skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mark Cuban has been a long time supporter of Objectivism, its not surprising he'd be dead wrong on a lot of basic political and economic commonalities.

As an example a quote from Objectivism's Founder:

"[The Native Americans] didn't have any rights to the land and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using.... What was it they were fighting for, if they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their "right" to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or maybe a few caves above it. Any white person who brought the element of civilization had the right to take over this continent."
So wait, is piracy hurting artists or not? I always have trouble remembering which argument is being invoked to justify "taking stuff for free" this week.
fewer women, actually. is that biological, too?
What would be some of the better alternatives for doing indoor location? It'd help me a bunch to see a few examples, as I was previously thinking of beacons for this purpose.
This is the correct answer. Source: I am a FB employee.
Lollipop Factory images released
It's execution, which I did mention as their strength.
Yes, compilation can be represented as a sequence of term rewriting rules applications. But it does not make much sense to think of the ASTs (i.e., terms) as flat strings, hence, regular expressions (or Markov algorithms in general) is not a very suitable idiom here.
thanks for the answer!
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Dropbox isn't in my office although I really like Dropbox. However, legal compliance is important in an office environment and Dropbox simply does not provide the necessary data privacy to store business secrets or staff records.

Sorry, Dropbox.

(Yeah, alternatives are a problem: Wuala is dying and Spideroak isn't much better easier. Tresorit might be a future alternative but in spite of having their current version published as 2.x, they have still some way to go …)
Bringing west coast hidden cash to the east coast -- love it
Fuse Powered Announces the Acquisition of Corona Labs
"If you tell the truth, you never have to remember anything." -- Mark Twain

Don't sweat it.
Science these days is mostly done in institutions of higher learning, where 1) it is a pretty rigid process with slightly counter productive incentives (publish papers! Any papers!), and 2) it is available only to a select few who've made it through a rigid and ivory-tower-esque formula (i.e. the universities themselves).

I think that's a big problem, and one that makes the self esteem issue worse (if you don't fit the formula, you'll feel inferior).

I always wanted to be a scientist, but then gravitated towards entrepreneurship because it's less rigid and defined.
Thanks!

(Why isn't Telegram featured?)
> BTW, the box you put these drives into must have ECC RAM. Without it, expect corruption.

That's a rather strong statement to make.
"The frustration here is that search, apps and HTTPS traffic all represent different types of readers arriving at The Guardian for different reasons — and not knowing that data hurts the Guardian's ability to serve those readers relevant content."

I think they meant to say 'relevant advertising' there not 'relevant content' as the content should, in theory, be the same regardless of how you got there. The interesting bit is that I've seen advertising contracts where you can't advertise with unapproved networks on a referred link from a Google SERP. Only on the second click can you do that pop-under or egregious flying frisbee ad. So if you are trying to be 'safe' you don't do any of that nonsense if you can't tell the difference, and I'm guessing that cuts into revenue.
Sweden, where the sun doesn't shine enough to induce a great deal of natural vitamin D production, might not be the best place for such a topic with so many contributing factors. Vox could have written a very interesting article about how to read individual medical studies, the limits of statistics and specific populations, and many other things. But sadly, they did not.
My colleagues at Shopster [http://getshopster.com/] are implementing really awesome indoor navigation project with 300+ beacons installed in largest Russian mall. See demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAM4bJst2Jw

And yes, we built custom beacons on top of OpenWRT routers & USB dongles –> hence high frequency updates, high power & no battery dependance. Also we built a mechanism that allows us to update majors/minors/uuids so that no external party can use our beacons.

Battery beacons are only usable for a couple toy usecases in my opinion.
I canceled my Prime Subscription.

- I couldn't care less about the video offer - and it is mandatory, useless, unusable and increases the price

- I don't care about 'bonus' features I didn't sign up for. I signed up for (mostly) free shipping

Given that, I am happy to leave that service behind and if shipping becomes to expensive I might reconsider the default 'go to Amazon and check there' behavior.
Glad to hear this but it shouldn't have been necessary in the first place. The outcome was obvious.
The amount they deserve.
You don't have to use JSX with React. You can just use plain JS.
I created such news aggregator a while ago and I use it every day. (time / facebook likes) + mark bubbles that are in my hashtags.

Check it at:
http://daaaily.com
Seems like such a great Community program to raise money for helping save those adorable Puppies. Love it!
> But I honestly can't help but feel we've reached pretty close to the bottom of that slope. In the sense that I feel like our government just kind of makes stuff up as it goes along and only occasionally responds well to the strongest forms of shame.

In 2010 the Obama administration added an American citizen (Anwar al-Awlaki) to the CIA kill list, circumventing all due process. In a year they were able to strike and kill him with with a drone. They also hunted and killed his son, a 16-year-old US citizen, a couple of weeks later.

The Obama Administration, when challenged, claimed that it has the right to kill in 'dire situations requiring an immediate action to save lives'. However, they were not able to provide, for al-Awlaki or his son, evidence that there was such an immediate threat. First it's an absurdity because they hunted him, and had him on a kill list, for a year. Furthermore, the US had tried a drone strike on al-Awlaki before but missed. In this case there is no question that there was no immediate threat.

Finally al-Awlaki is not known to have participated in any violent action. Rather he was a radicalizer. As an imam, he preached about Islam and about the West. He was popular online (some called him the 'Osama Bin Laden of the internet') where he would exercise free speech (however extremist) but US government partnership with online companies such as Youtube were able to mostly silence him.

al-Awlaki's father even tried - before his son was killed - to get him removed from the kill list. But he was blocked in court.

You mention MLK. There are some parallels - his carrying a radical message and evangalizing others, and his status as a religious and spiritual leader. I do not mean to draw equivalence - only analogy.

Because I wonder what would happen to the next MLK. If al-Awlaki is any precedent then I worry that our guarantees of a fair and speedy trial - jury of peers and all of that - won't be respected when it isn't convenient.

As an addendum I'd like to note that we're seeing more of this. Snowden is allowed to come home and face trial - on the condition (imposed by the US government) that it is not a trial by a jury of peers.
Dropbox lied about their access to your documents. Dropbox disabled password authentication for their entire system for a bit, by accident. I'd say that makes them worse than competitors. The whole Ms Rice thing might also make it worse for some people.

We should be using Tarsnap. If only they had a windows client (which I use as a hypervisor, as it has better power and driver support on laptops).
Or, to put the cat among the pigeons, maybe don't bother voting.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-04/five-good-r...

http://www.dukechronicle.com/blogs/bigblog/posts/2008/11/03/...
I honestly think this is ridiculous. Sure, this is an incredible feat, and congrats. But serioulsy, I would be ashamed to publish such unreadable code under my name.

What about naming your variables with descriptive names?

What about extracting complex conditions into well named function to understand what is going on (thus defeating the purpose of the "4 functions") ?

This list could go on forever...

Writing software is not a contest for who can write the most amount of code in the most cryptic way.
Prices in SF, LA, SD all move together with the economy but increases in SF have outpaces almost every other city. This has been going on for decades and hard to see on your chart as differences in price changes are compounded up over the years. 50 years ago prices were much closer together today they are far apart:

Avg $/ Today (Trulia)
SF $854
LA $478
SD $355
Forget Starbucks... the master of mobile payments is Safaricom's M-PESA.
I already see a compilation of all seasons, just click a certain magnet link and you're good to go.
An impressively simple solution, although as described it is so obvious I'm not sure if it is patent-worthy.
The variable names thing really annoyed me too - a habit of code golf, and people who were originally trained in an old FORTRAN edition that had a 6 or 7 char limit on names.
What actual MAC is that?
> Writing software is not a contest for who can write the most amount of code in the most cryptic way.

It can be: http://ioccc.org/
privacy and secrecy are one problem with those, but why do I have to manually put relevant files in special-sync folders?

btsync makes more sense to me
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Are you really talking about a fixie, or just a single-speed bike? A fixie has no freewheel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-gear_bicycle
> gravitational pull of Pepsi

Is this an actual design document or just satire?
You really think Google would take an unpublished manuscript from someone's GDrive and put it in their bookstore?
People Who Work in Tech Are Investing Better Than Their Friends in Finance
There is a youtube video from a google engineer that talks about their backup.

Your data is (supposedly) encrypted with your private key. They can't guarantee that all copies are deleted, but they can (at least in theory) delete the key to make the data inaccessible. Whether you believe them or not is a different story...
I assume it's a minified version of the other C compiler in his Github account, which does have better variable names and some comments. https://github.com/rswier/swieros/blob/master/root/bin/c.c
> Of course they could, because you gave them a license to do so.

No you didn't. Like I said, they explicitly say you retain copyright control. That trumps any implied loss of copyright control.
This is one parenting technique that seems to be a part of a lot of different parenting classes, philosophies, &ct. but is, IMO underused.

Most kids crave attention from the adults they look up to. Merely paying attention to something and expressing an interest can be hugely rewarding without needing to praise.

The flip side of this is why parents who have busy schedules for one reason or another often have kids with behavioral issues; the only reliable way for the kid to get attention is to piss off their parents.
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OneDrive on Windows 8+ requires you to use an MS Account for your entire Windows session. So I'd have to pick a short password and do smart card support to use it. That's some pretty lame and obvious forced integration.
From the comments: "This could easily be rephrased as people working in bubble industry outperforming those not working in bubble industry before bubble burst."
Implicit to your comment is the assumption that "going into science" = "becoming a physical sciences professor." This is unfounded! Only a really small minority of STEM majors (aka 'kids') go into academia! The number of industry opportunities for students (at all levels: undergrad to PhD!) in STEM majors is orders of magnitude larger than students in non STEM majors.
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Same. I was so confused because I thought these comments were in reaction to the top comment.
I think that your model is correct, but I think that it's possible to add a few simplifications.

If the speed of sound is ~5m/s and the feather length is 0,2m then the time to for a signal to travel from one tip to the other is ~1/25s. That is approximately one frame in a standard camera (PAL/NTSC). So if they are using a standard camera, it's possible to assume that the drop signal travels almost instantly.

The system is totally overdamped, so I think that it's better to model it as a movement in a fluid with hight viscosity (like a spring inside honey). If you drop the acceleration term and you get

2ζω.D[x] + ω²x = 0

where 2ζω/ρ is something like the apparent viscosity that see a barbule moving inside the "fluid" of the other barbules.

The solution is

X = A exp(-ω/2ζ t)

So the relaxation time is ω/2ζ. When it's overdamped the system almost don't oscillates. Watching at the video, after it falls 1-ball-diameter the barbules reach the final position. I guess the ball is ~0,3m, so I guess that ω/2ζ ~= Sqrt(2h/g) = 0,8 seconds ~= 20 frames in a standard camera. But I have not idea about a sensible value for ζ.
> to fight terrorism

Most of what the NSA does is geopolitical in nature. They are barely involved in CT activity (they do only minor amounts of CT).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8370973

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8264533
If you replace 'sexy' with 'viable', this could make sense for pure sciences. Given the size of a student loan it can take to pay for a degree (especially if you need more than just a Bachelor's), pure sciences could be losing some kids to engineering over potential salary. Those kids would still fall within the scope of this article though (STEM in general).
Professional programmers actually receive quite a lot of compensation, though.
New ultrasonic imaging tech fits in a smartphone
We're unlikely to ban TechCrunch, but are happy to change urls to more substantive articles when you and other users point them out.

(We changed the URL from http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/04/google-launches-managed-ser...)
If you actually want to do this, get a RAID 1 NAS like the Synology Diskstation 214 or 214+, stuff a couple 4TB drives into it, and then additionally set it to periodically auto-backup the valuable bits to Amazon Glacier.

This ends up being a good bit more expensive, but you'll actually have your photos in 10 years instead of having just a dead hard drive.
Sounds like the right mixture of security and usage (cmdline tools like in Docker) and LXC.
Does anybody have any recommendations on how to manage LXC before LXD? LXD can't be the first approach to make usage of LXC and manage connections easy. Played with LXC, liked the concept and hated the iptables NAT thing... not really user friendly. So kudos to LXD!
Just remember everybody: nuclear power is super safe! Luck is a fucking super-duper strategy for not having nuclear accidents.

Construction was well under way when Sir John, the director of the Atomic
Energy Research Establishment, insisted the filters be installed.

"He saw that if there was a fire, which was probable, there would be no way
of stopping radioactive dust escaping into the atmosphere," his son said.

Because they were last-minute additions, the filters were placed atop the
two 360ft (110m) tall chimneys rather than at the base.
[...]

They were roundly criticised by the engineers building the nuclear facility.

Engineers, who had been told by the government to make the UK a nuclear
power by 1952, nicknamed the filters Cockcroft's Follies, mocking them as an
expensive piece of pointless delay.

However, as one of Sir John's physicists Terence Price said after the fire,
"the word folly did not seem appropriate after the accident".
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-29803990
What other cities are they coming to? How much cash are they hiding?
Pretty damn impressive.

Though I must wonder: how complete is it? What does it and does it not support? It's at least complete enough to be self-hosting, but beyond that? The code doesn't use that much of C.
Great post! Looking forward to the next one!
That's not a real thing, right? I missed this joke?

Is marketing really that utterly laughable?
Thanks.

So, how much does the 4PB of data go down to when it goes into hive? My guess would be something like 200TB.

Is it zipped (or lz4/lzo/zopfli/lzma whatever)? Or is it just "distilled"?
I see this sentiment elsewhere in the thread, but my thinking upon reading the article was that these children are not just abandoning science research jobs by quitting science, but also relatively well-paying jobs in fields for which science is prerequisite -- medicine, engineering, etc.
Is it me or is Ubuntu kind of like the Sony of server software? It always seems like they are developing concurrent solutions to fit into their model of doing things.

Where Sony pushes their own special formats like Memory Stick, Ubuntu pushes Upstart, Juju and now LXD. I think in the end this isn't entirely helpful to the ecosystem as a whole when you have Ubuntu attempting to push their special formats of things while not bringing all that much more to the table. The question of how systemd compares to upstart might be something to consider with my upstart comparison, but essentially all I see from Ubuntu is pushing their brand of tooling and most of it is very Ubuntu specific.

On the other hand RedHat usually releases software that can (and usually does) make it to other distributions and ecosystems. I'm not entirely sure what LXD is going to bring to the table beyond what Docker or similar utilities offer, and like many Ubuntu projects it currently seems to be VERY light on documentation. Actually, where do I even access the documentation for this project? Oversights like this are what killed Juju or MAAS for me and yet Ubuntu pushes those projects like crazy at every conference I've seen them at (Gophercon for instance).
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You're making it this big societal argument. I agree that what you are talking about makes sense. It's why we don't allow child labor, for instance.

I'm questioning whether Uber is one of those situations. I don't think you're making it clear that it is, so much as that those situations exist. Which I don't contest.
I don't think so; https://docs.python.org/3/library/dis.html#python-bytecode-i... was the closest I found when I was writing a compiler for a subset of Python, and that doc was a little sketchy and out of date. I ended up consulting the CPython source a lot and reading some helpful blog series:

http://docs.python.org/devguide/compiler.html
http://akaptur.github.io/blog/categories/python-internals/
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/python/pyt...
http://tech.blog.aknin.name/category/my-projects/pythons-inn...
http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/category/python-intern...

Also Python 2 comes with a 'compiler' module which reimplements the built-in compiler in Python. (The real one is in C. The Python one was dropped from Python 3.)
It deserves it as much as iMessage, doesn't it?
how/why?
> ... then turn 180 degrees so that you are between the phone and the beacon. Apparently you've moved 45ft.

Why don't you fit the beacons on the ceiling?
Oh, finally I can finally get off the buggy Android L preview!

EDIT: It seems that only Nexus 9 image is published.
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Unfortunately, I cannot compile it on my OSX 10.10... here's what I get: http://pastebin.com/cVvaYFEH

EDIT:
just make next() function void and it works.

EDIT2: still no fortune :(

$ ./c4 hello.c
[1] 33920 segmentation fault ./c4 hello.c
I almost stopped reading the article after the sentence, "A self-esteem expert offers a way out of the conundrum."
I should have. This is psychobabble rubbish, written by people who have not done science, and who do not know the life histories of people who have studied science to any degree. The main encouragement I had from my parents was to visit the library. They definitely discouraged me from taking apart the blender and refrigerator when I was in the 3rd grade. They did eventually buy me and my sisters a radio shack computer; there was no special encouragement for me to hack assembler as a kid, but I did, and my sisters used it to play video games. Curiosity comes from within. The blank slate theory is as rubbish as the theory of reincarnation.

I share your two hypotheses to the point I consider them ansatzes. Most of my peers have Ph.D.'s in hard sciences or engineering as I do. Most of them wasted their time on their thesis research; it's just a certificate meaning "certifiably smart, persistent, and able to do self guided study." I don't particularly regret getting my underwear drawer liner autograph from the governator. It was a poor financial decision, but I had fun playing with big toys, and it provided enough meaning to my life I avoided ending up a glue sniffer or drunkard.

Attempting to convince more people to do this is a fool's errand: we can't even employ the ones we have. I've been lucky in that I have mostly worked on interesting things and been reasonably well paid for it, but doubling or tripling the number of science people in the world is foolish unless you give them something useful to do. My last job hunt, I ended up talking to an awful lot of people who thought a good use of my time would be building data pipelines to some Hadoop atrocity. You don't need a Ph.D. in physics or machine learning to do that. Yet a lot of Ph.D. types are doing this sort of plumbing for a living, because there are not enough jobs doing actual science.
You're right - antenna placement is super important with any real-world practical implementation. However, placing them on the ceiling/floor is not always an option.
I strongly dislike Facebook the product, and to lesser extent Facebook the company, but I'm continually impressed with Facebook's approach to engineering in the open. I find this an interesting dichotomy. Would I want to work there? I still don't think so, but my opinion on that front is getting less strong over time.
And indeed, that is how TCC http://bellard.org/tcc/ began its life http://bellard.org/otcc/
So it's like a Mitch Hedburg joke? "Yeah this program has been audited by the world's best cryptographers. They said not to use it. " The EFF is doing everyone a disservice by taking such a stance.