skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're playing a semantic game with the word "alter". The roots can't "alter" your records. They can prevent other people from seeing those records, though, and replace them with an entirely different set of records.
You should have left 3+ months ago. Your not valued there.

No one gets a raise out of niceness. You get a raise because they're Damn afraid you are going to leave.

If they don't push to promote you, then get out and promote yourself.

If they promote you, still get out and promote yourself harder.

Mind your own business.
"The Right Stuff" is so repeat-watchable. I watch it two or three times a year, never gets boring. Sadly "When we left Earth" isn't available on UK Netflix :(

One of my first vivid memories was watching Apollo 14 or Apollo 15 on my folks old black and white telly. I was four at the time and went to school completely obsessed with the Saturn V rocket and the idea of space travel.

As I've grown older and come to appreciate the limitations of the technology of the day, I am even more in awe of the challenges the Apollo programme had to overcome to get two humans to land on the moon, and the mortal danger these individuals lived in from takeoff to landing.

I wonder if we've plateaued in our ability and willpower to put humans into space and to break new barriers in space travel. I wonder if governments could ever stomach the 1960's attitude of "throwing caution to the wind" to send humans to Mars or beyond.
The preprocessor's got nothing to do with it. As you've noted, the raw size of the source code is easily dealt with. (At least for parsing. We still haven't identified where it's being stored in the first place.) The problem is that when targeting an embedded system, you really want to use compiler optimizations (especially size optimizations), and those heuristics require more RAM than routers have. Ideally, you would compile large parts of the OS with link-time optimization, which is one of the most memory-intensive options you can pass to a compiler.
If you figure out a more intuitive way to communicate confidence intervals visually, please post it here :)
Ask HN: Is Facebooking/Twittering worth the time?
I quit Facebook about 5 years ago. My online influence has decreased to essentially zero and I'm wondering if I should start posting stuff on Facebook again, or tweeting stuff. It seems online friends are necessary these days. Any thoughts from the HN crowd?
> I pay to have my background checked, and then I'm not treated like a criminal.

Wow. I don't think objecting to that makes someone ...

> super-libertarian or whatever

I notice that people who think don't object to these programs resort to two arguments:

1) What me worry?
2) Name calling

It makes me think that they don't have much of an argument, and adds to my growing conviction that there is no argument.

EDIT: slight reword
The next generation of Cocoa APIs will be developed with Swift in mind. Every Cocoa API today is developed for the features and limitations of Obj-C. And yes, for a number of years to come, APIs will still retain Obj-C compatibility. But we'll also start seeing Swift-only APIs (even if these are functionally equivalent to other Obj-C APIs), using design patterns that are appropriate for Swift instead of Obj-C.

So yes, you do need to know the Cocoa APIs. That's extremely important for developing applications today. But the applications of tomorrow will be developed using APIs we don't have now, APIs that are based around idioms and design patterns that will be developed over the next year (or few years) as people explore Swift and figure out what they can do with it that's different from Obj-C.

Apple will undoubtedly define many of the idioms and design patterns themselves. But there will be many that emerge from the community, from experiments that people do and open-source libraries they write.
(smiling) You already know the answer - "it depends". What websites were they visiting? If they were going to a lot in .SE, then they might have had a good bit of DNSSEC validation happening. If they were going to .COM websites they probably would have had very little.
Patrick (the commenter I'm replying to) happens to have written the best article you'll ever read on the topic:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

It really helps put things into perspective.
Clean design, I especially like the consistent choice of colors. Labels/tags would be a nice addition as well as some sort of compact index.
jQuery modals are so not in right now !
Huge Sublime fan here, recently switched to Atom. With the new React-driven editor buffers, it feels much more native. Give it another spin! Properly configured, it's pretty much at parity with Sublime. Insane momentum behind it with new plugins every day.

And if you don't like something, just pop open DevTools and dive in! A lot to be said for that.
If you want to read up on ayasdi go straight to the Source:
http://www.ayasdi.com/resources/ (click on publications)

There are probably some talks by Gunnar Carlsson around on the web too.

There is also a great overview from Larry Wassermann on his outstanding blog:
http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/topological-da...

Other examples of manifold inspired math in data analysis that I find more useful as they describe ways to solve complex problems with simple systems:

http://web.stanford.edu/~yyye/hodgeRank2011.pdf
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~misha/Fall09/Hirani03.pdf

A really interesting method for learning manifolds from heterogeneous data (decision trees can be extended for categorical data, text data, almost anything) that doesn't boil down to just choosing a metric:
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1555...

Edit: Also they do have a really slick UI and I like the math involved. I wanted to like their product however I worry that the math just serves to lend legitimacy when the results aren't as exciting/promising as advances being made in other areas of data analysis on similar datasets.

Also them keeping it proprietary makes it hard for people to do legitimate comparisons. We implemented some of our own versions of their stuff to tory on other cancer datasets but it just didn't work very well because of numerous issues with lack normalization, batch effect, bias and noise.
"knowingly filing a false DMCA complaint opens you to lawsuits"

If you're under US jurisdiction.
"What I got is a bunch of back-handed cartoon insults towards the groups the author dislikes."

Ad hominem?
Sorry if this is a silly question, but by "algorithm agility" do you mean abstracting away the algorithm into some module?
Some unsolicited advice: If anything, your consistent users have a lot of ways to discuss papers: classrooms, sections, MOOCs, stack* questions, conferences, proceedings, editorial pages of journals, invited lectures, ... In fact, a large of what people who read & write papers do is share and discuss them.

Another problem is, since your "social object" cannot maintain enough synchronous interaction, it becomes a dead social network. Not enough people will read & discuss the same paper at the same time. If you are going to fix one problem, this is it. # of papers or # registered users is not important, The only important metric is #time spent between me leaving a comment on the paper I'm currently reading & someone else liking, responding, etc. in a relevant way. Otherwise people have no reason to go there, it's an empty room.

So suppose you restrict the papers. Then it starts looking a lot like a scientific journal with social features - which a lot of sci journals are also doing, without a lot of interaction going on (see comments sections of PLoS journals).

As others commented - tough market. Try to elucidate a narrow user segment & journey using a model like "Crossing the Chasm".
DVI/HDMI can't deliver power. DisplayPort and USB3 can. I think that'd be a big factor for people. I'm almost ready to buy this thing: http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Portable-USB-Powered-Monitor-MB16... because I don't want to haul around another power brick for a second monitor
Which groups exactly and which insults?
>And what do you think a government is?

It is a monopoly, of course. It clearly demonstrates that monopolies cannot exist without the threat of force, which isn't profitable to do in a free market, where you cannot force people to pay to sustain that force indefinitely.

>In an increasingly post-labour society, this is not necessarily the case. You might buy a machine that eliminates many jobs, and creates far fewer.

Did somebody build that machine? Doesn't that situation incentivize people to learn more sophisticated skills? And if a machine makes some product cheaper, wouldn't the poor benefit the most from it, since they would now be able to afford stuff they couldn't before? Would you like to be rich 200 years ago or lower middle class today?

>Of course. I wasn't suggesting otherwise. My point is that there are ways for the majority to hurt the minority in both cases, so it's not an argument against democracy.

It is an argument against democracy, because I clearly demonstrated to you how in a democracy the minority would be in a much worse situation if the majority of the society hated them. Please re-read it and I'd really like to hear your response to that.

>Because the government's actions are approved of by a majority of society.

So, if the government approved me robbing you directly, you'd be okay with it too?

>Because in your society, if I have no money, I die. In my society, if I have no money, I survive.

That's actually not true. In my society there are friends and relatives. Individuals have responsibility to help others, not some abstract government or society.
Incidentally, I liked Barto and Sutton's book, but it feels a bit dated. Does anyone have another reinforcement learning book to recommend?
Definitely take a look at the Alcatraz package manager fro XCode[1]. I discovered it recently and it's heavily improved my experience!

[1]: http://alcatraz.io/
Great post.

I totally agree with analogous environments, and that's the reason I'm keeping my Ubuntu laptop.

I do move around quite a bit, and my current computer only has 6gb RAM and an i3, so they're both upgrades, and I usually never run into issues regarding CPU usage or RAM usage.
I've really got to speak to the incredible soundtrack that "When we left Earth" has.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzCsDVfPQqk

Probably my favourite scene and if I'm honest though I am not even an American, watching the stars and stripes through the condensation ice and the big red U S A crawling by makes me feel a bit patriotic.
"wants everyone in the office more, including me"

Well, one day a year is more than none. You could make the trip once and talk face to face.

In that meeting, you could reveal what you've learned about your salary relative to new hires, ask for a raise, and schedule another trip for 6 months down the line.
"Note that as far as I know, non-US companies will usually comply with DMCA requests."

No they won't if operating outside US jurisdiction. As a UK hoster we won't and don't recognise DMCA requests. We'll only remove content upon a receipt of a properly filed request/complaint by English lawyers (I work for a company registered in England).
It's analogous to saying that "most people believe the world is flat. the burden is really on you to show that the world is really round."

Which is true. But requires a willingness to counter one's own intuition when encountering contradictory evidence. Unfortunately the type of person that does that is uncommon.
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ICBM's remain unused due to clear mutually-assured destruction. Autonomous weapons are much easier to introduce to actual warfare and once introduced are assured of continual improvement until...what?

Whatever we think the limits are, we're probably wrong.
1) is reducible to just the Eigenvalue problem for H. Certainly better understood than fluid dynamics.

I feel like that's akin to stating that Fermat's theorem just shows there is no n > 2 such that x^n + y^n = z^n

2) you can contrive ways of making the eigenvalue problem hard

You've got this backward. You can contrive ways of making it easy. Almost all physical problems for any system larger than but the simplest of atoms is incredibly hard.
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I have the same machine and I'm doing C++, OpenGL development and I'm very happy. The portability is great. Combine with GitHub and I can easily switch to my work horse machine when I am stationary at home.

ST3, iTerm 2 2.0, XCode, Dash.
Ah, so you don't like that DNS resolvers just return a regular SERVFAIL when DNSSEC validation fails, without some kind of indication as to why the failure occurred.

I agree. I wish a failure of DNSSEC validation returned a different code or set a bit somehow so that resolvers could then know that the failure was because of DNSSEC validation. The resolver could then take action based on that knowledge.

A couple of us (who were not involved in the early discussions of DNSSEC) were discussing re-introducing this idea to see what kind of traction it might get now that we've seen a good bit of DNSSEC deployment and have more operational experience.
Jack Garman had hand-written down all the trouble codes on a "cheat sheet". He's the one who called "go". I am not even sure if the MIT software team knew what 1201 and 1202 were.

The AGC was one of the first to use priority multitasking. The 1201 and 1201 faults were indication that lower priority tasks were getting yanked.

See "Moon Machines". Seriously.
Many things. What matters is real world outcomes, not hypothetical potential for destruction. The US doesn't use ICBMs, so in the real world they are effectively harmless. The US public and the rest of the world will not allow their use. Autonomous mechanical soldiers, on the other hand, may very well be fair game.
I hope you're kidding.
What would be an example of a lower-priority task in this situation?

A couple of links to the videos you mentioned:

http://www.sciencechannel.com/video-topics/space-videos/moon...

The above is probably one of the most informative 2 minute videos I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWcITjqZtpU&list=PL7E6922816...

"there were no specs, we made it up" "if you screwed up you got a stack of papers that was 2 feet thick" "the overall memory for the Apollo guidance computer was 72 kilobytes"

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClDdlBdSzrWIUijnnUDXobw

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNpdHqZ5OmFOnICpZz4Mflw
Because there was no text chat then. BBN was contracted to build the first four IMP machines in 1969.
Nice ad hominem + straw man combo you had there.
Display and keypad as I recall.

The problem was actually a deployment problem. The checklist for configuring the computer left a diagnostic mode on that sucked up a lot of CPU.
Oops - display and keypad. See above :)
We put someone on the moon before we invented text-chat? Wow.
I can’t remember where I read it, but “studies“ have shown that to retain the same level of happiness you need to make $40K more per additional hour of commute.

Maybe that can be a starting point for negotiating a raise.
Maybe it's just that I'm deliriously tired, but I'm still missing how "the DNS root" can alter the data in MY zone sitting on my little authoritative server somewhere. Can you please walk me through the actual attack?

As someone else pointed out, all the root can do is potentially redirect a TLD to a controlled TLD registry, which could then conceivably serve out NS records for my domain pointing to an owned authoritative DNS server... which could then serve out bogus data. BUT... I have to think someone would notice the redirected TLD!
See also "Moon Machines".
The move has already happened, just now the new manager wants me to come in more.

You hear about things like "negotiation tactics" but I've never experienced this, so it's hard to recognize.

Thanks for the advice.
Some more information on the 1202 and 1201 alarms: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-pa.html

tl;dr: Some misconfigured switches meant that rendezvous radar jobs kept being erroneously scheduled, which used up available memory. Whenever there was no more memory available, the alarm would fire and the computer was rebooted. It would immediately restart (resuming from near where they left off) all the high priority jobs (while not restarting the radar jobs), meaning that it could still land safely.
He still works there and can probably vouch for the agreement, but he's no longer my direct supervisor.
Well you kinda already incorporated my reply into your post, yes, the real life version is much less scary, because it doesn't actually exist yet.

Obviously it's coming, I won't dispute that, but scare tactics don't make for a reasonable discussion, even when the person using them is absolutely sure they're doing the right thing.
Check out 'Straight and crooked thinking' by Robert Thouless.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1444117181
I went with the MBP 13" because...

-You get 2 thunderbolt ports instead of 1, so you can run dual external monitors. (Yes the air can run dual apple thunderbolt screens but that's stupid - glossy, overpriced, etc).

-Retina resolution = more lines of code

If neither of those matter and you don't need 16gb of ram, then the air offers less weight and better battery.
I've been in a similar situation to the original poster, except in my case the person accusing me followed through with the lawsuit.

What I quickly learned was that knowing I was right (and having evidence to back me up) was one thing, but that proving that in court is a whole other matter. Evidence only matters at trial and litigating can cost tens of thousands of dollars. My lawyer said we could try and recover legal costs but of course even if you win those back there is no guarantee you can collect.

As far as I'm aware it's only large corporations with deep pockets who've ever sued over false DMCA requests. The average person doesn't have any recourse.
Protocol designs that specify which algorithms to use as part of the protocol itself (conveyed through existing trust relationships, avoiding downgrade attacks), and making as many algorithms available in your software as possible (that you believe are secure; no need for crc32). Then users are able to pick which one(s) they're willing to trust, both presently and in the future (of course this preference will most likely be provided by their operating system or other packaged environment).
> I wonder if governments could ever stomach the 1960's attitude of "throwing caution to the wind" to send humans to Mars or beyond.

I would honestly hope not because there's no point in doing it wrong, especially not now when any failure is a huge setback and successes are treated as expected.

We will put people on Mars, we will have space stations and people living on the moons of Jupiter. This won't happen quickly and I do understand that at some point we have to put people in danger but there's no reason to do it as recklessly as we did in the 60's.

Hell we're doing just fine as it is. Right now there are six people living in space. There are companies starting right now to supply them, to get minerals from asteroids, to take people to Mars. It's happening now and it's just not as heroic as it was in the 60's, which to my mind just shows that we're doing it right.
Honestly, the mornings and the evenings are the time I get to spend with my wife and daughter. I value time with them infinitely more than I value listening to audiobooks/podcasts in rush hour traffic for 15 hours a week.
> DNSSEC is a hierarchical PKI, like the CA system. Just off the root of the DNSSEC hierarchical PKI are a series of branches that are controlled entirely by world governments.

I am assuming you are talking about the country-code TLDs (ccTLDs) here, correct?

I agree that certainly many of those ccTLDs are directly controlled by governments while many others are operated on behalf of governments.

The generic TLDs (gTLDs) are different and are mostly operated by private companies operating registries under contact with ICANN. With the "new gTLD" program there are now MORE gTLDs than there are ccTLDs.

> I don't know how to say this any more clearly without sounding patronizing. In a DNSSEC/DANE world, the Libyan government can successfully publish a fake certificate for BIT.LY.

Simple answer - if you don't trust the Libyan gov't, don't use a .LY domain! I would argue that in DNS in general you do need to trust your parent zone. If you don't trust them, don't use them. Period.
Andy Tanenbaum to talk about NetBSD on a microkernel at EuroBSDCon 2014 in Sept
Lem covered this a long time ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_on_Earth_(novel)
I should mention that I have changed my mind about JSX after actually giving it a try.
We put men on the moon before we invented the digital watch.
Xcode 6 has loads of problems, but I don't see how that justifies killing off Swift.
Upvoted because it's true.
However, it is unlikely an HN-style site would fare better. But who knows.
I primarily develop Node on OSX and have no issues with running multiple linux VM's on Vagrant. (2013 Air, 16GB RAM, i7 Haswell)
Drones Protecting Jerusalem's Light Rail
Seeing as the computers were spitting error numbers instead of error messages, I am guessing that wasn't an option at that time with the hardware they had.
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The US Government, and even just the military, is an extraordinarily large and heterogeneous organization. The State Department and Military services desire network security and anonymity to protect free speech and democracy around the world. Intelligence services (NSA, CIA) want the exact opposite, penetrable and observable networks. Yes, believe it or not the entire US Government is not perfectly coordinated in a giant conspiracy. Different groups within the US Government have different goals.