skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for looking into it. That does sound strange.

My mobile internet connection is flakey at times; but unlike a regularly failed request, there isn't any evidence of failure for voting (BTW I noted that SO does give an alert if this happens for their votes.)

I also tried it again and found sometimes it fails even on a "fresh" page (and as you've explained, that shouldn't make any difference anyway). It may have just been a coincidence when refreshing worked.

I'm having a lot of network problems recently, so that may be it. But it's also definitely happened in the past, when I wasn't having any such problems.

"The network is unreliable" - this would also explain why several other people have experienced this behaviour, that looks like expired links. Heh, probably the HN maintainers have great network connectivity, and so you mightn't ever see it yourself.
I disagree that it is futile to compete with Amazon without a "proprietary X" strategy. Their competitive strategy is well known, and there are some major weaknesses to it...most notably, that it becomes a bigger and more obvious bluff as they stick their hands into more pies. They actually have a very delicate balancing act to perform: maintaining enough profit to convey to shareholders that they arent a sinking ship, but aggressivly expanding and investing in areas that require significant acquisition of expertise. They have the cash flow to survive a long protracted battle, but they would definitely take the hit in their share price...and considering they now have an army of employees that are paid a significant share of their compensation in the form of stock, there is significant cultural resistance to agressively losing money as a form of compeitition.
Simulator doesn't seem to work for me with Chrome. JS Console reports WebGL issues...
ZenPro's comment is a very British way to look at government power, untethered to the limits that the U.S. Bill of Rights still imposes even in its weakened state.

> Two computer engineers arrived and oversaw classified material being destroyed. That's it.

Yes, but what if the Guardian had said: "Sorry, mates, we're we're not giving it to you. Cheers!"

That's when the few dozen agents waiting in the vans outside armed with semiautomatic rifles come in and seize the hardware with a slightly less polite approach.

Put another way, everyone who has read NSA/Snowden stories over the last 12 months -- at least the ones with leaked docs embedded -- possessed classified material. That's perhaps 10 million people in the UK alone. Should all of their hard drives be "destroyed" -- "that's it?"

Just because it happens to be law doesn't mean it's right, or just, or defensible.
It's funny that people who claim that you don't need soap to wash yourself simply justify their action by "I smell good now" - so what ? How does smelling good mean anything about how healthy your skin actually is ? For all we know it may be the exact opposite.
I wore my Rackspace patent troll t-shirt all day. I love Lousy!
U.S. Case Offers Glimpse Into China’s Hacker Army
Including the fact that you own the house after the 30 years?
> "I was just trying to present some truth"

Here on HN, we don't want mere truth. We also optimize for interesting and directly relevant comments. "Newegg egregiously screwed up a return for me" may be true, but how exactly is it interesting or relevant in a discussion about their response to patent trolls?
Aside from ::/128 (undefined address) and ::1/128 (local loopback), the entirety of ::/96 was reserved for ipv4-compatible addresses and had been deprecated for a while [1]

It is safe to assume that they won't be allocated in the future.
You can easily assign them to your loopback interface. e.g. on linux:

$ ip addr add ::2/128 dev lo

You will then be able to use them over loopback just like ::1, and can populate your /etc/hosts file accordingly.

$ ping6 -c 1 ::2
PING ::2(::2) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ::2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.078 ms
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.078/0.078/0.078/0.000 ms

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4291#section-4

EDIT: formatting.
“Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random qubits is, of course, in a state of sin”
John von Neumann
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If there's one thing I've learned in my 35 years on this planet, it's that telling someone they're irrational is not diplomatic.

But it wasn't men you were talking about being diplomatic to, was it? It was women.

I wonder if that diplomacy should also include men, and if so, how do you feel about the way feminists have been vilifying men? Or the way you just did, with your comment about MRA.

Fair is fair, after all.
"This inert silicon dioxide might be recycled back to a silicon smelter or used locally in land fill."

Edited:
"A restricting factor here is that the SiO2 oxidation product remains with the silicon and partially restricts its subsequent oxidation."

did you even read the article?
Cellphone size Gameable Officeable PC
Google also released a video[1] describing their joint investment in a D-Wave "quantum computer" (given the debates I've left it in quotes) with NASA. It talks about some cool potential applications and attempts to break down the very basics.

What I'm wondering is if the investments into quantum computing by Google is merely them sinking left over R&D cash or if they believe that powerful quantum computers can be achieved relatively soon?

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdHDHEuOUE
> When you have a population of beneficial microbes, they push the harmful ones out. The ones that cause acne, odor, etc...

What is your basis to say that the ones that cause odor are harmful ? It's a pure hypothesis.
I don't mean to be uncivil.

The claim that low-income students suffer because they are less likely to have families that enrich them is probably not as true as you seem to think.

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/11/the_science_of.h...
> I'm not sure if you get to deduct property taxes for non-homestead property on your federal return

You can. Property tax goes on Schedule E as a business expense, just like insurance, utilities, repairs, etc.

You can also deduct mortgage interest for rental properties.
Yes, the sun is absolutely the energy source. The silicon/sand is the carrier.

Why did I mention recycling the media? It's mentioned in the article. Twice in fact.

Read the article.
The nice thing is that this shows the "Chinese wall" between Search Quality and Ads Monetization.
For those that might prefer a more functional/strongly typed approach, see Quipper (embedded in Haskell):

http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/quipper/

Unfortunately, the examples in the documentation aren't as well known as Shor's or Grover's algorithm. For Shor's, I think this is due to the difficulty of encoding the modular exponentiation within the framework.
Agreed. It's an interesting idea. And, it's a shame it has detractors who don't even take the time to read about it.
I think the idea is to increase the marginal cost of doing business, so it isn't economic any more. That is, assuming it takes enough some time and effort to declare bankruptcy, set up a new corporation etc.

But you're right, it wouldn't be a win for a specific defendant, it's more a long-term strategy to change the ecosystem by the community - crowdsourced, as the GP suggests. Another option is a consortium of well-heeled companies to methodically troll trolls.

Unfortunately, funding trolling of competitors is probably something some hidden department of those very companies do, while other departments sincerely complain about it.
I've been comparing these things (ascii markups) lately, mainly because I'm writing software to support an organization with a long history using not one, not two, but three unique ascii markup conventions. Could these somehow be translated into a more or less standard one, and gain the freedom of output provided by e.g. Pandoc?

What's depressing to me -- and my depression is not alleviated by reading Skriv's syntax -- is how similar they are and yet how none of them deal with the many kinds of typographical formatting that are routine in printed books.

For one simple example: Poetry. (Case in point: [1]) People who publish poetry expect as a matter of course to control their line-breaks and their indention in support of their meaning, and to center lines of text. Only AsciiDoc ("verse" block) and Skriv support literal line breaks (outside of monospaced code blocks). I don't know of any of the ascii markups that support centered text, or controlled indents.

Another simple example: Drama, play scripts. (e.g., [2]). Act and Scene titles are centered; character names are often small-cap (try commanding small-cap in any ascii markup); in older published plays it is common to have entrances and exits right-aligned: "[Exeunt" in the right margin. Both verse and drama (not to mention legal documents) often have reference line-numbers in the right margin, on the same line as left-justified text.

Quoted correspondence often has dates and signatures right-aligned. AsciiDoc supports right-alignment only in the single case of the citation of a block quote. I don't know any other text markup that allows even that much.

In short, the couple of dozen extant markups are solving the same limited range of problems over and over for no better reason than general NIH, while ignoring the much wider gamut of published formatting.

[1] http://carl-sandburg.com/chicago.htm

[2] http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbeth_3_1.html and this is a wretchedly ugly example but look at the source! It's a TABLE!
Battery swap might be even more workable for motorcycles.
The response here has been a surge of "I'd do more business with Newegg because of this." I stated my point. I agree with this point of the article, but I wouldn't do business with these guys.

For the record, the letter previously published outlined exactly what happened. They shipped me an item that came out of the box broken. When I wrote to them they responded acknowledging, and issued an RMA. When they received the item they denied the return. I wrote back this was unacceptable. After a further week of no response I disputed the charge. At that point Newegg updated the status to "Repair". They shipped me back the "Replacement Item", and I put these things in quote because it references their language, when in fact it was the same broken item that I received. I reopened the dispute, demonstrating with photography exactly what happened. I wrote that I intended to re-open the dispute, at which point I received a refund from Amex.

I am surprised I am losing karma for this. For what? An opposing view? I've been nothing but genuine here. If you want to know who I am you don't need to analyze the parts of the small % of the letters that weren't redacted. Google my e-mail address. It's in my public profile.

Also, if you want to fight patent trolls, support EFF. They don't have t-shirts, but they do have hoodies: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/nsa-spying-hooded-sweatshirt
you should check out Frontline's The United States of Secrets
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-sec...
Absolutely not. But it is also true that we no longer read anything unless the title is reasonably tabloid-y or it's got enough upvotes from other people.
The law varies by state. The states I'm familiar with have a tenants' right to "peaceable enjoyment" of their rented premises.

The new owners were trying to smoke you out. They might have been able to evict you on the basis of their desire to do significant work on the apartment (again, varies by state), but they probably figured it'd be cheaper to just make you miserable. Maybe that's legal in your state.
Yes, I read the article. And in what way does what you wrote imply "less efficient" on reuse?

To reply to your edit:

> "A restricting factor here is that the SiO2 oxidation product remains with the silicon and partially restricts its subsequent oxidation."

Do you even understand what you posted here? I really don't think you do. This is not "on reuse" this is a problem on the first use. And it's such a big problem that silicon is unlikely to ever actually be used this way.
The Hidden Beauty of Airport Runways, and How to Decipher Them
I know that. And there's no skipping it unless you are willing to go to the mountains and live off the grid (until the day they come looking for you :-) ), or unfriend everyone.

I just try to share the least amount possible.
Seriously, is there even one word that I wrote that attacks the poster rather than what he or she wrote?

To clarify what I was getting at, ad hominem doesn't necessarily imply that someone is being attacked or insulted. It just means that the argument, whether pro or con, should be considered without reference to a particular person. Marlinspike's involvement with a particular security software product or service has no bearing on whether I should assume it's uncompromised by the government.
Well; the fact that cancer was known in antiquity and that it is found in the fossil record in itself doesn't say anything about its adjusted prevalence[1] which, as it happens, was indeed much lower than it is in modern societies today. From your fourth link[2]:

"An interesting phenomenon has arisen during the course of multi-year studies related to the rarity of cancer in antiquity. This is of interest especially when considering that hundreds of Egyptian mummies and more than 10,000 dinosaur bones were evaluated. In contrast, the rate of cancer incidence has dramatically increased since the Industrial Revolution. The rarity of cancer in
antiquity has been attributed to the lack of pollution and changes in diet and lifestyle, and most recent findings suggest that cancer may be a manmade disease (Nat Rev Cancer 10, 728–733). Thus, while a lack of adequate techniques for disease diagnosis and detection may partially explain the overall lack of cancer found during the millennia, the current cancer trends are now primarily associated with carcinogens in our modern industrialized society (Nat Rev Cancer 10, 728–733)."

I am not a fan of pseudo-scientific, moral-panicky speculations about the evils of "modern life" from the likes of Pollan et al. myself; but in this particular case, as your article explains, there is considerable evidence that cancer (standardized) prevalence was indeed much lower in pre-modern societies. Also, for some types such as colorectal cancers, some dietary habits (prevalent, as it happens, in modern societies) are very well-known and well-established risk factors, accounting for up to a 70% increase in relative risk in some studies [3].

As I said: I symphatize with your view, but be mindful of confirmation bias.

[1] Eg. controlling for age and other risk factors in the study population.

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3003131/

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2796096/
> Yes, the sun is absolutely the energy source.

The sun can also be an energy source to make syn-gas (to make synthetic gasoline for cars), or charge a battery, or make hydrogen, or pump water uphill.

What does that have to do with silicon as a carrier? Absolutely nothing. You can also make silicon if you burn some coal. The sun is completely irrelevant.

> Why did I mention recycling the media? It's mentioned in the article. Twice in fact.

Just because it's in an article doesn't make it correct. This article is really bad. It has just enough truth to make it seem plausible.

The crust of this entire planet is made of silicon, it's not something that needs recycling anyway.
That UI stinks. Who would know to click on the QR code to open a payment request? A payment request doesn't even involve addresses that are visible to the user, it makes no sense that it is under "send to address".
If you were active in the SEO world, you'd know what I said wasn't an Ad Hominem but instead an accurate description of his abilities.

Danny Sullivan does not actively "do SEO" anymore, a field that changes monthly. He reports on news that other people discover about happenings of the search engine industry.

Hence why he concluded that he didn't know what happened to MetaFilter. Because he has no fucking clue how modern SEO works anymore.

And it's dchuk.
They link to their Github page which has their software in it:

https://github.com/satellogic

I agree though that just having the software isn't of much use to anyone. I just think it's very interesting.

Also, I don't know what their business model is going to be (I assume selling access to the data), but in my head I imagined time-sharing satellite access (which is probably way too complicated for them to do).
I swear by the crystal deodorant, but it was completely ineffective on my son. This may be due biome differences between the young and middle aged.

EDIT: I use normal soap and shampoo.
House passes bill to limit NSA's bulk collection of phone records
Wow what a typo on my part, sorry I meant to say "I don't think it's anyone's position that something couldn't be mute and immotile yet conscious."
How can you say that no classical computer will ever be able to handle a simulation that big? Where is the bottleneck?
Maybe you mean subexponential time? Which is not much of an improvement. This is a question which I would like someone like Scott Aaronson to answer. The sign problem is NP-hard[1].
So it's not currently believed that quantum computers can actually help with the sign problem [2]. On the other hand, we have papers that seem to say they could [3].

"today it seems extremely unlikely that quantum computers
can solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time" -- Scott Aaronson

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0408370.pdf

[2] http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/bqpph.pdf

[3] http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0012334
Although, it does say it's open source at the bottom of the "technology" page [1], at the top of it, it boasts how it's using "proprietary satellite technology," and they don't seem to be very disappointed by their choice in technology.

I'm honestly confused.

[1] http://www.satellogic.com/#!technology/c1w2a
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You are right I apologize for the language I used. I am not apologizing for saying it is a terrible article. All of the points he make assume that consumers have a wide range of choice. Some people do, a large amount don't. @massyset you are very privileged to live in a city with 6 large ISPs. Many places I have lived have one cable and one DSL provider. The most has been 2 big name cable providers but they didn't cross each other's territory.
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When I started to read this I had no idea this was a college student! Fabulous article and quite inspiring. My only wish is that I had figured this out in college. I can't imagine where I would be now if I had.
I was hoping for some homophobic encryption.
A Sad Day For Patent Reform – AVC
One must wonder.

Did the other 3 die?
Thanks, that's a start. And of course, sorry for the misspelling.

In all seriousness, it would be more helpful if you'd mention what's wrong with the original article.

Since you seem to be knowledgeable and active on the SEO front, would you mind explaining what happened to MetaFilter?
And as I asked of swordswinger, since you seem to have a good enough understanding of this to vouch for it, could you summarize how you implement a FHE operation without knowing what the operation ("plainfunction") is?
> Recent medical and biological studies are showing that we are, in fact, evolved to live with an entire symbiotic ecosystem of fungus and bacteria. And the total war we have waged on all things microbial in the last century may have been to our detriment.

Antibiotics, maybe. Probably.
As for soap usage on skin, the question is definitely more difficult to answer and certainly not as simple as you want to put it. There are tons of people out there who have no problem bathing every day and using soap very regularly. If it were really a direct cause of skin issues, you'd hear a lot more about it.
No reason to jump on "javascript-heavy" design fads, a simple refresh of the design to be more modern and usable would suffice. Even reddit is more appealing and visually straightforward for new users, and that site usually ranks pretty low for readability for new users unaccustomed to the design.
And after the umpteenth time of someone telling me I'm a terrible person ... I decide to be terrible by not caring about it anymore.

This is why your attitude is actively hurting you. It's driving away people like me, who actually agree with the basic premise that women should be treated equally.
I like the syntax. However, how many markup/markdown languages do we need?
Just force yourself to read two pages of some classical text of choice every day; even if you stop after the first couple (highly unlikely) you're still progressing through the text. The sense of accomplishment comes later, when I ponder what I have read, usually in the shower. :)
> ...but how exactly is it interesting or relevant in a discussion about their response to patent trolls?

Another comment on this thread simply states "Newegg is my hero!". How come you're not lecturing that commentator?

I found joshjdr's comment relevant. From my years on Hacker News, I've never had the impression that every comment was directly relevant to the posted link.

Most of the time someone leaves a comments that off-topic like joshjdr. Many people respond and sometimes a giant thread emerges. Those uninterested simply move on.
As if a hospital with remote surgery would use a residential-grade connection.

The examples here seem to evoke emotion out of FUD.
Correction: The other 56% is $4198.73 a day.
I think you're missing the point. off topic ranting about why you don't like newegg is why you're being voted down. it has no relevance to the topic no matter how important it feels to you.

I say this having no particular allegiance to newegg. I'm simply pointing out something you don't seem to understand.
I think there is a message lying on the closing story: The only chance of success for an e-commerce company is not to be pursued by Amazon.
Let's say you want to simulate three carbon atoms with near perfect accuracy (not considering constituent quarks, radiative effects, or relativistic effects). We'll remove the BO approximation though. So that's 2^(3 atoms * 3 coordinates * 3*12 particles) = 2^324. That's more than the number of particles in the universe. A classical computer that can handle that is simply not gonna happen. And that's just three atoms.
Naive optimism
Quantum computers aren't magic. Their computing primitives - qubits - just have some special properties that can be used to make algorithms that are much faster than classical computers for certain problems. A qubit is basically a bit with a certain probability that it will "reduce" to 0 or 1 when read. While this is non-deterministic, it can easily be modelled, with a slowdown.

Here is a talk which may explain it better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bLXHvH9s1A (The stuff about qubits and quantum computers starts at 30 minutes, but you may find the lead-up interesting/informative).
This sounds similar to the mortgage market in the UK. Longer term fixed rates exist but the rate reflects the yield curve over the fixed period (not just current spot rates) and there is usually a large redemption penalty. For example, if you sign up for a 4-year fixed rate deal, there might be a redemption penalty of 4% if you close it out in year 1, 3% in year 2 etc.