skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my question is misunderstood also.

I realize they follow semver (at least unofficially), which I think is great. What I want to know is if there any good reasons why others don't do it?
http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=2100175
Not only that, you have to save a reference to the parts of the console that you want to use just in case they attempt to destroy those.

var c = console
var l = console.log
var log = function(){ l.apply(c, arguments) }

Now they can't break the console from working with stuff like:

console.log = function(){}
Pigeons have also been shown to have atleast rudimentary capability for solving the Traveling Salesman Problem:
http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~psychgso/gradlunchtime1011/lub...
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10071-011-0463-9
Brute forcing "ALL" the credit card numbers is not hard... Limitiing the search space doesn't make it easier... it just saves a little bit of electricity.
I recall hard realtime as being defined by an answer being worthless if it is late. If you are rocketing through the air, you can fire your rockets a few msec late, and as long as you compensate later nothing will break.
Speaking of resilience, I wrote a paper [1] 3 years ago about how to rebuild torrent sites (like TPB) within a couple hours of a denial of service (legal or otherwise) using the Vuze client's DHT. There was some similar concurrent work [2] on the Mainline DHT by Aaron Grunthal. I'd be interested to find out whether anyone has applied it for that application.

[1] "Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit." https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/dht-woot10.pdf
[2] "Efficient Indexing of the BitTorret Distributed Hash Table." http://arxiv.org/pdf/1009.3681v1.pdf
Parts of the spacecraft will have hard realtime requirements, but those parts can be modular and controlled by soft-realtime systems
You're quite right about trading fees and taxes, but what's that about being non-American? Practically all developed countries have a functioning stock exchange.
I believe startups arise from a need - and that can be cool and funky, or it can be something solving real problems. What matters is that humans will keep innovating no matter what the field is
Bill Gates offers 100k to invent condom 2.0
Oh I see. A long click should also select and not open, as well as holding control and then click. I'm still trying to figure out how I will expose these information to a new user.
Another Minnesotan, who also moved to Chicago and moved back when considering where I wanted to raise a child...

I think part of what Linus gets wrong is that he confuses the correlation of high-property-tax well-funded districts with the performance of the schools in those districts. The high property taxes (or property values or however the market works it out) doesn't make the schools good, it filters out people who are indifferent to the school quality, and filters in people who place a high value on education. Once you cluster a lot of people with those values, the schools will be good; in part because of the peers a student will encounter, and in part because of all of the small but concrete things parents do to make the schools better.

Open enrollment without tuitions doesn't challenge that clustering. To participate in open enrollment in Minnesota, you have to really value education: you have to figure out what the school is you want to attend, you have to figure out the bureaucracy to get in to that school, and you have to provide your own transportation to the school. All those hurdles are just as good as high property taxes or high property values.

The irony is that as a result open enrollment is not as progressive as it might seem. It's something the privileged can use to fix their children's education experience without moving, or allow people to trade effort for income. But it doesn't bring the underprivileged up, because they really don't take advantage of open enrollment. Though perhaps I'm using circular thinking, as I generally consider children with engaged, informed, and capable parents as "privileged" regardless of income; and maybe I even think that way because Minnesota supports that particular lifestyle choice via things like open enrollment. It's a particular life arrangement that I didn't see much of in Chicago, and maybe that's no accident.
Make it work in the same fashion as Readability (with a bookmarklet or something) and I'm sold.
and what if he stops putting a public reference to the "detector" method?, read previous answer again.
From the Face.com website: "Face.com Inc. has been acquired by Facebook, and as part of this process, we need to close up existing products and services so we can focus on new products at Facebook."
That's true, I'm implementing that. Thank you for your feedback:)
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Thanks for the response. You included real world examples from academia, and your supportive attitude means a lot to us.

I'm really interested in what you're working on. If you need help with your YC app, send me an email and I'd be happy to look through it. (denny_at_microryza.com) I'm always happy to hear what other scientists are working on.

Keep going!
Yup! We credited http://stackoverflow.com/a/15567735/131898 in the README (https://github.com/adamschwartz/chrome-inspector-detector/bl...) which in turn credits you. :)
How the U.S. Cracked Japan's 'Purple Encryption Machine'
Nice one.

Can we have a bookmarklet or chrome extension for this? Just a click and the website should be added. I'm using G+'s +1 for this so far.
Just about the only one worth reading. And the one[0] [in just about the whole of the news industry] with the best track record as far as making testable and correct predictions.

[0] http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/130485/claim-kr...
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I imagine that if you are going into space, finding energy to run the computers should not be that hard. I am not sure about the falcon, but I know many jet planes simply attach a generator to the turbines. According to http://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/attm/a11.jo.fc.1.html , both Apollo and Gemini got power from fuel cells.
"Can we have a bookmarklet or chrome extension for this?"

Yes we can :) Thanks for your suggestion.
Nor do hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands follow most everyday people.
for firefox and js, I always used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey

for custom css... I clearly remember that old firefox version could let me set custom css, no plugin needed...
Twitter does make money on its API. It's done through channel partnerships. Is it as much as advertising? No. But still significant.

Twitter's API is still sufficiently open. There's plenty of data to be had. The limitations and constraints breeds creativity, and we'll finally see new integrations and ideas that do something new rather than simple enhancements and user-annoyance-fixing-as-a-product.
Wikipedia data dumps and stats
Worst case scenario, to defeat this: Save page to local drive, edit JS (and remove this) in your IDE/text editor. Open locally.
Generally speaking, BGA solutions to fault-tolerance work by distributing everything across multiple computers. So every computer compares results with every other computer, and if a minority of computers find themselves in disagreement with a majority, the computers in the minority adopt the stance of the majority.
Yes, 100% of studies (n = 1) agree.
Addressing #1: Most academic research the government funds is in basic science in expert domains, e.g. intercellular communication, neural firing patterns, etc, and much of this basic science is exploratory. For most projects, it would be difficult for everyone to agree on the goal and metrics of a competition. Sure, this might work for high-profile projects, e.g. establish a map of some organism's genome or connectome, or applied projects like your examples, but prize-based competitions would be difficult to implement on a large-scale. On another note, who would judge these competitions? For most domain-specific research, it would be peers in those domains -- so not much would be changed.

Addressing #2: This already exists. The government does contract out many tech projects, e.g. to Lockheed Martin or Boeing. Life science labs I've been associated with, have also received contracts from the NIH (as opposed to grants). While these aren't commission-based, these contracts are probably what you have in mind.

Address #3: This also already happens to a degree, typically with public research universities. Especially when a new center opens, the state + federal government will give some minimum funds for the center or institute to keep their lights on. But no funding is ever "permanent", especially when you have politicians slashing research budgets. Finally, it's interestingly that you mention that these institutions would be more or less under the complete control by an executive director or a BOD. The article mentions that having individuals of such power over a field (as these executives would have) stifles change, and I agree. It would be too optimistic to believe that these executives would not pick and choose projects of their liking, which is actually pretty much what currently happens. Plus, not having to submit grants virtually guarantees less accountability.
Great product!
-Would be nice to have a demo video.
-How do I change my account password.
As this article shows, we're leaving behind more and more people; some people will remain Zero Marginal Product workers for the rest of their lives, and as we increase automation, their ranks will only swell. If this doesn't tell people that a guaranteed basic income is necessary, I don't know what will.

We still have 3 people for each open job in the country. That number may never get to parity again; the faster we can get those who cannot do anything out of the labor force, and onto a society-provided income, the better. There'll be less competition for the remaining jobs, and these people will not have to live lives of constant degradation.

If this is the road to guaranteed income, so be it. We need to get there one way or another.

More on Zero Marginal Product workers:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/07/zer...

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/02/the...
node is fine
In the part of Minnesota I grew up in, open enrollment was mainly used to get a kid onto a different school's hockey team, if he didn't make the starting team of his local school.
A quick comment about point 2: A lot of academia is about quantity over quality these days. One high-impact, well-designed paper with strong conclusions could very well be worth more than 50 weaker papers. Unfortunately these days, many people, especially those outside of the field, may perceive the 50 weaker-paper lab(s) to be more "efficient" than the 1 strong-paper lab.
"try to beat a competing product" ?
Thanks for your recommendation to watch the video, it was funny enough not to regret it.

That said, I don't think objclxt's comment spoils the fun of the video because even in the video he explains what Rego means before getting to the funny stuff.
A common example is the incomplete case problem (currently fixed by static analysis tools, I believe, but bear with me).

Suppose you have an enum:

enum rocket_states { ROCKET_WAITING, ROCKET_FLYING, ROCKET_FAULT }

And a switch that runs off that enum:

switch ( some_rocket_state ) {
ROCKET_WAITING:
wait_foo();
wait_bar();
break;
ROCKET_FLYING:
fly_foo();
break;
}
}

This will compile. (Or maybe it won't, I haven't cut C for some time now).

But you've missed the ROCKET_FAULT case. In languages which check for case completeness, this kind of logical construction would cause a compiler failure. ML, F#, Rust etc will all complain that you haven't addressed all cases.

Sometimes this or something like it is added to a code template:

default: assert(false);

Which is defensive code that's great for test. But not as great for rockets. Better if bad code simply can't be written.

I believe static analysis tools can now pick up on missing cases, but there are still lots of reasons why C can't be as fully analysed as a language like ML, Haskell, ATS, Rust etc can be. Putting aside the obvious problem of undefined behaviour meaning you really want to push C code through multiple compilers and multiple static analysis tools, there's also the great universal escape hatch for C: direct memory access.

When you can simply go in and change memory, type systems and analysis are strictly speaking no longer going to work without positive human effort to refrain from doing that. Analysis can only make guarantees under certain assumptions; introduce direct memory access and all bets are off.

Yes, discipline and coding standards can also cut this down. Some analysis tools will do partial analysis of memory accesses. But it still requires positive human action. A computing system includes the humans who make it, run it and use it. Cutting down on the avenues for mistakes is a good thing.
I would be scared if they weren't using C (or a derivative like C++).

C is a highly deterministic language. It has no "features" per se. If you point to a line of C code, I can tell you with very high certainty what assembly opcode(s) it will compile to. The only thing C does that might be considered a "feature" is memory abstraction, which is kind of important for any large programming project.

Now, if you're trying to advocate using Java or Python or something, you've obviously never worked on embedded software. Not only does any very-high-level language introduce much higher resource requirements, but they are also much less deterministic (which is BAD for spacecraft).

Proper C code is not less stable than any very-high-level language. In fact, there is a lot less that could go wrong.
Point of information: that was a point of information, not a point of order.

A point of order would be something like pointing out that someone replied under the wrong parent.
I was responding to the "Really, the negative comments here on homeschooling are staggeringly out of date." part of your post. I find that a lot of the criticism of homeschooling still rings true.
Ada has had hard realtime support since Ada 95.

Also, the idea that C or even Assembler creates guarantees of stability and predictability is contingent on the CPU design.

But now I am at the limits of my shallow pool of knowledge. The SpaceX stuff demonstrably works; Carmack has done fast control systems in C/C++ and it works. I'm probably making an unnecessary fuss.
Says 'Add Comment" not 'Add Advice'. Also the advice is clear, don't use OS specific keys for the web.
Starred. Thanks for the submission. Would definitely be better to have this integrated into the browser.
Greasemonkey (+ userscript) and your plug in attack two different parts of the problems.

While "my style" it's great for "live" css editing, greasemonkey+userscript have a community and shines for the "share your modification" thing.

May I suggest you to get in touch with gm/us developers? It would be awesome to be able to write a custom css for a site and share it!
You should probably edit your comment a 2nd time and delete the first two sentences because they make you sound like an ass. And, you not only mock the guy, but you refer to the wrong plugin... incredible. Are you not ashamed to have such comments linked to a username which personally identifies you?
> The high property taxes (or property values or however the market works it out) doesn't make the schools good, it filters out people who are indifferent to the school quality, and filters in people who place a high value on education.

See Scarsdale, NY, a town in westchester which features insanely high home prices to fund the public school district (virtually all houses cost millions in today's market - high even for Westchester). The rare apartment buildings found well within range of the school are deliberately zoned out of the school district because they aren't contributing tens of thousands per year in school taxes, and students living outside of the district are free to attend if they pay ~40k/year in tuition.
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"Just" error handling? That's the hard part!
I'd have to share the parent's skeptism. I'm in biostatistics and neuroscience, and for the most part, could evaluate a stats or neuro proposal. But, if I were to look at, say, an astrophysics or physical chemistry research proposal, I'd probably have little to no idea on the proposal's merits. So I'm curious how Microryza will help non-domain experts evaluate proposals.
A platform for selling small startups, developed codes, patents, IP?
I know a number of companies - small and big - which have developed IP of value, but do not have the time or the energy to find a buyer. OTOH, a lot of big companies might be just interested in buying these IPs. Can we create a platform, as AngelList is for investing, for buying and selling?
Wouldn't those modules be considered part of avionics though ?

I got the impression the article was talking about the totality of avionics software run on the spacecraft, perhaps that impression is inaccurate.
I would suggest it is not so much related to level of income, but rather knowledge of money management. The choice of buying more assets than liabilities is a basic, reliable (although frequently dull) way of acquiring wealth.

I am reminded of frequent stories of individuals with large incomes still being relatively poor - Doctors, Lawyers, etc. purchasing ever larger houses, ever more luxurious automobiles, etc. (all liabilities).

Or, as one individual who like to get peoples' attention puts it: "It's not how much money you make, but how much you keep."
If gmail died I would use hotmail.
> And changing a boy's middle name to Hussein no doubt increases his changes of reaching the White House by a factor of 1000.

On the other hand, it also vastly increases his chances of getting captured and hanged due to actions of the White House.
Also, there is no such thing as an X desktop that isn't a default install of Ubuntu.
Thanks, I like the quote re: theory and practice and will swipe it for my own re-use...

Attribution?
Or governments can fund it.
Vic runs G+. It is his job to grow G+. The person who hired him for that job is responsible for deciding whether that job should exist.
Is there a public list of such site? I think I'd find it quite useful (for my own blocking).
OK. Thanks for the clarification. Would have helped if original article just talked about screen readers.
It was worth $4000 TO THAT ONE PERSON. But that's hardly a robust definition of the item's worth or value across an interesting population.
_this is the first time I've ever felt like I understood something about algorithmic trading systems. Thank you.
You'd have to open it with --disable-web-security to bypass potential CORS problems on some sites.
Regular avionics, and stuff in cars
Most people on net forums don't want to be in the enterprise software world, even if they are.
It seems like anything with a space doesn't work, e.g.: http://toprope.me/?q=san+francisco -> Please connect to the Internet in order to view the page you requested.
That purple crayon sounds ultra cool. I don't remember having read that book, but the OP reminded me of one called Mr Pine's Purple House that made a big impact on me when I was learning to read. Maybe there's a secret purple fraternity of children's books.

Mr Pine lives on a street where all the houses are white with white picket fences, and he can never find his own damn house. (The book didn't say "damn".) One day he decides to bust loose and paint it purple. I remembered this as a crypto-anarchistic 60s radical "do your own thing" kind of thing. It stuck in my mind as a subversive influence.

Years later I discovered that a fan group devoted to this book had formed on the internet and persuaded the now 80-year old author to republish it. I mentioned this randomly one day and months later my son cleverly gave it to me as a birthday present. The whole thing turned out to be far tamer than I remembered! Either it was extremely gentle crypto-anarchism or I totally read that into it. I'm not sure which explanation is better.
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I have been told by aerospace engineers that when designing airplanes, you really don't have any extra anything, including energy. The avionics people have to lobby for as much energy as they can get, and try not to use too much.

I don't know if that's still true for space stuff... probably.
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DHH would certainly agree: http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/arc/000433.html
It will probably happen again, except the next time it will be intentional, and it will be successful in another country. Most people don't even hear about this stuff.
GA144, from Green Arrays, is a chip which is very good for space applications - computational power, energy efficiency, predictability, versatility, radiation tolerance... Yet after a year and a half on the market there is still no sensible C compiler for it.

I doubt "C is as close as you can get to WYSIWYG" is always entirely correct.
"you not only mock the guy, but you refer to the wrong plugin"

Neither of those statements are true.

"Are you not ashamed to have such comments linked to a username which personally identifies you?"

Anything I write, I should be willing to sign with my name, otherwise it's probably not worth writing. I didn't write the comment with malicious intent, but when I saw it could be interpreted that way, I clarified it.
Really interesting way to calculate this number. Coming from a completely different angle (the job-killing calculator that says JobsDisplaced=Profit/YearlyProfit-$60,000) I calculate that Google is displacing only 200,000 jobs, which is only about 1/10 of your number.

But, if you figure that google's profit could instantly be about 10 times higher than it is now by firing the 9 of 10 employees that are not in the profit-making search group (I admit to gross simplifications) the JobsDisplaced=Profit/YearlyProfit-$60,000 value would come close to your ~2million number.
It seems that Go is killing Python and Ruby projects instead of the languages the original authors thought of.

While in the enterprise everyone is happy using the available set of languages, on HN we continuously see posts about migrations from Ruby/Python to Go.
Isn't it just a bandit problem? Couldn't you use something like Thompson sampling to sort the comments? It'd have the nice benefits of adding random noise like reddit tries to do, while still having finite-time optimality guarantees.
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You bet. The problem of getting to orbit was solved "somehow" in 1950's, with emphasis on reliability, then terminal control optimized the result some decades later, when the hardware became available... But the basic task is still way below capabilities of even modest modern computers. Space X may afford to have quite a bit of redundancy.
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Go has tuple return values and of course input values.

The only thing missing is giving a tuples a name. But if you do that, you should make a struct, or you will forget which field is which and have bugs.
It seems odd that they publish the emails of applicants? Not behind captcha or anything.

It's interesting that Google's applications were hiding behind "Charleston Road Registry Inc."
The problem with this article imho is that it cherry picks only 4 people. What about all of the people who did focus on one thing and were successful, or the people who tried to take on too much at once and failed?
The first time I did a search in AltaVista I was amazed and it really did seem like magic. Within an hour it was no longer magic and was just a nice technical feat. So when Google came along is was too late for this stuff to be magic, but they clearly did the technical feat better.