skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Close to this subject there was a good invited talk entitled "Why does the web still run on RC4?" by Adam Langley at CRYPTO this year. I can't find a video online however someone from the Bristol crypto group wrote a small report of his talk here: http://bristolcrypto.blogspot.fr/2013/08/why-does-web-still-....
It is actually a raw data from UAV mapping; the whole story: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/sensefly-drone-mapping-matterhor...
Would this flaw be "patchable" using Cydia Substrate for Android? Might be good as a quick fix.
How does this compare to Oculus Rift in terms of cost, quality, and potential to be a "game changer" as everyone calls both? Especially since CastAR can be both AR and VR, could one hook up a CastAR to the games and demos we already have for Oculus Rift?
If you want to "just start, already" but have an open format, somebody somewhere recently mentioned the locally installed wiki-ish note database and editor Zim. As I recall, they do/did tech support and started using is as a simple, local way to maintain a personal database of references and notes-to-self.

I was curious and put it on one old machine I've been using a fair amount, recently. So far, I like it, although I haven't gone very deep into its features (not that the feature set is necessarily that deep, anyway).

http://zim-wiki.org/

P.S. Just saw your "already invested in Vim" comment reply, so maybe you are looking for something a bit more technical and less "integrated" than this.
Talks without abstracts are a waste of time. Why should I invest 5-10 minutes watching to figure out what the talk is actually about?
>> If we want to actually make the city affordable for most people—a place where a young person or an immigrant can move to pursue their dreams,
>> a place a parent can raise kids and not have to spend every minute at work—we have to fix the supply problem.

Why? Why can't it stay the playground of the rich and people who are trying to pursue their dreams can live in <insert name of nearby city>

>> Subsidizing affordable homes for 10,000 families comes at a price of tag of $2.5 billion.
>> So yes, we should build as much subsidized affordable housing as we can.

No. While I am for subsidized housing, I don't feel it should be done in extremely rich areas just for the heck of it. I'm not saying to start housing projects where nobody wants to live, but there's no sense in burning money to build them where costs are extraordinary.
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> I don't understand how people would stay at a low-paying or (what I see as) non-fulfulling job for very long. Don't these people want to grow?

A lot of people see work as a necessary evil to support their real life, away from work. They want to grow, too, but perhaps they prefer a mountain hike or going to soccer training with their daughter instead of reading the release notes for the next OS X.

You should try it.
It's the unfortunate nature of gentrification. It's also multi-layered; it's not just the middle class pushing out the lower class. The middle class is actively being pushed out of central hubs like San Francisco and Manhattan by the upper class (which is exactly why places like Oakland are themselves gentrifying in the first place).
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My work has a Trend Micro proxy, which is blocking this website as a "verified fraudulent page or threat source." Maybe an ad on it or something?
Thank you for sharing this article sunasra, accurately describes how I spend (too much of) my time. I am slowly getting better at controlling how much infosugar I intake, but it's still a pesky habit.

Most of the time I waste online is HN-related. I'll read articles that at best I only have a passing interest in. Whilst I enjoy knowing a little about a lot, I'd still prefer to be chipping away at larger projects, even if I only have a few minutes at a time to spend. Time for another HN detox...
Thank you for the insight. It is good to get some more details on how broken it is. I will add a clarification regarding MD5 to the article.

Sorry about my alarmist tone - from time to time I need to get rid of my conspiracy theories.
Without a multi-user frame sync, this prohibits users from being near-angles from each other to the retro-reflector, which basically prevents someone from "pointing" in AR into the others' field of view. Not necessarily a big limitation, but say you want to point out e.g. a terrain feature. If the software lets you select it, awesome! but if it's unselectable, you just have to try to describe it "the tree three trees over from the west wall... no not that one". Having good 'pointer drop' support mitigates this I suppose.
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I don't know where you're coming from but you're missing the point.

Why stay at SuperBurger forever when MegaBurger opens up or you could even move up to making burgers at the fancy sit-down place down the road? You're not affecting father-daughter time since you're not at home working on burgers with all your free time or going to burger conferences instead of having daddy-daughter time.
I'm not even sure what "cartoonish" means. Where did you get that assessment?

Having grown up in and around SF for my formidable years, SF has charm but seriously lacks in affordability. I can't imagine what you mean by cartoonish.
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I'm not anti-development but your last statement is not necessarily guaranteed. These days new units are being sold off-plan before construction to wealthy international non-residents who simply want to park their money. They will remain empty. Unless there are provisions in the permits to prevent this, but it's difficult to enforce.
So higher profits WILL result in more money being removed and not invested in R&D. If the companies weren't doing this they wouldn't be living up to their responsibilities as corporations.

That's true at some level, but not in general. Remember that the people who invested the money that paid for the research that caused the drugs to be developed could very well have just sat on their money and not invested it in the first place. Those capitalists had a choice as to how much money to invest in drug discovery, and since they're greedy capitalists they invested the amount of money that they thought would make them the most money. There's a diminishing returns thing going on where there are a whole bunch of possible research avenues open, so the more money they put in the lower percentage return they get. When the percentage return drops below what they could get from other investments, they put money in those investments instead.

To the extent that drugs start to have higher profits then the greedy executives will see that they can make even more money by investing more money in drug research, possibly much more than the increased profits but also possibly much less. It all depends on how fast the investors think that the diminishing returns on investment kick in.
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Pundit and research scientist are different roles, however. Yes, his punditry may be more informed than most other's, but the lines would be kept cleaner if the punditry didn't come out when formally addressing the research. It's a fine topic for future research, but until that future project comes, I'd rather see it kept separate from the formal project conclusions.
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But that can't work. It just _can't_. While the cost of producing bitcoins < value of bitcoins, more people will mine. More miners = higher difficulty = lower reward for mining.
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I don't agree with the article in general, but the author isn't saying that spending more money on a patient brings a better outcome. She says that the expectation of bigger profits for a successful drug creates an incentive to the creation of successful drugs, and thus more successful drugs - which can help more patients in the long run.
Walk into any independently owned shop (and most chains) in the developed world, and notice the large amount of non-perishable stock on the shelves. That isn't there because the owner saved up a few million prior to opening the shop, it's there because of a revolving credit facility provided by a bank. The bank can provide this at affordable rates due to cheap credit, which is a result of a mildly inflationary economy.
Ultradian rhythms are recurrent periods or cycles repeated throughout a 24-hour circadian day.

What the article is talking about is called Basic Rest Activity Cycle. Don't know much about if there is much or any scientific support for it.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultradian
SF makes San Jose, Cupertino, Mountain View, etc., look affordable.
There does seem to be a "center of gravity" in SF that is incredibly bizarre to me. For a lot of people, if you live west of Divis or south of 24th st, you might as well be, for all intents and purposes, in Oakland. Seems like a lot of the complacent crowd of SF lives in the Mission/SOMA/Pacific Height/Marina/Russian Hill bubble and never gets out of it.

Yet there is a whole 3/4 of the city that isn't encompassed by that part that is really, really awesome. It may not be "trendy" or anything, but they're full of great neighborhood places and "real" people. I think it's easy for everyone analyzing this situation to forget those places exist.
"The problem with most news, gossip, and link-bait titled articles online is that they are filled with surface level information. Your life isn’t better off for reading them and you’re rarely better informed because of them."

Strangely enough, that is how I feel after reading this blog post: The title promised more than the content delivered. I recognize the problem, but the article is thin on insight beyond the observation.

It doesn't provide insight. It ends with asking the reader what to do.
Whoa, it's conventional to use the MSB? I usually just do

bucket = hash(x) & mask

Should I expect non-cryptographic hashes and RNGs to produce better noise in the MSBs? That would explain "Sun Redefines Randomness"
Fish Oil does however help with anxiety and depression!

A large mega-dose of DHA/EPA (~1600mg of DHA, 1200mg of EPA) is the difference between my being stuck at home, and my going out to a party and socializing.

Fish Oil is not a panacea, but, there is lots of evidence [1] in its favor.

[1]http://examine.com/supplements/Fish+Oil/
Your idea is good (52 papers a week).

Let me give you a tip to increase your luck.

Put some more info about you on your site.

I'm not seeing it.

If it's there it's to hard to find.

Important people might stop by and think "who is this guy and what can he do for me". There is no way to know what exactly you know or are good at. Make it easy for people to connect or bring opportunity to you.

Be more like Dan Shipper.

( see http://danshipper.com/ I don't know him but I know who he is and what he can do ..)
Do a real machine learning online class or some data analysis online class. Some of the online classes from MOOCs can get you more of a sense of the difference between doing software deployment/statistics for life sciences versus doing it for other categories like market analysis, twitter, or prediction.

Also there is Kaggle competitions if you do those well, or sometimes even attempt them and rank decent I think you can qualify for some entry positions by meeting employers interested in such abilities for data analysis.

Also promote yourself, instead of just saying you have a github account with x projects, make landing pages with work that is well thought-out/done so people looking for a project can find your page. Flask can make github pages hosted from github repositories for instance. A blog works wonders for recruiting potential from what I've heard.
I've been fighting with various modes trying to find a usable solution for php/html/js for some time. This is a godsend.
There's your problem right there. Outside the US there just isn't a huge spend on marketing (they definitely try to influence doctors though). And honestly, I find it really weird that pharmaceutical companies actually advertise to patients. Part of the reason I spend so much money on a medical doctor is so that I don't need to decide what medicine I need to take. In fact I don't think I should be involved in the conversation. The doctor should just do his or her job without me weighing in one way or the other because I've seen some advertisement on television.
Bitcoin wouldn't have the properties it does if the mining structure were changed. People seem to like bitcoin more and more as time goes on, hence bitcoin mining has value. If you don't like that answer, then just remember: all value is subjective.
I'm not a big BTC believer, but building that infrastructure for the paper money system took hundreds of years and is STILL evolving. That's to say nothing of how bureaucratic the entire thing was.
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Taking a look at their "idea" page, I found myself nodding along with most of their bullet points (or shrugging and saying "not exactly my preference, but I can see why you'd want that"), until I hit:

Ghost would have cut-off points with major versions,
allowing core developers to remove old code from the
codebase and evolve the platform to allow it to improve.
No one expects an app written for OSX 10.4 Tiger to work
on OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion.

Oh, hell no. Backwards compatibility is way more important than some shiny new feature. When I upgrade my software, I expect it to work better, not break. If I have a working plugin from 5 years ago, why should I have to fight with some pointless API redesign just to get it to work again?

In the real world, people need compatibility more than they need whatever cleanup you're able to do by breaking compatibility. Heck, in many cases you can get both by doing your rewrite but leaving a compatibility layer on top that gives you the compatibility that you need.

I'm so sick of trendy "modern" frameworks like Rails that break compatibility every 5 minutes, and listing breaking compatibility as a major feature is a huge turnoff.

How about focusing on spending the pre-1.0 releases iterating and designing a really good API that will be amenable to backwards compatible extensions, and then sticking to that API and backwards compatible extensions to it for the forseeable future?
Well, what it really is is families and non-millionaires looking to buy. I mean, you can buy studios/1br's for around $300k-$400k (my wife and I have a close friend doing this). But for the most part, it's all cash everywhere and a lot of it.

We are contemplating the exodus in a few years but not so much because of prices, but schools. Before I had kids, I was in step with SF politics / justifications of how things are done here. But, of course, after kids you're like "hey, wait a minute". The school lottery is a family bug spray here. It's not just the fact that you're kid could be:

a) bused to a different area of the city away from the possible school right across the street from you
b) bused to a crappy school across the city

but also that this destroys neighborhoods. When I grew up (in southern california), I went to school with all the kids in my neighborhood. Not here, that would be too simple. So what this does is forces you to east bay or north bay if you don't want to partake in this social experiment and can't afford private school (I won't even mention the fact that even if you can afford private school, there's massive competition to then get into one).

All in all, this puts huge pressure on parents and they have to ask the question "do I want to be part of a social experiment where my kids won't even go to school with other neighborhood kids or do I just want them to go to a good school so they can grow up and then have some sort of normal life"?

So, the reality I see consists of 2 groups (of which we have friends in both): those that can't afford to buy or our outbid on everything and those parents that can't afford or are out-competed on private schools.

That said, I love SF. I've live here for 20+ years. I'll always love it here. Do I hold a grudge towards the city? Nope. I see it mostly as just the way things are and even if some people did have a short time where they were able to stall growth, it won't last forever. The city has to expand and it will. If it doesn't it will die and I just can't see that happening.
Between CastAR and Oculus Rift, it just seems an embarassment of riches, speaking as someone who spent a brief time working in VR in the early 90s.

It seems to me that the Oculus is for immersive environments; CastAR for shared and/or augmented reality.

Adapting Oculus Demos would be awkward because CastAR has the reflective surfaces as limited "portals" into the 3d environment. Although I'd guess the 3d engine work would be easily adaptable.
How does Mattermark calculate its "Mattermark Score"?
That just means running the plants below capacity, which is certainly done when electricity price falls below running costs. But since fixes costs are high, it is rarely a good investment to build a lot of overcapacity for these. Gas plants are low fixed / high running cost and quick to ramp up so are better for peak production.
Transport cost isn't an externality because neither were will-call or transported by myself (other than the last mile to my house). The transport cost was baked into the retail price in both examples. I suspect it was substantially higher for the quinoa; its still baked into the retail cost of both.

In comparison, an externality would be using my wifes prius to pick up a quarter cow from the butcher shop instead of a SUV. The price of the cow is constant but total environmental damage depends how its shipped. There are enough organic farms in my area that its assumed you'll pick up locally so there's a fixed price and you handle your own shipping aka drive out to the farm and back. My wife is arranging a quarter cow and I'm told its about 50 miles round trip, which is only about a half hour away. I can see how this business model wouldn't work for people living in Las Vegas or another desert.

That money goes somewhere. If I give someone 2.5 times as much money, they Could theoretically do 2.5 times as much "bad stuff". There seems to be a lot of hostility toward that obvious logical idea, no idea why. Think about it... local oil change place down by the river... if 200 people each give them $20 they can dump two barrels of used motor oil in the river. Now if only 100 people give them $20, how do you propose they'll dump the same two barrels of used motor oil in the river, if they only have one barrel anyway?

If I hire a repairman to repair my rain gutters, he can only afford to keep his old truck running. If I pay 3 times as much so he installs new gutters, he now has enough dough for a downpayment on a new truck, so he buys a new truck. It seems blindingly obvious which transaction results in more environmental damage... more money meant new gutters instead of fixing them, and a new truck. Less money means neither.

You can fool the finances for awhile, but not forever. $10 of something greenwashed is inherently going to cause more total damage than something the opposite of greenwashed but only $4, especially if they're basically the same thing sold by the same type of people.
"It's not - but the resource & labour cost of printing a $100 bill is many orders of magnitude different from the resources and labour you can buy with said $100 bill. (Never mind that a lot more money exists electronically, then physically.) If that were the case with BTC, nobody would be mining it."

Err, your logic is flawed. It is the opposite. If it were the case with BTC, then many people would be mining, which is actually what is happening!

In other words: you claim that the resource & labour cost in making and mining 1 Bitcoin with an ASIC mining are huge. This is wrong. The difference in orders of magnitude is so big that this is precisely why the mining activity is currently exploding: there are huge profits to be made due to this difference between cost and value.
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Right, but Oakland != "The East Bay".
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Great news, Fish oils are very expensive lately.
Eh, lots of things can be done. They all involve development though, and SF is stubborn.

Build vertically. Look at Tokyo if you need ideas of super density.
It took a bit of effort as the code is unstable, but I've managed to create a pretty interesting Dockerfile[1]. Just run a git clone, git submodule init, and then docker build from within that directory. That will then allow you to have an instance to test and play around with.

I also have an instance up and running[2] if you want to play with it. Messing it up doesn't matter to me as I will just docker run a new one. Have fun.

Username: nstinemates@gmail.com

Password: demodemodemo

1: https://github.com/keeb/Ghost/blob/add-dockerfile/Dockerfile

2: http://stinemat.es:49429/ghost/

edit: One of you lovely gentle souls decided to change the demo password. Thanks for making me have to `docker stop` then `docker run` a new one and inconveniencing me for all of 2 seconds.

Link updated.
Why does everyone refer to this as "Google's system"? The idea of slowing down clocks instead of turning them back is very-very old. In fact 10 years ago one of the first thing we were thought at university in the Embedded Systems course is that you never turn clocks back. Am I missing something here? (honest question, no irony or sarcasm intended)
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Employes of a certain company that starts with G do this on stories harmful to their employer. I'd bet that's the reason.
Related again: the very same thing is happening in Paris.
Hghly successful people? Isn't he mostly targeting graduates?
Especially for a young project, I think this is ok. You don't want it to be set in stone too early. Once there is an established ecosystem around Ghost, there will be a lot more pressure to keep it stable.
How long do you expect upgrades to work before a break in compatibility?

The difference between 10.4 and 10.8 is seven years. That doesn't seem like an outrageous amount of time to break compatibility.
I don't know about charm - I've been to Baltimore a bunch and it's definitely not a city I would want to live in. Heck, my brother had his car broken into while living there and he lived in a nice neighborhood!
So the ranking isn't simply based on a combination of age and upvotes? I see.
Yeah, because this guy will sit by and use an iphone for two years while watching the new versions come out...
The problem with that approach is that Gila Bend has more sunlight than water.
I would love to see how my Facebook statuses portray my personality, especially were it segmented by year.
I always felt node.js needed a Rails or a Django before it needed a layer on top of that. i.e. a content-oriented MV-whatever framework.

By my understanding node.js is rather low-level to be a good platform for content-driven sites. Is this inaccurate?
It's called confirmation bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Another article that will go unread by the hordes of bosses that run their tech and administrations like a production line: if the person isn't there then the person isn't working.

I quit my last job because the boss wanted to play office - which I hadn't agreed to when I signed the contract a couple of years earlier.

Didn't make the boss not want to play office, but now maybe he'll think twice about fucking around with people's LIVES just so that he can pretend that his living dolls are being perfect.