skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never had that problem. That said, I think it's indicative of bending Git a little too far in the direction of centralisation. But I guess if you depend on issue tracking and/or CI, you have to step that way somewhat.
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We should rename it, to end this stupid joke once and for all. Maybe to "Urectum"...
https://www.themoviedb.org/ with their API is the way to go. Pretty good up to date and a large collection.
Mark andreessen at Stanford business school (Video 55 minutes)
I can believe there are places that happen to have both harsh penalties and low crime rates, but I'm more skeptical of a general relationship. I believe studies in the U.S. have found that varying probability of punishment significantly varies deterrence (people aren't deterred if they believe they have a low chance of being caught), but that revising sentence levels upwards or downwards has virtually no effect.

As long as we're trading anecdotes, I live somewhere with very lenient penalties for crimes and what you describe is also true here. People typically don't even bother with a cable lock, they just use an O-lock [1] that locks the rear wheel to itself, whose main purpose is to make it inconvenient to ride off with the bike.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_city_bike#O-lock
The issues I see with preventing bike theft include that its just so easy to take parts off of one, so even if you could prevent taking the whole bike some of the other parts have value too.

Only solutions I see are, having secure parking for bikes offered for pay, as benefit of employment, or venue provided. What makes a bike a pain to store besides length is the handle bars and foot pegs stick out. So design a handle bar with a pin so it can be rotated alone the bikes axis when parked and folding pedals. Then you can box store them narrowly akin to bus lockers.

Still the primary deterrent to theft is putting it where its at risk and if that means not taking it, well.
Great that the challenges are up!

Feel free to join #cryptopals on Freenode :)
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> The PS2 is such a bizarre and powerful beast that it took me many hours of poring over articles and slide presentations just to get my bearings with it
> When the programmers responsible for some of the greatest console games ever made say that the PS2's learning curve is steep, you know something's up.

Update this for 2006 with a s/PS2/PS3/g. I do remember articles about the Xbox and 360 touting its easy API interfaces, in stark contrast to Sony's.

Why did Sony keep creating such hard-to-code-for devices and yet end up with such a monstrous install base? It's the chicken and the egg, I suppose.
I see that there are a number of folks around with Docker containers for Guacamole, but it seems there might be nice for there to be an 'official' container for this project.
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I was only asking, by the way. I wasn't trying to belittle Windows particularly, just given the general dislike of Windows 8 among those used to the old paradigm I wonder what will happen for desktop applications as the traditional windowed approach lives with the tiled full-screen application approach. Just curious really.
[the author of s3proxy is my friend]

It seems silly for every client to implement support for every single object store out there. Libraries like jcloud can handle it, but then it's tricky if your client is not written in Java.

Also, sometimes it's not trivial to add support to existing projects. For example, you can use s3fs with s3proxy to store your files on non-s3 object stores.
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This may be "(1998)" but it's timeless and everyone who's had (or been) a micromanager or a bad boss could stand to read it. It describes the micromanagement death spiral well. It also explains why about a third to a half of people in closed-allocation companies, no matter how talented they would be in a better context, are going to fail. Open allocation gives the individuals multiple opportunities to roll the dice and takes that failure rate down to about 2%.

For all our noise about "meritocracy", the truth is that social status matters a great deal in the workplace. I've written about this here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/how-the-other...

In addition to what's described in the paper, and very relevant to the sorts of ultra-hard-working people you find in tech, high status is right-to-care. If you have low status and care a lot about your work and doing things the right way, you're "pushy" and "entitled". If you're of high status, you're dedicated and creative.

Working hard from a position of low social status does absolutely nothing. In fact, it makes your situation worse because it lowers your status even further. A low-status person who puts in long hours is seen as compensating for inability, and if that person stops putting in long hours, the relative drop ("downward trend in performance") is what will be noted.

This paper doesn't discuss the real way out. It's not to work harder. It's also not "communication" (even though "communication breakdown" is the polite term for this scenario) because the communication between the manager and low-status subordinate is destined to be one-way. The best odds are with escape: transfer to another group under someone who likes you. However, if that can't be done, the next best option is social proof. Gain the blessing of a high-status person. You can't really do this on your own team (the high-status people don't want to be associated with the low-status ones) so you need to gain the approval of someone of equal or higher status (formal and informal) to your boss and to have your boss know. Of course, this can be dangerous (you appear to be a flight risk) and if you're caught or you fail, it'll be interpreted in the worst possible way, but it's the only reliable way out of the bottom on this one, and it's surprisingly quick when the "magic" of social proof works.
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Kickstarter backer here. Have you considered teaming up with another KS project (Click and Grow)? They've got a neat "self-watering" plant setup:

http://www.clickandgrow.com/smartpot
Depreciation and maintenance costs per mile vary dramatically by what the car and it's age are - a few mile on a new Ferrari will cost you a lot but 10,000 miles on a old $5000 value car will probably only cost something like $1000 (likely less) or 10c/mile. If you drive 40 miles in the hour that's $4 or so then.
My impression was that they always went for highly customized devices for the tasks that games need, instead of going for highly general devices.

So, yes, they were more difficult. They also had more staying power, typically.
Respectfully I have to disagree - the Playstation had hardware controls, the phones being sold today don't, tragically. I really, really, really miss sliding keyboards.

How would a game like Twisted Metal work on a phone? A tablet? Screen controls, for me at least, don't have the responsiveness you want, and the lack of available buttons makes it hard to do anything beyond one to three button layouts. One game that managed this pretty well was Swordigo, but that was with nothing but left, right, jump, attack, and a special weapon. For that matter, how would you make Doom work on a phone halfway decently? Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat? Touch screens are a sad replacement for real buttons, and today's devices are pretty much universal crap for lacking them. The best typing experience I ever had was Android on an HTC Touch Pro 2 because it had a sublimely wonderful keyboard, and that phone ran Windows Mobile 6.5 by default!
Thank you this is great advice.
Unfortunately, due to its name, Uranus has been the butt of many jokes.

Sorry -- had to share that. Got it from the wonderful "Great Courses" intro to astronomy series (See? I managed to throw in some good hacker stuff and tell a corny joke at the same time.) Highly recommended.
That's also wrong, that "somebody" might be much more experienced in driving than you. One of the big problems with drivers (and humans in general) is the irrational feeling that being in control means being safer.
The point of insurance is not placing a value in a database, that is just the way it is recorded.
All the people I cared about reading are gone. It's just another tech news site now. It used to be an original content site too. There is still some original content, but it's nowhere near the caliber of stuff Stokes was putting out, and some of the newer stuff has a political slant to it that I don't care for. Jon always kept it technical.
60tbs is such a huge amount of bandwidth. That is the equivalent of 1 million 50mbps wifi connections. Imagine having a single WiFi network with 1 million people all within 25ms latency of one another.
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One of the more interesting bits of speculation about the design's motivations that I've seen so far is an anonymous comment on the Slashdot version of this story: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5519563&cid=476...
Desenvolvido Novo Aditivo Poroso Capaz de Regular a Humidade Interior
You said app. Do you own an iPhone? Or an Apple product?
What can happen if one of these big corporations make possible something revolutionary and ingenious like this?
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Looks interesting, but Wyvern is just too obscure an example. That thing isn't documented anywhere.

And what potions do you have to quaff to be able to read those Hindley Milner Type Formulae? I still find them incomprehensible.
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He is not using ham transceivers (i.e push a button and talk), rather test equipment (a Universal Software Radio Peripheral with Open BTS firmware). The FCC does not regulate test equipment since it's not laymen's use.
I didn't see anything in the article suggesting encryption.
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It's very interesting and neat and I hope they keep making progress, but one big question that I'm left with is why this is better than using an embedded DSL.

This is supposed to be addressed on page 2, but the example is kind of a strawman:

> 1 let webpage : HTML = HTMLElement(Dict.empty(), [BodyElement(Dict.empty(),

> 2 [H1Element(Dict.empty(), [TextNode("Results for " + keyword)]),

> 3 ULElement((Dict.add Dict.empty() ("id","results")), to_list_items(query(db,

> 4 SelectStmt(["title", "snippet"], "products",

> 5 [WhereClause(InPredicate(StringLit(keyword), "title"))]))))])])

Although they claim that it's "too cognitively demanding for comfort", there are many ways that it could be improved without resorting syntax extensions, for example:

> 1 let webpage : HTML = HTML({}, [Body({},

> 2 [H1({}, ["Results for " + keyword]),

> 3 UL({"id": "results"}, to_list_items(query(db,

> 4 ... etc. ...

Another reason to prefer an EDSL over syntax extensions for writing HTML is that an EDSL won't require that you write the close tags!

This isn't to say that they're wrong, it's that I think they need to do a better job of comparing their approach with EDSLs.

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EDIT: does anybody know how to do code formatting in HN posts? It looks so ugly the way I did it.
Ireland was an interesting case of the cabbies shooting themselves in the foot. Dublin used to have a major shortage of cabs to the extent that many people including my ex girlfriend were forced to walk down dark streets in the early hours because there were no cabs. So the government tried for years to increase the number of licenses but the cabbies refused to negotiate that. So in the end the government got fed up and cancelled the old permit laws entirely so now there is a vast excess of cabs sitting about the taxi ranks - well that's partly due the economy also.
How would fewer private landlords help?
this happens more often than you think in games that have two systems that can be confused with each other. EVE online is a good example (except instead of real currency, it's just mis-typed zeros and bad UI queues)
There's one in Denmark as well, although much smaller (1: 1 billion). One thing that I thought was really cool when I visited was that if you stood by the fake earth an looked at the fake sun it appeared precisely the same size as the real sun. Also very cool to walk for a couple of hours and reaching tiny Pluto.

http://www.planetstien.dk/Planetarypath.htm
That, and for all we know, bitcoin was started by $FRIENDLY_GOV in the first place.
It's not going to be popular in an environment that prefers the quantitative "big data" approach, but qualitative research is a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research
Earth's distance from the Sun varies by +/-~2% at its current eccentricity, and the eccentricity isn't constant. So at a distance of ~7.5 km (1:20 mil of Earth's average orbit) you've got a ring about 300 m wide around the Sun to find a museum in.

Other planets further away give you larger rings to search in; you could place Jupiter in a ring ~4 km wide ~39 km away, and it would be within the range of its orbit around the Sun.

That said, while the task is easier than you might think (since there isn't One True Position for each planet), I don't know how well they did.
There is another option for the under-performer - they might be on the sociopath track:

The future Sociopath must be an under-performer at the bottom. Like the average Loser, he recognizes that the bargain is a really bad one. Unlike the risk-averse loser though, he does not try to make the best of a bad situation by doing enough to get by. He has no intention of just getting by. He very quickly figures out — through experiments and fast failures — that the Loser game is not worth becoming good at. He then severely under-performs in order to free up energy to concentrate on maneuvering an upward exit. He knows his under-performance is not sustainable, but he has no intention of becoming a lifetime-Loser employee anyway. He takes the calculated risk that he’ll find a way up before he is fired for incompetence.

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
Minor technical correction that twitter can only reach people in areas with internet access, via phone, etc. APRS especially using HF is, quite literally, worldwide without existing infrastructure.

This is why the emcom guys do ham radio instead of just packing a backup smart phone.

Your point still stands that only about 0.3% of the US population have a ham radio license and less have gear stet up for this peculiar mode.
Yeah, I did see that, but it's been ~nine months since the bcrypt change and from what he said, there still aren't any concrete plans to move to API tokens. But then, maybe that's why he said they're hiring!
Conventions vary by subfield. In my field (AI) it's more common for the related-work section to go up front, as the 2nd section right after the Introduction. You first set up/motivate/preview what you're going to do, then you survey what's already been done in this area, and then you present your own advance, once you've laid the groundwork for how you're either building on, or diverging from, the current state-of-the-art. Sometimes it does read better to put it 2nd-to-last, but IME that's less common in AI. (To make sure I'm not completely misremembering, I spot-checked 5 random papers from this year's AAAI proceedings [1], and 5/5 had the Related Work section up front.)

[1] http://www.aaai.org/Library/AAAI/aaai14contents.php
i think when someone laments that a high-frequency-trader/hedge fund managers don't add value, they really mean that they get an unfair amount of money for little visible work, and little visible benefit to somebody else in the world. I emphasis visible.

I do believe that having arbitrage evens out the pricing of long term assets, and having traders do this continuously does indeed make the prices of things reflect reality.

That they make a lot of money doing this seems unfair, but the world isn't fair.
I am personally getting it from:

* /r/science (reddit)

* richard dawkins foundation (although there is much crap news there)

* Discover magazine rss

* Scientific american rss

* Ars Technica (not science but they are pretty deep and occasionally scientific)

* Google+ communities about science

Used to follow "I fu*king love science" but this one is not actually scientific at all.
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I wonder how many man-hours it took to develop this document. It is thorough and easy enough for a layman to understand. If we had such specifications when building software systems, life of programmers would be much easier.
How does this work when the object stores don't support all the features of S3?

For instance Atmos doesn't have public buckets, DNS names for buckets, named keys implemented like S3, regions, etc.

But it does have features that S3 doesn't have like byte range updates, erasure coding, etc.
i m sure blizzard's main source of revenue is selling of the game, not from commission earned from the RMAH. RMAH is probably players away, and i m sure their measurments/analytics showed this and thus shut it down.
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Samaras expects 'exceptionally important find' at Ancient Amphipolis
hah, that would be quite awesome, if only it was possible to get the money out of steam (which seems not to be possible).
Another link with video http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/08/11/the-mystery-of-an...
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Siri’s Inventors Are Building a New AI
Another thing the article doesn't mention but I've heard is now a common (sorry, nothing to cite) way of stealing cars is to take the keys.

Perhaps it's time for manufacturers to start with 2-factor authentication, perhaps the key and then a PIN that you have to enter? Is anybody doing this?
Hell, now we just have HR departments to create poor performers and then select them as the next leaders and managers.
> Is there anything specifically about GitHub which puts you off, or is it just that BitBucket works so you don't want to change?

Github has a much worse record vs. Egor Homakov than Bitbucket :)

Also, Github is Git-only, while Bitbucket supports both Git and Mercurial. I use both, but prefer Mercurial myself, despite it being less popular.
"The end result is that while Intel’s cost per transistor is not decreasing as quickly as the area per transistor, the cost is still decreasing and significantly so."

Maybe...
The problem is, is Intel saying this as (honest) engineers or as (somewhat less honest) business people? Every IP business has enormous flexibility in how it defines costs and where it places them. nV's complaint reflects the cost it pays, which ultimately reflects some sort of aggregated cost for TSMC over not just per-wafer manufacturing costs, but the costs of R&D, of equipment, of financing, of various salaries, etc etc.
Intel, in a graph like this, has the flexibility to define basically whatever it likes as "$/transistor". On the one hand, it could be an honest reckoning (basically the TSMC price), but on the other, it could be a bare "cost of materials and processing", omitting everything from capital expenditures to prior R&D.
it would make the game much more exciting - facing actual loss is exhilirating. Some people can't handle it though.

In my experience playing EVE online (which exhibit similar characteristics, where you could have paid real money for in-game items, and yet lose them for real), players who can't handle this sort of loss tend to be adversely against the parts of the game that could force such losses. They then end up enjoying the game less over all. Players who bit the bullet and take these losses on the chin tend to have much more fun in the long term, and tend to make better guild mates too.
> In particular, ARM Neon's C function wrappers on SIMD instructions generally gives you a much smaller boost than if you hand code the assembly language calls.

My practical experience using intrinsics is quite the opposite. Using C + NEON or SSE intrinsics yielded a lot better performance than what my hand written assembly could.

I've heard similar stories to yours from others but they were from years ago. Later versions of compilers seem to be a lot better at this.

In particular, the C compilers (GCC, Clang) were able to further optimize code written using intrinsics, where using assembler code practically inhibits all compiler optimizations.

While I am able to do pretty good instruction selection by hand (which the compiler wasn't very good at), what blew me away was the compiler's ability to do instruction scheduling and register allocation. I could not have matched that without spending a huge amount of time reading architecture specific optimization manuals.

So I got pretty neat, readable and portable code (x86+SSE and ARM+NEON) using a single code base where I had only written some "primitive" functions using low level intrinsics. I could write nice high level code and the compiler would inline my primitive function calls and then further optimize and re-organize the instructions.
Stockholm is actually jam packed with museums. You could spend a week there.
Draining return on capital is a better summation, in my opinion. But drain on equity is probably close enough.

Offloading risk is bang on though, and is the more troubling part, again in my opinion. A risk free slice of return on capital. It just sounds like a disaster in the making.
I found this a frank and pretty fascinating inside view of how hackers operate in the wild.

Thanks to whoever it was for publishing it. It's a must-read for anyone running any kind of IT services. Well worth running through these steps on your own systems.
Cortex-A15 designs and up already offer 36 to 40 bits of addressable memory, or from 64GB to 1TB. This is at the OS level, of course, so individual 32-bit processes would still be limited to 2-3GB without intentional PAE, but that's hardly a limit in a mobile design.

But ultimately it isn't about memory in the near-term. ARMv8 offers more, larger registers, instructions, a higher hardware baseline, and in the future higher memory.
This! I hope that 32 bit processors will soon be history and we will be able to use mmap (+ madvise, fadvise, etc) instead of read/write without having to worry about portability.
Releasing Depression Quest
I know, because I come from Eastern EU myself. But I can see what the market is like - there is plenty of "imported" German bikes around. And I have trouble believing that Germans are selling nice bikes for close to nothing. And like Morsch said in the comment below - our stolen bikes end up exported to the West, or maybe further to the east. My point is that within the EU it's really easy to move goods across borders,and then they become untraceable.