skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value of a Ph.D isn't in the knowledge you learn or papers you read, it's in demonstrating the ability to take on a vaguely-specified original research task where you can't see the eventual outcome at the beginning, and drive it forward until you come up with something useful. All without having the support of other people who actually know what they're doing to guide you.

Fair, and I think it's pretty obvious that the education of a PhD (including the meta-education of having to teach yourself how to solve a new problem) is quite valuable, and that it's relatively rare that a person gains that outside of a degree program.

I don't like the hypocrisy and inconsistency. There are a lot of jobs that (even if the work doesn't require it) expect an advanced degree in the better jobs, but refuse to ante up and pay for employees to get them. If they really thought that the education was important, they'd hire people without the degree on condition that they pursue one, and pay for it.
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Yes I think we can all agree that the history of unix did not have enough intellectual property lawsuits.
All you need to understand this problem is better language.

All of this has been solved long time ago at Java Swing. Checkout Mig Layout.
Number 3 is a valid criticism, but criticizing the theorem on the basis of people using it to support the status quo is like criticizing water because some people drown.

His theorem says nothing about the way things should be, but rather about how things are. I mentioned Poundstone's Gaming the Vote in another post, but that book in particular discusses the implications of the theorem and analyzes better alternatives to current systems.
I'm apparently very bad at choosing site names or there's something wrong with that piece. Seems that no matter what I choose for a site name, I'm shown a message stating that I can't use that name.
He would likely toss it rightfully because you spent time talking about something of almost no relevance on your resume, which is a place wherein bang for the buck is of utmost importance and you have just demonstrated you do not understand even that.

...ask and ye shall receive....
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The Xbox One driver is also in a kernel module: xpad.ko.
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> Obviously the disadvantage is that hot-plugging doesn't work in other operating systems when run on Apple hardware, but obviously that's not Apple's focus or interest.

Ah dang! I have an official Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter on my MacBook Pro that won't be detected in windows 8.1 running in bootcamp* unless I reboot.
And now I know why.

* The next Visual Studio looks NICE in high dpi.
How did I completely miss the Edison? I love the idea of a dual-core x86 for running something like linux with a moderately powered MCU as a RTP. Does anyone know what it means by "<1W of power consumption" which is the power I've seen? I assume it will peak at over 1W with all 3 cores running all out? I'd like to see separate idle/loaded values for that.
"majority thought should become law."

Well, sustained majority thought over sufficient time.
Young people may think differently.
Um, quoting exactly:

"[The aforementioned] study, which focused on willows, showed that the decades without wolves changed Yellowstone too much to undo. After humans exterminated wolves nearly a century ago, elk grew so abundant that they all but eliminated willow shrubs. Without willows to eat, beavers declined. Without beaver dams, fast-flowing streams cut deeper into the terrain. The water table dropped below the reach of willow roots. Now it’s too late for even high levels of wolf predation to restore the willows."

and:

"When we tell the wolf story, we get the Yellowstone story wrong. Perhaps the greatest risk of this story is a loss of credibility for the scientists and environmental groups who tell it."
The Xiaomi's are really interesting phones, and will probably do very well in the US -if- they really start to support the LTE/XLTE networks.

For the majority of users who are chasing smartphones, 3G is not going to cut it.
Unfortunately, Savory is a con artist. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/au...
Got it. So some kernel modules are "official" and part of the release notes?
fork() is a dumb interface, and non-portable anyway. I've yet to see a use case that couldn't be handled with either threads, or spawning another process - after all, those are the only APIs you get elsewhere.

If you need to use a language with a runtime (not just Go by any means, the likes of Python also suffer from this issue) from two processes that need to be separate but communicate with each other, do the fork first, then start the language runtime (i.e. embed the language in your parent program).
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For the life of me, whenever I hear someone call Manning a whistleblower, I cannot ever get the person to articulate exactly what he was blowing the whistle against. It's my understanding that most of what was released was nothing more than embarrassing personal cables that harmed diplomatic relations. Snowden revealed legitimate privacy concerns that the American people had not yet been privy to.
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In terms of the specs, the Edison is great. After tinkering around with it for a bit I found I didn't really like the bundled software Intel released with it.

At the end of the day I want something just like this, but with a net-installish base linux distro, and something with better temperature range than 0-40C! It's too complicated for tinkering, and the temperature range is too narrow for commercial products. It falls into the middle, where it's probably not great for anyone. I'm sure Intel can fix that.
Why -1? I'm quoting exactly from the article mentioned above in the thread. Am I wrong in anything? Am I disrespectful? Please care to explain.
This theorem only applies to ordinal voting systems. Cardinal voting algorithms like score and approval voting escape this predicament.

http://rangevoting.org/ArrowThm.html
Not really. A life is not property. It cannot be acquired or given away. Even if we were to just go along with it and categorize life as personal property, a murderer does not take the victim’s life into their possession in any way I can tell. Murder ends life rather than appropriating it, so murder would be destruction of property, not theft.
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"fork()" didn't start as a hack. There is no documentation to suggest that one return from fork() was a copy now on-disk while the other remained in ram.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/man21.pdf
http://www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/articles/bstj...
Sadly this is a limitation of the design. The index is built from domain data etc; the crawl list contains hundreds of millions of domains, but the system has only indexed 3.6 million so far over the past few days :(

I initially started with the Alexa top million, so coverage there should be good, so long as the TLD is supported.
Leonov is also notable for his second flight (1975) which was the culmination of the Soyuz-Appolo project - that's when independently launched Soviet and US spacecrafts rendezvoused in the orbit and stayed docked for two days with crews carrying out joint experiments and what not. The project was widely regarded as an end of the "space race".

Also he is just a very nice, down-to-earth and kind person, which is something that he is actually known for ... though it's hardly a rare trait between cosmo/astronauts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%E2%80%93Soyuz_Test_Proj...
Doesn't seem to work. It's catching traffic but the snaps directory is empty.
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In this case at least, Manning always felt feminine. It just took a long time to personally work that out. The reason she joined the army in the first place was to make herself more manly, because she already didn't feel like a man at the time.
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Moore's little Forth CPUs were cute. They only needed about 4K gates. The original version got wrong answers on division if the divisor was odd, and they couldn't afford to redo the custom silicon, so it shipped that way, with errata.

Moore had an I/O system where the input device was three buttons, used in a chord fashion, and the output was color NTSC generated entirely by software by the Forth chip. The whole thing was a beautiful exercise in minimalism. As ICs got more gates, it was pointless.

As for most hardware being devoted to C, that is true to some extent. C assumes you have one big flat address space. That killed off segmented-memory machines (IA-32 can do some interesting things in segmented mode, but nobody uses those features). It also killed off stack machines such as old Burroughs mainframes, where addresses are more like directory paths ("process 22/array 15/subscript 10", with hardware subscript checking and hardware support for array growth and moving). The price we pay for this is decade after decade of buffer overflow security flaws.
The one stanza I use most often:

# tcpdump -n -i $iface -s 0 -w /path/to/dump.pcap -c 25000 host a.b.c.d/mask

Once the dump is finished, ship the dump over to my desktop and analyze the full contents with Wireshark. The protocol dissectors, along with the ability to follow TCP streams, make life SO much easier.

If I already know exactly what I'm going to look for I'll add the "and [tcp|udp] and port $port" bit at the end. Gives a nice kickstart to any traffic analysis.
> The main issue with Bootstrap is that escaping the mobile version is almost impossible.

This is why iOS8 added a "Use Desktop Version" feature to Safari.
I wonder if this could be modified to control actual hardware? It looks the `\write18` command can be used to execute shell commands if LaTeX is run with the `--shell-escape` option. So in theory you could intercept all writes to the GPIO control registers and use a shell command to send bytes over the serial port to a physical MCU (or something like the SparkFun SPI Shortcut.)

Imagine a LaTeX document that, when processed, reads a series of measurements from a sensor over the serial port, then renders nice graphs directly to a PDF! :)
90% of all modules in existence are part of the official kernel release. So, as they ship in the same bundle, they also use the same release note.
At this point to me it is a gimmick, although I think the organizers have been fairly straight forward about the fact that it is going to take time to get this right. And they are working on a lot of things that I have doubts about, it is just going to take time.

Right now it's a spec series. When they finally make the move to each team or manufacturer developing it's own chassis, I think things will get a lot more interesting.

Although I'm really not sure if Formula E is going to be around for the long term. I know the FIA and ACO (Behind the WEC) are keen on seeing an all electric prototype at Le Mans in the near future. Personally I think rather than an all electric series I would much rather see a series with a whole scale of options ranging from Full internal combustion, to IC assisted Hybrid Systems of various capacities in the middle, with full electric on the other end.
This abandoned subway station allegedly used to secretly transport presidents
But snapchat updated its encryption just a couple of days ago: https://github.com/programa-stic/snapchat-decrypt

You will need the android id of the phone, which I don't think you can easily get as a man in the middle?
Note that with computers, people don't have to decode morse. It would only be for input.

I find it hard to believe that teens, for example, can't very quickly learn to input morse. After all, they learned that wretched scheme used to input text on a phone pad.
Reasons 2,3,4,5 and 6: photographs in the background. What's that got to do with search?
My view is that many people are quite domesticated- traditionally, would you not agree that society flourishes wherever the strong and fair have the capacity to exclude the psychopaths?

Unfortunately, domesticated people often somehow get convinced to vote for open borders.
What attributes make a species eligible for this type of ecosystem redefining introduction? Do they have to have been there before (i.e. reintroduction)? Because I just spent four months in Florida and I can tell you down there the populace pretty much holds the exact opposite excitement level for the introduction of pythons to their native habitats.
Also appears to just be a place for PX4 and ArduPilot for now, so it's not new products but rather a new umbrella over them.
Bing is horrible.
You give people an amazing implementation of M:N concurrency and the people want to fork. You give people concurrency via forking, and they want N:M concurrency.
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Linux systems usually get their random numbers from /dev/\[u\]random. This interface, however, is vulnerable to file descriptor exhaustion attacks, where the attacker consumes all available file descriptors, and is inconvenient for containers. The getrandom(2) syscall, analogous to OpenBSD's getentropy(2), solves that problems.

This is the big one for me. No more directly opening /dev/urandom on Linux and it works in chroot. When will Linux distros begin shipping this kernel?
Whenever Bruce Schneier gets an "I have nothing to hide" from a radio/TV interviewer, he always asks them on-air "What's your salary?". No one ever answers.
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Probably not – last year, I only did it because I was inspired by Watsi's talk and wanted to try to give back somewhow. But it was a logistical nightmare; it's really hard to get small runs of high quality book printing done for a reasonable cost.
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As a climber, I don't see how the design constraint of it wearable makes it any more useful. It being reasonably small and lightweight (and robust) would be nice for me to actually carry it with me regularly, but I don't want it on my wrist. I want it on my harness or in my pack since having things on your wrist can make some holds virtually unusable, especially if you're crack climbing.
Please resist the urge to question receiving a downvote. If it's unwarranted (and I think it was, in this case), someone will likely give you a corrective upvote.
* maintainable contraints
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My favorite thing about unix is its philosophy of writing programs that "do one thing and do it well"
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looks like someone downvoted a quote they don't like. It irks me when that happens here.
Within the first ten, he lists the wallpaper image as about five of them. Many of the items on the list are the same as what Google does. While he says Bing does as well or better in some areas, he never mentions the opposite, that Bing does less well than Google in others (and how many others?).

These aren't reasons to switch to Bing. It's an advertisement.

I haven't checked in a year or so but, last I heard, Microsoft loses about $2 billion dollars every year on Bing.
400 years ago justice systems were based on the desires of the crown and aristocracy and the needs of the aristocracy demanded they be able to buy their way out of murdering common folk but have their precious wealth protected at all costs. Murder of the ruling class was, obvs a different story [1]. Among other things the strengthening of the middle class is what slowly, reverses this.

[1] http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/punish.html {Opening passage of Foucault's Discipline and Punish, recounting the drawing and quartering of Robert-Francois Damiens for attempted regicide.}
Some kernel modules may not be distributed as part of the kernel for license compatibility reasons, or just by preference of the authors. In some cases they may only be distributed in binary form, with an open-source "wrapper" that is compiled to match your local kernel, like nvidia video drivers.
Looks to me like nautil.us is aiming at a general readership that is interested in science. Many articles like this gloss over the numbers in favor of narrative and anecdotes, because that's what's interesting to general readership. The provides plenty of opportunity to delve deeper by seeking out the source material, as you have done.

There's many people, myself included who you could send the original paper and I'd give it a glance and probably leave it. Not because I'm stupid or uneducated, but because I don't even know if its a paper that says something new or relevant to the field or has something to offer me as a person. An article like this makes it much more likely that people will engage the research by giving me some initial sense.
Thank you. It looks like a well documented article.
Makes me sad to find this out.
You should post up an FAQ or more information on how this works before asking users to login with their Dropbox account.
Url changed from http://www.wired.com/2014/10/tiny-box-can-anonymize-everythi..., which points to this.
But NYT doesn't differ with Xinhua in this case. It is very hard to call that significant bias.
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Yeah I'm excited to read about indexes in PostgreSQL. Indexes also add overhead to the database system as a whole, so they should be used sensibly — I'm looking forward to seeing your approach for good index candidates.
A thing that I find really useful in Google search that Bing does not offer (at least by default), is that it shows you the PDF's creation date. Eg.:

>Aug 10, 2010 - 2. 1. This paper examines the implications of the Fund accepting membership in the.
That's one possibility. Another would be for a client to transfer an encoding of a query that can be cheaply decoded, instead of requiring parsing. The translation of a query from an application AST to that encoding could skip the SQL representation altogether!

Of course this sort of approach would give up the (debatable) interoperability capabilities of SQL and I'm not sure parsing is enough of a bottleneck for it to really be worthwhile. A "binary SQL" spec would also be interesting (and maybe exists already?).
I like that there's competition, that drives improvement of everyone's product.

To me though, improvements I'm looking for most revolve around respecting my privacy. For this reason, DuckDuckGo wins hands-down. They may not have top notch search results [yet], but I'm happy to help them get there since they respect my privacy more than Google or Bing, who seem like they're just competing with each other and ignoring the privacy aspect.
Is that possible? I'm not certain that it's even possible to have a large organization that doesn't run on politics.
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Emcien - Software Engineer - Full Time - Atlanta, GA

DETAILS: https://jobs.github.com/positions/69efd4de-26ff-11e4-824c-30...

GIST:

Emcien develops four products based on a patented pattern-detection engine. Using the discrete mathematical concept of sparse matrix graphs we build applications delivering:

* Recommendation Engines

* Predictive Analytics

* Continuous Network Analysis

* Conversation Analysis

This work is both challenging and rewarding. We work closely with our research department inventing new ideas and solutions to difficult, un-solved problems.
The problem is that such an effort would produce a cute academic toy with zero traction in the real world. Or looking at it from the other perspective - would you expect that Clang, Chrome, Mozilla folks just rewrite their projects? What about the core infrastructure code that Google/Bloomberg have implemented in C++?
If you can man in the middle traffic, aren't all authentication cookies compromised anyway?

Wouldn't any service then be subject to "interception"?
This is very true and too many people overlook it. Many "generic" challenges faced by "business" are similar in nature to technical challenges.

For example, a common business challenge is organizational design.

How do we create an organizational structure that serves the needs of the business and the people who work there? Well to start, what are the basic inputs and outputs of the business? What is needed to transform those inputs to the outputs in a manner that is efficient, adaptable, safe etc. Are there common groups of people that tend to work on common inputs and create common outputs ? Within those groups, are there specific people needed to do specific tasks? Imagine person A, in group A, needs an output from person B in group B. Does person A need to know exactly how the output was created? If you've got this far, hopefully you realize the parallels I'm drawing.

Same types of thought experiments can be applied to all kinds of operational and financial aspects of running a business- most are clear optimization problems. It's unfortunate that too many "hackers" hear the word business and assume it's about boozy dinners with other business people, or boring powerpoints that tell us nothing.

There's plenty of interesting challenges in business, and strong MBA-types are often better prepared to address them because they understand the various design patterns available to them.
or maybe a shorthand system can be adapted for mobile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand
Bing is currently very useful for images and videos. I find its much more accurate then Google. Both of these search fields are far ahead of google.

Currently I use Google for my text based information searching. It actually uses deliminators +/- site: *.pdf etc. these are very powerful tools, that bing doesn't support. And rarely used by most users I assume.

But if I want to find a reaction image, funny (or illicit) video. Bing wins out.
In other words: Whenever people get a nice tool for something, they want to use the tool for other things as well.
If you want find out if a media company is doomed, look at its ambitions
> share or copy code, data, stack, and I think file opens

Sounds like linux's "clone" system call. Which is the underlying syscall which clib's fork() uses.

You can do just about anything imaginable with it: http://linux.die.net/man/2/clone

For example: you could create a child process-like-thing which shares nothing but the signal handler table. No idea what that would be good for.
Time is one slippery concept. I have a book called "The End of Time" by Julian Barbour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Time_(book) , which I have read, but lack enough of a formal education to understand.
It goes way beyond technology and science.
Universal human rights, principles of a functioning state and legal system: equality before law, some basic laws, principles of democracy (secret voting, party systems etc), Montesquieu's separation of powers...