skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm uncertain why you expect anyone to send people to Catholic schools "because cheaper"?

Cheaper, better, and/or safer, yes. Sometimes it's the best available option.

> Not everyone is Catholic.

Sure, but not everyone who attends Catholic schools is Catholic. Lots of Jews, atheists, and agnostics attend Catholic schools. How difficult that is to do depends on the school. In general, yes, the schools will be teaching some stuff your family doesn't believe...but that'd be true for public schools too, no matter what your beliefs are. Heck, having the irrationality in the curriculum be so blatant might produce more healthy skepticism in the kids than when the irrationality takes the more subtle forms it does in public schools!
It's there. You just have to look harder for it :)
> Walt viewed his theme parks almost as “factories” that produced delight and entertainment.

That's one of the reasons I don't enjoy Disney parks. They're too automated, too perfect, like some sort of strange Twilight Zone where things just seem fake.
You can share content via email too. It's not just for new social media sites.

(I'm actually not sure if this makes your SPAM analogy more or less appropriate.)
If they make a model based on altruism work, I am all for it, but I am working on the assumption that it won't work, or at least, I don't know of many systems in which something is for sale, but the rest of the system relies on altruism.

Wikipedia is altruism on a large scale, but they aren't selling the consumer anything.
I think it's safe to say that it only has a marginal functional advantage; it merely gives you slightly more information about what is going on in the background. It's pleasing to look at because our eyes are used to all kinds of light interactions between objects. Its main purpose however is probably to communicate technological advancement in order to increase interest in their product.
Is there a timeframe for release mentioned anywhere? I skimmed the BBC article and the WSJ article it's sourced from but couldn't find one.
I think you parsed that incorrectly. Parent comment was saying she doesn't want gender to be such a big issue.
Is there a permacoin blockchain running right now?
> Fair enough, but affirmative action is a proactive behavior. How much do those points of equilibrium get moved by mere discussion?

Discussions are how you transmit ideas about proactive behaviors, you can't separate them.

> I think we've all heard the discussion and decided diversity is a Very Good Thing. What I am arguing for is just getting on with it.

Diversity isn't an action you can get on with, its a goal you pursue through actions.

Discussion is a pretty big part of moving from a goal to something actionable.

Of course, discussion can be poorly focussed (e.g., not addressing how to take action when the goal is already accepted), which is a problem, but its not a problem with discussion vs. something other than discussion, its a problem with having the wrong discussion.
s/education/credentials
Most of the things you mentioned survived because of an ecosystem of long term support and service. The overhead of a computer purchase was and is pretty high. It seems unlikely that people will invest in long term service or care for a $25 phone.

As I've said elsewhere, I look forward to seeing how Mozilla makes this ecosystem thrive. My assumptions are that it needs a healthy economy, but I am not opposed to having that assumption turned on its head.
Even if it's not open source, that's not necessarily a bad thing. BitTorrent Sync seems to have set a bar and prompted development of open source equivalents[1]. If this gives open source secure messaging software a bit of competition, I'm happy that it exists.

1. Not that there wasn't open source sync software before, but a lot of it didn't have a gui, or was based on git, or something like that.
I'm writing a system for my OpenID provider servicewith background checks (blockauth.com - BitAngels.co backed project launching in 20 days) that has to store a lot of data in a decentralized system.

Since MaidSafe and all the others don't have a working product yet, I've had to make my own system. Each user is assigned a transaction ID and the 80 bytes on the blockchain simply store a DHT hash for the document, so the system can download the encrypted user dossier through bittorrent. It's working pretty well so far.

The system isn't able to pay users for helping seed the file, but all of the franchised Identity Registrars that'll use my system will be required by contract to seed all of those files.

It doesn't totally solve your problem, but 80 bytes is enough space for a DHT hash and that might be helpful.
Funnily enough the memristors seem to have much the same way of working as old core memory. I'm not sure I really buy the forth fundamental component stuff. Memristors seem to have similar properties to magnetic cores and memory diodes.
Yes, but referring to varying resistance metal-oxides as memristors is much more recent (2008ish I think) and is still somewhat controversioal.
The issue with 'scientist' is that it is a self-applied term. As the position 'scientist' carries with it some weight. Therefore those who want to boost their credibility style themselves as scientists to borrow the reputation of others.

I've found that areas of real knowledge don't call themselves scientists (ie, physicist, chemist, astronomer) whereas those fields struggling for credibility tend to add 'scientist' on the end. (ie, _____ scientist) At the extreme end you've got people who astroturf organizations and advertise people wearing white coats testing their product. (Ponds Institute, anyone?)

Add to that a deep suspicion anyone who is confidently making bold predictions about the future and you've got a two-pass filter for assessing whether to really pay attention or not. That's what works for me.
Square just released it's own invoicing tool: https://squareup.com/invoices
There is some irony to the fact that we cannot 'share' what the 'share icon' is supposed to look like.

Unless some decree comes down from The President or the security council of the UN then we will probably have Apple/Microsoft/Android variants for a long time to come. There is no incentive for social networks to have a standard icon because they want sharing to be their icon/logo. Maybe it might be a better convention to perpetuate the share button as being uniquely un-shareable just for meme value.
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> I bet i3 needs a little tinkering too.

It needs a lot of tinkering once Wayland is the accepted standard.
Am I mistaken or is Storj just a frontend to the Datacoin blockchain?
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So, I found this which is interesting.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110605051830/http://www.openso...

Search for 'webmink' in there (Phipps username)
The milkshake idea was in my head before I even got to the section where the writer mentioned it, so it's at least got some sort of universality (for an American).

It also makes sense to me because I most frequently want to share specific things with specific people rather than everyone.

I wonder if there might be two different share icons - one to share with someone specific, and one to share with the world at large.
For anyone that is staring at "VII: Utilities" and wondering where the design primer is, I think the above comment is referring to "Part I: Tutorials and Guidelines, Section 7: Guidelines on Graphics." The section begins on page 91 of the linked document.
I was doing research on parallel computing last summer. Does anybody know if this SIMD object is similar to the ParallelArray object Intel made in Rivertrail? Or are there any similarities between the two libraries?
Assuming the experience being a woman in tech gives you particular expertise relating to the situation of women in tech is, pretty much, the same thing as assuming that because you knew one black person for many years, you are an expert on black people -- it relies on a "what's true for one member of the class is true for all members of the class" stereotyping.
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Is Indian cellphone provider market monopolized? Isn't there a chance that with higher demand competition will lower prices for data plans in India?
> But are they?

Yep, they are. It's impossible to share digital data without making a copy that is not under your control. There are some difference in write permissions, but people also do understand those.
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Even the connection between exercise and weight loss can be questioned. I highly doubt that gyms will solve the obesity problem. That said, I'm sure the Brazilian people will appreciate the gyms.
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Yeah I do know them all. I do know where to find a startup job, but I don't know how to find a bigger tech company/ mature startup that hires in London.
As an entrepreneur in the travel space, my guess is that this move is primarily a PR move, and actual Bitcoin transactions aren't expected to move the needle in any substantial way.

If its primarily a PR move, the reason for starting with hotels is simple: Expedia, and all the OTAs (Online Travel Agency), make the VAST majority of their profit from hotel bookings* due to two factors:

1) Airlines pay extremely small commissions (starting with when Delta announced 15 years ago they wouldn't pay commissions on flights)

2) Hotels pay extremely high commissions, since unsold hotel rooms disappear as inventory the next day

Assuming the goal is PR, Expedia cares much more about getting consumers to think of Expedia as a place to book hotels than they do booking flights- thus they are "starting" with hotels.

*For example, in 2013 Priceline sold 270M hotel nights and 7M airline tickets. Of their $7B in revenue and $2B in profit, very very little came from airline ticket sales.
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It costs a lot of money to make a film. I don't know Tim and I suspect he's a nice and interesting guy, but movies that lack broad appeal are sometimes referred to as vanity projects. I'd like to know how much money was spent making the film, where that money came from and what the theatrical run took in. If I had that information, I could tell you whether this was a vanity project.
There are different types of DDoS -- layer 3 and 4 attacks are not HTTP-specific, but there are layer 7 attacks which are DoS, and if distributed (botnet, etc.), are a DDoS.

Anonymous's LOIC is a great example of this kind of attack. Essentially, you go for a different kind of amplification than you do with 3/4 attacks -- it's "time amplification", where a small http request can hit a URL and cost huge amounts of time on the server. e.g. an unindexed search. It's actually possible to kill some webapps with a single web browser just by hitting "expensive" URLs repeatedly -- can even be done manually in some cases.

There are a lot of ways to protect against this -- rather than pure pipe capacity, you generally want something like a Web Application Firewall (WAF). You also generally want to tune your web app to expose only "safe" urls, or to put captchas or logins in front of "expensive" URLs.
I don't think that has anything to do with you using Apple devices. Probably has to do with you using Steam.
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Investing in a community is a gesture of goodwill. That could be the major legacy of this.
Is this really a problem? It doesn't even seem like there is less consensus on Share icons than for other common icons.
When you're holding a mobile device, an up arrow is away from you and towards others. Sharing essentially becomes sending. I think iOS 7's representation is the most literal.
2) they get the bitcoin spenders that they may not have otherwise (an admittedly small bump at the moment, but a bump nonetheless and at virtually no cost).

I'd love to see evidence of bitcoin spenders. So far, they haven't been: http://blog.samaltman.com/bitcoin-price-pressure

I hear from merchants who start taking bitcoin that after an initial spike they see almost no volume.

The above quote fits with my experience as well, though my sample size was a single merchant. I noticed they were accepting bitcoin, so I sent a congratulatory email and got a response along the lines of, "Surprisingly, no one at all has bought my product using bitcoin! Maybe that will change in the future..."
An electrolytic capacitor is an electro-chemical device itself.
Also, like a battery, if the "electrolyte" is not without solvent then it is a liquid-state device.
As opposed to a film & foil capacitor which is a solid-state device.
Batteries generate a characteristic cell voltage as a result of a chemical reaction.
Capacitors store any voltage up to their maximum rating, electrolytics have higher capacity/size ratio than film & foil due to the chemical help of the electrolyte, but do not generate voltage on their own, only store what is supplied from a power source.
Are filesystem-related issues common among the half billion devices running OSX/iOS? I believe hardware completely overshadows software re. storage reliability and performance.
He was using this to point out the discrepancy between the lease rate from Uber's pre-selected finance company (15%) and the best possible rate one could get - 3%.

It's just to illustrate the range of finances, and note that the finance company is literally charging 5x!

In terms of credit, yes, better credit helps, but also since it's a secured loan, it's not like a credit card.
Heck yeah, good call
> Astronauts have claimed to see aliens

Really? Which astronauts?
WalMart. Everywhere.
Equal opportunity and equal representation are two different goals that are usually in conflict. State the problem clearly and you'll avoid confusion when searching for solutions.
This is actually a pretty good article. It points out that Wiener "refused, for ethical reasons, to accept research contracts from the military or from corporations seeking to exploit his ideas". If the article had given an explanation of "exploit", this would be very informative, as well as intereesting. How many other scientists refuse grants for ethical reasons like Wiener's? Was Wiener just being weird?
Ask HN: Beta test some new features we've been working on for Gliph?
Hey HN: we've been working on some new features for Gliph (secure messaging + Bitcoin payments) and want to get feedback on our beta.

If anyone's interested in trying out some new stuff, please comment here, or use this link to reach me: https://gliph.me/x68

It helps if you're already familiar with Gliph, but if you're new that feedback would also be appreciated!

rob
It would be great if someone (anonymously) could get a working OpenGenera VM and upload the image so that people could skip all these steps and try it out immediately.
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What you call a "mistake" I call "accurate, four hundred years early"
So the author provides a defensible breakdown of the unit economics and goes into detail... and all you have is "super-hard to understand how a tech company..."

Technology companies are revolutionary in terms of leverage, but really, tech didn't invent the concept of leveraging.
...even if it got you laid?

Edit: One crass response deserves another.
One-time tax holiday for Apple's overseas cash gains traction in D.C.
In Canada, similar requests had partially liberated the information contained in the Coordination of Access to Information Requests System that the Federal Government used to centrally manage ATI requests (our FOIA), so that people could do this kind of recursive research. The Conservatives disbanded the database in 2008 in order to remove this resource from being the target of ATI requests, and make it harder to get information to the public.
GP is being rewarded by saving on fuel-- his cost is only 30c/mile compared to the standard of 55c/mile.

He's trying to deduct both his actual costs and the standard cost, which is obviously double-deducting.
Your experience seems to contradict the insinuation that "Cloudflare is knowingly providing cover to the DDOS-for-hire companies after being informed of what they are doing", to which I responded. So I guess there's no problem after all?
Exactly. Apple does not refer to this icon as the 'share' icon in official documentation. It is actually the 'action' button[1]. As in, I have some data in this app, and I want to do something with it outside of this app. Hence, the symbol of an arrow moving outside of something.

Many of the possible actions resulting from tapping that icon (on iOS) may be unrelated social sharing (e.g., copy, save to photo library, assign to contact, etc.).

[1]: UIBarButtonSystemItemAction; https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/...
I know that exercise doesn't make that much of a dent in the overall obesity epidemic by itself, but I wonder how much of just exercising influences one's diet. For instance, if I run 3 miles today, am I more or less likely to eat a salad for dinner? Or a pizza? Am I more likely to watch my diet if I'm exercising, or am I more likely to splurge? Is there a trend in either direction?

If exercise influences diet positively, then this is absolutely worth it. If it doesn't affect diet at all or if it affects diet negatively, then that's another story. While exercise is great in and of itself, it doesn't solve an obesity epidemic. Even people who exercise every day can have cardiac problems if they don't eat well.
I remember reading about Xowa and there was stated that English wikipedia requires 25GB and images additional ~80GB which you can all download and access offline with Xowa. Considering there are 128GB SD and micro SDXC cards readily available for ~$100... that's actually amazing.
As bad as governmental abuses can be in the U.S. I find it somewhat comforting that suing the CIA doesn't mean some people are going to start disappearing. I'm guessing not too many Russians sued the KGB.
Would this really be fast enough to do away with cache completely? A 100x speedup from main memory to L1 cache sounds pretty low, although I don't have any figures to back that up. If this is slower than L1 will there not be a major performance drop to the point we'd have to use at least some cache still?
This is the correct behaviour. The exact same sign is used on exit doors of buses. http://ak6.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/3922265/preview/sto...

The same thing happen with information, it goes from one place to another. The fact that this action takes many forms doesn't really matter.
Yeah, but the title is still interesting on its own.
Anyone who has seen a Vermeer painting up close, knows how hypnotic the experience can be. Is it true that in the movie Tim never gets to see the original and is reproducing based on a poster?
Only the speed gets throttled

...by a factor of >100, which narrows down the use cases a lot. They don't completely turn off your internet, but they turn off >99%.
> I've found that areas of real knowledge don't call themselves scientists (ie, physicist, chemist, astronomer) whereas those fields struggling for credibility tend to add 'scientist' on the end. (ie, _____ scientist)

Since when do physicists, chemists, and astronomers not call themselves scientists? IME, they tend to do so as a more general term than their specific field name.

If you mean "they don't put 'science' in the name of their discipline", well, consider that "physics" -- which is just the latin-derived English (archaic now, but not when "physics" became a name for the field) word for "natural science" pluralized -- is probably not a good example of the trend you are trying to illustrate.

Its true that newer fields are more likely to have "science" in modern English as part of their name rather than taking it from some other source (or a Latinized-greek suffix like "-(o)logy"), but that's really not all that substantive a difference. Which is probably just because no one likes the sound of things like Computerology or Datalogy, not because those naming those fields are any more "struggling for credibility" than those who named, say, "geology".
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This idealism appears to be one reason why he left Apple:

http://worrydream.com/Apple/
There isn’t enough office space in Dublin to fit all the new startups
My n=3 sample from conversations with taxi owner/operators in SF is that they find it more profitable to rent out their taxi to other drivers when they themselves aren't driving it. This way, an owner can drive the taxi 8 hours per day and rent it to two other people for the remaining 16 hours.

The Camry Hybrid in the article is also a clear favorite due to the perceived high fuel efficiency, cheap and infrequent maintenance, and 200-250k mile battery life.
My Zeta-C compiler predated Symbolics C by almost two years.

One customer said they'd run millions of lines of code through it.
EU to investigate Apple's tax affairs
Hmmm, that seems to contradict the assertion that "not a single dollar went through the US". If this is the mechanism that BNP Paribas uses, they shouldn't be surprised they are subject to USA laws.
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How far would an always on VPN go to solving parts of these problems? At least it'd be encrypted to the VPN data centre.

I suppose from there it'd be in the clear, but at least it'd stop snooping at an ISP level. Or am I missing something, and would it be useless?
Yeah, random pivot quicksort is n log n expected case. Its pretty easy to show that it is realistically impossible to exceed n log n for large data sets. The constants are quite high, though, due to the need to generate a random number for each element.

Additionally, quicksort is just as easy to implement in parallel as mergesort and runs about as fast since it can be performed in-place.
I'd add the "share" by "copying an url into the clipboard" (that even requires the user to manually go to another app and paste the url to actually share) which is a really common practice to avoid supporting millions of share methods.
>"Actually, many people believe the opposite."

The previous post is not at odds with what you are saying, as one may "avoid catastrophic booms and busts" by ensuring smaller "high-frequency boom-bust cycles".
These 6 charts explain why Infosys and the media disagree on everything
Those "graph diagram" ones look like the Spathi Eluder to me. Not quite the image that you want to invoke.
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I think the milkshake is a step in the right direction. Many other popular icons (envelope for e-mail, key for authentication, gear for changing inner working aka settings) borrow from a non-digital analogy, and I think that's what the author was trying to represent with the milkshake. The milkshake unfortunately does not quite meet the analogy. When you share content, you are not sharing something that is limited physically (like a toy, food, or drink). Rather you are spreading the word about a piece of information. Two more accurate representation that I can think of would be one person whispering into another's ear (for DM), or a person on a podium like he/she is giving a speech (for broadcast).