skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take your point, but present my own not so much as a counter-point but as an adjunct that I think also needs to be considered, and so I'm mentioning it in this response.

I appreciate that. (Upvoted, of course.) Thank you. I've noticed before that you devote effort to building up a thoughtful community here.
Ttheir origin cache handled but 5% of all traffic and did very little to help the system. The big takeaway should be to understand the usefullness of every level, both in terms of added cost in maintaining, complexity and equipment so that you know where to invest your energy and what sorts of gains you cab have from that investment. Very nice write up.
Check out local incubators in your city. The websites usually have a mentor list. If one of these people interests you then try reaching out to them via Twitter, Linkedin, etc... but if you don't yet have a business they may not have the time to help.
I guess that stuff appeals to some, and used subtly it can be an aid to understanding transitions.

But when it gets cutesy, what was helpful becomes repellent. Famous examples abound - clippy, the stupid dog, cursor animations.

I for one deny the 'charm' of OSX. It is repellent to me. Yet others love it. So use 'charm' with care, because you're dividing your customers into those who adore you, and those who wouldn't buy your stuff if it was on sale at Goodwill.
Solar has an absolutely $/watt right now. And edge deployed solar solves tons of problems with grid capacity. We really need to get on electric car grid intertie.

Billions is not an incredible amount of money. Fusion research has been horribly underfunded and has and is making great strides.

http://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/reframe/wasteful

So 27B USD (inflation adjusted) in funding over the history of fusion. Pennies.

http://nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/

Estimates for the total cost of the wars is around 4T USD with the current dollar cost of 1.5T USD. In Seattle we are building a 2 mile long tunnel for 4.25B. Our tunnel is 7% of the lifetime fusion budget.

We don't need solar and fusion to solve our fuel problem. We need solar and fusion to pull carbon back out of the atmosphere and the oceans.

Population has absolutely nothing to do with carbon output levels. North America and Europe account for the majority of carbon output and 20% of the worlds population.

edit: fixed number
A big part of the problem is that while there are competing browsers, we just don't see any real competition these days.

Firefox and IE have started copying Chrome in appearance and philosophy. Opera is now based on the same code. Safari is based on similar code, and is unusable by anyone not using a Mac of some sort.

Firefox is perhaps the most viable alternative to Chrome for web developers or advanced users. But due to that lack of competition or original thought, it really isn't much different from Chrome at all. This has become very apparent with the release of Firefox 29, where they both now look nearly identical, and both suffer from the same dumbing-down that has harmed the experience for more advanced web users.
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It's just a subjective take on the age-old question that doesn't add anything to what you already know from philosophy classes.
I've seen that article and its bunk. It takes too completely different things and adds them together to say "Apple and Google spend $20 billion on patent litigation." For example they count the Motorola acquisition as $12 billion (IIRC) towards that amount.
I used to work on supercomputers (Cray T3E to Seaborg era) and then joined google.

The difference between big data and hpc is rapidly disappearing. Many aspects that people ascribe to MR have been removed or varied to enable more HPC-like computing.
Unlikely. Afaik [1], the crucification of Jesus, is one of the few events of his life we can account for historically.

Anyway, as far as the description of this "bible" goes, even wikipedia has much better information on Gospel of Barnabas :)

I believe this discovery is valuable to you mostly in two instances, first, if your secret passion are old manuscripts, and second, if you are interested in 5-10 century muslim-christian syncretics :)

[1] known from several talks of B. Ehrman, but mostly from this lecture of Dale B. Martin http://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-152/lecture-13

[edit, removed wiki link]
I think you're sort of missing the point.

It's not about 'editing your github files', and anybody who brings up VIM is definitely missing the point (it's not for you!). As I understand it Prose is about the potential to host totally CMS-free sites (e.g. Jekyll sites) on Github and give your customers a decent editor to alter their content.

It's potentially combining the best of the 'push to git to deploy static site' ethos with 'CMS-like editing capabilities so your customers can reasonably edit content'. I think that's why a lot of people are watching this project closely.

I personally would be happy to see this reposted once a month so we can see its progress and maybe encourage more competition in this space.
I'm not an American and all my passports were legally issued by my government after following the (extremely hassle free and reasonable) application process. The additional passports were valid for two or three years (don't remember exactly), I certainly didn't need to surrender them and in any case I was using them constantly.

All I had to do was pay the processing fee and document why I needed them. Admittedly, the third one was harder to get and required an interview but even that was perfunctory.

I have heard that most countries are much less eager to give out passports than mine.
Something similar happened to me. It was a thursday , I was slightly under the weather and decided to take a cab to college as i had an imp exam that day. On my way I was doing some last min revision and i 20 mins the cabbie dropped me, I found my wallet to pay him for the ride and got off.

Less than and a minute later i realized that i left my phone in the cab. I could still see him driving off and decided to just run incase he got my attention, but the guy sped away.

I walked back to the college gate and found my friends who were wondering what had got into me and why was i running. On explaining them what happened my friend offered me his phone. I Used his phone to call my cell atleast five times , hoping the cab guy would realize that there was a phone in the back seat and come back. Unfortunately that didn't happen. I went and sat for my exam , but was annoyed at my carelessness.

Tried my phone again only to find it switched off. This time was more than annoyed. I went to the police and also spoke to the other cabbies near the area i got a cab from telling them what happened. A few months had passed , I got another phone and forgot about it.

interestingly enough had the same exam but finals this time and was on my way to college. I spotted the cab guy who previously took my phone parked waiting for a passenger to hail his cab. I went upto him and confronted him . he said he didn't hav it and maybe I was mistaken. I knew his face and told him i wasn't and asked him to return my phone. This time i took down his cab no and told him if he didn't i would just hand his details to the cops .

He hesitated and said he would bring it back the next day , as he had given it away . I asked him to whom and he plainly said ,"Ma'am I'll bring it back to you. He gave me his no voluntarily".

I did get it back but it was slightly broken.
So I will register "benefltaccess.com" as "Morgan Staniey". Would the people who fall for phishing actually notice? I think removing URLs just feeds into Google's "door to the internet" monopoly and really dislike it. People should rather be educated about how websites actually work.
The NSA did have direct access to internet/telephone carrier traffic - http://www.wired.com/2013/06/nsa-whistleblower-klein/

Do we know everything now? Certainly not. NSA has resources that nobody knows about and I'm 100% certain that they have direct access to your data in ways that nobody has ever imagined.
Apparently the less you know, the more secure you are. Fishing is a problem with the web, not the browser. Please quit trying to fix it with the browser.
Governments do spend huge amounts on medical treatment. Medicare/Medicaid/NIH funding amounts to hundreds of billions per year.
Why good memories are less likely to fade
Hey, you beat me with the wiki link by 13 minutes :-)
This yaml approach requires me to know a lot more about existing software than the bash script does. I will need to:

- Read up on the documentation for osxc or battle school

- Look at other configuration files to get a feel for what mine needs to look like.

- Learn about the differences between playbooks or recepies or what have you.

- Download some proprietary software that I will likely never use again.

This is all mental overhead to me.

In comparison, how do you create your own bash script? You already know how to do most of it. If not, just look at the script above. It doesn't require a genius to understand a simple bash function. This approach will take you at most, 5 minutes.

Or maybe I'm just not seeing some huge advantage of these large boxen-esque frameworks for installing some programs.
I had two ideas, not exactly sure how to get them to work though:

1) Replace the pointless hashing with some actually useful calculation or form of work. Trouble is, I'm not sure what kind of asymmetrically difficult function could be used instead of hashing that would have some value for society.

2) Replace the hashing with some kind of genetic algorithm or other AI solution search. So instead of trying to find the proper hash, you're trying to find the proper algorithm to some currently-posed problem. Miners who find the current-best solution can then be rewarded with some form of bitcoin, which can be traded among themselves as currency, or used to decide what the next problem the network searches for a solution to will be. I figure this would make the entire blockchain into a giant sort of AI/brain, with the problems it tackles being more or less democratically chosen by whoever wants to spend the most of their bitcoin for it. The spent bitcoin then goes to the people who find the best solutions, in addition to whatever small amount of new bitcoin is mined. And replace "bitcoin" with whatever the new name would be, of course.

May be possible, maybe not. There's basically no chance I'll be able to implement some version of either any time soon, so feel free to run with it if anyone thinks they can.
Some random person on SO does not speak for US government. The list is to my personal knowledge at least in part b.s.
> Is it? What are the numbers?

Providing more detailed background and better numbers on phishing sounds like a good idea. However, this is an experiment that is not on track to ship in any version of Chrome, so I wouldn't consider it a gating criteria for continuing to experiment.

> Chrome removed the protocol for no reason and Firefox felt obliged to do the same, and now we're removing the whole url just to help folks who can't be bothered to read it?

The decision to not display the HTTP scheme was not related to security (and it wasn't to my personal liking). However, it was done in such a way that it was effectively security neutral.

> Another comment suggests "source code highlighting" for the url, where the actual domain would be emphasized while still showing the whole url: what are your thoughts on this?

As I commented elsewhere, Chrome has been highlighting the origin since its inception. However, phishing is still a serious problem, so the team that's working on this is investigating clearer indicators like the ones in this experiment.
In general, there's nothing preventing you from using threading in MapReduce. For example, your Map() function can act as a capture buffer (calls to map just save data into a thread safe queue), you can have multiple worker threads reading items from that queue, communicatijng, and finally, a thread that calls Flush() on the results of the thread pool/thread queue.
As far as selling the biggest difference between now and then was back then software could only be shipped on floppy disks, so it was more like manufacturing, warehousing, and shipping physical merchandise.
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>"Show me a commercially viable, available, highly-sensitive touch screen (that responds to fingers) small enough to fit in your pocket (an environment with erroneous input) that is as responsive as the one of the first iPhone and that existed before the iPhone was revealed?"

Why move the goalpost? Your claim is that the mechanism is obvious, not that the technology didn't exist. If a line can be reasonably accurately drawn with a stylus (as on the Newton and Palms which followed) then it can track a simple swipe. I played games on my Palm pilot that employed dragging as a mechanism, so why not a security measure? Again, the "swipe to unlock" didn't exist because it was not obvious and you are employing confirmation bias to further a view that influenced by hindsight bias. I did rebut your points; hindsight bias.

>"With that in mind, twisting/arcing and sliding are the obvious solutions to anyone with knowledge of locks, digital, physical or otherwise"

And the PIN isn't more obvious for digital devices?
From Python-land, if you find that no brackets are meaning it's hard to tell where conditionals & functions end, it's usually a good sign that you're logic is getting too nested.

Yes, it's a pain to work with massively nested logic, but it's actually python's way of saying, "dude! keep your functions small and simple!", which I've come to appreciate.

It's one of the things I like about python, actually, is that it really tries hard to encourage you to write good code. Once things start looking ugly and hard to understand, it usually means that the logic & method you're trying to implement isn't a great choice.
have you considered applying to https://www.hackerschool.com/ ?
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Drug Costs and Prices: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction...
Well, a 'sunday' front-pager. Meaningless. Monday morning all this lint will be swept away once more than a couple thousand readers turn their attention back to HN.
From the perspective of a USian, the UK doesn't sound like one of the best places to visit anymore either. A further along soft-surveillance state where I won't have citizen's rights..
Can somebody find the original press release?

I'd love to know more about this supposedly new manuscript of Gospell of Barnabas.
This is a part of a software career where social skills and ability to make new friends help. Be nice, be curious.. be humble and honest with your skill level.

In an open source project that you want to gain some experience with, or someone in your company that will help you with upward movement... the same skills will apply.
Well, if www and .com become meaningless then advertisers will use "type xxx yyy into you bar" instead (which goes to the search engine) or hash tags (already doing this). Then Google could come up with "associate permanent keywords with your URL" (for a small fee of course) to guarantee that those keywords won't shift under you when your Google ranking changes.
Sometimes, we cannot simple turn off the computer because of workload and find a real life. I think that we must prioritize: turn off those notifications and those apps seeking your attention; and talk to your friends around you instead of those online friends.
Firefox solves this rather elegantly by making the subdomain and the part after the domain light grey, with the actual root domain in black.

The URL is intact, and the root domain stands out clearly.
Agreed.

Sorry for the cranky post today, but this purposefully (in my mind) obfuscates the issue. Clean UIs are awesome. Taking away the friction between my wanting to go somewhere on the net and getting there? Also awesome. Effectively killing the idea of the URL and giving yet more control to Google for my movement around the web? A disaster.
There already exists legal search engines. Notably to me is WestLawNext[0] which has a legal search engine, which I believe is sold to large legal firms. There also seems to be a direct competitor called LexisNexis.

[0]http://thomsonreuters.com/westlawnext/
That wasn't quite a prediction, it was the prevailing spirit of the times.

Ideally for volumes, yes, one would go for spheres. But in reality more often than not that translates to a cylinder because of technology trade-offs, with perhaps some endcaps. And not surprisingly, computing has already been there and done that.

If you take a bunch of compute nodes, roll the rack row up to minimize cable length, you end up with ...a classic Cray design from the '80s. And yes, the wiring in the middle of a cylindrical Cray was as 3D as it could physically get...

Looking at the picture, the technology of the era was an obvious dead-end:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Cray-1-p...

and the trend is clear, just as it was back then with VLSI. Now the race is on to integrate those wires at a very large scale... (Cray also had a classic, visually appealing design approach to dump the heat, not unlike the enthusiast PC market today with commercial liquid coolers and some high-end HPCs)
So you think crackers(>hackers) and people with bad intention will be unable to see the URLs and won't be able to do phishing easily.

So, through obscurity you will achieve security.

Edit: or you expect users to notice phishing attempts more clearly by only displaying the domain name?
No, that's true, and in my experience entering the UK as a tourist can be as nerve-wracking as entering the US. Meanwhile, it can even be sad missing out on passport stamps while getting around Europe and passing the unmanned border crossings!

I think after terrorism, one thing the US and UK fear are working holiday types entering and especially without reasonable funds. We were grilled in both places.

(Australian, visited both 2-3 times each and think both are fantastic tourism drawcards but the entry process is daunting.)
I once worked with an Eritrean whose family came to Australia by way of Canada after moving to Saudi. They moved away from Saudi because my colleague's father noted that there are no protections for black people under Saudi law - if something went wrong, they were utterly screwed. They could be targeted by criminals and the law wouldn't care a jot. Saudi laws should not be characterised as "just a little stricter and odder than we're used to".

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/saudi-arabia-th...

Saudi also practises that modern form of slavery where slaves aren't property now, they're merely foreign labourers who have had their identity documents removed so they can't escape and their promised wages withheld. http://www.al-bab.com/blog/2013/december/saudi-arabia-defend...
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Also, Yiddish is basically German but written with the Hebrew character set. The explosion of Yiddish translations is probably and simply because the Translate team at Google just got round to implementing Yiddish translation, which was relatively simple for them as they only needed to combine German translation (already mature code) with the Hebrew character parsing/writing code.
If black vs. light grey is your concept of "highlighting" then I have to tell that I didn't even notice the behavior until today. Maybe you should try actual color before removing functionally?
With exponentially-growing things, 1% done is halfway there. From a Ray Kurzweil article:

"Kurzweil noted that many people don’t understand the basic math of exponential trends. When the Human Genome project had sequenced only 1% of the genome after seven years of costly labor, many cited the lack of progress as evidence that the project was doomed. Yet the sequencing project was riding an exponential trend in the performance DNA sequencing methods. Instead of taking another seven years to sequence a second 1%, they reached it after only one year. Then they reached 4% in about another year, then 8%, 16%, and so on. It took about as much time to sequence the last 99% as it took to sequence the first 1%. That’s the nature of exponential trends — they seem to start glacially slowly but finish lightning fast."
i would love to give working with you a shot. i am a python guy, strong with .net and java who loves writing code and bulding apps with others. please contact me at jwheeler1 at googles email service.
The best mentors I've had have been people I didn't know were my mentors until I thought about it.

A perhaps my experience would be 'People I met outside a casual social circle (though I see no reason they can't exist within) with a high level of experience and insight into a field of expertise (technical or non-technical) that also enjoyed my company and my giving / reflecting something back to them.'

Seek people out in environments you're comfortable, and don't discount the value-add face-to-face contact can make. A small word of warning also - mentors can be great inspirers, but that doesn't mean they would make a good fit as a boss or employee later (just as working _for_ a friend can break relationships).
You want to help people feel more secure? How about you downgrade every https website to Yellow color, unless it uses PFS (only with a few good cipher-suits) and the latest version of TLS. Requiring HSTS would probably be good, too. They should also be required to have 100 percent of the site under https, before getting the Green color. No mixed content.

Right now you (and other browsers, too) give the "safe" color Green to to the bare minimum of https security, even if it uses TLS 0.9.8 and RSA 1024-bit. Sites are not going to upgrade their security policies as long as you, the browser vendors, keep showing them to the users as "perfectly safe". There's no incentive in it. I think it's on browser vendors to push some of the incentives.
Trade Gothic wants to get to the facts, but Bell Gothic wants to have some fun.

Their distinct personalities don’t play well off of each other and create a kind of typographic mud if careful attention is not paid.

And did you miss the whole "Don’t Mix Moods" section?
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VRCoin. It's a blockchain that simultaneously doubles as storage for items a decentralized virtual space. You require the coin to store/remove items from the space [namecoin for coordinates essentially].

I think once VR takes off there's going to be a desire for a virtual world that's not owned by any one specific entity. The blockchain acts as decentralized storage as well as spam control, so people don't just place dicks everywhere (or rather it would be costly to do so).
I'd like to see it once a month. Half-baked (and better) ideas getting submitted piecemeal just don't get traction alone.
VRCoin. It's a blockchain that simultaneously doubles as storage for items a decentralized virtual space. You require the coin to store/remove items from the space [namecoin for coordinates essentially].
I think once VR takes off there's going to be a desire for a virtual world that's not owned by any one specific entity. The blockchain acts as decentralized storage as well as spam control, so people don't just place dicks everywhere (or rather it would be costly to do so).
I remember visiting family in the states in 2008, we had our 9 month old child with us. Arriving in the US we got fast-tracked through security, allowed to bring formula for the baby with us and was generally treated very politely. In London we were asked to open all containers with baby food and taste it.

There are countless anecdotes illustrating how immigration rules and officers are ridiculous and racist, but not all of them are about USA. In many respects immigrants are treated worse in Europe that in the states.
The article does recommend (later) only using 2 typefaces. Having more levels to a visual hierarchy would be helpful for navigating a larger work, though.