skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is worth talking about, but this post is a description of the problem and nothing more.

Where do we go from here?

Just "get involved in protecting/fixing the internet", generally?

At the moment my involvement in practice seems to be mostly "sign e-petitions here and there" and "occasionally read articles about how it's important that we not let corporate interests, governments, etc. take over control of the net".

It does feel a bit fake; but I'm not sure what else to do (and I admittedly don't have vast reserves of spare time).
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Well, 'years ago' is a long time. You'll probably find out that Chicken has evolved a lot since then. As has the list of available eggs.
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"I'd be interested in how people propose to maintain expert review, editing, and vetting of ideas without having the users and beneficiaries of that research bear at least some of the cost."

First of all, the reviewers and editors of journals often work as volunteers -- so the notion of cost here is somewhat dubious.

That being said, I see no problem with asking universities to facilitate the review and editing process, using money given by the government for that purpose, and to host publicly accessible archives of academic publications for the benefit of society. We should remove academic publishers from the picture entirely, because they contribute nothing to society anymore. Universities already use tax dollars (grant money) to pay academic publishers for journal access; why don't we cut out the middle man?
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Well, the addition of LLVM support referenced in the Phoronix article had this bit:

"This patch excludes the NEON support also reviewed due to an outbreak of batshit insanity in our legal department. That will be committed soon bringing the changes to precisely what has been approved."

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.cvs/1349...

I'm just wondering what that was about and how serious it was.
That may be the dictionary definition, but my point was that 'race' is mostly a social construct. Go back a couple of centuries and it was normal for (Europeans) to talk about the 'Irish' race, the 'Spanish' race, the 'German' race and even the 'Dutch' race.
someone beat you to this one.. and I appreciate the nice note
He was not doing anything that other people who faced no criminal charges did not do. He just did things differently.
Not really right or wrong in my opinion. That is the thing with Unix-like OS's. There are many ways to skin a cat. I prefer -- 'sudo su - root'.
And according to what the Aaron's lawyers have said, the prosecutors pursued the case because MIT behind the scenes wanted them to.

MIT is not necessarily blameless here. I for one will be reading that report.
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Well, it didn't recognize pi.
someone beat you to this one. and thanks! I'm trying to buy a home in the bay area, I can use all I can get.
I'd love to take it over and work on it if you don't have interest in it anymore. You can email me: alexgrn7@gmail.com

thanks!
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Isn't there a massive unspoken constraint: you can only have monochrome icons? The sprite they show is impossible to reproduce: look at the "locked" icon, e.g.

It's great now that minimalistic design is in style, but in a year when that fad has passed and my designer wants color again, I'm going to have to completely rewrite my infrastructure back away from using icon fonts.
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Unrelated:

I am trying to convince a client to use angular instead of backbone.

They are however thrown off by the fact that there aren't many startups using it in production. And I can't figure a satisfactory answer to that. Any explanations why is that?
someone beat you to this one.
Make sure to check out the wonderful web application the Quantopian team has built using this library at http://www.quantopian.com
John I just want to say thank you. Unfortunately text cannot quite convey how grateful I am for you making these videos but if I could tell you in person you would know.

I developed a web app in Angular.js and find it a great framework to work with, but unfortunately there wasn't any great way to learn it when I was starting out. The documentation makes sense once you know Angular but it isn't good for someone just starting out with the framework. I actually remember watching your videos on youtube about writing directives last summer and thought they were one of the most concise yet unassuming "tutorial" videos in the tech world I have ever seen.

Thank you!
I completely agree. I have chosen to not list endorsements to my profile, but LinkedIn still allows others the ability to endorse me. I added "Basket Weaving" as a skill, and have been endorsed for it.
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On the other hand, you also pay a flat 25% sales tax on everything, which is... fairly high.
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I'm like you, in that it doesn't appeal to me, but I think it's largely due to how much free time you have (or how much free time you make for yourself) – I can see how teenage-me would've loved it, but it seems too pointless to an adult me. I think it comes down to the question: is the end result of creating your own world worth the time investment you put into it?

When I game these days it usually has to have a good narrative so I can get something from it, rather than something open-ended and "pointless" like Minecraft or an MMORPG. Even the social elements of an MMORPG doesn't seem worth it, given the time-sink of all the level grinding and learning arcane key combinations and the like...
> MS should never have bothered with the Pro line and instead should have made a proper android and ios competitor.

What for?

MS competitive advantage is backwards compatibility with an EXTREMELY HUGE catalog of Windows apps. Nothing more. Anything else doesn't matter.

A 'proper RT tablet' would throw away that competitive advantage and sell as well as the Windows Phone 7.

In fact, the mere existence of an 'RT runtime Store' practically throws away that competitive advantage. Specially now that Steam is expanding from selling games to sell some Windows applications.

What is the right way to me: sell Windows (7 is good enough) computers, with good hardware (competitive with Apple laptops) and with a Full Windows App Store. Not RT Store, Full Windows API applications Store.

I should be able to buy Office, Autocad, Adobe Acrobat, etc from there. Now that would have been huge. The first week would have been a financial success for WinRar, Sublime Text, Ditto, and lots of other programs people use everyday.
I can't help but feel I've "been had" by the time I got to the end of the article. Ugh.
Exactly! I normally run two browser windows side by side on a 1600px wide screen. I generally don't go back to sites that force me to resize my browser in order to view them correctly.
Nope to what? One of the biggest problems with the CIA is that they are intelligence, secret world police and paramilitary all at the same time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Chapman_attack

etc.
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Well, some people are already on it, whether or not MIT chooses to do anything about it: http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/
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Has LinkedIn launched any usable features (Endorsements and LinkedIn Today do not count IMHO) in the past few years? They removed Events, Answers, Github integration, job search agents and others. Groups are basically spam repositories. Not sure exactly what they are working on.
The problem is that the quality of work in a related field can be hard to judge. However researchers generally try to get papers into the most prestigious journal that they think they can, and journals work hard to try to maintain consistent standards. Therefore the journal it got published in is a reasonable proxy for article quality.
To clarify: the average Google offer to new Phds is not between 150 and 200k... it's more likely between 100 and 150k.
As someone who has not used Answers, could you explain a bit more about what (if anything) differentiated it from Quora or StackExchange?
If the suspect 'pushes the button' which he believes is hooked up to a real bomb, I think it's reasonable to say that he attempted to commit a terror act.
I haven't kept up to date with CouchBase for quite some time. The first support I saw for Android was the Erlang version of the server that needed to be installed separately from the app. How is this meant to be working (when there's Android support)? Will everything needed to write an Android app be bundled with the app?
To be clear: I like Nathan. I like his work.

But the feeling I got in my stomach when I started reading about ConvertKit was not a good one. This particular post was not a sales pitch that (what I think to be) Nathan's audience would be comfortable with.
> MIT should instruct its deans and other officials to no longer look favorably upon the mere fact of publication in a “prestigious” journal when making hiring and tenure decisions. Instead, promotions should be based on the quality of a person’s work, wherever it’s been published. (This sounds obvious, but most people in academia will tell you that where you publish is just as important as what you publish.)

This is an author that is confusing "most people in academia" with MIT.

Mere publication is not the path to tenure at MIT, and the tenure committees are well-versed in the difference between impact and the # of pubs.
I wouldn't, unless it's hampering you from doing something else OR you've got a full regression test coming up (for example, during a major version increment).
http://github.com/spullara/redis-protocol — server module

The test was run with "SET key value" which in the redis protocol is something like 15-20 bytes / message.
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Sounds a lot like Alice: https://github.com/leedo/alice
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Pretty much: it's COPPA.

The gist of COPPA is that you can't collect information about people under 13, without the express consent from a parent. So it's not completely against the law to have 13yo on a social network, it's just common for sites to just refuse kids altogether, mostly out of convenience.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childrens_Online_Privacy_Protec... and http://www.coppa.org/.
>Forget diamonds, graphene is now the world's hardest material.

I thought Wurtzite (cubic) boron nitride still held that title?
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Ah ok, my test was run using the C redis-benchmark client.
You couldn't reply to my comment because there is a built-in delay (like 5 minutes or something) before a commen can be replied to. You should be able to do it by now.

Quant finance is an option, though I suspect once you actually got into it, you'd find making serious money that way wasn't really easier than doing a startup.

I don't know, I mean, I wouldn't go solo... I would join up with an established company that wants to hire. And I have definitely seen these companies recruiting CS PhDs in the last 1-2 years.

Besides it's mostly a zero-sum game these days, and wouldn't you like to make the world a better place as well as getting rich?

Might be better to make some good money, and then retire kind of young and focus on whatever else you really want to do with complete financial freedom.

I suspect that traders actually do contribute though, just like every single other sector of the economy. I mean, traders provide liquidity and also "provide" econonic information, both of which help coordinate the economy. And if high frequency traders aren't actually providing any direct benefit to anybody, we should see markets arise that disallow that kind of trading.

I know of people who've gone back and done a PhD in their forties or fifties. Strikes me as probably more practical than doing it in your twenties and putting the rest of your life on hold.

I've been told by profs that older folks (who are, by implication, settled, fully mature, and have figured out what they want in life), are a much safer bet as grad students than younger folks. So, there is something to this. But if you get your PhD that late, there's not necessarily that much time left in life to do that much with it.

Technical knowledge that you pick up on the way, sure, but that's a very inefficient way of obtaining that kind of knowledge.

I think it's counterintuitive, but I disagree. If you really want to understand the cutting edge and see new opportunities, you have to be carefully reading the research papers that are being published (and understanding them), doing a lot of critical thinking, and talking to people in the field. And it's going to take a few years. A grad student is well-positioned to do this. Anybody else who wants to do it almost might as well just be a grad student (unless they're already a professional researcer or professor, which typically implies having been a grad student).
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I'm at that point right now with Angular. The whole thing still feels like black magic to me. I can't get out of the jquery mindset.
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And burn too, but a hexacopter can lose a motor...
> Particularly given the trades that show up just after the report was released, but before a person could conceivably process them and initiate the relevant strategy.

Couldn't they be trading based on some natural language processing algorithm?
Actually this thread wasn't about selling. The reason I gave mine away here was because this community is all about doing things and shipping, not necessarily monetizing.
On other words, talk is cheap, show me the code. It doesn't make much sense to compare a system which doesn't even have an implementation to a system, which is pretty widely used. And pretty easy to use even for the average Joe.
Having been in the business of reversing data formats in two different real-world contexts, I feel comfortable in saying that just about the last thing I would do is write a parser. One context was building a system to pull live financial data feeds. The other is in the software security business. In the former, often CSVs were what you would get, or fielded data. We built an engine that could easily inhale these. Including the bloomberg feed which was unusually complex.

In the security business, one is often asked to assess some not-very-well specified protocol, or some protocol for which there is no documentation. So to deal with it you 1) fuzz the hell out of it to make the end point fall over or 2) hexdump the protocol and write pieces of it in ruby or python to get messages through so that you can fuzz the hell out of it in a structured way.

And if there was some need to write a parser, you can bet it ain't gonna be LALR, it will be hand-crafted, likely recursive descent.

To reply to each of your points:

1) If you are lucky, this XML. I don't need to know how to write a parser if the data is XML. If it is some sort of Java serialization, dejad is your friend--no parser required. If it is binary, you are going to use the protocol reversing route mentioned above.

2) See #1

3) Maybe just insert parentheses around the whole bit of data, and insert more strategically, and you are all but done.

4) See #3 or #1.

5) See #4.

If I was working on a team, and I saw someone writing a parser for a data-related problem, I would seriously question what they are doing.
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There was a Firefox extension that supported JPEG 2000, it worked great on the few photography-related websites that used the format.

It seems patents killed off the format for widespread acceptance. Maybe we'll actually get to use it in 2020 (when the patents will have expired).