skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um. Last year, I re-read Gibbon's Decline and Fall, and my favorite chapter (written in such a funny way!) is his detailing how his wife was having sex with everyone under the sun, and everyone in Rome knew it. Except for Marcus Aurelius himself; he lived in such a bubble, he couldn't see the reality in front of his nose. He was so unable to teach his son, Commodus, that when his son became emperor... well, Commodus turned out to be one of the most cruel and evil emperors in the history of Rome.

This made me question the "wisdom" of his Meditations (which, as a kid, I loved reading and whose advice I used to love): knowing this is how he lived and ruled and raised children, and those were the consequences... are we sure it's good advice? I'm not anymore.

Text here:
http://sacred-texts.com/cla/gibbon/01/daf01013.htm
You're right, the implications are huge.

Unless these advancements are specifically designed to put full control in the hands of the owner of the vehicle and no outside intervention possible then your fears will most certainly come true.
Hello, newly-registered US cyber command account.
I agree, you can call it cellular automata if you want but it is false advertising to draw any comparison to Conway's Life. Still, it is fun an interesting but I would have found it more compelling if it didn't have a random component. That's part of the magic of Conway's life that complex results arise out of simple, deterministic rules.

FYI: There have been many competitive versions of Life written over the years. Here's one: (Life As War)[http://www.ctrl-alt-dev.nl/Projects/LifeAsWar/LifeAsWar.html]
Agreed 100%. Suster is way off base here with his conclusions. Any investor worth his/her salt will need to review basic financial info before putting money down.

If you can't trust an accredited investor with your financial data then don't take their money.

And if that investor inappropriately divulges confidential information, then take it up with a lawyer as it seems the company in question is in the process of doing right now.
Can we trust web journalism?
This looks really cool. I haven't tried the pour-over coffee, yet.

Still using a french press. Other members of the family are using a cheap-o single cup generic coffee maker (the drip kind). I have tried the coffee from both (both take different grind sizes obviously) but depending on type of coffee one can be better than the other. Sometimes it is just different. The drip one tastes almost closer to a cold brew, which I also like.

It seems pour-overs is a realtively new trend. It used to be all about french press, then aeropress became cool. That "vacuum thing" was cool for those willing to spend more money and time. But in recent years I started hearing about pour-overs. Is it just a matter of a cool ritual, or does it do something different to the taste?
I really saw mouse movement and url typing, even though it was only a few seconds.

I raised the issue with them back in July 2013, but was initially brushed off. A couple more aggressive emails and they finally responded after 2 weeks saying the issue had been solved.

Haven't had problems since, but still wary..
> Nim supports direct access to the AST so macros can be used to define new programming constructs like in Lisp.

Nim macros can't modify Nim's syntax.

That constraint makes perfect sense for Nim but not Perl 6.

> ANTLR

ANTLR has switched from LL(star) parsing to what they call Adaptive LL(star) for v4. P6 Rules have been what Larry has called "LL(star) with kludges" (by which he means the same thing) for about a decade. So ANTLR has caught up with that aspect and indeed ANTLR v4 is nice tech.

But P6 Rules are built in to P6. Its grammar is defined in P6 Rules. User code can modify the language on the fly by modifying the rules. Java (or whatever) + ANTLR is nothing like Perl 6 and Perl 6 Rules.
If you (with some care) tried against your own instance, I don't think it would be too stupid. At the very least see if there is something listening on port 5901.
Undoubtedly custom per client, they only have 'get in touch' contact as an option
It's extremely easy to fake. I sell you a backrub for 10.000 dollars and after that I buy one from you for 10.000 dollars and we've now in 10 minutes boosted our GDP with 20.000 dollars.

I didn't want to sidetrack my comment by getting into PPP and other adjustments[1], but suffice it to say that economists have been aware of these issues for over a century.

We are too focused on optimizing, when a lot of what it means to be a human are things that shouldn't be optimized. And secondly, long periods without productivity may actually be the foundation of later quality. And you can't optimize these unproductive periods.

Even if your hypothesis is true (which I doubt), it still makes sense to measure and improve leisure. I think the old quote from Steven Levy's Hackers[2] is worth remembering:

At one point in the discussion, Sussman told Minsky that he was using a certain randomizing technique in his program because he didn't want the machine to have any preconceived notions. Minsky said, "Well, it has them, it's just that you don't know what they are." It was the most profound thing Gerry Sussman had ever heard. And Minsky continued, telling him that the world is built a certain way, and the most important thing we can do with the world is avoid randomness, and figure out ways by which things can be planned. Wisdom like this has its effect on seventeen-year-old freshmen, and from then on Sussman was hooked.

Our time on this planet is short, and there are no do-overs. There are certainly diminishing returns to improving aspects of one's life, but giving little thought to them or leaving things to chance is a great way to ensure we don't make the most of it.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer...
Sometimes letters are things we don't really see when we read. But it's really an art. I'm always reminded of that when I see such beatiful calligraphy or some nice typeface. Writing can be an art..
Non-white, I take it? What was the proffered rationale, if any?

Even in Japan, I'm pretty sure that principal was way out of line, but it would certainly take way longer than 28 hours to do something about it.
If it's used for a website, it's redundant.
If not, it's inaccurate.
i tried to address this concern in the reply above, but i wanted to mention i like your use of ""s,
i felt dirty, and considered and reconsidered multiple times the verbage, saying 'psuedo gravity'

i like the idea of gravity perhaps being an effect of inertia due to centrifugal forces, caused by the spinning and orbiting and expanding and mass of objects in space, stead it being it's own agnostic 'force'

in which case setting centrifugal force and gravity as separates would be incorrect, and the ""s wholly necessary
There are already alternatives to Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft. After reading several pages on their web site, it's not clear to me what this organization wants to do that's new and different, or what the money they're trying to raise will actually be used for (staff salaries? hosting expenses?).
PG wrote a great article on bloggers being more honest than traditional publications - all mediums are prone to sensationalism http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
The secret? it's just an elasticsearch instance ;)
Man...this looks like insider attack. This much targeted attack is very rare to a company like this !. Hope they will resolve it as early as possible.
Fair enough. Thank you for the very thorough answer - and for saving me the effort of putting together the patch!
Sorry I didn't mean to sound like I was doubting your account, was intended as a confirmation of your sightings!

It's just as probable that I connected in while the users were idling.
I suspect people who regularly do 'novel' drugs are a long way from a representative sample. Ideally you want to test as close to a clean slate as possible.
I think a VC/founder review database would be great. http://www.thefunded.com/ is a good start, but doesn't seem to get many updates.

I'm an angel investor and a VC, and I feel handicapped when I don't get information on how a company is doing. It's the founder's decision whether they want to share anything with me, but in general, the more context I have the more helpful I can be. I think limiting information to investors lowers the risk of information leaks by a little but also lowers the utility you can extract from those investors by a lot. Also, to be honest, I think leaks of non-financial info can be much more damaging than leaks of financial info.
We're having trouble getting it right still - that's what it says to me. The proliferation isn't going to stop anytime soon.

If you're doing a simple system, it's really fine to stay with the old server-side rendered techniques. Otherwise, just pick one based on a few hours of research -- any of the front runners is going to be a good enough choice. (Angular, Ember, React)
I use self-hosted GitLab. It's very similar to GitHub, but our company has full control and ownership over our code.
It's always fun the first time. Good luck.

Some notes from my experience implementing AP:

- Easiest way to support scaling out is pre-sharding an entire database at the beginning, so there will be no need to ever reshard it. Like have 16 shards spread manually across all nodes and put into configs which nodes synchronize with which. Once you add another node simply move some shards to that node and be done with it.

- Synchronization is easy with hash/Merkle trees but they don't need to keep in-memory hashes of every single record or recalculate them on insertion or deletion. Instead every time new record is inserted its hash should be added arithmetically to the one stored in particular leaf. Same on deletion, but subtracted arithmetically. No scanning of other records for no reason or anything like that.

- Jitters are super important. Synchronizing data or doing anything periodically will cause lags if you forget to schedule at random times.

- Also, don't forget that random disk accesses are slow and organize your data in such way, that disks are read sequentially for most of the bulk access patterns, like during synchronization.
Yes, but relevant given recent events:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8580131
Could you post the entire raw message headers? Interested to see if it was sent from Amazon simple email service.
I'm not sure it's that simple. For example, you push code that breaks something. You have two options (after rolling back the code of course,) you either try to accomplish what you were doing in a sufficiently different way that you think it will avoid the problem (essentially the random guessing strategy you mention, but with purpose), or you try to dig into the problem to understand it enough to fix it at the lowest level of abstraction where the issue is introduced. Both strategies can work. In certain scenarios however, the former can be much, much quicker to enact, but you won't walk away with much reusable knowledge beyond the "the doctor says don't do that" kind.

I tend to attempt to just "go around" problems in the quick manner if I have the intuition that there is some top level fork in the road I can take, and that anything I am to learn in the process of performing proper diagnostics has minimal liklihood of being useful or reusable, and is not just some mindless incidental complexity of the task at hand. It's hard to be 100% correct in this prediction, often things like that in the OP can result in unexpected useful knowledge, but I think you can do better than random at guessing if it will be the case. I think part of the skill of being an engineer is learning what issues are worth tackling head-on and need to be understood deeply to insure against future peril, and what issues should be simply maneuvered around without much understanding.
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> This happens to the best companies and nothing much can be done about it.

I agree with the first half of your sentence, but not the rest. A lot can be done and many companies do.
Australia's darkest hour.
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Show HN: IMDB for YouTubers, online database to add your casts and crews
New version? A reminder they are still making them and improving on it?
This article is interesting but evil. It got my upvote, but I hope the Windows team disables the loophole in the next release.
Seriously, how could ex-employees be so ignorant though? They are going to get taken to court, and rightfully so.
I feel like mining the text of Erowid/Bluelight/Longecity could be interesting... from a large enough corpus you could probably figure out some differences in pharmacology between a few related compounds. And maybe get some adme/tox info as well.

As for actual experiments, liability would be a nightmare... maybe someone in Sealand/North Korea/etc could administer a framework where they mail you samples+instructions and you send back a daily questionnaire or something
I liked his answer. Transcript:

Q: Can you please never release an album on iTunes that automatically downloads to people's playlists ever again? It's really rude.

A: Uh, oops! Um, I'm sorry about that. I had this beautiful idea. Got carried away with ourselves. Artists are prone to that kind of thing. Drop of megalomania. Touch of generosity. Dash of self-promotion. And, deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into for the last couple of years mightn't be heard. There's a lot of noise out there. I guess we got a little noisy ourselves to get through it.
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/01/07/guinea-pigging
How prevalent is repetitive stress injury among musicians, especially pianists, harpsichordists, etc..? They regularly press two or more keys at once all day long.
No worries!
Just pointing out the fact that they didn't seem too worried about the issue when first notified, and I really had to press to get some attention.

Pity I wasn't fast on a screen capture!
Right, Apple is the one who should have shown a little class and taste. I've learned not to expect that from Bono or record labels. But Apple should have realized it was a bad idea. Or at least have made it optional.
It's made for astronomers, but I use it for photography, especially helpful for locations that's frequently foggy (e.g. San Francisco bay area). UI is a little lacking but info is rich and a godsend, very thankful that this exists. Wish there's an API for it...
French press makes coffee that's way over extracted. You can get a Hario v60 for like $10 and it will change your life (well, at least you coffee habits).

Even since moving to pour overs, I rarely go back to espresso. And this is from a 3-5 double espressos a day guy.

Next, try cold filter. Wow.
Someone's WIFI connection with a modified MAC is also a good way. Just make sure it's not the neighbours WIFI.
Well, if what the perpetrator says in the email is actually true, it looks like it would've been very easy for any customer to gain the same level of unauthorized access.
How do you randomly access variable length fields in a text file and modify them and add new ones?
The biggest reason many managers are bad managers is because they haven't defined measurable goals and outcomes for the individuals on the team and for the team as a whole.

This leads them to micromanage, be stressed and every other characteristic associated with the stereotype.

If you are able to define measurable outcomes/goals - then how those are achieved really should be left in the hands of the individuals/team.

This is what makes you (imo) a capable manager.

If you want to take it up a notch, learn how to motivate them.

I highly suggest watching

a) Dan Pink's talk on Motivation for this (and perhaps also picking up his book "Drive"): http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation and

b) Simon Sinek's talk on leadership (and also picking up his book) on starting with why: http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspi....

I think this will give you a strong foundation to build off of.
What I don't get when vim|emacs user wants emacs|vim to act like vim|emacs. Why try to make one act like the other? Square peg, round hole.
i'm not sure the comparison to vc is valid either.

I've heard of people starting kickstarter campaigns who specify a lower-than-needed amount in order to gain momentum that comes from successfully passing the funding mark. However, if they didn't get to an unspecified, possibly more realistic ( and larger ) funding amount they would cancel the project. clever hack!

not sure the same this can/is done in vc..?
I don't it really matters all that much. The real bottleneck is testing it. Then worry about finding a more representative sample if it works.
You can get some idea of how this is done from the link you provided. It differs depending on the dating method, like for Carbon-14 the amount of it in the environment is pretty much constant (Carbon-14 is generated in the upper atmosphere). So you can date an organism by when it stopped taking in new carbon, i.e. when it died.

For other, longer-lived isotopes, keep in mind you are not just measuring the amount of radioactive material left, but are also measuring the amount of the daughter product mixed in some proportion with it. And the proportions in the material being dated might not be the same as what they are in the surrounding environment (in fact, can not be, if the dating method is going to work). As a simple example, you could date rocks with uranium and lead, since you would expect there to be more lead in old rocks because some of the uranium decayed to lead. However, if that rock melted and mixed with younger rocks, the proportion of lead and uranium would cease to be of any interest.
Routing data through unknown hosts controlled by untrusted public organizations, private enterprises and foreign countries, when it makes sense on the technical/business level, is what internet routing protocols are designed to
do.

That's basically what Tor does, and its users are perfectly fine - expecting that - their traffic goes through many other hosts before it reaches its destination. The reason this isn't a problem is largely due to...

This is why security should be built at the end points (namely encryption and authentication) and not assumed from the network layer.
i'd love a binary where i can have complete control of the camera in these visualizations
I'm not sure I agree -- having an alternate process for deployments in emergency scenarios is just asking for all kinds of trouble. It should be a well oiled machine that is consistent. If running the tests is part of the process, it should always be part of the process, otherwise you introduce additional complexity in trying to understand the potential outcomes of the system in unique scenarios. If the tests are slow that they gunk up the works, then the tests need to be fixed and the process changed. (Perhaps a large suite which runs nightly over less critical code, and a tight suite for mission critical code that runs pre-deploy.)
Artists are not usually prone to that - that's a total bullshit answer. Few out of the hundreds of artists I personally know & have interacted with are like that. Some even in the record industry itself (one has a Grammy).

Then again, it's not surprising that he'd be full of himself.
This is perhaps a bit off-topic but,

>after all, the company is fresh off a hack that allowed strangers to steal, view and share nude photos of famous actresses from iCloud accounts

Why do people still parrot this line? Unless I missed some later revelation, this was barely even Apple's fault. They may have had some subpar security practices, but it's not like their system was utterly compromised like this makes it sound.

I'm not an Apple fan, but they don't deserve the ignorantly parroted line that they let celebrities phones get compromised. And I would especially expect more from the New York Times. That statement is almost libel.
Is it a red pill?
I guess that's the death knell for browserstack :-(? I am always worried that something like this happens to all those cloud providers out there...
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Great question!

In a nutshell, it's because we choose minerals whose crystal structure can only bond with the original element and not with it's "daughter" that's produced after radioactive decay.

For example, Uranium/Lead dating of zircons is one of the most common methods (particularly for very old rocks). There's a reason we use zircons for uranium/lead dating, and not just any mineral that contains trace amounts uranium.

In zircon (ZrSiO4), uranium can (and does, in small amounts) substitute for zirconium in the crystal structure and bond with the silica tetrahedra. However, lead cannot bond with the silica tetrahedra in zirconium's place. Therefore, the zircon crystal structure "rejects" lead, and any lead in the crystal lattice at the present day must be the result of radioactive decay.

If we know the rate of radioactive decay of the uranium isotopes in question (there are two uranium isotopes that decay to two different lead isotopes), all we need to date the rock is the present-day ratio of a particular uranium isotope to the corresponding lead isotope.

In practice, you also exploit the fact that there are two uranium isotopes that independently decay to two different lead isotopes. This gives two independent dates, and disagreements between them can be use to test for contamination, etc. (There are also a few other checks I won't get into... I'm not a geochronologist, and each different isotopic system and instrument used to measure it has slightly different protocols. Reality is messy, but this gives the basic picture.)
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this is that point where i get frustrated i can't post animated head-explode.gif's in HN.
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Stephen Fry's Message on GNU's Birthday
Rather than intentional deceit, this is likely their standard down-for-maintenance page that just hasn't been updated to reflect the current situation.
Here come the articles:

http://www.neowin.net/news/browserstack-a-browser-testing-se...
FYI, the default terminal for Cygwin these days is mintty, which supports 256 colours.
Steel burns without oxygen at 4000 degrees.
It doesn't take 'infinite complexity' [your term] to encode the natural numbers. Rather it is only a handful of axioms. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_recursive_arithmetic

Pretty much any system of logic worth looking at (including any which the sciences may be based on and the one running inside each human brain) is going to at least be as complex as this set of axioms.

Also, you really should read the JR Lucas material-- it explains this. And, I'd suggest Nagel & Newman's _Godel's Proof_ for a great introductory explanation of the Incompleteness Theorems.
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If you were fearing irrelevance in the eyes of your fans (especially after being off their radars for 5 1/2 years) and had access to a megaphone that reached half a billion potential customers, what would you do? Would the thought cross your mind at least a little?
Do you have any examples of what "non-lapidary" Hoon might look like?
An equivalent in P6:

[1,2,3,4,5] X* 2

This (theoretically) parallel processes and then puts the results back in order. The X is the cross metaoperator; it applies the following operator (the * symbol which is the multiply operator) to each of the combinations of the items in the lists on its left and right, and does so in parallel if the compiler so chooses, and ensures the results are returned as if it was processed sequentially.
So it's the same as www in front?
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If this is a disgruntled employee, this has to be the stupidest move ever on his/her part. He will definitely be jailed for this
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