skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the cultures in question know which way is North at all times, so this would be super easy for them, because the absolute position of an object that doesn't move never changes.
It wouldn't take more than binoculars. The bare patch of ground this thing has made is gigantic.

It's not just the digger, there's this conveyor system that's an integral part of the system that looks miles long.

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8674604,6.6073151,43657m/dat...
'The "incomparable to" part is sufficiently vague to shoehorn in asymptotic improvements if we want to.'

I totally agree, which is part of why the article didn't clear it up.

"Of course, an Zeno machine, or a machine that can solve the halting problem, could also certainly solve problems a TM can solve but asymptotically faster."

A Zeno machine, for sure. It is not immediately clear to me that this necessarily holds for anything that can solve the halting problem - what about a TM plus a halting problem oracle that would tell you in 2^(size of TM) whether a TM halts?

Of course the real question is whether asymptotically faster is enough to be "hypercomputation". Necessity is also interesting, but not the same thing.
Aptible engineer here.

Re: documentation, a major part of our platform is our compliance dashboard, where we track your compliance status in real time, as both a high-level status report (think Travis CI for HIPAA), and as more formal (custom) documentation which you can use for sales purposes, or in case of an audit.

As for QSM requirements (and other regulatory/compliance requirements in general), we're focused on covering 100% of HIPAA's requirements, but our technology and our compliance backend support a wide array of frameworks. We can help customers with all of these specific needs. Please let me know if I can provide a more specific answer!
The phrase "A font for programmer, by a programmer" is a disservice to the many fine folks at Adobe and elsewhere who manage to not only be type designers, but also programmers. There's a lot of code that goes into making a good font. (Little known fact: Just van Rossum, type designer and programmer, is the brother of the Python BDFL Guido van Rossum.)

All that to say, Adobe's Source Code Pro could also be called a font for programmers, by programmers.
Bose sues Beats / Apple over noise-canceling patents
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Locks to "Lenovo provided" cards, I said. That leaves Lenovo-branded iwl or some rando Lenovo-branded Realtek(?) card that has terrible support.
> These functions belong to a family of functions known as key derivation functions: they use hashing to produce a digest which is suitable for use as a password hash.

KDFs are not for storing password hashes, they are for key derivation. This is a subtle point, the main thing is to use KDFs as KDFs (to derive keys that are then used to encrypt data). Details in the first link here (the second is about common mistakes when using scrypt):

- http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/03/why-i-dont-recommend-scryp... (bad title, he's referring to pass storage, not KDF usage)

- http://vnhacker.blogspot.com/2014/04/fairy-tales-in-password...

Another consideration is plausible deniability (PD) for situations where you're compelled to disclose your password(s). Our company writes Mac encryption software that specializes in this (and it uses scrypt). Here's a list of tools that offer PD (ours is called Espionage):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption#Software

I compared Espionage's PD to TrueCrypt's on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/security/comments/2b5icu/major_advan...
Good bless Rails. It turned developing professional web apps into a low headcount highly iterative process.

That being said, I don't use Rails. I use Django, but we all owe a debt of gratitude for the path it illuminated.
New program gives unemployed grads a free Mac with tech training
I think the key here is that the hole in one insurance is 'frequently bundled with other services'. It's something that basically costs nothing for the insurance companies to provide, but could act as a selling point for the right customer.
I like this book: Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/public/samples.html
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BitBalloon http://bitballoon.com is free and easy to deploy to. They also compress your assets and host it on a cdn!
This would be more tractable if there were multiple consequence graphs that could be overlaid on wikipedia.

Prior to modelling possible futures, a good exercise is to model alternate pasts.

Pick key turning points in history and identify variables where a small change in input (location, time, magnitude) would have resulted in a large change in output.
Sometimes referred to as 'reverse click fraud'. Here's how it can look from the point of view of one of the sites that hosts the ads paid for by the victim: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Adsense-Click-Fraud-88596

The site gets lots of visits from random IPs, all searching for the same odd phrase, such as 'Female Impotence' in this case.
Let's assume for a second that the taxes are more or less "fixed" and need to be paid

That's a big assumption.
Move?

Isn't that what they are doing?
That looks good, will check it out. Thank you.
No, Mojavi (PHP) used a similar style.

http://ad.hominem.org/log/2004/06/tutorial_on_mojavi.php
Crows can do amazing things; a documentary shows crows dropping nuts on roads, waiting for passing cars to crack them open.

But the problem then is to get onto the road to eat the content of the nut without being run over.

Well, crows learned to drop the nuts at pedestrian crossings, and wait for read lights stopping all cars, to go collect the reward. Problem solved.
Here's an example of it used in the specific (rather than generic) sense for a particular non-Christian place of worship, by the people that run that place of worship, the "Church of Scientology of Sacramento".

http://www.scientology-sacramento.org/
Gary Larson did a 'Far Side' cartoon where cows were standing, enjoying conversations in the field until one of them yelled 'Car!', where they all went silent and dropped to all fours.
> Delaware, Nevada, etc. let you skip STATE tax but your corporation would still be based in the United States and Federal taxes would still be due.

It's not that simple, and it doesn't allow corporations to skip state taxes. I only know Texas' law in detail, but Texas imposes franchise taxes on all companies "transacting business" within the state. Basically, any company with a physical presence in Texas is considered to be "transacting business" and may be subject to franchise tax. So, if your entire operation is in Texas it doesn't matter if you incorporate in Texas or Delaware, you are going to pay Austin the same.
First link on the documentation page is:

Build a simple app using node.c

node? Typo?
Makes sense, a function must always return the same value for the same argument. Therefore if there were mutable state you might have things that look like functions but are really not. But what is "purity"? Does it mean that you can NOT HAVE mutable state in any program written in a "purely functional" language? I still don't quite get it how a language could be "purely" functional if it has to do IO. Reading the user's input will return a different value most of the time. And what do you do in Haskel if you need to know the current TIME for any reason? It can't be returned by a "function" because its result will always be different. So there must be something ELSE besides functions in the language. But doesn't that then mean that it is no longer a "purely functional" lanaguage?
Edit: Rephrasing because I worded it poorly.

His sell action _right now_ signals that he thinks it has lost value. What happens after that with the stock is independent of his opinion there. Sure, the stock may go up in the short-term because of all of this, but his action now agrees with his sentiment that they're doing something harmful that has effects _in the future_.

What happens with the stock price isn't just reading tea leaves, but totally unimportant to the discussion. Whether you think a stock is going to go up or down isn't the only (and at the institutional level not even the most important) reason that you buy or sell a stock.
HIPAA compliance sucks and Aptible most certainly does not. I'm so happy these guys are around, they've made our startup's life a lot easier!
Super great to see CoreOS making it to its first stable release. It really feels like the future.

I've been reading about using vulcand to do frontend deploys and traffic management (http://coreos.com/blog/zero-downtime-frontend-deploys-vulcan...) and using ambassadors to do dynamic routing to backend stores (http://coreos.com/blog/docker-dynamic-ambassador-powered-by-...)

But it is hard to get my head around this - has anyone actually tied all of these concepts together in a deployment that they've written up?
First World Problems: The Article.

There was just someone ranting on Twitter yesterday about Bill O'Reilly's ranting of how few millennials actually play golf - "Why Is The Generation We Sunk Into Crushing Unemployment and Debt Not Playing Our Shitty, Classist Sport?"
But the argument here is that corporations are not paying their fair share of the taxes. To pay your share of taxes is patriotic. Hence avoiding taxes, while reaping the benefits, is not patriotic. People get angry when poor people abuse welfare, why aren't they annoyed when wealthy companies abuse a countries benefits. We have an educated base of people, a leading technology base, a law structure which favors corporations in many ways, and a secure place to put offices, all of which the government is directly responsible for. (I would have also put, infrastructure but... we don't have that anymore, nor do we have low crime rates, at least in comparison to other modern industrial nations).

We aren't calling Obama patriotic for suggesting or implementing this. We are calling the companies who do this anyway, who pay U.S. taxes when they could avoid them, patriotic, and those who don't, who mainly operate here, who reap the benefits of our country and don't pay their share? Parasites.
You would have to somehow balance it out against the fact that eliminating corporate income tax would invalidate a lot of incentives built into the corporate tax structure. No more flexibility for the government to encourage capital purchases or otherwise use tax policy as a policy driver.

It would also decrease the incentive to invest in their own company because the cost of building a new factory or raising workers' wages or hiring more workers would actually increase. Think about it, if a company were considering giving all of its workers a $5,000 raise. In a world with a 30% marginal corporate tax rate, the actual cost to your company's bottom line of such a raise would be $3,500/worker, because you only pay tax on net income. But with a 0% tax rate, the cost would be $5,000/worker, that's a 43% bigger cost. Plus, presuming that personal income taxes would need to be raised by ~11% to make up for the loss of corporate income taxes, the workers are going to end up a lot less likely to get substantial raises.

The benefits of eliminating the corporate income tax are going to have to be huge to make up for the disincentives it would create.
There are already laws stopping corporations from doing that. Otherwise corporations could just pay you in kind and write it all off as expenses.
> IMO, the perfect solution would be to eliminate the corporate tax altogether, and tax capital gains and dividends as income instead.

We already tax capital gains on short-term investments as income. Taxing long-term capital gains at the same rate as income would have a number of other unpleasant consequences

- It would eliminate the incentive to hold investments for longer than 365 days

- It would reduce the incentive to invest in the market (since you would quite literally be paying double taxes on this income, instead of more like 1.5x the tax (which is what we sometimes misleadingly refer to as "double taxation"))

Regarding point #1 - if you sell a stock before 1 year, you already pay normal income tax on any gains. This encourages buy-and-hold, long-term investing, which I believe most people on HN would agree is good for the economy at large, as it reduces volatility and ensures that shareholder incentives are better aligned with growing the company.

Regarding point #2, which is mildly controversial (but IMHO only because it is misunderstood): it is good to encourage investments in the economy, because this is literally how business raise capital. Readers of Hacker News should be well aware of the importance of this in the private equity markets (ie, venture capital, which is technically a form of private equity). Similarly, in the public markets, it is good to create incentives for people to park their money in places which help spur the economy[0].

[0] In theory (obviously not always in practice), providing capital to a business has the potential to stimulate the economy more than providing capital to an individual, as the business uses that capital to pursue a profit, hire employees, etc.
> That link returns a "no such item" for me.

Overzealous punctuation. Fixed, thanks.
Yes, and you've promoted Catalyze.io several times on Twitter in the past month. So let's not feign too much outrage please.
It looks very, very pretty and user friendly. I can think up ideas, and imagine certain tasks and features, but I can NEVER make an inviting and warm UI.
African MNO to launch Facebook on USSD
>he says while sipping a glass of nationally funded water

The water wasn't created by the government, the government didn't build the pipes carrying it to my house, and any first world country could have helped to facilitate this glass of water just as much as the country I happen to inhabit.

>using a protocol developed with national funding

Along with contributions from Xerox, BBN, UCL, a number of US universities... And why, exactly, does the fact that a government partially funded a nice project mean that nationalism is a good motive?
Let me first say, as someone with two children, both girls, I really appreciate the efforts that are going into making CS careers an accessible option for them, and that includes your post and the sentiment behind it. Kudos to you! What continues to irk me is the almost a disregard for black males when discussing diversity. There isn't a single group less represented in CS than AA males and there isn't a single group that has been more disparately affected by the recession.

I believe that gender and sexual identification is a pretty easy thing to agree on when discussing diversity, because only a cave man would oppose a more welcoming environment, and balanced representation of women and LGBT.

What irks me, is that I know only a hand full of AA males working on silicon valley and they are all friends of mine, and yet they are addressed indirectly in diversity reports as (non whites) as a way of covering up the abysmal rates of black males represented.

My cynical side says that some of this is the result of a culture that currently does not take black males specifically seriously, due to the representation of them in popular culture, but my more rational side tells me that we as black males bear alot of the responsibility ourselves for understanding where the world is going, and to prepare our careers for tomorrows jobs (technology) and to help advance those that need mentoring to get into CS career paths both technical and non technical. Even so, and taking self responsibility, black males will need to be addressed specifically by the same organizations that are addressing diversity and there needs to be a more forthright and brutally honest admission of what is happening. Black men are being left out of another generation of wealth creation and we need to stem (excuse the pun) the tide of that now.

Again, I appreciate the dialog, and I do appreciate the efforts to open up silicon valley to all.

Just my humble take (engage in rotten tomato throwing now)
To change a law, you don't just put up a bill for a vote; you first need to drum up support, which means getting politicians motivated for it which means riling up their political base. That is to say, to change a law, you have to get citizens caring about it -- hence the rhetoric about 'economic patriotism'.
I'm a bit confused on the licensing here. CoreOS says it's Apache 2.0 licensed. But it also says its Linux. If it includes the Linux kernel, as it appears to, then those bits is licensed under the GPL and can not be re-licensed as Apache 2.0. So, it's a bit disingenuous to claim the whole package is Apache 2.0, since it isn't.
No, both Struts (Java) and Maypole (Perl) predate Rails.

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maypole_framework | http://www.perl.com/pub/2004/04/15/maypole.html
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Except when it is... If you can edit fluently and quickly, _then_ coding is more of a nonissue, you're free to try things out, you can find and fix an error and Alt-Tab without blinking, you can harness this kind of physical flow of noninterrupted work, etc. I've worked alongside programmers for whom typing and editing were indeed quite the bottlenecks. Of course, any programming editor is probably good enough if you learn it.
Honestly most small businesses pay taxes on their members' individual returns. Keep the corporate rate where it is, how about a non-refundable small business tax credit?
You're asking the wrong question. You should not train for your first marathon the way other people trained for their first one, because many people don't necessarily do it right the first time, and it is not necessary to repeat that!

Stick to the standard formula. Follow a weekly schedule which includes: a long run which builds to about about 20 miles, and a tempo run of 6 to 10 miles (can start at 4 until you get used to it). The rest is easy running. A weekly mileage of around 50 is adequate. It may sound like a lot, but it isn't. The 20 mile long run eats up 40% of it right there, and the tempo run whittles it down to 20 miles, which can be covered in three runs of 8, 8 and 4. And that leaves two days of rest per week.

Those looking to run a fast marathon should do some interval training, but that is advanced and not recommended for the first marathon, unless you have a fierce, competitive spirit that can't be held back. Interval training for marathon involves long repeats of 800 to 1200 meter long repeats. I believe that even shorter ones of 400 meters can still be useful. They improve the quality of the longer repeats, and the longer repeats in turn improve the quality of the weekly tempo run: a kind of trickle down effect. You probably don't want to be doing 100 meter sprints or heavy squats in the gym.

Here is a tip: use treadmills to your advantage. Don't do too much running on treadmills, but put in some treadmill mileage. Here is why: treadmills quite precisely control pace, much more accurately than the newbie runner (plus other conditions are under control too). From time to time, put in a good 8 mile steady run on a treadmill, at the same pace from beginning to end. Try to get your body to memorize how differently that pace feels at the beginning, middle and end. Always remember to set a treadmill to 1% incline, to approximately compensate for the lack of headwind, or you will get a grossly wrong sense of effort for a given pace.
The corporate tax is a terrible disincentive to make money. Wealthy entities that make money are more concerned with relative status than absolute status.

On the other hand, the corporate tax is a great way to ensure corporations retain profits instead of paying them out, thereby making the corporations larger.

This would all be obvious if people remembered rule 1 of economics, which is that actors respond to incentives.
Am I to understand that someone who is golfing is unable to absorb the costs of several hundred dollars of drinks in?

And that this is common enough that there's an insurance product to hedge that miniscule risk?

It seems like a much shorter article could have been written: Because they can't do math.
People who are not white males...

I know it's hard to believe, but relative to their proportion in the workforce white males are slightly underrepresented in tech. Additionally, people of color are dramatically overrepresented. It's easy to march under the banner of "men in tech shouldn't act like sexist jerks"—what kind of sexist jerk could object to that?—but the more accurate slogan "we need many fewer Asian males in tech" doesn't sound quite so nice. In fact, it sounds rather nasty. And yet, it's the inevitable implication of increasing diversity.
Another aspect of the corporate tax is that it in-effect is a secret tax. You see how much the gov't takes from you on your pay stubs, or your receipts at the store. But you don't see the effects of the corporate tax.

I'd think it would be healthy too move to a model of looking at corporations are simply intermediaries for organizing people. Ultimately the money that flows into the corporation has to flow out either through salaries, dividens or sales - and the money should be taxed at those points. If you tax it in the middle people just end up thinking "oh, well they're taxing the evil corporates, so that's good!" without seeing the dampening effect on salaries and their investments.

I understand that it's a bit simplistic, but I think the current model of hidding taxes is parasitic. You look at the insane sales taxes they have in Europe. They keep going up and the citizens don't really perceive it and so there is no push-back. Here in the US, when the sales tax goes up by half a percent people are up in arms.
I've never used 7cupsoftea, but have used similar service such as CompassionPit, Omegle and another site I'm forgetting the name of.

Most people I've talked to are quite young like high schoolers to peeps in their late 20's with quarter-life crisis. People mostly have girl/boy/parents problems or general existential crisis revolving around career/romance/existential meaning.

I think the appeal of the site is to relate to strangers and letting your guard down. I think there's a lot of appeal of listening to someone as it makes you relate to your own problems and step outside of yourself to realize that it's not a "me" world; and that everyone is kinda of grotesque like in that short story collection, "Winesburg, Ohio".

I used to feel that way with HN and reddit /r/all, but both sites have grown so big and evolved into more commercialized niche for startup's and meme's; that they feel like high school with people putting on their in-group faces lol. I think that's the appeal of subreddits for people to go into smaller communities. Same thing with one-on-one online anonymous chats. It's the not same as talking with friends, friends may be unavailable because they're busy or with someone else or you don't want to share some details with them. It helps frame your problem from your original context in your social and family clique to try to explain it to a stranger.
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That's assuming that shareholders care most about positive returns, he's stating that for at least his shares that isn't necessarily the case. It also has the side effect of hurting the company's bottom line if he does drop the shares.
There is a patch that supposedly solves this problem. Homebrew applies this patch to Emacs and after I started using this I did not notice any more problems with distnoted. I am not sure if other Emacs builds also apply this patch.