skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't confuse the nation with the state - the two are very different things.

The nation is a body of people bound together by tribalistic xenophobia. The state: a heap of parasitic machinery hitching a ride.

Nations seldom possess anything more consistent than a sort of diffuse Zeitgeist, and maybe (sometimes) something approaching a sense of shared interest.

States are bureaucratic machines, dedicated to self-preservation, operating under the pretence of service to the nation; in actuality extracting as great a toll in human blood, misery and suffering as the nation can bear without collapsing.

Both entities are evil, brutish and disorganised, but of the two only the state is capable of operating with a (distant) semblance of directed, intentional action, so if you must anthropomorphise, do it to the state, not to the nation.
Stop procrastinating on HN. Start finishing your project.
Now.
Speaking as someone who has lived and worked extensibly in all three (US, Britain,"Europe") I would argue that Britain is certainly closer to the rest of Europe than it is to the US.

I live in Sweden now, the organisation I work for is in the Netherlands, I have relatives in Switzerland and in Spain. The way society is structured in all of the EU countries I have visited or lived in are way closer to each other than to the US, including Britain IMHO.
I'm running Windows 8.1 on an i5 with Chrome and didn't notice any slowdown (nor fan speedup, or any of the usual issues sudden resource drains tend to cause) at all either. Looking at task manager shows Chrome is only using 13% of the CPU while I'm actively viewing that page.

I'm sure YMMV depending upon OS, browser, underlying installed codecs handling the video (and their associated gpu acceleration or lack thereof), etc.
http://www.chrissiewellington.org/blog/taking-the-plunge/
Because i didn't know what was to come next and whether she would be successful. A snippet from the first blogpost:

"Could I be as good as them, if not better? Had I fulfilled my potential, or did I have more to give? Had I pushed my mind and body to the limit? If not, what were those limits? What stars was I capable of grabbing? Without giving it a shot I would never know. I never want to look back and say ‘what if’."
Some areas of the US are more "3rd-world country" than the people care to acknowledge. Mostly due to the legacy of colonialism.

Economy based on manual labour for resource extraction or farming? Yup.

History of racial conflict from the time of slavery? Yup.

Poor rule of law linked to family and business corruption? Yup.

Excessively violent policing as a result of those factors? Yup.
I grew up in the Northeast, and what is all this? What's this bizarre East Coast Culture that you West Coasters have nothing in common with?
iOS 6 - which is because this is a 3GS.

Welcome to 2012!

http://www.binaryintel.com/iphone-forensics-location-informa...

Nice screenshots, though?

Your device has to be jailbroken to access it. This file doesn't show up in device backups.

Now - tried jailbreaking an iOS 7 device and seeing if it was still there? That might actually grab some headlines.

(Though, that might be a little hard for anyone who's decided to PIN / password lock their phone - since your phone has to be unlocked now to approve pairing to an unknown device ....)
I learnt radians in Australia at high school in the same time period.
Wolf of Wall Street VFX: You won’t believe which scenes were CGI.
Well, not everyone pays the same amount of tax. People that studied at university probably pays more tax on average that those that didn't. You can also argue that everybody benefits from living in an educated society, even if they didn't study themselves.
Ideas fucked my brain
Seriously, speaking about interesting data structures, Burrows-Wheeler Transform and its reverse are borderline "magic". Definitively worth understanding them in detail.

Speaking of which: What are efficient ways to insert data into BWT structures without reconstructing the whole thingy or to merge two BWT structures? Any hints?
Isn't this just part of assisted GPS? iOS caches the locations of recently seen wireless access points to speed up location services.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS
Canada and Australia stay the most popular destination for corrupted officials from China, while U.S. may see some rich businessmen.
well thank you, you won a reference in the blogpost
Just for the record the initial proposed solution is not really an optimal way to do it, specially if log files are huge. Using cat will push the whole log file to stdout first and it's not really needed because `grep GET /var/log/nginx-access.log` will do exactly the same, but way faster.
I was lucky enough to have toured both the european space facilities, and kennedy space center. The difference is that the european space program is focused on the science and engineering first, self-promotion a distant second. The ESA facilities were not centralized (i spent a week living in a bus to see most of them), and they weren't set up to handle tourists or journalists. The actual launches aren't even done from europe, so while i did see a live rocket test and the assembly hall for the ariane 5, these are not things which you can buy tickets to, and most of what the average citizen could buy tickets to was just ... bland. By contrast, KSC is a showroom first, it's set up to impress people, especially with things like the rocket garden, the vehicle assembly building, and what amounts to a theme park in the arrival area.

When you tally up the science and cost, both programs are probably very comparable, but the US program is much more approachable, because of a strong self-promotion mindset and a complete lack of self-awareness. Loud and proud. The ESA programs are much more low key, what pride there is must be carefully weened from between people's modesty.

I think the difference in the space programs is a reflection of the cultural difference caused by how the US was formed. The european culture has always valued knowing your place, and people who didn't want to stay in that place moved to the US. The US as a consequence values people who try to shout from the rooftops and reach for the sky.
Here's one I saw today that blew my mind:

http://i.imgur.com/RiIqWFN.jpg
> The problem is the Java browser plugin, not Java proper, right?

Clueless Java bashing as usual. Nobody uses Java applets any more.
It depends on your definition of success and what you want to optimize for.
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I'm pretty sure that statement was tongue-in-cheek, given the recent water woes in West Virginia.
Can somebody update the title with something like: "The Java browser plugin cause..."?
Amazing Google Chrome Wallpapers
The author is hosting the application at https://ae7.st/d/
The bits about creating and shipping products by Nathan Barry and Amy Hoy
How to backup your Droplr account (before they discontinue your free account)
Feedly Found a New Way to Steal Page Views From Publishers
Just like in Inception where it's mentioned how some people have become addicted to the dream world. I can definitely see this happening.
How To Shop For Best Bargains And Cheap Travel Insurance
sadly the damage is already done. i remember a year ago the department of health in louisiana would choose sharepoint 2010 over anything with a java backend because they thought java was too insecure.
I haven't worked with DPT before, but I have used original Carambola in one product. The engineers of 8devices were helpful in the forums, and generally, I liked working with them. They are located close to me (well, not in the same country, but close enough).

There was a technical issue with the first Carambola though- we experienced problems with USB connectivity when using WiFi AP at full power. The fix was to decrease power of WiFi antenna.
The responsibility of a teacher is to instill and assess knowledge. Repetition of busywork does not require a teacher, it only requires a textbook. The purpose of having a teacher in the loop is to ensure that students are actually understanding the material, which is why they are graded. If a student can get through a class without acquiring any degree of competency or basic understanding of fundamentals that's a failure on the teacher's part.

If "teaching" was just a matter of reading and completing exercises then we could replace teachers with scantron machines. Yet college students pay teachers thousands of dollars per course to ensure that they receive more value than that. If they don't get it then they are being mis-served and cheated.
One thing people need to remember is that in France, UK, Australia, Canada etc guns are illegal. That makes a big difference since police know that provided they don't invade someone's personal space they aren't at risk of dying. And as such they are able to resolve issues without needing to act with a defensive posture.

It may seem arbitrary but you will never think of a policeman as an ordinary citizen if they aren't willing to engage with you in a normal manner.
Mostly not blog posts, but for the last years I tend to revisit the same resources over and over again for inspiration:

- "You and your research" by Hamming, and his video lectures which expand on topics in the original talk:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30

- "On teaching mathematics" by V. I. Arnold:

http://pauli.uni-muenster.de/~munsteg/arnold.html

- "Undergraduation" by Paul Graham

http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html

- "Learn and relearn your field", and many others in the same category, by Terrence Tao

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/learn-and-relear...

- Steve Jobs Stanford commencement address:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

- All articles on programming by Peter Norvig:

http://www.norvig.com/
A Tale of Two Bridges: http://hintjens.com/blog:16
Who else read the title of this post and expected something vastly different?
I love the image so much that it's been my desktop wallpaper for years.

The Hubble Extreme Deep Field is the successor image. But I've stuck with the HUDF because whoever uploaded it to Wikipedia (where I grabbed it from) did a little tweak to get a better (darker) black level than the NASA original. The modified image isn't as "authentic" as what NASA released, but IMO it makes for better wallpaper.
What I love about computer programming is that basically all you need to be an expert on something is time, persistence, and an Internet connection

Those who forget Rumsfeld's Theory are doomed to be trapped in a local maxima. The value of university is that it exposes you to things you didn't know you didn't know. Doing that without actual people to guide you is 100x times harder. I don't think it can be done efficiently though purely self-directed study. Maybe 1 in 1000 people could manage it.

My lightbulb moment at university was being introduced to linear programming. Wow. A whole new world opened up before me... I wouldn't have even known the right words to use to look this up myself.
I don't like various of their decisions, but at the same time wish them all the best. For a phone they're focused on doing their own thing. Really unfortunate for cross distro cooperation, but when I use a smart phone is important how great the experience is. If the phone is focused on the init system, then that's a phone I don't want to buy.
This has little to do with getting Linux on mobile. Maybe it's the motivation for some. But not the driving aspect.

Samsung wants Tizen to gain back full control of their platform. Canonical wants Ubuntu Touch (and Mozilla Firefox OS) because the PC is getting less important for consumers.

> (And please, stay away from Java in your next mobile OS. Among other things, you will ward off those of us, developers, who let's say are not neutral wrt. to certain programming languages. Edit: make Java optional if you wish.)

Neither of them is based on Java. Tizen and FirefoxOS are (sadly) JavaScript only. Ubuntu Touch supports JavaScript/HTML5 and Qt (JavaScript + C++).
I wouldn't be so sure:

* http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d5d_1384199712

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLXVinyXjgA

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bytIGCeGxo

* http://ir-ltd.net/multi-sky-3d-scan-tools/

Warning: NSFW!
The funny thing is, you're even more guilty of caring more about pushing a particular agenda than actually informing people. Whilst the probability of getting AIDS from heterosexual intercourse with a white woman is indeed extremely low, what matters is not that the sex is heterosexual but that it's with a white woman. Lesbian intercourse with a white woman is actually safer, whereas heterosexual intercourse with a white man is more dangerous. Of course, saying that wouldn't have helped push your anti-gay-rights agenda.

What's more, the qualifier that it has to be with a white woman is important. While heterosexual vaginal sex has a lower risk of HIV transmission than anal, it's not low enough to provide useful protection on its own. The main reason sex with white women is safe is because few of them have AIDS, which in turn is partly a result of all the high-risk heterosexual communities being very careful to protect against HIV transmission since very early on. If you look at somewhere like Africa where people weren't taught to take those precautions, the HIV infection rate from heterosexual sex is terrifying. Again, though, this contradicts your agenda of portraying HIV as a gay disease that heterosexuals are only taught to protect against in order to promote gay rights at their expense.
Somehow Sun is the one to blame here, by having the great idea of calling everything just Java on the Java ecosystem.

If this confuse us with deep computing knowledge, what to say from the average public.
UK police officers don't want to carry guns because they really don't need to. The most likely threat they are going to face is from a youth carrying a knife (gangs are an issue in outer London boroughs). And since police officers are wearing protective vests a knife attack isn't going to be hitting major organs.
> API for accessing file system and OS resources

You mean like FileReader and WebGL/CL?
Nice papers! From his name and writing style, I strongly suspect 'fedja' is an undergrad classmate of mine now at UChicago.
I fail to see what the problem is

The company developing the Java browser plugin is the same that develops the Java Runtime.

Problems arise from lack of validation of untrusted data, be that either coming from a webpage or a request to a server.
can you elaborate on your experience in SF? what kind of insults / sarcasm / backhanded compliments?
think about afterlife
First step would be to keep the deskop clean from C.
I dispute this claim. In the last two decades, the most high profile cases of police malfeasance are coming from LA and Seattle. These have nothing to do with colonialism, but with complete lack of oversight and responsibility.
As patio11 says, the margin on domains are fairly small and so many domain companies survive on the upsells instead. Verisign's current .com price is $7.85 and for .net is $5.62. This is the minimum that the registrars (GoDaddy, NameCheap etc) need to pay - so when you think that NameCheap sometimes sell .coms for $8.95, the margin really is small... especially since I've left out the $0.25 ICANN transaction fee (many companies - GoDaddy aside - include this in the overall price). So a $8.95 .com sale leaves just $0.85.

So it does make sense for domain companies to market themselves as sellers of an online presence, instead of a sub-$10 domain name.

But having said that, the website seems a tad... boilerplate. I thought that big companies were done with rebranding to a Web 2.0 esque corporate web design?

Also the footer is 865 pixels tall on my 1920x1080p screen - does it really need to be that big?

I don't mean to be too critical - I do support the change to selling a 'story' instead of a domain name. But the design just seems... outdated?
What east coast culture? That was part of my point, the northeast is not the south is not the midwest is not appalachia is not the west is not the west coast... (And for that matter, there are at least four very different regions I could divide the west coast into.)

My brief description of the northeast would hardly be "bizarre", but probably "traditionalist", or "old world". Of course, New England and the mid-Atlantic are themselves quite distinguishable.

I didn't say we had "nothing" in common, any more than I would say I had nothing in common with a European, but it's hardly one culture.
The importance of the Phil Bagwell/Rich Hickey* vector can't be understated. AFAIK, pretty much all standard immutable lists provided by platforms use this work.

*Bagwell designed the tries as a mutable data structure. Hickey saw how to apply that to a workable immutable list implementation.
Secret Histories
Exactly. In many subjects it's far easier to concentrate on busywork than on understanding. And rushing through lots of "material" that tests only short term memorization rather than knowledge is a good way for teachers to feel like they are doing a lot more than they actually are. Yet the value of an education 1, 5, 10, or 20 years down the road is always in the fundamental understanding, not the breadth of material covered. Understanding sticks, the details of busywork fades away.

Should an education concentrate on short term knowledge of trivia that fades away rapidly or on long-lasting understanding of fundamental concepts? Is it even remotely reasonable to charge tens of thousands of dollars to students for something that is only temporary?
I have an impression that the goal of all these new iOS/Android challengers is to get Linux on the mobile phone at all costs.

That makes no sense; Linux already has dominance in the mobile OS market via Android.
But if it's not a QC, it won't solve them any faster. Our classical computers are pretty efficient these days.
I'd draw people's attention, in particular, to this principle:

> Whether the police are effective is not measured on the number of arrests, but on the lack of crime.

This is in contrast to the US, where a cop's career prospects largely depend on his arrest record. To see where this has led, read Arrest-Proof Yourself by Dale C. Carson.

(By the way, I don't actually live in the US, so if you want to tell me I'm an idiot and I don't know what I'm talking about I'll have no comeback.)
Solving certain problems faster than a classical computer.
> This could really hurt consoles.

Absolutely. I really disappointed by the lack of 4K in the Xbox One and PS4[1]. When blu-ray was new, it was the PS3 that really drove adoption. Now, the newer consoles will drastically lag behind the state of the art (compared to PCs), which will be exacerbated by the relatively long lifecycles of consoles.

I feel once consumers experience a VR demo in the next 2-3 years, and start seeing 4K games on PC (both perhaps as in-store demos), going back to their consoles is going to be very disappointing.

[1] http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-9020_7-57592390-222/why-next-ge...
Note that UK fees tripled for academic year 2012-13, becoming £9,000 (almost $15,000) per year.
Autotranslation: “How long do you put your mortgage rate fixed? Calculate it with this tool!” http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...

Most of the people here understand English and perhaps another language. I’m not a native English speaker. If you want to submit something that isn’t in English add an autotranslation link. If you don’t most people would just ignore or flag the submission.
All you really need is to always prepend your username to your password. If people all did that, then 99.9%+ of these brainwallet thefts would already not have happened. Slow KDFs are just icing on the cake.
Python and Flask Are Powerful
As someone who had no idea what a tensor was, a rough explanation of what they might sort of be related to is better than something that I don't understand at all, as long as it's clearly labeled that it's not an exact explanation.
The negative reaction is probably because while you can argue this position from a perspective of wisdom (re impossibility to quantify cultural differences) many Europeans have plenty of prior experience with arguing this from a perspective of ignorance (i.e. failing to consider even basic things like the implications of language differences making you resort to sign language a few 100km from where you live.)

Technically your argument didn't necessarily show any signs of such ignorance, but statistically speaking it would have been quite likely.
"Don't half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing", i.e. "Kill early and often, keeping it alive is not good enough":

http://bondero.com/kill-early-and-often-startup-methodology
Indeed, I think there's something a bit too fatalistic about the idea that the police must automatically be bad because the very nature of authority is corrupting. It's somewhat similar to genetically-deterministic evo-psych, or arguments that group X will behave in a certain way because of their privileges or sufferings. There might be a tendency toward that pattern of behaviour, but tendencies can be overcome. In social science there are rarely any iron rules of behaviour.
Curl-loader HTTP/S server-load testing tool
What about wii IOS?
I haven't heard of it. Could you be more specific about restrictions on capital export?

I believe those restrictions won't work when goods and people could move across borders without problems.
I just wanted to say "You and your research" by Hamming. Awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw
Much better, now they just need to get their client interface modernised :)
> the tensor product is not the category theoretical product in Vect.

Oh, you're right and I'm a twit. (Not simply because I got it wrong, but because if I'd spent 30 seconds to think what the product construction does in Vect rather than relying on my plainly-unreliable memory, it would have been obvious that it isn't the tensor product: there are obviously no candidates for the required projection morphisms.)

Thanks! (And apologies to Jeremy for having made an invalid argument, though in fact I think the arguments "the product is the tensor product, the cartesian product is actually a coproduct, so they're very different" and "the product is the cartesian product, the tensor product is an entirely different kind of product, so they're very different" are about equally convincing modulo the fact that the first one's key premise turns out to be false.)
Because obviously everyone considering bitcoins has a dozen cryptogeek friends spread out in half a dozen countries.
As others have said this GAAP/FASB principle makes sense. The only thing I'll add is that you mentioned not being able to ask for that money back. The accounting activity involved in a refund of prepaid liabilities would be to reduce both their cash and their prepaid liabilities. This would be a perfectly sensible transaction, so GoDaddy could certainly accommodate this from an accounting perspective.
That Android challengers are Linux-based doesn't imply Android is not. So logically it's still correct.

What Android competitors could do though would be to (1) forget Java, (2) make the platform completely OSS-license compatible, (3) make the UX understandable and loveable by children and kittens.
People working with voxels consider VDB as an alternative to octrees. It's sparse volume format working with large voxel amounts. From Ken Museth & co at Dreamworks Animations http://www.openvdb.org/documentation/doxygen/index.html
"It's time to grow up, fuck no" http://appreneur-diaries.com/its-time-to-grow-up-fuck-no
Can you elaborate on your understanding of logarithms and integrals? Curious to know if it tallies with mine!
Deploying with Bear (Tomcat/Grails demo)