skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting aspect is that NASA gets criticized from both sides. Here Carmack is basically criticizing NASA for not taking enough risks, being too cautious in the meticulous engineering instead of whipping out a saw and trying something. But whenever something goes wrong and there's an inquiry, the inquiry always blames NASA for being too seat-of-the-pants, not doing enough proper engineering and analysis of safety margins, not following procedures to the letter, etc., etc.
The gist of this is that the father of an accident victim (who died) was unhappy the court ordered him to share some insurance money with other victims (who were injured but not killed) who were in same accident, even after already getting 1.6 million dollars from his own insurance.
The implication is that by changing the word/picture associations at each level, they will eventually trick you into revealing that you are racist, as you mistakenly associate the negative words to the race which you are allegedly prejudice against. Wouldn't it be just as likely that people would click because they simply mixed up which side of the screen the association was supposed to go on? Such a mistake could also be attributed to a lack of attention or even clumsiness. It seems like the test takes a huge leap of logic by automatically associating the mistakes with racism. Twice throughout the test I mistakenly clicked the wrong side for a negative word association. Once it was with an African American portrait and once it was with a European American portrait. One would think that this would even things out, but the test determined that I'm a racist because I got blue and red mixed up.

As I said, it's utterly ridiculous.
I'm just using shingled writes as one example. Your kernel could, for example, more efficiently reorder reads and writes with more information about the physical drive layout. Hell, just removing the bad-sector remapping (and moving it up to the kernel or the like) would help solve the performance degradation that remapped sectors cause during apparently sequential reads/writes.
Cool, thanks for polluting public airwaves back in the day! Up to anything... useful lately? ;D
Any effort is appreciated. Thank you.
I'm sure people with marital problems might! :P

Why say "who cares" about privacy, anyways? Even if you don't personally need it, you needn't erode other a privacy someone else might value.

Privacy has a way of never returning once lost.
Well sure, but you have lots of money so that doesn't matter.
Once upon a time, Tarn Adams did an AMA on Reddit. I asked him [0]:

Have you considered open sourcing more pieces of Dwarf Fortress so that the
community can try to help with the nitty gritty engine bits while you can
continue having sole ownership of the underlying direction?

The pathfinding and multithreading optimization is a good example of
something I'd love to help with given the opportunity. (Related to this
question.)

Is there any other way that the more technically-inclined can help?

Tarn's response:

I'm just not a project manager. I tried sharing the pathfinding code with
some people, and some progress was made, but unless my involvement is more
hands-on, I don't think it'll work, and I didn't want to be involved in that
kind of arrangement. On the other hand, the porting and graphics work with
Baughn went pretty well, although now I can't work with the graphics code
myself because I don't understand it. I'd hate to have that happen to more core
pieces of the game. Baughn also had to suffer a lot of annoyances because I
have no inclination toward things like version control.

"I'm just not a project manager." As someone who has several active open source projects, I can very much relate. I can easily see Tarn and his brother be completely overwhelmed by open source activity, paralyzed to make any kind of internally directed progress on it. Also, not everyone is good at maintaining this kind of thing, so it could cause more harm than benefit to the project.

I too wish the code was open source, but I can understand the reluctance and speculate that it may even be the correct decision until the project is completed or abandoned.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1avszc/im_tarn_adams_o...
The AV club article

assumes that people never lie or are unreliable witnesses, even though the movie presents clear evidence to the contrary (and this is well known in the real world),

assumes that the police conduct a thorough investigation instead of railroading a suspect who fits their prejudicial profile,

and assumes things (like the knife) are uncommon because they are foreign to himself, though they may be quite popular in other social circles.

That's exactly the point of the movie, and the author completely missed it.
I have to know, when is iBacon coming? iOS 8?
The algorithm is published, so you could plausibly write one.
What about the following encrytions⸮:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAKE2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_forward_secrecy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrypt
The network of mathematics
You mean like the national income tax?
I like to listen to http://scenemusic.net.
I'd have to go and dig out my copy now to check. The main things I remember offhand were problems with no discussion of the answers, and examples of 'bad circuits' which you were encouraged to build to find out why they went wrong. Great if you're in a class, not so great if you're studying alone.
It felt more bit shifting-the-blame to me than candid (but maybe he does believe it). What happened is John Carmack started an aerospace company thinking that he could parlay his success in writing game engines into shaking up aerospace, but he couldn't. And now he's trying to blame it on the people he hired, instead of admitting he failed. He seems to want to keep alive the fantasy that only if only he had really worked at it, his idea was right all along, and it's only the subordinates tasked with implementing it who failed, not him.
... or people could stop being idiots ;)
I'm a little confused about this article. From the article

"Ending an agreement made in the pre-internet age gives the Germans a chance to show they're doing something, and at the same time the Americans know it's not going to hurt them."

It's completely a symbolic gesture. It seems to me like the Germans are just playing a political game, hoping that (somehow) the people don't notice. Any German natives able to give insight into the general feeling among the population (preferably the whole population, not just 20 something start-up guys)?
"Both men are cyclists in their spare time"

Anyone read this and then think of this study?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/12/10/us-sperm-exercise-...
How HG Wells created hobby war gaming
It's not different, and if that's happening in those industries, it should be halted there, as well. Either that isn't happening (or happening to the same extent) in those industries, it hasn't been brought to the legislature's attention, or, as someone brought up elsewhere, other industries have better lobbyists.

Don't look for me to defend sales taxes in general, they're regressive evils and should be ripped out and replaced with progressive income taxes. But so long as they exist, I'm happy to see loopholes like this closed. Just not closed stupidly.
How Meg Whitman Designed Hewlett-Packard's Revival Strategy
Maryland tried this and killed it, try this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=maryland+computer+services+t...

Particularly unwise given how easy it was for people to move to Northern Virginia.
I didn't read him mention people working under him.
The question isn't whether Sergey did something he shouldn't have. It's whether Goldman and the government overstepped in prosecuting him.

Being sentenced to 8 years in prison based on wildly ill-informed testimony is clearly not a reasonable response.
You just described the actual draw of CoreOS. CoreOS is just Linux. Instead of going the Xen route you just described, it can capitalize on being just Linux by supporting everything Linux already supports. At this point, you can view CoreOS, which is just Linux, as the "hypervisor." Containers don't have to replicate key subsystems in every paravirtualized instance, as containers share all the same subsystems like e.g. the TCP/IP stack. You're also not throwing away any distribution experience. Want CentOS? Create a CentOS container with Docker. Want Ubuntu? Create an Ubuntu container with Docker. These are incredibly powerful ideas I'm just now being exposed to.
Apple battling U.S., states over proposed e-book limits
Running Rails? Defend yourself against BREACH
By having "white guy" treated as an insult, obviously.
The person in the first photo was an actress. Now they removed it.

The person in the second photo is a web developer/designer without an engineer or major university degree, not sure if we should call her an engineer. At least it's a real profile and she works in the area, so it's a borderline case.

If these are the best examples they have, I'd really like to see the other not-spammy examples.
Yes, it's possible we'll become spacefaring someday, but right now today, things don't look so good.

Any one of a dozen sociopaths around the world could wipe out every living human in a couple hours by setting off a global nuclear war. It could be done on a whim; it could happen as a result of a stroke; it could be a bad ham sandwich that went down wrong.

We're in the age of global instant destruction right now today. Sustainable spacefaring is decades away at best, probably still centuries. The odds don't really look so good.

The Fermi Paradox is a pretty discouraging data point on the lifetime of technological societies, too.
I'm not seeing at all how this is related to money.
Tossing out US troops would be the strongest statement. When the US tried to reduce troop numbers in Germany, they had a fit. All about the economic impact losing all the US military spending in that region would cause.

Turns out stationing 50,000+ troops in Germany is good for the local economy... if they tossed them out, it would be a massive demonstration of seriousness.
I don't think that's true. eBay is ridiculously overpriced compared to DoveBid. I've gotten things on DoveBid that would have been 10x more expensive on eBay. Also DoveBid provides other services, holding inventory and operating warehouses (whose operators you can befriend and get them to tip you off to upcoming sales of things you're looking for, or help with logistics).

eBay is a shiny end-user-friendly auction interface; industrial used equipment markets are way more complicated than that, and DoveBid/Equipnet offer a lot more depth when you get into them.
What's the idea behind CoreOS? I found the site incredibly weak in information about what it is.
I half expected this to be an article about Elon trying to work out best practice for populating Mars.
I believe it's intended to be a minimal OS for running containers like those made by Docker (http://www.docker.io/).
Google street view inside the Emirates A380
BREACH: Reviving the CRIME Attack
They did NOT remove the disclosure requirement. What they did was change the disclosure requirement so that except for members of Congress, candidates for Congress, the President, and the Vice President, the disclosures are not placed in an online database.

So, enforcement against members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President has not changed. You can still look up their disclosures online. If you want to look at the disclosure of one of the other 28000 people covered, you can go look at the physical form they filed.
muzak, designed not to distract.

example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdJWZxPW45c

(edited to remove distracting remark)
Two main differences.

1. DoveBid, Equipnet, eBay all take a consumer-centric approach by just providing basic information and a countdown timer. Very few companies can purchase anything in that type of system. Our customers are not individuals but organizations that have more complex requirements, i.e. approval chains, inspections, contract negotiations, etc.

2. Auctions work well for sellers who have many items for sale and a limited time-frame, typically facility closures. The vast majority of idle equipment does not fall into that category.
The thing is, they literally would not have to change a single thing after releasing the source code. They could refrain from looking at a single pull request. But perhaps their fear is that community additions may lead to a variously forked ecosystem which could dilute the "Dwarf Fortress" name thus dilute their grand vision.
Simple answer: you don't. Longer answer: It depends. Do you want to use yum or apt-get to install programs? If you like CentOS, create a CentOS container with Docker and begin installing programs using yum! Ubuntu? Spool up an Ubuntu container and apt-get away! CoreOS is just the cradle upon which you can run the userland of any distribution you please.
i am native german.

feeling among the population: "give us soccer, beer and low oil prices! nsa? yeah, shit happens. i don't really care as long as nobody intrudes the fence around my house."

of course, this is symbolic. i wouldn't even call it that.
what our government is and has been doing since at least a decade is plain and simple treason.

but it doesn't matter to the generation of 68. as long as they can watch tv. people here even read 1948 and are like 'sure. like today.' and go on with their lives and all the important crap they're doing.
Snowden offered job at Russia's top social network
They shouldn't, for the same reason all other cross platform panaceas suck.

Anyone with truly high value apps, like Facebook, will port to as many platforms as have an audience.

What Microsoft could do is to stop the self-injury by making Windows work equally completely and compatibly everywhere and having the .NET runtime work with a Modern/Metro UI library and loosening up the Modern/Metro sandbox enough to be compatible with legacy .NET apps.

The CLR should have been the key to compatibility and having lots of apps everywhere. How can a Windows device not have a gazillion apps?
Killing Detroit
Interesting. My product is an office management tool for appraisers. It was originally intended for real estate appraisers (my background) but I had a significant and unexpected interest from non-real estate (personal property) appraisers, many of who are equipment valuers. Apparently this is a pretty big market. Good luck to them.
That's worth a lot more than just the engineers' salaries

I call bs. It's honestly insulting to every Yahoo employee to hear this argument that these guys coming to yahoo via a dying start up are worth several multiples.

Your entire post doesn't even touch upon the fact that most of these companies are failed companies. They aren't exactly companies whose talent created a product that was killing it. Just as you give credit to them being a team, you should also discredit to them failing--not as criticism but to be consistent in trying to value them fairly.
Wouldn't try it with the HTC One X
> Very few companies can purchase anything in that type of system. Our customers are not individuals but organizations that have more complex requirements, i.e. approval chains, inspections, contract negotiations, etc.

All of the major auctioneers pre-announce the auctions and have inspection windows. They're used to working with companies that have those kinds of requirements.

> The vast majority of idle equipment does not fall into that category.

Yep -- solve this and that's amazing. I know several large biotech with huge amounts of idle old-ish hardware that we'd love to buy from them, but right now it's hard to crack that. Convince them to sell, lease, loan, whatever all that stuff and we'd be all over it.
Smart Startups Doing Extremely Dumb Things: Coinbase Spamming
Math Advances Raise the Prospect of an Internet Security Crisis
You are missing the time component. Reviews don't matter if the effects take a decade to show themselves.

> Ever heard of reviews?

You missed my point: Transparency. A restaurant may get rave reviews and still have a filthy, dangerous kitchen. It's what we, as consumers, don't have access to that matters.

> So, clearly, spousal fidelity needs government regulation.

This is a ridiculous non sequitur. I was arguing that companies obviously could not self-police, since they are doing bad things all the time even with state policing; how is your reply relevant?
Ending a pact and stopping data sharing are different things apparently:

> "the decision would have no impact on current intelligence co-operation."

> "Given the good relations between the intelligence agencies, they'll get the information they need anyway," ['A German official'] said.
Comments nest in w3m, which is my favorite text web browser on the strength of its formatting. However I've never been able to log in with w3m.
It allows companies and people to vote with their feet.
Download all the leaked NSA documents (bash script)
This was not a case of ignorance or lack of empathy. The system worked as intended: the tallest poppy was cut down, his downfall was a PR victory for someone's reappointment campaign, and by extension someone else's reelection.

Technical knowledge would merely give them Google level efficiency at shafting their victims.
On this topic, it's worth mentioning that Sweden's justice system has essentially no rules regarding the admissibility of evidence - it is up to the court to decide whether a piece of evidence is relevant or not.
Want more user engagement for your app?
Presumably you could make it a single page site where the page and server act like number stations so that the page always uses a fixed bandwidth on a tick, some of which is data.
indeed. but merkel prefers bowing down, licking boots. like anybody else would do. looks like the thugs eisenhower tried to warn us about are wearing chocolate shoes.
Not mentioned in the article is that the Stacks Project is on github https://github.com/stacks

I've always thought that math books should in digraph rather than linear form. What would be interesting is to combine this with a wiki. You could have alternate proofs of the same lemma, or even entirely different presentations (starting from different axioms, for instance)
There are two parts to getting good employees: finding them and getting them to work for you. Many startup employees, by themselves, will not work for Yahoo for $200K/year. Many startup employees will work for Yahoo for $150K/year if all their favorite coworkers are working for Yahoo and they get to work on a product they're familiar with. The only way to bring them over is to bring them over as a block.

False dichotomy if there ever was one.
What's the deal with MongoDB and the node.js community? I don't find non relational databases that enticing and there are javascript drivers for postgres [1].

[1] https://github.com/creationix/postgres-js
Peter Van der Linden included a recipe for Oobleck¹ on the last few pages of "Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets". It's right after the Phony C++ Job Interview Answer Key and right before the paragraph-long rant about Dr Seuss's influence on the software engineering profession.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-newtonian_fluid#Oobleck
App Updates for iOS 7
So that's why they dumbed down Simcity 5!

Sorry, couldn't help myself.
The Case of the Missing Zeroes
Indeed. They have a captive audience right now which donates on average more than $4,000/mo for the work of Tarn and Zach.

Take the +12 month release cycles, there will surely be more active open source forks than what the Adams' can compete with, resulting not only in loss of their revenue stream but also loss of control of their vision. Perhaps this would be an altruistic benefit to the community, but probably a solid loss for the creators unless they're willing and succeed in diving in and leading the community of contributors as a whole.

Very risky.

Also from another interview, Tarn spoke about how he sees Dwarf Fortress as his life's work. This is the masterpiece that he would spend the rest of his life perfecting. Imagine a master painter like Picasso working on a piece for nearly a decade, being asked to let the community contribute to it so that it will be completed sooner.
@nknighthb, I can't seem to reply to your last comment, but I'm curious... why are sales taxes "regressive evils?" The more you consume, the more you pay (at least for physical products). This makes sure everyone has skin in the game.

I would argue that an income tax is a moral "evil", but realize we're way past ever abolishing it. There's no inherent reason a governing power should ever know how much income you produce, even though it may be convenient (and popular) to impose. I suppose that's where our worldviews differ.
Not really; The development time seems to be getting longer. Quake/Doom 1 took a ~year. Doom 3 was 3 years, and now Rage the latest title took 7 (!) years.
Is Yahoo buying failed startups because it's the only way it can get good devs?
I've heard they finally gave Flickr some TLC and Meyer is looking to revive it... Too bad I already migrated away a long time ago.
Zombie phones are eating up billions in telecom costs
You want to talk about town water? Boston and surrounding towns get water from the Quabbin reservoir. Due to above average rainfall this year it is filled to 95% capacity. If not one more drop of rain were added to the reservoir it would take 5 years to drain it at current use rate. So I was shocked when the MA DEP forced our town to restrict outdoor watering. Someone in a make work job decided our towns use was above a standard set for western towns and there is no debate. Restrict water use or be fined.
About 13 years ago I was writing mobile apps in C# with a toolchain that didn't crash as often as Eclipse and, at the time, ran about 20X faster, and I was running those apps on a device with something like a modern smartphone form factor, although the phone was separate, and using a real-ish browser, over GPRS, with Windows CE and NETCF.

It's not .NET technology that sucked in the years between when I was doing that and when Android was released. It was the failure to capitalize on .NET in mobile.

WP8 still isn't as architecturally elegant as Android. Android's userland is all based on instances of the Dalvik VM. The CLR does not play that kind of central role in WP8.
JavaScript "developers" feel the need to not use any other language than JavaScript, so they decided to shove it into as many unnecessary places as possible, even if their code more frequently ends up being an unmaintainable mess with no noticeable performance gains.
You would need extra configuration in order to run cron under the same docker container as your website?
Probably because mongoose is so well written, it feels inferior to use another kind of ORM library. I'm guessing nobody has written something as good as the activerecord library in the ruby world for node.
Back in the '80s, TSV was the standard way to work with data for us - and for many years Lotus, Quattro Pro and Excel (when it came out) could easily save directly to TSV and open TSV without problems.

Don't know why Excel and Windows no longer recognize the TSV extension as a unique file format, but it is easily fixed without having to go through the .xls extension route [which can be a bit of a pain since it requires identifying delimiters every time one opens a file].

The quickest solution I found is a 2 line batch file for Windows described here [1]. I've used this solution without issues on multiple computers. TSV is my preferred file format for data work. [I generally analyze data in Python and R and use Excel for looking at results or formatting a pretty version to send to others that prefer Excel.]

[1] http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/1890...
Devils advocate would be of course that you are buying a team that didn't execute, and paying a lot of premium on it.
When a Chrome Bug Kills Your Product
Could? How do you know they didn't do it already?
If it moves tax it. If it doesn't move tax it.