skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I frequently struggle with #2 when "teaching" young children. How much do you let them flail when you know their idea is destined to fail? Even if you can see that an idea is clearly a flop, nobody believes you when you tell them. Gently nudging seems to have the best results. Let them pursue their idea but nudge here and there to lead them to find the flaws on their own. "I saw a guy try something like this once and this is one of the problems he ran into..."
Online social networks, clubs, special interest group meetups, churches, gym, community classes are other places.

Mixing work and dating is often a recipe for disaster.
The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
I think a possible good outcome of people trying to squeeze Hadoop in HPC world is already happening with the pressure to give more focus to performance in Java 9 roadmap.

If it will really happen, remains to be seen. But I am following it with interest.
Meditation, undertaken through rigorous discipline, shows evidence for something. What that is, is still up for debate.

If you're referring instead to feedback techniques to curb anxiety responses, that is used in legitimate therapy.

Neither of those represent the content of this article. Furthermore, it suggests that anxiety can be simply reasoned away in 30 seconds. That is insulting to anyone who has ever had anxiety.
now that you mentioned it.. I remember a psychology course I took in college just a while ago mentioned that, female's evaluation of attractiveness is greatly affected by knowing the person's financial state/personality/social status etc. While male's evaluation of attractiveness is less affected by other factors. Not sure how true this theory is..
While I agree that the statement is tautological, it isn't necessarily irrelevant. Consider this. People who are released from prison are significantly more likely to commit another crime landing them back in prison than the average person. On one hand,some might conclude that it simply is because those in prison have some sort of inclination towards that life and simply are an ill fit for the society in which we live.

On the other hand, what if that wasn't really the case, what if it was how desensitized to hatred and violence most prisoners become after a stay in prison. And it was this desensitization combined with the relationships formed in prison, which inherently only could be with other "criminals," that led to an increased propensity to commit a crime?

If that were the case, then decriminalizing things reduces crime, not only by it's tautological implication, but because it reduces the desensitizing effects prison has, leading to the in-and-out cycle experienced by many in the prison system.

I recognize that the world is not 100% like the case I presented, but I would argue the truth lies somewhere in between (like it does in most issues) and that decriminalization or alternative punishments (especially with teens) have potential to significantly reduce crime, by all rights, both in number and it's relative proportion to the hypothetical rate pre-decriminalization.
I'm a fan of the Buddhist way: breathe in, breathe out.

Vipassana, samatha, and jhana are a bit more complicated than that, but it's enough.
That is a contract I would never sign.
Can UDP traverse NATs better by Faking TCP?
How would HN Gold divide the community?

It would just be a Super-Upvote for the comments that you wish you could upvote more than once.

HN Gold could be nothing more than some text - "you recieved HN Gold for this post" - and a tally of how many posts you've had gilded; with a leader board of people who have received HN Gold.

It would provide small income to the website and hopefully encourage better posts. People might take the extra time to find a good URL to support their post or to give extra information.
I've had social anxiety for 25+ years.

> When you focus only on boosting your internal state, your social anxiety will disappear.

That is the line I drew the connection from. The first part of metta is to focus on yourself before moving onto others. Again, I explicitly said it would not work for everyone (and I disagree with the word "cure" both in title and text), but to outright dismiss everything about it is equally absurd.

Furthermore, one of the larger benefits that people find in meditation is that they can more easily detach themselves from their emotions, which could allow them to see that they are not only their emotions and may have more control over how they respond to emotions than they previously had. None of that cures anything ... but, it can help an individual in showing them that they have more control over their internal state than they had previously believed.
> I don't think the 'war on drugs' which happens in all sorts of countries, not just the US, is indicative or racism and corruption or police militarization or a prison system.

The War on Drugs that happens in many countries is, in fact, a result of that; specifically, its a result of (1) the War on Drugs in the US being a direct result of those things, and (2) the War on Drugs implemented in many other countries being a direct outgrowth of the exportation of the US War on Drugs through US foreign policy. (Ironically, this is true even of international treaties that foreign governments are now accusing the US of violating due to marijuana legalization efforts in some states.)
Thanks! that helps!
I thought it worked out great for GitHub...
This was a fascinating look at an HPC person't thought on Hadoop. Interesting that before Beowulf "super computing" was exemplified by the Cray series. The word was that NUMA was incompatible with HPC, but folks found ways around that.

Its a totally valid observation that many HPC problems are not amenable to a Hadoop cluster, but it is not clear to me yet that there are no HPC problems that a distributed data approach might do better than the current system :-)
This is completely off-topic, but "Big Oil" actually did have a specific historic meaning: it's the descendants of the Seven Sisters, the oil companies party to the Consortium of Iran. Those seven were Anglo-Persian (now BP), Gulf + Standard of California + Texaco (now Chevron), Shell, Standard of New Jersey + Standard of New York (Exxon). By popular convention, Total has sort of slipped into this group despite not being party to the Iran agreement, which obviously undermines the historic meaning of the term.
For me the enforced no editing is useful.
> What's crazy about this is that we're limited to multiplying integers

> of about 25 bits [...]

> Why? Because the multiplier insists on rounding

> its low output bits rather than giving them back to the programmer.

> Why? Because the multiplier is buried inside the floating-point unit.

The reference to the 25-bit success makes it seem like the author is thinking of bits 53-105 of the 106-bit result of multiplying two 53-bit inputs.

The multiplier is not going to “give them back” to the programmer because it never computed them in the first place. Floating-point 53x53->53 multiplication is implemented with a couple of guard bits, the last of which is “sticky”. The multiplier the author is asking for is not “buried”, it does not exist in the processor.

I am not sure why integer multiplication is not preferred. It goes up to 64x64->128, if the author wants all the bits of the product.

> A 53-bit multiplier producing a full 106-bit product won't be much larger than a 53-bit multiplier producing a correctly rounded 53-bit floating-point result.

Yes, it will. It will have to be 106-bit wide instead of 56-bit wide.
That's not really an excuse for using jpg instead of png for a bunch of text.
Ok let's say mostly diverse physical paths, both tied up nicely into bundles, different switch hardware, different UPS, different power grids (some nice data centers will even have that!).

At this point other kinds of odd failures are more likely, than failure of both networks paths at the same time, let's say meteor strikes, disgruntled employee wiping out backups and data.... Can one even begin then to consider an AC system? And if so what would it look like?
If you've been to Laos or Northeast Thailand, you know that insect snacks have long been the norm.
What this article seems to be saying is that uniqueness has a multiplier effect on attractiveness. You can have a "base attractiveness" of 5 out of 10, but the more unique you are, the higher (and lower) you will appear to various people as they get to know you better.
Although, I am not a native speaker, I always interpret it as having contradictory feelings. Maybe because 'ambivalent' in my native language also has the original meaning. I agree with a peer poster that apathy is what you are describing.
Had no idea that the original version of Myst was Hypercard, but it makes sense in hindsight.
It will help to frame it carefully in your own experience, and in the context of "what's the best way to test", not "here's what will happen" as if you were omniscient.

Quoting from peteforde's response above: "a startup is a temporary business structure that exists only to prove or disprove a hypothesis about a market opportunity in the fewest number of steps (time, money, resources)."

You have a gut feeling that it's going to go poorly, based on some solid experience that he lacks. That's fine; it doesn't actually mean his business (or some pivot from it...) won't succeed. How many stories have you read where the great idea is just a few twists away from the shitty initial plan?

Just help him find a way to spend less than two years, and less than his life savings, to find out if his idea can get traction. You have concerns about risks he's not considering -- help him consider them (and address them).

In this kind of discussion, with each risk discussed (and each step his idea/plan is refined in response), you're helping him succeed, not cutting him down by being a know-all naysayer... that's what friends are for.
Lumify: A information extraction and exploration platform
I think the book rank 2 in this article (The Elements of Statistical Learning) is too mathematical.
Depending on where you work in Palo Alto, you might be able to live further away and commute. Union City/Fremont area is much cheaper and there's a bus that will take you across the bay. I'm not aware of anywhere in the area that you could find something for $1000, but maybe with roommates it could work.

You should check with the company and see if there's anything they can do. I really hate that some companies exploit interns by offering such clearly unsuitable amounts for living expenses. If they live and/or work in Palo Alto, they know how expensive it is.
We used TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 at USAF Systems Command in the early 1980s. Good times...
I can genuinely recommend you to read 'the game'. Don't get deterred by what people might tell you about it, especially people who have not ready it.

It was eye opening to me that it's in your complete control to show people (not only girls, really anybody) your uniqueness, and that you can literally meet dozens of people every week and must not rely on office environment or random coincidence.
Got the game world right:

* Half-Life series

* Deus Ex 1+2

* No One Lives Forever 1+2

* GTA San Andreas, GTA IV

* Mafia 1+2

* System Shock 2

* Thief 1-3

* Black & White 1

* Far Cry 3

* Tomb Raider (2013)

Player can interact with the game world, destroy things (many small items), the environment remembers your action (e.g. opposite-sex bathrooms in Deus Ex 1 and No One Lives Forever 1), some funny moments, ...

IMHO bad examples are Deus Ex 3 with its very static game world, Assassin's Creed with its limited interaction options, many role playing games like Gothic series, Elder Scroll series (Morrowind, Oblivion, etc) were you can steal from all NPCs and their chests and no one asks/follows you, Call of Duty series with their unlimited AI enemies(if you stay and wait), etc.
"No barrier to entry" for secretaries?

That's a failure of people hiring secretaries, not of secretaries.

Take, for example, typing. Many people on HN will have fast typing speeds. But we also see that many people on HN want to wear headphones or have separate areas for work. There is talk of "flow". A secretary does not have these luxuries. They have to produce fast typing, with high accuracy, in combination with constant interruption. Good secretaries can type a letter while talking to someone.

Have you ever tried shorthand? Take a look at Pittman Shorthand. Take a course. Tell me it's not a barrier to entry.
I'm not sure I understand the other comments. When I moved here in 2012 I had to rent for several months until I found a house to buy. I ended up in a B&B that I found on craigslist for the price you mentioned. I just went to CL just now and there are a lot of listings for the price you mentioned. I don't think you can really dwaddle on any of this stuff - find something passable, and take it, or someone else will, but it is possible.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/roo/
For a start, you know it is very unlikely there will be enough traction after a few years to make a quick buck. Secondly, not being passionate about your startup is going to be fairly transparent, and that is a major warning sign for any investor. As many has suggested, talk these things through with your friend, a number of good suggestions in here. If that doesn't work, maybe he needs to learn the hard way?
Wiko Mobile is a big name in France (#3 in 2013) and (almost?) all the smartphone they sell are dual sim:
http://world.wikomobile.com/p-Wiko-Smartphones
they are sold in supermarket as well (Auchan etc..)
The Biggest Filer of Copyright Lawsuits? This Erotica Web Site
Do those run on a phone?
wow, that's pretty neat.
The year I was born :)
WTF is a User Experience Expert anyway?
afaik there are two different ways of operating: DSDS (Dual Sim Dual Standby) e DSFA (Dual Sim Full Active).

The most common is the first one, where the phones are both registered but when you're communicating with one sim the second one is unreachable (as there's only one radio circuit, one antenna, one processor etc..).
The second one, as the name says, allow you to use them both but it's more expensive of course because of the presence of two circuits of everything (at least radio-wise, it's like having two different phones in one) so it's far less common.

As far as I know almost all the "chinese" dualsim phones fall in the first category.
Fifteen years ago I was handed a Wang (http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/WangVS100.htm) and told to get it working. Apparently some company my employer had acquired used this thing to store its business records, and my employer used PCs so they just wanted to archive what was on the Wang then get rid of it.

The thing booted up but there was no display--the integrated screen was somehow blown. So I got a suitable television and that worked, modulo the TV's overscan clipping off the first character on every line. I then found enough adapters to get it to print, connected a dot matrix printer with continuous forms (just like Wang intended!) and printed every single document on the disk drive. Imagine.

It came to perhaps a thousand pages.
Out of order processors do not "kill" determinism. If you can guarantee your initial state is the same you will get the same result in the same number of cycles repeatably. The fact that time it takes is non-obvious does not make it non-deterministic.

Now hyperthreading does introduce real non-determinism from the standpoint of a single threaded calculation because it doesn't control the other thread using processor resources, but hyper threading introduces that sort of non-determinism even on in order processors.
New losers joined.
In HPC they are.

CUDA wins because it is wonderfully fast. There is a huge benifit for implementing it, even if it requires lots of work to get efficient MPI, because the rewards are literally massive.

Hadoop uses REST ffs. You're never going to get low latency with REST. Its a nasty hack in the world of web, let alone HPC where there really isn't any excuse for using HTTP for something its really not designed to do.

But the question is this:

what do people actually use Hadoop for?
Unless you remember how the "highlight members with high average comment karma" experiment divided the community, it may seem confusing how HN gold could possibly divide the community. Such features are inherently divisive (in this case "those who have gold vs those who don't.") Leaderboards are generally divisive; that's why they're marginalized and hidden behind the "lists" link at the bottom of the site. Etc.

We don't need to promote elitism to encourage better comments. We just need to encourage better comments.

Also, as a small critique specific to HN Gold itself: there's no way to prevent someone from gilding their own comments. (They can just use an alt account and a different credit card to get around any account-specific self-gilding restriction, for example.) Suffice to say, self-gilding would be detrimental to the commenting ecosystem here on HN.
I'm the only one that reading Theseus thought about this: http://continuum.wikia.com/wiki/Julian_Randol ?
I don't agree with that. It's a statement that sets the company's policy. While obvious that people should not be "evil", a company motto setting it explicitly to be good is a welcome thing. Of course, Google is no longer that company, and they removed that policy statement after it became a mocking tool for critics.
if its not a petabyte its not even close :)
The Birth Of Darkcoin
More like calling a journalist a writer.
Uber, AirBNB, and DropBox are each worth more than Yahoo
Uber, AirBNB, and DropBox are valued at $10 billion each.

Yahoo has a market cap of $33 billion. At first glance, it seems like Yahoo is worth more than all 3 combined. But here's the kicker:

Yahoo owns 23% of AliBaba, which will debut as the biggest IPO in history, with an estimated conservative market cap of $100 billion. That means Yahoo's stake is worth $23 billion.

Even with that $23 billion windfall, investors are only valuing Yahoo at around $10 billion max.
"The Game" is only useful in making one realize that attracting women is a learnable skill. I was a big fan for a time but now realize much of what it recommends is like snake oil. I recommend going through David Deangelo's later material (2009+) and also Michael The Wizard. Deangelo's early work made it into "The Game" but even he realized with years of experience that there is a better way (Of course he made tens of millions from selling courses on material he now admits was wrong!)
The microphone input window keeps asking me for permission to use my microphone. I click on Allow, but it keeps asking.
Only small software projects can be compared to woodworking or painting, anything complex requires careful advance planning, rigorous testing, and peer review, just as you would expect from any engineering project.
It takes a lot more skill and capability to be a creator than a consumer. I would like someone to make a movie about two time travelers who chase each other through time like a car chase. However I have zero filmmaking skill and I don't really know how to even start such a thing. My skills are best applied elsewhere, that doesn't mean I can't cross my fingers and hope that a talented filmmaker makes that movie.
The distinction is massive, and why all those Bret Victor demos have nothing to do with Smalltalk. You can record a bit of your program's execution during development.

Anyways, this an active research topic...see:

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/211297/managedtime.pdf

If you haven't yet.
How about 'Convention over configuration'?
Spraying out food particles and spit all over the keyboard and monitor is ok then! :)
Actually I have been at events/panels recently where even top tier VCs were complaining about this--being stiffed in acqui-hires especially when life changing money is on offer if the execs just go along with the acquirer's designs.
Those male qualities are factors that answer the question, "how well can you protect me?"

Our evolutionary instincts die hard :(
I agree with the author, but I feel they should not be in this position to begin with.

VCs can ensure their money back using paperwork. 500 Startups' seed specifically says they can block any acquisition that lowballs 500. This is reasonable because they take the risk.

I was hoping for an interesting article about acqui-hire trends and predictions, but instead I got a complaint about VCs not getting paid back. A reasonable perspective, but not particularly insightful.
Sure, in the abstract (whatever good that does), some amount of enforcement almost necessarily impacts some drug trade, pretty much by definition.

But in the practical sense, for relevant real-world drugs and populations, I don't think there's any evidence that enforcement has ever had one iota of effect. People switch drugs, switch suppliers, switch habits, switch methods of consumption etc. etc. Not to mention that some drugs are legal (mostly, such as alcohol and nicotine, or partly such as various medicines), so even if "drugs" are less-consumed, the legal variant might still be just as nasty which renders the enforcement pointless despite "success". And even if overall consumption were to drop, you still might find that drug harm has not - some methods of consumption are more dangerous than others.

Given the absurd level of long-term investment there's been, you'd expect some evidence of meaningful success. Where is it?
Moving Parts: the Aesthetic of Intricacy
WATCH Live SUNDAY: SpaceX's Dragon Comes Back to Earth from Space Station
the feynman lectures really should be on this list. all three volumes are available here:
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
Well really I was just making a little punchline here for HN.

But since you asked, after hearing hundreds of people's ideas, each wanting to know what I think of them, I feel like something short-circuited in my head, where the answer to all is just "I don't know, anymore."

It made me realize that it's not that I'm a fan of startups. I just like making things. I'm always way more interested in my own things than other people's things.
How Pablo Escobar's hometown hopes to become South America's 'Silicon Valley'
The one thing that HPC (and VFX) have over anyone else, is rational thought.

A thing is used because it is the very fastest. we know its fast because we have the numbers to prove it.

Infiniband is expensive, but it's much faster than ethernet for DMA. HTTP is far to inefficient for MPI. Posix file systems are brilliant. Object storage is far to slow and unreliable (see Http) ans usually miss important features like locking or concurrent access.

when you're paying by the hour, that 5-30% VM/bytecode penalty is ruinously expensive.
No, I think it is entirely appropriate. What you wrote is this sort of smart aleck sort of response. It's not as if most people are not aware that you can be prescribed drugs very similar to street drugs. I don't think it adds much, it's just typical way of trying up define problems out if existence.
Let me guess, Rob Pike? Second guess is Ken.
Scheduling is what HPC can do much better. The concept of data/message/cache/storage/memory affinity seems to be a novelty.
I agree. We don't need to know instruction encoding, because we can use assembly, or assembly, because we can use C, or C, because we can use Python. What you need to know is, well, what's needed to use the particular language and system architecture to its maximum potential. And that's more of a training and conceptual thing than a C/assembly thing.
I think you're quibble about LSD and tobacco and alcohol is just more of this playing coy stuff.