skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. My problem is I thought I loved what I was doing, but there were just little issues with it. Everything has little issues, sure. I never let myself realize until recently that these were problems that were actually harming my quality of life/mental health and that I had lost my love for it. There is a lot of pressure to love the field no matter what, and I think it's unfortunate that reflection isn't encouraged very often around here.
While his essay is thought provoking and makes some valid points, he has oversimplified the moral equation in at least two ways. It is not clear that in many areas burning wood (especially using modern catalytic converter efficient wood stoves) would raise air pollutants above background levels due to car/ truck/ airplane exhaust, coal fired power plants, forest fires/ controlled burns, and the burning of sugar cane and other crops (not to mention indoor dust and other non combustion air pollutants). Also heating and cooking with wood using a modern wood stove can significantly lower one's carbon footprint compared to alternatives.
Not to mention the huge negative effect it must have on Google's short-term revenue to do such a thing intentionally. I suppose it could be argued that longer term it may make sense for Google to break IE in order to increase Chrome's market share, and thereby increase the number of users defaulted to Google search. Would be very risky, though.
Miami is a complete shithole...grew up there and lived there 15 years.

Now living in a major western european city for 4 years and almost everything about europe blows the states out of the water
Would you stand in front of an operational radar array? Would you give a good hug to a high power transmitter? In both cases you would quickly find yourself dead, despite it being just "wireless signals".

They are high power variants of their low power cousins. The latter isn't dangerous simply as a factor of magnitude. But the same arguments apply. Further it's an interesting note that the classification of something as a carcinogen usually is arrived at via very large levels of exposure, and there are endless tables of "acceptable" exposure to such carcinogenic materials.

This fireplace issue would seem to be something that would be studied to death, and strong correlative findings demonstrating a sound case (given how utterly dire and extreme the submission is). Instead you get things like this-

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3002194/

I'll skip to the fun part -- wood burning homes did have more incidents of cancer, because they had a higher correlation with smokers (similar to how, for instance, blue jeans probably have a higher incidence of cancer than khakis). Among non-smokers the incident rates of cancer are absolutely identical with non wood burning homes. Isn't that incredible, and doesn't that simply destroy the submission? And this is for frequent users who use it as a primary source of fuel, so a level of exposure dramatically higher than such a recreational user.
I found a nice compromise: my school offered a B.A. in Computer Science. I already knew how to code very well, and this was really great for me because I had to take the fundamental academic CS courses (mathematics and theory) but was able to skip out on most of the applied electives I'd already been well familiar with (I didn't exactly need to take a database class).
My good friend and colleague Michel Martens has tried to propose this to the rubygem guys but unfortunately it was rejected because it's not the `ruby way`.

https://github.com/soveran/cargo
Drones and ground robots are very different scenarios. Soldiers on the ground have to make split second decisions. Our pilots tend to have a bit longer and are much better protected.

[edit] Also, the current tactics with the drones seem to be set to kill more civilians than needed (bombing again an hour later when rescue personnel are at the scene). Ariel drones and soldiers on the ground are totally different scenarios.
Lol...europe blows nyc away
Twitter had a music app? I'm not trying to be funny or condescending - this is litteraly the first time I've heard of Twitter #Music, and I wouldn't say I've been living under a rock. Also I'm an avid Twitter user.

That being said, sorry it didn't work out. There's a lot of innovation to be made in the music industry.
http://quantumbooter.net/
this one actually works, that one is used by many kids, and even the one who attacked my server ... :S
the prices are very cheap, and I've bought lowest packet to test it on my 1gbit server, opened ssh, started iftop to check for traffic and see ddos strength, activated ddos using SSYN type, and BOOM, connection time out from my dedi ...
Steve Jobs, in particular, always sounded like he was delivering a sales pitch in his public comments. Maybe it was deliberate; maybe it's just that he ate, breathed, and slept "the game."

I think you have to view his inaccurate and hyperbolic statements in that context and not take his public comments wholly at face value.
PredictionIO is a serving and evaluation framework on top of a bunch of algorithms. Currently a majority of them come from the Apache Mahout library [1].

Computation time and resource requirement depend on the choice of technology. If a non-distributed implementation is chosen using the framework, the rule of thumb from Apache [2] is a good guideline. For distributed implementations based on Hadoop, the 10M MovieLens data set [3] finish training on a single m1.large AWS instance (7.5GB RAM) within 30 minutes. Although we do not have an accurate account of how much computation time and resource will be required for your production data set's scale, a user has reported using his own production data set of similar size with 2M users, and finished training in about an hour using Amazon EMR.

That said, PredictionIO does not do anything special on memory consumption or has a special memory access model. It really depends on the underlying libraries that do the actual work.

We imagine your project requires a much faster turnaround time according to your spec, which is an interesting application to us as well.

PS. The work you posted is pretty cool. :)

[1] http://mahout.apache.org/
[2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Recommend...
[3] http://grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/
I list a few others in http://www.gwern.net/Notes#surprising-turing-complete-langua...
When your personal risk is reduced, you do not need to make the split second identification that leeds to a civilian death.
I could have sworn that some compat modes fairly faithfully mimic the original version- to the point of dropping APIs such as addEventListener. So yes, you can use feature detection but if you get flagged by IE then you essentially need to code for IE7 or whatever.
Thankfully I am not so selfless that I will choose to try to save the world over maintaining my own body.
Assuming LDL is a bad thing, low carb diets (which are usually high fat diets) tend to spike it up as well, and at a greater rate.

People on ketogenic diets and below maintenance calorie intakes end up reporting high levels of LDL, with high levels of HDL to balance it out. Now, give them a hundred more calories above maintenance and things start to get funny.

Calories in vs calories out might be an oversimplified model, but so is blaming everything on insulin as Taubes does, as he still believes it's the only factor promoting fat storage.

> I'm confident this post has actually done a disservice to the question why should we eat less carbs, but hopefully it's something you might find interesting and read more about and maybe change your opinion on.

Been there, done that. I've been in keto for years until I crashed. Not anymore.
I'm too young to have been there but I've read a bit about how during the first .com bubble landlords would routinely accept stock instead of rent. In fact, I believe an early cash-strapped PayPal did just that and the landlords went on to become pretty successful in their own right.

Relevant article about the landlords who also rented out to Logitech, Google, Danger, and Milo: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/technology/14landlord.html...
Google turned my iPod touch into a free wifi phone
A senior VP of a prominent credit card processing company in the US told me that he fields an average of 200,000 attacks originating from Chinese and Iranian IP addresses every day. Governments having backdoors everywhere would be terrifying.
Google this: hetzner hard disk failure
They are putting faulty hard drives in their servers, and if you notice its faulty and tell them, they replace it with another faulty one (less faulty if you are lucky) ... Make regular backups to servers outside Hetzner network...
On focus.
But the problem is with arterial inflammation. That's what people need to work towards reducing. My understanding is that the inflammation is the root cause of all the problems.

Perhaps Taubes is over simplifying it, but you have to admit that there are far more problems and negative health consequences with eating sugar than simply satiation which you originally asserted.
Depending on the DDoS attack, they'd either help you load-balance or keep serving "real" users.
That is, either the attack is on Hetzner only, in which case actual users would be redirected (e.g. you have multiple A records for your domain, some for Hetnzer, some for those AWS instances) to a working site.
Or the attack is on everything related to you, in which case you'd utilize some load balancing to mitigate the volume of the attack - and depending on AWS' DDoS protection, the AWS part of your site might still be up, serving real users.
Which is why the DMCA exempts most security testing, and, in particular, the exact kind of security testing performed in this analysis.
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Today marks my 1300th day on Hacker News, without ever feeling compelled enough to make a comment. That changes today having just seen the story of Watsi, and the deeply honest, moving talk given by Chase Adam.

Watsi can't fail, you're right Chase. It's impossible. Thank you (and the entire Watsi team) for being such an inspiration.
trace route is nice BUT mtr is better. Mtr does averages on latency at every node and any lost packets.
I don't think this makes economic sense. Equity in startups who don't have enough cash on hand to pay rent is likely to be more risky than equity in those who do.

Giving away equity for rent at an early stage doesn't make sense for founders either - making a mess of your cap table for office space is a poor decision when you could work from many other places for free, or remotely from home.

This sounds like a bad deal for both parties in the marketplace.
All brands are equal insofar as you are most likley better off if you avoid them all. For example:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/07/the-vitami...
> What if people took the same tack when it comes to mental processes? "Math is challenging, so I refuse to do any". "Reading books is too hard because I have to look up some of the words". Surely we can agree that challenging your mind is a good thing.

Don't try to generalize my argument into absurdity. Simply not doing math because it is difficult doesn't solve the underlying problem, which is probably to become proficient at math. Now if there were easier ways to become proficient at math than what you were already doing, that would be more in line with my argument.

The key thing is solving problems. Simply giving up on learning math, or reading, solves no problem.

> Is it impossible to find any enjoyment in challenging your body as well as mind?

Challenging your body and maintaining good health are distinct goals, though they may be satisfied through the same processes. If you want good health, and a certain diet makes that easier, then I will say that it is no sense in maintaining whatever old diet you had simply because that would make it harder. If you want to challenge your body, and simply maintaining good health is not challenging enough, there are endless possibilities. Recreational sports, for example. Gymnastics. Parkour. But personally I would not choose to do things that were clearly suboptimal for my body solely because it would be more challenging. I might do it because I gain other things, such as eating tasty but unhealthy food, but I wouldn't choose to do it if the goal was only to make things harder for myself.
"One teensy-weensy, but ever so crucial little tiny detail is that the backdoor only listens on the LAN, thus it is not exploitable from the WAN"

mh, so not really phoning home is it ? I thought this was pretty interesting until i read that..thats a pretty minimal security risk.
What analogue bandwidth do you want? Does the device need to have a display, or is a USB device ok?
I enjoyed #music but if you're not particularly interested in the chart aspect of it, it loses its novelty quickly.

I found the recommendations seemed to settle and that was it, there didn't seem to be any point in going back once I had done my initial exploring. I just opened it up again now after several months to see much the same recommendations.

There's only so many recommendations that you can actually make though, so it's hard to blame them for that particular problem as long as the recommendations are accurate.
My $.02 for you at this point would be: forget the stress of the software industry. If you want to work in another industry, then do so. If you really love programming, you'll probably be drawn to it again. If so, then do it for fun and see where it takes you. You'll probably find though, that most others careers also suck in many ways, and if you like programming, then being a pro programmer isn't that bad of a route.

Overall you have good points though for people early in their careers/education. People should consider their motivations honestly before devoting a lot of time/money/effort to it and it's easy to be blinded by other factors. In the end, most people who make it through a CS degree and entry level jobs to excel in software careers seem to really enjoy programming itself. Others who get into it for money or family pressure usually end up as mediocre or below-average programmers (which is probably fine btw, not everyone needs to be awesome at what they do nor do they necessarily have to like it).
As someone currently pursuing a CS degree, thanks for writing this advice out. Here's my initial judgement:

1. You were never really in love with this discipline

2. You thought that things would "get better" as time passed

I'm not totally sure I won't end up feeling like you do, but I do think my odds are good.

I know that I love CS, really love it. Everything, from gluing libraries together, to understand the beautiful math behind it all. From the lowest levels of gates and electricity to the most abstract applications, I find it sublimely beautiful! I spend almost all my time thinking about programming, thinking about problems, wondering how I can do different things. Every day I learn about something (or many things) that expand my knowledge and add to the parts of this elegant world I can already understand.

Something I realized pretty recently is:

I'm really lucky to have something that I want to spend every day working on.
Almost no one else gets that, especially so early in their life.

I honestly hope I can spend all my life doing this, because it's what I love.
Right. It looks a lot more like a badly-implemented feature for factory validation than a backdoor intended as an easily exploitable point of attack.
From his cousera class, a paper called "Regulation, Disruption, and the Technologies of 2013" has more details. https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/startup%2Flecture_slid...
Those of us who study the cognitive neuroscience of memory have been waiting for Dr. Corkin to publish this book for a while. I'm looking forward to reading through.

Regarding another commenter's concerns about ensuring that severely amnesic patients are fairly compensated and participating of their own free will, this is a complex issue that those of us who study such patients deal with frequently. I can say of my own experience that patients we work with volunteer their time willingly, are remunerated for their participation, and can discontinue any task at any time. It's a privilege to work with people who have such a focal neuropsychologial deficit, and we take our responsibility for each patient's welfare during their time with us very seriously.
Yes, don't worry, we'll post videos of each talk.
Was that not also because of efnet klining hetzner?
Young adults hardly ever walk, 'because of technology'
Max sampling rate (4MSPS) is too small. Note that for more or less proper measurement you need at least Sampling_rate=Freq*4. So, for something real you need 200MSPS or even more. Beside that the idea is very cool, would buy one.

Eagerly waiting for a Spectrum Analyzer Watch to pop up on Kickstarter any time soon. :-)
There are plenty of industries where customers want to see documentation upfront before purchase and if you can't provide it you'll lose the sale, it's a clear indication of an immature product. Maybe not in your industry, maybe you don't care about lost sales, but to say any work in companies with such customers is boring is utterly naive.
Context is everything. They're looking at me? Can't be interested, must be something else.
cool thanks for the resource.
I would pay a lot of money for a miniaturized tool that took RF performance seriously.

I'm sure, but how many others would, vs just using bulky equipment? I agree the analog bandwidth is quite limited here, but it's good enough for audio work, and there's a large potential market there among live sound engineers.
The DMCA Anti-circumvention clause explicitly makes an exception for "security testing" and "encryption research", amongst others. Search for those terms on this page:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

I am no law scholar, but I get the impression that, in general, reverse engineering and research are exempt from most forms of IP protection (which is what the DMCA is).
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Huh. It's funny you say this, because I got the opposite impression from the way the post was written. To me it came across as being written by a deeply positive person putting all their negativity in one place. The way they got to where they are now was by staying positive in the face of many small persistent negative things.

Think about how someone else who felt the same way as the OP would write their thoughts -- it would probably come across as a complaint, whereas this post comes across as a mix of introspection and advice.
* Chinese intervention and even ownership of its local industries is a well-known phenomenon. You can't on the one hand believe that NSA --- err, Clyde Frog --- is strongarming US Internet companies into complying with court orders while at the same time seriously suggesting that Chinese manufacturers are independent of the Chinese state.

* How much do we know about Shenzhen Tenda? All I could find in 5 minutes or so of research is that it's the result of the efforts of D.P. Quan to provide networking and enrich the lives of all people through, IIRC, excellence.

* China has a very well-established, well-attributed track record of attacking the tech infrastructure of the rest of the world, and does so through proxy organizations.

* A very blatant backdoor with minimal tech support value is something that is more valuable to a state than to a random tech company.
Our thought was similar -- that this is already going on anyway. So this can just be a resource for folks to set up these deals.. Even if we don't monetize it, it could be a useful tool for folk, if we got the landlords on.
Interesting...I created an MVP off of a domain I bought a few years ago called http://www.uptimebot.com

It has been on the back burner for a bit now because I wasn't able to get traction/vistors onto the site...I guess maybe I should figure out what I was doing wrong.
Hey, MapD author here (Todd Mostak). I'm working on a release now - hopefully it will be out by the end of the year! Would really appreciate help from anyone interested in the project - todd@map-d.com
We had the same problem at Hetzner, the server was attacked on Saturday. We moved out. Hetzner is very cheap and you get what you pay for.
It also means that any bit of unprivileged clientside malware an attacker can get onto your machine might be able to use the bug as a pivot, first to your whole network, then potentially back to a more privileged place on your machine.
What would happen if I put for example 3xA records to 3 different IPs (in different locations), and one of them gets offline ... Does that mean all other traffic will go to remaining 2, or some of them will try to load the site from the offline IP ?
Someone correct me if I'm out of line here, but I think it would be appropriate to mention your personal interest in FPGA's (which I discovered from your comments lower down).

On the point itself, "accessibility" is probably understating the nature of the problem. Actually being able to program for a platform, and how easily you can do it, is a huge issue. Issues of "accessibility" apply as much to huge companies with giant server farms (note how little even GPU computing is used by them) as they do to tinkerers.
HA! Amazing. Will shoot you an email. Thanks!
You can get even better graphics out of Hopper.app, which is a great little program. Hopper will even do a decent first-pass conversion from assembly back to C.
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I will for sure!
May I ask you to get rid of this CV list altogether? We don't live in the walled garden Aol envisioned. Don't you agree that everyone hitting the same browser should see the same UA string.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

If not, can you please elaborate on this:

> If you currently use the x-ua-compatible header to target a legacy document mode, it's possible your site won't reflect the best experience available with IE11. For more info, see modern.ie. ?

If a site is on the list and they declare "edge", will they see the real ua string? What can someone on the list do to get the real ua string?
Yep, I would like to move out my files from Hetzner at this moment, but my server is locked, and I will have to wait Monday to get access to it ...
Luckily I'm not hosting anything important on it and my business doesn't rely on them, or else I would be screwed very hard ...
Do you see any way you could structure the deal to make sense for both parties?

Also - the main idea for this was for residential space, we added the commercial cause, well, why not. But this was literally to give you a home to work out of.
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It seems like the valuation algorithm could be used more lucratively and directly in a more traditional VC way.
prefix to my note: dude startssl certificate is fucking free.

you should be using a password manager and have unique for every service.
This. There is so much more to software engineering/CS than building web sites (not that there's anything intrinsically wrong with that, either).

At my last job I wrote firmware for an embedded device that served as a bridge between household appliances equipped with low-power radios, and our company's Internet servers. Right now I'm working on mobile applications for a large Silicon Valley tech company (and I work with both web devs and server people every day there).

The challenges, goals, tools, work environment, and sense of accomplishment between those two jobs were/are so different I can easily see why someone would flourish in one and be stifled in the other.