skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you are like me and self-delete posts after a day or two. Then you get a picture of your cover photo and profile pic plus the message

"Thank you, [name]

10 years ago people started using Facebook to connect with each other in a new way. Thanks for being a part of it.

Mark and the Facebook team"
Couple of links on Roko's Basilisk, which is Forbidden Knowledge in LW:

An explanation: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

Yudkowsky going gaga on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/LessWrong/comments/17y819/lw_uncenso...

> The fact that you disagree and think you understand the theory much better than I do and can confidently say the Babyfucker will not hurt any innocent bystanders, is not sufficient to exempt you from the polite requirement that potential information hazards shouldn't be posted without being wrapped up in warning envelopes that require a deliberate action to look through. Likewise, they shouldn't be referred-to if the reference is likely to cause some innocently curious bystander to look up the material without having seen any proper warning labels. Basically, the same obvious precautions you'd use if Lovecraft's Necronomicon was online and could be found using simple Google keywords - you wouldn't post anything which would cause anyone to enter those Google keywords, unless they'd been warned about the potential consequences. A comment containing such a reference would, of course, be deleted by moderators; people innocently reading a forum have a reasonable expectation that Googling a mysterious-sounding discussion will not suddenly expose them to an information hazard. You can act as if your personal confidence exempts you from this point of netiquette, and the moderator will continue not to live in your personal mental world and will go on deleting such comments.

Uh...
Wasn't the idea of the tracker in Bittorrent to decide who gets what chunk, ensure fairness and maximize availability?
I'm another .net developer, who loves linux. I have had daydreams of porting the software at work to mono, so we can have Mac and Linux versions, but it isn't going to happen.

When I use linux, I much prefer to use languages where linux is the "1st class" platform (and not Java or JRE based). Mono is improving all the time, but C# doesn't have the attraction for me outside of work.
SuperBowl Commercial – Budweiser Puppy Love
It may be impossible. However, medical scanning technology today already does things considered impossible 10 years ago. While in no way sufficient today by any means, you can't exclude (at this time) the possibility that adequate technology might exist in the not so distant future.
So what would happen, minus the spin - straight through at roughly G?
No, the current American meaning does not trace back to the founding fathers. Thomas Paine espoused many socialist ideas such as common property and economic equality. These are indeed core tenants of true classical libertarianism.

The term "Libertarianism" was appropriated in the mid 20th century by radical capitalists and completely eviscerated of its meaning. They turned a blind eye to the authoritarianism and centralized power of corporations. Even Adam Smith (another classical libertarian, pre-capitalist thinker) warned about this.
Well, since they own the OS underneath they can nuke any of your apps and prevent reinstall. Enjoy your backuped version of the app.
'hush hush'
I find it a bit funny that you can't share your video on Facebook.
Being rude and wrong in a position of power is, in this case, an abuse of authority.
We use Keepass at work, but pass is beautiful, the unix way, I'll use it for my personal passwords.
See my previous comment (made a minute or two ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7177239

I got the error, too, until I didn't and this (see link) popped up.
Getting rid of the worst performer of any organization has a tremendous effect. They're usually the one most disengaged, the least reliable, and the one who sucks up the most resources.

Also, by getting rid of the "bad apple" you improve morale.
Cool stuff, and it's written in go!

I made a simple ruby version of this a while back:
https://github.com/dergachev/csv2sqlite

Subsequently also I discovered CSVKIT, a python implementation which is probably more robust:

https://github.com/onyxfish/csvkit
Yahoo leads NSA-FBI account content data demands
For a few seconds I thought someone created something better than Rebol/Red.
What you mean by "Effective"?
What's the benefit (or tradeoff) of doing this over some variation of "command line data science" of the type outlined in Greg's post [1]?

Would it theoretically be faster than the unix join/grep commands for small CSV files, the kind you get usually via email?

I love SQL and prefer it for data work of this type, but I'm not entirely sure of the benefit of this, since it looks like you're just reading it into SQL, which means having to format and normalize anyway?

[1]http://www.gregreda.com/2013/07/15/unix-commands-for-data-sc...
I don't see why that has to be the case. My posts it showed were about a new job I got in town, when my girlfriend got her first full-time teaching job, the completion of a really difficult junior year. I was impressed with how many interesting things it pulled out while avoiding drunk posts and party pictures.
This is the first I've heard of it. Wikipedia says it's just under 10 feet tall. I would never have guess it that small from the images I've looked at. Aside from you know, the man standing at the bottom of the wikipedia photo...
Nasa, you can't call it reusable if only the payload( read as: the shuttle ) makes it back.
If bugs are an issue, why not get started and fix them?

* https://github.com/alphagov/

* http://alphagov.github.io/

* https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2012/10/12/coding-in-the-open/

Looks great on your CV, you're helping your government do it right, everyone's a winner.
Why Dracula is such a difficult playable character to tackle
Washington State Defines Bitcoin as Money
Ohhh... Scones.
The limiting factor there is radiative temperature x radiative area. For something the size of a small star, sure, you can pick up 300K.

For something the size of a plausible ship, the surface area is astronomically smaller, while the temperature of most of its surface would likely be kept at or lower than the range which is compatible with macro-scale organisms and biochemical processes. A ship would also be trying to manage its heat, probably using an insulating exterior.

Meanwhile it would be pointing its thruster - the only part meaningfully above 300K - away from you for at least half the trip if directly oncoming, with angular efficiency coefficients if heading somewhere else. Recall that the ship itself is insulated & temperature-regulated, and therefore shields the emissions of the thruster. The thruster would also likely be focused as much as possible, so we could expect thermal radiation at steeper angles to drop off sharply.

Even something like a nuclear pulse rocket would be hard to spot until it was within a very small neighborhood, and then it would be up to whether you're actually observing that part of the sky during the time when it might be visible.

Ships are very hard to detect until they're almost on top of you.
The Internet of Mostly Useless Things
Hi,

My name is Anton Sten and I'm a UI/UX designer with 15 years of experience. I'm no stranger to work in unsexy spaces (have experience from working with pension plans to anti depressives).

I have a portfolio at www.lepetitgarcon.com but would really like to discuss this opportunity with you in order to better understand how I can be of service.

Looking forward to hearing back from you - feel free to email me (anton@lepetitgarcon.com) and we can setup a Skype call. I'm based in Sweden but do a lot of work for US-based companies.

Thanks
Anton
Microsoft cloud server specification – for Open Compute Project
Just working on something, will be right with you.
I did a quick calculation for the energy consumption of Tianhe-2, which has a power consumption of 17808 kW ...

1,538,611,200,000 J per day. Of course the Tianhe-2 is rated as the fastest, and the NSA won't be using something as big, but it gives you a rough idea of the power consumption of these machines.
It's always a safe bet that any new language will fail spectacularly. Also everybody is not Google and have massive speed/concurrency needs.
It's not so much that this exists: it's that she built something. Kudos to that.

Of course this idea isn't new. I use one of these when camping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYq34Bxkp5w&t=3m55s
People keep saying that Go can be used for systems programming, but not backing that up. It has a non-optional garbage collector and it's garbage collector isn't nearly as good as the state of the art. Why do we expect it to be able to handle systems programming tasks?
bitfetch is a similar service, but requires no registration and uses bitcoin for payment exclusively.

https://bitfetch.com/
Swiss police: Screen in Tesla cars is too large
Here's an example of the type of video that get's made for you using your Facebook posts and images:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWoBAjovHT4
assword is similar.

http://finestructure.net/assword/
Photo Authenticity Verification by Instructed Photography
tl;dr:

Tesla cars are have central 17" screen. It cannot be deactivated. According to the Swiss police and to public prosecutors in Zurich, Switzerland, that causes an illegal distration to car drivers since they cannot ignore the screen. According to the law, screen have to be disabled around a speed of 6 to 10 km/h.

Original article in German:

http://www.handelszeitung.ch/unternehmen/staatsanwalt-hat-te...
Copper and aluminum are two commonly used metals that are manufactured by relatively costly process that at the same time allows essentially complete recycling.

On the other hand there are not that many uses for pure copper (most of them are electricity related) as there are many other metals or copper alloys that are significantly cheaper.
Uber to tackle urban ridesharing, launches UberPop in Paris
Warburg Pincus Committed $100M to Dude Solutions Inc
Copyright footnotes as a service: updopy.com
I created a very similar project in Python a few weeks ago, based on csvkit[1]. Check out the Gist[2].

[1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/csvkit
[2]: https://gist.github.com/jdp/8447221
Ghost Blogging Software ported to PHP
Here is a working demo http://blog.ospari.org/ Please spread the news and support us to make this a reality.
Imagine if you walked in to NSA 20 years ago and said I'll make a software that millions and millions of people will use to list all their friends, where they have been what they have done where they have gone where they want to go what they want to do, what they are thinking, photos of themselves, family, children, wife, husband, everything, they'll just go there every day and update this information .... you'd have gotten kicked out ... fast forward and tada! "Facebook! I use it because everyone else does" .... honestly from a surveillance point of view Facebook is the holy grail ... I can just imagine them shouting ... Facebook ... jackpot!
Safety equipment is valuable. Thus, it is stolen or sold to get money to buy food.
Cool to know, thanks for the feedback, didn't mean to be rude or call you close minded. :)

You highlight exactly what I meant " am orders of magnitude more productive using Visual Studio in Windows".

There probably isn't much incentive for you to write in mono on Linux, because you could be so much more productive on another platform.

And if you switch to Linux, it's probably so much easier to open a python shell that setting up a MONO environment doesn't make sense in most cases.
I'm not specifically talking about https://gov.uk/ but rather all of X.gov.uk - like HMRC, DWP, etc.

That said, is there a way on GitHub to privately raise a security related issue without the whole world seeing it?
Controlling Heavy Weight Websites
The fallacy underlying your claim is assuming a minority of the people who were directed to a pirated copy still wouldn't buy the song, if they weren't able to pirate it.
CSS Animation: An Interactive Guide
Vizzidate – The Dating Site Where Pictures do the Talking
Does anyone have any information regarding the logistics of rendering 800+ million videos like this for each user on Facebook? I'm pretty sure it's not rendered on the fly.
Anyone know if this would be capable of carrying a weapon that could hit targets on earth? I assume all you'd need is a smart aerodynamic projectile and gravity would take care of the rest...
You highlight what I was trying to say :).
Can this work for CPUs, too?
Invisible Pink
[golang] get local changes into GOPATH w/o commit/push, to test all dependents
Ultimately this is you complaining that people are not thoughtful enough consumers of information.

I'm fine with regulating commercial speech to make sure that it is true (and maybe even that it is not misleading, harder to say, a lot more ambiguity there), but let's also focus on fixing the real problem.
With electromagnet and iron rail the same effect is used for almost an century on streetcars under the name "electrodynamic brake". Idea is that single assembly combines this for small braking strengths and friction braking for complete stop (the electromagnet is on springs and can come into complete contact with rail, which is used as equivalent of parking brake).
What kind of overcurrent protection did the circuit have? A fuse would've blown and needed replacing before the power point could be used again; a circuit breaker would've tripped and had to be reset. Are polyfuses used in that role? Or do they make self-resetting circuit breakers for house current?
I was laughing almost all throughout.
The math is very simple: register spill is the same, GCC generates 7 vaddsd and 9 vmulsd. ICC generates 7 vaddsd and 15 vmulsd. addsd latency is 3, mulsd latency is 5.

I strongly disagree that it's simple: figuring out the actual performance on a real processor without running the code is far from simple. In particular, the ordering of the instructions can be crucial. Yes, it can be done, but it takes a lot more than counting instructions. Intel's IACA is the most useful tool I've found for this (free), but otherwise I just spend a lot of time with Agner Fog's execution port info.

There are no SIMD in any of your asm files.

You are absolutely correct. I put the objdump into pastebin, but did not actually look at this code. I just presumed it was vectorized from seeing the large jump in performance with '-mavx'.

Looking closer, it looks like Intel is using a dispatch function, and has a separate vectorized version that it uses when it can. I need to go to sleep, but I'll post the whole objdump so you can inspect: http://pastebin.com/B3EBi0Lq

And if you send me email (my address is in profile) I'll send you a binary to play with. Or if you tell me where to upload, I can do so.
The next decade could belong to Julia.
Indeed. I still tried to share the page, to encourage friends to look at theirs, but there's not thumbnail of the link or any description!
Yeah, I think we'd be lucky if they stop at 1 billion.
Legs in themselves were considered risqué. These sewing machines would also have been covered with large skirts, much like the Victorian dinner table.
I recognized the name when I saw it on the article.

The article comes off as very misleading, unsurprisingly.
ShowRSS right now works as a piece in the workflow for many people: feed what aired a few hours ago to another system. It hasn't got an archive and it doesn't serve as one. Thus, no option to do what you say… it's meant for the last week or so, not a lot more.

It does what it does pretty well, though. The new system reads a few sources (not just EZTV) and picks the best releases. So, 720p for everyone in a matter of hours and for almost every show you can think of.

P.S: have you thought about using transmission+dyndns? It's how I run it (minidlna+transmission, and showRSS pushes to my rasppi, no RSS involved!).
> To google's credit it keeps the organic search and the paid search separate

There is just this oh so very faint difference in background color (rgb(255, 247, 237) instead of rgb(255, 255, 255) which is a joke of a distinction, and depending on viewing angle they both look white on this monitor) and a first line that is very easily overlooked.

Most people here know where the actual results begin, but I bet you that a lot of people do not; my mother sure never realized it until I pointed it out to her. As Erich Schmidt said: "Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.", and it shows. So technically organic and paid search are separate, but practically that separation is so thin it's next to worthless. They A/B test everything, so they surely know that some or even a lot of people confuse ads and actual search results.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9240348/FTC_advises_G...

Search companies were already advised in 2002 by the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection about the potential for consumers to be deceived, in violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act, "unless search engines clearly and prominently distinguished advertising from natural search results," Mary K. Engle, associate director at FTC's division of advertising practices, said in the letter.

Companies followed those recommendations in 2002, the FTC said, but since then "we have observed a decline in compliance with the letter's guidance," the group said.

"Top ads," or advertising that is located immediately above the natural results, may be partly to blame, the FTC suggests. The group cites a recent survey by the search strategies company SEOBook that found that nearly half of searchers did not recognize top ads as distinct from natural search results.

> I'm not quite sure how Google could do better while still making money.

Of course, making a clear separation (#ccc for the background, an actual border, the possibilities are endless) would cost them some money, but it's not like they have to be this creepy to make any money at all.

I searched for "google separation of ads and search results" to see how they did it in the past (I'm pretty sure it wasn't always that thin a separation), the first result is https://www.google.com/honestresults.html and returns 404. Hah!
It's missing some key features (Generics anyone?) that put it somewhere in terms of usability between C and Java, and it has nowhere near the same tooling or performance characteristics as the JVM. So, it has a while to go yet I think but would love to see a serious JVM competitor here.
At the top of the list I would say would be bringing a critical mass of users under the one service.

Everything kind of follows from that, the actual service is less important and can likely be replicated by many companies.
I am and I'm not impressed.

Whilst the outcome is positive, the technology churn isn't. In fact, it's a right mess. They've ended up with a huge stack that doesn't need to be there. They're there to provide content efficiently, not redesign the infrastructure. They're using tech because it's cool and fun rather than suitable for the task and cost effective.

I know people are going to compare them to EDS and say "look how far we've come" etc but they are still spending public money and are not beyond scrutiny from us tax payers.

They're not a startup either. The ground they're standing on is different to what they think they're standing on.

Edit: downvoters, please at least have the honour to explain yourselves.
I'm not sure why awareness is critical to a singularity.Requiring machine intelligence to have a similar consciousness to humans is like asking submarines to swim like a fish, and anyways computer already have self awareness(reflection in programming languages, and some robots who use reflection to learn how to optimize movement) - it's useful but doesn't seem critical AFAIK.
"We've introduced another keyword: 'new'. new is strongly related to 'this'. What it does is it creates a brand new empty object, and then calls the function specified, with 'this' set to that new object"

Perhaps it would be worth to mention that 'new' not only sets 'this' to be the empty object but also return that object to the location where new was used.
Fwiw, I work outside SV (France) and plenty of startups rely on Rails for web dev here...
An Early Draft of Carl Sagan's Famous 'Pale Blue Dot' Quote
Well it was discussed at length last week on here. Since this article is mainly about the perceived libertarian angle, of course that would dominate discussion
What if someone searches for "Avatar torrent" or "Avatar free download". Shoudn't Google give them those results that are most relevant to the query made? Why should Google offer them a link to Ultraviolet.com or whatever, if the user searched for Avatar torrent?
The author is providing evidence why the "safe bet" may not be so safe as you say. You'd need to provide counter arguments to his to refute him.
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s and Cory Montieth’s Death – Why?
It depends on what you'd like I suppose. If you want highly a configurable WM then xmonad is great (I can't speak for the rest). If you want something very simple with limited configuration but which allows you to quickly use it then scrotwm.

You can find a lot of configs for xmonad/awesome/otherwm on github which you can then copy and adapt to your liking.
Gitter, chat for GitHub, is now public beta
It seems that the company would have a higher level of plausible deniability of their screenshots didn't display torrents of material under copyright.
"[The Mars Colonial Transporter] will make the Apollo moon rocket look small"
> At the top of the list I would say would be bringing a critical mass of users under the one service.

That sounds like damage to route around, not like a solution to a problem.
This is a lot like Google's auto-awesome videos they came out with last year. On New Year's Eve I got a push notification from Google+ on my Android phone that said something like "Happy New Year!" and when I touched it I got a video that showed an auto-curated video of stuff that happened in 2013 based on my videos and pictures that auto-upload to G+. Pretty well done -- I showed it to my family and they were impressed.

After I saw the version they made for me, it let me pick the background music and re-rendered it to match the music I picked.
Coinnext Cryptocurrency Exchange
20 Security Startups To Watch
Betteridge's law of healines tells me "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
With thin tube the effect is not noticeable on the outer surface. Essentially, thicker tube means more pronounced effect.