skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, it took a moment for that to click. Of course these batch jobs--most being written decades ago--are inherently serial, and throwing a bunch of x86 at them will thus do no more to help than throwing one x86 at them. The best bet, as with Bitcoin mining, is thus a specialized ASIC.
Get a new job, I'm getting paid the square root of naff all in my current work.
It's interesting how people are attacking you for using 'pseudo-intellectual', while completely disregarding the 'cult-like reverence' bit. Your question is just as damning without the 'pseudo-intellectual' adjective, yet they are trying to change that to 'intellectual'.

This is a nice demonstration of 'framing': you frame pg as not deserving cult-like reverence because of his 'pseudo-intellectuality' and people respond by explaining how he is a true intellectual. Except that the arguments they give for that assertion are wrong, because that is not the assertion for which they have arguments. Their arguments actually explain why pg is revered and they are now contorted to be arguments that seem to be meant to explain why is he is cult-like revered for his intellectuality.

The result is that it seem like people are tacitly acknowledging the 'cult-like reverence' and are giving completely ridiculous arguments in support. The ridiculousness of those arguments is pointed out and we get into pointless discussions about what things mean, completely losing sight of the original point.

The bottom line is: pg is revered and reasons for that reverence are given. There is nothing cult-like about the reverence and the pseudo-intellectual part of his writings (I would use another word to describe that quality of the writings, but that is beyond my current argument), are not the reason for the reverence.
> more of a ridiculous over the top reaction in fear of being accused of going soft on terror.

As you wrote yourself, terrorism is a minor issue in the US. Most of the fear is fueled (and some of it created) by the government, because it's so convenient for manipulating the population. Therefore the government itself cannot be driven by the fear of being accused of going soft in this matter, because if that was the case, it'd simply stop perpetuing this fear of terrorism.

I'm sorry, but there is no cheap way out for this goverment. It's fundamentally evil and corrupt, it uses terrorism to keep a certain elite in power and to channel taxpayers' money to the pockets of the military-industrial complex. That's the only logical explanation I've seen so far.
Obama only uses a blackberry for show when he is in public.

The Whitehouse Communications Office is responsible for maintaining communications with the rest of the government, business and political contacts, and his family. In the event the president needs to take a call, an aide will direct him to a secure tent they setup nearby that is shielded against eavesdropping and electronic surveillance (see http://www.theage.com.au/world/barack-obamas-portable-secrec...). If it is a conversation where they do not expect sensitive topics to be discussed, they might give him a Sectera Edge that is routed over an encrypted satellite link back to the Whitehouse switchboard where the actual call is connected.
I've lived in both the United States and Germany for long periods of time. In general, these are two modern, democratic countries, not typical oppressive regimes, an 99% of the people have nothing to worry about 99% of the time.

The problem are the 1% who express the wrong ideas at the wrong time. I know people who have been put under surveillance or charged in court for things that are perfectly legal, or just minor infractions. Some examples from Germany:

One guy I knew made a poster protesting against nuclear power, and put it up near his university. About a year later he got a letter saying that the "proceedings against him have been terminated". He found out that the police suspected him of planning a terrorist attack against a nuclear waste transport. They bugged his cell phone, his apartment, and followed him and his friends for about a year, until they realized they have the wrong guy.

A friend of mine made a mistake of visiting a squatted house an being seen there. Later he went to a demonstration, got filmed by the police, and charged with something you could translate as "ring leadership" or "inciting a riot".

There also was a famous case last year where a pacifist pastor who visited a anti-nazi demonstration was charged with something similar [1]. (And of course there are numerous examples from the US.)

The thing is, the threshold invading people's privacy is getting lower and lower. Police or intelligence agencies will put you under surveilance if they just have a hunch. At the same time, persecutors are under really high pressure to "make a case". More and more they will rather convict an innocent on dubious grounds than admit a mistake. Actual quotes from judges (paraphrased): "we need to make an example", and "I don't know if the accusations are technically true, but if you were there [at the demonstration], you have to be guilty of something".

A situation like this is unworthy of a democratic society. As I said, stuff like this doesn't happen to 99% of the people. But you never know when you are in the 1%. I have to be afraid to say anything controverisal - I have firecrackers and vinegar at home, what if some overeager investigator decides I want to make a bomb out of it? And this kind of fear is what they call a "chilling effect" - people will stop using their democratic rights, their right to free speach and freedom of assembly and so on.

[1]: http://news.msn.com/world/german-pastor-faces-trial-over-ant...
Because that isn't the chart of the year, it's the chart of the century.
I at least do not get angry about München being called Munich or Köln being called Cologne by occupation forces.
> remember this is a machine (B5000 et al) that depended on the compiler creating correct and sane code not just for system security but system integrity - only 'root' could write compilers and one bad instruction would take the entire system down

This doesn't actually sound like such a bad thing, provided enough processing-power to back it up (i.e. if you had an architecture like this in modernity.)

As as I see it, the problem is, at its core, in having a system call to spawn a process given a file full of (unsafe, unchecked) machine-code. You can avoid this: instead, only have a system call to execute a file of bytecode. Everything in userspace would target that bytecode format as if it were the machine's instruction-set. The kernel would then have to have an interpreter and JIT built into it, and do static safety checking--ala Google's NaCl sandboxing--before it ran the results. Both are CPU-costly, but doable, and the results could be cached.

Of course, root would still have to write the compiler... because the true "compiler"--the one targeting the native machine-architecture--would be the kernel.
> I don't mean to be harsh but this could be the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.

If that's the case, then you're a very sheltered person.

Lay off the hyperbole next time.
Agreed, comparing a median to a total is misleading. Even if it were an average-to-average comparison, it would not tell the entire story. There are more factors that determine one's debt situation in addition to money owned and money made. A much more telling graph would be monthly student loan payment -- at the prevailing interest rate and terms -- to disposable income. I imagine it would still be showing a worrying trend but, likely, not as bad as the original graph.
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If you want to enjoy PC gaming buy from gog.com, I think that's the only guarantee that it won't have some crap DRM. If you want to play recent titles you're out of luck...
What prompted that design for the frames? While I imagine you were severely restrained in needing to fit equipment in there, they look awfully like the 3d glasses you get at the cinema to me :)

Very impressive product, regardless
That could be something the graph might be intended to show, but it's unnecessary.

What it does show, quite clearly, is that the burden on society as a whole from people pursuing (and attaining) college educations is growing out of control while whatever benefit that is providing is insufficient to bring up median incomes.

Maybe that's because a lot of people drop out and don't get degrees, whether that's true or not the ultimate facts still remain: a lot of people are being screwed.
Yes, Oregon has no sales tax. Whenever I go there (home), I always load up on stuff - the VAT here in Italy is 22%!
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Oops, upvoted.

But yes, those are two possible emotive situations that this piece of data might stir.
You make it sound like there's no valid point of security in between "anti-the-next-random-guy" and "anti-sophisticated-governments." There are a lot of people who care about their data enough that it shouldn't be left lying around for passersby, but not so much that they're going to implement FDE. I'd call them "normal people."
That photo on the site isn't doing Epiphany justice.

Here is a better pic:

http://bestoftheweb.quora.com/Epiphany-Eyewear-smart-glasses...

This is Epiphany at New York Fashion Week being modeled on the runway by BCBGMAXAZRIA.

And thanks!
Perhaps that's why you're not a lawyer :)
I don't have first-hand experience on either of the coasts, but I was a CS major at a state school in the Midwest at the time and my impression now, working as a programmer, still in the Midwest, isn't much different from what it was then. People are slightly more aware of what I do now -- not all of them think I fix computers, anymore -- but they consistently think I make less than I do, for example, and it carries zero prestige here. A very good friend just started working as an optometrist and all of our acquaintances are much more impressed by that and assume he is much more well off, which isn't really true, especially given his debt load and opportunity cost over the last 8 years.

That said, my company has an office in Mountain View and when I'm there (a couple times a year) the feeling is completely different. If you go out on Castro St, people at bars just assume you work in tech and are comfortable chatting about your work. It's obviously not like that in Missouri.

Edit: I feel like I should point out that there is a startup culture here now and it's growing. There was nothing like that in 2003, so it's not exactly the same.
Those are fair questions - what are you going to do if the answers turn out to be a little bit less than truthful?
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>Sure, sending messages is low-level and needs to be high performance but that, to me, doesn't necessitate "we have to do this by hand" asm instead of C.

Well, if anything ever necessitates finely hand-tuned assembly code instead of living it to the compiler, it's precisely a case such as objc_msgSend.
That it really is a wonderful world.
Meanwhile, people who have better thing to do than to listen to drama queens carry on with their lives.
"Acceptable identification must include your name and the address at which you are registered to vote, for example: a current and valid driver’s license, photo identification, current utility bill, bank statement, paycheck, government check, or other government document showing your name and address."

A utility bill isn't a photo id.
Choice comments from important people in my life during my college career (2000 to 2004):

Why would you study engineering? It's Wall Street hours for teacher pay. [family member]

[Classmate X] has gotten a job at Google? That's interesting. Who are they? A [management] consulting company? They're not? That's curious, X seems like they're smart enough to work for a consulting company. [Numerous classmates, top 10 research university.]

You should think about dropping one of your degrees (East Asian Studies and CS) since the combination of the two will make you virtually unemployable. [Academic advisor, top 10 research university. Her concern was that I'd be seen as a flight risk from any job which didn't allow me to exercise both areas at once, and that there existed virtually no jobs that would allow that.]

You should come work in our research lab while persuing your Master's in engineering. We'll offer you a $20k a year salary to do this. This is one of the best offers you'll get in the current economy. [an academic I worked with during undergraduate, who I believe was not attempting to deceive me with this line, although he was clearly mistaken. I was positive I could swing $30k, somewhere.]

Own a business? Don't be crazy. Get a job at a nice safe megacorp, that way you'll have job security and health insurance. [parents and self]
"Objective" means "different people applying the procedure will get the same answer". This is a property held by standardized tests and carefully defined interview processes. "Merit" is defined as "what will make me the most money".

I don't know why you believe I'm pretending to do "social justice". I'm not. I'm trying to make money, just like IBM in the mainframe era. Hiring based on coding ability is profitable because a software business is about turning code into money, it has nothing to do with "historical oppression".

Incidentally, I'm opposed to "social justice". Social justice is based on the premise that certain subsets of humanity [1] deserve special rights (mostly statistical equality), but the other 2^{6 billion} subsets of humanity do not.

If that's a moral axiom I don't share it. If it's derived from some other moral principle, I have not heard a coherent derivation [2].

(To fully grasp the philosophical issue I have, explain why you care about "women and minorities", but not "children of murder victims and people who's SSN ends with 3847".)

[1] Typically women, lgbt, blacks, hispanics, but not asians.

[2] The closest I've ever heard is basically "everybody cares about race/gender/lgbt so we do too".
It's good to have on record that you believe in sexual egalitarianism in homo sapiens regardless of any evidence that can be brought to bear.

I posted this (admittedly incomplete) list of resources down the page, but let it not be said that I did not do my anti-progressive duty today: http://jaymans.wordpress.com/hbd-fundamentals/#sex
about python 3:

$ python
Python 3.3.3 (default, Nov 26 2013, 13:33:18)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import timeit
>>> timeit.repeat('for i in range(100): i**2', repeat=3, number=100000)
[4.451958370991633, 4.446133581004688, 4.4439384159923065]
>>> timeit.repeat('for i in range(100): pow(i,2)', repeat=3, number=100000)
[5.343420933000743, 5.341413081012433, 5.3455389970040414]
>>> timeit.repeat('for i in range(100): i*i', repeat=3, number=100000)
[0.8348780410015024, 0.8323301089985762, 0.8313860019989079]

$ python2
Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 26 2013, 12:52:49)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import timeit
>>> timeit.repeat('for i in range(100): i**2', repeat=3, number=100000)
[0.9710979461669922, 0.9630119800567627, 0.9619340896606445]
>>> timeit.repeat('for i in range(100): pow(i,2)', repeat=3, number=100000)
[1.7429649829864502, 1.7306430339813232, 1.729590892791748]
>>> timeit.repeat('for i in range(100): i*i', repeat=3, number=100000)
[0.6579899787902832, 0.6526930332183838, 0.6540830135345459]

$ python -m timeit '"-".join(str(n) for n in range(100))'; python -m timeit '"-".join([str(n) for n in range(100)])'; python -m timeit '"-".join(map(str, range(100)))'
10000 loops, best of 3: 49.4 usec per loop
10000 loops, best of 3: 40.6 usec per loop
10000 loops, best of 3: 32.8 usec per loop

$ python2 -m timeit '"-".join(str(n) for n in range(100))'; python2 -m timeit '"-".join([str(n) for n in range(100)])'; python2 -m timeit '"-".join(map(str, range(100)))'
10000 loops, best of 3: 30.2 usec per loop
10000 loops, best of 3: 25 usec per loop
10000 loops, best of 3: 19.4 usec per loop

$ uname -rom
3.12.6-1-ARCH x86_64 GNU/Linux
Cool, I will check it out. Congratulations on shipping!

While it seems like most of HN believes Glass's aesthetics to be garish and unwieldy, they are futuristic and I think that's a positive thing. Some day we might do better, but given the technology available today they are actually very compact. Glass has always felt thin and light to me. (Photos can be misleading on this: how many people here have actually held Glass?) I also like that it's explicit: though most people can't tell when it is and isn't recording (and, realistically, people usually assume that it isn't) I like that it's at least upfront that it might be. If someone asked me to stop I'd take it off. So, there's a balance: I wouldn't use it as a "hidden camera" and the aperture on your landing page (if I'm reading the photo right?) looks pretty camouflaged.
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The story doesn't suggest that that the CEO or management staff should have thought of a fan before. It suggests that they should have probably looked into the problem better which may have involved visiting the production line and asking the workers how they would fix the issue inexpensively. Then probably one of them would have come up with this solution, or may be an even better one.

I see people bringing up points like "What if the fan dies?" or "what if the weight of the boxes increases due to extra packaging?". IMHO, these arguments are invalid because of the same reason. Fan is not the solution.
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"The unlocked phone is the mainstream case." Nope. Certainly not in 'Western' economies anyway. The link you provided says as much. I know for a fact that it is the same in France, as I have recently lived there and bought a mobile phone. I know that it's the same in Switzerland, as I have family there and have discussed it at length with them.
learning coding or outsourcing the dev work both seem like non-starters to me. It's not just about getting some prototype built and walking away with it to the market. Any first attempt will be half baked at best. How do you iterate after? how do even measure if whatever you built is even working? what is reasonable traction to be had?

taking a step back though, before plunging headlong into this journey, I would seriously consider all the steps between thinking about the prototype and the 'godzillions' to be had. Just like with almost every other startup, the initial reaction to your prototype/MVC is going to be that the market doesn't care (shocker!)..maybe you get lucky and get some traction. The data you get will be clear as mud. Would you persist and continue with iterations to uncover the real market fit?

also, it doesn't matter if you are tech savvy yourself. are you at least completely comfortable working with a strong tech person without letting them completely run the show? If you are unsure, I would recommend going to a few local tech conferences/meetups and get to know the people. Maybe you'll come away with an arrangement where someone talented is willing to work part time on your time for some equity.

take your time finding the right partnership arrangement; don't worry too much about the fact that you have this brilliant idea someone else will beat you to it.
Industry standard is to shred then recycle.
Thanks for explaining it to me - I honestly thought it might have been some UK law or regulation regarding assemblies of people/membership taxes and so on.

The reason I wonder about it though is that the open nature of hackerspaces is one of the huge selling points. To be honest I can gain access to much better equipment than exists in your average hackerspace, elsewhere, but the fact that some random stranger coming in off the street might have something amazing to contribute is a big reason why I prefer to participate in the hackerspace scene. The truly open hackerspaces I've been to here on the continent, too many to list now, have always been very vibrant and alive - but my experience in the UK was, to put it frank, quite a lot more gloomy in that regard.

Anyway, I understand - each hackerspace has its own thing, and I'm glad its not a government-enforced situation, which had me wondering ..
Hah, nice suggested solution there. I've been wondering why NSIS isn't more popular, it was fantastic when I was using it, very light, fast and extensible.
I can hop on a bus, ship or train without any security checks. Why are planes so radically different?
Wow, that sucked.
Thanks!

Epiphany's camera is visible in the production version. The site photo is a little outdated, here are newer pics where you can see the better aperture of the production model:

http://bestoftheweb.quora.com/Epiphany-Eyewear-smart-glasses...

http://instagram.com/p/gEi4OyP-40/

About Glass, while I agree that it's impressively miniaturized for today's technology, I don't think any display component available right now is up to the incredibly high standard of style that is required to be on a person's face. It's an uphill battle, and until some future date when a "holy grail" display component arises that can display images on a regular eyewear lens without any bulk, displays will not be stylish enough for people to feel comfortable wearing them.
And for those learning etymology, parenthesis comes from ancient Greek:

Parenthesis, from "para" (next, beside, near) and "enthesis" (embedd, inline). So, essentialy to "inline near/next to something" (what we do with a parenthetical phrase).
While "Order of War: Challenge" might have been sold separately at some point (I'm not sure), I think that most players (like me) were those who bought the original "Order of War" and got "Order of War: Challenge" as a free add-on.
Figures: NY Times 2013 Benghazi Report Contradicts NY Times 2012 Benghazi Report
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Compare and contrast:

http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.gif

Summary for the graphically challenged: unemployment in the US is low (<5%) for people with bachelor's degrees and up, and high (>5%) for people with less than a bachelor's degree. Unemployment rises directly in proportion to how little education one has.
I'd like to release a usable version of my webmail app, Kite (http://khamidou.github.io/kite)
Why is SQLAlchemy still under 1.0? Are there good reasons, or is it just the apparently typical (and typically irrational) fear of the version number "1.0"?
> The problem is to find a circuit that goes through each city once and that ends where it starts. This in itself isn't diffcult.

This is the Hamiltonian circuit problem, and is NP-complete.

And the OP doesn't know what a decision problem is.

Not the best person to be correcting other people's confusion.
You've gone down the spectrum from TiA sensibility, way past AVFM-esque MRA, and into the darkest pits of TRP.
Right, of course I'm not against an opt-in blocklist; people should have that choice as well.

For something like a SIM, I can also see the business case - but again, that's a corporate decision rather than one that they're obliged to make by law (as they are now) which is a subtle but important distinction, as it represents the removal of choice via censorship.

My issue is with the opt-out censorship and the loud political circus that's been built up around it. It continues the same discourse of 'what have you got to hide' that the NSA business threw up, it's setting a precedent which could be misused later. Who knows if it actually would be, but waiting for the other shoe to drop is not exactly an ideal situation with any kind of censorship.