skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I'm the only one who thought of it as a black comedy. Doesn't Bill Murray's character kill himself several times? Hasn't he been trapped in the day for the equivalent of several lifetimes? Sounds amazingly awful.
Ha, okay, you're right. It is really confusing.
anyone have a link that works in Germany? God damn GEMA is blocking the video for me :(
"This video is not available in your country"

Why? Fuck these stupid regional blockages.
Pretty sure my spine is real. Perhaps you meant to unpack that analogy first?

The "free market" is simply what exists absent interference. It ceases to exist when a single player or group of players asserts force over the others. The purpose of government is to reduce the effectiveness of violence as a strategy.
Sure it is -- people are using Meteor in production already, and on multiple servers. Oplog tailing is the big story there.
Without careful management, you stand a chance of creating a "Hotel Carter"-esque situation where it is too easy for residents to adversely effect the lives of other residents. Some minimal amount of separation (even if it is only a few feet between each unit) and keeping things out in the air to aid in policing should be well-worth it.

The issue of land wouldn't be so bad if we had decent transportation around our cities. It shouldn't be necessary to own a car if you don't live downtown somewhere, although unfortunately it typically is.
Sorry for the personal question, but, are you homeless by choice?

It seems you can talk well in this area and appear to be eloquent enough to describe complex situations, so it begs the question.
If you want to look for examples of companies in the US and elsewhere engaging in activities mentioned in this article against political dissidents, look no further than the HB Gary email leak of years back. I referenced such works here[0] after Obama's announcement of NSA 'reforms' that hinted at offloading more sensitive data to private companies.

I would like to bring the attention of people who read this article back to the tactics such as the real-time spying on Wikileaks viewers. Tactics discussed by the likes of HB Gary's Aaron Barr like going after activists by their families and careers, or the US Chamber of Commerce's interest in such work.

There is a profound amount of moral hazards here that companies are wading deep into for cash and possible immunity such as what AT&T was granted.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7078402
MtGox out of business in 2014
Similarly, the YUGO (825kg curb weight) contains about 7.4e19 joules of energy, when converted purely.

Which comes out to 17.7 billion tons of tnt, or 1.1 million times the force unleashed on Hiroshima.

If we're being pedantic.
Glad you had a fun experience!
Those articles don't have proof of savings. I want to believe it worked, but I'd like to see a report from the state of Utah charting ER visit costs and jail-time costs declining over the last 10 years.
> I'm not sure how Japan does it, but last I saw, they don't have any homeless people wandering the streets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Japan

Guessing you just visited the wrong areas?

Before I googled, I had assumed it was because the homeless were pushed out to the suburbs, based on my understanding of Japanese city-tiering.
Wisconsin's Legacy for Unions
They literally did the opposite of turning a blind eye. They placed Occupy activists under surveillance in multiple cities. They sent undercover cops. They used every tool at their disposal to get information on and contain the movement. If you followed the entire affair with any semblance of good faith you would have seen the numerous articles that detailed this police activity. A squatter is not the same thing as a protest, that little equivocation is probably at the root of your disingenuous approach to this issue,
I'm not one to trust MTGox right now, but this is nothing more than an unsubstantiated rumor on a random blog site.

It is a shame that straight up rumors are making their way to the top of Hacker News.
Savings or not, it's humane.
goto cleanup;
/* ... */
cleanup: foo();

... is perfectly idiomatic C. It was the brace style that was the real stinker there.
Can anyone explain what page eleven, "Tomography," is supposed to mean? The example on the previous page seemed straight forward, when I got to page eleven I had no idea what I was looking at.
This is so sad it hurts. I just hope MT Gox offers a statement tomorrow probing this false or declares bankruptcy already. They are a shame beyond words for the crypto community. This must end immediately.
After an intentional power play from GNU. Let's not absolve them of blame.

A clash of politics had a sad effect on actual technology.
I would wait for validation to act on this. This could be an attempt to drive down prices.
O() is colloquially used to mean "approximately", among people who do actually know what O() means.
>Neural networks? See The Vanishing Gradient Problem.

For what it's worth, Geoff Hinton and others have had a lot of success in the last few years by intentionally injecting noise into their neural network computations. The best-known example is [0], but he's also had some success just adding noise to the calculation of the gradient in good old sigmoid MLPs--even reducing the information content of the gradient below a single bit in some cases.

Going back further, stochastic gradient descent and other algorithms have shown for decades that trading accuracy for speed can be very desirable for neural network computations.

[0] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.0580.pdf
If true, perhaps Satoshi could finally come back into the picture and help save bitcoin with an influx from his massive pile.
exactly. I was looking at the Xperia Z1 Compact. Kinda expensive, but Android hasn't completely won me over..
How much energy is there in a Ferrari?
Each one has 2 or 3 partners and 20-something startups. The startups do group office hours with those partners, and when they request individual office hours those are the partners they get by default. Startups can also request office hours with any partner if they need some special expertise that only they have. E.g. Geoff knows a lot about music startups, Sam is the expert on fundraising, I'm the one with a knack for thinking of new domain names.

I'm not one of the group partners. I try to meet with all the startups, but obviously not as frequently as the group partners.
I usually just roll with the formula of: "Whatever you would want your yearly salary to be divided by 1000."

Want $100,000? Charge $100. Want $50k? Charge $50.

In practice, however, I fluctuate around. I have some clients that I charge $20 or $30/hr and some that I charge $50, $75, $100, or $125.

I have since filtered out the $20 & $30/hr clients. I gave them a discount for about a year and told them that any new work after that time would be at a minimum of $50. One of the clients left, the other stayed with me. Those lower tier clients were left overs from when I was first getting into freelancing and just needed to make some money and get some clients.

I'm very tired today, so I apologize if this is kind of rambling and all over the place.
Fun food for thought: NCSA Mosaic started in 1992, and ended in 1997. Netscape 4.0, the last user of this engine, stopped development in 1998. Gecko, the core of Mozilla, started in 1998, and is still in development 16 years later.

So, the engine that Spolsky was saying was a mistake has now been in use for twice as long as the engine it was replacing.
As with all things, it is part choice, part happenstance.

I have a serious medical condition, as does my oldest son. I have been advised that people like me do not get well. I have figured out how to get us well, but it all came out of my pocket, leading to a lot of debt.

I had a job with a Fortune 500 company. At some point, I was evicted from my apartment, not due to inability to pay but because I had done things like removed carpeting without permission because that made more sense than staying ill. After getting a notice of eviction, I chose to not look for another apartment because it was clear to us that the apartment was part of why we were still ill. After three days sleeping in a tent amidst trees, I woke up feeling better than I had in years. I submitted my notice that I was quitting my job and I left on foot to cross the country and return to a climate I knew I would do better in.

Since then, I have focused on getting well and trying to develop an income that does not keep me sick. I have made good headway on getting well and I am beginning to make headway on an income that does not keep me ill. I would like to get off the street soon. I am nearly well enough that I think more conventional housing would no longer be an automatic health disaster for me and my sons. I don't yet know how to solve that problem, either financially or logistically. I really need to go straight from homeless to homeowner. Renting leaves me too little control over my home life to keep myself well given my medical situation.
"...much more than just serialisation. ...provide schemas, type checking, full structural validation, and externalized defaults..."

I agree with your goals. But I'm confused by the serialization concern.

If one has classes, modeling the configuration schema, and you serialize those config object graphs, isn't that what we're talking about here?
Fantastic read. Concise and solid decision explanations. Thanks for writing!

Was there any other reason you chose kestrel over alternatives like kafka? Did you test any others, or where you just that satisfied with kestrel?
Google renamed Webkit for NO reason. This is all a smokescreen to hide something sinister. bit.ly/10gkQfn | The same goes for Microsoft BLINK. bit.ly/19k2snj | tnw.co/10WA8n7 Can you say, "Deliberate trademark infringement causing consumer confusion poorly planned attempt to prevent a potential competitors dominate market share?" I bet it'll roll right off a lawyers tongue.
Just FYI, Brighthouse is no longer affiliated with Time Warner Cable, they're a separate entity owned by Advance Newhouse.
Thanks! I also need to web scrape HN to retrieve my saved articles. It will be useful to use users credentials with the API.
You could still do one story "apartments," right? Like, literally just these same little houses, except each sharing a wall with the next.
radon transform is used to produce tomography images. just take a look at the wikipedia page... s/he's talking about that...
Hmm.

There do seem to be problems with some firewall scenarios (or at least I presume that is what it is..)

When I setup a node at home and one on an Azure box I see them discover each other, but no files seem to get copied.
I suspect you'd be kinda shocked how well-educated and intelligent and capable a lot of homeless people actually are.
Thanks to Seth Goddin, people hate the name of my website
Seth has simple advice for naming a website or business, but it's a little unconventional.
The YMCA is already looking at pre-fab'd homes for homeless people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7258801
Common in C.

C++ should focus on RAII destructors, such as std::lock_guard. I can't think of a legitimate time to use "goto" in C++, unless you were forced to emulate C for some reason.
I tried to implement shell sort in your system. Shell sort is much like quick sort in that it kind of divides and conquers. (you can see my horrid first timer work here: https://github.com/Ghoughpteighbteau/Rainbow-Sort )

My estimation is that you need to refactor the algorithms such that they hold their state inside a closure, and break after a set number of swaps. Say every 300 swaps they break and the canvas updates. This kind of background processing is such a pain in javascript.
are you talking about the classification of smoke detectors as weapon material?
That's awesome, would be perfect for my needs, thank you for the hard work!
Playboy starts accepting bitcoin
There is speculation that the crater Giordano Bruno was caused by a large impact on the moon in 1178. If true, it would have been way larger, but evidence of any debris hitting the earth is missing, so it's probably just a nice story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno_%28crater%29
"Possible citogenesis concerning whether MtGox ever hosted an MtG trading site"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mt._Gox#Possible_citogenes...
That's true. It isn't simple "stupidity" or incompetence that lands people on the street. It is having one too many intractable problems (like an incurable medical condition and special needs kids) and too few resources to address them.
> Each tenant has their own space to be responsible for.

At the risk of sounding insensitive, which is not my intent, in what way would they be responsible for them? If access to the homes is truly unconditional, why keep them in good shape? Or are you just suggesting that by giving people self-contained, separated dwellings, they will think of it more as "their home" and tend to take better care of it?
Maybe not yet but something like this[1][2] is probably coming in the near future.

[1]http://innovation.uk.msn.com/design/the-3d-printer-that-can-...
[2]http://www.contourcrafting.org/
A nit: Email encryption is very hard to get right, but voice encryption is a solved problem (Silent Phone, RedPhone, etc do it very well).
The program is relatively new. I'd expect there to be a latency period during which the formerly homeless adjust to their new lives and find employment before all the cost savings can be properly calculated.
I think it was an interesting analysis (sounds like something I would have done). The Eiffel Tower example is strange not because it is a concretion, but because it is an example that one would expect be used in the description of something tall, not something heavy.
Looks great. Right now I need Dutch and German translation so I hope they are coming soon.
Thanks. That's great information.

And a relief. At least, I was not going to do anything illegal.
I think reactive armor might be an interesting strategy. But, then again, it was traveling at 40,000 MPH, which, I think, places it at about twice the velocity of high explosive plastique... So, would blasting it, before it blasts you, actually work?

I think there would need to be a complex early detection and warning system, capable of intercepting high speed objects, well beyond what we consider normal terrestrial speeds. Being lazy, I'm tempted to just say "why not some lasers, maybe?" and shrug, but maybe there are some cooler options possible?

Seems like a pretty unexplored deficiency of moon habitation.
Multi-platform support is top priority for any messenger app today. This is my personal experience from working on an enterprise messenger recently. http://peer.im
True, but his point still stands - if you believe in evolution and natural selection, your brain is designed for "good enough fast enough" rather than "truly correct" reasoning.
Don't work for less than $50/hour.
I love how, despite the lessons of the inner-city projects, there's still this automatic urge to try to reduce the quality of life of the imaginary occupants as much as possible, right out of the gate.
Rendering with Proxy Objects in Maya: Simplify Your Life
He meant TextSecure's issue 53.

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/53

You'll find a more interesting discussion about the reasons for not distributing TextSecure through alternate repositories on issue 127 though.

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127
Computational approximation has been shipped en masse very successfully.

You mention GPUs but did you know that GPUs already do a lot of approximate math, for example, fast reciprocal and fast reciprocal square root?

You mention how approximation must be impossible in all these applications (because REASONS) but all methods that numerically integrate some desired function are doing refined approximation anyway. If you have another source of error, that lives inside the integration step, it may be fine so long as your refinement is still able to bring the error to zero as the number of steps increases.

Your diagnosis of "utter computational tripe" and the accompanying vitriol seem completely inappropriate.
I've always thought that if time traveler was possible, and someone came to the present day from the 1950s, that a microSD card would be one of the best ways to blow their mind. I still feel a bit of awe when I'm holding a fingernail sized piece of plastic that can contain all of Wikipedia with room to spare.
Who did squire them ?
Manpower Discriminates Against Heterosexuals
I recently took a job with Experis (or Manpower). I have a long-term domestic partner, who happens to be female. I (of course) want to take care of her health and provide for her. However, I was told that I could not put her on my insurance because we were heterosexual, but if we were a homosexual couple that they would allow it.
Of course, no argument from me, but there are a whole lot of people who care more about money than suffering, so it'd be nice if it worked from a purely greed-is-good perspective as well.
I'm hearing the malleability exploit has been used undetected for years. How many people can actually be in the know about such a thing and yet keep silent about it for a long time? That means somewhere there's a very small group of people who have about a million BTC in their wallets, and nobody noticed them.

I have to wonder what it looks like when a person suddenly becomes very rich without any explanation for it. Wouldn't at least some of these people have attracted a lot of attention?

The cynic in me thinks the lack of evidence left behind probably points to organized crime or even governments at work behind the whole thing.
Glad to see the EEVBlog here.. I have been learning a LOT from his videos. If you are at all interested in electronics I would highly recommend checking it out.
So much this. It's as bad as when someone is trying to demonize some chemical in food, and lists all the other things it's used in, as if that has any relevance to it's safety...
My family has lived in the same neighborhood since 1951, and I work in one of our local schools. I often tell visitors about the history of the area to explain the struggles we have in our student body. Most of the houses were built right after the end of WWII by veterans who were starting their own families. They're what was considered starter houses even back then -- right around a thousand square feet, 3 small bedrooms, 1 small bathroom, a combined kitchen-dining area, and no dedicated laundry space (my grandparents' house originally had these characteristics; they eventually expanded and still live there.) By a decade later, many of those families were ready to move up, and they moved into the bigger houses being built farther away from the city (I grew up a mile west, where the average house was built a decade later and is more like 2000 square feet, 4+ bedrooms, 3+ bathrooms, with dedicated laundry rooms and rec rooms and fireplaces.)

Over time, the old and small homes in my grandparents' area became the bottom of the barrel for family living, which means they attract the poorest segments of society -- 90% of students in my school are native speakers of other languages (primarily Spanish), whose parents came to the area to make a living mostly as unskilled laborers who haven't moved up the ladder very far since arriving. At their income levels, many of them can't even afford this low-end housing -- so they end up with multiple parts of an extended family sharing a single house. This creates problems of various kinds for my students.

I have no doubt that some of these families would benefit from very small, truly affordable housing -- housing that fits their circumstances (low income, limited job prospects, sometimes no support network), instead of the circumstances my grandparents grew up under (the GI bill, family support, a manufacturing and export economy whose primary competitors were ravaged by the war.)
> Suicide is a personal choice

This is a naive understanding of suicide. It is the choice of someone who thinks there is no other reasonable alternative. People who are suicidal need help identifying other strategies for dealing with their depression, and they need help choosing those other strategies.

There are many people who have contemplated or attempted suicide at some point, and then got the help they needed. Sometimes they seek this help out on their own; sometimes others push them to get help. Many of these people then go on to live entirely productive and satisfying lives.

If you know someone who is suicidal, by all means talk to someone who knows how to handle the situation. Don't be afraid to ask someone if they are contemplating suicide; you won't be "planting" the idea for anyone.
We chose kestrel mostly just from usage/familiarity. We've been satisfied with it, but are currently researching/testing kafka.
'Pony' botnet steals bitcoins, digital currencies: Trustwave
That's why in the future we'll be using compilers which are open-source and using deterministic builds and double-compilation (or "n-compilation") : )
Running dtrace on Ubuntu is possible: much like SystemTap, it's unsupported and involves lots of messing around.

If someone wrote an article called 'Using dtrace' and wrote about the poor experience they had on Ubuntu it'd be just as (in)valid.
>then your functionality is just fast and accurate enough to keep you from dying before mating

Approximately. And locally.
I laughed at this:

The “fix” is to move your name to the 2nd line so it doesn’t get flagged
Think your data is safe in an EU cloud? The NSA will raid your servers
I think it's important in the context of this topic not to try to solve everything, or make the perfect the enemy of the good. Like, getting people indoors and off of the streets is a great, high-priority goal, and if the will can be mustered to give them homes, I'm all for it. Figuring out how to train them to live more like Martha Stewart than they do could be a separate problem.
Try using https://github.com/chrismccord/sync (real-time Rails partials with Pusher or Faye).

Or rewriting the app in Meteor is also a good option. I used to be a Rails developer but I am currently making the switch to Meteor.
G1GC for dozens of GB, Azul (for now) for hundreds and in the future there'll be Shenandoah.

You're right that those features provided by hotspot. But it is the reference implementation for the JVM after all.

The point remains that the java ecosystem - which includes tooling like eclipse/netbeans/yourkit and JVM implementations - provides the things I've listed that I find lacking in ruby.
As someone that wasn't a math major, I regularly get excited about Mathematica but then have trouble figuring out why I would actually want to use it. If someone were to give me an assignment that they knew could be accomplished with Mathematica, then that would be easier to start, but I feel like it takes a while to make that translation between having a vague desire to figure something out, and then realize that Mathematica could do it for me quickly. Like, I wouldn't have thought to plot out last year's trip to Europe using it. So for new users, there's something of a "well sure it's easy AFTER you know how to do it" gap.

It kind of reminds me of when search engines first came out - I regularly witnessed a gap between people having fun typing in some example queries, and realizing that they could type in anything search-engine-ish and get back information they actually didn't know ahead of time; information they had conditioned themselves not to ask out of not wanting to schedule an afternoon trip to the library.
Amen.

Replace the "goto" with "Throw", "break", or "return", or any other construct, and you'd come up with the same problem.