skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's fully distributed and doesn't use any central servers then user has to bootstrap to network by giving known node information. It's classic annoyance, so having a bunch of bootstrap servers is a good idea. Is that defined as centralized or not, is another question.
Yes you absolutely do have training on this. In fact it's required that this specific training is refreshed every year.

Every soldier knows that if they are told to do something and they think it isn't right, there is a whole chain of people they can raise this with. If the first person doesn't listen, you can raise it with the next and so on. There are also parallel chains of people (padres for example) if for some reason you can't speak to your commanders. Finally there is a group of people entirely independent from the military who are only a phone call away, if something has seriously gone wrong.

But to honest, I can't even imagine being asked to do anything wrong by anyone I ever worked with. And if I was I'd just clarify with them what they meant. Nobody in the military shouts 'sir yes sir!' like in the movies. You just normally ask people to do something and if they have a question they just normally ask you it.
Since uncountably many problems have unique right answers, I'd guess the cardinality of the set of problems with unique right answers is the same as the cardinality of the set of problems without. :)
you're expected to put in more hours

There are some trading houses with really terrible cultures, but there are plenty where people work 9-to-5. Possibly 9-to-7, if a new strategy is being deployed that week. The 12-hour-per-day shops exist, but they're not the norm and they don't get the best people. At least, they don't get good people on the entry level. Top traders will work at them, for a price, but trading companies promote from within a lot more than tech, so that actually hurts them.

within a much more rigid environment with less transparency.

That's regulatory. It's true that it'd be hard for a trading firm to pull off a Valve-like structure, but most tech companies have the same barriers and permissions systems (but for arbitrary and stupid reasons). If you work for a closed-allocation tech company, there's no good reason not to trade up to a financial job with 50-100+ percent more pay and no fundamental change in work quality.

Financial firms also value loyalty more and promote from within. Tech companies almost never promote from within, because they have that emasculated social-climbing mentality of always feeling the need for "better" people. Traders, culturally, have more of humility. "We're regular guys making money doing something hard." (There are some prima donna star traders who are exceptions, but they tend to fall hard and when they do, they're viciously attacked-- as they should be.)

Also, throughout finance firms (even among the more tech-saavy ones), the programmers are ostensibly considered second-class to the portfolio managers, and this is reflected in the pay.

If you're savvy at all, you'll establish yourself as a quant-who-codes, not a pure programmer.

I don't think the Valley is different, in this regard. Non-managing programmers are, if anything, third-class citizens compared to venture capitalists, executives, and the people who are well-connected enough to be made founders.

Trust me. Outside of the few open-allocation tech companies (e.g. Valve, Github) the financial world's deal is across-the-board superior. It's harder to get into, though.
Profits should be shared with employees along with share-holders.
I probably won't develop/code (others will do)so don't mind about learning things. I thought will be the best choice GOlang instead of NodeJS cause it's native and have better support than NodeJS for "multithreading".Am i wrong?
as OS i think the best choice would be CentOS 6/7 Ubuntu i don't think is good as server,cause it's usually full of st and the "random" broken apt-get it's a pain in the a. Arch it's too bleding-edge. *BSD i don't know nothing about. Windows...no.
"Celebrities" was my first thought when I read that, too. It seems like the requirements are inverted from what I'd expect: the ability to use the STL effectively and to grok (some) Boost seems almost like basic C++ proficiency to me, while the open source requirements are just nonsense fluff. I'm not sure I understand how prolific contributions to open source projects translates into the ability to work with others or write quality code.

Also the pay seems a bit low. I make more than their top rate, and I'm not working on anything anybody would claim to be world-changing innovation, nor would I claim to be a C++ superstar. I was the first to introduce C++-11 to the very mature C++ codebase, though.
So Wikipedia, BBC and most of the world (which didn't acknowledge the election) are disproved by a Youtube video you have linked to somewhere...?

Well, that is almost as good a source as when you linked to a blogger. :-)

(So if I link to the criticism on Wikipedia of the Crimean election, you "disprove" that with another Youtube link? :-) )

[Thanks for another good laugh.]
I'm snacking on carrots and brocolli right now as a matter of fact.

Certainly not exercising though.
What's with all the stabbing in Bolivia?
I am so happy to have someone else confirm this. For some reason people just didn't believe me that speakers fed back that way.

Other fun sounds are hearing your computer change the background hum/buzz of imperfectly grounded speakers. There was a very clear difference in the quality of the speaker's silence depending on if a GIF was animating, a web page loading, or some other computationally distinct event.
Gotta love q3dm17. Alternatively, Deck 16, Morpheus and Facing Worlds in UT.
Ask Apple to change their policy to allow copyleft software.
ooo that's clever!
But about 47 percent of American workers participate in profit-sharing arrangements of some sort. Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), for instance, involve around 10 million workers

Most of those programs are junk, it's worth noting. That's true, even in the Valley, where 0.05% (vesting over 4 years, with nothing gained if the company decides to cliff you) of a 100-person company is typical for a "mere" engineer.

The term I like is "checkbox equity". It's just offered so the company can say, "we offer stock options" on its website. It means absolute jack shit. Far from making you a partner in the company, it has the opposite effect. It's an excuse not to offer raises and to demand unreasonable sacrifice. It's a mediocre equity program that exists just to check off the box. To that I say: fuck you, pay me.

I would rather not have the equity (which is almost always insultingly low) and just get a fair wage. Let's just be honest here. I'm going to be a mercenary unless you give me a legitimate reason not to be, and 0.03% of a 200-person company is 0.06 of a person's labor, which is just not enough to make me give a shit about anything other than my own career. So I won't, and that should be socially acceptable.

The purpose of these Valley startups' equity programs is to encourage a tyranny of the masses, and make the honest mercenary attitude socially unacceptable (allowing the employees to be plundered by the dishonest mercenaries at the top).
Some languages benefit more from an IDE than others. e.g. I would never write Java or C++ without an IDE. But for Ruby I've always been happy with a solid text editor (Sublime Text is great, but I'm keeping an eye on Atom).
Absolutely. And it says a lot about those responding to the post.
403 Forbidden from the US at present as well...
Tightops – A framework and communications protocol for teams
See also: http://justbuythisone.com/
For a while I wondered whether proof-of-stake is possible, or whether all attempts would suffer from the "nothing at stake" problem. About a year after my initial pondering, I found a solution after rummaging through old academic papers.

The problem as you stated feels like it should be solvable. The CAP theorem is not relevant here -- you're not bound by strong consistency because you don't need to provide connectivity 100% of the time. There is strong geographical stickiness in connections, so that looks like something to exploit. Combined with smart localized buffering of packets near the destination, it looks like a solution should exist.

The solution may not be compatible with your existing semi-centralized solution, which may be blinding.
How does this compare to something like BitMessage? I think this does not provide anonymity in terms of IP cloaking and I don't see any kind of spam protection.
Great idea and execution! Just curious - why the name "uncover"?
Interesting, I always thought thoughtbot as a Ruby Shop.
This investigation starts from the tested in the DragonFly report. You can see the shape of the red line in the graph on page 13 ("stock") is equivalent to the DragonFly report.
I second the old school research. If you have the funds, get an ACM membership or similar.
In no case I see insult - I just still wonder - probably having English as by far not my first language leaves a lot to desire in the way I try to convince someone to open a book before moaning "stupid".

"Well, I was forced to use Windows+LispWorks in college and I found myself (and my classmates) shouting "stupid LipsWorks!" at it more than we should have." - this is usually (at least in the context of LispWorks very unusual for years already (me personally have used it for about a decade in the last 14 years for production software) - I don't know in which decade you tried it, but at least in the 21-st century LispWorks has been pretty stable for the majority of it's users as far as I have heard, and some of them run trading platforms for example on it. Yes, the GUI has always been a weak point of the product, but to have a workflow as you describe points to errors outside of LispWorks - probably education, probably not having called a single time the support I have praised earlier etc. But the important part is not who would cry louder - you can gather the whole class and continue to shout "stupid LispWorks" - it's without value for all.

"If GP called it stupid he might have his own reasons to do so (even if he could've said it more politely). Dismissing his opinion because of how much effort someone has put into LW is not helpful." - Well - his opinion is uninformed, uneducated and probably insulting. He seems to be pretty young and more loud than knowledgable, so it has been a chance to help.

"The man hours of work mean nothing.." - Sure - it's just again unedecuated in that specific case.
"..because as a consumer I don't care how much work you've put into it, but only about the quality of the product.." - I really don't know how a bunch of undergraduates can for so long not listen to their professor or to not call support and to torture themselfes with notepad and still long after finishing that school still not reflect about their experience and the right actions to take in comparison to just moaning.
"...and still have which, based on my experience, is lacking..." - Sure, the GUI is and probably will be lacking in every Common Lisp implementation incl. LispWorks'. But if you have listened to your professor at that time, you would at least today know, that this has never been his main point of teaching with Common Lisp or that LispWorks is a tool for several companies running some important software without crashes. 10 years ago as well as today.

Whatever - the discussion/argumentation evolves to a kindergarden. My point, I repeat, has been to sensibilize the GP to some need for learning before categorizing the work of others as "stupid commercial". Either I can animate you or the GP to learn more or I can't. That's all. It's your life, not mine.

Cheers
I have a three year old son, and it is absolutely fascinating to watch his mathematical understanding develop. I've been a math teacher my entire adult life so I've had plenty of experience watching older students develop their understanding. It's entirely different watching your kid develop their understanding from scratch.

I recently looked for some kids' books that would focus on the more interesting problems in math, rather than just counting. I was happy to find a few books that have helped him see math as more than just counting. My favorite so far is The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos. [0] I knew of Erdos, but I didn't know much about him. I learned from reading this book, and my kid loves it as well. He is fascinated with aging, and he now sees it as normal that someone would spend their whole life focusing on numbers.

We are also starting to enjoy Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to Stay Up Late. [1] The idea is to give your kid some interesting math problems to think about at bedtime. We've found that it's a good way to help him think about things other than the dark, and strange noises while he's falling asleep.

It's fascinating to watch this development. A few nights ago: "Did you know that one of the oldest questions people have asked is, How many stars are there in the sky?"

"No, I didn't know that!"

"How many stars do you think there are in the sky?"

"Eight!"

[0] - http://www.amazon.com/The-Boy-Who-Loved-Math/dp/1596433078

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250035856
GCHQ accredits UK master's degrees for 'cyber spies'
An AdSense site that's been running since '04:

+-----------+--------+
| Year | $ |
+-----------+--------+
| 2004 | 343 | (I was 24)
| 2005 | 440 |
| 2006 | 2,800 |
| 2007 | 8,900 |
| 2008 | 11,400 |
| 2009 | 12,500 |
| 2010 | 12,400 |
| 2011 | 18,000 |
| 2012 | 21,600 |
| 2013* | 34,000 |
| 2014* | 19,800 | (probably about $39k by year's end, more like $50k if I can help it)
+-----------+--------+

* These are approximate as Google started paying in my country's currency.

I've made redesigns and adjustments over time, but it's been mostly passive, specially the past three years or so as I haven't touched it at all.

Don't ask me the URL, it's fugly and I'm embarrassed (though you can probably find it). Over the past few months I've been actually working on the side building a platform to help me launch other similar projects in a more useful, less ugly fashion. Too much to do, too little time. Stupid wasted youth :D

I never done a calculation like this before, and I didn't realize it's its 10th year anniversary! How cool is that. I would live like a king at 24 with my current cashflow.
How is adding armor to the engine area not a unique right answer? I'll leave you to figure out why that is the best solution. If there is only a single best solution, isn't that then the unique right answer?
Wow, in my half-awake state I initially read that as 'BEAR detection using JavaScript and the Web Audio API". Unfortunately the article did not live up to the promise.

j/k, very cool :)
The mathematics of discovering new things
Fastest Growing New Languages on GitHub are R, Rust and TypeScript (and Swift)
The other day I wondered if Bitcoin might not be considered a kind of AI. The fundamental value of Bitcoin is in the fact that the block chain is itself a trustable third party. Does that make it a citizen? A nation state?

Still... I wonder how Bitcoin would stand up to a serious attack. Imagine the Chinese government wanted to kill it. They could build 51% worth of ASIC in secret and spring it on the network all at once, taking over the net and maybe just wrecking it. It might cost them so much it would not be economically beneficial, but if it were done for political reasons they might not care about actually profiting from it. It would be a military attack.

Of course flying a plane into the Federal Reserve headquarters is also possible. At some point you have to accept that any system can be attacked.
What are your typical users and use cases like? I'm from Bombay originally, and can't think of why people would want to rent a bike. Is it people who don't have vehicles and need one temporarily for long journeys? Or is it for one-off joyrides simply for the excitement?
I thought a bit about something pretty similar.

One problem I saw was that the hashnames are still too long and random to be practical for many use cases like building instant messaging on top of it.
What you kind of need on top of it is some kind of possibility to find other people/hosts.
One possibility is kind of a social network way: You show your "friends" who your "friends" are. Hashnames that are friends to many of your friends are most likely friends and could be suggested to you. Another possibility is local node detection. Other devices you own are most likely on the same network.

Another problem is that sometimes instances aren't online but still should be able to receive messages. You either need to persuade some nodes somehow to store messages or you need central servers.
Sococo doesn't seem to be open source
Perfectly Timed Photos You Will Ever See in your Life
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We seek postdoctoral fellows for several projects in computational genomics and machine learning. Selected projects include:

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Which means that there is an "excess of 1.5 millions of people" in Donetsk Region, that "[people of] Donetsk Region mustn't be undestood [by the people from the rest of Ukraine], and Donetsk Region [and it's people] must be used as a resource instead" and "I don't know how to solve that problem [to remove excessive civilians], but the main thing is that some people must be physically eliminated".

Wow, this is truly creative editing. None of your insertions are implied from the context and the quotes you picked up are several minutes apart. In particular, he talks about 1.5 millions of people lacking meaningful job prospects as one of the causes of the unrest (which is true). A few minutes later, when he talks about about killing people, nowhere he implies millions of civilians, in fact, it's obvious he means armed militants.
The only thing I'd change at the moment would be to make
a Cloud backend API so that customers can plug in
Dropbox, Google Drive, Box.net etc. with something simple
like a URL, separating storage from display etc.

For what it's worth, that's specifically what our differentiation was with OpenPhoto/Trovebox (we support about 7 storage services along with being open source[1]). We've moved on from the consumer space because there didn't seem to be a large enough market for that specifically; separating data storage from application logic.

You can see our Kickstarter from 3 years back[2].

I asked in another post how offering custom S3 buckets was working out for PictureLife. Curious if someone else found a market for that.

[1] https://github.com/photo/frontend

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmathai/openphoto-a-pho...
I've read this story before, but asserting it was the RAF rather than the USAAF, which triggered my urban-legend detector.

In fact, the mathematical work was done by Abraham Wald¹, a Jewish refugee from Romania, at Columbia University in 1943. A reprint of his memos is available², as is a more accessible article about his work³; the specific one is Part V Subdivision of the Plane⁴ Into Several Equi-Vulnerability Areas:

“Thus, for the observed data of this hypothetical example [italics added], the engine area is the most vulnerable in the sense that a hit there is most likely to down the plane. The fuselage has a relatively low vulnerability.”

I haven't seen evidence that his work was applied to actual aircraft design using real data.

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald

² http://cna.org/sites/default/files/research/0204320000.pdf

³ http://people.ucsc.edu/~msmangel/Wald.pdf

⁴ the flying kind
From 'Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman':

The lieutenant takes me to the colonel and repeats my remark. The colonel says, "Just five minutes," and then he goes to the window and he stops and thinks. That's what they're very good at -- making decisions. I thought it was very remarkable how a problem of whether or not information as to how the bomb works should be in the Oak Ridge plant had to be decided and could be decided in five minutes. So I have a great deal of respect for these military guys, because I never can decide anything very important in any length of time at all.

In five minutes he said, "All right, Mr. Feynman, go ahead."

- http://quanta-gaia.org/reviews/books/FeymanJoking.html
Commander: annotation based parameter parsing framework
Apache Tomcat 7.0.55 released
Addressing Founder Depression – YC Hackathon project
Who would support your research and business by purchasing a 1080p tv, if they were already satisfied?

Regular people may have been satisfied, but the military wasn't, who drove almost all of the research into the 80s. The consumer market is just a follow-on to that, where choices were presented to "me" as better.
How the Frontpage of the Internet Effects Traffic a Month after Launch
Interesting way of finding something to do with those! I've also been intrigued by the old Proliants on eBay, because the prices seem quite cheap initially: $250-400 for massively multicpu things with tons of RAM. But I've been scared off each time by a mixture of the weight and power usage. One listing even specified that delivery would be made to your loading dock (sadly I do not have a loading dock), although that was for a big Itanium machine.
Was there any web/mobile service or app that you liked most?
I was ecstatic when I got my first job offer. Then I got a second. And a few more rolled in. Choosing became the most stressful part of the job hunt.

The companies I didn't pick made monster gains in the stock market --30% in one month.

Cry me a river, right?
Show HN: Geek Bridge – Find dev work in Japan without knowing Japanese
Flagged for your editorializing title (original youtube title: "NICTA: High Assurance Demo").

If you watched the video, you'll have noticed that they explicitly said that compromised applications ought not be able to cross the sel4 barrier and compromise other (possibly critical) applications running on the same platform.
It depends on the assumptions you make. For example, are the planes you're measuring a uniformly random sample of all planes you're interested in? The answer is different depending on how you answer this question.