skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand. Coverage was what kept me on VZ for 10 years. What finally got to me was the fact that when I'm overseas I can just swap a sim and T-mobile's coverage has been improving exponentially.
To all intents and purposes, FreeBSD is dead. If not yet dead, FreeBSD is a carcass whipped out by Apple and friends to say they "support" open-source.

OS X and others have leeched off BSD and made billions, yet every December, this year being the same, FreeBSD has to whip out the begging bowl to raise funding.

Yes, some large corporations employ some of the FreeBSD folk, but what would happen if they stopped employing them? Would FreeBSD be able to build a strong community of developers to accelerate development? I doubt it.

Linux is in a much healthier place and I attribute much of that to licensing as well as technical excellence. The GPL has helped foster an active community around Linux, one that does not allow corporate vultures to simply scavenge off the best bits and usurp direction of the project.
Address spaces are just an implementation detail. You can have both processes and threads on an architecture without any such concept. The point -- the theory -- behind processes, is to separate your heap from your neighbor's heap, so pointers in your heap pointing at addresses in theirs won't be valid, or vice-versa. You could do this with virtual-memory mapping, memory segmentation, tagged pointers, domain-taint as static type checking, etc. and you'd get the same result.

Why only the heap? Since pointers on the stack can only (coherently) point into the same stack, or to the heap--and pointers on the heap can't point back into any stack--then stacks are already isolated. (Registers follow the same isolation rules as stack entries, if you want a register-machine.)

The reason you want to isolate your heap in the first place, the benefit you get, is that an isolated heap is an isolated graph for any garbage-collection system to pass over, and an isolated set-of-blocks-of-bytes for an exception to throw out or the OOM killer to discard. As soon as you have an isolated heap, in other words, you get all the practical advantages that come with running in a separate process.

If you implement a bytecode interpreter that can concurrently switch between several instruction pointers with their own stacks, then you've implemented green-threads. If each of those instruction pointers also has their own heap, you've implemented virtual processes.
>> First - humans ARE robots and have no soul/spirit

I very strongly disagree with this, but I know on HN this makes me an absurd fool with no data to back myself up with. Ya know, on my myers briggs[1] test that took last year, and also about 20+ yrs ago when I was in highschool the results were the same. I have a strong sense of spiritualness and connectedness. I'll link this blog[2] but I suspect its contents will be dismissed around here as unscientific baseless nonsense. Not trying to change anyone's mind here, just showing how I feel. Maybe some readers will better understand the other people in the world, like myself, who don't think like vulcans[3].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator

2. https://findingourwayhomeblog.wordpress.com/tag/myers-briggs...

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(Star_Trek)
pretty much the approach taken with lunr.js (or you can store the search index itself, which is also json. http://lunrjs.com/
This is one reason I've started to think fusion might be more promising than advanced fission. The regulatory barriers are so light that high school students build reactors and run them on deuterium fuel just like most of the big projects, and it's perfectly legal.

There's quite a lot of work being done on small-scale alternative reactor designs. I wrote up a bunch of them here: http://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestI...
No kidding. And, be sure to rip off the entire look and feel with only a color change.

Seems like there should be at least a little shame with these Hacker News for X sites.
For general graph DB tutorials, see...

* TinkerPop Book "Resources" section: http://www.tinkerpopbook.com/

* Marko's blog: http://markorodriguez.com/ -- start with the "On Graph Computing" post (http://markorodriguez.com/2013/01/09/on-graph-computing/).

* Aurelius Blog: http://thinkaurelius.com/blog/

For Python, see the Bulbs Docs: http://bulbflow.com/docs/

I've been meaning to update the Bulbs docs for Bulbs/Titan. It's essentially the same as Bulbs/Neo4jServer and Bulbs/Rexster, except Titan does indexing a bit different.

Here's a few pointers...

* Boutique Graph Data with Titan: http://thinkaurelius.com/2013/11/24/boutique-graph-data-with...

* Titan Overview: https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

* Download: https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki/Downloads

* Titan Server: https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki/Rexster-Graph-Se...

* Bulbs Titan Example: https://gist.github.com/espeed/3938820
Brian Beckman: Don't fear the Monad
you're missing the point. cancer is internally infectious. Primary tumors don't even really kill people that much- patients almost always die from metastases. These metastases typically are more resistant.

Please read the entire book "Molecular Biology of Cancer". I'm just explaining small parts of it.
To be fair, the bigger unions aren't tied to their employers. There are, for sure, large companies with their own unions, or that might ought to have their own unions (e.g., Wal-Mart), but most of the larger unions arise from historical conditions that may or may not pertain to a given employer.

I've been a union member in the past, but I don't generally see the need for unions to exist in anywhere near the capacity that they do -- that said, for a counterpoint that justifies their existence, check out Harlan County, USA[1]. It's a documentary that illustrates how bad exploitative employers can be in the US.

And of course, the other counter to anti-union sentiment is that unions are just people. Employers have, like it or not, economic power over their employers, which could (or could not) be leveraged for abuse. Employee collusion is the fairly obvious counter to that advantage.

In short, my opinion of unions has evolved from unions are the worst -- to unions are great, in theory, but often bad in practice.

[1] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074605/
work remotely anywhere you want. live in a country with low cost of living and use online portfolio to get work
All is clear now. Thanks for pointing this out :)
I dropped out of college as well. I was near my senior year and only did so because I was better off doing web freelancing (as in I liked earning money and doing sales over my last year of school and didn't want to drop what I was doing).

I didn't do it just "because". I seriously wouldn't recommend dropping out despite me doing it myself.

College helps you with reasoning that you wouldn't otherwise have. I'm using a lot of my formal CS skills now more than I ever have ( I mainly work in the deeper end of things as far as engineering goes vs more traditional web dev/ruby on rails or what have you) . It's a good skillset to have regardless of what you do though.

College teaches you how to learn and if you're lucky the fundamentals. It's not there to churn out engineers despite lots of colleges saying that they do. You learn a lot on the job.

You can be self taught and do relatively well in CS, but be open to criticism and improvement.

At the time I did it I thought I was hot stuff being a freelancer. You learn very quickly that there's a lot of people smarter than you and that there's always something to learn.

I'm going to just warn you to tread lightly and always be open to learning from whoever you can.
Best. Title. Ever.
The poster doesn't imply that it does...
Comparing only with respect to price and only with respect to articles which referred Iphone 5c is targeting Asian markets especially India and China.
Essentially, you're trying to do what the medical research isn't doing: to invalidate the existing papers. :-)
#teampaul is a huge inspiration and demonstrates what being a true entrepreneur means.
A portal, you can see it on the game Portal and Bugs Bunny ACME black holes, they only exist entangled.

On a more serious note, maybe there is some underlying truth to that. The intense gravitational pull is actually something on the other side of a wormhole.
It looks like Moto G has slightly better screen, newer OS, and better integration with Google services, while A820 has micro sd slot and better camera. If none of that is critical for you - I would say get a feel for both of them and go with one you like better. There is nothing fundamentally better about specs on either phone.
it is entirely possible that the bitcoin proprietors will change the protocol to no longer be deflationary; although that would cause some large-scale flight. I am not convinced of the keynsian model that inflation is exactly supply divided by velocity; nor of the 'crude austrian' model that inflation is function of supply only... If the demand goes to zero, so will the value.

While I think that bitcoin will recover, perpetual deflation is not guaranteed. Indeed, in general deflation of bitcoin depends on an increase in demand that outstrips the increase in supply.
Not yet. They need to beat Lumia 520's price. Agreed, the specs are higher but most people in that space don't care.
Is Moto-G now good enough to replace an iPod touch? for a no-contract 'smartphone' that doesn't need to be up on 4g all of the time (say w/good wi-fi acesss)? Because it sure seems like a better deal in terms of functionality. The main limitation/constraint IMHO is the memory [8 or 16 GB NAND flash], which seems arbitrarily low. (ie, >5 years out of date).
I started out by attending meetups and getting to know people locally where I was at while continuing to work on skills. Next, I started letting people know I was interested in freelance work and started taking small jobs. That eventually led to bigger and better things :)
Cancer is adaptative in the same way. Tumors are populations of cells with variation (forget the part where your teachers said tumors are composed of clones, that's garbage). When you apply a selection, a small number of the cancer cells survive. Usually there are several different subpopulations. Then they grow, you end up with tumors that are mixed populations of different subtypes. Then the cells start growing again.

Saying cancer is just a failure mode of biology isn't given cancer enough credit. It's more like cancer is a side effect of complex organisms, which is nearly impossible to eliminate, without also eliminating a number of highly advantageous features of cells.
> They are even being broadcasted to the P2P network when you create them.

What is the purpose of this?
Could I ask someone with the necessary patience to explain why quantum entanglement as described here doesn't allow faster-than-light communication? I've been told that I'm misunderstanding something by guessing that it might, and if it can be expressed in layman's terms, I'd love to know why.
You can use client-side or server-side Gremlin scripts for this...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16759606/is-there-a-equiv...

Here's how to use server-side Gremlin scripts in Python with Rexster, which is TinkerPop's open-source server that runs multiple graph databases, including Neo4j...

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/gremlin-users/Up3JQUwrq-A/...
It's far from solved, but there are partial solutions, including reprocessing.

My appeal to dabblers was to think through the entire life cycle of an experiment before beginning. If I were to crack open a smoke detector in order to play around with the Americium source, I'd think hard first about whether I actually knew what I was doing, making sure I worked in a clean/orderly environment, that the entire experiment was nicely contained, and that I had a viable plan for how to safely manage the waste I'd created.

Just as with the bathtub ring in "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" [1], once contamination leaves containment, it can wander everywhere, generating lots of low-level waste. You'd rather not eat or aspirate an alpha-emitter.

Nobody wants an unsafe nuclear experiment in the garage next door; it's irresponsible. It's one thing to hurt yourself, but quite another to harm someone unaware of a risk. It's also irresponsible to dispose of a hot source in your garbage can. That source may no longer be able to hurt you, but it's able to harm everyone who comes into contact with it in the future.

Our lab's standard for whether or not something has been cleaned up: any residual activity is comparable to/indistinguishable from background, and any activated waste has been disposed of with someone licensed to handle it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_in_the_Hat_Comes_Back
it just looks like it by eye. I'll probably buy in at 450 (or lower; whatever it happens to be when I bother looking) anyways, because it's incredibly difficult to get bitcoin timing correct or not taking into account a growth factor.

A full disclosure of my bitcoin history: I bought in at 150 and cashed out at 300 because I got cold feet and I needed the money - I'd have held on if I didn't need the money. I forgot that I had an autodraw, which kept buying at the 300-ish mark, which I sold off at 900, again because I got cold feet about my 1200 mark and I needed the money. This hasn't been entirely speculative work, I have used bitcoin in 'actual bitcoin' transaction. But not silk road.

The nonprofit that I am launching on tuesday will be accepting bitcoin donations starting on friday.
This is a non-sequitur. Paraphrasing the thread:

OP says "there is something wrong with the business world where you have to avoid the interruptions of the 9-5 to get things done"

I reply "even if nothing is wrong, the needs of others can conflict with the need for focus"

Then you reply "but most interruptions are not necessary for anybody's productivity".

That has nothing to do with my point. I'm not diagnosing the work world in general. I'm saying even if you fix all the problems, there will still necessarily be distractions in the 9-5 that an engineer might seek to avoid.
Also note about Canada: The startup visa lets you have only one year of University and still qualify.
Did someone say "research" and "patents" in the same sentence? :-)

I was going to rifle through my vast collection of references to studies about patents, but I just came across a pretty good review of the research of economics of patents:

"Recent Research on the Economics of Patents" - Bronwyn H. Hall, Dietmar Harhoff (Google for PDF)

I'm still going through it, but it will give you an idea of what the current research looks like.

Here's the deal: Whether patents promote innovation, and whether their benefits outweigh the harms, are extremely difficult questions to answer. I mean, how do you even measure "innovation"? You could say by "counting patents", but that's simply a circular argument! Not to mention the complaints that many patents are low quality, or that companies like Twitter are regularly called "innovative".

So in absence of any direct indicators, what the vast majority of studies do is roughly this:

1. Pick a few metrics that act as proxies for whatever they measure (innovation, patent quality, economic benefit, economic harm, productivity, R&D efforts, etc.);

2. Gather data from which these metrics can be gleaned, typically constrained along many dimensions such as time, industry sectors, sources, etc. to make gathering it feasible. (Sometimes this step is actually optional and author outright just run simulations on what they think are "reasonable" approximations of data. Sometimes they don't even do that. In the paper above, they're referred to as "Theoretical Evidence");

3. Present a hypothesis;

4. Construct a model;

5. And test the model to see if their hypotheses stand up to the data or not.

And at each step they provide varying degrees of explanations of their methodologies, assumptions, controls, potential confounding factors, flaws in their data, and so on.

As you can imagine, it is rather difficult to make solid, generalizable conclusions. For one, the metrics may be pretty poor approximations. Or the model may be poor. Or the hypothesis may be flawed - an unfortunate problem with many studies is that they do not take into account changes in the legal environment (such as the changes wrought by the AIA and decisions like Medimmune v. Genentech) so their very premises are flawed.

Fortunately, many studies are all about finding flaws in other previous studies, so there's some semblance of balance.

Really, go through the paper above and the papers it cites, and you'll see why it's downright impossible to make broad assertions like "patents promote innovation" or "patents harm innovation".
Seems a little content spammy.

AFAIK there's no actual evidence of what transpired on the plane, except his seat assignment, and that a flight attendant who got on the phone said the hijackers had killed a guy. But seems like a good guy, and who wants to let lack of evidence get in the way of a story we want to believe?
Hey! The reason I released it before fully fledging it out was to get in contact with folks like you and get a better idea on the direction to take the product. UpHound is intended only for uptime checks of various kinds (http/callbacks/etc) not metrics like nagios. If you would, send me an email at pnegahdar (Google mail) and I'd like to talk to you more about your uptime monitoring which will ultimately help me build out the product.
At work I'm the ruby|python|perl guy because I almost steadfastly refuse to use bash/sh.

Its less that I don't like shell, but doing complex things in it doesn't scale past a certain point. That and I'd rather use a scripting language than shell. If not that then its time to break out good old C and do it the hard way.
Now an MIT physicist has found that, looked at through the lens of string
theory, the creation of two entangled quarks — the building blocks of
matter — simultaneously gives rise to a wormhole connecting the pair.

So, yeah, theory, and pretty far-out theory at that. I'm pretty sure the "holographic duality" thing is purely a theoretical device as well.

It would be nice if they could get an experimental prediction out of this that could verify/falsify string theory without requiring a particle accelerator the size of the solar system.
MYCIN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin), a program written in the 70s, was better able to diagnose infections than doctors. If failed because "in the 1970s, a session with MYCIN could easily consume 30 minutes or more—an unrealistic time commitment for a busy clinician."

Now, with most medical information already computerized (or headed that way), how much better could a modern MYCIN be? What would this do to the career of a typical doctor?
TL;DR version: if you're rich and well-connected, the rules don't apply to you.
The part about calling it Cyberia was hilarious. I still can't stop laughing.

What I don't understand is why people think technolibertarianism is the solution to all our problems. Do people really think that if every single person in the US was a programmer, we would all be better off? Or that all of the world's problems can be solved with engineering?
Gremlin has custom Tree step: https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki/Tree-Pattern

You can use Gremlin with any TinkerPop/Blueprints (https://github.com/tinkerpop/blueprints/wiki) enabled graph database (which means almost all graph DBs).
Yeah barring the storage part - it is definitely a great iPod Touch replacement. You might be able to live with the 16GB if you stream stuff instead of playing it locally. There are many media player apps (Archos one that I use is great - even the free version) that can play videos from SMB shares etc.
Ex-Official Says FBI Can Obtain Access to Users Webcam
My Lenovo P780 was only $80 more expensive, but its battery has the highest capacity on the market, 4000 mAh. The phone holds the charge for >2 days of quite intensive use. I had Samsung Galaxy Note before this one, but now don't understand why anyone would choose top end phones from the brands like Samsung or Apple, if half of the cost of a phone goes to profit their shareholders.
Guessing (possibly incorrectly), one reason they might not want to promise upgrades is in case the hardware simply can't handle it.
It doesn't list jobs like a board, but fits the good/inspirational category: http://rework.jobs/talent
Why do you think people work so hard to get rich and well connected? ;)
It says it does travel faster than light - instantaneously. He's just saying that according to Einstein's theory (nothing is faster than the speed of light), that shouldn't happen.
It's not really "ripping off" anything given that the structure and css are included with the Arc distro which a lot of these sites appear to be using.
This has a reference to how I got taught which months have 31 days: knuckles (31) vs space between knuckles (30/28) days. As between July and August you have to skip hands, that's the only two months in succession with 31 days.
"There, he participated in classified anti-terrorism missions such as assassinations and kidnappings."

That's something to be proud about? Not really sure why this made it to the HN front page, but I guess I'm probably not sharing other people's sentiments about this person's activities.
I think that @Fontas on twitter has nothing to do with what the article claims.
Part of it is just change. One day, I needed to pull up the map on my Nexus phone -- and it had a completely different interface to it. I had to sit in a parking lot for an extra 15 minutes to get it to do what I wanted.

Now I've got KitKat, and the phone dialer has changed -- I have to hit an extra button to get all my contacts, and I don't like the "premium" spots being automatically populated (there are only 3 large icons, and room for two smaller icons, in the quick-access screen). The most important contact is the one I need right then.

Oh, and I also have to re-agree to the license terms on a number of apps whenever I launch them the first time after an upgrade. And my tethering is no longer working. And the flashlight app that worked fine is now rebooting the phone randomly after it is on for a few seconds. At this point, I'm ready to wipe and re-install the older OS version.
Sounds like the next Vinko Bogataj.
It shouldn't take too much to update Bulbs/Neo4j to Neo4j 2.0 -- add the Gremlin Plugin on Neo4j Server (which isn't installed by default anymore) or swap out the Bulbs built-in Gremlin scripts for Cypher equivalents, if Cypher will let you do everything you need...

Bulbs Python Client: https://github.com/espeed/bulbs
or an acquisition :-)
When I read this kind of (serious!) physical therories I really find it rather difficult to isolate them from crackpot theories (some crackpot theories are even more imaginative than this one). The only way I found is to consider from what institute/person the article is.
> But what enables particles to communicate instantaneously — and seemingly faster than the speed of light — over such vast distances?

As I have heard, entanglement doesn't provide FTL comms.

It's like putting a red marble in one box, and a blue marble in another box, and shuffling them so you don't know which is which. Then you give one to a friend. Your box has a marble that's red with p 0.5. When your friend opens his box and says, "Hey, thanks for the cool red marble!" then your box now contains a marble that's blue, not red at all, as if by magic.

But it's not magic, it's just how probabilities work as we learn more information about a system.

That said, IANAQP, and Feynman gives some stern warnings against classical analogies for quantum stuff in his lectures, so big cube of salt.
Energy Harvesting Meets Raspberry Pi
If battery capacity is your main issue, you can do better with an aftermarket one. I got a 4500 mAh for my Galaxy S3 for $30! Of course, it requires a new case because it's enormous...