skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that the parts responsible for language couldn't be repurposed for something else (although I don't know whether it's true). It's the fact, that more general learning skills cannot substitute dedicated language learning capabilities.
It's hard to come up with different hypothesis once you know that children not exposed to language at all for some time (up to 4-6 years, but I don't remember) lose the ability to acquire it forever.
I think the most likely explanation is that the grandparent commenter was referring to their own experience with projects they've worked on.
What do you think "crowdsource" means?
Yeah I know what you mean about the idea, that's why I'm working on said prototype - but I can see that now, even with a bootstrapped launch, it's gonna' need more money to get to where I want it to be and where it needs to be. My buddy and I have already built a proof-of-concept in Objective-C but now we're working on a port into JS cause the browser is where the magic is going to need to happen.

I guess I didn't phrase my question correctly - I'm thinking along the lines of this:

A) I have a prototype to show.

B) I have a business plan.

C) I don't have plane tickets, the time, or the money to spend a month raising funds in SV.

-- How do I go about acquiring the funds?
As if TypeScript ever got anywhere?

Dart already has some small traction and it's not even 1.0 yet -- they just froze the core library APIs.

So, not only they are "still working on it", they have not even released it properly yet.

Not to mention it has totally different goals related to TypeScript (TS = tooling, Dart = performance, language design).
This is neat! Can you also support negotiated rates by using our account's credentials?

Also - shameless plug - I myself am working on an actually-usable python UPS library (with a real quickstart and example code and everything!) It is surprising how weak open-source library support is for this kind of thing, which is tedious, but not alltogether insurmountable. https://github.com/classicspecs/ClassicUPS
I submitted this, but I'm not the author of the library.

I agree with many of the concerns and limitations brought up here, most notably the fluid, non-binary nature of gender. That said, thoughtful application of probabilistic guesses about gender can add value in certain situations. For instance: http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/learning/freeing-plu...
They seem to actually have support from some of the hardware manufacturers. From Update #31 "Much gratitude goes out to the component manufacturers who really “got it” (Xilinx, Analog Devices, Intersil, Micron, Microchip, Samtec all deserve special thanks). Without their help we would be losing $100 per board!"

So, the backers are getting a Very Good Deal, with the hopes that a successful launch will make demand high enough to make the $99 viable with volume.
You mean Altavista?
You can't really have an international grid on the scale you describe, due to transmission losses. If you take a conductor, even though for short distances the material it has negligible resistance, it comes out to be a limiting factor for long lengths (thousands of kilometres).

If you look at Joule's first law, which says that the heat produced by a piece of wire is proportional to the square of the current times the electrical resistance of the wire (ie. I^2*R), you'll notice it doesn't say anything about voltage. This is why power transmission lines for long distances usually have high voltages (~100kV) or even higher ones(the transmission lines where I live are 735kV). Unfortunately, there is a limit as to how much voltage that can be put, due to other problems caused by the high voltage itself (coronal discharge, arcing, etc.).

This is why electricity (per kilowatt, retail) costs me one third of what it costs my friend in Los Angeles; it's not technically feasible to send our low cost electricity all the way to there while still turning a profit. Note that this completely changes if there is high temperature[1] superconductivity, but at this point, it's not exactly doable[2].

[1] High temperature, in this case, essentially means without liquid nitrogen and other relatively exotic cooling methods. Your living room would be considered high temperature, for example.
[2] The current superconductor with the highest transition temperature is HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8, at 133K (-140C).
You are conflating level of interest with technological capabilities.
It depends. If I begin using something new (say, Go) and end up using it a lot then I will install it on develop and repackage it into the "develop" box again. This takes about 5 minutes.

If it's something specific for a project (i.e., a jekyll website), I just write a quick shell script to install jekyll in the Vagrantfile for that project instead of repackaging the whole box.

As for your second question, yes, you would have a specific Vagrantfile/box for a project where you need a specific enviroment. My "develop" box is a general case.

Here's a (slightly modified) example of a Vagrantfile that I use with a project: https://gist.github.com/taylorlapeyre/5399974
"Some people" includes Roberto Ierusalimschy, the inventor of Lua, although he told me he now knows someone who has met Mike so he believes he is actually a singleton.
Probably only if the hash is a variant on SHA256, which is what the bitcoin protocol specifies. More complicated key derivation functions likely won't fit the limits of the hardware, and of course scrypt is expressly designed to defeat massively parallel application of digital logic (it scales with storage bandwidth instead).
I would like for the API documentation to have more examples of shipping with flat rate boxes or different shipping options. Right now I find myself having to guess or look into the source code before printing certain labels.
If your iOS code comes out looking that repetitive, sub-optimal code organization is probably the real culprit.
You can! Nice work!
"American said the issue was caused by an inability to get access to its reservations system, called Sabre. The electronic system, often described as the brains of an airline, is responsible for bookings and reservations but also manages a wide variety of functions related to flights, including printing boarding passes, online check-ins, ticketing, and tracking checked bags. [...]

Sabre, meanwhile, said American’s system outage did not come from its own computer systems. Other airlines, including Southwest Airlines and JetBlue, use the reservation system and have not experienced any outages, said Nancy St. Pierre, a spokeswoman for Sabre."

Source:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/business/american-airlines...
We tried to solve a similar problem with our app, too. We were trying to generate questions based on person and occasion (think: "What should I get my boyfriend for his birthday).

It got interesting when occasions didn't warrant possessives ("What should I get my boyfriend for Christmas"), and when language factors were considered ("What should I get mi abuelo for su cumpleanos"). We decided to try and crowd source it, which worked ok: essentially we left the occasion empty, and if the person wanted to attach the gender-based possessive to it, they could. Otherwise, we would guess with what information we had. We figured, over time, we could actually create a service where we could sell that information (GaaS: Grammar as a service?).

Turns out, people just wanted to be able to write their own titles, and we quickly trashed the idea in the early phases.
As I understand it, an ASIC is custom hardware to solve a custom problem - so it would probably be easier to build a custom one from scratch than convert a Bitcoin one. (Right?)
I think Warren Buffet once said that he'd give college graduates $100,000 now for 10% of their lifetime income. This kind of reminds me of that. And begs the question, should somebody build a platform to make transactions like this more easily possible?

Edit: I just remembered Upstart (https://www.upstart.com/)
Ah, got it. How are they abusing it? You can buy that data as well from USPS.
Just curious: What keeps you there? I mean this as your reasoning, not a general "why people stay where they're born" question. What pops in your head when you think of moving?
http://octodex.github.com/faq.html

The most relevant one:

"Q: Can I submit an octocat to the Octodex?

We make quite a few octocats here at GitHub. Since they probably wouldn't be seen by more than a few people internally, we created the Octodex as a way to show them to the world. Everything on this list is official GitHub artwork and is under GitHub's trademark license, so we only include submissions from people affiliated with GitHub."

And their quality is indeed very high.

Since others might be wondering about the implications of what you quoted:

"Q: Can I make my own octocat?

So long as it is created for personal/fan use, you are more than welcome to create and display your own octocat. If you choose to distribute your octocat, you may not do so with a license, Creative Commons or otherwise, that allows modification or distribution of the octocat."
Spotted by antfarmer12 on Reddit /r/skeptic: http://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/1ch8zd/a_kickstarte...
It's only pulling 2W, so it really depends on the performance per W. Maybe that'll be my first project...
Searching for Simplicity:It's Not About the Bike
Snowden's Secret in Catch-22.

http://www.deathdyinggriefandmourning.com/Death-Dying-Grief-...
>their policies are based on nothing more than gut feelings unsupported by anything?

What a charitable perspective.
Teaching the Essentials of Garbage Collection
Keep in mind, this scenario is just as good a candidate (maybe even better) for doing the layout in code rather than a nib.
When you get into ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), the answer to 'can it be repurposed?' is almost universally no. It's basically a purpose built circuit, built into a single package. This is cheap and fast, because you only put in the parts you need, but there's non-trivial engineering effort to design them.

I think initially some miners used FPGAs: these are reprogrammable and offer similar performance, but they're much more expensive.
The sequester is not a joke. A friend of mine knows postdocs whose NIH funded projects were cut 20%, immediately, when the sequester went into effect. Another friend of mine will be in next class to start with the FBI, but they've been put off until 2014. To be clear, the FBI is not training new agents right now.

The sequester is real, but it may take more time for the effects to reverberate throughout the country.
> The members of the Eurozone taken together have the same sovereignty over monetary policy as any other country. But that's beside the point.

You are right of course, but they can't get their shit together.

> The point is that a sovereign country with a central bank can print its own money, but that doesn't mean it can borrow in its own currency.

This is getting into a bit wonky details, but the bottom line is that your concerns are misplaced. First of all, a monetarily sovereign government doesn't have to borrow in the first place. The only reason that they "borrow" is to provide a safe interest earning asset for the financial sector to play with, and so that the central bank can effectively raise the interest rate without paying interest itself - and wouldn't that cause interesting questions by the public, if suddenly raising interest rates would cost the central bank money!

Second, at the end of the day when the government runs a deficit, banks have a choice between keeping surplus reserves at the central bank or buying government bonds. As long as the interest rate paid on government bonds is higher than that on reserves, banks will buy government bonds.

So there are no monetary constraints.

What you should be concerned about, if anything at all, is the exchange rate to other currencies. Clearly, most normal countries see their exchange rate fall if they run a current account deficit for too long (the US is an interesting but explainable exception to that rule).

This makes imports more expensive. On the other hand, it makes your exports cheaper for foreigners, which is a boost for domestic industry. So in the end, the economy actually benefits.
So is there no string.concat or whatever in Go? It seems like the answer would be appropriate for some number of strings not known until runtime, but for two strings specifically it must be overkill.

Is there specifically some standard library thing that Google should be pointing to? Leaving this question unanswered really obfuscates the point of the post. (Unless you already know Go, I guess...)
my experience is that the person on the phone usually doesn't care if you have all the relevant info
New York does a lot for people living on under $20k/year. That's why those people live in New York--because of the very generous public services. The NYCHA houses 400,000 people in 180,000 apartments. The Section 8 program assists another 620,000 people, and accounts for 8% of the city's rental apartments. The average family has a median income of $22k/year.

The city's public housing projects aren't the nicest in the world, but that's endemic to any such project. The actual facilities aren't bad. They are comparable to the apartments my (upper middle class) family in Bangladesh live in (which was to me a stark illustration of the 'top 5% of Indians live like the bottom 5% of Americans' phenomenon).
Because I'm not really interested in doing Hacker News Defends Patriarchy Vol MCCXVI right now, especially with some random anonymous argumentative dude. "Someone is wrong on the internet" is a game I find less and less fun as I get older, in that it's generally a negative-sum game.
I know that most of us already know this, but it is worth repeating: sex is biological, gender is cultural (for instance, "la montaña" - the mountain is feminine in the Spanish language). A "sex machine" would tell you whether you were dealing with a biological male or biological female, or something else, but it would not tell you the gender.
I think we're talking about, and possibly conflating, two different things here: speech and writing. I was explicitly talking about written language, in as much as that was the domain of the linked article (and the grandparent comment, or at least I thought as much).

Frankly, I'm largely responsible for this conflation. I didn't draw clear enough distinctions, and in fact, I probably lost sight of the distinctions myself in responding. That's 100% on me.

Nevertheless, the fact remains, a statement like "no conscious understanding of the rules is required" is overly broad and sweeping. It lends itself to about a thousand interpretations, mine being merely one of them. There are too many contexts for the expression of language, and methods of communication by which to express it (written, verbal, etc.), to make a categorical statement like that.
I don't imagine you told investors or bankers that taking on debt would slow the growth of your company

Businesses use limited amounts of debt to fuel growth because they have a justifiable case that shows that the servicing of the debt is less than the returns on the investments made with the debt.

Often, businesses are wrong about whether or not their "justifiable case" is true. When wrong, their debt may just cut into the other assets on their balance sheet. Perhaps creditors will allow them to refinance so that their debt servicing is below their investment. Perhaps they'll go bankrupt. Perhaps they'll close their doors.

The US government 1. Has a really crappy track record of finding a return for its investments. 2. Will cause much more world disruption if it has guessed wrong on the whole "returns on investment vs debt servicing" equation.

Finally, businesses do not borrow money without limits. Their borrowing of money is based upon the amount of credit that outside parties give them. Given the US Government's downgrade in its rated ability to service its debt, shouldn't we be concerned that we're overextending ourselves?
Reasons Not To Build Dashboards From Scratch
Haha, wow. It's like someone said, "Hey, what are people reacting incredibly poorly to right now?", then took the answer, and built an almost-useful library with a funny but obviously-destined-to-offend-lots-of-people name.

Really though, geek PC hilarity aside... with so many collisions and uncertainties, this just isn't a practical approach.
I checked how Facebook handles gender the other day and it's still either "Male" or "Female". Strange, because they return gender as a string in API calls.
Virgil: a statically-typed language balancing functional and OO features
In other news, searching for "Gender Machine" on Google gives me NSFW ads for sex machines.
I submitted hoping to find out more myself. I'm intrigued.
A similarly described SABRE outage in 1989 seems to have caused minimum trouble, because they had the real capability to work off-line with paper:

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/13/us/computer-chaos-for-air-...

> Apparently, no information about reservations and other travel plans was lost, and American said there were no serious disruptions of its 2,300 daily flights.
Imagine the ease of getting someone legally murdered with 15g (less than a tablespoonful) of heroin, simply by getting it in/on their car or hotel room. Journalists in Singapore probably don't sleep very well.
Agreed, we need to better lay out the shipping options. What types of labels are you printing? Feel free to email me and I can give you the correct calls
No. In theory the FPGA boards could be repurposed, in practice no-one's bothered yet.
We already have things that give you money now and take 10% of your lifetime income. They're called colleges. Well, except the "give you money now" part.
Vagrant is the execution environment that you set up, share and whatnots. Your dev environment (IDE, text editor, etc) can still be in the original environment you are familiar with.

For example, just yesterday, a colleague wanted access to Fork the Cookbook's source (he was supposed to be helping out on frontend javascript). But because some bits of the code is written to be Linux specific, he needed a Linux box while working on a non-Linux box.

So I spent 30 mins creating a Vagrantfile, specifying the environment which Fork the Cookbook runs in. He takes it, runs the env, provisions with the existing provisioning script, and tadah, you get an environment where you get to run the code in.

Due to the synced directories, you can code in whatever env you are hosting on: it's like dropbox between your computer and the virtual box. Network pass throughs allow your host (i.e your physical machine) to use networks defined virtually in your virtual computer.

Great for sharing execution env and getting other people started. Not really necessary if you're working alone IMO
#4 is quite similar of what I have in mind. But no connotations of influence in theory - in practice, I imagine that was hard to have zero influence on the supported artist.
That sounds like something Richard Branson would say (I think I remember reading it in Business Stripped Bare), but I believe Buffett's quote predates Virgin Airlines entirely.
The data is GPL documentation license; why/how would that affect the code?
Doesn't do much? They get free/cheap rent for life, basically. The city doesn't do much for households making $50k. It's a tough place to be middle class.
Devices maybe but servers less so, if you can get a 100x performance increase from going g from say PHP to LuaJIT then you can save a lot of money without a productivity loss.
The fact that AgileBit's rep Jeffrey Goldberg is speaking honestly and in plain english about the problem only galvanizes my decision to keep using and recommending their product. It builds trust, as in I trust they will fix the problem and fix it properly.
This is exactly what I am looking for! I run a tech conference and am interested in seeing what percentage of our attendees are male or female. I only have names for historical data, so this should help give a somewhat close approximation of sex!
I think you're looking at this through too narrow a use case. I agree you shouldn't be taking individual people and guessing what their genders are. And you should minimize the instances where gender is even relevant in your application.

But what if you have a whole bunch of data and want to do some aggregate statistics? "Do women use our product?" is a perfectly reasonable question to ask yourself. You don't need it to be exact, and it's certainly not reasonable to ask every user. So you use some heuristics and you get some useful data.
I want to say something like that one day :)
From the NYT article, sounds like it was a connection problem. Which makes you wonder, was it a DoS attack (either end of the connection?) preventing AA from connecting to Sabre?
Of course you're technically right, but the pedantry is out of control. In reality, when speaking English in a professional (and pretty much any other) setting, "sex" means "gender."

I don't think it's worth repeating. I'd say it's repeating this kind of misplaced vernacular revisionism that's making us (in which I controversially refer to the disparate collection of users on HN as a single group) look even more anal and oversensitive than we actually are.
That was the one of the take aways when I first reviewed the password keychain services- use a strong master password.
This is making the rounds on Twitter. I think the narrative is pretty unfair to 1Password, and that they're bending over backwards to seem reasonable and attentive†.

The problem as I understand it is that 1Pw runs PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1 twice. 1Pw stores encrypted passwords using AES-CBC. It derives a 128 bit AES key from the first run of PBKDF2, and the 128 bit CBC IV from the balance of the first and the first bits of the second. Based on that design, it appears that 1Pw believed that the secrecy of the IV would contribute to the difficulty of cracking the encrypted blob, but of course it doesn't, because the trailing bytes of the blob are known plaintext and an attacker can use the key without knowing the IV to check if their password guess is right.

This is not a great design. But it's bad in a way that wastes cycles for users. The fact that 1Pw does extra PBKDF2 work that doesn't bind on attackers don't make 1Pw meaningfully weaker than any other app that uses PBKDF2, because it was already weird that they were tapping PBKDF2 twice to begin with. A more idiomatic use of PBKDF2 in this situation would be to tap PBKDF2 once, and then expand it (say with SHA2) to 256 bits. That design, which is totally reasonable and would not be the subject of a news story, would be equivalently secure to the "flawed" approach 1Pw took.

There is another problem with the construction 1Pw uses, which is that they chose PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1. PBKDF2 with SHA hashes are among the easiest KDFs to crack on GPUs††, because SHAx was designed to be fast in hardware. 1Pw would have been much better off with scrypt, or even bcrypt (which is still a pain to implement in GPUs). But PBKDF2 is an industry best practice; to ding someone for using it while the rest of the world still uses "salted hashes" seems unreasonable.

What's happening here, besides the echo-chamber effect, is that the implementation of the brute force cracker for this particular encrypt blob is clever. In a rush to applaud cleverness, Twitter seems to have lept to the conclusion that "clever attack" means "vulnerable target". That's usually a correct assumption, but it isn't in this case.

Corrections more than welcome.

† They deserve some kind of medal for that, by the way, because I have no dog in this fight at all and I can't seem to shut up about the unfairness of it all.

†† It turns out there's a clever way to optimize this on a GPU by precomputing the ipad/opad in HMAC, too, which sped the cracker up.