skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I hate it, I think you (we) are in the minority here.

Given how many geeks want better battery life over shaving a few mm off a device, and how that is exactly the opposite of what is happening, I think it's fair to say that the broader market want a slim phone.

I've not seen the dimensions of the prototypes yet, how bulky are they actually?
Well the CEO of a rocket company should have a better response than "I wish there were better engines to use." Maybe with that multi billion dollar contract you can, oh I don't know, build one?
The regulators are aware of the architectural disadvantages of the SIP. The problem that exchanges face is not to disadvantage the submission of data to the SIP by letting the prop feed applications live on faster hardware (systems & network) as opposed to the application that submit to the sip. The issue I refer to is in this particular article below. The disadvantag occurred even before the SIP received the packet containing the data.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB100008723963904435249045776...

Those who truly care about latency will be reading the direct marketdata feeds anyway.

The problem I was highlighting is what definition of "same" should the SEC or the exchanges be held to? When measuring 2 packets with the same information egressing an exchange, what delta is appropriate to be considered the "same" time? Should the delta be within 1 microsecond? 10 microseconds? 1 millisecond? If the acceptable delta is say 10 microseconds, what's the acceptable percentile that the prop data was 10mic faster than the SIP data, or the SIP data was 10 mic faster than the prop data? Or is the exchange in compliance as long as the delta's at the 99th percentile don't exceed 10 microseconds?

Nanoseconds count due to efforts like equidistant cabling that the exchanges employ.

For a web property such as the SEC's, should the push service only push out when the webpage is updated? What is the webpages are behind a load balancer and multiple webservers will synchronize within several milliseconds? web requests querying a webserver that is slightly behind in synchronization could be several hundred milliseconds behind, while the push message has already been out for several seconds.

The article is slicing hairs over seconds, which in the web world isn't a big deal to human consumers. But where machines are consuming, even 1 millisecond is an eternity.
There is this tiny detail about Meteor, that is has been funded $11.2 million.

- https://www.meteor.com/blog/2012/07/25/meteors-new-112-milli...

- http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/25/meteor-funding/
This really speaks to this line in the top comment "It's your job—as someone who knows the consequences—to convince people of this."

Your company should really not be taking the "set it and forget it" approach to building web-based applications. It is important to educate the client on the importance of a proactive support/maintenance plan.

As a digital agency building mid-market websites/ applications, we have also found that selling clients on support/maintenance has helped increase client loyalty as well when they want to take on new projects. If you build a site and then disappear the chance they decide to use a different firm next time increases greatly.
Is this reading os datastructures synchronously or asynchronously?
You already agree with the person you're responding to and trying to convince.
Just curious, which kinds of projects make attribution difficult? The worst I can come up with is that you'd have to include it in the small print at the bottom of an ad. Most other things (software, videos, websites) will have a more discreet place to shove all your credits.

In general, I think CC-BY is fantastic. CC-BY-SA is typically useless for anything except open source projects.
Great quote about how spreadsheets where empowering:

The company’s chief financial officer wanted certain information, and his top “experts” had difficulty providing it. So one weekend he brought an Apple computer and a copy of VisiCalc home with him. Monday morning, he called his people in and showed them how he had gotten the information he had been clamoring for. “With one swipe of the diskette, he cut them off at the knees.” Stein said. “He out-teched them. His experts! He’d cut the chain. The following week, they all came down to learn VisiCalc – fast.”

That's the kind of disruptive technonology that'll get you sales. Making things done, and having Cx0s demanding your product.
Of the classes I've taken, pure math classes are what have taught me the most about thinking. Physics a bit less, chemistry even a bit less. Chemical engineering less still.

Computer science varied depending on language - when it was Haskell the focus on thinking was a lot higher than when using Java or C, for me. The classes that used imperative languages tended to focus a lot more on nuts and bolts. Maybe that's just a preference of my uni though - they tended to teach algorithm classes etc in Haskell and database style classes in some imperative language, I think, so maybe the difference there is due to a choice from their side.

Organic chemistry, statistics, formal logic didnt evolve my thinking at all in my view.

I guess in short - the things that have developed my thinking the most are things that are about models and algorithms. You could probably run classes focusing on those, but Im not sure there is a big value in doing so compared to just teaching the subjects that are heavy in doing those tasks.
Even if the statistical analysis was sound the conclusions don't follow. The "effect" of personalized responses may be due to multi-colinearity: personal letters may be written only in cases when there is a genuine personal connection, so adding personalization may have no effect in other circumstances.

There are other issues as well, but that's the most obvious. The whole thing is a cautionary tale of not doing data analysis when you don't have appropriate training and experience.
The article reports, "Minerva toys with the notion that in a world where information is never more than a click away, what matters most is not what you know off the top of your head, but how you analyze and interpret everything you learn. And so, the school takes a hard stance against teaching hard skills." And that tells me that the program founders need to learn more hard facts themselves about the failure of efforts to teach thinking skills without also teaching content about the real world. Critical thinking requires deep knowledge of a factual domain.[1] Knowledge is important: it speeds and strengthens reading comprehension, learning, and thinking.[2] There are good books about critical thinking in general,[3] but the best of those books only have a lot of influence on the thinking of readers who are well informed with facts when they read the books. If the Minerva Project doesn't do something on campus to make sure that the learners are gaining knowledge of the world as they participate, the project is doomed to failure.

The article also reports, "Its students take all their classes online, and after their first year in California, they spend each semester in a new country of their choosing." This I call burying the lede. That's the really interesting and educational aspect of this program. If the students are funded to study abroad, moving from country to country as they go through the program, the program cannot help but be educational. Living in another country can't help but get a learner unstuck from the learner's earlier prejudices. "The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land."[4] What I learned from living overseas is that there are a lot of things people think that they just know from observation of the world that people with other cultural backgrounds do not assume to be true, and people from different cultural backgrounds often talk past one another until they examine their hidden "factual" assumptions about how the world works. Getting a group of learners to go all over the world while learning sounds like a very productive idea for a better education.

On the whole, it's good that the non-system of higher education in the United States allows experimentation like this. The people who are running the project aren't sure that they will produce graduates who end up getting jobs, but they will try something new and different while they have funding and see what happens.

[1] http://www.aft.org//sites/default/files/periodicals/Crit_Thi...

[2] http://www.aft.org/periodical/american-educator/spring-2006/...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0078038367/

http://www.amazon.com/Folly-Fools-Logic-Deceit-Self-Deceptio...

http://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psycholog...

[4] G. K. Chesterton, "The Riddle Of The Ivy" http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/20697/
How is that a win? You've frustrated criminals for all of about 5 minutes. Further, you've alerted them to potential problem areas to avoid in the future.

Congratulations, you've just made a smarter criminal. It also doesn't help that the FBI is a public institution and is required to respond to FOIA requests.

The FBI does way more damage when it swings and misses than simply not doing anything at all.
Afraid not. My passwords are ones that I made up and just kind of got used to typing, without giving too much away as to what they are...they're completely different and just words/numbers that have no meaning really.
One of the things HP is bringing to the table is very wide print bars, e.g. a whole "page" can be printed in one pass.
US Chief Technology Officer Thinks Every Child Should Be Able to Code
wow. Drupal took a month to turn this around.

16. Sep. 2014 - Notified the Drupal devs via security contact form
15. Okt. 2014 - Relase of Bugfix by Drupal core Developers [1]

[1] https://www.sektioneins.de/en/advisories/advisory-012014-dru...
Just made something that can answer few questions: https://www.virtkick.io/dia.svg
The other thing your missing about limits is functions like tangent where they approach different values on each side of a value.

The reason limits are introduced in calculus is you need a Continuous function for the basic assumptions that allow integration/differentiation to work. Basically, the limits for all points you care about need to agree or you can't take the derivative. In other words f(x) ~= f(x + 1/ infinity) ~= f(x - 1/ infinity) for all x.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_function

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_calcul...

PS: I still like the overall presentation.
As hard as it is to believe, in all my encounters with the police over the past few years, they have been courteous and professional, and, as far as I can tell, completely honest. Go figure.
I don't know. Typically having the SIM/subscription data should be enough for your provider and they don't need anything on your phone for that. AVS on the other side is usually something done by processing data that you enter into a form, that data is then compared to what your bank/the credit card company have on you.
If I were an attacker, I'd fingerprint sites. It should be pretty straightforward to maintain a relatively up-to-date database of web server + version, and app stack + version. Then, when a vuln hits, you know exactly whom to attack...
Whitehouse.gov is still on Drupal 6 and not affected by this vulnerability.

The petition site is D7. But last I checked they have some pretty heavy hitters on that project. They probably knew about and patched the vulnerability before it was even publically released.
My admittedly uninformed opinion is that it just doesn't make any sense. I don't care how good the Russians are/were at making rockets. First of all, surely there has been significant progress in all aspects of the design and manufacturing of such an item. And second, who knows how well the engines have been stored, cared for, maintained and transported over the past 40 years. I would think you'd want to have more visibility into such a thing for this type of component.

Elon: It “has a contract to resupply the International Space Station, and their rocket honestly sounds like the punch line to a joke,” he said. “It uses Russian rocket engines that were made in the ’60s. I don’t mean their design is from the ’60s — I mean they start with engines that were literally made in the ’60s and, like, packed away in Siberia somewhere.”

Orbital: "we did discover there were some effects of aging since they had been in storage for awhile, including some stress corrosion cracking,”

I could see Elon offering to supply Orbital with some US-made engines. But maybe that wouldn't satisfy NASA's desire for diversity.
It would be really useful if you could save patterns to copy paste them into the battlefield. Some of the more complex patterns are really really hard to paint on a high resolution screen.
How Do CIOs Deal with Agile and DevOps?
SpaceX certainly built their own and they seem to be working quite well thusfar.
Ukraine War 2014 – Separatists Using Anti-Tank Weapons “T12 Rapier”
Amazon-CIA $600M Deal Facing Scrutiny
They are toy examples as far as proxies for actual performance in real life. Unless real life code is a lot of n-body computations and FASTa searching, and it is run on a Debian OS with 4 core 64 bit machine (or other 3 configurations) performance need to be measured on a representative workload.

But what I was getting at is that those scores are non-toy like and important for PR purposes. And as you said, they represent how active or caring the community is (and how sensitive it is to its _perceived_ performance).

So kudos to Rust community!
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Or the JVM. Many languages compile to it, even some with their own interpreters (one example: Ruby). Or the Erlang VM (Beam). There is at least Elixir that compiles to its bytecode.
Still, many people work better with short term milestones. I would wager that making a great product is always on the top of the list. The process of doing that is what matters. If this company finds intense focus with the goal getting in the summer batch, I'm all for it.
You are 100% right, I totally forgot about that, but at least I got the 8 bit external bit right. Thanks!
There's a bunch of replies all over this thread that are almost comical examples of HN users trying to rebut the positions of people they agree with.

I don't know if that's because internet commenters in general just use the preceding comment as a springboard to jump onto their own soapbox, or if HN users are particularly bad at reading and responding to the content of a text (while loudly denouncing such worthless literary skills).
Ask HN: How do deal with a HN-approved company that won't get back to me?
I'm at a bit of a lost. I'm not here to bad-mouth this company. They have prominent HN community members and they're hiring. I sent out a cover letter and my resume. They got back to me after two days (perfectly reasonable) and asked my work location preference. I got back to them and I didn't hear anything for a few days.

I sent another email with the same information and a new person got back to me immediately asking what days I had free in the next week or two for a chat about what they did and what they were looking for. I reply immediately and don't hear anything for a few days again.

Once more I sent another email with the same response and now I've yet to hear from them. Is this common for high-level companies. This organization has been lauded for their work and their commentary here, so as I said, I'm at a loss of how to proceed or even if I should at this point.
That's their internal network (LAN), not their web servers.
The user turned off persistence. There's no reason for a normal person to suppose that also means ignoring data that's in the system when the master comes up. The fact that the two are inextricably tied to one another in the Redis implementation is not the user's mistake.
Fixing IT – Credible or Cassandra?
But if you carry too much of it around, you're a drug dealer and the police or TSA will steal it. Kind of a downer.
But they didn't accept the package yet were still detained...

Though to be honest the whole story doesn't make sense.
It's a hard problem, but it's not insurmountable. Most places are getting these measurements by using PTP with hardware timestamping. Solarflare has NIC offerings where the packets are hardware timestamped on the wire regardless of the queueing that occurs on the internal socketbuffer with that data being available through several special metachannels.
Wal-Mart's Answer to Apple Pay Has Already Been Hacked
I know a guy who went there. It's a weird place, and they spend a lot of their time playing cowboy.
Damn... I can't believe you guys really thought that I didn't know that...

What I meant is that they don't even say 'works on Linux' like in 'they don't even cover all the most commonly deployed Linux distros'.
Computer with human-like learning will program itself
Harvard Law school is very different from Harvard undergrad. I'm sure it skews even more highly toward the rich-daddy set.
Plus if you lose you wallet, or something horrible happens when you have cash, it's gone. There is a bit of a hassle replacing cards, but you don't just lose your money.
Isn't that like saying the Swim teacher thinks every child should learn to swim? It's hard to make that "newsworthy"
I have never heard that the Perl 6 developers are teenagers. However, the truth is that Perl 6 inspiration had a lot of elements that sound... strange.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/larry_wall_perl_6/

And then there's the first moment of inspiration (in 2000, that is, 14 years ago):

http://www.developer.com/lang/perl/article.php/3076571/Perl-...

"An hour into the discussion, around the time most people nod off in any meeting, Jon Orwant (the reserved, universally respected editor of the Perl Journal) stepped quietly into the room and snapped everyone to attention with an entirely uncharacteristic and well-planned gesture. Smash! A coffee mug hit the wall. “We are *@$!-ed (Crash!) unless we can come up with something that will excite the community (Pow!), because everyone´s getting bored and going off and doing other things! (Bam!)” (...)

Within a few hours the group settled on Perl 6, a complete rewrite of Perl. The plan wasn´t just a language change, just an implementation change,or just a social change. It was a paradigm shift. Perl 6 would be the community´s rewrite of Perl, and the community´s rewrite of itself."
Google’s New Computer with Human-Like Learning Abilities Will Program Itself
Surely you are not claiming that there is no possible connection? if/once the Drupal Web server was hacked, the hackers could not possibly have served malware to admin users, or reached into other machines?
There has been some really interesting work on distributed streaming queries for monitoring/diagnostics eg http://p2.berkeley.intel-research.net/papers/EuroSys2006-deb...
Show HN: ZombieRun – retro platformer that brings back sexy to local co-op
I have now finished 2 years of hard work with an indie game called ZombieRun.

Game description:

After a massive apocalyptic thunderstorm you find yourself in the middle of a dark graveyard with two hungry zombies drooling over you. It seems that the thunder wasn’t the only thing that hit the world while you were out. Do you want to know what it was? It’s time to act fast, stay alive and get to the city for some answers. That’s where it all begins - it's you, your fast reflexes and guns against all the dead lurking around.

The game features classical weapons, gang of living dead and superpowers. Yes, you have SUPERPOWERS! ZombieRun has addictive single player mode and awesome local multiplayer games. Up to 4 players can play at the same time in either single screen co-op mode, where you have to work together as one or split screen competitive mode, where everyone's running for their lives. And also there's the Battle mode where players can blast at each other with what they've got.

ZombieRun has controller support, so you can dust off the old joypads.

ZombieRun requires a graphics card with OpenGL support and JRE 1.6 or later.

Announcement Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-vWPXxtevE

You can get ZombieRun from http://zombierun.eu

All feedback and comments are welcome.
Google Releases Material Design Resources
This is a solution desperately searching for a problem. Exactly what Steve Jobs warned against in developing technology.

I personally can't care less about modularity in a phone. Would rather have a 1mm thinner phone over any sort of modularity. Almost all modules can be added wirelessly, unless they are latency-sensitive or very high bandwidth.

Additionally, due to economies of scale, it may make sense to integrate a module that's extremely useful to only a half of the population in every device manufactured and that may still be a net win economically.
Reminds of Seymour Cray's response on being told that Apple Computer had just bought a Cray to help design the next Apple Macintosh, and Cray then commented that he had just bought a Macintosh to design the next Cray. - http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/seymourbio
London police trial gang violence 'predicting' software
Probably did the one line patch?

There was a one line patch that fixed this particular bug. Probably a lot easier to apply that than to do a full core update to a bunch of sites.
Clickable links
Announcement Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-vWPXxtevE

Webpage: http://zombierun.eu
Just because you have not found vulnerabilities, it does not mean they do not exist. This Drupal vulnerability sat there for a while before a security code audit found it.

What are you using to build sites now? When was the last time the codebase was audited by a security firm? There might be bullets out there for you...
You mean solve the halting problem? That would be impressive.
Arduino Materia
The B-52 is just as old, and is expected to have served for almost a century once retired. It's not the same as rockets, but "oh it's old" isn't as compelling of an argument as failure rate, which - how many have there been using these engines?

Is that data available?
Awesome effort and always great to see Atlanta on HN! Thanks so much for sharing this, can't wait to pick it up and give it a try. The demo was one of the best presentations I've seen in a while.

Minor nit - I went to check who was behind it and the https link in the footer hangs, http://dunktank.co works fine though
It's kind of funny, looking back at that age, how unreliable machinery was, how famous aviators disappeared all the time. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who wrote Terre des Hommes and The Little Prince, was another who went away.
AMA with Samuel Hulick (Founder of UserOnboard.com)
I replaced Wordpress with a home-built solution that is drastically simpler. It retains most of the URL compatibility so links wouldn't break, but it has only a tiny fraction of the functionality of Wordpress (most of which we didn't use anyway). It's entirely possible that our solution has vulnerabilities (though we designed it with security in mind, and the code base is much easier to audit due to its simplicity). But at least it's not going to get compromised due to a generic Wordpress exploit.
Antares has a maximum payload of 6000kg. This is roughly the same as the launch mass of the Apollo command module, which weighed 5500kg. To rescue the command module in an emergency, Apollo missions had a 4200kg launch escape system. So we might expect a escape rocket to cost Antares almost half of its payload capacity.

Furthermore, adding a launch escape system would mean adding parachutes and flotation to a payload which otherwise doesn't need it.