skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the impression from looking at local "big data" events that the enterprise software crowd has tuned into big data.

I fear that now that SOAP and enterprise buses have gone their way, they look a new buzzword to sell. More solutions looking for problems...
Hey, with the Facebook acquisition it's even more sci-fi than ever. What's more cyberpunk than amazing virtual reality technology that's owned and controlled by a corporation with more money than some countries, whose purpose is to gather information about every aspect of its users lives in order to sell them junk?
If you're feeling a bit sleepy, take a nap.
Author here, I have to manually approve comments, and did not delete this one (way too much spam not to do so), sorry. Different compilers and architecture will have different results, I explained that in a previous post.

Either way, you should see a noticeable difference as the size increases, which was the point.
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This could also be read as - "Signs you might be in a startup"
Balanced diet? For the longest time, the FDA has claimed

This is what sets my alarm bells off the most loudly. When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, we heard over and over how the science was settled. Fat was bad for you. Nutritionists the world over were supposedly on board with the food pyramid. Contrarians like Atkins who had objections to the science and advocated something different were ignored -- or to the extent that they received media attention, they were ridiculed or held up as misguided or frauds.

It was an extremely painful and costly example of top-down, politically motivated, government funded "science". Although we learned some lessons about sugar vs fat vs protein, society learned almost nothing about avoiding this kind of trap again in the future.
Yes MIPS support will be needed for an official solution I guess (at least there seems to be only one ABI spec for MIPS Android, o32, MIPS32r1).

I really don't know how many MIPS Android devices there are out there.
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I find that very difficult to imagine. JC isn't some mid level manager with a pet project in mind. He's one of the founding technical leads in the company FB just acquired. He has high political capital as well as personal financial independence. A close minded brush off like that would be likely to get that suit fired.
MegaUpload's problem went far beyond the fact that they just didn't take down all copies of a file with a DMCA complaint against it.
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Jordan curve theorem
Why Enterprise Java Beans?
"But while big data promise much to scientists, entrepreneurs and governments, they are doomed to disappoint us if we ignore some very familiar statistical lessons.

“There are a lot of small data problems that occur in big data,” says Spiegelhalter. “They don’t disappear because you’ve got lots of the stuff. They get worse.”"

This should be the main learning point. Humans can be astonishingly bad at dealing with stats and biases which can led to erroneous decisions being made. If you want an example where such decisions by very smart people can have catastrophic consequences, look up the Challenger disaster [1].

I rarely see people stating their assumptions upfront, which doesn't help the problem (I guess it's not cool to admit potential weaknesses). The more people/companies that get into 'big data' (without adequate training) the more false positives we're going to see.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disast...
Starbucks do not sell coffee. In fact, people at the US rarely drink coffee.

Or we can get over holier than you attitude, and recognize that some people just like those milk drinks, and call them "coffee", whatever that term means on our culture :)
Thanks a lot for support. After a bit of thinking I've come to realize that my motivation for building the app is to learn. And now I realize that I'll probably stop learning if I don't go all the way and complete it. That way hopefully I'll have fewer reasons to abandon my next app.
> Besides, what might be copyright infringement to one user might be legitimate usage to another

While technically true, I think it is very rare that a file is DMCAd for one user while another is sharing it legitimately. Rare enough that a trip to customer service is warranted.

> For example, you might have an illegal copy of an ebook in your folder, but I have the same copy, but mine was paid for. Should I lose access to mine?

Note that the discussion here revolves around sharing, not having personal access. So while you should (and would with Dropboxs current system) retain your own access to the files, you shouldn't be able to share it, which seems reasonable to me.
The MIT network was not and is not "anything goes." There are rules.

MIT kept on gradually increasing their attempts to kick him off the network and then things escalated to physical trespassing.
Thanks. I'll try to complete it as much as possible and will definitely reach out to the community for feedback.
I second this. The Sipser text was one of my favorites from my university career. It's very short and covers a lot of material. There's no fluff at all, but it still manages to do a good job explaining the topics. Solid textbooks like that are very rare. It's one of only 3 books I elected to keep after the course was over (the others being an 8086 assembly language reference and an intro to computer security).
The guy shared a link for the file, which is the reason it got flagged. There is nothing pointing to Dropbox taking down matching private copies.
> Likewise an American would never understand the smallness of being, say, a Luxembourg citizen and travelling to France within a day.

Luxembourg even borders France, so you could "travel to France" in five minutes by just stepping over the border. Just like you could "travel to Mexico" .. or maybe that's a bit harder than five minutes because of border controls, maybe Canada? No?

And, Luxembourg is so tiny, if you'd spend a day travelling "from Luxembourg to France", I'd argue you actually spent max half an hour travelling "from Luxembourg to France", and the most part of your day travelling "in France" ;-)

Your point stands, of course.
Or "Signs it is weekend". I was expecting a psychological analysis of human behavior and prime instincts about survival, instead we get this fluff.
A startup doesn't deliver for long periods of time?
Also, who says a dev in a startup has to be stressed all the time?
"Parents getting educated"

I think most of us know that sugar cereals are bad, sunnyd is fake and disgusting, and soda is poison. The problem is we just don't care. At least that's what it looks like. When you see an obese child whose parents are also obese and they're all happily consuming their favorite poisonous snack do you see that as an educational challenge? I see it more as a discipline problem.
Among VC-backed exits, consumer tech dominates enterprise
All of these sound like symptoms of a total loss of control. Whether through poorly negotiated contract or necessity, you're in a position where decisions of any importance are taken out of your hands.

Not being the master of your own fate (edit: insomuch as you can choose what to work on and when to work) can be brutal for some people. I'm not at all suited for it.
People in the US drink coffee constantly!

...in my experience. Unless by coffee, you don't mean ground coffee beans, with the option of milk/cream and/or sugar?
I definitely recognize these patterns from non-startups. Ingredients: demanding customers, company led by former developers who still avoid all non-coding related improvements as enterprisy. Often it is simply the Peter Principle at work, duct-tape programming led you here, but not further.
You didn't have an exercise in building compilers using yacc/bison or similar, generating assembler code? It was a required exercise on my university (uni. of tech. Vienna). Though it was the only time when I wrote assembler (and it wasn't x86 assembler but 64bit alpha assembler, because this instruction set is simpler to teach - it's RISC).
> everything in the film has actually come to pass

everything but what the world so desperately needs: vigilante guerilla airco repairmen.
Great article. I think the brightest gem here is the Multiple comparisons problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons
IMO "ps aux | grep" is better than pgrep, it's nicely formated and allow option like "--color", which allow to quickly find the option/process you were looking for.
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But that's crazy in my view - how can a plane just turn back on itself and fly completely the wrong way for hours without anyone either noticing or alerting a higher authority. I mean, as far as I can tell this just wouldn't happen if flying from one location to another in the west.

Imagine if a plane took off from New York bound for Vancouver, and just turned back on itself and started flying out into the ocean. No one would notice or do anything?!
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Almost all of my side projects are eventually abandoned.
I use different randomly generated passwords and randomly generated answers to those stupid security questions for every identity I have, which is a lot. I was willing to trade money and time to use a third party tool to manage these, because I can't remember an arbitrary number of arbitrarily long strings of nonsense.
I think that's why when you buy a replacement adaptor in India, they give one with UK plug (which has the three prong). However, even with such an adaptor, I experience earth issues (if put my plugged in headphones around my neck, they shock like eletriculing leashes).
If all you want is to run ADF images, a Minimig is a good alternative. There's a bunch of other FPGA based alternatives too. Or you can pick up refurbished A1200's + WHDLoad (which patches a large number of games to make them installable on harddisk and behave in a system friendly manner)
Unusually for an online notebook, the cells have been saved in an unexecuted state. Making the page uninteresting if not worthless.
I see quite a striking parallel in the way AGW "denialists" are treated similarly to how the likes of Yudkin were treated for speaking out against the dogmatic ideas of health "science".

Very few scientists today speak out against the "climate change" dogma out of fear of losing their jobs, status among their peers, or funding - and those who dare are ridiculed, despite having published peer reviewed science (although little of it gets into established journals). There's no such thing as "settled science", and the term alone should set alarm bells ringing.
I feel exactly like this but regarding my studies at university
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And what exactly is standard about this?
It's fucked up in a morbidly fascinating way how everyone here is just going through the technical details of how this particular variety of oppression works, instead of seeing the oppression itself.

What's going on is that a government's subjects are saying things it doesn't want them to say, and the government has decided to "prevent" it by force. You're right in that it's a bit of a losing game.. up to the point where the oppression gets so severe that the population stops resisting out of fear.

The root problem here, again, is that people believe they should have rulers. They should not, and Turkey is helpfully providing yet another example of why.
Shame on me. I hadn't actually looked at the rest of the market data. I came across that figure while researching how many shares Microsoft had in Facebook from a "Related Links" box.

Even if I had, I still shouldn't have repeated the speculation of the cause. Maybe the announcement stopped the share value sliding by 14%. I was already aware that one of the great fallacies of market reporting is News Item X caused change in Share Price Y.
I have an apple script that syncs the itunes library with another computer on the network.

That being said, I think it's usefulness is as limited as you seem to think it is.
Ok, it's starting to get creepy :P
Well I don’t believe in the rules like “you have to sleep at least 8 hours”, I think it depends on the person and in the part of your life you are in. Some people are able to perform great 8 hours, other people 10 hours and other people 16 hours (like Jack Dorsey). Each one has to know himself/herself.

What I don’t understand is that if someone is about to faint because he didn’t sleep enough keeps working…
Here is a quote that this article remind me of:

"Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength." -- Jim Rohn
One should ignore that speculation. I got caught up in the hyperbole. I should know what X caused change in price Y is one of the fallacies of market reporting.
As if to prove my point, you're using really random, idiosyncratic reasons to prevent creation of TLDs, and neglecting to consider that they might have any number of values we are yet to anticipate.

They don't need a reason to be added, other than offering more choice and more possibilities. You can not like them all you want, that doesn't mean they won't have value or that people shouldn't be free to explore the possibilities as they please.
Bungie after Microsoft: Halo. Another great memory!
Thank-you for that. Reading now. So far it looks like good science.
Does it say "Loading ..." in the top-right corner?
These also work: http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S0360X-Ultra-spec-SCT-Orange-Anti...

I cured my insomnia by replacing white compact fluorescent lamps with amber lamps from http://lowbluelights.com. An old comment on this (I have made too many comments here--it's a disgrace!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495358
You probably have an Android linked to your Gmail account, huh?
I'm English, and i thought "get" was just some weird provincial pronunciation of "git".

As for etymology, the OED thinks it came from "get":

http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/78536?redirectedFrom=git#eid
It launched a catchy brand that was for a time the most dominant social bookmarking site on the internet. I don't think they would have chosen to do anything differently with respect to their original domain name.
Any plan on making this follow the "Secret Service" (system keyring) freedesktop standard? Then it will be accessible to programs via libsecret.
> a provocative essay published in Wired in 2008, “with enough data, the numbers speak for themselves”

I think that's indicative of Wired breathless enthusiasm for technology that turned my off buying the print version many years ago.

Scrape away some of the hyperbole and it is true that data driven management has made many companies more competitive and, if I dare mention the hobgoblin, efficient.

Hunches and ideas can only get you so far. It is important to visit the data gemba and do the genchi genbutsu.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gembutsu
I am going to get a migraine and an ulcer reading those. I think filing bogus patent claims should be an actionable offense.
And many of us don't want to be just consumers.
I switch to doing anything mind-numbingly boring where mistakes will not cause critical problems when I'm sleep deprived.

E.g. at home, if I notice I'm too tired to focus on something challenging, I'll do the dishes, or clean the kitchen, or tidy up.

At work, I might tidy the server room, or go through my cron-job folder and investigate all the errors/warnings I've filed away as "annoying but harmless; needs fixing some day" that usually involve fixes that are low risk and easy to verify. Anything that are risky (e.g. requiring changes to a production database server...) I'll defer if possible.

I find a lot of the boring/reptitive tasks are easier to do when I'm tired, as when I'm tired I fall into repetitive routines easily, so as long as I push myself to get started on something repetitive, I'll just keep doing it without getting easily distracted.
I did not downvote you, but, in a moment like this, when a man who has devoted a significant portion of his life to this community, is departing the very community, are you sure you want to just club all the emotion into a single monotonous word like 'drama' ? Why so much negativity??
Power of sweatpants
"All of this is trivial."

No, describing it in English on HN is trivial. Getting all of this to work in the really real world is incredibly difficult and time-consuming. Components and infrastructure will inevitably find novel ways of failing that your three-bullet architecture didn't take into consideration.

That said, I agree that this is a problem that can be solved with a message broker. I just don't think it is easy. If you can make a system work with fewer moving parts, then you probably should.
Yes, lots of people were. But it wasn't mainstream.
Well, one of the reasons we hear a lot about VR, like 3d printing is that key patents have expired.

What are they going to patent?

Having a gyroscope in your head?
A screen attached to your eyes?
low persistence screens(valve idea)?
> all on exactly the same terms

It's not that simple, but it is that heavily-regulated:

http://law.onecle.com/california/insurance/10089.html
And how is your comment any different...
I'm much more impressed when someone can squeeze information out of small data. W.S Gosset was extracting tons of information from as little as two observations. I'm very grateful that my advisor guided my cohort to work with two-observation MLE in many contexts. This type of practice focuses the analyst on squeezing out as much information as possible. When applied to big data, this approach can be very useful. Big data comes with data wrangling challenges, but if you don't carefully squeeze out information, you'll be leaving tons and tons on the table.
if i work for facebook and i want to figure out something about my users, isn't it safe to say N = All since the data im accessing is all user data from fb?
it's easy to go wrong with big data, and although the article glossed over some fairly important things (assuming the people who work on these datasets are much dumber than they are in reality), they're right on about idea that the scope and scale of what big data promises may be too grandiose for it's capabilities
Don't forget the MIDI though.
Did inbreeding doom the Mammoth?
I find it amusing that the article talks about big mistakes in polling data, when the clear winner of the last two US elections is one Nate Silver, who aggregated polls to get predictions so close to the actual results, one wonders why people actually vote anymore.

Now, just like with every other technological solution, we only learn about the limits of its use by overuse. There's plenty of people out there storing large amounts of data and getting no valuable conclusions out of it. But the fact that many people will fail doesn't mean the concept is not worth pursuing.

Chasing what is cool is a pretty dangerous impulse. The trick is to be able to tell when it can pay off, and to quickly learn when it will not, and cut your losses. Maybe you don't need big data, just like maybe your shiny cutting edge library might not be ready for production.
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No. Being wrong is not unforgivable, and the steps they have taken to remedy this issue are "good" ones.

What I'm peeved about is that they dared to violate their users' privacy in such an extensive way in the first place... and that there are no consequences from doing that.
I assume the long-term plan is that PNaCl will be handling language-support issues and so directly adding Go language-support to Android isn't worthwhile since the work will be reproduced by PNaCl.

Or it's just the usual problem that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Historically, Google hasn't been so hot at integrating their various projects together, their new round of consolidating crap into Google Plus and Hangouts is both recent and demonstrates that this isn't their field of expertise.

I'm always shocked that Google doesn't throw even more resources behind Android. Android is well-positioned to take on Windows itself... but instead they juggle it and their Chrome platform and keep Android restricted to the tablet/phone space.
Oni was awesome though.
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Again, that's not the structure of the law. The DMCA requires that a takedown notice specify the specific content. Both the data itself and the usage have to be identified, there's no notion in the law of forbidding access to specific "files" by their data alone.
I find it odd that the single most important command is absent from the list: man (w/ -k, or apropos). The article could really do with a section 0 to explain it.

Armed with the ability to actually find commands and RTFM, you don't need to try and remember stupid lists of commands.

Obviously it's helpful to remember commands, particularly frequently used ones - but you should start with the right mentality: that of being able to use your initiative to work something out, rather than resorting to google and not having to think.
Why would Microsoft in their right mind do that? unless you port go to the CLR,it's not going to happen.
I bought many of these chips awhile back for fun retro projects. Anybody have any suggestions on what to do with a 68000?
Accepting what is
I should hope it doesn't work that way, because under section 117 of the Copyright Act I'm allowed to keep an archival copy. [0]

[0] http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html
If we aren't careful the singularity AI will believe in God, and not necessarily us.
This is why I love the work of Dr. Maya Adam out of Stanford; I took the 1.0 verison of her "Just Cook For Kids" MOOC[0][1] and found it really beneficial.

Granted, getting parents to sit down and spend an hour or two a week watching videos on eating right (and then spending more hours buying groceries and cooking at home) is difficult if they're working minimum-wage jobs and barely making ends meet, and the children of those parents seem like they'd be most vulnerable.

Government initiatives in Canada to improve healthy eating in Nunavut, for example, ended up with passion fruit and coconuts[2] being shipped up to the arctic. I'm not convinced that resulted in better diets for children.

[0] http://justcookforkids.com/

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/childnutrition

[2] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-north/why-i...
I'm pretty sure it was a joke, from both posters.
Alien: Isolation set to release this October
But the article also talks about good polling data too. In effect, people have been making good and bad election predictions for decades.
It'd be easy to believe that, because it is reassuring in a way that calms anxieties about the future of Oculus.

But you only have to look back to Doom 3 to see the cracks in that idea. Many design decisions of that game were unpopular when it was released, and over the following years it came out that those decisions were driven by technical aspects of the engine. Where rather than the engine sacrificing for the design, design sacrificed for the engine.

So it'd be easy to make the less immediately appealing argument that they should push back on Carmack's vision when they think it's gone off the rails.