skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone actually got this running yet? I'm using an Ubuntu 12 VM. I've spent about an hour trying to build this thing. The authors make it pretty clear in the INSTALL file that you're in for a fun time if things don't go according to plan. Maybe the process is seamless on Ubuntu 11.

> Quark has been tested on Ubuntu 11.04. A basic installation
process is automated in ./install_module.sh file, and you can execute
the installation script to install most of the requied packages and
compile Quark itself. If any of the required jobs fails because of
some conflicts in your system, you have to open the installation
script, and track down what went wrong manually. As future work, we
have a plan to implement a fully functional installation script.

The installation script involves creating "tab" users(tab0-tab9), but the install script doesn't check to see if these users exist before attempting to create them. If the installation fails after the user creation section, the install script will error out when it attempts to create users that already exist.

Here's what I did to save you about 2 minutes of brainpower

for i in {0..9}
do
if id -u tab$i >/dev/null 2>&1;
then
echo "user 'tab$i' already exists"
else
echo "creating user tab$i"
execcomm "sudo useradd tab$i"
fi
done

if id -u output >/dev/null 2>&1;
then
echo "user 'output' already exists"
else
execcomm "sudo useradd output"
fi

As for completing the rest of the install, you're on your own, as I was unable to get things working. The install script attempts to cd into some python-browser-8 directory which is supposed to have a makefile, but I never see it created or even attempted to be created.
I just think it amusing that his example of atheist nations are countries with crosses on their flags. You can't separate the history of the West from the history of Christianity without committing ahistorical absurdities.
I am a scientist too. Your thoroughness in troubleshooting is amazing. Excellent attention to detail.
NSA can access your data on Smartphones including iPhone, BlackBerry
Reading up a little on it beforehand may make you appreciate it more, the movie is really an pivotal moment in the development of sound design as a core aspect of film making. I know the first time I saw it I found it boring as well, but then a second viewing after reading up on it was much more enjoyable.

http://www.philipbrophy.com/projects/mma/Conversation.html

http://cinephilefix.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/the-power-of-so...
Exactly. It's probably one of the statements that is of most interest of the public because it is unescapable. When people learned about PRISM and cooperation of companies like Facebook and Google, they could choose to take their business elsewhere. With Lavabit, they could make an attempt at moving their data to legal jurisdictions beyond the reach of the United States government and its allies. However, with this new information, we now have learned that the very foundation of security in most of our software and hardware has been or may have already been compromised. This is as close as you can get to absolute dissolution of trust on the Internet and you need trust for markets to work; not only markets of goods and services but markets for the exchange of information and ideas.
You've got everything backwards, but why let reality get in the way?

Intent still the primary factor of most criminal laws at the federal level, and all criminal laws at the state levels (excluding infractions punishable by fines).

There are only a handful of federal laws which do not require intent (i.e., strict liability laws) and of those, none provide for imprisonment at the level of strict liabilty (though may provide for imprisonment if there is actual intent). For example, some securities laws are strict liability. The punishment is disgorgement of profits, but imprisonment is not on the table.

Most citizens are comforted by the notion, that no matter the unfairness in the initial process, eventually they will be able to present their case to a jury of their peers. However, even juries are no longer a right in most trials. Since the federal constitution's jury trial requirement was never incorporated against the states, most local magistrates are given the power to sentence defendants for up to six months in jail per count. Because most defendants face multiple charges stemming from the same conduct, there are countless American citizens spending years in jail, never having had their case heard by a jury.

This is factually false. The right to a trial by jury has been imposed upon the states by way of the 14th Amendment for more than 100 years. (Do you really think the South would have given black defendants jury trials in the Jim Crow days if they weren't required to?)

Where did you get your information? You're better of just staying silent if you don't know what you're talking about.
Yep, I still have no idea who they are or what they do.

It's a pretty looking website though.

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/07/08/theranos-rai... actually made it a lot clearer than their website did.
Right, it's a basic rule of statutory construction that you have to apply the intent requirement to every element of a crime.

As a practical matter, the CFAA has not been applied to situations where it was unclear whether the person violated the law. With 3taps and Swartz, it's pretty clear that the defendants knew they were kicked off the site and tried to access the, anyway. The debate in those cases is about the punishment, which at least in Swartz's case was disproportional to the crime.
Given that the vast majority of all people that have ever lived have been religious, your hypothesis is going to be very hard to test. Now what do we call untestable beliefs?
True:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/com...

Intel is the most active company in Wayland developement too.
Agreed.

What this means is that usually in the medical world you can't just build a product or service and sell it to EHR/EMR providers. Their (e.g., Epic, eClinicalWeb) customer is hospitals and clinics. So you need to get hospitals and clinics to demand/buy what you offer. Only then EMRs will pay attention and only because increasing amounts of their customers are knocking down their door asking for your product.

Very rare is the case where an EMR will see the market opportunity you're carving out and buy your product. They don't care. They'll either buy your company once you get big enough to represent a sizable addition to their revenue (single millions is not even close) or just build an imitation feature once they're forced to.
Wearable, programmable Limberboard
What's up guys? We've just launched crowdfunding for our wearable, programmable hardware we call 'Limberboard'. It's a great platform for health and activity monitors, pressure sensing and concussion monitors. Any wearable project is a great fit with LIMBERboard. Check us out and let me know what you think!
This movie is like Nap. Dynamite. People either love it or hate it. It seems rather dull till last part. When you see the last part man what an ending... There should have been a sequel, btw. However, EotS is completely different. Former is about individuals with no political motives at all. Latter is all political.
True, though the Abe Lincoln social-networking thing was a hoax.

(Lincoln held a patent, but it was for a method for helping boats navigate sandbars).
>That is why the strict, and obviously insane, reading of the law is not the correct reading of the law.

That's the whole point. The clear interpretation is clearly wrong and the remaining interpretation has undefined behavior because of the lack of any obvious demarcation point for authorized access.

In addition to that, we have the "ignorance of the law" issue. If you don't know what "unauthorized access" means but you intentionally do something that a judge subsequently decides was unauthorized access, are you (or the hypothetical security researcher, for example) going to be willing to bet your freedom that the fact that you subjectively didn't intend for your access to be unauthorized is going to keep you out of prison? Chilling effects.
Computing a Square Root in Ruby
For reference the definition is, "an unpredictable or unforeseen event, typically one with extreme consequences." Let's take truly great works of art as an analog to black swans. I agree you cannot create a formula for churning out more great art, as one struck in a certain direction reduces the greatness and significance of others in that direction. But if some wealthy patron collected a bulk of the worlds great artists, giving them creative freedom, tools and space... I cannot say for sure it would result in more "great art" than would be produced otherwise. But I would not say it's impossible by definition, as you do.
Requiring a dot breaks your form for people using bare TLD email or people using an IPv6 address instead of a domain.
IIRC, most of the time these just end up boiling down to 3-SAT, which will make the average Computer Science person throw up their hands in the air and say "it's NP-Hard, you can't make it more efficient" (even though NP is still an open problem).

I think there's one EE/CE professor at my university working on the SAT solvers that form the crux of the optimizers in most of these tools, but at the end of the day it's still a bunch of heuristics that, worst case, run in O(2^n) time.
People are more interested in appeasing their "poor person abstraction guilt complex" than in actually looking for truth and pointing out potential problems. It's more important to ease one's guilt about the abstract notion of poor/hungry people than it is to actually help them.
On the subject of really good customer service
The company was actually Yahoo HongKong (the server is said to be hosted in the US). The order was sent by Department of National Security, through a representative of Yahoo in Beijing. There is no evidence indicating that Yahoo had ever fight for this.

Also the message leaked by Shi was just a guideline sent by the Department of Propaganda to all the newspapers/media companies. It is nothing similar to the Manning case.
The toxic jellyfish are interesting because they are so toxic, but we don't know much about the toxin.

Some progress was made on this last year:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/2012/12/12...
> can be solved quickly and easily without going to another level of coding

We've recently done a refactor of a lot of complex load balancer rules into lua + redis. It really is a lot more maintainable.

While it is more maintainable, don't let the illusion fool you - the complexity is still there. The solution may be quicker, but you still had to write code for the solution. It's just different code - and in a different place - from where you'd otherwise put it.

In our case, it made sense - the logic was all already in the load balancer, it was just a lot more scattered. In other cases - such as splitting what is truly application logic between your LB and your application - it may lead to more headache than it's worth in exchange for a few ms of performance improvement.

(I'll likely be writing this thought up in more detail in the near future.)
Minimum should be 6: a@x.ca

Max is 254: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/386294/what-is-the-maximu...
It SEEMS to exclusively exploit the analog hole, but I'm sure that if it went to the right judge this would fall apart.
I think you're right. Building the next twitter would require a huge gamble that's unlikely to pay off. But from what I can tell neither of Twitter, Facebook, Google started out with the intention to be the next big thing. All of them started as something much smaller and focused, even though they eventually grew into behemoths.
Yep, it is a shame their site doesn't do a better job of telling their story but this article in this weekend's wsj does:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732412300457905...

A real game changer I think.
'World's largest volcano discovered beneath Pacific
Wow. That board of directors is a sight to behold. Looks more like a panel at the World Economic Forum. How on earth did the founder manage to get such high-profile backers?
I noticed some cool features in their unveil - such as polygonal sprites rather than rectangles. This means it's cheaper to fill each texture to the screen, and it means the sprite atlases can be packed tighter resulting in less draw calls. They also changed the 2D UI so that you cannot select a sprite where it's alpha is 0 under the cursor, which makes it way easier to move and manipulate in the editor. Finally, they added an animation framework for the sprites which is powerful.
For SEO 95% of what matters is lots of quality content and backlinks from respected domains. If you have those, it doesn't mater what your TLD is. It may make a difference when people type in your domain because a lot of people automatically type .com (Android for example as a .com button when entering URLs, but no .net or .org).
It'd be nice to have the marker on a real pace though, rather than being plopped in a random spot.
I'm not sure why introducing a lower price iPhone necessarily means the end of Apple. The iPod has had a whole line of products across the price range and seems to have done reasonably well for itself. Nor do I think "lower price" is necessarily the same thing as "commodity" since having a lower price doesn't prevent a product from differentiating itself from the competition.
It would be smart to focus on ARM as a long-term strategy. There is a huge investment and legacy in x86 but if history is right, ARM will eat up x86 from the bottom-up just like x86 did to the other ISA's.
I saw Derren Brown perform a trick in which he stated that it was proven in maths that changing your mind is the better thing to do.

He presents 3 boxes, you pick one. He eliminates one and asks if you want to change. You are going from a 33% chance to a 50% chance, plus most people think they are being double bluffed.
Chained Destiny
"If you look at which companies have historically been successful (FB, Twitter, Instagram), you see that the founder spent almost all of their time on that one idea."

Where does that info come from and what do you mean with "all of their time"?

I would expect that the first iteration of those websites have been coded in a few days or weeks.
Ask HN: Laws/rules preventing a 17 year old startup founder from applying to YC?
Agreed on all points. Really when I say "black magic" therapy, I'm being sloppy because what I really mean is that if you're not that good of a therapist, you shouldn't be offering anything but basic, rigorous types of therapy. I wouldn't go so far as to say that a good therapist offers a "human element", but skilled therapists are more observant, have stronger communication skills, have a more intuitive sense on when to challenge their patients, etc., and that allows them to go deeper into murkier waters than others. But to boil all of that down to "the relationship" and the "human element" feels overly reductive. There's still something quantifiable about the qualitative aspects.
Pax Syriana
What do you stand to make?
How Can You Tell a False Memory From a True One?
The problem with so many "startup ideas" is that they are a solution to the problem, "I want to create a startup and don't have an idea." Not surprisingly, this tends to produce copycat concepts, products with no real market fit, services that target sexy but oversaturated markets, etc.

There are lots and lots of problems that are either unsolved or are being solved in ways that are less efficient and cost-effective than they could be, particularly outside of the consumer space. In many cases, these problems can be solved with relatively unsophisticated applications. But the folks who sit around thinking about the usual consumer internet suspects (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) never discover these problems because more often than not, they have no domain expertise.

Sadly, it seems to me that many technical wantrepreneurs have no real interest in developing domain expertise because they believe there's more value in mastering the framework du jour than focusing in on a vertical and developing a real understanding of it over time.
Very interesting people on the Board of Directors.

Former heavyweights in the diplomatic, intelligence and military government sectors (George Shultz, Senator Samuel Nunn, Henry Kissinger etc).

No big names from the technology or VC space are mentioned however.

Something big is brewing.
Theranos is a medical laboratory that appears to have developed new methods of measuring lab values in small sample sizes more quickly. This is interesting because it means that instead of a traditional blood draw with a needle and vial requiring a trained phlebotomist and healthy veins, physicians can use blood collected from a finger stick -- a far less invasive and painful procedure. Additionally, it appears that they've managed to keep costs very low by automating everything -- this also improves their accuracy. I would love to get a look at their technology and implementation. From a biogeek's perspective this is insanely great.
I could return the compliment.

And I'm not saying he's wrong, I'm saying HFCS is indeed toxic, not sugar and fructose (proven by lots of studies made by PhDs with years of experience). So he's partially right.
> Anti-depressive (and other psychiatric) drugs are a subset of "medical drugs".

No, they are not. Medical drugs are prescribed by doctors to treat medical conditions, not psychological ones. There are some medical drugs that are prescribed off-label to treat mental conditions, but that's a shady practice (albeit a common one).

> You can, in fact, sue a psyschologist for malpractice ...

Yes, but you can't compare what he does to effective practices, because there aren't any. This is why such cases are so rare, and why malpractice insurance is nearly unheard of among psychiatrists and psychologists. Many psychologists and psychiatrists have ruined the lives of their clients but proved immune to prosecution -- for example, the psychiatrist who prescribed the drugs that killed Rebecca Riley was eventually allowed to continue practicing psychiatry, and was neither prosecuted or sued (Rebecca's father was convicted of first-degree murder, her mother of second-degree murder).

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/03/hold_...

Quote: "Shortly after Rebecca died, Kifuji had entered into a voluntary agreement with the board to halt her practice. But two years later, after a grand jury declined to indict her and the board conducted its own inquiry, the board last fall allowed her to return to practice. She is currently seeing patients at Tufts Medical Center."

> ... but a psychologist isn't going to be prescribing anti-depressants

True, unless by the term "psychologist" we mean anyone practicing clinical psychology, in the same way that a physicist practices physics -- a way of speaking that groups particle physicists and cosmologists together, two fields much less alike than psychiatry and clinical psychology.
Well, I remember writting proxy modules for Apache and IIS in C/TCL back in the day (~ 2000).

So not much different.
I'm from India but can understand where you are coming from. Think it a useful idea that can work. Let me know if you want to explore.
The website design hides the message in frills and imagery, but the essence appears to be:

Faster/cheaper blood-testing, via a smaller/quicker samples (a fingertip-prick rather than needle-stick).
Does this mean that I'll be able to walk in and order my own blood tests in the US, without being extorted by a doctor? I see zero reason for me to be forced to schedule time with a doctor, pay her, just for her to "order" tests and have the results sent only to her, and then pay her again to read them back to me.

I get regular liver checks due to medication I take. Being able to walk into a lab and download the results online is a great convenience, but not something allowed in the US at the moment (to my knowledge).
""the course of action they have chosen" refers to working on Mir in the first place rather than contributing to Wayland. If that's the case, can't say I really blame Intel."

I absolutely blame Intel. Whatever you think about Ubuntu's decision to make their own X server, it is childish to not include working patches for purely political reasons. It's not like Ubuntu is asking Intel to do their work for them.

So Canonical got railed for not contributing upstream, and they try to contribute upstream they get everyone blaming them again? That's ridiculous.
An Oral History Of Apple Design: 2004
Does not surprise me.

Many guys in FOSS tend to like Intel, but not all Intel departments are FOSS friendly.

Even the graphics division, tends to put more resources into DirectX tooling and processors like the PowerVR family, than what they contribute to X.
Why the fuck would anyone want to use them then? Even the shittiest shared host or VPS offer that for pittance.
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You are of course assuming Ubuntu can maintain Intel drivers, which given their upstream contribution track record might be a tall order.
This question clearly reveals your lack of understanding of the US medical education system.

I hate responding to trolls, but your comments through the thread have been a bit abrasive to me. Accusing someone of 'cheating the system', saying someone has to work 70 hrs a week, only having one shot, saying they should quit, telling them they must work 13hours a day to learn.

I'm assuming you're in (or rather I hope you are) medical school and not just someone applying. Here is the rub. Some people don't have to try to do well. There are people who never studied for the MCAT and scored 36+. They didn't have to really try to do well.

A radiology at the place he mentioned is very competitive, so it is safe to assume this guy was at the top of his class. The intelligence/knowledge difference between the top of the class and the bottom is enormous. Not everyone is the same. Don't fault him for what he wants to do in his free time.
Halloween Dance Party Cruise
Halloween is around the corner once again. Take a two hour cruise on Clear Lake and Galveston Bay featuring a DJ for dancing, an autumn themed buffet dinner and complimentary juices, sodas, coffee and tea. We may also be have a costume contest for the scariest costume!
Houston Halloween parties will never be the same!
Although enjoyable, and a film I'd recommend as a good fun movie, it's not in the same league as The Conversation.
Ethical dilemmas faced by software engineers: A roundup of responses
It's just like when Apple sold a plastic MacBook. This is not the end of Apple, nor any other hyperbole. This is Apple, doing as a large company does, diversifying their product offerings.
I really like the idea of making a web app every week and seeing whats sticks. Its seems like it would be a much more diverse learning experience.
Most upstreams will generally accept responsibility for keeping code working - just having it "merged" often means then handling bug reports, testing, etc. If the Intel people don't want to maintain specialized Ubuntu-only environments just to test the Mir codepaths, that's kind of their call.

It probably also didn't help that Canonical employees were using it as a political football to boot other GPU vendors, e.g. https://twitter.com/olliries/status/375704285083738112

It was Canonical's decision to fork, if they have to bear the costs of the fork then so be it.
But ultimately wrong.
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The theory which was promoted in the 70s (whatever it was) was certainly vastly different from what's used nowadays. Thierry Coquand (who conceived the original theory behind Coq) was only 9yo. In 1970.
I think it's fair to say that BEAST introduced and established the modern CPA browser attack methodology, and that (for instance) Lucky 13 depended on it.

But here, we're talking about IPSEC, not HTTPS/TLS, and the fundamental cryptographic design weakness we're talking about is, I think, Bard's. I could be wrong, though.