skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. This is actually a good thing about the electoral college - it decouples the states and tells us what to do when we've got a pile of plurality votes from Wisconsin, instant run off votes from Florida, and range votes from Rhode Island. Imagine trying to pick a winner from those otherwise! You're still faced with finding a majority of electors, which repeats some of the same issues, but as I understand it could involve conversation - which enables deliberate avoidance of some failure modes.
a ploy to get developers to disable their ad-blockers in hopes of getting a foobar invite? :)
Mithril.js: A Tutorial Introduction
I would love to read more articles by Maureen Dowd about her experiences using ridiculously large amounts of any substance she's unfamiliar with and then quietly freaking out in her hotel room. The article you reference was unintentional comedy at its finest.

"Fine Scotch critic Maureen Down drinks 750ml bottle of Macallan 18, concludes alcohol should be illegal"
Designing a Secure Service
I always thought these attempts were interesting, because the patterns depend completely upon the visualization implementation and not directly on the pattern of the prime numbers. Is there some way to find prime number patterns without depending on a specific visualization?
Nope. You gotta build a reputation if you're doing anything with Bitcoin these days. We've had years of amateur hour and it almost always ends badly. There's no way you can guarantee a return of 5-10%. There's also no way anyone responsible is going to let someone else control their btc unless they're naive.

The only safe place for your Bitcoin is in your own wallet.
Can't daughters play football too?
At least according to Wikipedia, this connection of foo bar and FUBAR is plausible but not proven. You forgot the 4th basic one, "qux" btw.
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This is a valid point, but there is another interpretation that once technology advances to the point that its pure magic to the general public, the general public can no longer have an intelligent discussion about the morality of their vacuum cleaner, they have to go all mythological, which occasionally is going to look pretty comical to the enlightened non-general public.

Or another way to look at it, is enough technological progress and specialization results inherently in a fragmentation of what morality means because the concept can't fit the same way in everyone's head (square peg round hole). Its a natural result that some fraction of the population will just meaninglessly babble while other fractions laugh. Its possible to interpret this has already begin with respect to evolution, geology/age of earth, climate change, stem cell research, euthanasia, gay marriage, etc...
Right on, but tiny correction - 12.04 has over two years of life left, not three.
The President Might Have Just Saved the Internet
Oh awesome. Never knew that even existed! Still though, I hope they fix inspect element on right click.
Plasma moves along magnetic field lines. Which is a really important part of how plasma containment works in a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor's. Also, these features are mind bogglingly big and gravity is only 28g's on the surface of the sun. http://www.thesuntoday.org/solar-facts/how-big-is-the-sun/
The History of Internet Copyright Rules and Why You Should Care About It
> Current Version: 2.0.0

> Previous Version: 11.10.348

I see GitHub is utilizing lexicographic semver.
I really liked the examples, but I thought the flow of this "tutorial" was a bit long.

I also think that Mithril sacrifices too much readability for terseness.
Audio-synthesis has been using these kinds of technologies for decades. Its not unusual for synth/audio-processor manufacturers to make their own custom ASIC's, FPGA's, even small-quantity chipfab runs, to provide their IP to the customer. Synthesis is very promiscuous in this regard; you can make sound with a surprising number of things in the universe.
How We Build Prototypes Fast
​Darpa Wants to Build Flying Aircraft Carriers
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>he did in fact violently and tragically kill somebody

... by hanging. Which, I believe, is why they take your shoes... because you can hang yourself with the laces.
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Aka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

The 'enables new opportunities that were previous infeasible' component is more exciting. But generally, I think most of it gets swallowed up in more of the old.
SOAP itself is not pretty, no wonder there are no pretty and simple SOAP wrappers. All you can get is some automagic generators that nobody has a clue how actually work.
Anecdotally: My 12-year-old daughter uses her phone to text friends and her Android tablet (Nook running Cyanogenmod) to read books from the library in the Kindle app. She's constantly dragging around a Chromebook because "it has better speakers" and the folding screen doesn't need to be held to show YouTube videos.

The 10-year-old daughter (not old enough for a phone (for us), reads paper books) drags around another Chromebook for YouTube and writing.

The 8-year-old son uses a Kindle Fire tablet to play games and read books we've bought.

We replaced the iMac in the kitchen with a Chromebox and that's been hugely popular. The old iMac was six years old and very slow.

My 10-year-old has had some trouble at her school because they use MS Office and she's not used to having to save her changes. She's written 6730 words in her story for English class since the start of November in Google Docs and we transfer it onto a flash drive so she can take it to school.

My wife and I have MacBook Airs but I would find it tempting to replace mine with a new Toshiba Chromebook (1920x1080 IPS screen for $330) if my MacBook died today. I'd like shell access without necessarily needing root access. Trying shell access meant flipping a switch on the Chromebooks that brought up a scary warning every time I opened the lid. This was a couple of years ago and I hope things have progressed.
He didn't say he didn't like git; he just said he prefers Mercurial.
This degrades pretty quickly, however. Only 581 of the first 1000 numbers generated by that formula are prime.

11 also works initially as a constant, but it degrades even more quickly than 41.
Erasure coding (Reed–Solomon coding) in Go
Love that last paragraph.
I believe he is using the term "bullshit jobs" to mean jobs that are pointless, produce no producivity and are mainly created for the sake of appearances. In other words, the administration and civil servant jobs that you refer to. Jobs such as farm laborer jobs may be boring and tedious, but since they are very clearly productive, are not "bullshit jobs".

This term comes from the anthoropologist David Graeber in his essay 'On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs' (http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/).
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We wear a lot more clothes to the sales here, which is a good thing because we are in far worse shape.
Most utilities are private companies that essentially get fixed profit. Essentially they operate on a cost-plus system.

That was how telecom was run in America for 50 years and it didn't work out. These sorts of companies aren't innovative or efficient.

Any investment in new upgrades would require a public utility commission to approve a rate hike. Guess what, the public isn't going to support you raising their rates for faster internet.

Maybe it is the way to go, but you gotta be damn sure they do it correctly the first time. Because you won't get upgrades.
I'm sorry, I don't see those in any way the same. In both of your latter examples there IS a judgment being made by a form of AI someone built, there's a question there of someone building a tool that can act and decide things on its own. The roomba and the vending machine don't decide anything, they're just extensions of a human making a decision. That's not "robot morality" any more than it's "sword morality" or "hammer morality".
Modifying an Off-the-Shelf Wireless Router for PDF Ballot Tampering [pdf]
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5 Mistakes we all make with product feedback
Say I lend 1 BTC to a borrower and that borrower defaults on his loan. Your FAQ says:

> In the event that external markets are not able to fulfill the order necessary to close out such positions, TradeMore will act as the counterparty to cover losses.

Does this mean that you will return the entire 1 BTC to me as the lender?
No, it's just utterly nonsensical.
You're right that among the safest places for your bitcoin is your own wallet. An even safer option is cold storage, using Coinbase, Elliptic etc. But the success of BTCJam and others suggests that individuals are willing to trade-off return for risk. Our model is very different from BTCJam, in that your bitcoin does not get sent to a borrower's private wallet. Bitcoin users by their nature are early adopters and interested in new ventures and new companies. We have users lending through us who have been burned badly before, but still want to try out our new service. We work hard to be as professional as possible and use industry best practices, including margin calls; stop-loss trades and a significant capital buffer. But if you're really worried about 'amateur hour' then that is fair enough - we'll try our best to convince you otherwise, but it's your money.
Sometime before that, I'm guessing in about 3 years +/- 6 months, the capacity+performance advantages of flash will reach a point where spinning disk doesn't make sense, volumes of flash being ordered start to accelerate, spinning disk volumes plateau, and investments in developing the technology adjust accordingly (more investment in improving flash, less in spinning disk)

I would be willing to wager that new models of laptops in 2020 with spinning disk will be uncommon, and, by 2023, except for niche verticals. basically non-existent. Same for Desktop 2 years later in each category.

2025 will mark the end of consumers buying spinning disk.
Wow! Best lineup EVER!
As a lender, may I use the service anonymously? Or do you require KYC account verification?
About the rotated animation: The image source is the SDO satellite, which happens to be standing on its head while orbiting the Earth. So, its raw images already came in rotated by 180 degrees. (Well, within 1 degree of 180 anyway -- determining the precise angle is rather difficult[+].)

I get the feeling that the person who made the video did not know this, and just made the video by linking the still science images, which are freely available.

To anyone who is used to solar imagery, seeing the Sun rotating backward is very disconcerting. To a real specialist, seeing that particular AR upside down is also disorienting.

[+] You can't find the Sun's equator or poles very accurately, so I think the instrument team used the transit of Venus (possibly Mercury) between the camera and the Sun to establish the angle calibration.
That was one of my early thoughts about automated cars: Will we see wildlife return to some areas in greater numbers? Even a small decrease in say mountain lions in LA killed by cars might cause a large increase in breeding over a few years.

What about areas with a lot of deer? Might they become even more overpopulated? Will more starve? Will they be driven even further into settled areas?

Even small changes in the number of deaths might have notable effects.
The Hack Transpiler: Run your Hack project on a PHP5 engine
More than API changes
What do you think happens once Internet access becomes a "utility"? Do you like dealing with the utilities you have now? Everywhere I've lived, "utility" implies:

* DMV-level customer service

* Delayed capital improvements (single tree branches falling in alleys routinely knock out power for as much as 1/5th of Oak Park)

* Opaque pricing

* Utterly baroque billing (I've had power cut twice due to billing SNAFUs)

Much more importantly: who knows what the Internet is going to look like 15 years from now? Regulating an industry as a utility retards investment by capping the upside.

I don't like the idea that Comcast can favor Amazon over Netflix and do think there should be some lightweight regulation that prevents anticompetitive collusion between providers and networks. But Title II is a pretty scary regulatory regime; it gives the FCC control over product packaging, pricing, network interconnection, and customer dispute resolution.

It does way, way, way more than just protect Netflix.
Why is Symbol== slower than String==?
Socrates: This writing business 'Will Hurt Society in Long Run'
An app that  breaks the reality and fantasy boundary
If your chair can speak? If your dog can say? If the past ones can talk? Curious what are their responses.

Here comes XiXi, an app for you to find out the answers!
When I made the decision for my shop, we chose Ubuntu because of the guaranteed support cycle. Debian's support windows were too short, and we need to be able to plan years ahead of time for when we must spend the time to upgrade the OS. It takes a lot of testing and tweaking, and Debian didn't give us any certainty beyond a few months out. Ubuntu gives us a five year guarantee (and they've been sticking to that for six years now). That allows us to be a lot more confident about making plans for the next year or two.
If your chair can speak? If your dog can say? If the past ones can talk? Curious what are their responses.

Here comes XiXi, an app for you to find out the answers!
I know several researchers there who're working on it. It's for real. It's risky and ambitious, but it's a real, serious project (with tons of sub-research-projects, as you might imagine for something that requires multiple hardware advances and software advances to achieve.)

(source: I'm a cs professor at carnegie mellon, and I was just chatting with some of those researchers at OSDI.)
Are you sure that it's a massive pay cut for Taylor Swift, or is it just less money going to the point-of-purchase and the labels?

Further, I wonder what time frame this would no longer be true. Seemingly+, the $12.99 album on iTunes is a 1-time purchase. If someone listened to 1 TS song every day for a year, that's $3.65. Somewhere around 4 years is the break-even point in this admittedly constructed argument. My point, however, is with streaming we have to reference a time-frame, because I'm willing to be over a thousand year period the streaming model is more lucrative. (Think about how much software has switched to a SAAS, aka streaming, model... granted, many differences surrounding IT support and upgrades, but I'm not trying to draw a close analogy...)

+ outside of the record industry's desire to have consumers re-license the music for every different format that comes out...

EDIT - formatting
I really think this glamourises weed, and moves us towards a point where there will be companies marketing weed at us.

We need to stop throwing people in prison for using heroin and cocaine. But if the only alternative is to put someone in the business of getting people addicted to heroin...Well, why should we accept that dilemma?

We need to find a third way, in between drugs being illegal, and them being a marketable product like any other. And shit like this isn't helping.
This is kind of game changing for internet access in developing countries!

I'm originally in Iraq and when $#it hits the fan, the government turns of Internet! Now Imagine if one of these babies could talk to a V-Sat and broadcast even when there was no local Internet!

There are just so many great uses for these Micro-Satellites.
Bazaar is really simple to use, though. If you know Git or Mercurial, you can learn it in 5 minutes, since the concepts map 1-to-1 and the commands are sensibly named.
Found this description, on ESA website, for an old SOHO picture taken around 304 Å :
"304 Å : spectral line emitted by ionised helium (He II). Corresponding to a temperature of about 60,000 Kelvin, emission in this line shows the upper chromosphere of the Sun."

That gives another meaning to the expression "hot like HeII" ... sorry ;)

(but apparently it's less hot that the pictures in 94 Å linked to emission of Fe XVIII with temperature of about 7,000,000K)
I know someone at HP who recently got a job on this project. So... it's not a lie?
This is a dodge. Every family would see some economic upside from the universal deployment of fiber Internet. But upper-class professional families would see more upside than working class urban families. As a subsidy, universal fiber Internet is regressive.
Don't most of those points apply to Comcast and T-W right now?
It's not nonsensical, but it is a random collection of facts with no explanation. The article doesn't even attempt to answer the obvious question: what changed? Why are they successful now?
Not in Iraq! But I bet people would still give it a shot!
wow! that is a great idea:)
A great comment on this from Jets linebacker Bart Scott back in 2012, "“I don’t want my son to play football,...I play football so he won’t have to. With what is going on, I don’t know if it’s really worth it. . . . I don’t want to have to deal with him getting a concussion and what it would be like later in life.”

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/26/bart-scott-i...
R is now the 12 most popular programming language
I think n² grows quadratically rather than exponentially.
Eh, "Rose Bowl prank" and "eliminated program" seem to be on about the same level, with "Beat UCLA" perhaps a trifle more impressive?
You're assuming that's the only thing it will ever do. Just because you saw that particular code doesn't mean that's the same code served for every possible user.
Here's a (very contrived) example of what I think you mean.

Here's a container interface. It has a sort() method, which sorts the elements of the container.

Here's a different container interface. It's got a method that tells you what kind of concrete container you have, so you can understand how expensive actions like insert and sort are going to be. But the author was from England, and so called that method "sort".

You can see how that's going to (fail to) work out when you define a "sortable" interface...
My friends' Roomba often seemed like it was trying to kill itself. I've had to untangle it from its perils far too often to think its an accident. Nothing says "maybe we should move to the country" more than a robot trying to persistently kill itself with whatever macbook cables it can find, ingest and use to flip itself over, grinding over and over on the insulation until it finally gets that .. one .. last spark .. it needs to end it all.
Seriously, happens often.
A bit of an ominous sign, isn't it?
I meant that the canonical quicksort algorithm which Hoare came up uses in-place partitioning. Probably you can still call "quicksort" to these nice snippets (be it in Prolog, Erlang or Haskell), but mentioning the fact about the deviation from the canonical implementation could be useful for readers.
Virtual reality movies are coming–and they’re going to be crazy
> Pachyderm will eventually be a complete replacement for Hadoop, built on top of a modern toolchain instead of the JVM.

Is the JVM legitimately not considered a modern toolchain? I understand the benefits of leveraging Docker, but this comparison seems short-sighted.
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It's a bad implementation of it, see jmount's comment.
Whenever you get concerned about this sort of thing, just look at the Netherlands for an example of how you can have a very public marijuana culture that's still quite small. Usage rates are the same as elsewhere.

It's just not an actual problem. By all means, forbid advertising like most places do with tobacco. But there's little harm in it becoming a legal commercial product.
My suspicion is that the HN traffic has overloaded their backend.
Does it help to imagine it's being read by John Oliver? There's a heavy dose of self-deprecating humor about Americans prizing university athletic performance over academics. "Yes, yes, 80 Nobel Prizes, blah blah, but congratulations to MIT on doing something that's finally important: winning at American football."
::blush::
Here's a very beginner friendly guide on git and Github. It's for people who may have never used version control in the past: http://www.gotealeaf.com/books/git
Hi deweller. Yes, in the event that a borrower defaults we will use our own funds to repay you. Obviously, this requires you placing trust in TradeMore, but we will work hard to win this trust. One option is to start lending a small amount through us so that you can see what using our service is like. Full disclosure: we do not return lender funds in certain 'force majeure' events, such as a number of exchanges being undermined or entering bankruptcy. Hence, your funds are more secure in your own wallet or, even better, within cold storage. But if you are interested in earning a modest return on your holdings you might want to give us a try.
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Comcast is god-awful. Just abysmal. Priced terribly. Performs terribly. Wildly uneven customer service, including overt dishonesty.

But having just had the experience of getting an account up with them at my new office:

Having AT&T available as an option solved virtually every one of my problems, from pricing to installation dates. "AT&T says they can do XXX". "Comcast says they can do YYY". Worked great.

I do not in reality have that option with regulated utilities.
Except that clown makeup patterns are considered a form of trademark among performers, and are registered with Clowns International by painting them on goose eggs, or egg-shaped ceramics. It's very bad form for one clown to design a look that is too similar to another.

I suppose if an enterprising performer designed a character-type clown based on a caricature of hipsters, they might all look like that particular clown, but I don't think it's fair to slight a profession that encourages authentic individuality in that way.
That's just FUD. Net Neutrality has nothing to do with the government controlling the content on the Internet. It calls for the Internet service to be classified as a common carrier, as the phone service has been for decades. I don't see anyone concerned about the government interfering with their freedom of speech over the phone.
This. I was about to bring up the Anadigm source and then saw the date. Not sure why this is news since there are products in the market and demand scale has not surfaced to help ramp up the supply availability and product variations that could make it a healthy market.
Nobody in their right mind uses AKS for primality testing. You use Miller-Rabin with an appropriate constant number of iterations, with complexity (log n)^(2 + o(1)). Or if you want provability, you use some fast variant of ECPP with (log n)^(4 + o(1)) complexity.
Amazon Cloud Drive Gets Its Own API
There are a lot of pieces to the prototyping; this post is by Andrew on prototyping the bluetooth with the RFDuino. The hardware they built is a dream to work with.

Feel free to ask questions about our prototyping process. We're excited to share.
Treestyle tabs like layout by default.

Seriously, FF without treestyle tabs IS NOT USABLE, and treestyle tabs breaks now and then in Aurora. Having such a layout actually being supported would be very nice.

As a long term Aurora user, a working profile switcher that actually respects resetting the default profile to the usual one would also have been nice.
If it's an upside for everyone, how is that supposed to be regressive? Is tourism regressive? Or libraries? Do you have any examples of a tax payed for service that is somehow totally equally spread in it's helping of people?
Well, most items I've ordered get here in a month or slightly under, with a couple having arrived in 1.5-2 months.

That said, I live in a country in the European periphery, so you might get better luck if you live in the US.