skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is the work done bespoke or in support of some company objective?

Both.

>Is the work done critical for support or done for PR reasons?

Yes, the work is critical to the project. PR reasons? What? Its trivial to check what kind of code they're committing.

>It is ludicrous to suggest that corporate largesse alone is responsible for the Linux kernel.

Why? It is ludicrous to suggest otherwise.

Do you realize the scale of operations for a project like Linux? Do you know who is paying for all the hardware compatibility testing? You don't just say "it works on my machine" and call it a day. Linux isn't an amateur OSS project. You need to make sure that after every single release, the code actually works on the 94,000 different Motherboard/CPU/GPU/RAM/BIOS combinations. Redhat, Novel, Oracle, etc fund all of this.

>Without the non for profit work, I'd dare say you'd be working on/with your enhanced MS-2014 Pro Servers software or some BSD variant on a VT100 terminal.

And without the proprietary design of UNIX to copy, would an OS like Linux even exist? See? Using hypotheticals to reason is a pointless exercise.

>OpenSSL is another example of open source that is widely used. A lot of companies use it, make money off it yet few contributed resources.

Way to shoot yourself in the foot. OpenSSL needs funding precisely because of the heartbleed bug. It demonstrates that the lack of money in an OSS project can result in a less than optimial quality product.

>Even if those donations continue to arrive at the same rate indefinitely (they won’t), and even though every penny of those funds goes directly to OpenSSL team members, it is nowhere near enough to properly sustain the manpower levels needed to support such a complex and critical software product.

http://veridicalsystems.com/blog/of-money-responsibility-and...
The English text is 97 ASCII encoded bytes.

Compressed with zlib: 86 bytes.

Compressed with lzma: 98 bytes.

The Ithkuil representation is just 30 UTF-8 encoded bytes.

Compressed with zlib: 39 bytes.

Compressed with lzma: 47 bytes.

(Measured using python's zlib/pylmza modules to avoid e.g. file header overhead)

It's hard to achieve this kind of compression without an external dictionary. What Quijada has created with Ithkuil is, in part, a dictionary for the space of human thought and concepts, something I wouldn't have expected to work in the way the article describes it.
Correct, our CVs do not make sense in the USA. Here in Europe even though photos are discouraged the EU still makes an exception for NemCV as it helps so many people find jobs
Slightly tangental but "end energy dependance on other nations" grates me. It sounds so nationalistic.
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Ask HN: How to tell what's true from false or right or wrong?
As I'm growing up I'm learning more and more about life and our universe a lot of what we learn is of coursed based on experiences.

Sometimes when people tell me things I ask myself is that really true?. For example, a friend and I had a discussion earlier about islam and he is muslim and he told me the way the big bang started was predicted when Islam first came out and actually a lot of scientific stuff was predicted in Islam's first stages how can that be possible?.

My point is are we suppose to just believe what we are told? How do you regard something as creditable? A lot of the times When I'm learning new knowledge I'm always focusing on the source credibility is that wrong of me to do? I take everything with a grain of salt but if I'm studying biology and is a book by let say Richard Dawkings I would credit the information accurate and not distrust it. Is that wrong?

How do you figure out the truth from false knowledge?
Actually the advice NemCV gives is totally opposite to almost everyone. Having a clear photo is important to show someone as being a professional, which is why NemCV is the only service with a 100% success rate for finding people jobs
There are certainly things I would fix. Require all servers to be 8-bit clean, and default text to UTF-8. Sort out the rendering of HTML email, either using something that's more amenable to embedding in a fixed screen frame, or some more extensible standard to allow different types of document to be attached with dispositional settings. (In fact this is something I'd want to solve in general - embedding objects in webpages has long been a mess, to the point where we've resorted to specific <VIDEO> and <AUDIO> tags rather than trying to solve "embed another file in this web page" in a general way).

As another poster said, crypto everywhere and a permission system, from DNSSEC on down. Every assertion would carry a cryptographic chain of its authority.

Some kind of multi-user solution would be great. Mailing lists are a hack. To some extent NNTP filled this role though - maybe it's just a case of using the right protocol for the right job.

So yeah, it could definitely be made better - very few protocols are perfect. But it's done pretty well considering.
In some languages the meaning of a word is highly dependent on the pitch accent, like ancient Greek. If you're 1 bit off you have trouble :) Surprising enough I read an example of this yesterday evening:

"Hegelochus, the actor in Euripides' Orestes, which was presented in 408 BC, in line 279 of the play, instead of "after the storm I see again a calm sea" (galeén' horoo), Hegelochus recited "after the storm I see again a weasel" (galeên horoo)."
Yes, NemCV is used alot in the UK. The guy on the homepage is from the UK and found a job there
Definitely, but private colleges exist, so you can always learn it on your own dime. It's just the government tuition free systems that have that restriction. Similar thing here in Australia.
I just tried GrapheneDB but got an error, can you help:

http://testdb.sb02.stations.graphenedb.com:24789/

Network Error (tcp_error)

A communication error occurred: "Connection refused"
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.

For assistance, contact your network support team.
"said she was taken aback that members of Anonymous
would be so quick to release unverified information"

At the same time I still hold the skepticism about anything attributed to Anonymous. Yes, there are people who actually do the kinds of things anonymous does. I don't also doubt that there are people who seek to discredit and marginalize people who identify with the notion of Anonymous by intentionally masquerading as members of Anonymous and acting egregiously irresponsible to the point it becomes so remarkable that the news must report on Anonymous unfavorably. We've all seen stories of real people arrested for irresponsible behavior, and we've also seen enough leaks like the HB Gary one to know that there are numerous active efforts at sock puppetry.

At the end of the day, without identities and verifiable facts, none of this is news. It's hearsay. I don't know who's right and wrong here. You don't know who's right and wrong here. And I assure you that the NY Times reporter who wrote this story doesn't know who is and is not right and wrong here.
Remember Replicators from Stargate? Be ready.
That's a side effect rather than an essential part of the model. You would lose privacy with other models too. E.g. micropayment systems would know as much about your spending habits as Google knows about your browsing habits today.
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I posted an article about 0^0 to HN sometime back: http://www.askamathematician.com/2010/12/q-what-does-00-zero...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7519827
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It goes deeper than that.

Many things in mathematics are defined in a manner that is consistent and convenient. Defining 0! to be 1 is a similar case. In doing so nothing goes wrong, and the binomial theorem becomes simple and convenient to state. Without defining 0! as 1, it's a dreadful mish-mash of special cases.

Similarly with 0^0. Considering x^y where x and y are complex numbers, there is no consistent single value as x and y each approach 0. So in the reals and the complex numbers we leave 0^0 as undefined. However, in the case of natural numbers there is a case for declaring 0^0 to be 1. That's to make it convenient to talk about the set A^B as the collection of functions from B to A. When we do that we get |A^B| = |A|^|B|.

There is more than expected in mathematics that's defined for convenience.
Lee Hadnum's books gave me a good foundation: www.UKtaxclub.co.uk

Use a reputable incorporator like Ocra. Cheaper companies will take your money and not actually form the company.
I can strongly recommend Carl Sagan's "Baloney Detection Kit" from The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark:

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/01/03/baloney-de...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World
>You mail letters, not one-line replies.

What stops you to send a one-line reply in email?
Oh yuck. I didn't know that. I've long found Hazelcast a pain to work with.

Having seen in a sibling comment that you're talking about very small files, I'd recommend Zookeeper - it's mature and has pretty low admin overhead, IME.
> My point is are we suppose to just believe what we are told?

Not if you're science-literate. Remember that a scientist assumes an idea unaccompanied by evidence is most likely false, while a nonscientist assumes the opposite.

Let's say someone hears a claim about Bigfoot. If he's a scientist, he will assume Bigfoot is a myth until hard evidence appears. But a nonscientist (a person technically known as an airhead) believes that Bigfoot is real until he is proven not to exist. But consider the burden of evidence -- for the airhead to be dissuaded from belief in Bigfoot, something called proof of a negative would be required, which is an impossible evidentiary burden. After all, Bigfoot could be hiding under some rock on a faraway planet, which means he can't ever be conclusively disproven.

Science is an extremely productive outlook, and the modern world is largely defined by science and the scientific outlook. One of the reasons is that scientists don't waste time carrying other people's burdens of evidence, like a belief in Bigfoot.

> How do you regard something as creditable?

Solid, repeated, empirical evidence, created by multiple disinterested observers. Everything else is unsubstantiated rumor.

> How do you figure out the truth from false knowledge?

A skeptical outlook and an understanding of how science works.

http://arachnoid.com/building_science
Perfect! thanks
The article seems to support the information density / speed tradeoff, in hinting several times that the language's inventor puts at least as much cognitive effort into agglutinating syllables to form a word in his language as he would into joining words to make a sentence in a second language.
One of the things I love about modern technology is how some of it can increase the life quality someone who has handicap. I really wish I knew how to hack hardware, I'd love to help myself. At least I'm the resident accessibility nazi at work!
Laser microphones are an old trick, using high speed camera video of ordinary objects is a decidedly new trick.
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My point? Before I get to my point, how about a rant: It mystifies me how nobody sees the obvious advantages of in-browser games, both for development and deployment. It should be obvious to anyone in the field, because the current method of developing and deploying games completely sucks. Do you honestly think that in 100 years, people are going to be deploying games through Steam, or worrying about cross-platform OS support? If so, you may want to rethink that. If not, then why wait 100 years? There's no reason to put up with the current limitations.

Except, oh wait, the only reason we do have to put up with the current limitations is because we're beholden to the browser manufacturers to implement support into their browsers for features that gamedevs will use. Like, say, having a >5MB area to store art assets. I'm pretty sure that's the only real reason we're not seeing in-browser games. Not because JS sucks. Not because WebGL sucks. But because even if you actually do make a game using a browser as the platform, there's nowhere to store the damn thing!

So, back to that "point" you were asking about. What was my point with my oh-so-pointed "Why does Haskell have a REPL but Go doesn't" question? Well, it was a question. The thing you ask when you want to learn something. In this case, I had no idea why Go (a statically typed language) doesn't have a REPL, when Haskell (a statically typed language) apparently does. In fact, I had no idea Haskell had a REPL at all! I had no idea that it was even possible for a statically typed language to have a REPL. Those ideas seem as separate as oil and vinegar. So it's pretty damn cool to hear that it is in fact possible and practical to have a REPL for statically typed languages, and now there's a mystery: Since REPLs are such a productivity boon, why don't all statically typed languages have them? I'm not at all afraid to admit ignorance; I wear it on my sleeve. It's the only way to learn. But I guess we're so far gone, here, that people misunderstand a simple question meant to learn something as some kind of snide, rhetorical, or coy remark.

So, yes, sure. Go sucks. JS sucks. WebGL sucks. Steam is amazing. The only real way to develop a game is with C++, deployed as a native OS binary, or with someone else's engine, also deployed as a native OS binary. Keep the status quo. Pretty boring, isn't it?
Pink Run permit rejected in interest of public order: Police
Invoicing isn't the issue - trying to get a bank account in the name of a company in the Seychelles is very difficult.

I was told that people use Seychelles corporations as holding companies and then incorporate in a more reputable jurisdiction such as Hong Kong.
The Most Pirated Games, By State
Thanks for posting this.

Just fixed the download links.

What do you think of the new installation section on the homepage, at https://srclib.org/#install?
Singapore or Hong Kong?
That's a potentially very useful project, thanks so much for working on this!
Hello,

Thank you for that link. I was beginning to lose faith.

gjvc
> Of course the externalities of surplus lawyers are much worse for society than the externalities of surplus physicians.

Would you care to explain why? My guess is that you mean that a surplus of lawyers can cause additional demand for lawyers, which can't happen for physicians. Do I understand you correctly?
I don't think that generalization holds.
calm down, 3 days is a short period of time when dealing with replies for job applications, especially when you consider this case, where Google's HR department has to deal with thousands of applications because of their popularity. What I would suggest you to do is wait for 7 days and then if you still haven't received anything, just drop them an email.
Also:

Why People Believe Weird Things - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_People_Believe_Weird_Things

Bad Science - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Science_%28book%29
> And apq’uxasiu for 'gawk' doesn't strike me as a particularly huge win for conciseness.

It seems like it's missing the linguistic equivalent of huffman coding: make frequently used things shorter.

Also, it's hardly concise with respect to time if you have to spend 30 minutes consulting a dictionary to utter a single sentence.
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> Ithkuil does not use the concept of zero

Interesting. How is one supposed to talk about math without a concept of zero?
What I find interesting about people who say email is bad is they they almost all have some vested interest in another communication method, especially something proprietary...

Email will outlive everyone commenting here because it works. I run my own server so I know the NSA don't have direct access to content (although I always take note of any inbound messages that are flagged as not having used TLS, or where the other address is gmail etc.), I can make disposable addresses, addresses specific to websites (to identify sites that sell/leak your address), I can run my own spamfiltering that doesn't invade my privacy, I can DKIM sign my messages and have a provable way that only I sent the message, I can use PGP for any private information, I have a set of filters to classify email so I don't even need to spend that much time dealing with it, and I can access it from anywhere I can get an SSH client. No service does that.
The Python interpreter itself is only about 1.5-2 Mo. The issue is mainly related to the libraries.
It's mechanistic ranking on your high school GPA. No aptitude test, no essays, no interview. Just a flat ranking on a single number.

But at least our system isn't "bizarre", so we can always feel good about that.
On the Hardness of Important Things
I found this article fascinating and satisfying.

I'm curious about the desire to reduce ambiguity, which seemed to be emphasized as a motivation for the creation of Ithkuil and some of the other languages mentioned.

Is it desirable to completely eliminate ambiguity? I can see why it would be desirable in a scientific paper or a public political debate. But in everyday interactions, (intentional) ambiguity plays many important roles.

In my experience, politeness is bolstered by some level of ambiguity. Rather than explicitly state your needs, desires or opinions, you imply them at some level of abstraction, allowing other participants in the conversation to accept or decline more easily. Imagine Jessica who has brought two friends who don't know each other to see a play. They chit-chat a little afterwards, then Jessica goes home early leaving two virtual strangers to have a drink together. It's not hard to imagine the conversation going like this:

A: "Did you enjoy the play?"

B: "It was very interesting. I thought the stage dressing was a little unconventional."

A: "Yes, I noticed that too. Very creative. I was intrigued by the style of the narration. It really let the audience write the story for themselves."

B: "It certainly didn't constrain the imagination did it? I couldn't help noticing that many of the actors took a somewhat avant-garde interpretation of the source material."

A: "Yes, as if they didn't want it to seem like they were 'acting', so to speak?"

B: It was awful wasn't it!?

A: Thank god! Yes, worst thing I've ever seen!

Ambiguity allows subtle social cues (not so subtle in my example!) that avoid direct confrontation when it might be uncomfortable. If one person loved the play and the other hated it, they each might want to avoid offending the other.

Intentional ambiguity plays an important role in other social interactions like dating or friendship-making. Correct use of ambiguity protects feelings, demonstrates subtlety and good judgement, and avoids non-productive conflict.

In artistic expression too, ambiguity is often intentional or even necessary to the effectiveness of the work. Consider a poem like "My Papa's Waltz" [1]. Does it describe
happy memories of the narrator's father, or dark memories of childhood abuse [2]? Can it describe both? Is there something in between? The ambiguity isn't a byproduct of imprecise language. The ambiguity is the meaning. To resolve it is to remove the point of the work. The poem cannot be effectively communicated in any medium that does not allow for the existence of ambiguity.

[1] http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172103

[2] 'Yet, this poem has an intriguing ambiguity that elicits startlingly different interpretations. Kennedy calls it a scene of "comedy" and "persistent love", and Balakian, in part, labels it a "comic romp" (62). In contrast, Ciardi sees it as a "poem of terror"' - from http://www.mrbauld.com/exrthkwtz.html
How not to be a human bottleneck
Only key frames and no frames that are in any way predicted by what came before it. That's actually the major point that differentiates formats intended for consumption and those intended for editing. If you usually only watch something from start to end, you can vastly increase compression ratio by re-using parts of earlier frames that changed very little. However, this means that to get to a particular frame you have to find the last keyframe before that and then decode from there.
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Your curiosity is admirable. Please keep it. I wish more people would openly question things in this manner.

To answer your questions: No, you should not believe everything you are told. You should look at how credible sources are. I err with science, and for me, religion that discredits science doesn't work. I do watch a lot of conspiracy theory things... so many sources are full of absolute crap, but it is fun and I find strings or theories, but little proof or truth. I'm afraid that if I didn't use my brain, I'd wind up believing all sorts of things. Things I know are untrue. Keep your eyes open, keep the healthy questioning and skeptisicm.

My other advice is to remember that the truth can change. Science disproves itself as we discover new things. And this is fine and expected - as long as your views change with new facts, you'll be fine. My big example is always religion - If any god or gods give me unrefutable truth that they exist, I'll believe in whichever god or gods gave me proof. Otherwise, I'll trust in science, keep some distrust for the sensational small-study 'breakthroughs' and keep on my own path.
I suggest holding two realities in your mind: that it is both true and false. Try to see if the muslim fellow can also hold two possibilities. Also worth having a 4*4 matrix: true/false for me/him in any one moment. But the true/false can also be flawed: absolute truth is considered a spiritual experience.

Judaism also has a cosmology. What is truer: Islam or Judaism.. or something else... like the experience itself that it describes?

Ironically, maybe being able to hold these possibilities of truth actually takes you to that experience of absolute truth.. where complete opposites can be both completely true and completely false.
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or buy from amazon http://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Engineers-Digital-Signal-Pro...
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> I'm much happier with nice things

Have you ever traveled on a shoestring in S/E Asia, Africa or South-America? I bet you're going to be a lot happier with smaller versions of your "nice things".

My second bed is part second-hand, part Ikea. My first bed was ten times as expensive. However, after some traveling I consider my second bed to be luxurious.