skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One wonders if you can go to a full 'subscribe' model which a bunch of pre-emptive OSes use, which says "I need to run in 'x' nS" or "I need to run when interrupt 'y' fires." and then they don't get any cycles at all until they need them, and at that time they are arbitrated.

The challenge of course is priority inversion, which is to say that low priority thread A gets started on an otherwise idle processor and then higher priority thread B wants to run, except there isn't a 'tick' where the processor periodically checks to see that the highest priority thread is running. Now your low priority thread is running in preference to the high priority thread.

You can finesse some of that by interrupting on thread state change (which has its own issues since sometimes threads have to run to know they want to change their state) but you're still stuck somewhere between ticks when threads are sleeping and full tickless. Not surprisingly its kind of like building asynchronous hardware in hardware description languages.

I'm glad to see the experiments continue.
Yes - I need to see where this money you're going to pay me with is coming from. Each step of the process. Please trace it back to when the money was printed while you're at it and include all labor and transactions that took place since then that made it possible today for you to transfer it me.
The author seems to make the simple mistake of convenient for him to watch DRM content in his browser == good for the web.
Here's one endpoint that seems to work and not require an API key: http://api.boxfish.com/v2/v3/trending/topics/?fields=count
Sounds similar to SnapStream. "Monitor everything said on TV"

http://snapstream.com
Is this system-on-chip?
We just need more people who's motivations are not monetary.

Take a look at your average soup-kitchen volunteer - they're the kind of people we need.
Try CUNY if NYU is too expensive. I'm not sure how it varies from school to school, but you can see Brooklyn College's list here (http://qn6sj3qc3h.search.serialssolutions.com/). I just logged in and apparently still have access (I haven't been registered for over a year).
Indeed. This sort of spin feels like newspeak.
And this is why sites get hacked so much.
Wish I could double-upvote that.

Do not make the mistake of listening to a bunch of really smart, technically-inclined HN'ers when it comes to business advice -- unless these are the guys you're selling to. Everybody, no matter how savvy, is really bad at predicting how a market will react. You just have to do these things and see for yourself.
I was thinking the same thing. From their wording of the issue, that appears to be the case.
Isn't it called BarCamp? That said, this year people need to step in and help organise.
I expected something else. I expected to be able to pick a beer I like (e.g. Deschutes Red Chair, Pliny the Elder, etc.) and see recommendations based on that. I guess something more like Pandora.

What's here is interesting, but more of a "show me beers based on the category".
Go with chicken thighs instead. It's cheaper and better tasting. Just takes a tiny bit longer to cook.
The Chronicles of the Cannon - The Sorcerer's End
And also whether "hashed" means salted and hashed or just simply hashed.

Honestly, I would feel much more comfortable if sites publicly disclosed their password encryption strategy. Just saying "oh they're hashed" really doesn't make me feel any better -- how do I know they didn't just do a quick MD5 instead of a proper password-appropriate process?
So then just don't answer the phone.
I'd say it's to the site's credit that it doesn't include Budweiser and other cheap mass-produced domestic beers. The site is clearly designed with beer enthusiasts (or at least budding beer enthusiasts) in mind.
..and do the elephants get tangled up in the wires connecting the separate hives?
Internet Startup Directory.
Type-safe tagged unions in the D programming language
Perhaps all of the above are lacking in imagination---and/or the staffs didn't want masses of soon to be liberated people to be armed. Since mass distribution would have consumed precious air transport/bomber resources, we don't know if their tradeoff was correct. The one thing we can say is that the proposition was not put to the test.
DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 2: Copy and Move Semantics in D by Ali Cehreli
Thing is that's a projection and a massively wrong one at that - the sort of thing that motivates ridiculous anti-piracy laws too. "Hey we have this demographic that spends lots and pirates - if we can stop them pirating they'd spend EVEN MORE!!! DRM FOR EVERYONE!!!"
And yet, the article is about how research has been commoditized.
I see the created_at and updated_at fields as the poor man's datomic.
SteamBits.com: Steam, Blizzard, Origin, uPlay, Retro, Xbox Games for Bitcoin
Quote from original article

"...Mochizuki is holding a private seminar with Yamashita, and Kim hopes that Yamashita will then go on to share and explain the work."

The issues are complex. Mochizuki apparently has some diffidence about communicating with the wider mathematical community. Yamashita may have to act as spokesman (and an initial checker). Then once communicated the checking and sifting can begin (and the recycling of new tools start).

Assuming the work is intelligible and valid of course.
Technically the definition of a turbine means something powered by a working fluid or gas. So it's akin to asking 'could we have a human powered windmill?' By definition you can't.

Assuming you mean something along the lines of a small shrouded propeller. There are aerodynamics at work here that involve trade-offs. Generally larger slower props are more efficient at low speeds.
Just beam it into space and plot an intercept course. You'll have to deal with signal recovery a bit below the noise floor, the problem is that most likely a civilization in need of those documents would not be able to recover the data.

Still, it's the cheapest and longest lasting form of back-up available.

Other options:

Dump a couple of titanium cannisters with the current state of the art on golden media on the moon.
I feel bad as it's not my photo, but I couldn't find a suitably high res picture that worked as well. Plus it's fucking old so there's less of a chance the photographer would give a flying fuck.
The "top 1%" contains significantly more than 1% of the people.

Or it contains less than 1% of people if the average household size for the top 1% is smaller than the average household size for the lower 99% (which it most likely is; wealthier people have fewer children on average).
Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS. Standard EBS gives around 100 IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second). With PIOP you can get more if you pay more.
Hell, my job is programming and even the estimates I give are probably wrong.
So.... become an irritating spammer?
What happens in Fiat Voluntas Tua? Did (or will) humanity learn from its mistake and not destroy society for the second time?
If a database lost data in a single server configuration, why would you trust it as a cluster?

Please be serious here. EVERY database has had at one point lost data due to a bug. It doesn't mean that there is some systemic problem that means you should jump ship immediately.

To this day Foursquare who are the ones referred to in the article still use MongoDB:

http://engineering.foursquare.com/2012/11/27/mongodb-at-four...
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You're implying that the only people who think email encryption is important are criminals (or sketchy enough that there's probably cause).

I'm not a criminal, but I don't want the government reading my email.
During Coding Goûter sessions, kids as young as 5 have played and created things with Scratch 1.4 and loved the experience. They are begging to come back, and it becomes a very usual thing to do, which is exactly our goal.

(Note that we mix kids, with ages ranging from 5 to 14, and always a 50/50 ratio of girls/boys, not via quota but because of the way the events are planned.
So we also have older kids. It's good for the younger ones.)

At this age, they (usually) don't read, so they generally are working with an adult and another kid, or in some instance with an older kid (my just 6 years old daughter for example worked one of the firs times with an older girl that knew Scratch.)

A very important thing to do is to let the creative direction to the kids. Don't force the programming of a shooter on them. They have lot of ideas, and they will be more motivated if the idea come from them.
Also they will be proud to see it happen.
They'll want to move things, animate, etc. They'll want to copy things they have seen.
Letting them draw on paper, for example a character, then taking a picture and incorporating it in Scratch is a nice way to alternate between two different activities (solving the "will they focus for long?" question)

If you want to know more: http://codinggouter.org
and my talk at FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/coding_gouter/
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There is a significant amount of government assistance that only kicks in when you run out of savings. So while not part of the tax code the disincentives are there.
There's also design pattern in systems based on relational databases that skips the need for copying so much data to keep history - instead of keeping primary data in your database with additional column "timestamp", you keep changes to that data in another table, and either use triggers triggered by inserting these changes to modify the primary data, or forgo primary data alltogether, and just use view over changes table (can be slow).

I've seen it implemented 2 times in enterprise systems and it works OK, but like all design patterns it's workaround for lacking feature.

Also some dbs (for example Oracle) allows you to do

SELECT * FROM SOME_TABLE WHERE USER_ID = 5 AS OF TIMESTAMP...,

but that's not good enough.
Many budding beer enthusiasts start with cheap mass-produced domestics. My first Belgian style was Blue Moon which is made by Coors.

I can think of no better way to grow someone's beer knowledge than to direct individuals to better quality versions of beer they are currently enjoying.
How Facebook Might Buy Your Location for $1 Billion
Exactly! The only obvious thing to do is something constructive... not a blatant waste. In addition they are increasing the difficulty for others. He might as well flush money down the toilet and let sick orphans watch.
If I understand their graph, they are generating about 0.29 BTC / day with this. Current BTC exchange is $118, so $34.22 revenue / day. At 44W, they'll spend ~1kW/day on power so only around $0.10 or so depending on where their power is coming from. So their break even point is somewhere around 8 days if I have everything correct.

It seems that if these devices can be produced at scale, the marginal cost of mining 1 BTC will be only about $0.30 for now, thereby possibly pushing down the market price for BTC significantly.
I think you should definitely consider doing this sooner rather than later.
From reading your comments, it looks like you make the claim that:
1. Most startups are horribly mismanaged and are run incompetently by VCs/MBAs.
2. You have a radically different strategy for running a startup that makes engineers significantly more effective.

If so, this represents a tremendous opportunity for you. A startup run on your model, if your assumptions are correct, would have a massive - possibly several orders of magnitude - competitive advantage, and could have a very meaningful impact on the business world as a whole.

At the very least, I'd be curious to see a startup bring you in for management consulting and see how they do in a few years.

Anyway, kudos for taking the long view. It's rare to see people plan things many years or decades out in our social media addled age.
Perspectives on Encrypted Media Extension Reaching First Public Working Draft
I guess I missed the memo of what this was a thing.
In many fields of computer science, authors are allowed to publish preprints of their papers on their web site. Even if not, you can usually email the author and ask them to send you their work.
The student doesn't understand the general result, so asks for an explanation in a simple special case. The teacher fully understands the general result, and sees through to the special case like light goes through glass. So he just says yes, that's the special case, and sees no need to elaborate, because establishing the correspondence of the general to the specific is too obvious to bother putting in to words.
Isn't Google BigQuery a SQL on top of a schemaless database ?
Police Break Up Eagle Party at Safeway
god this was a great comment. I laughed multiple times. Fedex people have stared at me as I sweat over which size to buy because of different costs. My friends who is a banker will send me business advice like he knows wtf he is talking about, but constantly talks down to me about "getting a real job in finance"... My dog literally wants to lay down on the day I'm just walking so I don't have to sit in the office or go home and talk about things, or other days is freaking out because I've been sitting in front of the computer all day.

basically, everything above is #RealTalk
Any place where mobility is needed is where you'll want to start. I was simply stating that if uptake was going to be slower due to human irrationality, you'd start where people absolutely need transportation and have no other option.

People are much more open minded about a choice when they have no other choice.
Bitcoin are mined at a (relatively) fixed rate, around 3600 per day right now. Mining has little impact on the market price (10,000s of bitcoin are crossing Mt Gox each day).

What will happen is that the 0.29 BTC / day will go down as more people plug in their asic miners.
Do the top 1%-earning of households have larger families than the US average?
I think there are many great comments already on the w3 site regarding EME, but it seems the main and strongest arguments are still:

1. Why should the w3 bend, kertow, or even care about the content business model and profitability?
2. Why should the w3 with a supposed focus on openness even consider adding in something like EME?
3. Who are these mystery users, apart from the content barons, who are apparently in full agreement that we really do need Digital Restrictions Management in the browser?

This whole thing stinks.
I think it has a lot to do with whether you're primarily aiming for new functionality or for reliability. Clojure, GitHub, AWS, etc. are primarily used because of their extra functionality, and downtime/failure is often inconvenient but not disastrous.

Compare this to a database-reliability is tantamount. If there's a weird bug you need to ensure you have amazing support, you have access to dig into the internals and solve the problem yourself, or both.

Datomic comes across as prioritizing functionality over support, e.g. they're closed Source and don't (yet?) have the reputation for Enterprise class support businesses usually look for with closed source DBs. That doesn't mean they'll fail, but I'm curious to see who Datomic's customers will be.
Exactly, I could have published my paper in Plos ONE but I published it in Nature instead. Sorry open source but my career plans won this round.
Healthcare needs Django developers
BTC has effectively infinite supply do its divisibility.

A unit of money has no value itself. Destroying it is exactly equivalent to distributing it evenly among all other money-holders.

The energy/resource waste of creation is real, though.
> promoting Chromebooks and Google Docs which are less "free" than Windows and MS Office

Google Docs goes out of its way to import/export to various formats, including Microsoft's. Given this I think the above statement is hardly fair.
Nice guys really do finish last: the science of great leaders
I think the most effective solution so far is the NIH public access policy, http://publicaccess.nih.gov/. For all NIH funded work the authors have to release the paper. What happens is the Scientists get to publish in high-impact closed-access journals, like Nature/Science and then the pre-press manuscript is made available open access. I'm not sure what would happen to the closed-access journal business model if more federal science funding agencies went this way but I assume everyone would read the free version.
The most surprising part of this for me was that the machines weren't running linux in the first place.
> Rather, it defines a set of APIs that allow JavaScript and HTML to interact with decryption/protection modules.

Which are non-portable, and only work on particular devices.

Which is:

* the opposite of open.

* a return to "you'll need browser X on OS Y to use this website"

Early versions of iOS and Android were hampered by non-open web until those technologies faded away.

Our next OSs - Tizen, Firefox, Valve box, Ubuntu if they ever get their shit together, whatever other unknown unknowns - won't be able to access any of this content.

I sit right beside a W3C member all day who assures me this is 100% the case (and will at some point blog about exactly this).
Yeah, that line from the story:

>So in just two weeks, those lucky enough to have snagged one of these rigs will have paid off the initial investment. Everything after that is gravy.

That's the biggest joke ever. The difficulty will go up substantially once thousands of people get their ASIC miners. It will take a lot longer than two weeks to pay itself off.
My son and daughter at 4th and 5h grade were able to really take care of things by themselves almost entirely, my youngest son at 2nd grade needed a lot of help while mine craft is no trouble at all for him. Hope that helps.
I think a radio equivalent of the "10,000 year clock", placed on the moon, might be a good way to go. Fairly low barrier to read from the thing. Perhaps you could have it only broadcast just enough data to bootstrap any society that wanted to get to it to read the rest.

You would need to bury most of it though, and have a great deal of redundancy. The moon doesn't have an atmosphere to protect it from meteorites.
enjoyed this way more than the original post, thanks. I have had these exact same anxieties and fears, but each-and-every-one is worth it
While the markup doesn't do anything for SEO, Easter eggs like this are often created to help generate links back to the particular page from sites like HN...which can boost SEO.

The original submission title was probably tongue-in-cheek, but I'd bet the creator of the page had SEO in mind. Getting a ton of pg lovers who probably also link programming to link to a programming page on the site would be killer for SEO.

This is similar to creating a unique 404 error page that can generate tons of backlinks.
These are lyrics from this song, "The Humans are Dead" by Flight of the Conchords: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64
Cold, hard data meets squishy delight
> I hate calling people like that (as all developers)

My assistant loves doing stuff like this, and paying her $MUCH_LOWER_THAN_MY_BILLABLE_RATE to save me time is a no brainer. (patio11 will be along shortly to encourage me to switch to weekly rates to avoid this scenario entirely, but yeah.) Calling up prospects to get their feedback on a product idea and chatting for 10 minutes, sending emails saying "hey, thanks for meeting with us today! We're especially excited about X and you can expect to from from us next week about Y", gently nudging clients about overdue invoices, etc. There's an upfront investment, but then you are able to focus on more higher-level stuff looking forward.
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Open Sans Everywhere - Google Chrome Extension
I'd love to see this used on Fox News to fact check everything they say in real time.
Have you thought about crowdsourcing the human training portion?
Here is an excerpt from the email I received from them:

"Name.com recently discovered a security breach where customer account information including usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords and encrypted credit card account information may have been accessed by unauthorized individuals. It appears that the security breach was motivated by an attempt to gain information on a single, large commercial account at Name.com.

Name.com stores your credit card information using strong encryption and the private keys required to access that information are stored physically in a separate remote location that was not compromised. Therefore, we don't believe that your credit card information was accessed in a usable format. Additionally, your EPP codes (required for domain transfers) were unaffected as they are also stored separately. We have no evidence to suggest that your data has been used for fraudulent activities.

As a response to these developments, and as a precautionary measure, we are requiring that all customers reset their passwords before logging in. If you use your previous Name.com password in other online systems, we also strongly recommend that you change your password in each of those systems as well."

Based on their suggestion to change your passwords on other online services using the the same password one could assume that there is a good chance they could be decrypted. On the other hand they could just be overly cautious. In any case I agree it would be nice if they could divulge more information on the encryption strategies in use.
it adds 11.5k to the page (20% overhead) for an easter egg seems a bit excessive. it would be 10x smaller and more interesting to embed a js1k game or demo in the source.
Indeed.

The fact that depression is not transmitted by virus, bacteria or gene and is heavily correlated with cultural context make it a very suspect 'disease' if that word is to have any meaning.
Ghosts of the Internet: Past, Present and Future
This is the talk that is referenced in Steven Levy's "In the Plex". I think Steven refers to the talk as "How Google won the search engine wars" but the title is actually "Ghosts of the Internet: Past, Present and Future". I delivered this presentation as the keynote to the 2009 ARF conference, and I think it was (and may still be) the highest rated presentation (by the audience) in the history of the event
> When it comes to privacy and PII, Google holds itself to an extremely high standard.

Except that Google has for some time now been waging an all-out assault on the concept of anonymity, which at least in my mind is an important part of privacy.
> wealthier people have fewer children on average

I don't believe that's the case. At least not if we're using income as a proxy for wealth. Arranged by income, wealthier households in general tend to be larger households.

It's well established that the "top 20%" by income contains more than 20% of the earners - lots of dual-income couples - and also contains more than 20% of the people; the "bottom 20%" contains less than 20% of the earners and people. Seems to be true for 1% as well. If you want to check, there's a nice table of household size by income here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...