skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering what optimization you can to that do with a quadtree. The only way I can see is if you sacrifice accuracy on distant particles by quantizing and counting. You could use geometric hashing to do the same thing.

Anyway, I don't think this demo is exhibiting inter-particle attraction, but I'm not positive.
I have nothing against brevity. And I don't think it's lazy because I don't speak that way.

To clarify my thoughts, I think it's one thing to use a prepositional because when referring to oneself. However, it's another thing to criticize someone else with a five syllable simplification. It's impossible to do justice to someone else's thoughts and feelings that way. That lack of understanding and empathy is what I find to be lazy.

Now, a full-length column in the New York Times or a bit on Fox News certainly is not necessarily a fair and coherent argument. But, leaving room for exceptions, pithy "because X" clauses are not fair to third-party subjects.
CIO: Up to 40% Of Obamacare Website Not Yet Built
Engineers Use Keyboard, Mouse and Mobile Device 'Fingerprints' to Protect Data
I guess they went with the cheapest option...
I give you permission to no longer ask for permission to code 
I give you permission to no longer ask for permission to learn to code
Lossy compression always uses heuristics to guide compression and decompression. In this case, the heuristic is 'my brain works similarly; why would I have written this?'
I will never get tired of seeing these kinds of posts on HN.
What does "I'm sure it probably is" even mean?
Yes. It's an invocation, rather than an explanation. That's one of the interesting things about it; it's effectively a reversal of the original meaning of the word "because".
It's not really a new preposition, per se. It's a type of joke. Every occurrence cited here is using it in a jokey fashion. It seems to me you may as well say potatoes are a common topic of conversation on the Internet because of Latvian jokes.
Part of the template is showing - {{choiceCount}} server combinations

Edit: https://github.com/scalyr/cloud-costs/issues/1
What a headache. Just to buy a cup of coffee I need to boot up Linux on a USB disk, input a 500 digit hash, call my brother for the rest of the hash, and my cousin in Sweden for the rest of it, make the transfer an wait for 15 minutes for it to transact, then I get my coffee. Yea. I'd feather have GOLD, SILVER AND COPPER coins. Even digital representations maintained by a bank.

Also, I'm glad I didn't agree to pay my mortgage in bit coins when the value was $11. The 70X increase in price would BITRUPT me! :)
>If you view a change in currency as fundamentally pretty useless, then yes, giving massive amounts of financial control of resources and labour(which is what money represents) to people with BTC hoarded does indeed take away from others.

People are voluntarily paying them for their coins because they, for whatever reason, value them. You can say that's silly but it's not like you are being forced to buy bitcoins or anything.

>And if BTC were to become (for instance) a primary currency for a country, and that country were to experience economic growth, then deflation must necessarily continue.

Isn't the same true for any other finite resource? Everything will deflate/increase in value relative to rest of the economy.
Do you really understand how preposterous the whole construction is? He is a Dutch citizen, with a Dutch passport, and a Dutch name. So, because he has a grandfather who is a Jew, that's supposedly a reason to deny him entry (according to the comment above, anyway) because it's presumably suspicious that he was in an area of the world that's unfriendly to Jews, even though nobody there has reason to believe that he's one. So, from that they construe some sort of reasoning that he could be a crypto-fundamentalist Muslim, apparently.

In reality, he doesn't think of himself as a Jew nor does anybody else, except the jokers that the US federal government apparently hires for these kinds of jobs (and that only after him volunteering that information), so there's no reason for him to have any fears that he might be exposed to antisemitic reactions. How would a hypothetical al Qaeda agent even learn that he has a Jewish grandfather?

Somebody's trying really hard to find a justification for stupid behavior by US agents that doesn't meet any evidentiary standards other than cover-your-ass paranoia.
I will happily buy all of them at those terms.

(Denarii was a silver currency.)
There was no key :o
Same way you do when you look at a jpg.
That's cool, but you're kind of mixing together a few different pieces of functionality. To me, this kind of thing would be much more readable using promises to wrap the asynchronous nature of the code. Assuming you used when.js, you could do something like:

function delay(fn, ms) {
return when(function (resolve) {
setTimeout(function () {
fn();
resolve();
}, ms || 0);
});
}

function eachDelay(arr, fn, ms) {
arr.reduce(function (prev, curr) {
prev.then(function () {
return fn(curr);
});
}, when(null));
}

That looks more complicated on the surface, but in reality, libraries like when.js and underscore give you convenience functions that abstract away much of this boilerplate. I didn't want to presume anything but the bare `when`. If you really get used to programming "the combinator way", you get to the point where you write these cute little primative combinators that can be combined in very readable ways. If you like coding in this style, definitely check out Javascript Allongé (https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge/read), which makes this all look far more appealing than I've done here.
It's vaguely scary to think people will be putting all their traditional forum stuff in SE or Reddit.

Yahoo, Myspace, and Digg all used to be pretty big.
Here's how Google displays "pizza" to me: http://imgur.com/9nUfmEi

* Ads are clearly marked.
* Google, please don't take away the near-me recommendations.
* Google, please don't take away the map.
* Google, the wikipedia-like excerpt is helpful; please don't stop doing that. If I wanted to wikipedia the article, I would have asked wikipedia (or "!w pizza" with my browser shortcut).
Yes, once you start cutting off long range effects you can improve on the strict O(N^2) limitations.
Oh. I was under the impression it still made the TLS attacks harder. Not impossible, but requiring even more traffic. So you're saying no effect, as opposed to not enough effect? Just for clarity.
They need to throw away the whole rotten piece of shit and get someone in the valley to do it right.
"Cause fuck him, that's why" is from Good Will Hunting. 1997.
Yeah personally I like saying "droplets" more compared to "vee-pee-ess-es"
It's outside the door.
I believe VC terms are a bit more founder friendly these days than they were in 1999. Founders have become more educated and double or triple dipping isn't as common as it used to be, in my experience.

That, and VCs are less likely to fire the founder as a matter of course to replace him/her with professional management, ever since The Social Network came out.
This is close to being complimentary, but it comes across as more of a compliment to Joss Whedon than the subject. At best, it's a neutral expression of fandom. At worst, it's an admission of fanboy (or fangirl) proclivities. Some sort of context is needed to clarify which one.
Good point... I guess I just liked the idea a bit too much.

(I find the evolution of languages quite interesting, especially when technology seems to be involved.)
It is not popular because the site lists all plans sold out, i.e. no new interest in the site.
I agree on the liquidity discussion. However, all of the big five want to control the payment space (Amazon coin, google wallet, Facebook bucks etc) and will avoid bitcoin as long as possible.
In practice, I suspect that we have numerous ways of dealing with mutations. However, if I recall my high-school biology correctly, during DNA replication there is error correction. My guess would be that evolution would tend to regulate mutations rates through the efficiency of error correction mechanisms (and the accuracy of the primary duplication mechanism) more so than a meta-evolution in the structure of DNA. Having said that, it is reasonable that there would be evolutionary pressure to have DNA that requires more mutations before becoming dangerous.

Responding to the content of your post. DNA is not executable code as much as data. The 'primary' purpose of DNA is to provide the blueprints for proteins. DNA sequences can be thought of in by grouping the base pairs in 3 called codons (this grouping is not reflected in the molecular structure). The beginning and end of a gene are marked by "start" and "stop" codons, which are just a specific DNA subsequence. Conceptually, a gene is converted into a protein by replacing each codon with its corresponding ammino acid (based on a lookup table) [1]. The function of a gene is determined by the chemical properties of the resulting protein.

As it turns out, there are parts of DNA that do not code for proteins, yet still have significant effect. However, I am not aware of any evidence of a naturally occurring use of DNA that resembles executable code.

[1]http://www.biogem.org/codon.jpg
"yum install kernel" then modify grub.conf?
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/06/black-substance-170000-cp...

A black organism that bioaccumulates radionuclides has being known of in Japan for a while.

I wouldn't go so far as to say this is a good or bad thing before we've studied this radioactive monster; considering how very hot it is I'll leave the studying to up someone else...
We had a temporary server glitch -- still not sure what happened, but it's unstuck for the moment. Murphy 1, redundant server pool 0...
Yes, but how many lines of javascript? It seems that's the metric above all metrics lately.
>> People are voluntarily paying them for their coins because they, for whatever reason, value them. You can say that's silly but it's not like you are being forced to buy bitcoins or anything.

I'm saying it would be a bad idea to adopt as a de-facto currency, that's all.

>> Isn't the same true for any other finite resource? Everything will deflate/increase in value relative to rest of the economy.

Currency isn't and shouldn't be a resource, it's a medium of exchange. If BTC is a resource then cool, but lets stop pushing it as a currency.
I think we are in agreement then. I certainly wouldn't use a construction like this in a serious critique. But then there are thousands of other things I wouldn't write or say in a serious context either.
No. An OpenStreetMapper has come up with his own rather less sophisticated pipeline for doing this sort of work:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Balrog/Aerial_Imager...

but it's a way off what this software seems to be able to do.

There's not much magic in what Pix4D does - the algorithms are generally well documented (though tricky to get to work well from what I understand), it's just no-one's done it yet.
You could potentially do better than N^2 (ish) by approximating. Quantize the world into a grid, add up mass at each grid point. Then each particle is affected by this weighted grid, which is made up of a relatively small number of pseudo-particles.

Of course, you'd still need to fall back to N^2 for the nearest particles, or the accuracy would be unusably bad. But it's a much smaller N.
great catch, although I wouldn't be surprised if the phrase preceded that, even.
> apropos

Many people seem to think that's a smarter-sounding alternative to "appropriate", but it's really a completely different word. Just use "appropriate".
Does anyone know what the initial estimated severity of this one is?
I admit I don't like Abbott but using terms like concentration camps isn't fair to Australia. We have a very multicultural country with large migrant intake and we take in a reasonable number of asylum seekers.

We are a very desirable destination because of our standard of living and political and economic freedom. We can't just open our doors or we would be flooded and we barely have enough water for our current population in many of our southern cities.

Australian's as a whole do not want to reward people smugglers or see kids drowning when their parents try and queue jump their way into the country on overcrowded leaky boats. Detention centres aren't a very humane way to deal with the problem and criticism is warranted but perhaps we should direct a bit more attention to the countries these people are escaping and the countries they transit.
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I am struggling to come up with a different definition for hating than just dismissal. What do you call it when you don't try to think about how something could change to work or be better, and instead just say thats dumb. Sounds like hating to me. How else can it be defined?
So much truth! I've been keeping one myself for the past ten months and it helps immensely when switching between projects all the time. I don't use a blog or evernote but a set of scripts I made, it's an excellent use case for Dropbox too.
FWIW you can don't need VS for that - you can do this in Chrome by itself with the recent workspaces feature. Worth checking out.
I think this was a side effect of the server glitch (see below) -- some of the JavaScript dependencies weren't served.
Did Ghostery generate that report or some other plugin?
TOO MANY BIT COIN QUESTIONS:

If they were stolen, who do I call to help me get them back? If I loose the keys to get into my coins, who will help me get access back to my cash. Does the UN have a BitPolice squad hunting down bit theft? If I were to declare bankruptcy would I have to declare my bit coins as a part of my estate? Is there a BITRUPTSY court?
In order for the economy to be efficient, production must be consumed at about the same time it is produced; otherwise you have to expend resources to store produced goods, which may be perishable or deprecate in other ways (e.g. technology).

Money, gold, or bitcoin doesn't save any value in itself. If everyone on earth was thrifty and living below their means, the extra value they were saving would pretty much evaporate: bread would rot, clothes would pile up and become moldy, iPhones would become outdated before they were even used. Eventually, the will to produce goes away as you can't sell all of what you are producing, and an equilibrium is reached where you live about at your means: if you must save for future expenses, this is only possible if someone is spending more now via a loan.

This is why China being a country of net-savers is bad, and a push for social or mandatory health insurance is a good thing: people don't need to save themselves for medical emergencies, and can instead consume. But until then, the ability for the Chinese government to lend money to someone reliable (the USA), is quite useful as there is a good chance they can effectively draw on their savings later.
I've been very lucky to have received equity from three different startups (as an early employee, not as a founder). In each case the company went public or was acquired by a public company. In each case my equity was meaningful in comparison to the salary I received.

IMO there's exactly one key to my good fortune: the company founders made the decision to be generous with the amount of stock/options they granted. They weren't trying to lowball people.

That's the bottom line, you need founders who want to "do the right thing" for their employees. Unfortunately I don't know how you (without doing a lot of due-diligence by asking around) join a company with "honest" founders. It's almost axiomatic that startups try to screw "the little people" out of any stock rewards, even if the company is successful. I was lucky.
There's also a certain amount of inertia. If I stop taking your old Iraqi currency, you'll stop taking my old Iraqi currency, so it's worth a lot to me to maintain the fiction, to believe really hard that the old fiat currency is still meaningful.
Fuck.

Opened https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=940773
you need a better browser
Gaming company fined $1M for secretly installing malware? Color me surprised.
There are roughly 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe. In the not so distant past, "earth like" planets were the unique or 'freak' anomaly. And it still well may be but now estimations are 40 billion habitable planets. Which means, spastically they are in the right size zone and right position relative to their sun which might or might not let them develop an atmosphere and so on...

Intelligent life is a whole different matter, but is there not even a single strip of grass on one of them? Let alone a microbe? IT will be a long time before we will ever now probably, and If I were to go out on a limb of massive speculation, I would suggest that odds of finding intelligent life might be higher than finding non-intelligent life just because of the fact that they might be looking too and in the latter thats not the case.
> We still have not
> Some of this might be caused by increased use of smartphones

I actually find it more effort to type full English sentences with a keyboard and mouse; my Android smartphone has voice dictation and swipe gesture typing, and I find that iOS' autocorrect appears to trigger most when you type something that isn't a "standard" sentence.
> Flippa is usually the last avenue you should consider if you own a site with traffic and revenue history.

So what would you recommend if not flippa?
JS is just the glue code. Try it out in raw JS and enjoy your .001 fps.
> There would be some turbulence, no doubt, but people will quickly ban the source of disturbance or hire an army to go and shut it down.

Good luck with that if the "source of disturbance" is a major nation state hostile to Bitcoin.
What he's saying is that he's willing to have crappy managers around who are unable to give honest feedback. Rather than improving management, just use some mechanical system to "force" them to make choices.

Good people will "choose" to see work elsewhere.

In case this isn't clear to anyone, a manager could have a team of the 10 best people in the company, but given forced stacking and how teams are set, 1 of those people would be a candidate for termination in layoffs, even if there are 99 other people less capable and less critical to the company. No manager will be allowed to keep everyone -- they're all told to rank them and the decision to layoff the "bottom" 10% is done by HR.
What if Apple makes search?
i read the prepositional because with a pause, like, because... evolution. as if the ellipsis are placeholders for an actual thought that falls under the umbrella of evolution. so the plural on spans just makes it seem like a typo. maybe, "because ADD" would work better.
I had awful experience with Gandi several years ago: ssh was broken on a newly created server (wrong permissions for some ssh folder), and CPU was limited in a fun way: processes periodically stopped to do CPU work for 200-300ms (once each second or so). We moved to Linode (they have servers in London), and for the same price got literally 20x faster performance (measured as rps), good support and flawless setup. Of course, things might have changed since that time.
Exactly. The preferred stock is paid for with real money. The common shares I bought as an employee was at single digit pennies a share. While I am not exactly happy how I got wiped out, I did less badly than many VCs did.
Cute, although not the best performance.

It'd be nice if the color gradually changed.
I understand what you mean, but these two conflicts are nowhere near the same scale. Social rights issues have a lot of work done by lots of dedicated people over decades, until they reach a tipping point. A for-profit corporation, no matter how good at marketing, will not stake their financial health by going against massive consensus, they just don't have the political/financial freedom to do that. If they had to pick between India and Pakistan in an actual war, they would take sides according to their interest or get out of both, but that's about it.

Mainly though, the scale here is way off. Apologies for the sarcastic reply before.
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I'd call it a grammatical construction. Your brain already knows how to "typecast" a noun to a reason ("Why didn't the bill pass?" "I don't know. Politics."), it's just not usually grammatically "licensed" in this case. If you've been infected by the "because [noun]" meme, however, you have a construction in your vocabulary (we could say in your idiolect) that can be invoked to explain any instances of "because [noun]" you come across, with all the associated connotations you learned along with it.

It's similar to "Suddenly, bananas!" or "I accidentally the whole thing." I wish I could remember all the strange grammar I heard at MIT. Communities like the hacker community and 4chan are fertile ground for new grammatical constructions because people pick up and repeat the ones they hear while trying to preserve their meaning and connotations.

I still occasionally burst out laughing when I hear a funny turn of phrase at Meteor (which has a lot of MIT people).

Funny language is funny.
Amazing, I guess its easy forget life on earth is billions of years old and extends deep into the planets crust. It has adapted to some completely different environments than what we normally associate with life.
The information it's showing me for the NYC area is basically worthless. The listed companies have only 1 or 2 salaries reported, the numbers on the salary range bars for each company don't match up with the labeled axis at the top of the list, and nothing is actually sorted as far as I can tell.
Lots of managers and contractors on the first few pages of that list. Guess that's where the real money is... not software engineering.
You're right, but I'd rather buy a kid this than an iPad. At least it's somewhat educational.
What I would like to see in Amazon EC2...
the shit would happen if you abuse LD_LIBRARY_PATH or PATH for C/C++ shared libraries.

Many bad python code witll sys.path.insert() which would also cause this.

By bad system I didn't mean your awesome IBM BlueGene, but the running system happened to use Python as language.
Wait, this is a real product?
I'm curious: if a gaming company were to distribute a game that had an option where you paid for it and an option where the client partitioned 10% of your capacity for mining (only while playing the game) - how many players would go for the free-but-mining-bitcoins option? If the game client was less greedy about the resources and everything was communicated up front, could this be a way to monetize free to play games without charging the player any real money?
Why didn't you include Azure in the comparison?
Github account compromised
This is just wonderful. On so many levels.

Steve Jobs is smiling down from wherever he might be. As we all are.

And wow, comments on HN that all agree with each other. No bashing. No hate. What a wonderful thing.

Beautiful
The much beloved Plasma Pong for older versions of Windows can still be found on the 'net. It did something similar, and I spent quite some time playing in its sandbox.
Yea the people credulous enough to believe the handwaving when the hiring manager implies your options could be worth millions one day make better employees, for a lot of reasons, and there is a good supply of them.