skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. It sounds wonderful on the outside, but once you start reading all the details it gets a little hairy. For example, they do not define what exactly a "business services company" is and is not. Using a broad definition, that could eliminate some tech startups right out the gate. Another example of the broad definition is "financial services firm". Does that immediately eliminate BitCoin or payment processing startups? The list goes on.

I like the idea and more states/cities should follow the lead, but in order to be effective the people implementing these programs need to be clear on what is and is not an acceptable business. The other part of the NY program I was hesitant about was that you are committed to partnering with a university. Doesn't leave room if your business plan pivots and falls out of line with the "interests of the hosting university".
The Orgmode extension to Emacs has quite an elegant, flexible, and powerful way of doing what you want. Can be hard to wrap your mind around at the beginning but has good payoff once you're up to speed. Here's a video showing how one guy uses it with Python (though it integrates with multitude of languages, including R): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-dUkyn_fZA

Here's paper (itself from LaTeX generated by Orgmode) describing use of Orgmode for this kind of "reproducible research": http://www.jstatsoft.org/v46/i03/paper
Coursera's "crappy UI" player has a playback rate option built right in.
1) Two words: Landauer Limit. No matter what your incentives or process improvements are, efficiency for non-reversible computation (and we are talking about crypto here) has fundamental limits.

2) The first bit is a potentially fair point -- I don't know what the energy costs and waste heat contributions of a transaction is under the current system.

The second bit? "inflation/hyperinflation, uncertainty, economic/debt crises, counterfeiting, unemployment - all problems that could be reduced or eliminated by Bitcoin" Mostly sounds somewhere between naive and unhinged, but show the work if you can.

3) I guess the horse manure analogy implies we're going to come up with different technology that doesn't produce waste heat? Are we talking about a revolutionary breakthrough in thermodynamics, or just a shift to more renewables (say, from automobiles to horses)?

The talk about whether infrared radiation is the only way to release heat to space is related, and addressed in the article I linked:

"E: Could not technology pipe or beam the heat elsewhere, rather than relying on thermal radiation?

P: Well, we could (and do, somewhat) beam non-thermal radiation into space, like light, lasers, radio waves, etc. But the problem is that these “sources” are forms of high-grade, low-entropy energy. Instead, we’re talking about getting rid of the waste heat from all the processes by which we use energy. This energy is thermal in nature. We might be able to scoop up some of this to do useful “work,” but at very low thermodynamic efficiency. If you want to use high-grade energy in the first place, having high-entropy waste heat is pretty inescapable."

In other words, it seems to me you're talking about either a fundamental breakthrough in thermodynamics again.
Love that one, here is my other favorite http://www.vfp62.com/SR-71_flyby.html about the SR-71 going a bit too slow
The SR-71 was developed using 20th century technology. It was envisioned with slide rules and paper. It wasn’t managed by millions of lines of software code. And it wasn’t powered by computer chips. All that changes with the SR-72.

Oh oh.
Yes good point - I might be able to make that work if I spent the time to perfect it, but I'm not a security guy so there was the off chance I might overlook something.

There were couple other good reasons for the signup given my initial target demographic of two people :). And you may have also noticed that everyone gets an Elo rating if you visit /spielers.html

As a side project I weighed the options and just chose to have signups rather than complicate the issue. They can be purely anonymous, and it makes it easier for me to manage. If it is really a stopping point for losing potential players I am willing to live with that.

On a side note - I'm very glad to see you are enjoying the game. You've played almost as many games as me in 1/100th the time!
Ok, so you want to take advantage of this in NYC?

http://startup.ny.gov/properties/new-york-city-properties/

There are a 3 results, all biotech / science in nature. Click on one of em:

THIS PROPERTY HAS NOT YET BEEN DESIGNATED AS A TAX-FREE NY AREA

That's probably a deal-killer for startups wanting to move to manhattan and be tax free for 10 years.
Destabilizing.
How often have you needed a 64-bit integer where a 56-bit one wouldn't do? I rather like the idea of having only one numeric type.
>Now he's proposing to replace integers with decimal floating point type

Why is that so bad? JavaScript did it.
How many other planes have they built? Saying other companies have built equivalent planes is incorrect.

Trying to build one plane for everyone was probably not the wisest thing to do.
I don't use Facebook or Yahoo, and wouldn't trust either of them to authenticate with a site.
Acking your cite req. I don't have one handy, though a review of decomp cases should be reasonable feasible -- there are pretty comprehensive lists of aircraft accidents. And I'll admit not being positive of my information, though I do believe there are cases where a seat or seats have been ripped out.
How to Interpret Ridiculous Web Design Job Posts
Brain wallets should never be used.
Even experts fail at picking phrases with enough entropy.

Full stop.

You should be very carefull with your Bitcoin.

I would go with one of the zero trust multisignature wallets because I like 2factor and I don't like the idea of some malware taking the funds away at will when it finds a key in memory.
I am not a designer, and the only place I use sass is a bunch of static blogs, including my primary one. The command I run to compile my sass files is as follows:

find . -name '*.sass' | onchange -s make css

where onchange is a simple command I've written that watches filesystem for events on files from stdin and runs command when they occur, and make css is simply

sass --update _sass:dynamic/styles

So long as sass is in the $PATH, I'm good to go. I don't care how my sass files are translated to css files, I only care whether they get translated or not. In the last place I worked, they used guard for compiling less (sth. like sass) files and concatenating them, which was a frightening program with a huge configuration file, written in JSON. For concatenation, I'd do

find dynamic/styles -name '*.css' | onchange -s cat dynamic/styles/*.css > dynamic/all.css

See, when your abstractions are processes, everything is easy. It's like git, one simply does not need to know if git commit is a shell script or a C program. It is a process, you need to call it, and that's it.

edit: put in absent redirection into the last command line.
By comparison, the SR-71 was first proposed around 1960 and operational by 1966. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71_Blackbird
It may be faster to change the last line to:

return [all_docs[key] for key in set(all_docs) - results]
If you are referring to the big cluster, that time frame doesn't quite match up but feel free to message me.
http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xADC50AF9F559FA...
I agree with what you said. I understand the advantages of markdown and why it is adopted (particularly in dev environments).

But you seem to agree with me that the markdown editing experience leaves a little to be desired ("...I happily trade editing convenience off").

What I don't get is why that editing experience doesn't annoy people more. There are tons of markdown-powered blogging platforms, editors, commenting forms coming out every day, but you almost never see projects that try to solve the original problem.
Or heat its skin.

A laser defense weapon, coupled with the black titanium skin, likely already close to its thermal limits, might produce results of interest to a defender.
Histogram of word length. Keep in mind that the median word length in English is 5:

5 1 #
6 14 ##
7 104 ###########
8 326 #################################
9 414 ##########################################
10 380 ######################################
11 320 ################################
12 200 ####################
13 133 ##############
14 73 ########
15 35 ####
16 12 ##
17 8 #
18 1 #
19 1 #
20 1 #
22 1 #

edit: Someone points out below I had an off by one error, which I've now fixed.
Well, the Japanese WWII torpedoes should prompt a lot of fear. They were the best Naval torpedo of any world power during the entirety of WWII, and were part of the reason for the massive damage at Pearl Harbor; U.S. Naval officers assumed torpedoes couldn't operate in a harbor that shallow, but the Japanese had developed a way around it.

Likewise once the Americans fixed their own multiple torpedo flaws by summer 1943, American submarines became very deadly in the Pacific.

However your questions regarding the VA-111 are valid. The flow noise generated from moving so fast (and with a gas bubble to boot) means that the VA-111 should not be able to hear the target to move in on it. This would require guidance from the launching platform's sonar, but I don't know of any guidance wire that would survive that trip.

Instead the torpedo seems to require a very good firing solution before the shot is made, to allow the INS to bring the torpedo to the target before they can evade. Even then you'll likely miss, which seems to be why the nuclear warhead option was chosen.

With modern non-nuclear versions it would seem that terminal guidance would require a separate (much slower) phase of operations, which might very well be susceptible to acoustic countermeasures.

Additionally it was created as an ASW weapon, not ASUW, so the warhead capacity seems to be too small for a high probability of kill against a surface ship, unless they can indeed detonate it right under a keel. On the other hand it would be easier to get a good target solution for a surface warship since it's a 2-D geometry instead of 3-D.
"Eligible businesses must not locate in an area in which they would compete with existing local businesses."
Nice! I knew comprehensions were faster, but apparently was mistaken as to why.
Aye.

Complexity isn't your friend.
Which part, that they're optimized to stack objects or that they appear as if they're referenced objects?
SR-71 was built for one mission only: Fly-over the Soviet Union and take pictures. At the speeds that it operates, you can't really do much else. And recon satellites do this much more effectively now, and are extremely hard to take down.

Proponents of hypersonic aircraft research have been fighting an uphill battle for this very reason.
Poll: Do you like background videos?
Background videos are trending. Do you like them?

Examples:

http://hu.tt

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/home
No, they look ugly
No, they hurt usability
No, due to bandwidth issues
No, due to other reasons (please explain)
Voronoi Diagram with Force Directed Nodes and Delaunay Links
Thank you! I'd never seen this one!
Oh dear. Thought you were spoofing them, until I clicked through.
>On a side note - I'm very glad to see you are enjoying the game. You've played almost as many games as me in 1/100th the time!

Yes I really like it! I hope you will be able to keep enough players around.
>>> The SR-71 was developed using 20th century technology. It was envisioned with slide rules and paper. It wasn’t managed by millions of lines of software code. And it wasn’t powered by computer chips. All that changes with the SR-72.

Errr, replacing slide rules with millions of lines of software is not always progress. HN is probably the most fertile ground for finding counter examples around
What's the deal with all the SR-71 posts in the past few days? They're a cool relic of the cold war age but what has happened recently with them that's warranted all the attention?

Also if you're really enamored with them you should definitely check out the national airforce museum in Dayton, OH: http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/ You can see one up close, along with all kinds of other planes, jets, and missiles. Admission is free, and expect to spend at least a full day walking around the place.
But nobody did, you're the first person in the thread to mention the word "standard". You might be confusing specification with standard.
I don't really know but speculate that Mt. Gox' receivership may well have nothing to do with weaknesses in the BitCoin cryptosystem.

- Magic the Gathering's BitCoin Cookbook
http://www.warplife.com/tips/finance/money/bitcoin/mt-gox/fo...

tl;dr: Forensic Accounting is the way the Feds busted Al Capone for tax evasion; they never did pin a murder rap on him.

Even if no one is cooking the books a shop like Mt. Gox needs Forensic Accountants anyway, because someone could always have made an honest mistake.

I myself Found Religion the day I decided I'd grown weary of a ten-cent error in my quickbooks. I required eighteen hours to clue in to that it was two separate errors that totalled ten cents, as well as to locate the actual errors.

(Now I use GnuCash. There's a damn good reason for double-entry accounting; GnuCash uses it but Quicken and QuickBooks do not!)
No more than any other air breathing engine driven plane.
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ViewPatterns

That's the haskell extension.

To see a very nice use of them, check out this paper (pdf)
http://strictlypositive.org/CJ.pdf
Facebook Changes Access to Profiles of Deceased
My 2nd-hand (but family) knowledge about the energy business is that there're no royalties for patents there either. You get paid anywhere from $10 (really) to a few $hundred for a successful patent filing. My impression is that the aversion to royalties isn't mainly worry about the amount of royalty payments (them not wanting to give you 1% of something that turns into a blockbuster patent), but more that they don't want to deal with the legal complications that could result from not owning their patent portfolio free & clear.

Particularly the case since it's patent portfolios that are valuable more than individual patents. If they had a regular policy of small-percentage royalty share, a company could well end up with a portfolio of 10,000 patents that has maybe 15,000 or 20,000 royalty-share agreements attached to it. That would be hugely more risky to manage than just 10,000 patents owned by the company with no riders attached. For example, say the company wants to sell this portfolio. A sale of the portfolio could potentially be held up by any of those 15,000+ people objecting that the terms prejudice their contractual agreement to a share of revenue. A share of a patent's revenues is a valuable quasi-ownership interest guaranteed by some contract terms, so any sales or other dealings that might impact it could be challenged by the contract holder. Even if any challenge is ultimately unsuccessful, having your portfolio encumbered by tens of thousands of people with some kind of claim on it is undesirable.
> Start ups must locate on college campuses. (Renting unused office space or vacant land.)

Only startups locate on college campus? Not home-based startup? Could a bunch of startup just rent a table or even a mailbox qualify "space rental"? What about a startup gets a day for one desk?

I also not sure why it has to be on campus. I go to City College and some professors are still waiting for a room. The college has spent a few years splitting half of the floor into multiple small offices and classrooms. I don't know about Columbia or NYU though. Also consider friction between the host university and the startup. School campus network usually has some restrictions as to what is allowed and what is not, who is freely to enter the campus and who is not. It can be tough to work with university officials.

I think it should extend to any startup willing to make the economy better, anywhere in NY. Looks like the governor wants to clone Stanford's startup culture.
Odd how lawyers did not stick to the basic rule of letting off steam/having arguments face to face or by phone! Reminds me of the e-mail banter between bankers in London when they were basically fiddling the LIBOR rates. Perhaps it takes a generation to fully understand a new communications technology.
The comparison functions are there to address the comparison for equality of things that don't have an order. So in some sense, they are more explicit (a minute with the docs explains that implementations only need to directly define 2 of them). -1,0,1 style comparisons still exist in Python 2.7, they were dropped in 3.0. Probably one of those things that could have gone either way.

I think comparisons about readability aren't very useful (they are subjective, 'enough' counts), but I sure like the relative terseness of Python (to the point that I lament people who come over and write Java in Python (I don't mean to direct that at you, it's just a thing that happens, where people don't take advantage of things that are very idiomatic and thus clear even when terse)).
symmetricly isn't a correct spelling as far as I can tell. This was just one that jumped out at me, looks like others might have similar issues.

Several of these were already registered for a long time, So I'm not sure how the check was done, but I did pick up UNSeats and UNsays, but I will likely use them as United Nations Says, not unsays which I don't think is something you can do.
It's the weekend, quite a few people do like aviation, and the SR-71 is 'futuristic' by most people's standards; arguably the single coolest vehicle ever built.

In the mid-70s an SR-71 was deployed to the UK and of course it was a sensation in that part of the world. Uncharacteristically, I bullied my mother into collecting breakfast cereal box coupons so I could get a snap-together plastic model of the plane.

Also, it's much more of a hacker's plane than the 'waterfall' approach of things like the F-35. The fact that you start the engines by setting off a small explosion on a special truck surely appeals to a lot of people here.
Why do you assume my customers have browsers that support SNI? About 10% are still running IE8.
Can we please make fun of this "specification" very very loudly as a warning to people who might think this is even a remotely good idea?

Decimal floating point is actually a good, underutilized idea. However, there is a VERY good specification here:
http://speleotrove.com/decimal/dbspec.html

It is written by people who understand the problem, and have thought quite deeply about the solutions.

As opposed to this pile of garbage ...
See Pegasus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(rocket)

Unlikely though. Pegasus benefits from the exceptional payload capacity of the B-52 and L-1011 airframe and power plant.
When I read that I was not so sure what the person who wrote that actually wanted to say.

Cause it sounds a bit like:

The SR-71 was built with solid engineering and hard work, this on the other hand is a pice of shit.
Simple trick to revive NiMH AA batteries
It's getting more difficult. The Google iOS apps for Gmail and YouTube for example use the same user credentials, i.e., I can no longer have only my Gmail account in the Gmail app and only my YouTube account in the YouTube app.
In a real free market the cartels would be undercut by competitors not fixing their prices.

You mean in a real-life market.
I enjoyed Assange's talk.
If you're shooting for universal applicability, then you can't really cater only to the average use case.
Sorting by length is an interesting programming problem; it can't be done by a regular expression. One way is to use a mask:

% sed -e "s/./x/g" < original.txt > mask.txt
% paste mask.txt original.txt | sort | cut -f 2
% rm mask.txt
I am genuinely curious. Didn't satellites and drones make this obsolete as a concept?
One word: superb. You can hardly ask for better than this.

I wonder if Netflix realizes they could offer all of their content in P2P format, too, now (while still being a seed out of many themselves), and they could avoid the whole peering deals mess, too.
Just as a sort of FYI in case it isn't well known, commenting is a form of upvoting here, so the ideal response to let something fall off the front page an into obscurity is to just note it and move on :-). Eventually people think "Oh another plane story" and ignore it, and balance is restored.
The other thing you can do at that speed is intercept enemy planes. The SR-71 was developed from an interceptor project:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-12
Sure, but if /dev/random supplies me 256 bits without blocking, then the random pool behind /dev/urandom must have been initialised with at least that much estimated entropy by that point too, right?
But that doesn't make much sense to me. Like, if I got mugged on the street, my jimmies would be rustled, despite the fact that thousands of muggings occur and have occurred for centuries.
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He said it had a non-zero probability and should be considered, not that it was the most available explanation.

Considering that just a few days ago, China suffered a terrorist attack on a railway station by separatists that left nearly three dozen dead, it would certainly not be surprising to see an attack against an airplane flying to China and carrying a large number of Chinese passengers.
I did this to make the above:

sort /tmp/foo |awk '{ print length, $0 }'|sort -n|awk '{print $1}'|uniq -c|awk '{r="";i=s=$1/10;while(i-->0)r=r"#";printf "%15s %5d %s %s",$2,$1,r,"\n";}'
1. I think the segfault is explored in this thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.gambit/7068/match...

Basically, the problem is with the version of llvm/clang that Apple uses in Xcode 5.

Some of the newer Xcode betas might fix it. I personally use the Xcode 4 compiler. You could probably also build your own clang from their SVN.

For more info you could probably ask the mailing list.

2. I definitely looked at chicken, and I can't remember my exact reason for going with gambit, but it was a practical one. I don't think I could get chicken up and running on the iphone for some reason. Chicken did seem to be better documented with better libraries. Gambit may be faster though.

(I started working on this about a year ago. The situation may be completely different now.)

My game isn't too complex, compared to, say, a first person shooter. I'm not sure if the GC implementation would start to matter in that circumstance. I recommend trying one and then if you're happy with it, great. If not, most of the code will be portable.

3. No. I don't have much experience with them (besides learning the basics in school). I did use a lot of closures, anonymous lambdas, and lambda builder functions.

Glad you're enjoying the game!
He's just proposing it. It doesn't carry any weight.
Instead of being stuck with yet another inaccurate number type for integers, I want to see hardware assisted bigints. Something like:

- A value is either a 63 bit signed integer or a pointer to external storage, using one bit to tell which.

- One instruction to take two operands, test if either is a pointer, do arithmetic, and test for overflow. Those cases would jump to a previously configured operation table for software helpers.

- A bit to distinguish bigint from trap-on-overflow, which would differ only in what the software helper does.

- Separate branch predictor for this and normal branches?

I don't know much about CPUs, but this doesn't seem unreasonable, and it could eliminate classes of software errors.
I would suggest that's a strong indicator that it is bad.
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Direct link to the column hosted by Usenix (mirror): https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1403_02-08_mickens.pdf
Why I never close Emacs
It's just the snowball effect. Every post about SR-71 encourages more people to learn something about it and that sometimes results in another post to HN.