too good to pass up. I'm just a Computer Science student tinkering with Android development in my spare time, and I can publish a game for a console. That's pretty amazing.
Thanks! I have a new update coming out (c'mon Apple...) that should fix the crash problem. Working on a User system in there too for logging in/voting/replying/submitting, the whole 9 yards.

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Don't mean to hijack your post eliaskg, but I bought your app and downloaded the source from GitHub. Gonna' be skinning it for my own personal use here soon! Thanks for the sweet app.
How many would choose to give $25 instead?

If you want to do some good with $25: http://kiva.org
Occam's razor doesn't really work that way.
thank god I picked namecheap - been a happy customer since middle school (~9 years)
Yes it does. Adding encryption, even if it can be broken through sheer computational power, still increases the price tag associated with spying, therefore increasing the barrier to spying.
That market does exist though. I've known quite a few people who have asked me for advice on laptops who were dismayed when I told them the cheapest they could get a laptop was $250. I've also had the same type of people come to me when their $250 laptop dies after 6 months and they "threw away all that money" on some cheap garbage.

A $250 laptop will last you 6 months while a $1000 laptop will last you five years, but there is still the market who finds a better deal in the incredibly shitty computer.
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i agree.. they sent me so many follow up emails i had to unsubscribe. i can't understand how a supposedly modern software service would not understand what is appropriate email frequency.

turned me off totally.
I am not blocking or using event loops, that's the point. When I call read on a socket, the IO manager handles saving my context, doing the async read, yielding, and then restoring context and resuming when there's data to be read. The entire point is that green threads are equivalent to event loops, but taking advantage of abstraction to move the complexity away from the thousands of individual programmers, and onto the language authors.
Honestly it seems like the the advantage boils down to two points:

(1) x86's baroque encoding is actually a data compression mechanism, making code size relatively small. Code size killed RISC and VLIW.

(2) A lot of work has been done to make x86's cache very, very good in order to compensate for its small register file and other minor shortcomings. This in turn resulted in the whole issue being sidestepped in a way that yielded better overall performance.

There's also kind of a third, broader point:

(3) There are all kinds of exotic architectures that could theoretically be faster with a very smart compiler, but that very smart compiler never materializes. This is also an issue with arguments about high level languages potentially being as fast as C. The mythical super-smart compiler never materializes. On the x86 angle, x86's "hacks" made it very fast for the kind of code real-world compilers generate, which makes it perform well on real workloads instead of just contrived benchmarks.

Interestingly, x86 even beats vanilla ARM for code size.

http://vanshardware.com/2010/08/mirror-the-coming-war-arm-ve...

But ARM has an encoding called Thumb-2 that turns the tables. Hence the upcoming ARM/x86 war. It really seems like code size is one of the big parameters affecting a CPU architecture's performance.

What's interesting though is this: now that code size is comprehended to be the huge issue it is, could we see new experimental architectures that do radical things in that department such as the use of actual data compression algorithms in instruction encodings?
A long time is an understatement! I was of course just being extremely pedantic.
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For openssl 0.9.8, where "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256" and "AES128-GCM-SHA256" aren't supported, that cipher suite actually places RC4 40bit as the preferred cipher ("openssl ciphers -v").
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To each his own, I personally love it. :)

There's been a few requests for keeping the semantic completion engine but turning off the identifier-based engine (this is the "always-on" part) so the feature will be implemented some time soon.
I just downloaded Hacky from app store now but the app doesn't work. Are there any problems for using in Japan.
Desktop CPUs are something like 10 times faster than the typical ARM mobile CPU. Plus a desktop would run the higher optimized JVM instead of Dalvik. I'm sure it is challenging to get Minecraft to run at a playable level of performance on mobile hardware, let alone drive HD resolutions.
Not really.

I trust both companies well enough to install software downloaded from their servers. But I don't want a pointless installer that tries to trick me into crapware. So Ninite is the clear winner there.
sure it doesn't happen everywhere, but it does in Munich's city hall at least, and it is possible.
I think you are right and it's not a big problem; there are enough geeks who do not get excited by the latest non-gameplay-but-great-graphics-fps (I rather play something like http://www.anodynegame.com/ any day). If that's enough mass to continue this console is the question. For geeks this thing is great; it looks good, it is small and cheap. I bought it via Kickstarter and I'll buy a few more, just to play with and make games on.
This can really be broken because you can redefine the numeric constructor of 1 to return false and thus get around the while(1). However, if for(;;) was used, then you cannot get around it. ;)
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Developing for consoles has generally been a ridiculously expensive endeavor. This breaks that mold.

No, it doesn't. This shows that you can do some consumer facing and software development around an outdated commodity platform and release it. That is nontrivial and the Ouya team certainly deserves credit for it, but it is not on the same level as what Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo do to produce their consoles. And it shows in the final product.

Also what makes you think that someone won't buy a console just to play one (really good) game?

I feel like you're wishcasting, which seems to be commonplace in Ouya discussions. What "really good" game is going to be a killer app for Ouya? The platform has very small reach and I can't see anyone with a truly promising title making it an Ouya exclusive.
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Having both python2 and python3 enabled in your Vim can lead to nasty results. I remember Vim used to crash if you source a python2 file into it (thus starting the python2 interpreter) and a python3 file some time later (thus also starting the python3 interpreter). They didn't seem to like existing in the same process.
How are these two code samples related to each other? They appear to be for completely different use cases, and therefore I'm not sure that they actually demonstrate anything useful.
JSONP lets the server turn off the same-origin policy. If XRFing your data is dangerous, don't use JSONP. But often we don't care about XRF, and the person writing the server is well-placed to know.
That depends on the cause... What are you trying to prove?

My original comment was tongue-in-cheek. I am not going to donate any money to a (questionable) organization that's not going to publish what it is going to do with it.

I'd rather spend it on something more noble. Like giving it to a charity.
This and other items that Wall St. cares about, but aren't necessarily in the best long-term interest of the comapany.

For example, they can now have less of a focus on margin. It's the constant quest for margin that had Dell outsource its whole company to Asus:

http://www.asymco.com/2012/12/07/the-real-threat-that-samsun...
The people who get their coffee to go and the ones who sit at the tables are different segments (although there is some overlap).

Also, the sitting customers can be segmented as well: most of them will sit down for 15-30 minutes and leave, but there are some who will stay longer. It would be difficult for someway staying 4 hours to spend as much as 8 people staying 30 minutes each, so that's why djt talks about the need to turn over tables.
I'd say it'd be worse if someone else found the bug.
That's still true. http://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
A few years ago when I was visiting Buffalo, NY, and Apple had just started making a 30" iMac, someone came in with one and a slew of peripherals and then promptly decided to set it all up on the milk/napkin/straw bar.
Never heard of that one. Out of interest which others have you tried? I hear good things about some others quite often, so I'm just wondering. :)
This is stupid. Sure, Dropbox isn't an ideal service for developers, but it's one that users understand.
This really rewards Amazon more than anyone else in the ecosystem. Let's see:

1) You have to buy these "Virtual Currencies" and since they can only be used within the ecosystem and cannot be reversed, you will be psychologically attuned to, spend it or lose it all.

2) Amazon now doesn't have to hiccup 50c or so for every small credit card transaction.

3) Amazon could now theoretically avoid paying sales tax because the real currency was only used to buy something intangible which can be bartered for something else.
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At the time, it was severely behind the PC version on features. It's still lagging, but it's been catching up. The biggest things are that that worlds are limited to a very small size and it's missing the two extra dimensions. I wouldn't be surprised if those features made it in for an Ouya release.
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I never thought that put symbolic links on dropbox was good idea...

But I see where it might come from.

When my startup started, my associate nagged me to death to me put my files on Google Drive, like the artist already did.

I ended doing it, just to show him that it would not end well...

In fact, the result was worse than expected, Mac OS X store folder icons inside the folder, the SDK I was using use ALL files in a folder to build a application (does not matter what those files do), the end result was the Google Drive created icons getting shipped with the apps, that just flat out crashed the testing devices... It took 1 week to figure out why all the crashing, and also to make Google Drive not conflict with some other stuff, hardlinking was required, and took more 3 days to undo the hardlinks.

Thus, lesson: DON'T, JUST DON'T.

But sometimes a person might nag you to do it, then by all means do it, it will fall on their head and they will learn (of course, if it is a intelligent person, if you have a dumb boss, then I fell sorry for you).
> Why do they spy?

You're thinking of this type of consequences:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230445860457748...

The problem is this type of consequences:
http://www.newcreditrules.com/newcreditrulescom/2009/01/bewa...

Secret formulas deciding our credit limits and insurance premiums because spying gives them information is the problem. Not the information that we might pay more for a hotel room.
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Stanford's WiFi is not open to the public though. And it's one of the worst campuses to park at that I've ever seen.
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> So, part of what i'm saying is that it'd be nice if people would stop dismissing other fields as "not science" :P

'Twould also be nice if people would stop trying to usurp the authority of physics in the public policy domain.
In order to reconcile ACID with CAP, this defines a weakened form of ACID to mean whatever-some-databases-currently marketed-as-ACID-compliant-support in order to say that you can still offer effective ACID compliance and still choose CA over partition tolerance (in the http://codahale.com/you-cant-sacrifice-partition-tolerance/ sense). For a lot of applications, the weakened isolation guarantees aren't, or shouldn't be, negotiable (if you try to sneak by without them, they'll cause data integrity issues at scale).

Not saying that the solution doesn't provide a valuable framework for building robust applications that can overcome those issues (necessarily pushing some of that complexity up the stack to the application developer), but the marketing seems a little bit suspicious?

Edited to add: In fairness, the article doesn't actually claim to have evaded CAP - it recognizes that HAT is a compromise. But I believe it's easy to understate the practical problems with non-serializable transactions. It becomes impossible to prevent duplicate transactions from being created on the split-brain nodes. In banking, for instance, this would be a Bad Thing, and lead to potentially hairy application-specific mop up when the nodes resync.