skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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What happened, did she finally realize the political winds were against her so speaking out against CIA was a good move? She's been one of NSA's staunchest supporters to date.

Is there a big split between CIA and NSA in her mind? There really isn't in reality -- one of the biggest post-9/11 changes is that the "intelligence community" actually acts like a community; even the FBI CT guys aren't viewed too badly by NSA/CIA/JSOC IME.
Postgresql has long been consistently faster than mysql. Count(*) is slow because it is doing what you ask. You solve this problem the same way you solve any aggregate performance problem, with a computed column.
You would think that these organizations would realize that and at least leave their apologists alone, lest they risk something like this occurring.

The fact that they would go this far with one of their biggest allies only goes to show how little respect they have for any kind of legal constraints on their mission.
I'm not even going to go into why the correlation between influence and retraction rate exists, that should be blatantly obvious to any with a background in any of the sciences. Also, we want retractions, it means science works.
I think it comes down to 'is this really the path you should choose?' an example. an owner of a car repair shop wants to hire a new mechanic. He's going to look for the natural/creative problem solver who can improvise and is really into mechanics. So if you are not always thinking about solutions or deep into some technology or industry and wondering how to make it better, more efficient, then why choose this path? (round peg in a square hole).

what are you really good at, or interested in? work hard at that. many ways to contribute in a startup than being the founder / idea man. In fact, it seems there are a fair share of tech startups whose engineers really helped the founders make the service/product marketable. without them it would have been just an idea.
Actually, he made a fairly accurate observation about the behavior of a guy he was covering. Some extremist supporters of the guy he was covering were not very happy with that, but it doesn't matter if 95% of the population says "duh, obviously".

(edited to add, reporting that the emperor has no clothes is not just a firing offense, but an economic death penalty, or if not an economic death penalty its at least incredibly harsh... I saw that fable as a theatrical play as a child, and have often thought the inevitable conclusion, as shown in this example, is more interesting than the play as portrayed.)
eyeroll You can lose the NSA's largest datacenter in a corner of any Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, or Apple datacenter. Even their OMG-gigantzor datacenter in Utah includes a mere 100k square feet of computer room floor area. Given government overhead and inefficiency, a 100k sq-ft NSA datacenter is probably the equivalent of a 10k sq-ft commercial datacenter.

By comparison, one of Apple's datacenter buildings is over 300k sq-ft, and Apple is at best a minor also-ran in the datacenter business.

The NSA's computing facilities are insignificant compared to commercial facilities.
I disagree with this in 9/10 cases. If you're so busy you can't take 15 minutes to chat with someone who comes from outside your network, you're doing something wrong. Get over yourself, take the intro and try to be classy about it.

The 1/10 case would be intros to people who are either in a position where they likely receive dozens of emails from folks they don't know every day (e.g., VCs) or folks with enough name recognition to be in that same spot (e.g., famous people you might know).

You might jeopardize your relationship with the person in that case, but for most of your friends and pretty much anyone reading this comment, you're better off being open instead of self-important.
You should also get in touch with John Fein [0], who's running the Sprint/Techstars Accelerator [1] in Kansas City. They're doing mobile health, starting (today, as it happens) with ten companies.

Like the Twin Cities, KC has a growing health-tech scene, with Cerner and a slew of new companies. There are also more veterinary biotech companies here than anywhere else in the world, and many of them are looking for ways to bring their technologies into the human-health market.

0. https://twitter.com/johnfein

1. http://sprintaccelerator.com/ or https://twitter.com/SprintAccel
Offloading legacy with Hadoop
You could use a stool when you get tired of standing.
> Since entertainment is fungible, the competition for for 12 Years a Slave isn't just Dallas Buyers Club, it's also 2048, reddit, Attack on Titan, the Olympics, and whatever piques my interest during a Steam Sale. That sounds like the increase in supply for entertainment is far outstripping the increase in demand.

That's only because the home video market allowed people the luxury to legally watch any existing movie anytime they want, once they have purchased it, without the possibility of the studio revoking permission.

Don't worry - studios are already trying to think of ways to "fix" that (stream-only content that is never released in DVD format is one example)
It's actually a very bad system.

YouTube with its reporting system has created a de facto situation where rightsholder giants like record companies, their copyrights matter, while the copyrights of the random creator (The Long Tail!) are never enforced.

Maybe you are a long tail creator and you police youtube. But most won't. Maybe they can't. Maybe they are dead.
It's more reasonable than just making things up. There's no proof that it isn't your complete records. There's also no proof that it isn't your full analyzed genome and the complete details of your future as determined by precognizant children in an underground lab. If we're willing to speculate without any concern for concrete facts, there's nothing we can't accuse the government of doing. So sticking to the only facts we have, even if they're shaky, is hardly something to criticize rayiner for.
The point of my post wasn't "use Nix", it was "prefer declarative, self-healing systems."

Clearly if Nix is immature, that is a risk in and of itself. But all else being equal, a declarative, self-healing system is far better than an imperative, ad hoc one.

Other risk factors don't make the difference "go away", because failure risks are compounding. Even if you have a component with a 1% chance of failure, adding 10 other components with a 0.1% chance of failure will still double your overall rate of failure to 2%.

This is not to mention that many failures are compounding; one failure triggers other failures. The more parts of the system that can get into an inconsistent state, the more messed up the overall picture becomes once failures start cascading. Of course at that point most people will just wipe the system and start over, if they can.

File hashes are notable for being one of the places where we rely on probabilistic guarantees even though we consider the system highly reliable. I think there are two parts to why this is a reasonable assumption:

1. The chance of collision is so incredibly low, both theoretically and empirically. Git uses SHA1, which is a 160 bit hash actually (not 128), and the odds of this colliding are many many orders of magnitude less likely than other failures. It's not just that it's less likely, it's almost incomparably less likely.

2. The chance of failure isn't increased by other, unrelated failures. Unlike apt-get, which becomes more likely to fail if the network is unavailable or if there has been a disk corruption, no other event makes two unrelated files more likely to have colliding SHA1s.
The typeclass that provides "toString" in haskell is "Show". It defines a few functions, of which the important one is "show", which takes the original type and returns a string. A function that is equivalent to the java-ish example is:

stringify s = show s

No type definition is necessary, because the compiler can correctly infer the correct, most generic type:

stringify :: (Show s) => s -> String

Or, for any s in type class Show, a function that makes s into a String. Note that dispatch is done statically.

Modern type systems eliminate most of the cost of type safety through good generics and type inference. Mainstream statically typed languages are just 20-30 years behind the state of the art.

(note that the example actually can be reduced to: stringify = show)
Every wireless-network device is capable of connecting directly to other wireless devices rather than (or in addition to) just connecting to a router/hub. Imagine every wireless device recursively within range of your device (connected to yours, or connected to another device connected to yours, or ...), all capable of forming an ad-hoc network operating independently of the routers/cell-towers/etc normally used, a wireless network bridging all censorship/control boundaries, operating for free, no way to shut it all down. Insofar as there are limits to its extent, some people would provide gateway points to Internet backbones.
I'm a research scientist for a face recognition company and have done a lot of work with attractiveness estimators and sex classification. I've found that the sex classification score and female attractiveness has a pretty high correlation. I think Alice O'Toole has a paper that has a similar finding although I would have to search for the exact reference.
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The value to Aereo is in markets where local geography and budget constraints don't allow everyone to get every channel over the air. For example, we can get NBC, Fox, and PBS reliably, but CBS is spotty and ABC is out of the question (no digital transmitters in our area). The only way for us to get all 5 networks is a service of some kind.
> The real surprise should be that female attractiveness doesn't have a significant impact.

This isn't at all surprising. That the expectation for women is to look good but not too good, professional but not too professional, etc. is something I've encountered for at least a decade.
When you say "incorporated company", what type of company is it? This is a consequential difference in the US, as C-corps are treated differently than S-corps and LLCs, which might be pass-through entities.

If you have a C-corp, and it has US-source income, you need a tax professional, and you will likely spend most of that income on their services. Sorry.

If you have an LLC, the pain-minimizing steps is to fill out a personal tax return with a Schedule C-EZ attached to it. Write the revenue number on the schedule C-EZ. Normally you'd calculate expenses for the business and subtract them, but understating your expenses is not a crime, so save yourself the hassle and just write 0 for all of them. I'm assuming you're asking this question because you're not physically in the US and this company is your sole US-source income, so when you flow that number to the places the Schedule C and 1040-EZ tell you to put it, you'll find that you have 0 tax due. Sign return, mail in, keep copies of the return and documentation of that income number for 6 years.

If you don't want to have to read instructions, TaxAct is fairly decent SaaS for uncomplicated returns, and should be able to handle a simple LLC filing. I used it for rather substantially more complicated returns for 7 years prior to getting a real accountant. I think it will run you about $15.

Depending on where the company is incorporated and how it earns its income, you may have to file state income taxes. You may also have to pay state/local taxes or fees. If any of this is news to you, talk to an accountant.
You don't have the storage/backup and organization costs. I don't ever want to "own" a song or movie again. They're all online. I use rdio now, but if it went away I'd use spotify. If that went away I'd use <whatever>. If that went away...I'll listen to the radio.

Movies would be a little harder, but I'm pretty sure iTunes and Netflix aren't going away any time soon.
He discusses it in the first few paragraphs of the article.
My first job was retail, and I worked it for about four years total, including during college and after service in the Navy. At the time I had skills that translated into being valuable enough to not work in retail that didn't involve a lot of risk (police, security, etc), so it seemed about the best option.

I don't think I quite experienced anything like this, but sometimes it was close. If I felt like a replaceable cog, it's because I was, and I was a replaceable cog in a machine already operating on razor thin margins, which means I had to be a good cog. The funny thing was that due to my Navy experience, I didn't perceive it as all that bad, though the pay was pretty miserable even at two dollars above minimum wage.

I'll say this - working retail was very motivating. I knew I didn't want to do that forever. But I don't know what the 'solution' is as applied to everybody, but I know the solution for me was to finish college and make myself valuable.
This really doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I inherited a Wordpress site someone hacked up for a friend of mine a few months ago. Until then, I wasn't quite aware of the ability to slide malware into it (it was an oldish version of WP).

As it was a relatively static site, I extracted the templates, removed the malware (which had injected itself into the header) and fudged it all into Jekyll[1] and uploaded it again as a static site to webfaction and changed the DNS entries.

Problem solved. Permanently.

I really wish people would do this more rather than pile loads of poorly maintained crap onto shared hosting.

[1] http://jekyllrb.com/
It never ceases to amaze me how many people and self-help practitioners borrow shamelessly from the seven habits and never once expect that any of their audience might just recognise where the material comes from.
I would really love to see proof of this claim.
And in US/Europe it would be going to the same parties as the guy who controls the budget. I don't see any difference in substance.
The folks in the entertainment business who have seen revenue drop since the 90s when bandwidth and mp3 / video encoding became practical would disagree.
Given the many fits pitched about the female founders conference, women-focused coding programs, etc. can you imagine the storm of indignation that would emerge if it ever became public that a fund was doing this?
The Translation of the Firetext App
Does it provide PeerBlock (http://www.peerblock.com/) style protection? Or can it be integrated into it?
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Note that the "double wide" is not twice as wide. 29" vs. 38" is less than one third wider. It is a great idea, though, as long as it's sturdy.
This is a tough one. The challenge with doing this is it greatly increases the work involved, and increases the chance that something gets dropped.

I try to balance it by including everyone on the first note if I can satisfy one of the criterias:
- It would be plausible for them to know each other, and they are of similar status.
- One of them is in the job of taking these intros. (Recruiters, etc)
- I'm 95% sure that they'll hit it off immediately.
Consider the state-of-art on my country:

https://apps.co/inscripciones/convocatoria/ideacion-prototip...

To be there, the contract say the founder MUST spend 50%/week of the time in the incubator (hearing lectures, have somebody tell him how make a business plan, "networking", etc).

I have been there, and get out. I have talked with the people that manage that asking "why not copy y-combinator" (with specific points, btw). But the problem is that that "50%" is billable. The get money for each startup wasting time there...
Between ages 15-21 I worked a lot of retail. I had managers who would do the "on time is late" thing, or make me clock out and then wait for 20 minutes for them to unlock the door at closing time. I knew those things weren't legal, and I'd make a stink about it. I was an exemplary worker, which I'm sure afforded me some leeway, but more importantly I was young, white, and living at home with my middle-class parents. I didn't need the job. I wanted the job of course (56k modems aren't free!) but I didn't have the fear that I or my family might starve if I talked back.

What's the solution? Mandatory severance for every job?
We are 3 months old startup, have ipad and tablet apps in developement, zero experience in sales, our developers are freshers except me with 10 years exp in coding. We thought of trying to get some customers and strangers feedback about our product and their interest before launching the apps on app store. When we mail the prospect about our product, they don't even reply, it may be discarded.

We then tried showing up some data about prospects in our app, attached android, ipad images, at least they could say that they are not interested at this time, or they may decide and let us know sooner. Some of them pick our call, clarify their understanding about apps. Some of them are going ahead and asked for price, how to get the apps working on their mobile device.

For each prospect, our sales rep has to spend a lot of time preparing the data that is relevant to our potential prospect, to send the screen shots.

This article is very good to target high potential prospect who can give us good business even if we spend a 2-3 days to prepare the data for them. Since we lack in sales, we don't know the best way to get this done. For each prospect we have to spend a lot of time, if they are not interested, we are losing our time.
That's probably why he is surprised that it has no effect here.
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Racist jokes? Can you please link or quote some of these racist jokes? In the article, he quotes himself saying: “Romney is very, very comfortable, it seems, with people who are like him. That’s one of the reasons why he seems so stiff and awkward in town hall settings … But when he comes on ‘Fox and Friends,’ they’re like him. They’re white folks who are very much relaxed in their own company.”

Which I don't think is racist. Presumably, he also could have said "they're men", or "they're middle aged", but would not have been accused of being sexist or ageist.

This while article adds weight to my opinion that the USA is not a civilized country. Sure, there are the trappings. But a society that can afford to, but does not, look after those on the margins, is not civilized.
Yes, and Congress is a committee. That's the point of having a parliament.
Interesting. How many files do you have? I recorded a trace of dropbox executing on my windows machine (mostly flat folder hierarchy, ~500MiB , ~1000 files) and the file I/O for querying all my data took 71542.070μs (0.07s). I believe dropbox also does some extra things (reading the NTFS journal, its own file cache-journal, updating hashes, etc ) and so the total File I/O cost was around 2944815.431μs (2.9s). Note that the I/O happened sporadically, and the wall clock time is higher as expected (it didn't block the scheduler from scheduling other processes).

I assume since my data was synced and didn't need to be indexed all over again - I got some savings there. Maybe your dropbox configuration data is corrupted and thats why it needs to index it all again.
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Researchers create 'thinnest possible' LEDs only three-atoms thick
> I would be interested to know if they controlled for the gender of the investors

Controlling this might not necessarily be desirable. One of the problem with randomized studies is that it's difficult to show they generalize well. Given investing does not take place in a randomized environment, that investors were representative of real investors is far more important than they be controlled for.
I believe you did not read the article, as less than one paragraph was on the topic of physical labor, and the rest of the article was about extremely toxic occasionally outright illegal employee / employer relations.

Luckily, due to the "retailapocalpse" or whatever its called, soon virtually no one will have to labor under those conditions, because there will be almost no positions like that. Not that Amazon's warehouses are some kind of workers paradise.

I worked my way thru school in retail supermarkets roughly contemporaneous with the author's youthful experiences a couple decades ago. I see things have gone somewhat downhill since then...
Thinking aloud, I wonder if there should be some sort of minimum wage for the part of your schedule you are on-demand for.
You can adjust and weight samples. Basic survey methodology.
Cost effective way to backup 40TB?
I have about 40TB of files, mostly full blurays ripped by myself.

What would be the most cost effective way to back them up?

Ideally daily, but it can be weekly.

Thanks!
This is a guess, but I would imagine it has to do with the different anti-aliasing algorithms used for preview, versus the actual operation. There are many different anti-aliasing algorithms available. Some are fast, while others can be computationally challenging when working with large amounts of data (pixels).

Because GIMP is designed to work with images of all sizes, those computational costs must be considered for operations like rotation. The "preview" of a rotation needs to occur very quickly, because a user might be rotating an image by hand using a rotation tool. You need redraw speeds that are >30 fps in order for the rotation to appear smooth at all. When you commit to the rotation, GIMP can use a more computationally expensive algorithm. This algorithm will deliver different results when observing at a pixel level.

There are still open questions here, like why is the base layer altered at all? But I suspect that the reasons I've outlined above.