skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, poor wording on my part. I wasn't trying to make your struggles look easy. I actually found it heart wrenching to read about them. And was trying to point out that change can be easy when done in small steps systematically. Although it almost never is ;)
If you are seeing bad packets with any amount of frequency, one thing to check is if you're using any TCP offloading with your driver, both on the sending end and on the receiving end. (Such as "Large Send Offload", TCP checksum offloading, IP checksum offloading, TSO/LRO, etc. These are usually vendor-specific settings, so terminology may differ)

I've seen multiple vendors with buggy implementations. In what way are they buggy? In the cases I've seen, packets are corrupted by the driver and then have a hardware checksum applied to the corrupt data...so they go through the network just fine. (In one case, for example, two 64 byte blocks of data were swapped within a large packet.)

When you turn on TCP offloading, you're swapping the well-proven OS network stack for a who-the-hell-knows-how-much-testing-really-went on network device stack.

There may or may not be a noticeable performance penalty when you turn off TDP offloading features, so you should profile performance before and after.
By definition, it is not. What is your point?
People diagnosed with cancer are obviously more likely to die of cancer, since cancer is never cured, and everyone must die of something. What matters is how long they live with their cancer. That is why survival rates are a better measure of cancer treatment efficacy than mortality rates.
While it is possible that cosmic rays affect DRAM, the majority of the single-bit errors are due to a failure in the memory cell itself, as the paper shows a high correlation between error rates and utilization, while radiation-induced errors should be randomly distributed. Even if you get a rad-induced glitch, I believe it's more likely to be caused by alpha-radiation from the chip itself. I don't know for any study that specifically looks for cosmic rays, say, placing the control system in a lead box. Also, dupe.
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The gem inside that list:

http://hackershelf.com/book/289/a-mathematical-theory-of-com...
Inappropriate and creepy.
AWS CloudHSM: Secure Key Storage and Cryptographic Operations
I hate snob programmers and designers.

It isn't very uncommon to have code that would cause most to projectile-vomit in products that are massively successful, reliable and, yes, very profitable.

For design, there's always Craigslist.
"This post is talking about the best way to acquire correct beliefs, not the best way to manipulate people."
Here is a random suggestion. Yakima has a number of Churches and one of the types of people you can find at a Church are older people who are befuddled by computers. You can also find people to talk about what is important in life and what isn't. Not saying you should convert, just saying that its a place to hear a point of view.

Offer to help people get their computers set up, or fixed up. Be scrupulously honest, do not lie and do not exaggerate and do not try to be anything except helpful. That will get you money to eat and buy the basics. You may still be homeless but you will start connecting with the community in a helpful way.

Yakima does have some electronics stores (BestBuy and Radio Shack) and if I were in your spot I would look to see if either of them needed technical help. Its not that hard to learn how to pull apart, clean, and re-assemble a desktop PC.

Don't give up, and each morning think of at least two things you can be thankful for and hold onto them all day. Be open to opportunities that may present themselves.
Why Github and Stack Overflow are the wrong tools for democracy
So, my remote is broken, and occasionally turns off the TV when I try to change the channel, but usually the channel changes. Also, the volume goes up or down by a kind of random amount, but usually in the direction I poke.

I have no control over my TV?
I kind of want to punch the guy who said "no programmer would do this" in the nose. I'm glad you didn't let that person tell you who you were, or what you could be.

You wanted to do a thing. You made the computer do that thing. Programmer.

It's not about proving you're the smartest person before you even touch a keyboard. It's about being persistent, doing experiments, and always learning.

And I expect that your friend has forgotten the sort of things he did when he started.
You're right that there's a better tool for most of these applications. The knife is useful because it's usable for a multitude of purposes and it's easy to carry. I'll have the knife when I don't have a file, screwdriver or scouring pad.

screws (even sticky ones)

I actually meant the plastic covers with sticky backing found on some laptops so that users are not subjected to the horrible sight of a screw head.
Being a non-American person in the United States (and a 'person of colour', as I believe the term is), I have sometimes had to deal with people ridiculing my culture in a mostly unintended way. At first, I used to be just angry at them, and most of my day would be ruined. Alternately, I would react in an angry or indignant manner (and my day would still be ruined.)

Occasionally, even now, my "useful habits are shut down", like the article says, for an entire day when someone makes an insensitive or rude comment.

But by logically evaluating the words of the offender, I have often seen that they are the result of ignorance, or plain thoughtlessness rather than an innate lack of respect.
Hence, now, when sometimes people say things that I perceive as being culturally insensitive or even mildly racist, I have learned to either let go, or calmly but firmly point out the bias involved in their wording, which has led to a better understanding and rapport between me and the people I interact with here.
Also, I don't see this technology being compatible with erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. See, even the best glass fiber is good only up to 80 km, that's not enough, but by placing a piece of erbium-doped fiber it acts as a laser-amplifier and the fiber lenght can go up to 4000 km. Now that's useful. IMHO the EDFA is the technology that really enabled high-speed internet.
Using FeedBurner? For the sake of control, enable MyBrand
A case for purposefully trying to offend someone, or just playing devil's advocate for something that might cause offense: getting to know people's level for what they are offended by, and thereby measuring their rationality and whether or not they're worth talking to seriously. If someone blows up over one thing, odds are they'll blow up over other things too. Jonathon Swift's "A Modest Proposal" could probably have been used as a litmus test many years ago--nowadays it's just too easy to dismiss it as "trolling", or treat it as nothing more than the satire and social commentary it is, rather than having an emotional reaction to it or attempting at least a somewhat serious analysis of whether or not his solution would be feasible in different dimensions and whether or not it would likely help the problem.

I like to ask if people operate by (or will operate by having seen the link) Crocker's Rules[0], which tells me whether or not they take responsibility for their own mind. (Looks like it's mentioned in the comments on LW too.)

This reminds me of esr's recent commentary about a controversial piece of advice.[1] Can you see past preconceptions, and either engage reality as reality, or even hypotheticals as hypotheticals, and not respond on a purely emotional level? Emotions are fine; I like my emotions, I just try not to be ruled by them as much as I can, especially the less productive ones. ("Speak the truth even if your voice shakes.")

[0] http://www.sl4.org/crocker.html

[1] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4270
Very nice counter to my brief rant (not that you intended it to be). Well said. Except for the language and particular rate, my experience was essentially similar to what you describe.

I would add, though, that it doesn't necessarily go the way the recruiter describes. Yeah, if you take the tests and sign the six years, it will likely go that way, but it is the military, they do own you, and if they want to they can have you do anything because they said so. And you don't get to quit.

The military was a positive experience for me, and it is for many people. But I stand by my rant.
:-( I don't think we met last night. Pity, I would've liked to meet the person behind "rdl". Perhaps we could meet sometime after DDay craziness dies down?
Continuous compaction for MongoDB collections
> Implicit in this statement is that "figur[ing] out what the world looks like" -- and then accepting that status quo -- is, or ought to be, the goal of all people.

The article is from lesswrong.com, where everyone focuses very much on figuring out facts, and less so on most of the other things that matter in life. In addition, by "facts" or "what the world looks like" they mean scientifically verifiable facts first and foremost. I don't think a lot of people would have a problem with the "status quo" if by that phrase you meant F=ma or E=mc^2.

In fact, I would say that the article (and the lesswrong.com community as a whole) subscribes to a radically progressive point of view, where any and every social institution (and our emotional attachments to them) should be subjected to rigorous scrutiny based on facts. The author will probably take issue with your assumption -- "assuming one has an understanding of the status quo" -- since, in his/her opinion, whether or not you actually have an understanding of facts is exactly what we're trying to figure out in the first place.

I'm not sure whether having such a hyper-critical point of view is actually better than having a conservative bias -- after all, there are other things that matter in life -- but in any case I think you missed the context.
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I believe Feedburner will ultimately shut down, the question isn't really IF it'll shut down BUT WHEN it'll shut down. We have a simple to use Feed Fetching API at https://www.feedsapi.org with our extended documentation (in work) at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vCL_W9XGnsa-EN8oAhNl8tOq... , it’s not a clone of the Google Reader API, but it’s really good for what it’s supposed to do.
The author follows up with an article titled "How to Not Get Offended".

http://lesswrong.com/lw/gwx/how_to_not_get_offended/

Not sure whether this addition will be any help to people who are seriously determined not to "let go", though.
Thank you! I really like the design of EverRibbon.

I have already started a campaign here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-chariot-of-charity/
I was going to say "JavaScript" but upon reflection - you might find Go (v1.1 is out) a better choice for back-end heavy lifting - if it's good enough for Google ... (BTW you could say that for Python too).
Very much related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5447006
FBI wants real-time Gmail, Dropbox spying power
I think that undervalues the innovation that goes into taking a new technology and turning it into a widely available, affordable product. That is not easy, and without that step, no invention is going to change the world very much.

I also think it undervalues the role of the market in creating the capital to fund these activities, and the many different companies and universities (many private) who compete to spend that money in innovative ways.

By comparison, the Soviet Union centrally funded their core research too, but were not able to keep up technologically with market economies like the U.S. or western Europe.
It's a common way of describing that shared experience. There's no need to restrict our speech or feelings to the strictly literal. If you don't like the phrase you don't have to use it, but to many couples the experience is meaningful enough that the phrase is also meaningful.
If you're using FeedBurner and haven't already, consider enabling the MyBrand service. It's free, and gives you full control of the feed URL. I wrote instructions for doing so here: http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/using-feedb...

[Edit: link]
They actually do rent manual cars: I searched a random day in April and 3 of the 10 cars available are manuals (https://flightcar.com/cars/SFO/2013-04-02%2012:00:00/2013-04...). This seems like a great benefit if you're looking to rent a manual car, since car-rental places don't usually offer them.
JPEG Compression Shows Success of Viral “Equal Sign” Profile Picture
I'm sorry. I read it a couple times, but I'm really not understanding your analogy. Perhaps you can tell me how you would actually control somebody getting offended. Let's take an example:

Hypothetical you[1] are in a group at a party, talking about current events. Naturally, same-sex marriage comes up. Not wanting to offend people you don't know, you simply say you hope the Supreme Court makes an intelligent decision.

If a member of your group is a member of Westboro Baptist Church, I believe there is a good chance they will get offended, even though you didn't say anything offensive. How could you control that?

1. By hypothetical you, obviously I have no idea what your real beliefs are.
Sure, but's got to be much cheaper to scrape off and shovel out the salt than to separate it by reverse osmosis, etc. Besides, to save on the scraping, might line the relevant areas with some tough, flexible plastic and, then, periodically shut down, remove the plastic, flex it to break off the salt, reinstall, and continue.
Collaborate to Innovate
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You should put this app in a wordpress plugin.
Again, they absolutely do not.

This would suggest that a significant percentage of the excess costs are going to medical innovation; instead at each step along the way (from hospital to insurer to reseller to medical device and pharmaceutical company) 15-30% is skimmed in admin and billing fees and other overhead.

It is a total myth that the US is either the sole innovator or the sole supplier of funding for medicine.

So who does fund significant medical research?

On the most part private institutions (think howard hughes medical institute) and universities and their endowments, and federal and state government grants.

There are significant research partnerships with pharmaceutical companies and they do spend huge numbers on R&D but significant quantities of this are iterative rather than truly innovative, which is work that is done more often by PhD's and postdocs as they have more to gain and less to loose by going out in a limb with their research.

And this research goes on in every country in the world.

The US may account for more than the rest of the world's aggregate defence spending but it is stretching it to suggest that the same is true for medical research.
1. You as a human have the ability to control your reaction to anything.

2. Any person you deal with is also a human and has the same ability to control their reaction to anything.

Therefore, someone's reaction is 100% their choice, just as it is yours. We all have this ability, few of us exercise it. However, it is not my own fault that someone else doesn't exercise this control.

> "Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. [...] When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others."

- Epictetus
This looks surprisingly cool. I've seen plenty of startups claiming to "fix" email, but this is certainly a novel approach. I'm sure that $20 a month won't suit everyone, but if you get hundreds of emails a day and it saves you half an hour a month, it seems worth it.
EROEI will kill this thing stone dead, if the world is still thinking rationally.

Note that it is essentially a solar installation, it doesn't really say if it works during the night. But you can safely assume that if it works on temperature, the headline 'nameplate' figure of 500 gw is only available in peak conditions.

It says it uses desalinated water - which is a very energy intensive operation- so at best I figure it would be mildly energy-neutral, at worst it would actually be an energy suck. Then there is the small matter of all the embedded energy in the worlds second tallest structure. The costs are $1 billion for the tower, $100 million for the pipeline, and desal plants are about a $1b a piece these days. That's $2.1 billion invested - not including transmission lines - that's going to take a very long time to earn back.

It looks like a subsidy farming exercise to me, or possibly a stock pump'n'dump scheme.
It is getting to the point where the only advantages to 'real' books left are: 1. they can be autographed (thank you Mr. Knuth and Mr. Brodie) and 2. they make really good insulation during winters...
For the record, Google Authenticator has always been open source and is based on open HOTP and TOTP standards. You could always add arbitrary accounts to the mobile app using the key URI format:
https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/wiki/KeyUriFo...

For example, here's a debug tool written in Javascript that has been online since early 2011:
https://google-authenticator.googlecode.com/git/libpam/totp....
Understood, thank you for the clarification.
I have a Firefox extension that does this: https://github.com/mook/browseridp
It only requires a static file; currently I have it hosted on Google AppEngine's free tier. Since it stuffs the keys into the normal password storage, sync should just work.

Didn't take all that long, I guess. See commit log :)
And who knows: what would have happened if Y! had promoted pg a few times, eventually to CEO. Or what will happen if this kid helps turn Y! into a YC?
How many financial executives are there in the U.S.? Should we assume that each of their children founded a company and exited profitably by the age of 17?

Let's not take too much away from what this person accomplished.
Given the publicity, it's going to have a rocky time. Pretty much anyone has standing to raise an objection to a patent, so you can expect that competitors, anyone with a threatened business model etc will be raising objections all over the place.
> I'd love to understand.

In my biased opinion I'd suggest you study western and northern European democracies. The government provides essential services (decentralized up to the district level) like education, water, streets, police, health care, social security for it's citizens.

I'd rather have clean water and unbiased police and justice and free education. Every private company needs to maximize their own profit. The government does not need to do this. They can subsidize important but nonprofitable projects. This can be and has been made efficient.

There is no interest in a private prison company to reduce crime. There is also not much reason for a private rail company to invest in infrastructure that not profitable. But as a citizen I have an interest to use a efficient train.

It's not black and white. Private sector is very good at a lot of things. But there are certain other things that are natural monopolies or important for the functioning of the society that in my opinion can be best served by an efficient government.

The private sector and capitalism do not also not always work in your interest - Adam Curtis from the BBC (also government :) did a great documentation about certain effects of free market radicalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mayfair_Set
I hacked together a PhoneGap plugin so you can easily use Persona to log into your mobile apps https://github.com/couchbaselabs/cordova-browserid

I think this is an easier protocol for devs than OpenId or Facebook Connect.
Medicare has to do business with US providers, so of course it's still going to be more expensive than in a civilized country. According to your numbers, the tax burden relative to the level of service is at most about 12 times worse than other countries, though the fact that Medicare covers the people who most need expensive care means it's actually much closer to international costs. It's certainly effective in that it does provide a lot of care for a lot of people, and it's about as efficient as it can be without completely revamping the supply chain it depends on.
Thank you. That is a really excellent idea.
These guys seem to have beat you to it: http://shitcreekconsulting.com
Hah I really like the IRC idea (especially since I don't know anyone like you do). Just joined the Ruby channel as a test at: http://irc.lc/freenode/ruby-lang
From your link:
"no data on a working pilot plant have ever been collected."

I smell snake oil.
E-books are still an inferior technology to physical books in some ways. I can't, for example, draw a diagram in the margins of an E-book. I can write notes and highlight, but it basically stops there.

With Amazon (not sure about other providers), there's a risk of remote wipe. E-books are often not really yours, and DRM makes that doubly true. The risk of loss with e-books is significantly higher than with physical books.
Ask HN: Developers changing the world? 
I'm curious- I'm a junior developer, but my past experience is in public health research. I want to join these two and really make a difference in the world using technology to build tools that improve people's lives. Anyone have any advice, or startups/companies to point to? I know this is a really broad question, but I'm interested to get thoughts from this community, which I really respect.
WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable
That guy actually accessed, downloaded, and leaked the confidential information--which is using the vulnerability, as opposed to simply doing theoretical research, which is what I was asking.
That would end up requiring your identity to be a key of some sort, though, since ultimately the thing you're logging into needs to check _something_. Email-like things are useful because somebody has to control the domain; if you don't have that, it's harder to establish something. Of course, you can say things like "Hi, I'm random prime number 534473", but that's much less memorable...
Good try. Some observations:
- The sharp ratio is very bad. Focus on improving. Instead of looking for spectacular gains, focus on solid growth.
- Looking at the daily tick backtest, at many points, the alpha is so negative that the losses your algo occurs would make you delinquent. Again, focusing on better sharp ratio should help here. (RETURNS -72.64%)
- Practical consideration: You look at every stock in data for each tick and its historical prices. This could work perfectly well at a low frequency trades e.g. daily, but not at per-second tick because computing time > transaction time i.e. you would be acting on stale inference.
- Transaction costs?

PS: Pet peeve. Gradient descent is a heuristic at best and not true machine learning :)
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It is somewhat difficult to divine the precise intent of the author of the article, or of the submitter of the article to HN; but I think it's important to acknowledge that some people are going to use this article to criticize and dismiss anyone who "gets offended" as someone who hasn't reached a certain ideal of detachment. Your very statement that you think it's okay to "act offended", as opposed to "getting offended", gets to my point of the subjective nature of the issue.