skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great example of this is posted by Ryan O'Donnell on Math Overflow (http://mathoverflow.net/questions/22624/example-of-a-good-ze...):

> The classic example, given in all complexity classes I've ever taken, is the following: Imagine your friend is color-blind. You have two billiard balls; one is red, one is green, but they are otherwise identical. To your friend they seem completely identical, and he is skeptical that they are actually distinguishable. You want to prove to him (I say "him" as most color-blind people are male) that they are in fact differently-colored. On the other hand, you do not want him to learn which is red and which is green.

Here is the proof system. You give the two balls to your friend so that he is holding one in each hand. You can see the balls at this point, but you don't tell him which is which. Your friend then puts both hands behind his back. Next, he either switches the balls between his hands, or leaves them be, with probability 1/2 each. Finally, he brings them out from behind his back. You now have to "guess" whether or not he switched the balls.

By looking at their colors, you can of course say with certainty whether or not he switched them. On the other hand, if they were the same color and hence indistinguishable, there is no way you could guess correctly with probability higher than 1/2.

If you and your friend repeat this "proof" t times (for large t), your friend should become convinced that the balls are indeed differently colored; otherwise, the probability that you would have succeeded at identifying all the switch/non-switches is at most 2−t. Furthermore, the proof is "zero-knowledge" because your friend never learns which ball is green and which is red; indeed, he gains no knowledge about how to distinguish the balls.
Yes, people should never come up with pass phrases out of their brains. A good entropy source is an absolute must. As I mentioned in another comment, even flipping through something like passphra.se until you find something especially memorable is shooting yourself in the foot because you're discarding an unknown amount of entropy.
That's a sign your functions are too big.
The same question/comment was posted to r/bitcoin a few days ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1c48u0/how_did_bitc...

This comment on that post seems to calculate the number of people mining bitcoins for the first year: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1c48u0/how_did_bitc...

If satoshi was indeed just testing the network... why not use "testnet" or simply re-set the blockchain once you were satisfied with the results of your work and release it to individuals?

Oh, wait... because you wouldn't hold 7.8% of all the Bitcoins that will ever exist then if you did that.

Just because almost half of those first 1.8M bitcoins mined were "transferred", doesn't mean that they ever transferred ownership.
Yes, the inspiration was from there. But The Chase fleshed out more of a detective story with each side thinking the samples of DNA were leading to the development of whatever they think it ultimately was.

In Contact there was somewhat of a "hello neighbor" type situation where the extraterrestrials were communicating a means of reaching far off places left behind by a much older civilization.
It's deeply aesthetically offensive, for one. It's error-prone, for two:

if False:
p = 1
print p

No, thank you.
HN/noobcomments. How is it determined?
Young dog: "old dogs can't learn new tricks"

Old dog: "only puppies think those tricks are new"
If by tax dollars you mean the money that I willfully donated to President Obama's campaign; then by all means, yes, my “tax dollars.”
Here is a chat from AWS Invent BDT 207: Big Data and the US Presidential Campaign [1]. Really interesting. They cover the diagram too.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1tJAT7ioEg
I think it's the same reason why almost every species you see in Star Trek are humanoid like since we all share the same DNA.
I'd be very interested to hear you expand on this.
To be clear I said I thought the Go crypo was suitable for some production uses. The text you put it quotes was not anything I ever said. I would rather use OpenSSL for a banking app for example.

Since Go is >= version 1.0 and the crypo libraries in the standard library and not in go/exp, etc Go is implicitly endorsing them for some production use.

I found closed issues that might be the ones you mentioned. If you are aware of issues, you should file them: http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/list?can=2&q=crypto&#...
I've been in that position. I even argued that the patent application was invalid due to prior art. The patent people consulted with other developers and just presented me with the paper work to sign. I signed it. It was that or be labeled as uncooperative. This was a company of 60 people, not some mega-corp.
According to these calculations: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1c48u0/how_did_bitc...

The first 1.6 million bitcoins were mined by at most ~15 people.
"Good" = competitive in a fair market.

If it's an established company, you can/should use salary.com for ballparks on what is competitive.

If it's a startup, they are often preserving the small capital they have (cash poor), so you're looking at "Ramen" salaries (~$50k) or no salary at all, and bigger chunks of equity. (That equity will be worth zero or something based on your work & your small team's work, & luck.)

But, the best benefit is to make your living expenses while learning & saving a bit. The learning part is what most people forget about when picking a job.
Don't you run the risk of limiting yourself to a local maximum? When Google launched, Yahoo and Lycos were the dominant search engine. Google was so immediately, obviously better (in both quality of results and presentation thereof) that switching was a no brainer. If you're saying it's not worth taking them on head-on, then it's similar to arguing that their general product can't be improved upon. Of course, people said the same thing about the huge head start that incumbents had back in the 90s with building curates indices.
I don't know that every unit of an undergraduate CS curriculum needs to be an HN submission.

It's a bit silly to hear people way that college curriculum is irrelevant and then spend a drawn out period of time cobbling together a college curriculum.
> anti-discrimination laws are an inconvenience to be brushed off, taxes are a way of stealing the hard-earned wealth on entrepreneurs,

I personally also see a massive amount of entitlement in the inverse...

A never-ending creation of new laws and controls over citizens lives from "philosopher kings" [1] who think they know how to run peoples lives better than they do via "social engineering and idealism".

Or attempting to create some highly idealistic society of total safety....via as security theater, strictly enforcing victimless crimes [2] (such as owning a pitbull or drugs)... and the constant erosion of basic civil liberties in the process to achieve the former.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher_king#Criticism

[2] http://www.policymic.com/articles/8558/why-we-need-prison-re...
i've submitted some non-trivial PRs with tests to large projects that are still waiting for any form of acknowledgement after several months while other PRs and new commits are being closed around them. it's definitely annoying. maybe it's a github hellban :)
Cypress was a killer GPU firmware made by ATI that mined a lot of Bitcoins for me back in the day.

Cyprus on the other hand: that's a country that was just recently rocked by the world banksters.
I am an Indian and I have never been to any other country so far. But I wrote stands true for India.

Caste system is a option, you can either associate yourself to it or leave it. This is true at least in modern day India and has been the the case for nearly 20 years now. You can easily ditch your caste, just like atheists ditch their religion.

The fact is caste system offers a comfortable cushion of victim hood and gives you enough reasons to justify failure or even not trying.

These days belonging to a lower caste is a gift because you get reservations nearly every where. There are protests by many communities to include them in back ward communities because of the reservations. People are fighting to be backward, Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Gurjar_unrest_in_Rajasthan

The situation is such that people want to belong to backward communities and castes.

True freedom is dangerous, many people know it, and they don't even want it.
The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems
I gotta second this motion: gmail.com
Operation Justice for Rehtaeh
It's a fun Just So Story, but any indictment of JC Penney (which has been failing for years before the latest "fair pricing" campaign) on the basis of its stable pricing needs to explain why Trader Joe's thrives "despite" its stable pricing.

http://www.traderjoes.com/about/general-faq.asp#Specials
The "yes men"/cult mentality on bitcointalk.org is infuriating.

Namely comments like this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175996.msg1834237#ms...

It's obvious what's going on. They own a lot of bitcoins, but can't be made to look stupid by admitting to this travesty of a pre-mine that they all overlooked.
Three-hundred large for a model boat? To me, it looks like a $3k boat that should be (over)priced at $30k.

Maybe that is 'retail' and they'll knock fifty-grand off and sell it for the bargain price of a quarter-of-a-million dollars!
I assume you are not referring to Switzerland.
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One example I can think of is saving mindset.

To save so much that you ultimately have a lot but spend none of it.
True, to a degree, but day-to-day living still requires normal currency. Cash out $1M USD and you'd be comfortable to do whatever you liked for quite some time, while still keeping 99% of his coins.
Campaigns in America aren't publicly funded (that is, they aren't funded by tax money). The money to build this and to run the rest of Obama's campaign was raised by the campaign itself.
Well, I'm an engineer, so I had never heard of it before and thought it was incredibly interesting.
You see "rebellious" as a brag because you think "rebellious" is a positive trait, not because the surveyed person thinks so.
There are people (more often than not children) in the world that work 20 hours a day in small crowded rooms and make less than living wage.

They don't really know another way of life. That is all they have ever been exposed to. They don't know about Apple/Google/iPhone or Steve Jobs or what a computer is because their village is so fucking remote that the Government of India decided it would be a hassle to provide electricity, and their parents decided to make additional income by renting out a few kids to make ends meet.

These people don't really consider themselves victims, because they don't think they have been wronged. They were mostly unlucky in the lottery of life and born in poor circumstances.

You can refuse to believe whatever you want but the fact is that you were extremely lucky in life to be either born in a relatively well to do family or in circumstances that exposed you technology, educational experiences over the course of your life. Having an internet connection can be a life changing effect, because of the access to information it provides.

>> Nobody is going to help you and shouldn't.

>> But a healthy person who doesn't work hard deserves his condition.

>> expecting somebody to come and help is not a unrealistic expectation but a 'unjust' expectation.

>> There by each man for his own and shall deserve net result of his own work.

^^ I am glad that everyone doesn't think like you because the world truly would be an awful place if they did.
Iraq, more or less.
For a Sick Friend: First, Do No Harm
US has a 10x factor of industrial efficiency due it's size as as unified nation.

Your cell phone was basically invented in Finland. So was Linux. The English cracked Enigma.
As pointed out down-thread, there's a lot more to this than a simple website (voter analytics/GOTV stuff just for starters), and the potential user base/traffic load is enormous (ramping up particularly as you near election day).

Just as a data point in support of the kind of traffic that US presidential elections can drive for election-related things, I happened to be working on the web team for a major American newspaper circa the '08 election and we saw something like 1.2Bn page views the month leading up the election. (Traffic analytics wasn't my team, so that's a vague memory of being told that from five years ago. Grain of salt, etc.) This is for simple news/op-ed, mind you, and only one source of many for that information. I have no problems believing that the main web presences of the two candidates would see even more traffic, and they'd likely be more complicated under the hood than "hit homepage, follow article link, read article."
As with others: values make most sense not in the abstract (how big is a stack of $1 trillion in $100 bills), but in context.

How does a budget item compare with other items on the budget? How does it compare with GDP or population? How does the cost of a school compare with a hospital?

Here's the US federal budget depicted graphically:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2012...

The xkcd "money" graphic is a classic of the genre, representing values from a cup of coffee ($2) to the all human economic productivity ($2,397 trillion).

http://xkcd.com/980/huge
Why Settle For a Princeton Man?
I'm not sure i agree with those as examples of things google doesn't do well. Product search works great for me, as does local. Ditto for real estate search. Maybe your experience has been different, but try adding the zip code to your search for local. I'm not entirely sure I know what exactly you're looking for in code search. For coding problems with code examples, google always finds the right SO page.
Does The Moon Exist When I'm Not Looking?
Don't be ashamed for being right.
Fucken time travel will burtualize Yer fucken retard heads!

God says....
these men that seek thy life.

38:17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God
of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the
king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city
shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
38:18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes,
then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they
shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.

38:19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the
Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their
hand, and they mock me.

38:20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech
thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be
well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.

----

Chad is a homo.

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Who's Sorry Now? Everyone, Apparently
It's interesting that apart from the DynamoDB and the SQL Warehouse (Redshaft?) there's a pretty large LevelDB instance serving the sites/services.

I also wonder if in reality there were only one or two instances in each zone for each site behind the ELBs and the others were added to show how scalable the infrastructure is; or if their number actually did correspond to the avg. number of instances they ended up having to spin up.
Think those chemicals have been tested?
Gradle Ain't Imperative
Quora: Reviews of Y Combinator
In the US it depends on where you are at and who your power company is. Some times they do it the way you describe in NZ, but in many areas it is more the way the OP describes, where there is one meter, and sometimes it literally runs backwards- only if there is an excess at the end of the month is it credited at the lower rate.
There are many different regulatory environments, but the utility I worked at, where I wrote programs to calculate the hourly price of electricity, the utility made zero dollars from usage by residential customers.

Residential customers payed a fixed rate to be connected, and every penny the utility collected for energy was remitted to the market operator.

The utility also made no money on energy by large users, but they were billed based on their own hourly use and the hourly price, and some also would have had demand charges.
Formula fed kids can get fat because there is no limit on consumption, whereas breastmilk is limited to mother's supply.

By far the worst problem with HFCS is that it is pumped into foods that shouldn't have any added sugar at all, like breads, and marinades, and water, and all that junk sold in boxes at supermarkets. Being different from lactose isn't anywhere near as significant.

And the economic/agricultural issues around HFCS are problematic-- not a nutrition issue.
Now that is an HN worthy post! :D

My feeling is that this is indeed a genetic algorithm, however it's prone to mutation (I.E. polymorphism which diverge further to form different species) via duplication errors and/or cosmic ray triggered changes.

This gives the algorithm branching and versioning properties in which multiple versions run in parallel thread execution where certain threads die out through natural selection while others continue as more threads are spawned via the above polymorphism.

Naturally, this process is quite messy and you end up with a multitude of different functions that aren't immediately obvious in function. This may also lead to a lot of inactive functions that don't return or are never called (I.E. "Junk DNA").
It's relatively straightforward to extract data from MUMPS. Epic (and many other vendors) just won't let you do it.

Also, it would be nice if people didn't always associate MUMPS with that Daily WTF post. How about linking to the Wikipedia page?
During the emergency maintenance the homepage had no status info. The price at the top of the homepage was the last price before trading stopped.
Yep, hit the nail on the head.

Thing is, if you're able to inject un-authorised code into the FMS, chances are you have bigger concerns than a single aircraft getting hijacked.

It's the equivalent of saying "If I had access to a bank's mainframe and network infrastructure, I could steal millions of dollars with an Android App." Sure you could, but is the problem the fact you can do it with an Android App, or the fact you were able to inject the code in the first place?
Because a majority of asshat startup fanatics are also money fanatics. Let's face it, most of the reason people want to do startups, it because they have dreams of grandeur.

And I agree, it is extremely embarrassing that this money article would be vote up by HN users.
Google Just Bought Behavio
n = 10 per country.

"Any other armchair ethnographers care to weigh in?"

Indeed.
Most of these cameras appear to have been set up for an organization to look at itself, or for customers to look at their own stuff. I haven't come across any that appear to have been set up with creepy creeper intent.

Yet the aggregate effect of all these inexpensive cameras is categorically different than that of any single camera alone. Today these are crappy lo-res cameras, but as bandwidth costs decrease these will become supplanted by high res cameras that can count the pores on your skin and recognition systems that do just that.

Welcome to the future, courtesy of those who are not complaining.
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>>They were mostly unlucky in the lottery of life and born in poor circumstances.

I never denied that. My whole point was, now that you are- What next?

If you think you are happy with poverty then the story ends there. If you aren't then, the government can do little, Sorry but there are simply too many people in our country. The ordinary citizen will not and can't do anything about you.

It will be your and your problem alone.

It will be difficult, hard and a tiring lifelong worth of work. Just like it is for everybody else.

What else were you thinking?