skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is actually much worse than that. You're assuming a uniform distribution over the numbers that people call, but there are some numbers that a significant fraction of the population call. For example, how many people are three hops away from a "target" through Comcast, Time Warner, Dell, etc?

Of course the NSA would probably ignore these spurious connections to generate leads for an actual investigation. But I assume that they would use them to create the largest possible list of people that they are "allowed" to collect and store information on.
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Interesting that the Chinese have adopted x86 for their supercomputers; I remember a few years ago they were experimenting with MIPS and there was a huge effort to make it the "national ISA" - and lots of tablet and media player SoCs came out with MIPS cores (still many today, but they seem to be gradually shifting into ARM instead.)

Tianhe 2 has some Chinese SPARC cores in it too but it looks like they're just being used for control/management functions.
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Clipperz Source Not to be Used as 'actual password management solution'
I don't work in a sphere that would make this relevant to me, but I think this paradigm is probably the future! "General purpose operating systems are dead!", proclaimed bjackman.

Anyway, also see: OSv: http://osv.io/ similar idea but with the JVM. I believe some pretty well known Clever People are working on it - can't remember who, though.. anyone know?
Any perceived design disadvantage gets overshadowed by the benefits derived from massive adoption. I think embedded developers might find VxWorks easier to work with but when they have to design something from scratch for it instead of just going with Linux which might already have everything ready (even if half-baked) ends up being the common choice.

I think there are space for both (evolutionary and design-lead approaches). They just will be playing in different markets.
Performing artists don't, but the songwriters do. Often they're the same person (not always, of course).
I've thought a lot about visualising higher dimensions in 3D. Colour is a fantastic way to start, and it infact is adding 3 more dimensions (hue/saturation/lightness). If you could add other senses, e.g., touch, taste, pain, etc., you can sense even more dimensions.

However, one thing does strike you that no matter how many senses you incorporate, you will always navigate a particular 3D projection.

EDIT: Cached page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
My wife is a defense attorney that works claims litigation, e.g insurance defense for carriers. Watching "Hot Coffee" was very difficult for her. Part of her job during the pre-trial phase of any case is to push as much potential liability on a claimant as possible and push for mediation; trial should be avoided at all cost. |If a case goes to trial it is her job to make the claimant liable (enough) so that the damages are split better.

For 'frivolous cases' to actually hit trial months of depositions, research, and meditations have to fail. If a case actually goes to trial it's because one side feels so confident in their case that mediation is not an option.

As a side note, in insurance cases in Texas, the jury is not allowed to know that any insurance money has been paid. So in a situation where someone is hurt in an accident by another driver then sues for medical expenses, the jury is not told that the medical expenses (are often) already paid for by the carriers. They're also not told that, no matter how much money they award, if it falls under the civil caps on awards (in Texas) that the judge will automatically lower their award after they leave the court room.
I've always (and I mean always; I've long been aware about the real story) thought the comments about the coffee lawsuit were extremely cruel. 'Oh, hot coffee fell on her lap and burned her, and she sued for millions in damages!' - hot coffee at an unreasonably high temperature fell on her lap and gave her third-degree burns. To suggest she was suing over something trivial is horribly disrespectful to a woman who suffered that.
Cum is Latin, and means "with". So it's a bedroom with office. I suspect in this particular case it's probably meant to indicate a bedroom-office hybrid, but originally, "this-cum-that" just means "this with that".
Are you really suggesting that not even 0.1% people are willing to support the rest if they can?

Are you really saying that we're such moral monsters that not even 0.1% of the population wouldn't help 1000 people if they could?

Besides, with such a ratio, we could have a more equitable repartition: such as, having, say, 10% of the people volunteering a hundredth of their time to support the system. Do you really believe that if it was possible, it wouldn't be done anyway?

Such cynicism on steroids would be ludicrous. Did I miss something?
I think you're right, and if so these are some pretty lazy people doing the flagging. This project clearly has nothing to do with any modern connotations for the word "bro."
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How does this compare to CUDA implementations?
It's actually Latin.

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

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19...

In this case, it's best translated as "and". It mostly survives today as the "com-" prefix, like in "combination", but also as an award of particular academic merit "cum laude".

http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=com-&allowed_in_frame=0
I agree it would be great for travel, but the two biggest barriers I see are cost and safety. Keeping a long tunnel evacuated is not easy to do, and when something goes wrong at those speeds, in a vacuum, the results will be pretty horrific to say the least.
The network looks relatively anemic at first glance. I would guess that this will be a LINPACK monster, but it'll be difficult to scale applications that aren't pure linear algebra up to the point that justifies a single machine this size.
Thanks for reviewing the study and offering your take on goalies' behavior. As someone who knows very little about soccer, I was mainly interested in how it might serve as a metaphor for productivity in the workplace. But it was interesting to learn more about the context for the study as well as how goalies and other players anticipatw moves.
Maybe using Luminosity or similar software, and charting your progress against others with similar entry conditions (IQ, spatial reasoning, whatever their metrics are)
1. This type of app just cries out for plugins.

2. Yes, because I don't want to spend time learning a system that I can't extend if extending systems is my livelihood.

3. I don't want to support a community that shuns people who disagree about licensing.

4. This feels against the spirit of open source to me, to avoid having people use code, and provide feedback.

I don't believe that anyone understands the GPL including its creators. Too many things in it are vague.
Where is the requirement that stories on medium.com be of medium length?
> I mean, looking at this list makes it so obvious that something isn't right, that I don't understand how she can have a job.

Just reading the list gives you no useful information whatsoever about how well or how poorly she is doing her job. All the list has is the abstracts from the patents. A patent abstract is kind of like the blurb on the back of a book, or a trailer for a movie. They give you an overview of what the patent covers, but there will be innumerable ways to accomplish what the abstract describes without infringing the patent.

When you are looking at a list of patents to figure out if you might be infringing one of them, or to figure out if one of them describes a solution to a problem you are trying to find a solution for, the abstract is more of a tool for telling you which patents you can skip rather than what ones you need to take a deeper look at.

To see what the patent actually covers, you have to read the claims. However, the claims are interpreted in light of the specification, so you have to read that, too. A claim may appear to be quite broad, but the discussion in the specification might limit general terms in the claim to very specific values or meanings. In most cases, a patent is not something you can just sit down and quickly understand, even if you are an expert in the field the patent is in.

Even this is not always enough. You should also read the "file wrapper" for the patent. That's the collection of documentation generated during the processing of the patent application. It will include things like the examiner's prior art search results, initial rejections of claims, the letters from the application trying to persuade the examiner to change their mind about rejected claims, answers to questions from the examiner, and stuff like that. You can get the file wrapper online through the "Patent Application Information Retrieval" (PAIR) interface [1].

[1] http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair
Adventures in making: 3D print your own head
You're misreading the issue. The issue is whether anyone can make money other than the few oligarchs who got in early. Whether anyone can make money unless they are pandering to the lowest common denominator for the sake of mere profitability. Whether even the top quality titles can make money given the need to spend at insane rates in order to be visible.

It's absolutely true you can do it for the love of it. Not questioning that. But the above is a recipe for a crash.
How VPN services responded to Heartbleed
EDIT: Uh, I didn't notice "set me here" button (and, strangely, it doesn't seem to work for me, even though I've enabled all scripts - clicking doesn't do anything) when I wrote the original comment. If the site has a function for users to add themselves, then Rails/Django is indeed necessary. Sorry, I've should've looked more carefully.

Old comment below:

Rails? Django? The data may be frequently updated but is still static - you really don't want to fire any heavy machinery on every request.

This begs for a static HTML page (with a some amount of JS that shows Google Maps and filters the list). And a daemon or crontab entry (depending whenever it's based on streaming or polling model) that updates it, and, possibly, busts the caches.
Why does direct democracy inevitably suck?
Metadata has turned into such a slimy word. Metadata isn't a type of data, it is a description of the relationship between two sets of data.
Yes. I read the wiki page, but I was asking for a more conversational explanation. I really don't see why I was downvoted for asking a question.
Other storefronts... That would be nice if people could make money on those other distribution channels. Unfortunately, they can't, by and large. Most people don't find the effort worth it to even sign up with Amazon, which has a huge addressable market. I have never even seen a sales report with money from fdroid. For devs who are trying to make a living just from games, anything other than Steam, iOS, and for some people, Google Play, is basically irrelevant. Unless you land in a Humble Bundle.

As far as the loyal audience, yes, I agree with you on that, even mentioned it in the article. But that's not a living wage for most, and the latest research says that sort of environment is more susceptible to a hit-driven winner-takes-all market. That leads to an ugly place as regards the income levels for the typical dev.
There is similar research (namely ASICs for machine learning) going on at Stanford, but there it’s cast in analog circuitry: http://phys.org/news/2014-04-scientists-circuit-board-human-...
Quantum Random Number Generator Created Using A Nokia N9's Camera
Also useful for RE beginners: https://microcorruption.com/
Social "science."
I think the far distant future internet will distinguish between cached and uncached data, especially for international and interplanetary communication.

So any kind of data that can be easily hashed and disseminated over ad hoc networks will be basically free and unstoppable (BitTorrent and Netflix will be the same thing).

But data that has to be sent from scratch instead of referencing a hash will have to pay some kind of toll, albeit a small one.

It's simple to see the endgame of this: there will be an economic incentive to favor storage formats that reference existing data whenever possible. What’s really remarkable to me is that ISPs don’t seem to understand this, and by killing net neutrality they are hastening the demise of their own business model.

It’s going to be a little rough for 5-10 years, but when everyone’s cell phone has p2p gigabit wifi, I find it a little hard to imagine that ISPs will even exist as a business, outside of the government or things like banking where a hard line/low latency is desirable. So writing this out now, I see that latency is everything, so a few decades from now, what low latency industries are they hoping to capitalize on? Maybe gaming, surgery, telepresence, high frequency trading.. Netflix is just a cover story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_franchise_fee

Note that this is for cable television. If you're just running an ISP, it doesn't apply.
> C++ is crying out for a bit of 'hip'

It is?

> What is it that really holds C++ back from being a solid choice for web frameworks?

Language wise? Not much. It's more of a library and culture "problem". There's no inherent reason why C++ can't be used for web frameworks.
My favourite:
"Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the other numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes a mistake, a giant “?” lights up in the center of the dashboard. “The experienced driver,” says Thompson, “will usually know what’s wrong.”"
Sorry, I'm still someone who doesn't get it. Coffee is brewed hot (195 - 205 degrees F), and I personally like it to be freshly brewed as I drink it. As I very carefully sipped my fresh Starbucks coffee today at the mall, I was very conscious of the fact that I had a hot beverage in my hand. If I had accidentally spilled the coffee on myself or others it could have caused some serious burns... who else's fault would it have been but my own? Would it have been Starbuck's fault? I just can't adjust my thinking to making that so.

If I had gone into Williams & Sonoma and carelessly stabbed someone with a kitchen knife. Would that have been W&S's fault? It just makes no sense to me how we want to hold others responsible for giving us what we've asked for.
In thuringia, clubmate is preferred. But i also saw many hackers just drinking tea.
Rich Text + LaTeX in the cloud
Holy crap, it's you! Sorry I tried to reset your password the other day. I thought I'd already signed up and forgotten.

On a more on-topic note however, aside from the benefits of running any kernel, such as windows, I wonder if there are any practical benefits of something like this vs something like CoreOS/docker. I'm sure since it's Xen you could run a windows kernel on Linux, but aside from that, I don't know.
I like my new tab to be empty. Because it's a new tab.
The only part of the bill of rights that hasn't been under relentless attack in the last few decades has been the 3rd Amendment. I'm sure if we give it time that'll happen soon enough too.
Holy crap, it's me! I did get the password reset in the middle of the night and wonder what that was about then I saw andrewstuart2 and realised what had happened. Seems we are the same person. Do you spend your life saying "It's spelled S-T-U-A-R-T", then people say "errrr, S-T-E-U-W-A-R-T?".
Hi dang. Someone downvote bombed a conversation I was having with some fellow HN users: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726544

All the comments below that link had a downvote except one of mine. I tried to correct it, but I use Tor. I noticed when I tried to upvote the comments that upvotes from Tor users don't actually register. This makes sense, because allowing access from Tor will make it too easy to create sockpuppet accounts that game the system. But I was wondering if I might be able to be granted an exception based on good behavior? If it's not possible at the software level then don't worry about it, I understand. It's an unfortunate fact that Tor citizens won't be able to fully partake in HN, but it seems like that's the price of anonymity (and it seems like a reasonable one too!)

I was also wanting to check with you: has Tor caused the mod team many problems? I'm hoping that by setting a good example, I can convince others that it's possible to allow strong anonymity to good effect in a community. So I'm crossing my fingers that Tor will continue to be allowed on HN. (Thank you from the bottom of my heart for resisting the urge to ban it from the start.)
Have you seen the documentary?
Is there anything similar for KVM?
I read an overview of the facts of the case a few years back, so I'm recalling from a possibly faulty memory.

This coffee was being over-brewed at higher-than-normal temperatures because the McDonalds franchise was being greedy and attempting to extract more coffee out of the grounds.

This exact same franchise had gotten past customer complaints about the dangerously hot coffee burning people.

I and my father have spilled decent amounts of normal temperature coffee on our laps in the car, it barely caused any burns at all, let alone third degree.

The coffee was excessively hot and the franchise was negligent.
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Conversely, you do not need to give permission to police just because they ask. Even at police checkpoints, they do not have the right, without probable cause or your permission, to search your vehicle. If we don't stand up for our rights, we will lose them.

(Now, realistically, if you say "no", they will bring a dog over that they've trained to signal, thereby giving them "probable cause".)
According to wikipedia [1], they planned to use their Loongson MIPS chips for some of the Dawning supercomputers, but later reconsidered. I'd guess using Loongson MIPS didn't make any sense given its poor performance compared to Intel CPUs.

It will take quite some time to get to a modern CPU design that can compete with Intel but it seems Loongson development continues even without being able to produce comptetive products for now. For example, Lemote.com seems to be selling Loongson 3A server blades [2]. For HPC applications Loongson 3B would have much better performance due to implementing 256-bit vector instructions (maybe similar to intel AVX), I wonder whether these can be readily bought anywhere in china. Loongson 3C would bring quite some performance boost by finally switching to a more modern process technology (28nm instead of 65nm), but google doesn't show any results that'd indicate it's produced already.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawning_Information_Industry#D...

[2] http://www.lemote.com/products/computer/hongri/346.html

[3] http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1257218
The combination of elements is descriptive, not proscriptive.

There are clauses elsewhere in the patent that greatly expand the claims so you do not have to have copied the exact description in the claims to be infringing, as long as your setup is similar and is aimed at achieving the same end result.
I'm not sure there are right and wrong answers to the vast majority of Quora questions. They tend to be about topics where two different people might give extremely different answers.
third degree burns are extremely serious, it's not a "put an ice pack on it" issue, it's a "rush to the hospital" issue.

Considering the likelyhood of people spilling coffee, it's not unreasonable to expect coffee servers to take that into account (just like cars are designed to take into account bad driving and accidents).
1) No, all developers don't think APIs should not be copyrightable, unless you adopt a "no true Scotsman" definition of "developer". Many commenters on various forums think they should be as copyrightable as any other code. (It's easy to find them: look for the most heavily downvoted comments.) Moreover, most developers who do not agree with the decision (including engineers who testified on behalf of Google) will wholeheartedly agree that writing APIs require all the creative expression involved in writing code.

2) Does anyone really believe Google independently came up with an API from specification that was a verbatim copy of 37 separate API packages? Please. Google's language was specifically crafted to reduce their own liability, but come on, nobody's buying that they didn't copy it wholesale. Maybe when you're grading high school assignments you see coincidental identical code. The API for the stdlib of the most popular programming language currently is not a high school level thing.
I just find it quite interesting that writing like this that is so journalistic and written by more than one individual is finding success on Medium. Not necessarily in a positive or negative way though, I've yet to see this become a common phenomenon.
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Also AFAIK, a Fortran compiler can, due to the way the language works, detect pointer aliasing which can result in major speedups as non-aliased code can be optimized to allow for fewer memory accesses.
Well, I think they mean that the Rails/Django part would be useful for helping in the flow of persisting the new entries. If it's a static HTML page, people won't be able to add themselves which is the entire point of the site.
In the case of cultural differences, sunshine does more work than rice.

In the north, you are locked in home in winter, while in south you get to go around and meet more people.
McDonalds had ignored requests from CDC about correct brew temperature of coffee. They were serving extra hot coffee despite being asked not to, and despite having had several previous accidents where people were injured.

She initially asked for her medical costs to be covered. McDonalds declined, so she went to court.

Full thickness burns are not a trivial injury. She was at risk of death. Treatment is painful and takes a long time. She would have been left with scarring and perhaps loss of function - because a fast food chain didn't care about customer safety.

Do you have access to a thermometer? Try measuring the temperature of a cup of coffee that you make at home tree minutes after you've made it.
1. Someone needs to expain ths topic better. 2. There's
too much confusion right now, and I think it's an important
topic. 3. Right now--I don't trust Comcast in any senerio.
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Ask HN: How would you raise $200 in 3 days?
I've been in transition for 4months with zero income, not for lack of trying. I'm a junior Dev though and everyone wants mid to senior level.

i have $4 to my name, but need just a little to tide me over for two weeks. I'm going into a top 15 accelerator this week and should get some funds from that, any suggestions? i tried a teespring campaign teespring.com/geekyhusband but no sales.
> if you want to write different components in multiple languages, each component can be its own VM and they can communicate over the (virtualized) network

Those "components" and "virtualized network" really resemble "processes" and "IPC" to me. Except that in MirageOS/Foo-on-Xen/etc each process has its own device drivers. And, indeed, those beg either for putting into a sort of shared component.

But... aren't we almost reinventing microkernels here? With the only distinction of using shared libraries instead of server processes?