skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except the beautiful math of the theorum only holds if distances between points on the pizza remain constant, which is manifestly not true for real pizza in particular and real materials in general. Force applied to a pizza curved width-wise will cause it to curve length-wise, changing the value of K. The remarkable theorum predicts that the pizza will not bend regardless of the radius of curvature and length of the slice, however, in practice, insufficient curvature relative to length will result in failure. Thus, the remarkable theorum hypothesis of pizza strength is falsified.
I absolutely love my Moto G with T-Mobile. I won't buy an "on contract" phone again. I have no need to upgrade, but this new one looks like a winner too. I've been turning friends and family onto the Moto G, saving them a ton of money and worry about broken phones.

My computing device history goes way back to Commodore 64 and Apple IIc, I became a developer in the late 80's and today I am absolutely fascinated by relatively "disposable" < $200 phones, ChromeBooks and laptops.

After decades of developing new software for the next great leap in hardware specs, we're entering an interesting new phase of software development for a new class of hardware targets. Good times!
That's not what's meant by Natural Language Parsers. Most are trained on datasets in English, but given the right training they can work in other languages. NLP means a bunch of different things from POS tagging to dependency parsing. What this project is doing is semantic parsing.
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Buying Moto was the biggest, costliest mistake Google ever made. Spend a lot. Annoy OEM partners. ???? Profit? These are nice devices, but so are Nexus, Google Play Edition, and Android One devices. Google does not lack for GTM routes for crapware-free, low-cost Androids.
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I'd rather not have most of my communications (even mundane ones) read by a third party that also reads everything else. Gmail is bad enough, but this is a really Big Brother.
It appears to be a fork of the compiler not the language itself.

I don't know much about Scala but I believe that most of its facilities are in the libraries rather than the language itself.

Since he seems to know more about compiling Scala than everyone else I guess it must be a good thing. Lets hope others get to fill the inevitable gaps.
Internals, mostly, I think. Correctness. According to Phillips, the internals of scalac are a complete mess, and the runtime generated code is also non-ideal. Basically, all sorts of software best practices are being broken to achieve performance and ensure Scala is a superset of Java.
You say that Google will be doing this transition along with everyone else, but you won't be feeling the same pain. Google's current cert expires November 24th, 2014, so when you extend it then it will be for 1 year and your new cert will expire before January 1st, 2016 which is pretty convenient for you because that cert (even if it is SHA-1) will still show up as a green bar through Chrome 41 so it will have no impact for you. I also second eastdakota's response that this was pretty crappy to drop as a Friday afternoon announcement.
This is a soft walkie talkie...patent infringement....
No, he's just very particular (https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=john+gruber+%22moto+270...) about people respecting other people's names for their work.

Stay tuned though. My sources tell me he's going do a really clever thing with a dollar sign in the middle of "Microsoft" next week.
It's definitely 10/20/40.
By that standard, though, finance companies respect their IT staff more than Google respects their engineers, even though the cultural perception is the opposite.
This seems great! What is it?
It would be great if it'd be actually possible to submit more custom subnets and even combine blocks (as long as they belong together).
The real question is this: does the dollar of earnings Amazon retains generate more than a dollar of value for owners of the company (i.e. shareholders)?

I don't know either way, and I don't want this post to seem like a criticism of Amazon. I know some people who work in upper level management there and they all speak very highly of the way the company is run (very meritocratic). But reinvesting earnings is only a good strategy if those earnings are put to good use, otherwise they should be paid out as a dividend.

Anyways, just something to think about whenever the topic of Amazon's profits/earnings comes up.
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You've contradicted yourself there. If Amazon's stock price is doing well, this is evidence that they are creating value for shareholders.
Because "just work" are the words I associate with IE. No, really, I swear. (No, really, I swear. JUST WORK!)

Developing for other browsers is, well, developing; getting it to "just work" in IE is, well, "just work".
(Google's certificates only last three months and that's not because of this announcement.)

The transition that I'm talking about is the transition to SHA-256 overall. If you're in a position where your CA sold you a certificate that they shouldn't have then I feel sorry, but if you're blaming us for that then I think you're pointing in the wrong direction.
"Are the Yankees the best team in baseball?

We used to think so."

http://commonmark.org
> The project is no called longer "Common Markdown". It's CommonMark

In that case we may as well update the name in the HN title.
Amazon stock trades at a P/E of 910. S&P 500 average is currently around 19-20. Do you really expect Amazon to continue to grow at such a rate that its current P/E is justified?
At the risk of being boring, Amazon's "no profit" model works because profit is an accounting measure, not an economic measure.

Amazon is increasing in value, but because they are investing in themselves, on paper (i.e. according to accounting measures) they are not profitable.

All companies have a "book to market" ratio that indicates they are worth more as a company than accounting measures would suggest.
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qMHyxwR...
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For usability sake I would also allow for a way to tag a subnet with a friendly moniker. If this takes off, it could be crowdfunded functionality.

By the way. Very neat twist on discussion boards. :)
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Correct!

A system can only reveal information it knows, so to defend against this "attack vector" when building a secure system, you must ensure that the software knows as little about the system as possible.

There are various ways that don't require NAT, it's more a matter of ensuring the software doesn't need the information it shouldn't know. And both FreeBSD and Linux have tools to lock down a process so it can't find these out (Capsicum and/or SELinux).
Sure, a bit.

Excessive rounded edges, bright pop-colors and lots of plastic seem to me a staple of the 90s. CAM techniques were just starting to hit their stride, so the work from the period often feels like it's just a direct product of the software. Newson's work looks to me like it popped out of a rendering on a Silicon Graphics machine. Karim Rashid, Greg Lyn are easy references. There are many others I can't think of.

It's not just that his work fits the style, but that even his recent work still employs the same techniques.
Id first do a little bit of research for yourself, so you can get some starting ideas of what you want...
look at gloves and see what you like - search for glove in google images, tumblr and pintrest - those are good places to start.
Wait.. is it called policy?

That's going to be a nightmare to Google

Almost as bad as 'play' (which has largely fallen back to 'playframework')
Alright, this is the end of the road for me.

> Thanks for that clarification, which changed nothing about the exchange or its meaning.

It boggles the mind that you'd even say that. The difference between me saying "you must choose a branch of psychology to call unscientific" and "I do not personally possess the knowledge or capability to stand up for branches of psychology I do not know enough about it" seems pretty substantive.

> No, I start with how science is defined, note that psychology cannot meet the definition

If you're relying on wikipedia, allow me to do so as well: science is the systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. You take issue with the latter, but many psychological theories do them, no matter how much cotton you stick in your ears.

I do not argue that the DSM lacks scientific credibility.

> None of the were falsified as that term is defined in science, by way of empirical evidence, the kind of evidence not accessible to those who study the mind.

No matter how loud you say it, it doesn't make it more true. You demand that it is true, but it is not. You sit at the armchair, reading no research or studies whatsoever, and judge me for 1) being unwilling to comment on issues which I'm ignorant on and 2) not being an expert at all things psychology.

Re: Skinner - you are correct, though he had few "theories" to be wrong about. I meant E.L. Thorndike, Skinner's predecessor (and the other one with a famous "box"). His theory of learning was his greatest achievement, but he eventually repudiated it.

Re: Piaget - that is the person wiki, this is the relevant one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaget%27s_theory_of_cognitive_... Nobody is a classic Piaget psychologist anymore. Did they throw it all out and start over? No, they did not, the iterated and keep testing. If that's the red flag to you, then there you go.

> Like science?

Sure, like science. Whatever you say. I don't disagree that physics is a more mature science, where connections between different branches are more clear.

Have a nice weekend.
Gates' kids are probably exceedingly smart. Giving them freedom is probably a good idea. Giving the average high schooler freedom is definitely /not/ a good idea.
Apparently that's how the stock market values Apple's cash position.
Bitmessage is hardly immune from spam. I've seen it there.

And cranking up the proof of work isn't going to do anything to prevent it. The only thing that prevents Bitmessage from becoming a cesspool is its obscurity.
Thanks. The Prize by Daniel Yergin isn't bad either.
> they typed “miscellaneous” strings of characters into the login page’s entry fields

So this is legal when the FBI does it, but when someone else does essentially the same thing on an AT&T server it's identity fraud and conspiracy to access a computer without authorization
As to the second point. This "fiddling" with "miscellaneous" input characters could also be interpreted cover brute-forcing login attempts. I'm not sure that's a good precedent...
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How? I would expect anything that might identify the browser would be sent after the encryption was set up?
This is really interesting considering that if you just memorize a sufficiently long string of random Base 3 numbers you can't lose more than 50% of the time, but with any discernible strategy you use to gain an edge there is a counter strategy to remove it.
If anyone uses comodo certs, they have a page up explaining how this change affects you: http://www.comodo.com/e-commerce/SHA-2-transition.php

tl;dr They will re-issue SHA-2 versions of your certs for free.
Can you share that playbook? In particular the truly proven findings?
The problem I have is how Google is doing this.

Google acting like they control the whole Internet and that everyone will yield to their power is nothing new; sadly, in some ways that is probably true.
ownCloud needs to integrate this kind of easy email setup.

I already run an ownCloud server but deliberately avoided moving my email to it due to the less than ideal state of email on ownCloud
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I'm not surprised at all. The article focuses on leadership brain drain, but I think it's more basic then that. Really complicated systems are getting built and deployed every day. After a while, the folks who built the system don't really know how it works anymore, because they are busy building the next thing.

After a little longer, the underlying infrastructure (OS and native libraries), platform (java, node, ruby, etc...) and persistence (Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, you get the idea...) starts to become vulnerable to zero-day exploits and you get one of these big breaches. Maybe I'm just being cynical ;)

It's sort of like the old rusty ship that finally sinks. It happens all the time...
To spare others searching the man, you can download the pdfs to the current directory

wget -r -np -nd -l 1 -A pdf http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/\~atri/courses/coding-theory/book/

and combine them

pdftk $(ls *.pdf | sort -V) cat output essential-coding-theory.pdf

thus hastening the first draft.

BTW would the resulting essential-coding-theory.pdf be a derivative work under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0?
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Well, given limited time it is impossible to go both broad and deep, and he certainly seems to go broad. I don't think he needs to be an expert in anything, just a generalist.
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Although having the data already on an SSD would surely be faster, I don't see how it would be faster to copy from HDD to SSD and then process as opposed to just processing from the HDD.
But of course, the MTA isn't actually part of the state government ... because nothing in NYS can actually be open and transparent.
Not if the data has to be read from the slow disks to get it onto the fast ones.
What lasting change has Musk effected? The potential is certainly there, but the average person's life isn't much different than it would be had Musk never existed.
Not necessarily -- even if you could reliably choose your throws pseudo-randomly, that wouldn't eliminate physical tells (like the elbow swing the article mentioned). The interesting thing about this (to me, as an amateur) is that it's a little more multi-dimensional than I would have assumed.
Yes, just like hitting people with your car while texting, or shooting them in the back while they are on the ground handcuffed.
That was exactly my point.

The latter portion of the post was not specifically applicable to Amazon, but was refuting the author's point of view.
It's probably true, but they honestly largely use this power responsibly. I don't even really have a problem with the action here, just the timing and means of announcement.
Can you talk a little bit about your metrics or future plans? Looks interesting, would love to know more about how you're competing in this pretty competitive space.
aside from the plastic it sounds like he'll get on just fine at Apple.
That's the premise behind Whonix (https://www.whonix.org). It adds a little overhead running 2 VMs, but it's worth the extra 256MB of memory for the piece of mind.
Wouldn't circumvention be more accurate if they had successfully brute forced a login? Clicking "View Source" on the error page doesn't sound like circumvention.
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Where is the best place to get deals on these phones?
Ask HN: Best Way to Change Industries / Tech Stacks?
Writing this with a throwaway account only because my normal account is my real name, and I don't want to advertise that I'm looking to change jobs.

I'm currently a C++ developer working on high-performance distributed systems (trading infrastructure). It's been great for the past 4 years, but I'm ready for a change and don't want to limit myself based on the tech stack I'm using today. I use what I use because it's what's appropriate for the task at hand, not because I'm a die-hard. I'd love to find a new job based on a company doing really interesting work, not necessarily what they develop in - like most folks here I feel confident I can come up to speed pretty quickly.

If you changed jobs and picked up a completely new tech stack, how did you convince your prospective employer you were up to the task?

If you've hired someone who was smart but didn't fit some major bullet points on your desired skills list - how did they convince you it would work out?
This is not very far away from Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses and is possibly even more insane. I wonder if you can fool it with a towel?
I am still flabbergasted at how Yahoo is listed so low. If Alibaba hits their target, Yahoo's ownership will be worth about $35bil. Yahoo's current market cap is around $39bil (and is near it's 52week high). That means that the market valued Yahoo at about $4bil as its own company, which seems terribly low for a company that took in $1bil in earnings last call.
Berkshire Hathaway. Microsoft until c. 2006. Apple. Google. Most hedge funds. Standard Oil and U.S. Steel if you go back to the last century.

Basically, it's rational for a company CEO to invest all profits back into the business as long as he expects he can make a better return for them than the market can. Berkshire Hathaway's annual reports go into more detail in this. The trick is in recognizing the size of the market opportunity in front of you, so that you know when to switch from reinvesting profits to distributing them as dividends. Microsoft waited too long for this - they burned (and are still burning) billion on unprofitable business lines. Google has had debatable success - some of their new businesses are brilliant, some are huge flops.
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Thank goodness you can search "golang" for things related to the go language. That's sometimes a nightmare too.
It seems really unlikely to me that they would have set up this system the incredibly dumb way.
Well, there is a general principle that police can do things that ordinary citizens cannot. But, subject to rules, not indiscriminately. For instance, they can enter a property if they have a warrant, whereas if someone else does this, it is break and enter. If the FBI established "probable cause" that the server is used for crime, they could have gotten a warrant. I can't imagine it would have been difficult, so why wouldn't they have taken the legal precaution.
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The real problem nobody is solving is that small businesses need feedback from customers to improve their services, but no one gives, and they also don't know how to ask.

Why would customer spend his time installing this and them commenting about some business, with almost certainty that the business will never read that comment?

How can the business get valuable feedback -- not just childish rants or cheers?

These questions remain open.
Parent was out of line but there is still plenty of modern academic research occurring around Smalltalk. Not to mention Gilad's Newspeak (which may or may not be academic, you'd have to ask him).
If the site was accessible through an IP, could scanning ports and looking for a particular item on the homepage have identified it?
There's a pretty good Bloomberg article about this: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-17/how-can-yah...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606891
The "cheat sheet" thing was common at my university too.

It often turned into an exercise in finding the extreme bottom limit to how small one could write (and turned me into a fan of Pilot Hi-Tec 0.25mm pens!), so I always wondered how carefully considered the limitation to one sheet was... did they actually try out different limits and choose the one that worked best?

More limitation forces students to think about what they're including instead of just copying the textbook onto paper, but even a slight relaxation to 4-5 pieces of paper would have really helped in many cases, and allowed us to focus more on the material and less on the physical chore of preparation...
Intels mobile strategy is to bleed $2Bill a year by engaging in anticompetitive behaviour by giving away chips nobody wants

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186367-intels-mobile-divi...

Intell is trying to undercut Allwinter/Mediatek/Rockchip by selling Atoms at $5 a pop in China.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/intel-sel...
Hey, for sure! It's only 55TB up which should take about 5 days to upload on a gigabit connection.
I don't think that it's "dick-ish," but obviously some people do. I'm arguing against the appeal to "well it's his right." Whether something is moral / dish-ish / whatever is divorced from whether they have a legal right to do it.
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Hey,
My name is Jason and I'm a big scala nut.

I've been asked to help Skepti-Forum to produce some sort of a discussion tool that fits the specific problem domain. I can't see anything out of box that fits skepticism/information analysis (eg discussions without answers). I'm thinking something between a forum, stack overflow etc except there are no "answers" but only strong points in the discussion. This is the opposite of stack where a good question is one that has a definitive answer. The code will all be open source so this could become a discussion platform as a counterpoint to stack exchanges question/answer model.

If you're into scala, we can probably convince the community to use scala/akka/play (I have lots of experience so can oversee the quality).
Otherwise we can use node, ruby, or python to make the server code more accessible to contributors.

Let me know if this sounds interesting - alayablue@hotmail.com
Commuter tickets into London are crazy. I had to work with a client on site the other month and stayed in Crawley (about 30 miles outside of London), I paid £22 to get into London that morning. In the evening I travelled across the country home (about 150 miles) for £15.
While this is certainly better than not doing so, if one is going to run such a hidden service in flagrant violation of the law, it seems prudent to take all feasible precautions--and maybe some unfeasible ones, too.

1) Run the HTTP server in a guest VM to reduce likelihood of hardware identifier leakage (hardware MACs, HD serials, DMI data, CPUID, etc.)

2) Physically separate HTTP server and Tor client, and restrict communication between them to a simple packetized high-speed serial interface.

2a) Consider an inline filter on this link that watches for private keys, etc. and kills communication upon detection, and adds random latency to packets to reduce bandwidth of timing channels.

2b) Physically isolate these systems as much as possible: power line filters, electro-optical couplers for the comm link, etc.

3) Stub out all Tor crypto operations to an HSM; keep the onion key and do all operations on the onion key on that HSM.

4) Make friends in the criminal underground, becasue you're probably going to prison eventually, anyway ;).
This is absolutely incredible! I've looked up rangefinders on wikipedia but still don't fully understand. Anybody care to try and clarify?
> Oh well... ;). Though it might seem like it, it doesn't give me any problems. I usually remember more-less how I named a file with a particular thought I need, and if I can't, there's always grep to the rescue :).

Makes sense. ido-mode helps. Despite the fact that this is an anti-agenda thread, I should report that I also just discovered how easy it is to search across agenda files by word or regexp. It's like org aware grep. You would need some elisp to load all your .org files into org-agenda-files.

I've always used a handful of very large files, which probably doesn't have any particular advantage other than less buffer switching and facilitating isearch over grep. However, outline levels quickly get deep in large files.

> I'm thinking, maybe I'll eventually get around to spin up a Dropbox daemon on a VPS and make it sync only the wiki/ directory, and then put some simple "save snippet" CGI script to have a browser capture enpoint.

Sounds good.