skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's common for lawsuits to be for damages * X where X is a distinctive. IMO 10B is about the limit for any kind of reasonable penalty though.
I think you overestimate the significance of this discussion.

Besides, there advertisement rarely have negative effect.

I wish my startup was mistakenly confused as a place that fired OP.
I think that depends very much on the set of goals that are considered as 'optimal'. which is a matter of definition. I would say that for constraints such as robustness and adaptability to the environment the current situation is likely close to 'optimal'.
Product designer / engineer - having said that I have been writing software as a hobby since I was about 7 or 8 years old (I'm 35 now). I see knowing about software, electronics and "technology" as a general knowledge, in the same way that I can speak and read.

Hacker News is a fantastic community, filled with rational, clever and moderate contributors who write stuff which is a a pleasure to read and learn from.

The rest of the popular web seems in thrall by the new stuff and doesn't see things quite so rationally. Its not easy to pull the wool over the eyes of the HN crowd. I love that kind of interaction, where people have a level of understanding that allows genuine technical merit to be apparent.

My new full time job is designing machines to keep sick people alive whilst their bodies are repaired. Something I'd never thought of doing 10 months ago when I worked in consultancy.
I don't disagree; I just think going from "there is a lot wrong with our current government" (and clearly there is) to "government is evil" (or immoral) is such a huge, huge leap of logic that I don't understand how rational people can make it.

The very idea that anything like modern society is possible without government is entirely faith-based (since there are no successful examples to prove it) and, I would argue, very naive on the subject of the many failings humans have when not regulated by outside checks and balances.
Survivor bias is inherent to success stories about persistence.
Eh, I'd expect somebody shilling for Epic or any of the other major vendors to sound the same way--which is exactly what I said, no more no less. I'm not going to apologize.

The problem with bandying about "HIPPA [sic]" and random ISO security standards is that it only serves to dampen enthusiasm for fixing the staggeringly pervasive issues of mismanagement and technological obsolescence.

Anybody can come up with a "no" or a problem--"but but but HIPAAaaaaa" is a common refrain from people who want to sound like they know something but who lack the talent or skill to fix the fucking thing.
I'm a PhD student, doing research in fundamental theoretical physics. My tastes are eclectic (my undergrad degree was in electrical engineering), so among other things I'm interested in FOSS, computer science, tech and random bits of news and worthy reading material that pops up on HN. I'm also mildly interested in the culture in startups and how skilled workers motivate themselves and bootstrap -- I guess a lot of such soft knowledge would translate to a wide variety of situations (eg: academic research).

And oh, did I forget to mention the static-blog-generator-pr0n? :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0L0dXCL7l8

One of my favorites when it came out. Clip doesn't show the opening though with the sound of the cities being put into place which they should do for the countries being setup.

oh here is a mame version with sounds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we4lY-GEzMk

The real arcade version had this big heavy trackball that was fun to use - thought it would be the future of computer interfaces but we went with mice instead after a decade.
I was expecting more of a focus on content of emails instead of design.
"Based on the comments here and those that appear under the article, people in general are not at all impressed by these ideas."
I wouldn't say that is a fair assessment, many people took it for what it was (a UI/UX experiment), and quite a few people who did take to it badly mistakenly thought it was a Firefox design concept.
Your comic is really awesome but the top 20 or 30 pixels are cut off. Please fix it I want to read!! http://cl.ly/image/2J1h2b0B3C40
Yes, plus the executives involved should be personally punished through financial loss and imprisonment.
Well put.

HIPAA is not a big deal, and even more entertainingly, mostly only covers identifying information:

http://www.hipaa.com/2009/09/hipaa-protected-health-informat...
Great suggestion. You would think this would be built into the templates.
if maintaining a positive relationship with another company is more valuable than the hire, (and when is this not the case?), obviously you will clear it with the other CEO first. I haven't read the book but you haven't quoted enough context to label this disgusting.
This is ingenious, I wonder how long the ruse lasts and how much time it ties up for the attacker.

If it's effective to tie up sufficient resources (similar times as hacking into what the honeypots are actually mimicing) then this could be deployed as an actual form of ECM against malicious attacks.

The main issue would be you're either protecting no one or everyone. So you either need to get governments behind you, or you need to get ISPs behind you.

If an organization could get an ISP to let them use their unused IP's in their honeypots and sufficiently reduced DDOS against their paying business customers, it would be very lucrative.

With the amount of business I've heard getting hit by ransomware, and hit by DDOS's for ransom. I'm sure a lot would willingly opt for a 10% increase in their internet costs to reduce the amount of attacks.

It wouldn't take long for word to get out that a certain ISP's IP block is full of honey pots and thus less profitable to hit and it would be more effective as a deterrent than as an actual tool - it's like having an alarm company sticker on your house window, you're automatically out of the biggest break in category of the opportunistic thief. Doesn't even matter if you've got an alarm system or not.
Sent! Hopefully they aren't drowning in emails right now...
The Minnesota DOT is phenomenally good. Years ago I started a company around road safety products in construction zones (those places are surprisingly dangerous, slow down!). There was a lot of great work and research being put out by MnDOT. Very pleased to see they're continuing with novel ideas.
I bounce around back and forth in and out of the software industry. I haven't really been a hacker for at least a decade. When I'm in the software industry it's usually more as some kind of management role.

I'm usually here for the news and generally high quality discussion.
Not without causing some significant disruptions. A lot of these are going to be compromised machines in someone's house. If you start launching attacks at a residential connection, you can start to interfere with other users that are near that person. (Since most residential connections are shared, at one point or another)
http://www.doleta.gov/layoff/pdf/EmployerWARN09_2003.pdf

The official employers guide to WARN states that people let go for cause are not counted under WARN.

The SpaceX position seems to be:
1) We just did our yearly performance reviews
2) Low performers were fired
3) Since they were all let go for cause, WARN does not apply.

Some people are claiming that it is a layoff and SpaceX is just trying to work around it. I'm imagining the SpaceX position here would be:
1) Layoffs are defined as letting employees go due to reduction in work or lack of money
2) SpaceX is experiencing neither of these
3) SpaceX plans to grow 20% this year; proof that there is no reduction in work
4) SpaceX has lots of open positions and is actively hiring; further proof that there is no reduction in work or lack of money
I hate HL7 with a passion.

As for docs, the main problem is that they've spent the last century or two training snowflake workflows and vocabularies. :(
Interestingly, the genetic conflict described in the article approaches zero in species with lifetime monogamy because maternal and paternal fitness becomes the same. The genetic conflict increases by the degree of polygamy. edit: I'm an evolutionary biologist, but not a theoretical one, so I might not be aware of edge cases.
It's using a very similar technique to pHash, actually. DCT-based hash and all. It's not brand new, but perhaps a variation on a theme.

I've actually been working in this domain for the last week or so and DCT-based hashes are quite accurate, but slow as hell. Average hashes (aHash) or Delta Hashes (dHash) are much faster and rather good at weeding out large numbers of images. A mix of ideas is usually a good idea.
A cryptographic hash, yes. Not all hashes are cryptographic hashes.
Although... if you have the engineering resources of Facebook, you can write your own IPMI software and probably get it working pretty well. They're all just embedded ARM systems after all..

I ran out of motivation, but I did manage to fix up some of the SuperMicro IPMI firmware: https://github.com/devicenull/supermicro_ipmi_firmware
I don't know either; maybe they're funded by a foundation or somesuch. It's under the umbrella of this magazine content firm: http://magculture.com/projects/

While it tends a bit towards the softer and philosophical end of science, the standard of writing is very high and I've found myself coming back again and again for informative and thought-provoking articles. I would be amenable to paying an annual subscription for it.
Perhaps we need to think about the problem a bit differently. We tend to think pie-in-the-sky when we think decentralized computing. But what is it that we really need? I am happy with all my files being on my computer. But it would be nice for them to be backed-up in a decentralized cloud store, and accessible from anywhere, if need be. But I can accept some latency in the later if I don't have access to my own systems. That's all I really need. I suspect that's all most of us need. We don't really require the internet to be our personal hard drive.
Not new. pHash (phash.org) has been doing it for a while now. :)
Php wrapper for the ever-present cow say library :D Have fun!
I hope so--provided they aren't programmed in C/C++.

Maybe Rust or Elixir, or something safe. Certainly not JavaScript.
I call this "survivor bias bias". Survivor bias is real, but it doesn't explain all of success. I wish people stopped using it as a trump card argument just like "correlation is not causation".
I'm in tech, as a sort of sysadmin / strategist, not a developer which based on the HN polls I've seen puts me in a small minority. Though, I'm fast approaching the halfway point of a CS degree as an adult student.

I can't recall exactly how I stumbled on HN, but I stick around for the discussion. I regularly learn things on HN as opposed to merely learning of things as I might with other sharing sites.

I was about to say community instead of discussion above, but I actually have a pretty negative association with that word as it seems to entail a monoculture which HN isn't - at least not in the ways that matter to me.

Specifically, it seems possible to speak freely on HN (for the most part) without being buried or banned in short order.

I was enamored with the heavy startup culture on HN for a while, but what I've gleaned suggests to me that if I'm ever to partake it probably won't be as an employee. If anything, a founder hoping to leverage domain-specific knowledge and personal network in creating a long term business.
Ask HN: Atom vs. Submime Text
I've been a die-hard Sublime Text fan for a few years, and I love it, but Atom has come out in the recent months and I am wondering if there are any reasons I should switch? I understand that it's free and open source, but as far as features, speed, packages, etc for it go, what are your thoughts?
From an evolutionary perspective, this is probably one of the few types of parasites that dramatically improve your fitness (kind of by definition).
How to make a Rails app faster with Redis
And yet WikiLeaks remains a fairly well-funded organization with a huge following that continues to get leaks - and a major source of stories for that very same news media you say dragged it through the mud.
What's your startup? Might as well link it here. :)
This is my understanding as well, and that's why I objected to the parent post's assertion that "even in Haskell values must be tagged with types, and the type tags are inspected at runtime". The enum/ADT discriminator tag is value information rather than type information.
You sound like a shill for startups.
A faster Python sort
The effect described in the pdf linked at https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Grid_Manipulation suggests that eve does something more complicated than that.
I suppose I have become too old. In "my day", HTML was just beginning to creep into email, and there was the beginnings of a huge religious war to keep mail in plain text.

I guess we lost. But my mail clients will be configured to send mail in plain text until the end of time.
> ...second habitable home for humanity [...] or exploration for its own sake. None of these are particularly compelling given the economics behind them.

So this is what economics has done to "going boldly"? No wonder it's called dismal science ;-)

But seriously, diversification of our real estate beyond a single small planet seems like a necessity given the scale of the potential losses in case (X) happens.

Exploration for its own sake seems like a perfectly valid reason too whether done for touristic or scientific purposes.

As for ROI on space exploration, I wouldn't say it's terrible. It's just that we're short lived creatures and we like our returns fast. Space exploration is a very long term investment with potentially huge returns in far future.
HL7 isn't a single standard; it's a standards body which publishes many different standards each with multiple versions. And it's not really practical to fully implement them all. So if you want to interoperate with an external system first you have to find out which flavors of HL7 they support and then build around that.

Some people criticize HL7 for being overly complex. And there is some truth to that due to legacy issues. But the reality is that healthcare is tremendously complex and so that drives a certain level of unavoidable complexity in the standards.
I looked into this and it is really easy to use, so I updated the website to use it. Thanks for the suggestion!
I've attempted to use atom full time a few times. Each time it's eventually slowed to a crawl, and switching tabs takes seconds. I really want to like it, but it's just not as fast as sublime (yet).
There's a difference between 'do not poach' and 'do not hire'. A 'do not hire' list is in essence a Blacklist, which if employed between companies with overlapping skill sets (IE trying to block an engineer moving between Apple and Microsoft) then this is certainly disgusting.

Poaching is the active targeting of employees of other companies, which when done in the umbrella of an investors holdings is bad form (don't bite the hand that feeds you). When done to another company is generally a bad idea if you expect to have to have amicable dealings with them (license patents, buy parts, etc). However, if they're a direct rival and there's no foreseeable reason to be on good terms with them, there is no reason to not poach their employees other than the reason you know you're not acquiring a loyal employee, but one loyal to the money.

A 'do not hire' list is an attempt to blacklist anyone who essentially leaves whatever the umbrella is of its reach, which is an attempt to place a monetary cost on anyone trying to leave the corporate fold. It would be like a bartender breaking the legs of anyone trying to leave. Anyone else who was planning on leaving isn't going to, but they're certainly not going to be buying drinks and that's really going to drive down profits when the bar is at capacity and no one is drinking. There's a reason companies are employing "quitting" incentives, and that's for the very reason that happy employees are productive employees and the notion of one bad apple spoils the bushel.
http://aldesko.com/?flags=moofasa&say=;ls%20-l%20/

you should be more careful
This is a pretty neat tool! Could only check my personal email. Company email uses Office365.
John Carmack SMU Talk
From a purely technical viewpoint, parasitism is always antagonistic/bad.

If not, it's called mutualism or commensalism. Not disagreeing with your real point, just being pedantic.

edit: to biomcgary, two points: first - i was taught that parasitism is by definition bad but actual interactions between species can fall along a spectrum of mutualistic and parasitic (and individual and specific effects may differ). second - it really ought to be moot since these terms refer interspecific interaction, right? I did a little googling before this edit, and yes, i see intraspecific brood parasitism and such... anyway, enough digression from me. I just think it's an overly-clever corruption of the actual concept of parasitism to describe a fetus as one. It's like calling a hill a parasite because it takes effort to walk up one.
Google Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing
That is a remarkable way to put it. But aren't has functions -- per definition -- n-to-1? That seems to be what the perceiving function is about: map multiple sensations into a single correlated perception.
Gifs work everywhere. They're heavy, but support is pretty much guaranteed. That's still not the case for webm.
Getting It Done with Haskell
What makes these good emails? Are there some metrics on the engagement/response that these got or is it...?

I'm confused what the take away from this is supposed to be.
> It's functional. It doesn't distract from everything else, it doesn't add anything special. That's good enough. I don't want people thinking about my logo, I want them getting what they need and leaving.

This is true of most logos. The opposite of "awful" isn't "shoots out rainbows that dazzle and disorient the viewer".

The logo should look like it was done carefully and with attention to detail. It should be balanced and pleasant to look at. Even subconsciously, people will pick up on those qualities (or their lack) and infer the same about your company.

I don't mean to slag on your logo. I know it's probably not a priority for you. But it does a disservice to others to say, "Look how easy it is to solve your logo problem!" when the end result you got was actually pretty poor.

In particular, the outermost "radio" arc cuts unpleasantly close to the "S". It doesn't match any of the other spacing and makes the "S" look like it has some weird thing attached to it. The other arc is thinner for no clear reason and the spacing between it and the dot over the "i" and the outer arc is inconsistent.

To my eye, the whole set of arcs is too tall and makes the outline of the entire logo look unbalanced.

Also, the kerning around the first "e" is bad.

I understand you think no one cares about your logo, but you took the time to animate it and put it a video. Why not at least drop a bit of cash beforehand and make sure it's worth reusing?

Argh. I hate being negative without being helpful. Here's something like I had in mind: http://imgur.com/bpUqyKd

Do with it as you will.
This is why I invested in Lob (and twilio)
Would I be able to use lob as someone non-technical, but with basic programming skills? If it's within reach, could be a good learning project.

I run an online business. I'd love to be able to send customers postcards after purchase. Didn't know this existed.

I do have a contract programmer I could turn to.
I normally drink black coffee. After reading the article I now want some tea, Earl Grey, hot.
FCC to Verizon: ‘All the kids do it’ is no excuse for throttling unlimited data
It might not have been that close at the time.
You may be trying to be pedantic, but, to be meta-pedantic, your point highlights that two different conclusions are reasonable depending on the scale of analysis. At a functional level, a fetus takes nutrients from mom without returning any benefit (thus a parasite), but from the longer term perspective of evolution the relationship is mutualistic.
Google Boosts Secure Sites in Search Results
That's a nice recommendation, but it's good to have backup choices even if they have no relative advantage economically.
I've used this technique before for image searching, here's some tips:

The algorithm presented here can be summarized as "Take the low-frequency DCT components of the luminance channel, quantized down to one bit". Hashing is a very misleading term for what you get from it: In particular, it doesn't have anything like the uniform coverage of the output space you would expect from a hash function, as almost all encountered images exist in a very small range of hashes. Also, the bits in the hash are not all created equal; assuming you encode them in a zig-zag pattern truncation is equivalent to a low-pass filter, so if you want to make the hash different sizes while matching on the same image elements you'll want to alter the quantization amount, not the output DCT size (this is directly equivalent to what JPEG does, which uses a fixed DCT size but lossily quantizes the information in it to varying degrees for different compression quality settings). Experiment with different quantization techniques; you don't have to treat every bit in the output the same.

This technique is only suitable for a small subset of the image files that you will encounter in the real world: it's mostly unsuitable for anything but photographs and photograph-like images (3d renders, paintings, etc.) Many classes of image have no useful distinguishing information in the low-frequency luminance space, such as screenshots, pictures of text, line drawings, many forms of graph and diagram, most "clip art" style drawings, pictures that include layout elements in the image file (like most of the meme/sucessories/demotivator format pictures you'll see on imageboards). Of course, an image with a flat or heavily compressed luminance channel will yield no information at all.

You don't have to do anything special to match flipped images, as you should be using (iirc) DCT-II that has the same output for a mirror image. It's insensitive to scaling and mild translation.

For debugging purposes, note that the transformation performed is lossy but easily reversible: you can undo all the steps but quantization to generate a 'stereotype' image of a particular hash value and its neighbors. There is no more information available to the matching algorithm than you can see with your own eyes with the round-trip conversion, so if the round-tripped image preserves important distinguishing detail the matching will work and if it turns the image into a meaningless grey smear you'll get tons of false positive matches.
Hi, author here.

I wanted to let you know that I agree .v0 is strange. I see that now and it was an oversight. We're changing it from v0 to dev now instead:

import "azul3d.org/audio.dev"

No worries though, v0 will continue to work for backwards compatibility.

Track the issue: https://github.com/azul3d/issues/issues/10
Here ya go:
http://conservativeorthodoxy.blogspot.com/2010/05/general-an...