skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outside of /b/ (and one or two 'containment' boards), they do a pretty decent job of modding out hate-speech. Throughout, even on /b/, they keep shitposting (posts intended to do nothing but lower the signal/noise ratio, pushing active discussions towards expiration) way down. I would argue down below the levels seen even on default subreddits. Reddit has a serious shitposting problem.
Depends what you're doing -- DE0 Nano is nice for integrating into larger projects, but if you want to say implement a little CPU and peripherals, something like the plain 'ol DE0 is only slightly more expensive and has a bunch of buttons/switches/LEDs/7-seg-displays for just-getting-started projects as well as handy IO interfaces like VGA, PS2 mouse/keyboard, etc.
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We're using this internally right now, and that's a risk we wanted to mitigate for ourselves. Pretty sure that no-one wants to assume this risk.

The companies that use our service don't own or transact in Bitcoin. Wages are specified and debited in USD — we then purchase Bitcoin and transfer it to the employees. This effectively mitigates any risk from the companies.

For employees our main feature right now is that they can manage how much they want in Bitcoin/USD — every month — and manage the risks themselves. Also, one of our employees requested an "average bitcoin price", which helps to mitigate any risk on the employees side (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7916822)
Call me maybe: Elasticsearch
If we go down that route I would prefer primary/secondary - it's likely more accurate and intuitive than "replica" in my opinion.

Hilarious comment on the drupal issue - why not to use replica:

"In the name of all replicants, I protest the use of the word 'replica' in such a demeaning way. You wouldn't believe what we've suffered already... I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like tears... in... rain."
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Are a lot of company founders really asking "How do I find a Great Recruiter?" instead of "How do I find a great employee?"
As someone on the receiving end of these emails, the point about demonstrating some knowledge of who I am or what I've done in the opening of the email is essential. It's almost guaranteed a reply, even if the opportunity doesn't seem immediately interesting. It's amazing how virtually none of the recruiting emails I've received do that.
and a middle group of folks with some big projects and some little ones.
Don't know about how it's used for dynamic languages (it might be that it makes them harder to understand), but in languages with static typing, the purpose is not to save a few lines of code.

The purpose of currying is to improve reuse and chaining of functions, resulting in easier to read and more elegant code.
not dismissing - 30ms would be stellar. Although I think that sets the bar very high. Careful engineering can get it that low, but my experience is that some platforms aren't that fast, especially if you're not building a greenfield set of services from the ground up.
But then we wouldn't see faces in clouds...

Neutral networks are not perfect solutions, they are solutions that get an organism to reproduce successfully.

Read any book on color vision humans have similar problems, yet for the most part we see things, and realize that clouds are just clouds and not faces, except for the religious, they lose their shit when faces appear in clouds.
Banks and other companies are not abstract entities to the people doing the negotiations; they are other negotiators and people like you. Being nice is a good way to improve relations with the other party, but this can often be short-sighted or even self-serving if you aren't taking into account the best interests of other people not present in negotiations; plenty of government representatives play nice with their donors to secure future campaign money, and/or ensure a cushy position with that company after leaving office, for example.
Yes, the Bing example seems to give real-world validation of all this.

In general it seems that hardware vs. software fit is orthogonal to concerns such as frequent reconfiguration. Some algorithms simply match hardware well (high concurrency, low-complexity control flow, able to stream through data without complex state). These are often algorithms that do not fit general-purpose CPUs well (cache hierarchy wasted on streaming; lots of control overhead; low core counts relative to FPGA-level parallelism). Some of these algorithms may be for specialized and/or frequently-changing applications such that they should not be burned into an ASIC that will live in a datacenter for 3-5 years.
"world class developers" seriously? You think a world class developer would choose WaPo over Google or Facebook?
> Rails 4 is. It turns on thread safe mode by default

Rails have been thread-safe for quite some time (yehuda says after fall 2008, so even before the whole merb merger thing).

(see http://yehudakatz.com/2010/08/14/threads-in-ruby-enough-alre... comment section)
> If your quote is accurate, and they applied the same logic as Bilski, this sounds like they're conflating patent eligibility (101) and patentability (102, 103 etc.) again. To understand the difference between "patent-eligible" and "patentable", if you invent a car colored red, it's patent-eligible because a car is an articles of manufacture

101 does not (and much more does not only) require that something relate to "an articles of manufacture" to be patent-eligible, it requires it to be an invention of a "new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof"

It is quite arguable that, assuming cars exist, a "red car" is, to the extent that it is new not useful, and to the extent that it is useful not new, and therefore patent ineligible.

So, no, while I agree that your analogy may be relevant, I don't think it illustrates that the Supreme Court is confusing patent eligibility with patentability. I think you are reading patent eligibility far too broadly.

> 102 is novelty

Its true that 102 has specific novelty requirements on top of the patent-eligibility requirements in 101, but that doesn't mean that things don't need to be "new and useful" under Section 101 before one even needs to consider whether they meet the specific novelty rules in Section 102.
I'm not sure slaves are always replicas so, although primary/replica might work in some instances, I do not think this naming convention covers all of the use cases.
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Windows-only sigh

How difficult would it be to port this?

edit: it's not a snarky, rhetorical, question – I really want to play this
Has anyone used the Freelance Inbox?

Curious to know what the experience is/was like and if you actually closed any meaningful business.
qbox.io is another hosted Elasticsearch solution. I have never used them, but one of their developers is very knowledgeable and active on the mailing list.
I would argue that the qualities of "rude" and "abrasive" are similar to "offensive" - They are judgements by the observer, not objective qualities of the observed. What is abrasive to one person might be fine for another. If you are the type of person that gets his panties in a bunch when somebody says something you don't like, maybe you are the one who still needs his mommy?
So you mean HN should switch to div's and p's?

I can't even tell what it's doing right now ...
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Graphics is important and I believe we will continue to see further innovations in this space.

However, I believe that we still need to achieve a lot in "story-telling" in games. The Mass Effect series is probably one of the best out there - the setting, characters, interactions, morality and gameplay.
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Yep, and too many useless hyperboles in one sentence.
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> One of the horrid things about law is how it can be dissembled by those whose job is to practice it. This drives people crazy. They know something is real. Yet, especially if they are caught in its hooks, they watch how law can be applied such that results are absurdly divorced from the reality they know.

I think this is maybe overly harsh. The plaintiffs in CLS v. Alice weren't trying to obtain a result "divorced" from reality. Their argument was simply that 101 is written broadly and should be interpreted broadly (i.e. judicially created exceptions should be interpreted narrowly). There's no truth--just a statute of Congress that is amenable to differing interpretations. Some of those interpretations are favorable to some people, and others to other people. Who knows what Congress really intended. Indeed, there's 535 differing sets of intentions...
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I'd be interested in hearing your observations about what works surprisingly well, if you'd care to share them. Probably best at hn@ycombinator.com, so we don't pull the thread off topic.
FPGA in the datacenter may be a red herring; a relatively small percentage of digital circuits are computers.

FPGA is widely used in control circuits for industrial uses, for example.
That's a pretty great template, I get at least 5 emails a week (usually a little more) and I try to reply to them just because you never know when the market could change and you need contacts to get a job. That said it's usually a week later that I reply that I'm not interested but thanks for thinking of me but an email like yours would get an immediate reply.
Depends on your data package. <10GB is $15/month discount. 10+GB is a $25/month discount. The linked chart shows this.
http://www.univision.com has all the games in Spanish. Usually it's more exciting to watch because the announcers get really into it.
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So is creating policies.... They managed to make dealing with json worse than dealing with xml.
To be honest, I'd be far more inclined to reply to an email from Stripe (a company I recognise/like) than most other cold mail.

Also the advice about including a specific actionable time to make the next step is golden. Telling people exactly what you want converts best in most scenarios.
It might not be a drop in replacement in all circumstances, but it is in the case under discussion. I don't think anyone in this discussion would support using primary/replicant for IDE busses, and bringing them up here is really just a straw man.

You can't avoid ever offending someone, but in this case you can reduce the amount of offence caused by a small but significant amount at basically no cost.
What do fitness app fanatics look like?
The best cold emails are ones with a tone that assumes that I'm a busy professional.

The worst are the ones that present themselves as a golden, once-in-a-lifetime, opportunity.
Thanks. I agree this is a very valuable case, as so many horrible software patents boil down to "this common thing everyone knows, but inna fone!" Software people have understood this for a long time as a completely unacceptable mis-use of the patent system, and it's nice to get that translated to an SC decision.

To rant a sec, how many times will the federal circuit need to be slapped upside the head on these issues before they get it through their skulls that their whole permissive approach to patent law is just fundamentally unconstitutional, and they need to adapt their philosophy, or the SC will continue to apply the boot to them? Is this a case of there just being a handful of particular incorrigible bad actors who we just have to wait to die?
Haha, you'd never send me one of those emails so we'll never know. <3
The compiler is much slower, though.
The technique also works for job-hunters writing to companies. Your cold emails should always mention something specific and personal about the recipient.
First thought:

Can I turn all digital pictures of me into 'adversarial examples', so the eye of sauron can't identify me from pictures?

I'm sure it's not as simple as that, presumably any algorithmic modification to an 'adversarial' nature can be countered by other algorithms.

But I predict a new realm of 'arms race' here in the future.
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Indeed. Anyone who even mentions an open-source project that I've created automatically gets a personal reply.
Discussion from when this was posted 10 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6247552
Second the Timer comment. For me, something as simple as the Pomodoro http://tomato-timer.com/# is really helpful.
I saw Altera's open cl devkit[0] for the fpga recently. That would smooth out the toolchain issue a bit.

[0]http://www.anandtech.com/show/7334/a-look-at-alteras-opencl-...
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Thanks for the matchist shoutout Dan!
Hello Greg, I would love to receive one of your "cold" emails ;)
Seconded. The number of emails i receive that make the least effort possible for something alleged to be so important is truly staggering.

It can feel rather insulting.

Is it really too much to ask for 15 minutes of your time if you genuinely find me so important?
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Knight-Mozilla OpenNews (http://mozillaopennews.org/) includes several full-time Mozilla Foundation staff members in addition to the fellowship recipients and any Knight Foundation staff who are involved.
so, no then
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This article is pretty light on content. Much more interesting is the well-produced video the dev made himself, talking about his experience making the game, and talking about why it took 13 years.

The Game That Time Forgot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0tSu0QDQ0
Great decision. Once in a while they do get it right :)

The hard part was balancing genuine innovation (from small inventors, pharma, etc.) vs. squashing trolls. This goes a long way toward whacking trolls while leaving in place what the patent system was meant for - the fostering of innovation for the benefit of society. Well played.
The qualities of any finite system are finite so "unlimited" doesn't mean much here.

At the same time, one thing that's notable about human intelligence is that, in comparison to source code, the learning and the skills gained in one context can be much very easily mobilized for use other contexts (see Winograd and Flores' use of Martin Heidegger's term "ready at hand" in their critique of AGI, etc).

And yes, I'd love to put this claim in more exact but but that would only be possible if we'd solved the question of "what is intelligence".

Yes, since the problem isn't solved, we can't prove that a lack of flexibility will doom any given system. But I'm still fine pointing out that my human intuition, honed by many years of evolution, says any general intelligence requires far greater flexibility than is evident in most humanly constructed logic systems.
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Thanks to mjb for the good list. To it I'll add:
http://markburgess.org/blog_cap.html

I think I also might write one up myself.
I'm a developer for Ticketbud, and we let our event organizers upload high-res background images on their event pages. If Splashbase had an API, I'd be keen to work it into our interface.

https://tbkmf.ticketbud.com/2014
The fundamental issue is that Congress has stated patent eligibility in very broad terms. Where the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court differ is that the former is reading it broadly, while the latter is trying to reinforce narrowing exceptions to the statutory text it created itself.

This is, fundamentally, Congress problem, and a problem with the breadth of the statutory text they've given the USPTO to work with.
I don't smoke, but one thing I noticed from being around people who smoke and have tried to quit is it doesn't work to hang out with smokers. I've seen 2 people take it back up after quitting, and another who has been trying to quit but he interacts with a group of 6-8 guys who all smoke. While they're cool with him trying to quit, it's probably very hard for him to actually keep from lighting up when all of them are standing around talking, and almost all of them are actively smoking.
> I enjoy reading quotes.

As someone who is not into reading and quotes I’d like to ask what you find fascinating about it. Can you maybe give an example what kind of quotes you find interesting? Dialogs, aphorisms? Is more about entertainment or worldly wisdom? Or is it more an intellectual fascination, for example thinking through how the author came up with it and considering different interaction possibilities of the actors?
As long as you have ordered parameters, I'm not sure this is such a big issue. First, tuples are (morally, i.e. up to non-termination) associative in most reasonable languages, so the product/exponential adjunction can be shifted around however you like

-- all morally identical
a -> b -> c -> d
a -> (b -> c -> d)
a -> (b -> (c -> d))
(a, b) -> c -> d
(a, b, c) -> d
((a, b), c) -> d
(a, (b, c)) -> d

However, so long as you have parameter order (we're not allowed to commute our tuples, just reassociate nested tuples like ((a, b), c) <-> (a, (b, c)) and so on) then flip still morally works

flip (someFn :: (a, b, c) -> d)
:: (b, a, c) -> d
:: (b, a) -> c -> d
:: b -> a -> (c -> d)

The same story holds for partial evaluation. Of course, there have to be far more edge cases to handle all this tuple twiddling.

---

Really, I think it's pretty meaningful to blur the distinction between "curry (once)" and "curry repeatedly along with tuple reassociation". The later forms an equivalence class of function types which all have the same application behavior.
> Normally it consists of a wire to Bitstamp (which includes a steep fee)

If you mean $30-40 for the wire and 0.2% for the trade, that's not steep at all.

Try sending money abroad any other way, and you're likely to pay around 3-8%. Or much more if the destination is one of the messed up African countries.
Curious about OpenStack?
I have a tangentially related question: has there been any thought given to raising patent validity standards around teachability? A big constitutional point of a patent is to teach someone "skilled in the art" how to replicated the subject matter of the patent. That's typically intepreted as "can you pay an expert witness to claim the patent teaches them to construct the claimed infringement," which is, of course, always true. But to me, this seems like fertile ground for the defense, and ought to be a negative test: can the defense find an expert witness to say that the patent is too vague, unspecific, or abstract to teach them to construct the claimed infringement.

Is this approach ever tried in these cases? It seems to me that the more convoluted and abstract the patent (which seems to be the point of many of these patents explicitly written to try and reach as broad as possible), the more juries will tend to identify with the expert saying "I can't make heads or tails of this thing" and invalidate bad patents as simply failing to adequately teach the construction of the infringement claim.
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So you'd have to port the Multimedia Fusion 1.5 (MMF) engine he used to make the game in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Fusion

That thing is going to be closed source, ancient, and not actively maintained. 1.5 seems to have been released in 2001.

Why don't you download a free MS VM from https://www.modern.ie/en-gb/virtualization-tools#downloads and then try it on there using something like VMWare or VirtualBox
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RockPaperShotgun article on it: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/06/18/documentaryised-t...

TiGSource thread: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=41361.0
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I wonder if subtle make up could be used to make a real life face into an adversarial example.
I recommend people take a look. The video is indeed well-produced and the style reminded me of the director of Love Actually and About Time. It was not what I was expecting.
It's pretty high. I normally completely ignore generic recruiting e-mails that have made no effort to find out more about me. If someone's gone to the effort of looking into my work in detail I'll normally repay the kindness by replying.

Case in point, a few months ago Udacity sent me an e-mail which went in some detail about a blog post I'd written, some of my Stack Overflow answers...it was pretty clear the person writing had actually taken the time to read some of my stuff, so even though I wasn't looking at the time I wrote back to thank them.

As other people have pointed out, this also works the other way round. I actually 'reverse cold-recruited' an interview out of Stripe a year ago using the same methods, just applied from the perspective of the job hunter rather than the recruiter.
I work with a team of three (remotely) and I have to say Asana and Hipchat are what keep us productive. My team uses Asana for managing tasks, planning and running meetings, project management, and so much more. Check out this link and watch the videos to see all the things you can do with Asana. https://asana.com/guide/explore/videos/get-started I've never used Basecamp so I can't speak about the differences. We use HipChat as well for team-based chat. I highly recommend it.
No love for Torquebox? True, it's jRuby, but it's very powerful: http://torquebox.org/
"As an experiment, we've decided to try out a startup advice column to share what we've learned along the way."

This sounds really useful. I would love a way to subscribe to these advice posts (RSS, Twitter, email are all fine) without subscribing to the rest of the Stripe blog!
I find it interesting and old-school that people still assume the best way to create software is via the capital-new-project-investment system instead of the strengthen-existing systems. The latter approach takes advantage of the millions of people and the free, evolutionary market (i.e., selecting from github or the best out there, forking, etc. - like with say KHTML). The former approach is one or two people thinking they can outperform the filtering, evolutionary processes in all that (sometimes they can, but it strikes me as old school in the sense of maybe capitalism is old school in the sense of single large investments of capital).
Case example: The Guardian Op Ed section.
another great post from jakevdp. thanks jake!
I think it is fantastic that Mozilla is getting funding.

That being said I have some reservations about browser maker in bed with news organization. While I perceive no immediate danger, I guess I feel platform should be independent of propaganda.
I feel like my original comment was a bit harsh so thanks for replying.

Re: the debate about CA vs CP, I've seen this too, but I think it reflects confusion rather than genuine options. The 'P' of CAP takes effect whenever you have two or more processes which clients can communicate with. So even if you are running within the same datacenter when using ES, provided clients can communicate with more than one ES node, CAP still applies.
The business implications of this are interesting. In my opinion this is another warning shot that if you don't open source your business someone else may just do it for you. If I was LiveFyre or Disqus I'd definitely be nervous about Mozilla coming into my space and building competing software with a commitment from two of the big players to use it. Leveraging open source by adding value via services or premium offerings has been a very powerful business model in the last few years.