skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
War in Europe is not a hysterical idea
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Related links:

Will Developer Tools Startups Ever Find Investors? - http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/22/will-developer-tools-startu...

PG on building a compiler in Bring Back Moore's Law - http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
Would that be considered a PRNG? I always thought that PRNG implied a completely deterministic sequence based on a relatively simple seed.
Perhaps people view prisons as a mode of punishment, rather than one of rehabilitation. It really is a vicious cycle, and as far as most of whichever society follows the "4 years of hell for an eye", it won't change.
Because lines are marketing/publicity/advertising. The longer the line, the more effective your publicity is, and the more long-term popularity you are stacking up.

It's probably a short-term profit to have the restaurant charge more and to have shorter lines, at the expense of foregoing the free/best publicity possible long-term.
I just finished my massdrop ergodox a few weeks ago, and I'm loving it. One of the things I like the most about it is the way the left and right hands are separate, allowing me to keep them about shoulder width apart in a very natural position. That was actually the biggest selling point to me over something like the kinesis or the TECK. The split layout feels like it's really revolutionizing the ergonomics of typing.
> (a) Society is currently less stratified than pretty much any point in recorded history, so if you don't like stratification then don't complain.

In terms of the share of U.S. income going to the top 10% or 1%, the data would seem to imply that the U.S. is currently the most stratified it's been in over 80 years [1].

[1] http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/the-rich-get-ri...
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Well, I'd always had a love of fractals, without ever truly comprehending how the underlying maths worked. Same goes for cosmology -- utterly fascinated by the outputs, but didn't really understand the actual mechanisms thereof. So during the trip, I used fractal and cosmology images and videos as an emotional "anchor" -- grounding the trip in material I already loved and was comfortable with / fascinated by. I then surrounded those materials with more mathematically technical videos, images, and texts about fractals & cosmology -- the things I traditionally would have shied away from as too mathematical for me to understand; and finally, surrounding that material, I spread out the quite trivial mathematics I was struggling with at the time -- textbooks, homework assignments, etc. The intention was to create a continuum ranging from the mundane to the transcendent, with the hope that when the boundaries dissolved between them, I would understand that they're all really one and the same, and that my enthusiasm for the transcendent could be extended into every corner of mathematics.

This more or less worked as planned, although during the peak of the trip -- I had taken quite a lot of LSD -- my vision got too wobbly to actually make sense of words and numbers, so I put on a video of "Baraka" instead, which seemed comprehensible at the time and somehow in alignment with the whole "transcendent" angle of the trip. As I came down, I moved back to reading chapters of James Gleick's Chaos and finally to doing math homework which had previously irritated the piss out of me -- but now I loved it. That attitudinal switch was instant and permanent.

At the same time as this was a very positive experience for me, it also gave me the a level of respect for LSD such that I don't approve of it being used as an uncontrolled "party" drug. The changes I made to my brain were intentional and beneficial, but I can easily see how somebody who wasn't controlling their environment and intentions could end up bricking their brains on a bad trip. That kind of power is something that should be used with care.
Window dressing, as I said.

And how long will this system last when the doctors are extremely unhappy now and things will get worse as the govt takes more control away from the doctors? It should give you some concern that 2mur's sentiment is common today among doctors; "There is no chance I would do it again". Do you think doctors can be replaced by govt bureaucrats following the Code of Federal Regulations? Good luck with that but its where we are headed.

Let me ask you a question: If the doctors went on strike and refused to work, what do you recommend that we do? Do you support the doctors and their right to trade their services on their terms or do you support the demand of the public's "right" to their services?
I like TransIP[1]. They're also using SSDs, they're price competitive with DO, they're hosted in Amsterdam and they've never given me any trouble.

Note: the discounted prices are just for the first month, and they don't include VAT (21%).

[1] https://www.transip.eu/
I don't suppose you have a few servers laying around, do you? :)
Because most restaurants only get busy on certain nights of the week, and even then only during certain seasons. So they'd need to start with the high prices and then have special offers or cheaper menus during lunch or midweek etc. Some restaurants do this , but it tends to be chain restaurants so it's seen as a bit declasse.
Gwern did a convincingly rigorous self-experiment with LSD microdosing. [1] He sums it up as, "No beneficial effects reached statistical-significance and there were worrisome negative trends. LSD microdosing did not help me."

[1] http://www.gwern.net/LSD%20microdosing
Will give Guix a spin now, interested in anything posix/real-unix style, which means I'd like to avoid systemd, that also means no nixos.
Meanwhile, back in the real world: http://freenation.org/

...a brief and (situationally ironic) history of the Free Nation Foundation.
Crazy that it's been so long. Did any site used to have as in-depth reviews as AnandTech regularly does? My impression is that AT is what pushed other sites into having such detailed hardware reviews...
You can use Curve25519 as a cipher. It's just fairly slow, like all PKC. It's something like 600k cycles for 32 bytes, while AES is around 30 cycles for 8 bytes.
I love my primary care doctor who is also my cardiologist. He is amazing. Explains everything, and is never rushed. The only negative is sometimes he is off schedule. I just had open heart surgery and that was also wonderful. The techs, nurses, PAs, and doctors were great. In simple terms, I am thrilled with the care I got and except for one nurse from hell, I have no complaints about care and I have the utmost respect for those who helped me.

Now the dark side. I cannot imagine how many people are preparing bills, sending them to Medicare and then to my supplemental insurance. And how many questions I have about billing and how many phone calls I have to make. I am sure that the cost of administering payments is much higher than the cost of care. And yet none of that administrative work prevents disease or cures me. We need a single payer system and need to reduce the non-care-related paperwork. And let the healers heal.
> One of its unusual design decisions is that the array's length and capacity is stored next to the array elements itself.

GNU stdlibc++ does this for std::string so you get prettier output in the debugger. The object itself only contains a char*.
You should also be able to host your own services. These two things are more closely related than a lot of people realize.
I don't read AnandTech a whole lot, but whenever I did, I got the impression that the site was credible and can be trusted. I hope this continues as their leadership changes.
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I didn't notice any mention of "why?".

He strikes me as a very clever fellow. I wonder what's next for him.
Technically, a lava lamp is deterministic.

Still, I'd say that it's "close enough" to be considered a real RNG. There's almost no way to see a pattern in it, and I'm pretty sure that it would be completely impractical to simulate the contents inside, even if you knew all the initial conditions.
Damn, the one-of-a-kind Anand will be missed, he's been delivering the most analytical and technically in-depth content for new hardware, several years running.

Tech journalism has just lost one of its best technical writer greats.
I've been following Anandtech since my obsession with the first Athlons. Lasting 17 years as a public figure in an extremely divisive industry with the level of integrity he consistently maintains is an amazing accomplishment. Looking forward to seeing what comes next.
Beef to Bun. It's a ratio used by burger connoisseurs to decide whether the burger maker is delivering decent value.
>(a) Society is currently less stratified than pretty much any point in recorded history, so if you don't like stratification then don't complain.

Terrible, cringe-worthy logic.

If stratification still exists, whether or not it is of a lesser degree than in the past is irrelevant. It exists, and you can complain about it. In fact, if you don't complain about it, that may be misconstrued as implicit acceptance. So complaining is actually the better move, provided you actually want said stratification eliminated.

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You seem to like to make a lot of unwarranted assumptions about my skills and emotional state. Who said I was angry? I made a decision and moved on. I don't waste time on idiocy I can't change. There is plenty of non-medical IT work as I am sure you know, I just didn't want to take on the risks.

FYI, you might want to look into the laws which are just now starting to be enforced. If you are in IT then you are now a covered entity and can be fined directly for HIPPA failures. You also have a legal obligation to document any contact with PHI and you have a legal obligation to report your doctor if you even observe any HIPPA violation, IT related or not. I could not work under these terms so stick to non-medical IT work.
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I'm surprised they don't let you bid to get to the front of the queue. This scheme would practically market itself.

But perhaps I shouldn't be surprised people don't think of this, what with them not loving their family enough, etc.
Is it possible to improve upon the traditional BBS format or are they obsolete?
Wow - I think it's us readers that should be thanking Anand for raising the bar on technical journalism over the last 20 years. I'll miss his hands-on contributions but look forward to seeing what he turns his hand to next.
Cold call and email what companies? About what work? I doubt most of the mid-sized and big companies will hire a contractor with no recommendations from someone close to the execs.

I am not nitpicking, just sharing that what you've suggested works only for very experienced people with a big network. I am still in University.
What does "as fundamental as function composition" mean here? The article just appears to describe transducers. Transducers compose via ("reverse") function composition, sure, but that just means that they are functions of a type... and considerably less fundamental than functions since they're a specialization of that class of things.

They're cool and all—I've characterized them (partially, perhaps) as CPS encoded flatmaps over lists and also as stateful left fold transformers, the latter of which being much more general—but they're more like a rich ecosystem for list transformations than any kind of fundamental abstraction.
Yeah, I meant "deterministic" as in "generated using standard computations starting from a simple seed." Whether the lava lamp itself is deterministic, or the Universe moreover, is another issue.
I am just curious if BBS's can be improved upon or if news aggregators have made them obsolete.
Anandtech filled (continues to fill) an important place in the industry that opened up when Byte magazine fell down. It's the one place where you always know that the hobbyist can go to to get great technical details, in an entertaining and approachable manner.

I'm super interested in seeing what Anand is up to next - I'm sure it will be something interesting.
Google's Megan Smith Would Be First US CTO Worthy of the Title
I thought about making one of these but chose to go with the ErgoDox instead. The entirely split layout of the ErgoDox is really nice. That along with more keys sold it for me. 42 keys just isn't enough in my opinion.
Segregation Now – separate and unequal education is coming back
>Segregation Now ...
Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the schools in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, show how separate and unequal education is coming back

was trying to fit in the whole subtitle.
My god...hysterical won't come even close. I fear more the possibility that the media could CREATE this war then that either side would push it the conventional way.

I don't even want to go into this ridiculous parable comparing the times before WW2 and today...
Ads are rubbish, and destroy the user experience. Do you want to make money with it? Sell it.
In the early days Tom's Hardware did and it pre-dates Anandtech, though gradually Tom's got worse and Anandtech got a lot better and regular. I remember in the even the early days (late 90s), I stopped reading magazine reviews of 3D graphics cards and CPUs because all the reviews were so bad compared to those sites. Also with the death of Byte magazine, we lost the architecture explanations too, which those sites then filled the void for.
Authenticating and Authorizing a Tessel Device with Auth0
I rarely go to any sit-down restaurants, so my opinion may be worthless, but I think I would be fine with a nominal fee, or better yet a deposit that goes toward the price of the meal.
Animate Neopixels over Websockets
For the record, Anton's still has over an hour wait to be seated nightly.
Its not clear how anyone can make someone else embarrassed for views they don't share. I'd have more respect for you if you called me an idiot for my views but your embarrassment at my claims makes me think that you actually know the truth, but lack the courage to rethink it.

> we [doctors] could do a better job advocating for ourselves...

Its all just negotiating the terms of your slavery if you agree that people have the "right" to health care.
He's tired of doing that and wants to move on. That was obvious in reading.
Generalized friendship paradox in complex networks
Nobody is only moving text around, occasionally (how often depends on the type of work) you need to move a lot of data. In that case a low speed connection stops you in your tracks.
From the AMA;

> (6) The patient has a basic right to have available adequate health care. Physicians, along with the rest of society, should continue to work toward this goal. Fulfillment of this right is dependent on society providing resources so that no patient is deprived of necessary care because of an inability to pay for the care. Physicians should continue their traditional assumption of a part of the responsibility for the medical care of those who cannot afford essential health care.
From the AMA;

(6) The patient has a basic right to have available adequate health care. Physicians, along with the rest of society, should continue to work toward this goal. Fulfillment of this right is dependent on society providing resources so that no patient is deprived of necessary care because of an inability to pay for the care. Physicians should continue their traditional assumption of a part of the responsibility for the medical care of those who cannot afford essential health care.
They are active participants.
> Now I'm not such a big fan of municipal legislation - as a European, I think American democracy may be too decentralized and exacerbate the public choice problem, but I don't see a clear organizing principle that will only prevent economically bad legislation while allowing economically good legislation.

Operating utilities (especially last mile internet) at the municipal level makes much better sense than federalizing it. The transit market is sufficiently competitive that there is no need for the last mile operator to own a national network. Meanwhile with a national network operator, if the service is unusually terrible in a specific city there is nothing that city's residents can do about it because even when they're all in agreement they don't have enough votes to move the needle at the federal level.

And then you can have laboratories of democracy: If one city funds their network entirely through subscription fees and another funds it entirely through property taxes then maybe we discover that one works much better and other cities can start doing that.
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it has been approximate 1 generation since the fall of the Soviet union. it was never a question of "if" Russia would restablish itself as a very important world power, it has always been a question of "when."

Russia will go to war because it has to in order to be recognized on the world stage as a serious power player. if they back down now, they will look like fools and lose immense political power.

the only question is if it will go nuclear or not. my hope is that the nuclear option is simply rhetoric to keep the west out of their invasion of Ukraine. but that's the thing: it is impossible to know if it is or jot, so we have to assume they are willing to use nukes to accomplish their goals.

cold war 2 has already started, no question about it. let's keep it from going hot. mutually assured destruction is still very much a possibility.

*I'm on my phone. please excuse spelling mistake.
I am so sorry for the quality of Electronic Medical Records software you have to deal with. I realize that software quality probably takes a backseat to the matters in the article, but it certainly can't help when things don't often work and you don't know why and support can't fix it and this affects your care delivery process.
Generally you run the JSX pre-processor server-side and then everything else gets run client-side.
as opposed to...?
Putin won't do anything that causes a major reaction I think. He will however push things to the limit & stop just short of that.

Its a good strategy from Russia's point of view - I doubt any of the other leaders can match Putin for pure brass balls and a willingness to not flinch in a game of chicken.

It'll yield some incremental gains that are imo justified for playing the game well, but I don't see "War in Europe" happening. (Ukraine skirmishes aside).
I'm not sure how racism worked its way into an article on health care. But, your assertions that the TEA Party and Republicans are inherently racist are misplaced. Let's start with a little history. Lincoln who freed the slaves, Republican. Jim Crow laws, Southern Democrats. Most votes against the 1964 Civil Rights act, Democrat. Inner cities where blacks are oppressed, run by Democrats. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find any racism in the TEA Party or Republican party. And, while Democrats profess to want to help blacks, it is their actions and policies that are hurting them more.
Requiring NPM modules in the browser console
Does Personal Identity Survive Cryopreservation?
This is an easier question to answer if you've ever worked on some open-ended research or problems where the path to the solution is just not known. Those sorts of problems seep into your dreams even when the last thing on your mind is work.

However, even if you aren't doing research, good answers are probably found in those scenarios where you are pushing the limits of some particular software framework. Anywhere you have to bend the rules or invent new rules just to accomplish something makes for a good interview story. How detailed you go in your answer depends on how entertained the guy on the other side of the table is.
I don't believe it either, but why not? What's changed? I don't really think we have grown much wiser for one thing.
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I realize that this question sounds hysterical, and foolishly apocalyptic, to U.S. or Western European readers.

Not to this one. Putin's casual delivery of his remarks yesterday about the ongoing potency of Russia's nuclear arsenal was a startling rhetorical escalation, unprecedented in recent decades. I have considered a hot war a strong possibility since the Crimean action in February and think it's a virtual certainty now, and only a question of scale.

I think many readers may find this (non-paywalled) article by Henry Kissinger published yesterday to be worth their while: http://online.wsj.com/articles/henry-kissinger-on-the-assemb...

EDIT: corrected a few typos.
no group chat.
Great job. I love tools that make things dead simple :)
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They have a saying in Russia... http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/30gza6/jason-jones-live-fr...
Any article by Applebaum on central Europe needs a bright red disclaimer, "The author is married to the Polish foreign minister."

I really can't believe the Washington Post lets her write this alarmist claptrap without pointing out the conflict of interest.
Could you recommend an independent serious technical article which is written by someone not involved in either the container or hypervisor community?

Edit: Previous comment from Docker maintainer, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7910117

"Hi all, I'm a maintainer of Docker. As others already indicated this doesn't work on 1.0. But it could have.
Please remember that at this time, we don't claim Docker out-of-the-box is suitable for containing untrusted programs with root privileges. So if you're thinking "pfew, good thing we upgraded to 1.0 or we were toast", you need to change your underlying configuration now. Add apparmor or selinux containment, map trust groups to separate machines, or ideally don't grant root access to the application.
Docker will soon support user namespaces, which is a great additional security layer but also not a silver bullet!
When we feel comfortable saying that Docker out-of-the-box can safely contain untrusted uid0 programs, we will say so clearly."
Social Media vs. SEO
I just installed it and played around with it for a bit - it's a really nice - but what I would kill for is something that would restore tmux server state - including the various scroll-back-buffers.

One of the few reasons I still drop out of tmux, and switch over to Terminal.app (iTerm2 might do this as well natively) - is when you have a system crash or Kernel Panic (which happens all to often with OS X -weekly basis, or daily if I'm plugging/unplugging the USB -> Serial adapters), and OS X reboots - Terminal.app restores all of my history buffers - so I don't lose any of the work in my screens.

Yes, I know script is a good way of doing this - but When you are opening a dozen or so windows, it's nice to be able to just scroll back in your history to see what you are working on.

Saving the scroll-back buffer is possible, (https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-logging) - I just don't know if there is any way of restoring it.

Even if I could just do this prior to doing something dangerous (like unplugging a USB cable), that would be great.

I just noticed, that both of these plugins are by the same developer, brunosutic, - so perhaps we'll see this feature in the future. If so, super excited! :-)
Came here to say just that. Amazing how distracting that gets.
When I was a kid in the '50s, our family doctor lived and had his office in a house little larger than ours, in much the same neighborhood as ours: definitely middle class.
And it literally can't be said enough times how awesome it is!
thanks for all the fish.

for ssd and cpu arch, anandtech was/is has been delivering the best articles for years.
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