skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a glance, there are perhaps 1400 gems that require or refer to ffi: https://www.google.ca/search?q=ffi+inurl:gemspec

But that's the type of site I was trying to find before I resorted to Google. I'd second that recommendation to add the functionality to rubygems.org ... Maybe we need a pull-request? :)
R&D is a bit different than science. Usually it has a time horizon of 3-10 years to commercialization, sometimes 10-20 at the high end. While much of science is in the 10-100 range. The 20-year patent window is crucially important for industry R&D. The timeframe can be extended a bit by keeping things as trade secrets, if you're very careful, but it gets trickier. Unpredictable and non-application-specific research also tends to be disfavored: improvement on a chemical process is one thing, since it has a clear path to application in a specific area that the company does business in. But new basic physics results are not favored, since it's not clear whether they will lead to profitable applications at all; and even if there was some way of knowing they would, those applications might not be easy for the company to take advantage of if they don't align with its business.

You couldn't directly build a product on Einstein's major results, for example, certainly not within the time window of patent protection (if they were even hypothetically patentable), but they were hugely important anyway. Same with much of the mid-20th-century materials-science work that is now proving useful to chip manufacturers: the tech industry didn't fund that research in the 1950s-70s, because they didn't know at the time which physics results would be useful to them in 2010s chip engineering. But they're definitely using them now! It's important to the tech industry that this pipeline of not-sure-where-this-will-be-applied basic research exists, because it's hard to do things like improving manufacturing processes unless there is an existing understanding of how physics and materials work in the first place. But the case for them funding it directly is weaker, because it tends to have the property that advancing the general level of knowledge benefits everyone, not only you, and you don't know decades in advance which specific knowledge you'll eventually need, anyway.
This is an incredibly interesting area of mathematics, and it's disappointing that it's dying out. When I was an undergrad, I wanted to go into this field, but I was dissuaded by my advisor because of the direction it was going (fewer active researchers means fewer PhD positions, and ultimately, fewer academic jobs).

I'm glad that there's an effort to consolidate and simplify the proof, since as they say, it could end up effectively lost forever.
It's excellent! I'm so going to use this site. Is there a way to see the lyrics at the same time ?
Scott Sumner over at http://www.themoneyillusion.com/ has played a big part in changing peoples's views on this.

He is definitely worth reading regularly if you are interested in or want to learn more about monetary policy.
1) Where do you think publisher's get the money to pay for the infrastructure? Where do you think advertisers who pay publishers get that money?

2) Sure, they can't totally treat consumers as tools. But the product is less than what it would be if it were purely designed for users. Have you heard the argument that advertisers are Google's true customers, that we are the product? Google's once famous clean and neutral search results are now cluttered and biased (see [1]). From a Wired article [2]: "Lloyd made his pitch, proposing a quantum version of Google’s search engine whereby users could make queries and receive results without Google knowing which questions were asked. The men were intrigued. But after conferring with their business manager the next day, Brin and Page informed Lloyd that his scheme went against their business plan. “They want to know everything about everybody who uses their products and services,” he joked."

3) See #1 above. Why do brands spend money on brand recognition, and where does that money come from?

You say you agree that there is no free lunch but your disagreements contradict that claim.

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[1] http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/10/new-banner-ads-push-... [2] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/computers-big-data...
Ah that makes much more sense.
I would highly recommend that anyone with further interest check out the book, "The Cult of Statistical Significance" It's eye opening.
If the value of the dollar buys less stuff, that is only good for the economy if the economy benefits from this.

While that may be a "well-duh" statement it is counter intuitive in cases where it also means that it means that "Stuff" becomes more expensive than "Labor".

Often inflation means more people do things because it becomes cheaper to do things that are labor intense than it is to do things that are material intense.

Inflation can be driven by an increase in the cost of labor too however. If we raise the minimum wage then "Labor" will cost more and "stuff" may also cost more an inflation will not be a good thing.

But because so many people can't afford this affordable health care there is a push to up the minimum wage. Doing so will raise the cost of labor at the bottom of the wage pool, which will mean someone who was making 25% more than minimum wage will be barely making minimum wage, and likely won't get a wage increase for several years, so for those people they will live closer to the poverty line.

For things which are more "stuff" than "labor" the price will go up because people earn more and they will raise to match inflation which will mean more profit margin, as a result the companies that do more "stuff" with less "labor" will get richer.

Inflation by its definition means $1 buys less than it did previously. This is almost never a good thing over anything but the shortest of terms.

Stagnation is good. Deflation is better.
This an insanely great emulation. Including the loading times.
I keep thinking javascript in android apps is a great idea but I can never get it to work in a way that simplifies development. Good luck! I hope you can figure it out.
This also seems to be an example of how not to no longer provide support. Close all the issues? Let no one take over? I guess a fork works but I've also seen projects clearly taken over as-is with seemingly "official blessing." I prefer the latter approach or at the very least, keep the thing untouched until someone steps up. I could be late to the party and someone finally got around to saying "tough shit, we're done here" after years of nothing. This just feels cold to me. I don't need a sugar coated reason if you're honest. You can easily say "all I get are windows support issues. Fuck windows!!!" and it'd be a thousand times better than what's there.
here's the Tweets I just got (in English) as of 10:33pm Eastern. Yes....2 out of all of these "love" it. A ringing endorsement.

* Literally trying to change your wallpaper with iOS7 is the worst

* Don't Like The Blur Effect In iOS 7? Remove It Using This Simple Trick

* i've just noticed that 2days ago even on "Apps for iOS 7" ... So ugly :)

* I hope there aren't that many changes to the OS because a sista is still lost with ios 7 update..

* iOS 7 has made my iPod crash so much I can't even

* I would call but I think I've been blocked..
Damn you new IOS 7 for that option

* I swear if my phone makes me update to the new IOS7 ima flip out on someone!!

* For iOS users, avoiding iCloud gets harder with Mavericks http://zite.to/1g5kcKg this is going to be bad 7 iOSs one ID

* I finally downloaded iOS 7 and I actually really like it now

* Finally updated to iOS7. Everything is beautiful.

* I feel like I'm the only one who still hasn't updated their phone to the iOS 7

* Dear everyone, the iOS 7 Voice Memos app has a bug where it "saves" but ultimately fails to record all recordings above 15 minutes.

* Man fuck this iOS 7 update.

* Trying Tweetbot 3 because you nerds wouldn’t shut up about it. It’s like a syringe of pure iOS 7, straight to the eyeball.

* delete and reinstall the app. sometimes when the iOS gets updated like it did from 6 to 7 some stuff gets jacked up.

* iOS 7 is completely and totally overrated. It makes my phone crash so much. -.-

* Yo my iPad never messed up until ios7
I have boxes and boxes of artist sketchbooks. They're great.

I stole the idea from a friend of mine. "I use little notebooks for little ideas, bigger ones for bigger ideas."

He added, "I have a coffee-table sized one at home that I've never written in, because I've never had an idea that big."

That said, recent redesigns by Strathmore have added a perforation to the notebooks. I am old and cranky and cannot tolerate this for some reason, and thus am searching for a new standard notebook. So far a cheap chemistry notebook carried by a local college bookstore looks good, and I may buy a big boxful if they hold up well.

Moleskines are fine, but tiny, and not large enough for doing engineering diagrams.
Ask HN: What subscriptions do you use (and pay for)?
I guess nobody remembers the Jimmy Carter era? "Stag-flation" (Inflation and no growth), 16% interest rates on mortgages, the "misery index" in the news every day?
No, not really a problem for me, I would expect childprocess to change their dependencies if needed.

I guess the reason that I am a bit uncomfortable, is because FFI in particular feels very basic and fundamental.
If I'm working on a homework assignment, yes I go over it a few times and clean it up.

If I'm working on our startup, I often google / copy+paste, whatever gets the job done. If I find myself struggling to make it work how I want or I'm spending more time fighting with the code than I'd prefer, I go back and refactor the code.
Agreed; Moleskins are a disaster with a fountain pen.
the mouse tracking is fucked. it leaves the windows if i go to try and click the top right corner
I think you'd be better off getting folks who are actual interviewers (or ex-interviewers) from Google, etc, to conduct interviews; your site focuses on that as one of its selling points but your resume doesn't match up (in fact your LinkedIn gives no indication of how experienced an interviewer you are).

I think this is one of those products that's best served by finding people one-on-one who need help, and providing it for free so you get a bunch of testimonials, pictures, videos, etc -- rather than throwing up a landing page and survey. It's definitely a useful service; I mentor folks in interview practice occasionally these days, and there's certainly an appetite for it, though a lot of people I talk to tend to go about it by applying for jobs they don't really want and using those interviews as practice.
It's really mind blowing how it's written entirely in javascript
I think some people would say that Paul Krugman might have helped out a bit, too.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/the-economics-of...
I am working on a food discovery app that works something like Waze. Users post where they get their favorite foods, either groceries or restaurants. This data is aggregated and used in the search tool that lets users search nearby, popular and in season. I haven't gotten it online yet but I have it running locally.
Its important because there is no food information online. Every online food ordering website is closed off, and finding great food still requires people to ask around. This could open up a whole new market for small food producers who are producing great stuff but can't get awareness.
"Rising prices help companies increase profits"

I don't see how that could be true. If prices are rising, all of a company's expenses rise along with their revenues: raw materials, salaries, benefits, rents, etc. (Unless the company wants to screw their employees and give them raises that are less than the rate of inflation.)

Inflation does benefit debtors, the biggest being the U.S. government: they can repay their debts with dollars that are worth less than the dollars that they borrowed.
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As a university physics major with a growing entrepenuerial side I subscribe to:
Physics today,
NY Times,
New Scientist,
Various other journals I get access to via the university.
> I wanted to go into this field, but I was dissuaded by my advisor because of the direction it was going (fewer active researchers means fewer PhD positions, and ultimately, fewer academic jobs)

I don't understand the logic here. I've been told many times that the academic's dream is to find a field where he's the only active researcher. Fewer active researchers means fewer PhD positions, sure, but it also means more prominence for those who remain, less effort involved in finding publishable results, etc.

My go-to example of offensively low-hanging fruit is De Morgan's law(s), which I still can't believe were named after a person. They state, in plain english:

1. If it is not the case that a collection of claims are all true, then one or more of the claims is false.

2. If it is not the case that any of a collection of claims is true, then they are all false.

When you're the only active researcher in a field, you can have observations like that named after you too!
Given that the entire point of the Federal Reserve is to promote inflation it's probably good that they think it's a good idea-otherwise why do they think that they exist?

The whole problem is that inflation is theft. You are basically having your property taken out from under you without realizing it. It's historically been very popular as a means of taxing the public without them realizing that's what you're doing.

This probably not the space to get into all this but reading "The Creature From Jekyll Island" is a good start. That the major players in the banking industry got together in secret to write the Federal Reserve Act suggests who the system really benefits.
The private sector doesn't advance science? Intel doesn't advance science? Pfizer doesn't advance science? GE? IBM? ADM? BASF?

You don't think that private companies regularly form hypotheses, test those hypothesis, and draw conclusions from their results? Applied science is no less worthy of the title of science than is pure science, and the private sector is applied science writ large.

As for pure science and government funding, I'm not against it, and promoting one over the other is not my intention, as they both have their roles to play. I agree that pure science would not occur to the extent that it does now absent government funding. What I disagree with is that science would not happen at all were that the case. That's flatly stupid thing to say, and I'm a little amused that you would make that claim just before calling me stupid.

In a world where the rate of technological advance is larger than it has been at any other time in the history of the world (and is still increasing), it seems obvious that both are playing their roles rather well. The system is functioning. Science is not dead. Hell, it's not even sick.
only the people who wrote the article.
How do you view Startup Weekend? (startupweekend.org)
Just attended my second startup weekend here in Minnesota and was wondering what people think of Startup Weekend that have attended it. Is there a better program or process to meeting people and building something? I would love to hear if you've attended, how many times, and what you think about it and whether you would continue to go.
Sometimes inflation is good. Sometimes deflation. Sometimes even stagnation. Its all circumstantial.

The starter motor in your car is very good for getting the engine running but pretty terrible if you try to drive around with it engaged all the time.

We seem tragically bad at predicting what we need when and then doing it.
Bell Labs was privately held, but hardly privately funded. In fact most of it's funding during the semiconductor boom came from federal agencies.
I don't use an adblocker but I am real close to doing so. Why? Because of the jerks who think it is okay to run a bunch of animated graphics, moving images, or videos. I am also not happy about the pervasive tracking of users.
Or Japan.
In January or February a group in New Hampshire showed off a Bitcoin ATM for US Dollars, though I don't think it was ready for full scale production. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57570925-38/need-bitcoins-...

Looks like they've since updated and now have one that accepts notes from over 200 countries: https://lamassu.is/
a MUD (multiplayer text-based RPG) written in Ruby.

It's cool because MUDs are awesome. But I'm doing this in Ruby because it's a language I'm somewhat familiar with but I don't really consider myself an expert on (as opposed to PHP and Javascript, both on which I do consider myself to be an expert). I figured that building a Ruby project from scratch would be the best way to learn the language. So far, so good.

Thoughts:
- No framework yet. Decided to just build it and see what happens. I'm not trying to learn Rails -- I'm trying to learn Ruby. They're not quite the same, obviously.
- It's harder than I thought. It took quite some time for me to figure out how to mix together sockets and threads to keep track of multiple players
- It's more fun than I thought. I've used Ruby in the past but have never really been impressed. (I think that's mostly Rails.) But this project is full of far more epic wins than my usual ideas.
- Ruby probably isn't the best language to do a MUD in. I initially started with C and I got pretty far, but I decided I wanted to learn a new language, not build a MUD in a language I already know.
- The old school Merc/Diku muds out there are based on flat files. All data, such as character files and area files, are stored in a custom flat format. I'm using JSON for my test data, since it's pretty easy for Ruby to consume, but I'm thinking I may switch to a DB-based setup. But then again, the flat file thing is working just fine...

I guess I'll publish the source some day, when I get to the point where it's playable.
Well, deflation sounds like it would be good for anyone with a positive net worth, but the empirics are awful.
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That's an empirical claim. So let's try at an empirical test.

Show me European PhD students (current, or recently graduated) who have a publication list as impressive as http://web.mit.edu/ralucap/www/#Publications or http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jduchi/ or http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/parno/parno-cv.pd... (counting only papers 2010 and before)

This is a best vs best test (as opposed to an average vs average test which requires more painful empirical effort), so focus on the top European PhD students. If you have methodological issues with a best vs best test because it doesn't not reflect the average PhD experience, let me know as I cannot think of any realistic reasons why it would be a bad test.
What you are describing is exactly why Keynesian economics fell out of favor in the first place. For a time it was thought that the business cycle was a solved problem and only a historical memory. Oops.
I think the answer here is compatibility.
But we finally are in a turning point. OSX's new apps and windows metro apps are sandboxed.

But until running mostly apps becomes the norm in a desktop system beware that not having admin privileges doesn't not mean you can NOT: load programs at startup, read most of registry settings, passwords, read memory of/close programs of same sec level. A malware doesnt need admin rights to do evil.

Still I believe AV products are useless even for inexperienced users.
If that public money were not poured into semiconductor research, would humanity have simply forgotten about it?

I think not.
Inflation is a tax. Its the result of somebody creating money from nothing (usually it's the government).
Also, it's a great way for an employer to lower your salary by actually increasing it, by doing it at a lower rate than inflation.
My country has a 25% inflation rate, that's going on for the last 4 years. Not pretty.
Even if you're self-employed not just "you" is the boss. Your clients are your bosses. There's not such work where there is no boss at all, unless you find a way where you can only depend on yourself alone.
In the UK, many of my peers finished somewhere after 3 years but before 5. The writing-up phase tended to drag on, I had a couple of friends who ended up working while writing up as their 3-year funding ran out.
Whether a website is ranking VPN services or just discussing them, PIA is almost always mentioned before any other provider. I wonder how much they are paying for these types of advertisements...
about as good as vmware :)
Should I contact YC to update the progress after application?
Hi everybody~ Thx for viewing this.

Our team applied YC W2014 when we just started the project from the ground. In the past 6 days, we've made tremendous progress, i.e, nailing down more users, identifying another competitor, and almost seeing the first transaction. I know the first transaction doesn't necessarily mean there is a second and third till a millionth, but it is not zero anymore. Do you think we should try to update the application content by reaching out to somebody in YC? Thx a lot! If you think this is a silly question, let me know and plz tell me why, thx a lot again!
Theory and Applications for Advanced Text Mining
Sorry for the aside, this opened for me in pdf.js in firefox (on archlinux) and the font rendered very poorly, but when I downloaded it and looked at it in zathura (vi-like pdf viewer) the font looked fine. Does anybody know what I can do to fix the fonts in pdf.js?
Your theory lacks predictive power.

There is huge debate about what inflation should be, and all you can say is "all the bad guys like inflation". The argument for inflation is very old, and goes back to Milton Friedman at least (who was no Keynesian).
Insulin resistance is caused by sugar intake (completely unrelated to cholesterol)... Arguing that in order to lower cholesterol you have to consume more sugar seems rather strange.
It is a tax. It actually occurs the moment anyone takes out a loan in a fractional reserve system. The money is created from nothing at that moment. Government just tends to borrow huge sums of money through this mechanism.
a small amount of inflation (2-3%) is generally seen as good and the target of reserve banks around the world... you think they have this target because inflation is BAD?

inflation encourages investment (better invest to beat inflation)

deflation is bad unless you already have a lot of money. it discourages investment (why invest? i can just sit here and the value of my money goes up)

you can call inflation bad, but it is still better than the alternatives.
I still suck at Reversi. :(
I understand this confusion, but it totally isn't how research is done. It's very much a community and social effort; it can be very lonely working all by yourself on something.
All the scientists I work with (quite a few), swear by IPython Notebook.
Exactly. Inflation is a painless (for the government) way out of the debt problem the government itself has created. That's why they favor it, nobody has to make any hard choices, and the middle and lower income families get screwed, again, because everything now costs more.
"I wonder how many of the 60% non-unique keys are embedded devices with hardcoded keys..."

That wouldn't surprise me much at all.

I've been working on a secure workaround to let an embedded webserver on our consumer-oriented wifi-equipped hardware(1) do OAuth2 authentication (to connect to owner's Twitter/Faceboot/et al. accounts). OAuth relies on SSL/TLS to protect it's password-equivalent tokens on-the-wire. Getting an SSL cert onto the device (at a reasonable cost) so that a phone connecting to it via wifi doesn't throw up big scarey "somebody might be doing _bad_ things!" warnings is not easily solved.

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Add Tom Leighton (Akamai), Frans Kaashoek (Mazu Networks), Dawson Engler (Coverity), and maybe David Brumley (ForAllSecure) to that list. Profitable startups are not uncommon among professors in top departments.