skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's more expensive than just running on regular memory.
The backend server of showterm.io
I wonder what a study of animals not in a human environment would show, although I wonder how difficult it would be to find such an environment.
> What is the memory footprint of node? What is the startup cost?

It's fast enough, and low-overhead enough, that I don't notice any overhead when running my Node.js build scripts. And really, that's all that matters.

Out of curiosity, I wrote a little script to test it:

#!/usr/local/bin/node
console.log(process.memoryUsage());

And here's the output (memory usage is in bytes):

jshore$ time ./deleteme.js
{ rss: 12660736, heapTotal: 4083456, heapUsed: 2131864 }

real 0m0.055s
user 0m0.043s
sys 0m0.011s
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This comment was made in the most positive way possible. Not sure why it was treated as it was non constructive or negative .
You should date an illiterate girl
Putting the data on Dropbox's service may well be a felony itself. They don't really care how you transmit the gag-ordered information to the third party.

Also, AFAIK, they get to read the NSL/FISA warrant but not keep a copy. So there's that, too.
This isn't very different from saying P = NP will be proven within 5 years. Sounds like linkbait.
Linear cryptanalysis. Its been awhile since I've studied it as well, but Applied Cryptography sites a successful attack that took only 50 with 12 workstations (the book was published in 1996).
How about a client that does the following, but still uses email: A secure attachement creation client.

You type your email into the app, which is just a word processor. When you send it - it saves an encrypted attachment, attaches it to the message and sends via email.

The other party will need the client to read the attachment, and their client will need to connect to a secure central ID entity to confirm they are the recipient client which can open the message.
I've quit on two or three occasions for a year at a time. What worked was to gradually lower the dose until you're close enough to zero that zero isn't hard. I did that over a couple weeks, and it was so much easier than cold turkey that I don't know why more people don't try it.
Please don't move the goalposts. While they're of course inextricably linked, I'm talking about the issue of "reckless borrowing", i.e. that stuff we have to pay interest on.

And I don't care so much how they're trending down as how they're still above a trillion dollars. By the same token, should we give Bush and the Republican Congress credit for reducing deficits 2005-7? With 2007 still above 2002..?

As for spending, debt etc. being an issue, while it certainly matters what "Republican politicians" say and do, "conservatives" and libertarians have been raising as big a fuss about it as we can since the days of Nixon, and I gather longer (I became politically aware during his Administration so I can only vouch for it starting then).
> ... should have had a benevolent dictator in charge of it instead.

Like Guido Van Rossum in the Python world (with the title "Benevolent Dictator For Life"), who seems (so far) to manage his power well. But I think this is a rare exception to a well-known rule about arbitrary power.
> I think having some sense of power important to the well-being of humans?

Of course it is. That's not the question, I guess.

The question is: How much difference regarding power (generally expressed in money/wealth) is healthy to society?
I actually think the best approach, longterm, would be to use the SSD as a cache for the HD at a filesystem level. I believe something along those lines was just merged into the Linux kernel.
https://gist.github.com/jaekwon/6201493

edit: it doesn't work. :P It worked when e or d was set to 1. oops.

you might want to see if there's a bug in the main function.
Did you try: https://github.com/brianjcj/auto-complete-clang
The stats page says ~1.8 million users, does this mean the sublime text creator made maybe $30-$40 million in sales?
The Stanford prison experiment was heavily influenced. In a real-life scenario there are always checks, balances and limits to law enforcement, even in corrupt precincts.

In the Stanford experiment, there was nothing. It was like Lord of the Flies for adults - an artificial environment where things would escalate unnaturally and unrealistically fast. However, even in precincts with Training Day levels of corruption, people in positions of power know that their excesses and abuses still have to have an upper bound.

I'm not attacking you personally on this point, but I studied psychology and have family in law enforcement who have worked in I.A.
Hmm. If you call grown women girls, who's the illiterate?

The linked article complains about the behavior of women who have literacy but no power. The solution is obvious.
DES resists linear cryptanalysis --- the best linear attack on DES is 2^43 and requires 2^43 known plaintexts. Linear cryptanalysis of FEAL-8 takes just 4000 plaintexts.

According to Don Coppersmith, NSA picked DES's s-boxes by randomly generating them and choosing the ones that best resisted differential cryptanalysis --- again, this is something NSA did fifteen years before differential cryptanalysis was discovered by the public. They modified DES to resist an attack only they knew about.
Might be useful for you to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Yes, I'd say it's a huge one, particularly if you have or are planning to start/extend a family. I'd be overjoyed my coverage as a "self-employed" contractor were nearly as straightforward and affordable as it was in my FTE days.
It is not democratic. Democracies at least involve periodic check-ins with everyone who is affected.

The W3C isn't a town hall, it's more like the UN. At best they prevent the web from going back to the chaos of the mid-90s.
i live/work next door to the hacker house. the most worrisome part of this whole visit to me was when i asked them why they were here, their response was "to check in on your grassroots movement" and used the words "counter-culture" twice.
It's called PRISM.
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If Al Qaeda believed it were more effective to band with a nation state and form a uniformed army, they would. But the US should not sit on their hands until that day comes. As for the golden rule, how does that apply to people who actively trying to kill your family?
I think you meant murder is bad for society, because gun ownership never killed anyone.
Good question, we are bootstrapping, that means we don't have the money to hire developers, and we are all working on our day jobs, and we need all the pieces to be able to sell (it doesn't make much sense for an event planner to pay if we are covering only event attendees with iPhones but not Androids). So what other options do we have, none of us has much experience with Android, so it will take a long time and we are losing actual customers who have seen the iOS app and want to pay to use it.
Indeed, but these are really small numbers. RSA only works with really BIG numbers, which is one reason people are starting to insist that PKC should use ECC.
This is very different from saying P=NP. It would instead be to say that the integer factorization or discrete log problems in the specific parameters used by cryptosystems simply aren't as hard as we once thought they were.

RSA-128 is trivially breakable. Being able to break RSA-128 isn't a demonstration that P=NP, either.
Bezos/Washington Post
After 10+ years as a performance leaning C++ desktop app developer I'm looking for any and all tips to make JavaScript (jQuery too) work in perceivably faster ways. I'm use to threading database calls, using message queues, and views updating themselves from caches. It’s a new world for me and feels somewhat like a step backwards.

Here I come html5!
More than a few; I cite a number of others at http://lesswrong.com/lw/dtg/notes_on_the_psychology_of_power...
The author of this article teaches a course on coursera that I can't recommend enough, he put so much effort into that course.
https://www.coursera.org/course/maththink
As you might have guessed its not really about 'math' in traditional sense.
Sure. But that's a pain and easy to forget. :-)
Bluntly, IMO the government has no business checking up on people without some level of suspicion. The cops ought not to be simply snooping around.

Googling for Hacker House gives a list of places that I would call "communes for entrepeneaurs", publically listed. I would be far more concerned about a place that was ordering uranium and wasn't public; wasn't engaging. People trying to hide their work with uranium are more suspicious than some sort of union organizer related to nuclear plants working out of a startup home...

There is a lot of space between anarchy and cops asking around about a perfectly legit place.

Privacy is not wrong.
Anecdotally, when we started hiring for Matasano, availability of health insurance was the #1 concern we heard from candidates. It even beat salary. Also: I almost didn't get to do Matasano, because private health insurance refused to cover my wife and my daughter.
MIT addresses this by doing GPAs on a 5.0 scale: http://web.mit.edu/registrar/gpacalc.html
Book Description:

"What can’t neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI—functional magnetic resonance imaging—was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand and manipulate voters, determine guilt in court cases, and make sense of everything from musical aptitude to romantic love. But although brain scans and other neurotechnologies have provided groundbreaking insights into the workings of the human brain, the increasingly fashionable idea that they are the most important means of answering the enduring mysteries of psychology is misguided—and potentially dangerous.

In Brainwashed, psychiatrist and AEI scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld reveal how many of the real-world applications of human neuroscience gloss over its limitations and intricacies, at times obscuring—rather than clarifying—the myriad factors that shape our behavior and identities. Brain scans, Satel and Lilienfeld show, are useful but often ambiguous representations of a highly complex system. Each region of the brain participates in a host of experiences and interacts with other regions, so seeing one area light up on an fMRI in response to a stimulus doesn’t automatically indicate a particular sensation or capture the higher cognitive functions that come from those interactions. The narrow focus on the brain’s physical processes also assumes that our subjective experiences can be explained away by biology alone. As Satel and Lilienfeld explain, this “neurocentric” view of the mind risks undermining our most deeply held ideas about selfhood, free will, and personal responsibility, putting us at risk of making harmful mistakes, whether in the courtroom, interrogation room, or addiction treatment clinic.

A provocative account of our obsession with neuroscience, Brainwashed brilliantly illuminates what contemporary neuroscience and brain imaging can and cannot tell us about ourselves, providing a much-needed reminder about the many factors that make us who we are."
Up until you start to phosphoresce...then it's time to cut back.
I don't understand your position on lists. In Clojure, lists, vectors, and other collections are unified under the Seq abstraction. To me, they are all the same, until I need some specific behavior or performance characteristic.
Try decaf.
The FBI keep tabs on plenty of people they're not imminently planning on arresting or secretly carting off to Guantanamo Bay. In this case, it looks like there are plenty of reasons they could have received a tip-off: nuclear material purchased, collecting details on nuclear power stations and "homes for hackers" are all likely to alert suspicious members of the public. Casually explaining what it's all about is the perfect way to defuse trouble; stonewalling them until they decide you must be hiding something, get a warrant and find the uranium hidden in the cellar with the map of all the power stations probably isn't.

If the FBI have opened a file on there you probably don't want the words "suspicious of law enforcement" added to the list.
Firstly: One personal anecdote means nothing.

But what I really want to say is that what you're saying doesn't work in the long run. If you never drink coffee, it can be used as drug to help concentrate. But when drinking it daily, as the article states, your body will adjust and now you need coffee just to get to the old level without coffee.
Voltaire famously drank something like 50 cups of coffee a day. When someone told him it was a slow poison, he replied, "It must be very slow."

That's the story at least. Don't know if it's true.
They weakened DES by reducing key size from 128 to 56 bits. Everything suggests they didn't know about linear cryptanalysis at the time, and in any case their improved sboxes, by being stronger against DC, were also stronger against LC.
You know that he didn't say Cox invented regular expressions, but that the Vim implementation might be influenced by Cox's advocacy on the matter. Right?
That's not what I meant. Besides does the morgue even keep bodies forever? I don't think so.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268011/Kim-Suozzi-2...
Depending on the place you get it, the label decaf often doesn't mean much.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17132260
In the additional letters, the small ñ is missing (Capital Ñ is in the list). It's a very used letter in Spanish. (Additionaly, the Ç and ç are missing they are used in Portuguese.)

I don't know how this can be solved in the general case. Maybe add 10 free letters and ask the user to supply the unicode number, or type/copy the letter in a text field of the web page.
Looking at the Nordic countries you might possibly make the counterpoint that publicly funded health care implies a taxation model that makes it economically unrewarding to become an entrepreneur.
Is this your prognosis for the future? Because at the moment this simply isn't true.

Try this among of countless other examples in the very latest Chrome Canary:

document.createElement('canvas').getContext('2d').webkitBackingStorePixelRatio
> Other countries have had such success with this model that it's becoming very difficult to argue that it's inherently flawed ...

The British NHS discovered that by not feeding hospitalized patients they could realize tremendous savings in food, shortened length of hospital stay, followup costs, etc.

> half the price per person

Health care spending will dramatically increase under Obamacare. Americans spend a lot on health care as a lifestyle choice. Obamacare is nothing more than an attempt to recreate the housing bubble using health care.
I think he meant for the rest of the world. We only remember US presidents if they were killed or notoriously bad at their jobs - maybe except for F.D Roosevelt. (A bit tongue in cheek, but it also has some truth to it).
Showing around shortcuts is missing the point about Emacs. As the great Heraclitus once said: "No man ever uses the same Emacs". Emacs is about tailoring your tool to yourself. To use emacs Effectively you only need to know about Emacs core abstractions (buffers, strings, modes, keymaps, etc), emacs lisp and at most the C-h commands.
Attempts to present mathematics as relevant to daily life inevitably appear forced and
contrived: “You see kids, if you know algebra then you can figure out how old Maria is if we
know thatshe istwo years older than twice her age seven years ago!” (Asif anyone would ever
have access to that ridiculous kind of information, and not her age.)

I wince every time I see these examples in my niece's textbook. So ridiculous.
And I'm lying in bed waiting for the machine to warm up. Best part of the day arrives early on.
Yes, indeed. For instance, the creation of bebop in jazz. Of course Bird could only do this by a comprehensive understanding of the existing rules and seeing deeper.
Caching jQuery selectors may result in a speedup, but as with all caching systems I've run into nasty, hard to trace bugs that were the result of stale cached jQuery selectors.

So I'd add the caveat to caching jQuery selectors that standard premature optimization rules still apply.
Ah, right you are. I blame my phone keyboard :P
How Prism Hurts the Cloud
(I can't edit my original comment anymore.) In case anyone here is interested, there was a discussion about the presentation last week on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155502
"""If you ask a psychologist, he or she may tell you that the powerful are simply too busy. They don't have the time to fully attend to their less powerful counterparts."""

No real psychologist will tell you that. Not even the worse case of status-quo apologist psychologist.
I think we have had Floating Nuclear Power Plants for the better part of 50 years now. They were called carriers and submarines.

Am I also the only one that begins to see red when someone uses "enough to power X homes"? I have always thought that anyone that says it thinks his audience is made of ignoramuses.
The surveillance state from an evolutionary perspective
Indeed, the nature of email transport is such that security should be somehow enforced while it's not in your domain of total control. It should be presumed all sorts of eyes are looking at your package and should be dealt with accordingly. One approach is to write locally, encrypt and send it. Likewise for receiving - receive encrypted and decrypt locally. Thing is how to make this happen to work unobtrusively for users as well as how to make it work with current infrastructure of users not using encryption. That's the challenge.

NB: All presuming NSA or whoever doesn't have capability to break your encryption scheme. Great addition would be if attempt of breaking in to your package could notify you, but that's not technically possible as far as I know.
Not in a human environment would be a challenge, but IMO somewhat double. But not in a human environment, where we _do_ have historical weight data? Forget it.

As to the control mice: my hunch would be that 'let the control animals eat at will' has changed over time. Maybe the diameter of sugar water tubes has increased slightly?

Certainly, our notion of what constitutes overweight has changed. If you look at photos of kids in the 1950s, almost all of them look extremely skinny. We may project that on lab animals, and size the 'eat at will' containers accordingly ("hm, the control mice get too fat. Let's make it a tiny bit harder for them too get their food")

Also, chances are that lab animals live at better controlled temperatures. Possibly, they used to eat less in hot summers because the temperature in their cages was higher in summer?

Of course, that's speculation, but it is the simplest explanation I can think of.
I'd say that this is usually the case for many languages, but Lisp IDEs have been refined, unrefined, GMOd, and subjected to all kinds of prodding that you generally want to pick one of the approved environments (Emacs, LispWorks Emacsish, Allegro I-wanna-be-Genera-Emacs).

The main reason for this is that so many of the tutorials will assume emacs for your repl management beyond the basic "(car '(foo bar baz))" and any emacs will have a well-defined "manage the indentation and parens"-mode.

Getting help from other people will often involve Emacs-specific instructions as well. "C-c C-e at the end of the sexpr and eval the result..." which may or may not be the binding in Eclipse or whatever IDE the person is using.
Thanks for that link, it is very enlightening. So much of CSS just feels like a total hack. putting something in the middle of an element should not be so hard! negative margins? ...absurd!

Why doesnt CSS just have a property like 'placement: center middle' or something.
I would love to help you with PR. Can you give me an email address so I can contact you directly?
Lack of education? Yesterday there was a blog post lamenting computer illiteracy in which the author asked how many people could tell the difference between the Internet, world wide web, a browser and a search engine without referencing Wikipedia?

Well, in America we have widespread political and legal illiteracy as well. I'm not talking about citizens not reading the Constitution, I'm talking about most people being unable to paraphrase the Fifth Amendment when asked. Aside from "plead the fifth" most people in America probably couldn't tell you what the amendment means. Yes, it applies to more than just courts. You won't be held to incriminate yourself, your property can't be unjustly seized without compensation, you must have due process and a jury, etc. etc. etc.

Americans lack basic Bill of Rights knowledge, because honestly, they don't teach it enough in schools. It's great that we have to stand up and pledge allegiance, but it would be nice if we had to repeat our own rights. As an American it bothers me.

Most people don't exercise that right when a police officer (or any other agent) speaks to them because it seems innocuous, and they don't think that their rights apply to a simple conversation with law enforcement.

All that said...I wouldn't say it's always unintelligent to speak to law enforcement without a lawyer...but still, most people should be aware of the right, and take judicious advantage of it.
You should look at your own stats to decide that. IE7 accounts for 4% of our users, so we do make some concessions for them.
This should help: https://twitter.com/Scobleizer/most-influential-in-tech
I've tried a few times, lasted a few months, and relapsed. Ive noticed the psychological triggers are far more powerful than the chemical, at least in my case. E.g., cold weather and the smell of it in my local store is harder to resist when Im in my normal workday routine than a weekend stop in same said store.
How the Government Killed a Secure E-mail Company
This is something which I did not think. It's basically like sending truecrypted packets between people. But this doesn't solve one problem - metadata. I still know you sent an email at time X to person P2. Tor's method of onion routing looks quite nice though.
A leader has to have technical competency, at least on a general level, on the products their teams develop. How else could they make informed decisions? Advisors can only help so much, the persons who ultimately make the big decisions have to understand what's going on. Sadly, these big companies are less about technology and useful products and more about sales and marketing.
I just woke up from a nap in 2009. I hope.
Gonna go invent chatroulette now.
I clicked [Test Me] from FF 19.0 with Ad Block Plus, Ghostery, and Request Policy installed… It crashed FF.
updated my comment.

The only thing I can think of is that discrete logs don't work that way.

while E^(e.log_E(M)) == E mod n, e.log_E(M) doesn't equal 1.
And I'm not sure what /e means in the realm of exponents, besides *d, and I don't know how to find d without knowing M.
But that's just another election system with different attributes of subjective value. Any choice of election system is just a compromise between many desirable criteria, some of which are mutually exclusive. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system#Compliance_of_sel....