skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, I think this is a perfectly legitimate ad hominem attack which I've phrased in the least exaggerated way possible. In politics, we have to question not only whether a prosecution is just but whether it is brought in the interests of the public or to further a private interest. That's why the interest registers are public.

I stated the facts as they were and didn't embellish it at all (I could have easily written 'his fourth largest contributor is a Luxury Apartment Rentals Company!') because I'm not trying to suggest that he is some how 'in the pocket' of Glenwood. I didn't even go down the list of campaign contributors to see whether there were others (which I'm sure there are, and just looking quickly the next donor on the Real Estate list is East 46th Realty which is also owned by Glenwood).

What I'm trying to suggest is that like all of America's politicians, he is under the influence of lobbyists and the reason he is taking this issue seriously is because people with money have put it on his radar.

The luxury apartment rentals market is under threat from Airbnb. I'm just about to do a 3 month rental in NYC and some of the apartments available are amazing (often costing thousands of dollars per night - clearly out of my price range but not for others). If the luxury rental companies are worried about other people in the building using AirBnB, that suggests that the same apartments they are leasing are available on AirBnB. I can't think of a scenario where lost profits isn't a huge issue for these guys.

I get what you're saying, and I agree that in any event the state always wants to help property owners who pay most of the taxes. But I think a measure as broad reaching as this is something that is designed primarily to intimidate users of the platform. If the state were serious about the tax collection aspect it would just force AirBnB to calculate and collect the hotels tax, not seize data and selectively prosecute its users. People aren't going to run through the laws in their head and question what the State is trying to achieve. They are just going to get scared when they hear the State is seizing AirBnB data and stop using AirBnB.

I'm not suggesting that this is some kind of grand conspiracy, I'm suggesting that it is just business as usual in the USA.
What's the max speed on Ethernet?
Did they charge before access? I would honestly expect such systems to fail, forever, for the same reason free iOS apps with in-app purchases are vastly more profitable than paid apps. There's no chance to build trust if you charge up-front, and why would I pay if I have zero trust? It's easier to leave and look elsewhere, leading to tons of results are useless, and it seems reasonable to assume the site that's charging for access is just as likely to be useless.
Although I'm not sure Bitcoin can do much to change the paywall problem, this article does shed interesting light on the state of the publishing industry and how the natural downward drive of quality is leaving a gap of top-quality and accurate reporting.

I am very interested to see who will fill that gap in the next few years, and I think it will go to whoever solves this free/non-free paywall problem.
Not much of a physicist myself but I am wondering if the technology developed for nuclear fusion would have any use in progressing other fields
On his Hacker News and the website I created too, apparently.
Just tried it... yep.

Though I suppose you could use === but it's still crazy.
I don't really have anything formal that i can cite...just my observations from the trenches. I'll just say that we tried (and promoted heavily) a system where you could buy the access to a PDF of one day's content for a quite low price (Less than $1). In roughly a year that the system was up we sold less than $50 worth...TOTAL, but we have thousands of customers on a paid sub at $10+/monthly.
Ferriss is obviously a borderline scam-artist. Just read the titles of his books.

For more detailed information, you can search out blog posts by others (or by him!) where it's blatantly obvious he spammed Amazon, blogs, and other services with MTurk-like workers to promote his brand.

Not to mention cheating the push-hands tournament (if in spirit and not law necessarily), etc.
Very much agree with this sentiment on principle. Alas, people seem to prefer avoiding any hassle and jumping on to closed platforms that make design and other bits simple. I'd imagine those that get traction eventually move towards a platform they fully control.
That's the difference between "is evidence of" and "proves". You cannot conclusively state !B, but you can say there is evidence of !B.
You apparently upload full .md files straight to the server via a frontend interface, it seems.
Maybe there's still a way to use homomorphic encryption. gwern rightly suggests that it causes a big problem if the recipient must decrypt the result of an encrypted computation. However, what if the decrypted result of the computation is never known to the recipient and instead the recipient must use the still-encrypted result of the encrypted homomorphic computation?

It would work like this:

The secret sharer creates some random string called 'a' and some computable function 'f'. The secret sharer also creates an encryption function 'e', and a homomorphic equivalent to 'f', called 'F' so that the following commutes: e(f(x)) = F(e(x)). F acts on encrypted data and gives encrypted results, but is much slower than f.

The secret sharer can comparatively quickly compute e(f(x)), which he or she uses as a key to encrypt a message. However the recipient is only given the values e(x) and F and must use exponentially more computational time to go the more laborious route, computing F(e(x)).
Excellent points. I certainly know that with much more funding, there could be much more efficient research, though I wonder where the limit is. How many more world-class physicists are there to put on this problem? Are the other theories really "next-best" ideas, or are they simply unexplored avenues, or perhaps more appealing with recent technology advances, but we've already committed to the current paths.
Using the Ask HN feature to shamelessly promote your startup? Not cool. You're not even asking anything.
We're not running out of coal any time soon.
What does producing energy mean if not collecting it? The conservation of Energy tells us that we are not actually producing any energy, rather we are converting energy from the mass of the reactants (hopefully into electricity). If you consider the energy converted from mass to be produced, then it is impossible to do nuclear fusion without producing net-energy (as long as you stay on this side of lead).
Silk Road be damned! A distributed anonymous marketplace has many real and tangible benefits. By having a robust community escrow mechanism, and by having people deal directly with each other with reputational support, a marketplace like this could unleash a new age of internet commerce. Add to this several arbitrage mechanism to determine valuation, and I believe we can build a marketplace solutions light years from what we have now.
As I've been working on a marketplace platform plan for products and services of uncertain value, if there are other people who are interested in partnering on the build of such a platform. Please contact me as marketplace efficiency is my passion and I believe that there's an amazing solution out there waiting to solve this problem.
So the solution is to have some sort of premium content Internet pass. It costs $10 a month, but can be used to get free content at whatever sites are signed up with it. Kind of like Amazon Prime, but with an arbitrary number of vendors. Then, the $10 per user is split among all the products that the user uses it with.

Now here's the kicker -- come up with a marketing deal with various ISPs, where they can include this with their subscriptions. Either as a premium that comes automatically with their higher-speed tiers, or something that can be billed as extra for the lower speed tiers.
are there more talks yet to be posted?
wouldn't security researchers writing 0days not really need the advice in OPSEC For Hackers since they are still acting legally?

Your own government isn't your only potential enemy.

True story: A friend of mine works for a large defense contractor. He's done a fair amount of foreign travel to support projects on foreign soil. Not clandestine projects, they are fully above board with the cooperation of the host countries, but as Kissinger said, america has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests. (Kissinger's a douche, but he's right about that)

The result of all his work travel is that he's made it onto spear-phishing lists at all kinds of national hacker groups. His employer's IT security has had to put his corporate email address in a special group that gets extra scrutiny because of all the attacks directed specifically at him.
Winamp 5 came after Winamp 3, which came after Winamp 2.

Wow, Winamp.
Bitcoin accidentally solved my startup's international banking problem
I think there are all types of tools and techniques that can work. The fact is that Kanban or any other tool can not fix lousy strategy, culture, or leadership.
Right up until the Feds drop a tip to said African or Middle Eastern country, after all, those countries are known for their drug tolerance and their human rights.
Much of the cost of these projects likely results from the research nature of them. Once we get a viable model, we will likely be able to produce a cheaper plant because 1) we know what we are doing, and 2) now that we know it works, we can build it bigger.
Erm, question. Are you the Sebastian Thrun? If so, that's awesome.
I've deleted my original comment because I noticed a FAQ on the site with more info, apparently the owner of the site is not anonymous as I originally thought, so I didn't want to risk confusing other post readers.

However, have you actually read the official criminal complaint and accompanying docs?

There were transcripts of this guy's conversations where he literally was ordering a hit and mentioning he had ordered another one in the past.

Start reading with page 21 if you haven't:
http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalCompl...
I don't know your background, but having watched most years (and attended a few in person), I think one would have to be pretty jaded not to find Startup School to be a fantastic, inspirational day, even if one were already immersed in startup culture. It's certainly worth a two hour trip.

Also, the talks are from speakers at different stages of their careers encompassing multiple facets of the startup ecosystem, so don't worry about being "too advanced" for it.
Was just going to say, a large percentage of online shopping is based on open source e-commerce solutions, most of which are written in PHP. Which shares (and possibly overshadows) Javascript's problems.
That is effectively a proof of work scheme, which is what most time lock systems are based on. The fundamental problem is that people with more resources can decrypt faster than people with less resources, and you're generally wanting to share with someone who has less not more.
I had a netbook that I was planning to do wearable computing experiments with and the first thing I noticed was that the HDD would shut down if I had it in a backpack and moved faster than a slow walk.

The combination of moving from Win 7 starter to Win 8 (meaning remote desktop and all the goodies get unlocked) and going to an SSD has made it a really awesome machine. Win 8 really does get a lot out of an SSD, but if you hamstring your machine with an HDD or a "Hybrid" Hard Drive it doesn't matter how fast your CPU is if I/O makes the machine go out to lunch.
Yeah I know, but I'd like some a more in-depth understanding of certain topics, in particular neural networks. I think it's a field where my particular expertise (mechanistic chemistry and biophysics) can bring in translateable insights.
Yes, fun thought experiment indeed.

I think I am suggesting to construct a particular universal language designed to make any compression of some reasonable T0 and J1 written in that UL (e.g., the source code of Microsoft Windows written in F# and C respectively) longer than T0 and J1 themselves, hence leaving them to be their own Kolmogorov limit (if you will). This seems entirely doable to me within the confines of the 5-tuples afforded me by the formal definition of a Turing machine (although I can see how others, including you, might be less convinced). :-) Maybe I, or someone else sufficiently motivated, will attempt it someday.
It's a neat idea, but I'd be interested to see at what rate these redirected visitors actually do anything on the sites they land on. I know that if I click a link and find something unrelated to what I was looking for, I general close the tab pretty immediately.
Yea, pretty much, that's where I think it should go. Sort of Spotify for written content.

Some very high profile outlets (WSJ, NY Times, New Yorker, the Economist) might be able to make their own things work, but those are the exception, not the rule.
Just a couple quibbles from a former NIF scientist.

NIF is much higher on the priority list than that. LLNL is already in the doghouse due to NIF failing to ignite on schedule. As goes the 5 giga-buck NIF, so goes LLNL (and the management knows it).

Technologically, I'd put inertial and magnetic fusion about the same place. Even if the physics works, neither has a chamber first wall material that can stand up to the huge neutron loads that a power plant will create. Economically, both are hosed. Fusion wants to be big. Most reactor designs are for >1,000 MW. Electric companies are mostly interested in plants in the 50-400 MW range.
Fedora 1.4.15 updates built. They could use some testing and karma:

* https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnupg-1.4.15-1.fc18
* https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnupg-1.4.15-1.fc19
* https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnupg-1.4.15-1.fc20
I'm torn. Should we focus on gamifying it or making it web-scale?
Yep. My old phone used to plug in on USB, show up as a disk, I can use standard tools to copy the pics and vids. New phone, no of course not. Progress. Feh.

Clue: Everyone is not itunes compliant! Grr!
Since Glass just displays a small rectangle at upper right part of your visual field, it's not much use for that sort of application. You'd have to twist your head around until the virtual screen appeared to cover the object you wanted to look at.

Seriously, I'm amazed how many people seem to think Glass can place things anywhere in their visual field, when it's very definitely restricted to a small rectangle, as though you were holding a smartphone about a foot away from your head.
See my 2nd comment.
I/O is inexpensive for even non-state level actors. I have 40,000 spindles on a research cluster that is hardly used for anything...
Your stack should be whatever will allow you to test your assumptions the quickest.

For a lot of cases this will be whatever you are most familiar with. There will be some cases where a piece of tech you haven't used before simply offers enough benefits to make it worth climbing the learning curve. However you want to use the best tool for the job, for startups the job isn't to build an amazing, scalable and maintainable code base, or even a great product. It's to find a "repeatable and scalable business model" before you run out of money.

This means speed is of the essence, choose what ever technology you can launch your MVP and test your assumptions with in the shortest possible time. At the same time balancing medium term scalability and maintainability concerns.
the two best features of Typescript's type system IMHO are:

- structural typing for interfaces (which means that classes implicitly implement an interface if the definitions match)

- gradual typing (mainly the ability to convert between 'any' and other types implicitly, which makes it much easier to interact with JS libraries/port JS code to Typescript.)

More generally speaking, Typescript aims to solve the problem of maintaining large codebases by giving you the additional security of static typing. The idea is that many simple errors can often be caught by a compiler, but would be much more time-consuming to find otherwise.
This is so cool. I almost can't believe that such incremental tech development would be applicable to fusion research. But there you have it. Now we just have to throw a few more billions at the problem. If the costs really have come down this dramatically, it is very promising indeed.
Can you provide a contact method?
Yup! The 7 grand would be for the accreditation. I find this model to be awesome. Makes me proud of my school.
Since there seems to be some discussion about the code quality for Dropplets, I just wanted to clarify that Dropplets is really just a proof of concept. I'm not a developer, nor do I want to be. I'm good at creating concepts like Dropplets, but that's where my skills as a developer ends. I decided to publish Dropplets with the hope that developers that actually knew what they were doing would help me take the concept to the next level. I stated this on Dropplets.com as well.
Social site Dpadd hopes to be ‘just like Goodreads, but for video games’
>>> "Gladwell is indeed on record saying that he doesn't write to be true in the scholarly sense, but to be thought-provoking."

Yes, I am aware of Gladwell using this caveat.

The thing is, if you want to make people think you can:

* Present your argument from first principles, making it clear the backing comes ultimately from your deductions not scientific research.

* Present a full, nuance pictures of the state of present day research.

But it's difficult to argue that just the patina of scientific authority engages people's critical analysis reflex rather than engaging people's accepting-authority reflex. And that's with all your and Gladwell's caveats.

I mean, people like yourself who I assume know the literature aren't going to be swayed too much by the "great story telling" but conversely, who are swayed by story telling aren't that likely to read the caveats.

>>> "Gladwell has strong integrity of a kind, but it is not the integrity of a scholar of psychology like Christopher Chabris."

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. Groucho

Edit: Just consider, many people will listen to an Obama speech about ending surveillance in 2007 and then look at Obama's behavior now and say "he lied". I'd like to think that I can parse out caveat in 2007-Obama which open up the door for 2013-Obama. But I don't actually think that means 2007-Obama didn't effectively lie. It means Obama is smart and talks to people "on different levels" and perhaps has "strong integrity of a kind" but in our multiply weasel-wordy-world, the question is "what kind?" right?
Well, aside from being able to build networks, I'm mostly interested in securing them in the best possible way. I know there's no such thing as perfect security, but I like the challenge of always trying to be one step ahead. This probably stems from an interest in crypto, too.

(found a cheap copy of TCP/Illustrated 2nd ed. on Abe Books. I do so love that site.)
Exactly what I was thinking. Craigslist on steroids is an interesting proposition.
An App that loves your boobs? Yeah you read it right.
I, for one, am disgusted and outraged by this blatant objectification of men's bodies. This is almost as bad as that disgusting Titstare app.
I really like Meteor too. It makes developing a sophisticated app incredibly easy. Even though it is only in preview mode, it is extremely polished. I can't wait to see what version 1.0 has in store!
This is a pretty well understood construct, called hash stretching. The correct implementation is in each (or every 5h, etc) iteration you test if the key is valid by trying to decrypt, then continuing if unsuccessful. That way the attacker has no idea what n is.
Thanks for following up!
Obviously this depends a lot on your stack: Node.js is going to be your best bet though. Sinatra + Unicorn can drive some pretty nice reqs/second, but if what you need is actual "concurrency" as opposed to just reqs/second performance, go Node. Express benchmarks that I ran a few months ago were showing ~7k requests per second, and I've heard claims of well over 10k.

Depending on your scale, your DB could be another potential bottleneck. Heroku provides hosted PostgreSQL DB's as a standalone service, and their performance has served me well in the past; could be worth looking into for you. Also, of course there's the Mongo in the room: I've heard mixed reviews, and I've never employed it in production myself so I have no wisdom to impart regarding it. Just be aware of your options :)
I believe your DPR use-case is possible with Bitcoin, using "lock time" contracts. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts

Every transaction can have a lock time associated with it. This allows the transaction to be pending and replaceable until an agreed-upon future time, specified either as a block index or as a timestamp (the same field is used for both, but values less than 500 million are interpreted as a block index). If a transaction's lock time has been reached, we say it is final.
Technically, Cutler started NT on PRISM¹, an ancestor of Alpha, when it was still called Mica.

I've never heard of NT for the i960 before. Are you sure you don't mean the i860? Very different machines.

¹Not that one, this² one.

²http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Prism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_beta_fusion_reactor

What do you think of this?
I am going for the first time and making a drive up from LA (8~ hours). I think just the chance to be up close and personal with some of the biggest successes of Silicon Valley would be more than worth it. Hearing their stories and talks will be interesting and motivating whatever you are currently doing in your career.
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It doesn't seem like that would be too difficult to offload most of that processing to a smartphone.

I think they made a mistake not making Glass an accessory for Android rather than it's own device.

It also wouldn't be impossible to put a heavier battery and wire connected to the Glass device in your pocket for much longer battery life in exchange for the minor inconvenience of having a wire tucked in your shirt.
Your points are fair. What I have liked about Gladwell's writings on the issues he treated in Outliers (the only book of his I have read) is that he found authors who do all of the "Present your argument from first principles" and "Present a full, nuance pictures of the state of present day research" you helpfully ask for and then made their work much better known. That's a contribution to public understanding.
Glad to hear that this is continuing at LLNL despite the shutdown. Too bad no politician is going to use this as an example of why gov't investment is not a bad thing.
>I think the effect is the propagation of a lot of wrong beliefs among a vast audience of influential people

You mean like politics? sports? Hollywood? Yes, maybe Gladwell's writings don't pass muster for publication into an academic journal. But in a world obsessed with 30-second clips, I'm sure glad he's peddling his "gateway drugs". Maybe he's not good with qualifiers, but at least he's working hard to research complex issues and, for goodness sake, even uses references! In light of the usual quality of information that the public is exposed to these days, intellectuals telling Gladwell to shut up is an incredibly self-defeating attitude.