skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just glanced through it and did not see the question of the speed of other massless particles (e.g. possibly neutrinos) adressed. They talk about an infinite bare velocity and that the finite speed of photons is due to multiple interactions. If that were the case, other particles that are less interacting than photons would go faster. I did not see this adressed anywhere in that paper (which, admittedly, I read rather quickly.)
Competition is great, and paypal has tons of room for improvement, that's for sure. But I doubt you'll see dramatic differences in the official policy of any major processor with regards to pre-orders. That's a matter of Visa/MC policy, actually. And the reason why paypal adheres so strictly to it is because if you violate Visa/MC policy then it's open season for chargebacks. One reason some of paypal's competitors look better is because they are at a much smaller scale and so don't have to concern themselves as much with the issues paypal is forced to take very seriously. But there's no way that wouldn't change if those processors started seeing transaction volumes on paypal's scale.

Best case scenario is that competition results either in a new top dog with better customer service or drives paypal to improve. But there's no way you're going to have a situation where tens of thousands of dollars suddenly flowing through an account won't result in lots of roadblocks and red tape. Not unless everyone moves to some sort of greymarket system like bitcoin.
The final exam in my Networks class had a section with jokes and comics and you had to explain why they were funny. The following two were on it, among others:

The great thing about TCP jokes is you always get them.

A TCP packet walks into a bar and says, "I want a beer." The bartender asks, "You want a beer?" and the TCP packet says, "Yes, a beer."
You wouldn't charge the car directly from the panels. Sell the solar electricity to utility during the day and get a plan for off-peak power (which are often 1/2 or 2/3 of normal rates) to charge your car while you sleep.

(Thats not saying you couldn't charge the car through your solar panels in a pressing case of zombie apocalypse. Inverters for home solar installations output the same AC power as a normal power outlet)
For me it shows that one of my friends +1'd it. I'm pretty sure he +1'd the real Stack Overflow though.
Huge glut of lawyers, yes, but not doctors.
A Bionic hand that can actually feel someone's touch
This is just fantasy. You might as well tell people to trade in gold. If you want to operate a legal business above board there's no reason not to use the existing suite of financial services out there today.
Invent a good alternative then. There are reasons why you don't run Haskell in a fighter jet.

And you can certainly write crappy Haskell too. It is hip to shit on C++, I get it. But for some types of software there is not a good alternative.
Well, it depends on how far back you want to go. All elements come from nuclear reactions in suns/stars which occur partly due to gravity. Some elements are unstable making them radioactive, some of which we use for nuclear fission. Big chunks of stars form planets and the associated geothermal energy. So, solar reactions and gravity account for all energy either directly or indirectly. Gravity is also the cause of tidal energy.
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> There is a huge shortage of doctors in the U.S. and it getting worse as the need for doctors goes up as the population ages.

This is true to an extent - the shortage is in primary care, but at the moment there are two issues with the field: the huge costs of medical training in the US and the fact that the cost of healthcare in the US is twice that of the rest of the OECD nations, tendency rising. Something will have to be done, but it's impossible to predict what is going to give.

Combined with the fact that medical training lasts ten years, it is an uncertain proposition.
I agree, although by native clustering I meant that the Postgres engine itself should support it, much like incremental vacuum was eventually built in.

pg_repack is a fork of pg_reorg (which has not been maintained since 2011), by the way, which has become the de facto replacement. No idea if the code is in need of cleanup or not, though.
Intent isn't fucking magic. It's not an excuse.
Neither was the 286, the 486, or the Nvidia GTX 280 if you are always going to look at tech like that. It was amazing and a huge advancement when it was produced. You can't look back and say "oh that sucks" 5-6 years later.
I have two observations about that kind of plan.

First, it would be significantly more of a hassle to boot up a separate OS for the purpose of executing a short-lived task (such a submitting homework, or doing banking, as others have mentioned). Related to that, there is a slight disconnect between the host filesystem and the guest filesystem. The more convenience one has (e.g. greater transparency and sharing) the greater the risk.

Related, but separate from that: how would you know the VM was compromised and thus should be destroyed? One could presumably just periodically destroy (or revert to snapshot). Perhaps even if it was compromised, maybe the short lifespan of the VM would limit the damage to others.
Frustrating, I thought they would have done security better than most given the type of information stored here.

Does anyone know a decent password keeper? I have a list of logins/passwords for my key sites in a word .doc file stored locally, but given I have a work mac, home mac, tablet and iPhone it really is a pain to access the locally stored file.

I thought about saving this file on google drive, but their 2-factor auth doesn't seem to apply for drive (only gmail).

How do others do this - is there a way to store an encrypted file somewhere online, then typing in a known password to unencrypt / open it when I need to access it?
So is this smart about multi-site Django installs? It would be awesome if it could figure out the correct Site object and settings from the hostname.

(I'm experimenting with django-dynamicsites-lite to do this but, while it appears to work, it is awfully hacky.)
There are shortages in areas, but often those are in smaller cities and rural areas. Primary care is probably the least palatable medical position to be in at this time. If you want to go into specialized medicine, there are indeed bigger opportunities, but often bigger time and money investment requirements. Nurses are also taking over some of the responsibilities of classically trained doctors.

Medicine is probably one of the more stressful work environment to be in, often with work/life balance suffering, so while positions may pay well, it may not actually lead to a happy life.

Politics and luck play a part in practically every career field. Having parents who can help support and bankroll you into a high-end medical or law school is lucky in and of itself.
Another good reason why you should always use "example.com".
How do you allocate your searches? Does the better quality of results justify the inconvenience of using several engines or is there a mechanism I'm unaware of?
It's a classic Web 2.0 strategy:

1. Locate an activity that's free, that anyone can perform sitting at a computer.

2. Turn (1) into a product and sell it back to people who don't realize it's free.

Just think -- I can sign up and, for $12.00 / month, have my very own online Python session. To do this, I need to sit down at a computer that already has Python installed, lying dormant, waiting to be used.

This outfit is betting that people are unbelievably stupid. Maybe they're right.
Public telephone interface makeover
On a good clear mid-summer day that solar panel can probably generate approximately the right amount of electricity to fully charge your Tesla (assuming you got the 40kWh battery pack for it.)
Tried the multiplication quiz: recognition is a bit slow and inaccurate, which results in repeated attempts per problem (and gets in the way of the main objective: answering as many as quickly in a minute). It's an otherwise cool showcase of the speech recognition feature though. :)
Twitter, Facebook, Stackoverflow are all really just CRUD apps. They face social and scaling challenges everyday among other technical challenges. I don't think he's giving CRUD apps enough credit. There's also security challenges, etc.
Richard A. Muller, Nobel Prize in Physics, posted an short article on energy efficiency and pollution in gasoline, hybrid, and pure battery powered cars. Gasoline vs best battery powered car is a factor of 40.The only car has zero pollution is the hydrogen powered.

http://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/physics10/old%20physics%2010/...
Given that the Department of Interior has been forced to take the whole department (expect for vital services) offline multiple times, I would not be surprised if it were hacked. I am hoping this doesn't get in front of a judge anytime soon as it can have some consequence for people caught in the way.

One such consequence, at one point a judge (curse his or her soul) decided since the DOI needed to be off the internet then all "affiliates" needed to be off the internet. This includes the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs). Which included both the .gov and .edu domain. At the time many Tribally chartered Community Colleges[1] were told to disconnect from the internet mid-semester. Even those colleges who paid for their own internet connection and had a .edu domain of their own.

Imagine having two weeks with no internet (most of our students don't have home internet) with classes going on. Finally, someone got the order rescinded for the schools.

I am not very fond of how the DOI handles its internet[2][3].

1) accredited just like state or private colleges with transferable classes.

2) don't even get me started about sending mail from a subdomain with no DNS entry for the sending mail server or subdomain and expecting us to not reject it.

3) http://www.doi.gov/archive/news/08_News_Releases/080523a.htm...
The energy is in a different form which won't necessarily raise the temperature of the earth as much as the sunlight hitting the earth would have. Not to mention the hydrocarbon based energy sources replaced by the clean electricity wouldn't be contributing further damage to the environment.
Yeah amazing they finally managed to ship it. XE3 came out last September, and had essentially nothing new over XE2. They had to pull C++ support because it was so buggy. Anyone who has been a C++ Builder customer will no doubt be excited, finally a 64 bit RAD Studio C++ compiler they can migrate to. Last big update C++ Builder customers got was (woo) unicode support quite a few years ago.
During the purges of the 30s and 50s, the most dangerous place to be was a member of the central committee. Ordinary workers were not affected by the bulk of the purges (and to some extent did not even realize they were happening), with the notable exception of Jews during weird Stalinst manipulations like the Mingrelian affair.

As recently as 2009, 60% of Russians preferred the Soviet days (with older citizens that number is as high as 80%). And even for eastern bloc states like the Ukraine, 46% of the population regrets the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
I'm not so sure. I went to college in a non-tech city in the middle of the country and all of my peers, many of whom stayed local, were making at least $55,000 working for boring companies (USAA being a big one). This was not an elite school either.

No startups, nothing sexy but if any of those companies recruiting us offered <$55k they were laughed at.
Some of it is in the standard, some of it is PG specific. MySQL is pretty terrible and doesn't support any of it that I'm aware of. I expect Oracle has their own versions of much of this stuff, but I've made it a hobby in my life to not learn Oracle.
I would be offended and tell that author to make it stop. That seems like an entirely reasonable reaction to me.
I find it embarrassing when someone uses argument from intimidation multiple times in such a small amount of text.
Evernote compromised: usernames, email address, hashed passwords leaked
From email I just received (my password failed an hour or so ago when they reset):

Dear Evernote user,

Evernote's Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service.

As a precaution to protect your data, we have decided to implement a password reset. Please read below for details and instructions.

In our security investigation, we have found no evidence that any of the content you store in Evernote was accessed, changed or lost. We also have no evidence that any payment information for Evernote Premium or Evernote Business customers was accessed.

The investigation has shown, however, that the individual(s) responsible were able to gain access to Evernote user information, which includes usernames, email addresses associated with Evernote accounts, and encrypted passwords. Even though this information was accessed, the passwords stored by Evernote are protected by one-way encryption. (In technical terms, they are hashed and salted.)
No. The second mod is not mine.
Note from someone who organizes conferences:

Do NOT use any slide deck framework that doesn't have a solid export function - jpgs, pdfs, whatever.

The videographer who will be editing your video will not be able to deal with your esoteric format - and screengrabbing every slide is horrible busy work.
May be it was no best model, but about "hundreds of thousands to forced labor camps"- it was about 1 million people in GULAG before second world war (0.59% of 170 millions population).
For modern USA incarceration rate is 0.74%. Are you sure it's better model?

> You want a competition between producers? Have you tried the so-called 'market'?

Market is nice when you have many producers. But as soon as company became 'too big to fail' competition disappearing.
This time of year you can buy "Passover Coke." It's made with cane sugar. It has no corn syrup in it whatsoever, while Mexican Coke actually has a ≈70/30 cane/corn mix. You can tell it apart from regular Coke by its yellow cap printed with a circle U (kosher symbol).

It's much cheaper than Mexican Coke (same price as regular 2 liter Coke), although it doesn't come in a glass bottle. And it's delicious! I actually stock up every year since I found out about this.
You Can't Register Example.com
How does Twitter make money? Ads and "sponsored" tweets; therefore, it is entirely concivable if someone is reading tweets that include rape jokes Twitter is profiting because ads or sponsored Tweets appear on the same page. This would be similar to Google search, YouTube and Facebook - I am not making the arguement, but I could see people take the position the ad companies are even more culpable than Amazon because they are using advertiser dollars to include ads with content about rape - how happy would you be as an advertiser to place ads for keywords like "jokes" or "comedy" and come to find out you website/product ads appear next to searches for "rape jokes"?
Total man crush on Elon here. He's like a science fiction author except he makes the spaceships for reals instead of writing about them. Meanwhile a large chunk of the entrepreneurs continue to optimize ad delivery and photo sharing (myself included), just sayin.
>De-federalizing destroys a lot of the political and economic clout that the US can hold over other, smaller countries.

Yeah. I want that. The U.S. fucks around with other countries too much. Iran, all of South America, Asia, etc. It is not just clout, it is direct military and economic warfare to bend countries to the will of the federal government and Pentagon.

>No one is forcing the states to "hold the union together" against their will.

You are quite wrong, "They enshrined in that document the right to change our national government through the power of the ballot -- a right that generations of Americans have fought to secure for all. But they did not provide a right to walk away from it."[1], also the Civil War moved the Union from a voluntary organization of the states to mandatory.

[1] https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/our-states-remain-...
I'm surprised http://example.com is reserved by IANA.
From the article: "The institution and the community condones, if not promotes, academic dishonesty, emphasizing prestige over intellectual growth."

This institution has employed, as professors, various characters including Henry Kissinger and Dave Winer. This assessment is in line with the impression that gives me.
Especially on this scale.
The articles I've seen also indicate men are raped more in the US due to prison based rapes. You're going to find that few people care about the man-on-man rape inside prisons. It's an extraordinarily vile double standard.
Would in-game achievements also count?
Sorry... Fat finger trade - I accidentally downvoted you instead of up (not sure how to revert it)

Pity the down vote isn't on the far right of the heading.
We're not naming the Dyson Sphere after him, then. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
That sounds like a win to me. How can anyone fault the founders for taking that deal?
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Wasn't there some speculation at that time that Groupon may have shied away from the Google offer since they would have had to open up their books completely to an audit before the deal would have closed? (and they possibly didn't want to contend with the possibility of a botched Google deal)
Shortages are often in poor areas, rural areas or smaller cities/towns which results in less pay. Shortages can probably also be found in specialized medicine. Nurses are encroaching on more general areas such as primary care, and there has been a definite upswing in the amount of people in nursing schools.

Parents should probably shift from just saying their child is going to be a doctor or a lawyer, and focus on what kind of doctor or lawyer their child is going to be, as that could influence their salary and quality of life many times over.
They knew. And wrote the checks gladly.
Could you clarify the title?
I finally made the switch to randomly-generated passwords for everything, so for once I can finally not care at all that this happened. It's just a reminder that I need to close my Evernote account.
Hope everyone realizes that by default, os x's file system is not case sensitive. (Case preserving, yes.)
It is a question not of system existence, but of performance relative to your average doctor. And once commercially deployed systems would start outperforming your average doctors these high-paying doctor jobs are bound to change somehow.

The answer to that question was a definite no, some 20 years back. And no, some 10 years back. Now, the answer is yes. And in some 20 years it will be resounding yes. Why? First, because medicine gets less and less 'shaman based' and more and more evidence based. Some 20 years back you could't scan a region of your DNA and figure out that you have a particular versions of couple of proteins that wrecking havoc in your particular case. Now you can. Second, there've been improvements in statistical models and natural language processing. To the level that computers can actually outperform humans in these murky areas. An IBM success with Jeopardy is a good example. Combine these two, take into account that computers are less likely to overlook hard evidence (like DNA data, incopatibilities with medications, etc), and you would also want an expert system to look at your health data, diagnose, recommend treatments and monitor the progress.

Either way. I still think that a "med school is probably Ok" could be a good advice to a kid.
To follow on from safeaim,

I'd challenge you to get in contact with a reporter from either newspaper yourself. How would you go about it?
Google for CCNA Module 1 through 3. Those acronyms mostly relate to ISP and configuration and running mode of enterprise networks.
Thank you. I'll try them.
Telling the author to make it stop is reasonable. Being offended by it is just plain absurd.
I know one about the GNOME text editor, but it's ok, you might not gedit.

This one is obviously better when telling someone in person...
Can you fax gold? Thought so. And cash, which is as traceable as Bitcoin, is not illegal either is it?

So what was your point exactly?
You can't revert it, I have remedied the situation by giving the grandparent an upvote. It was a deserving comment anyway.
Gotta wonder though: should StackOverflow.com rank high for "stack overflow"? After all, a "stack overflow" isn't necessarily related to programming questions. Yes, you can ask questions on StackOverflow.com about stack overflows, but that's missing the point. So if I have a domain name that's a thing, but my site has very little content related to that thing, should I rank high for queries about that thing?
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I bet there's some sort of logic on google's side that states, if a government homepage url redirects to another non .gov URL, that the .gov address should be the canonical page of the site thats being redirected too. Which would explain why stackoveflow's homepage isn't listed in the results. Just a guess.
...why is that surprising?
Why are acquisitions or sales of businesses classified as failures?

(I guess the answer is obvious: To inflate the numbers enough to make a sensational headline.)
I didn't even realize you could get down-voted on here ha. Well, sorry for my comment, I guess?
It's convenient outrage.

Or call it bumper sticker outrage. It's shallow because it demonstrates the absolute bare minimum of response and investigation.

And yes it's hypocritical.
Who said anyone is trying to blow anyone's minds? It's just an article which has been posted which is interesting.
Why should all programmers try to get rid of C++? IMHO as the programming community should try to enhance the craft. To write better code irregardless of language(including C++).
I'm definitely unhappy with the US incarceration levels.

I still think that cutting wood or digging ore in Siberia (see e.g. the weather in the fine city of Norilsk) is noticeably more cruel than serving time in a US prison. A quick googling allows me to assume that forced labor as a punishment has not been used in the US since 1940s, except for rare cases in the military.

I very much hope the the US government, however crooked it might be, is not considering high incarceration level as an engine of economic growth.
We were promised flying cars and got online Rap lyrics instead.
Why would this rank them so high though? Does the googlebot actually follow the http-equiv="refresh". If so, would changing http://stackoverflow.com to say http://dell.com make them rank #1 for searching for dell as well?
Yes, the bash highlight is missing and the showoff handler kicks in instead resulting in 500. Thanks to the dev mode you get complete stack trace with code preview :)
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I don't know much about AI, but I highly doubt Watson will revolutionize anything. Significant advances in AI will most likely come from better software and algorithms and while IBM is great at doing hardware, they are not so good when it comes to software. The way I see it, Watson is just IBM doing PR work to get people to know their brand since they don't really offer any consumer products anymore.
Actually you can.
People know that Twitter is full of idiots and that Google is automated, but people (apparently) still expect marketplaces to be curated. I think a more accurate comparison would be: It would be hypocritical for them to boycott Apple's App Store if they would sell an app with that name. (And I think they would)
It appears that the OP is surprised the domain Example.com can't be registered as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) have set it as a special use domain[1] alongside several other domains.

[1] http://www.iana.org/domains/special