skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government is not an averaging process. You cannot add oligarchy to mob rule, divide by two, and get a republic.
Given the spin-up time and the fact it's a giant gyro (and thus can't be aimed) the ability of a 15" gun to fire payloads at enemy ships seems far more useful.
> I'm thinking your post would benefit from a recommendation as far as the "next closest thing" to MSSQL

Then by all means, add it in the comments and I'd be glad to point to it. I'm just not qualified to make that recommendation myself. My experience with other platforms amounts to importing data into MySQL for WordPress, heh.
We've run into the /dev/random problem when doing heavy SSL traffic. We had to pipe in sources of entropy. It was a janky solution, but wasn't as janky as it might sound.
The Evolution of Social Monogamy in Mammals
What I was going for was more like a traditional message-board design with "forum threads", each on a given "topic" that drifts over time along with the conversation. (Tags keep a discussion pinned to what the tag is "about", whereas a thread is just a cluster of posts, and the cluster's "topic"--its center of mass--can drift as more points are added to the cluster.)

Except, with this "message board", some posts (text posts or links) could be granted a special status and "promoted" up to a pinned area at the top, to serve as a collection of "prerequisites and resources for discussion." The thread's "preview" on the index would then show newest pinned stuff.
Put the health food by the petting zoo and the junk food by the roller coaster.
From someone who has to pass through Stata on the way to work every day, oh god.
I know it may be a little tangential to the original point, but I reckon you could cut this down considerably if you had more accurate psychophysical models than we do. Humans are probably not actually processing anywhere near 1.25 mbps of input, and as far as our actual experience, we're discarding the vast majority of the information we even take in.

Consider, for example, that if you could perfectly predict the exact path of a person's fovea as they watched an SD movie, you could aggressively compress everything more than a dozen pixels away from that. A few pixels further, and you wouldn't even need to store chroma information at all. Let's say you can do that at 100 kbps, and the pixels on the fovea are 1 mbps. That would put your total bitrate at about 105kbps for video. If you don't optimize audio at all, that brings the cost down to about $170B/year.

And that's not even with new psychophysics; it's just better input. Sure, playing it back would be hard, but in principle, you could fool a brain into thinking it was experiencing the data firsthand. I think it's reasonable to think this is still a massive upper bound. It's not unreasonable to think that a lifetime of human sensory experience could be encoded on the order of hundreds of gigabytes, if not less.
agree w/ the theme but anonymous != fake.

we can be anonymous and very "real", e.g. a verified reviewer, w/ a public review history etc, but whatever identity he chooses to display to the group.
If we're not going to worry about living payloads, why not just use a circular rail gun? (A macro scale cyclotron if you will.) It has no moving parts (except perhaps the exit point), it doesn't need to be a spiral, it doesn't all need to be mounted on a moving platform.
It really is such a shame your comment was almost halfway down the page while the top comments continue to be towing the "US healthcare is awful and greedy!" line.

Thanks for combing through that data for us.
Maybe stop changing frameworks? At least in a given project...
For those interested in this topic, Daniel Kahneman's book "Thinking, fast and slow" is an excellent resource. He refers to 2 systems in our brain, and how they interplay when making everyday decisions. Fascinating read.
I'm up in mackenzie brushing minimum wage, sometimes less, it is piecework; nothing like physical labour, to motivate yourself. We've got work till Aug 12. You will be stung by hornets everyday and we work from 4am till 3 PM. There is a significant cost outlay to get a brushing saw, so I don't recommend this job. 25 bucks a day camp cost. Treeplanters and brushers pretty chill.
Just in case you don't have enough hours for ei.

Edit-- also fathers don't really matter that much, for happy lives.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5721653
> "[...] call it and type in the following number: X X X X X. That will route the call directly back to me."

I wish every bank did this as standard practice! Hang up, dial the customer care number on the back of the card, then dial the digits supplied by the support rep.

Better yet, print instructions right on the back of the card: "don't engage any support representative you did not call directly." Training customers to do this (perhaps even through proactive callouts?) would work to significantly reduce this kind of fraud.
Art0047: When the Head and Heart Disagree
Hipster News. I joke I joke, right tool for the right job, right?
Why I Wish I Was Color Blind (You Won't Be Able To Read This And Not Upvote It)
wp.
saved this post for just another reason why open source is going to take over the world
An interesting place to start the investigation is "Glucose Is Not Willpower Fuel".
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mind-design/201108/gluco...
Nail houses around the world
I'm in the US. Online, I've obtained birth and death dates and lists of mailing addresses of specific persons. In one case, I started with the subject's name and county where they died (the goal was to find the burial plot of a relative). Other cases I started with a name and current city of residence (ie, googling myself and family members). I didn't search social networks. Iirc, most of my success came from online county records.
Fun new Vine video directory, please submit your funny vine videos
Because it's beautiful as fuck and has a lot of cool art / architecture.
Postgres is what I'd use unless I had good, specific reason to do otherwise.
Biometric library discovered in iOS7 beta 4
When all else fails you can resort to using webdriver. I generally try to reverse the request but occasionally the authentication weirdness and data obfuscation gets in a way to the point it's going to take more time than I'd like.
Computer scientists develop 'mathematical jigsaw puzzles' to encrypt software
I think I'm safe in assuming when you say "Only Apple" you mean Apple Computers. However, it was actually Apple Records who sued Apple Computers, not the other way around.
64 GB of RAM is 100,000 times more than what Microsoft used to think people needed.

:D

Seriously, Oracle's biggest point of losing customers is when it's time to upgrade from Standard Edition to Enterprise Edition ... or else pick an alternative. I imagine something similar is true for Microsoft SQL Server.
Check out the DMCA link at the bottom of this very site. It's fairly awesome.

"If you believe that content residing or accessible on or through the our website (“Services”) infringes a copyright, please send a written notice (by fax or regular mail) to the Designated Agent at the address below. You may not communicate the information specified below by email. Please note that you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorney’s fees) if you materially misrepresent that material is infringing your copyright(s)."
I agree, but a very damning statistic is buried at the end of the article. The vast majority of these 1-star reviewers don't have other reviews on Amazon, which seems very odd, considering the book's subject matter is wonkish.
In the same way rohypnol is a perfectly valid dating strategy? If the ends justify the means, just about anything is "valid" as long as it achieves the desired result.
Entrepreneurship and the Fallacy of Work-Life Balance
That's a crazy deal, my Dell R610s with dual 6-core CPUs and 32GB RAM ran me about $4K each.

This was 2 1/2 years ago mind you, but I wouldn't mind the extra cores now.
I don't understand why it is unfalsifiable.

Let's say I run the experiment and find that students who memorized seven digits were just as likely to choose cake as students who memorized 2 digits. Wouldn't that be evidence against the theory that "Willpower and cognitive processing draw from the same pool of resources"? And if we get enough such evidence, couldn't we label the theory 'false'?
Like the other commenters, so glad that Kathy is blogging again.

That being said, I am glad that she has finally verbalized what I have always felt.

As the only person running 5KMVP, I have always found that it is hard for me to do things like marketing, and customer relations/support on the same day I do development.

That would also negatively impact my performance of both.

But now that I have people working with, I can concentrate on interacting with my clients without feeling guilty (i.e. knowing that the rest of my day is dead, from a development perspective).

Also, this explains the logic behind Steve Jobs always choosing a black turtleneck, blue jeans and sneakers. If he has 1 less thing to make a decision about, his life is much easier. I have recently adopted that, and am trying to simplify my wardrobe as much as I can.

This also impacts how I schedule 'outside' events. If I have to go to an event outside of the house, that usually means no coding for me on that day. I can't quite explain why - other than the mere fact that I know I have to go out, is enough of a distraction to make me not be able to 'get into the zone'. Glad to know that I am not deficient in anyway, and it is just being depleted from the same 'cognitive tank'.
what domains you have?
Hmm. It still seems to me that the simple concatenative method could still be broken at least slightly more quickly, since each function can be collision tested separately, but my brain is vaguely gesturing at comprehension about why xoring is still weak.

I feel like we should be teaching the principles of crypto to young children so that we end up with some humans that can grok it as easily as the rest of us do algebra. But there are a great many things I would want young children to be taught if I were made the Benevolent Dictator of All School Boards.
The funny thing is how Microsoft used to make fun of Oracle for being restrictive on the CPU licensing types. How "hardware improvements are for our customers' benefit". Now? You pay differently depending on AMD/Intel and type of chip. Oh hey, just like Oracle. It's hypocritical, but I guess it's also just business.

At any rate, like this post says, whatcha going to do? The ease of use of SQL Server is fantastic. As much as I would like to use Postgres (despite the HA story looking very confusing, and lack of basic things like materialized views), the tooling is lightyears behind Microsoft's. The fact that I'd truly need to become a DBA to properly use Postgres (oh great, an ini file with poorly documented settings!), whereas I can fumble my way through SQL Server... that's worth a lot.
"I realize it will happen at some point. I don't pretend to know when."

Partial knowledge is possible. We can be quite comfortable ruling out "thousands" of years. It would require a total, utter rewrite of physics. While this can never be 100% ruled out, I do tend to think that when that's your last defense, you've gone too far. If people a thousand years from now look back and laugh at me for thinking that it's impossible to store multiple petabytes on a single hydrogen atom, I hope they'll at least have the courtesy to admit it was by far the most likely hypothesis given the quite substantial amount we know about particle physics right now.
He's not referring to a specific generation of people, but rather a decade that held capitalistic intentions high throughout the world, for good or worse.

It says something to me.
This post reminds me of a cool project, where the author is recording a single second of video every day, for the rest of his life.

http://www.ted.com/talks/cesar_kuriyama_one_second_every_day...
They both poked at the garments covering the underbelly of power; exactly the same thing, depending on your basis of comparison.
Ask HN: Hiring Ruby developer
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Will pay for projects you build for me using Ruby email me please.
I built a site called makeitpersonal (http://makeitpersonal.co) where you can highlight, annotate and maybe share song lyrics. Although I use it a lot, I'm probably the only active user (which by the way is OK, I built a tool for myself).
Actually, most of their prices are "Call us!"[1]

Looks to be at least $4000/socket/year. So, more money than SQL Server Standard, less than SQL Server Enterprise.

1: http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/subsc...
> Like many things in psychology, this is basically unfalsifiable.

Your comment doesn't make much sense.
"basically unfalsifiable"? By which you mean, it is falsifiable but hard. In fact, you later make a fair attempt to falsify it, indicated by the word "defeat".

I would rather compare this model to a physics model of the universe - it's a model that may be right, or wrong: we can use it to make predictions, identify discrepancies, and refine our model.

The biological model that you present (stress = cortisol = cake) does not contradict any psychological model - they can both be true. Biology and psychology are evolutionarily dependent on each other.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html

Weev has some curious quotes in this article

“I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed. Blogging gives the illusion of participation to a bunch of retards. . . . We need to put these people in the oven!”

and

“The question we have to answer is: How do we kill four of the world’s six billion people in the most just way possible?”
Because it seems if one guy says "I like to wipe my ass" within 5 seconds on this site there will be a start-up to facilitate ass wiping.
His criticism of modern JRPG design vs older JRPGs is a perfectly valid opinion, he makes some good points. Whether you agree or not is another matter.

Being arrogant is fine too, BTW. No law against being arrogant, or of using hyperbole. Again, this is not anything like the kind of abuse being talked about.
I'm as glad as anyone that Kathy starting to blog again - but she mentioned an important "My father died unexpectedly last week" in the middle of the piece. Hopefully, writing can be beneficial to both her (and to her audience that obviously appreciates the blog) in what are likely very difficult times. Best Wishes.
Death would be a little bit too messy right now. I'm betting on life in prison with no possibility of parole.
I'm no expert, but I'm at least friendly! :)
Make sure it is legal to own/operate one in your jurisdiction before buying any sort of jammer.
"Why do you say the OSI model is unrealistic?"

The layers do not reflect reality. The higher up you go, the less obvious the mapping to the things that really exist gets, and the mapping is getting fuzzier over time (or, phrased another way, the OSI model is not only unrealistic, but increasingly unrealistic).

This is as opposed to possible meanings of the phrase, like "impractical". It is probably theoretically possible to write something that really would have seven clear layers, though I have to hedge; a lot of really high-performance stuff is even fuzzier than the consumer stuff. The recent trend towards userland-level networking at the highest performance end pretty much collapses layer 3 and above into one application. But it would at least ship bytes from here to there, it's certainly not an impossible design. It just isn't the real one. (And I'd have grave concerns about its performance at the top end.)

I have to admit this is another trend in programming that I just Do Not Get. This bizarre insistence on taking some inappropriate model, then with malice aforethought deliberately squinting at things that manifestly do not fit into the model until your vision is so fuzzy that they do seem to fit together, then yelling at anyone who dares point out you've damn near closed your eyes and probably aren't seeing clearly. See also every web framework's desperate need to insist that they are MVC, even as the lines that must be drawn between the various components to show where the M, V, and C are wildly and drunkenly veer hither and yon in a terrifically convoluted manner, criss-crossing dozens of components, instead of simply explaining what they actually are. I just don't get it. Models aren't blueprints, let alone the very definition of virtue. If they don't work, dispose of them.
I wanted to build a public database of mechanics and motion. Using some web-based 3d modelling script like Copperlicht and (unknwown magic) I would set up a wiki like site with some standard human and machine models and people could add animations for those models, like martial arts moves, or dance moves, or... whatever.

It's either a stupid idea or a brilliant multimillion dollar idea for someone who isn't working off of their mother's old Dell.
Now take it one step further, not just your UI, that's peanuts next to that big elephant in the room. Each ad you make me watch, requires a little bit of my willpower. I have to ignore its message, resist clicking on that nice looking lady. Your ad based revenue model is making me fat way faster than your UI will ever be able to do.
Agreed, just pointing out that we don't know what we don't know with this technology. Say its cheap, might as well take advantage of the opportunity. I doubt any one methodology will be the best approach, and even if it isn't cheap now, maybe it will be in the future.

Eh, whatever, beer time!
Doesn't Twitter have an API you can query?
I'd like to try it but I want to see the UI (possibly through a demo account) without having to subscribe first.
The Navy is working on a railgun[1]. Probably a bit more pragmatic than something this large.

[1]
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/navy-gets-another-h...
But it does matter, because if you can exploit a weakness in the hash function you can figure out the salt, strip it, and then use your precomputed dictionary.
Apple, Google, and more join forces to request NSA data be made public
Washpo sending emails verifying Yahoo accounts?
For anyone that still has a Yahoo! email account (you're welcome Marissa) --

Have you gotten an email from the Washington Post asking if you were still "you"? I didn't subscribe to any news from them, so I'm kind of wondering why they would send me something like that...

Web savvy me decided it was probably spam for this reason -- maybe someone should ask/find out?
What’s Wrong with Philanthropy (And How We Can Fix It)
"As for the call, well, credit where it’s due, it’s pretty clever. If you call a landline, it’s up to you to end the call. If the other person, the person who receives the call, puts down the receiver, it doesn’t hang up the call, meaning that when I went to find my bank card, the fraudster was still on the other end, waiting for me to pick up the phone and call ‘the bank’. As I did this, he first played a dial tone down the line, and then a ring tone, making me think it was a normal call. He will have been sitting next to the first person that called me, no doubt laughing their heads off at how stupid I’d been."

Wow, what? This seems pretty crazy. I was wondering how they did it until I got to this point.
Sure, it's certainly more complicated.

Bear in mind, though, that "having made statements that, in some way, support X" and "being predominately in favor of X" are two radically different things, if you're trying to get at truth and not just score political points. I am not in favor of dictatorship just because I observe that Stalin correctly believed that 2+2=4. I have not seen anything that leads me to believe that Chomsky is wrong substantially more frequently, or in substantially worse ways, than others who pontificate on the global situation, so I try to challenge his arguments where I disagree with them and don't brush off the person - he is clearly an intelligent man.

Related: http://lesswrong.com/lw/gz/policy_debates_should_not_appear_...
I agree with the author's criticism of LinkedIn. My biggest problem with the service is its default placeholder text for connection requests ("David Smith would like to connect with you...").

To me this takes all of the fun and excitement out of networking, not to mention the clarity. When I network with people face-to-face, I always get a sense of how they may want to work with me in the future. E.g. Maybe they're a designer; I'm a programmer; we could collaborate on X kind of project.

LinkedIn's placeholder text makes connections seem generic and less useful. Today I received five networking requests, but, unlike with real-life networking, I have no clear idea of why the people are reaching out to me.
I couldn't find in the code where the objects are actually stored, but theoretically there's nothing stopping you in Go from allocating yourself up an array of X bytes (for X in the mega or gigabytes) and completely managing it yourself, leaving the GC merely for incidental activities, which themselves can be minimized through various design patterns and some care.

It is true that you should describe Go as a garbage-collected language, but unlike a lot of other such languages, Go has C-like mutable arrays readily available. In practice it's more like a sort of hybrid, in that even though it's garbage collected you have a lot of opportunities to write code that still doesn't really use it, without having to "drop down to" C or something. I still hope to see some improvements in it before I could make a big commitment to it, but I've certainly got my eye on it.
>Prosecutors called him an anarchist hacker and traitor who indiscriminately leaked classified information he had sworn to protect, knowing it would be seen by al-Qaida. They showed that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden obtained copies of some of the documents WikiLeaks published before bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy Seals in 2011.

This is a terrifying precedent and opens the door to charge any whistleblower with "adhering to [the United States's] Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort," and thus treason. Even if Manning is not given the death penalty, depending on tomorrow's verdict, we may see one of the final nails in the coffin of investigative journalism. I am honestly very nervous right now.
Because despite the freighting costs a country like China can still make cheaper cars for our market. Even if the whole chain is here it is likely going to still be more expensive. If this wasn't the case then it wouldn't have been slowly dismantled over time.
This experiment should get way more attention, because it truly deserves it.

I'm glad someone finally put their minds toward destroying the mystery behind the dual-slit/particle-wave-duality experiment. How long did it take to figure this out? 100 years?

It always felt like the biggest cop-out in all of Science, that physicists would just throw up their hands at the mere sight of an interference pattern.
Unknotting Problem
Five years back,my father got both his eyes operated upon for cataract removal at Coimbatore,India as part of some free Eye camp program.This year, my mom had cataract in both eyes surgically corrected in a private hospital in North Kerala.They charged only Rs.9500/- per eye,and the treatment was quite good.Now my Mom has 6/6 vision in both eyes.
I'm near DC, seriously considering going if I could find someone else interested.
80's = Reaganomics

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

"Greed is good." is a quote by the character Gordon Gecko from the movie Wall Street.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094291
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Gekko
I actually wouldn't be surprised if it was independently conceived - When http://identity.com designed their first logo they found out both Stide's iD gum and one other company (That I can't recall off hand) both had the exact same logo - Not just insanely similar as in this case - but the exact same.

Either way - hope you and Tox come to an agreeable solution. For what it's worth I like your spin on it better :-)