skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in agreement that the NSA shares certain characteristics with the Stasi - spying on its own populace is one of them. I also get it if you don't differentiate between citizen/non-citizen in terms of targeting. Heck, I'm with you in regards to (most of) what I believe to be your position.

However, your tone and word choice, along with the hyperbole of your statements, serve to weaken your point.

The Stasi created a culture of fear in the populace of the nation they were supposed to protect. They used the citizenry against itself; fathers doubting children, wives were suspicious of neighbors.

German citizens and residents found sufficiently undesirable were imprisoned or executed by the Stasi.

While the US has committed some terrible acts abroad in the name of anti-terrorism, I still contend there is a significant difference between the current NSA and the Stasi.

It's similar to how I object when people equate the US internment of their Japanese residents with the Nazi Final Solution. Similarities, sure. Both awful, sure. But there is a difference between immorally and illegally imprisoning people based on race for a few years and trying to wipe an entire race from the face of the planet in a systematic and sick environment.

Anyone who conflates arguments like that sound like they're shouting with an agenda, and it only serves to weaken what would be, in a more measured tone, a strong argument.
Not really, Flash hit a wall recently and price stopped falling rapidly. Only Samsungs V-NAND has a chance of competing with HDDs on capacity, and its still very costly.

Problem with Flash is the more you pack in same volume the more of it comes out bad, while the rest is fragile ticking bomb.

Replacing slow, but reliable HDD with 100 writes limited flash is not the answer.
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This makes it look like the sun is rotating. Is that true?
> visible light pictures

I don't think it's even physically possible to capture the sun that close in the normal light spectrum.
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Maybe I'm still very rudimentary, but as a beginner trying to understand git off and on for the last few months, this is still too advanced to understand up front.
You didn't read my comment carefully. It's an upside for everyone, but it's more of an upside for rich people. Just like the "Bush tax cuts".

Examples of progressive public services? Public schools seem like a pretty good example there.

It is a fine thing to have an upside for everyone even if rich people get more of the benefit. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Art Institute; these are good things. The problem happens when we use public funds to finance them.
Since last year, I have tried my best to avoid any drink that comes in a plastic bottle and as well as saving me a decent amount of money, I feel much better about not adding to the obscene amount of waste and the fact that when i do have a drink out, I am helping independents too rather than fueling the corporate monster..!
I noticed that comparing sequential mod N (1260, 1261, 1262) you can see the composite lines rotating (which makes sense because the lines follow the 2s, so a mod of a number makes the 2s on each line be 1 or 2 pixels apart the lines appear diagonal.)

This isn't a huge insight, but it does feel like a jumping off point for looking at the patterns -- a sort of lattice or baseline by which to compare the rest of the static.

This app makes me happy. :-]
The amount of such concern trolling is immensely out of line with whatever the threat is supposed to be. Makes you wish some of that concern would be applied to other already-existing aspects of our society.
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Ulam's spiral is fascinating, too. I've recently discovered this excellent prime number distribution visualization page, which combines the general idea of Ulam's spiral with other things: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jhw/spirals/
This is a fair criticism and I think we used unclear phrasing here. It's not that we don't consider the JVM to be a modern toolchain in general. Rather we think it's not a modern toolchain for implementing MapReduce because it forces users to work in a JVM compatible way. Docker is a better solution because it gives users the freedom to use what they're already using.
Na, virus already hide both on disk and in memory.
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Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C++, C#, Haskell, Python, PostGIS, Modeling and Simulaations

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rjsxg7xfo2gwjvt/resume.pdf

Email: sizemore.gregory@gmail.com

I am a programmer with mostly backend type experience. I've worked on scientific simulations in C++, and data visualizations for those simulations. I have experience in Geospatial Engineering. Most recently I've been doing DevOps for a successful private stock trading firm.

I'm looking for both challenging problems to solve, (there's nothing like the thrill of getting an algorithm figured out,) and somewhere that I can work with smart, talented, people that really want to succeed together. I care less about what domain I work in, since I love learning new things (about pretty much everything; seriously, we live in a fascinating world.)
Have you considered doing some freemium model? So maybe the base code is open source, but the modules for decoding some protocols cost money?
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I did back when I used emacs in Windows ME and XP (yeah, long time ago, happy non-Windows user for quite a few years)
Right, thank you!

Traditional (but even more contrived) examples include "draw" and "fire" doing unexpected things when applied to a gun as opposed to an image or an employee.
So where's the downside to the current munincipal partnerships areas like Kansas City have with Google Fiber?
So maybe we just have to figure out the right redirectUrl?

I imagine that when you login with the right user account a different redirectUrl would get passed back.

I see no way of finding that out what that URL is though, short of someone who has access to the puzzle posting it.
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Awesome, this is going to make it much easier for lazy people (who are used to git/like git more than other options) like me to contribute to emacs.
What? The cleaning lady and the bus driver create more value for society than almost anyone.

The problem is only that their contribution is not properly valued.
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You are quite right. The charged particles in the flare are following magnetic field lines, which run (typically) from one point on the Sun's surface, up through its atmosphere, and then back down to another point. The diagram you linked illustrates this very well.

There is one other wrinkle, which is that the video shows only a relatively narrow frequency range of light. The full list is at http://aia.lmsal.com/public/instrument.htm ; the video was made from just one frequency band from that list.

Each band is sensitive to plasma within one particular temperature range. So, as plasma heats or cools, it can disappear from the image even though it is still there.

By combining the information from the various temperature ranges (i.e., various frequency ranges) you can reconstruct heating/cooling of packets of plasma as they travel through the solar atmosphere. The ranges were chosen to sample about equally in log(temperature) -- rightmost column of the list above.

The reason this is so important is that the temperature of the atmosphere increases dramatically as you go up, and we don't understand why. This is the "coronal heating problem" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona#Coronal_heating_problem).

If you look at the video, you could get the impression that the pictures are just giving a visual impression of where flaring is happening. In fact, because of the sampling process described above, they are used in a quantitative way to initialize 3D magneto-hydrodynamic models so that the flows can be modeled and predicted. It's embryonic weather forecasting, but for a different atmosphere.
Do you have a Github link? Or can you post back here when you're finished? I'd like to see the final result :)
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Are the current munincipal partnerships with Google Fiber worse than the current totally private run ISPs?
They could rename to DesktopD :)
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Bottled water is so expensive. Really adds up quickly. Never order it at restaurants. Tap water please.
Aren't sunspots darker than the rest of the sun in visible light? Must be because the output has all shifted to UV.
If places sold an empty bottle for 5c or whatever that you had to fill up by yourself at a tap, then that's what I would buy.

Sometimes you're out and you want something to drink but you don't have a container, bottled water is kind of an obvious choice. All the purity shit is just capitalist competition in action. And I still don't understand what is worse about it than bottled Coke or whatever.
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Non sequitur. Google Fiber is also not a Title II service.
Here's one study that shows vaporization reduces the amount of toxins released versus regular combustion: http://www.cannabis-med.org/data/pdf/2001-03-04-9.pdf
Can you elaborate on Japan's century? I'm a native Chinese holding opposite opinion from most of my peers back in China. So I think I know China enough. I'm curious on the Japan part. Most Chinese today are too stupid to take Japan seriously. And they only have the chance watching a balloon become bigger and bigger. I understand Japan has its own limitation, though. Thanks.
It's an amazing thing, this living in the future.
High Maintenance is absolutely hilarious. I implore you guys give it a shot.
Nice. It work as advertised. This is going to make my WhatsApp-addicted extended family very happy!
Looks like we're still on 7.3.1. I don't see anything in the release notes for more recent versions about syntax highlighting, but they might have snuck something in, or it could be a dependent package change.

25k sure is a lot of money. Then again, can you put a price on the frustration of developers used to working with something better? Maybe.
i've had the same thought, but I dont think theres anything wrong with the fact that patterns are only noticeable in a certain visualization. A pattern in a decimal number wouldn't be discernible in another base for instance. Its may just be that finding the right visualization might be the way to discover new insights.
Doesn't this approach make users send 1GB+ Docker images instead of small 5-10MB .jar files?
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This is a really nice, extensive guide. However, I think when introducing Git and its internals for the first time, it is essential to use graphs/diagrams. This tutorial doesn't have any which is its biggest shortcoming. Regardless, I would still recommend this tutorial to friends.
I don't think you read mine either. We already do that, we already use public funds to pay for things that do, or have the potential to, benefit the rich more. Besides the fact that there's no way to actually prove paying for bradband with taxpayer money would disproportionately help the rich, should we audit every single tax-payed-for entity to make sure it's perfectly fair?
This type of work makes me wish I were a mathematician instead of a programmer.
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Here is a hack I've found to steer focus away from depression. Whatever your goal is, you have to begin with an understanding you are going to fail. So you won't be depressed since you already know that you are failing or have failed to begin with. Hence, you can focus on the right things to not fail as much. This would help you keep your feet on the ground so you can act small to do things that matter. It may sound silly but, at least, it may help you stay focused.
Woah! That is cool. Thanks for sharing.
Over a year I started the process of convincing the people I needed to at my job (Federal, Non Defense/Law Enforcement) to get an instance of Github Enterprise installed. Though it took a lot of time and effort, I managed to get both the approval and funds needed for a small scale - 10 user - install (on my 3rd try, gov't is really against change).

Our current "enterprise" VCS is PVCS (so old I had to look it up). The idea was to get github installed on a small scale, gain support and extend it to the entire agency over the course of a couple years. Everyone who deals with PVCS wants git, but the management don't care to put in the effort to get it initially, so gaining the support would be easy.

A couple months ago, the entire thing collapsed on my face and we went with gitlab instead. Why? Because github's sales team f*ed it up. Apparently, the $5k minimum order was too small for them to care (at least that's what my side says). Too bad, I really wanted to get them in the door.

I'm sure it's just a bad egg in the sales, but seriously there are some people trying to fix/modernize gov't tech from the inside and thing's like this don't help. I guess my only recommendation is that if your company usually sells to private and the gov't asks for a small-sized purchase please be flexible. The guy who caused this request to happen has likely been putting in a huge amount of effort and has larger plans for integrating your service over time. The person who is contacting you is not that guy, has no idea what your product (or any tech) is/why it matters and is usually doing the originator a favor.
Yes, for details see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_rotation
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What about people that uses Google Apps accounts? Are they subject to this (corporate)? What about people just use those accounts personally for their own domain? Are they out?
The sun rotates on its equator once every 25 days.
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No? How about we just think carefully before plowing money into obviously regressive services that the market is already providing?
It's a well-known fact that New York City tap water is delicious, even compared to other municipal water supplies.
What? I'm not saying that broadband access has to be a Title II service, I was just refuting you saying that the current privatized system is better than a utility/munincipal solution because you had a choice between two providers.
I well aware of the prevalence of the technologies you list in the synthesizer industry, but custom ASICs or FPGAs are quite obviously not the same thing as FPAA.
Yeah and an impending CHina Banking bubble/collapse [1]

One of the most chilling quotes: (Paraphrased): "China has managed to recreate the entire US banking sector, which was built over the last 100 years, in just under a decade"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXb0F4sbOVg

This video is crazy
I know expecting rigorous science from an entertainment program is always asking a bit much, but the Penn & Teller gourmet-water prank always struck me as flawed given the social dynamics at play. Most people in that situation are going to feel some social pressure to acknowledge some sort of qualities in what they are being served, whether from fear of appearing unsophisticated or simply out of a desire to be polite, even if what they're drinking does consciously taste like tap water to them.

Personally, while I don't buy any branded, single-serve waters, I do actually buy gallon jugs of house-brand "drinking water" from my local grocery store for the taste. Whatever minerals they add "for taste," I prefer it to tap or even spring water.
If only there was some sort of blockchain technology that allowed us to declare ownership over things and used algorithms and cryptography instead of policies and lawyers...
OK, now I understand. It may be possible to muck things up if you've got two different types (from different packages) that have the exact same signatures for all the functions defined in the interfaces.

It doesn't seem like a high probability that this would happen on accident, though it might be possible to contrive an example.

I'll have to think about that.
the UI is very nice... where did you find 50 million primes?
https://github.com/chrisdavies/primepattern/tree/master/sets

I found them: https://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/millions/ He says: Usually it is faster to run a program on your own computer than to download them.

Here in numpy:

import numpy as np

N = 1000000

n = np.arange(N)+2
p = []

while(len(n) > np.sqrt(N)):
p += [n[0]]
n = n[np.where(n% p[-1] != 0)]

print len(p), N/np.log(N)
Github source: https://github.com/chrisdavies/primepattern
"The simplicity of these parameters gives the NSA / NIST very little wiggle room to create a deliberately bad curve. And even the specific values of 0, 7 and 977 can be justified by security and efficiency constraints, so the chance that Bitcoin’s elliptic curve parameters were chosen with any malicious intent is very low indeed" [1]

[1] http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7781/satoshis-genius-unexpected-w...
Run Emacs through Cygwin and Flyspell works just fine.

I doubt ESR is posting from Windows anyway.
Looks really promising. I think i will give it a try. I am currently using a combination of Markdown and LaTeX (Markdown with embedded LaTeX expressions for math, compiled using pandoc [1]). Do you have any concerns regarding stability or output quality precompiling this combination with PreTeX? In other words: Does PreTeX only precompile statements surrounded by "$" or "$$"?

[1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
What is Alibaba's take from those sales? Is it a straight percentage, or scaled based on the vendor's volume?
But the parent's point is that this internal data structure is irrelevant to the absolute beginner, who is trying to figure out how to use git, as opposed to figuring out how git works under the hood. It is great that the internal data structure is fairly simple, but that does not necessarily mean it should be brought up so early in tutorials. It can be a turn off to people who are learning version control tools for the first time.
> To me, it is one of Git's strengths, that it's internal data structure is simple enough to describe and understand

I find it's _not_ simple enough to describe and understand, and that it almost seems _necessary_ to know it, which takes up cognitive attention/space. I feel like it's a failure of design (poor abstraction, or simply bad engineering) that these sorts of introductions are rehashed over and over and over again. I suspect Git is only popular because

1) Cult of Linus

2) Github

Otherwise, there are other capable more pleasant tools to use...

edit: formatting, s/Linux/Linus/
I can't understand the argument you're making here. The problem with Title II isn't that Title II is intrinsically evil. It's that Title II is a regulatory regime similar to that of a public utility. Like most utility regimes, it gives regulatory agencies influence over pricing, product packaging and availability, implementation/delivery, and dispute resolution. I don't understand the logic of a rebuttal that says "OK, skip title II, and just treat ISPs like utilities".
Hm. I should credit the source... Will put that on my todo list tonight. I transformed these into JSON: https://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/millions/
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Hopefully y'all can help me, objectively, think through this.

Here is a primer:
I just got a job at a startup (around ~50 employees) as a Support Engineer. This is my first job at a startup, and I took a decent paycut (~20k). I rationalized the paycut because 1. I didn't like Pittsburgh and wanted to move back to Colorado. 2. The company seems like it has potential for growth/it seemed like fun work. I also made sure that the person hiring me new that I was a little uncomfortable taking the pay cut.

Fast Forward two months:
According to my immediate boss and the c-level people of the company I am "the best new hire" and that I am "learning the stack at an impressive rate". I am no longer playing the role of 'supporting engineer' they are now having me work on two seperate web-apps and doing some pretty hard ad challenging stuff. WHICH IS SICK! I love that aspect. I don't mind working 70 hour weeks because the problems are so interesting. I expect to get a raise at some point, but hey it's only been two months.

So what's the problem?
I got my first bonus yesterday, and in my contract my 'max' bonus is 4k paid quarterly. I received a 200 dollar bonus... I haven't had a chance to talk about what's up with the tiny tiny bonus, and I don't think i should for a few days because I am steaming. After all of the positive feedback I was expecting close to 80%-90% of my max bonus, but instead got under 50%.

What gives? Am I justified in being angry? How should the conversation with my immediate boss go? How would you deal with this situation.

edit: The role of a support engineer was basically to talk to clients and help them with integrating with our software. My role is now developing RoR apps ~25-40 hours a week while still doing the the role of the support engineer.
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Agree that diagrams would help clarify some points. I was a bit short on time for this so I thought that only using git outputs could be enough; I will try to spend some time to incorporate some illustrations!
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My, admittedly simplistic, understanding of why we age is that there are two factors at work.

First, DNA gets corrupted as our cells divide. This leads to cancer.

Secondly, in an effort to prevent cancer, cells divide slower and slower as we age, leading to slower regeneration.

If we can somehow solve cancer, we could use telomerase to encourage cells to divide faster.
I mean... yeah if you start from the assumption that universial broadband access is regressive then it'd be a bad idea but that's making a massive assumption with only one outcome

1.) The market is already providing those services in a terribly inefficient and inadequate way that places the US at a massive disadvantage to the rest of the world which is already light years ahead of us in broadband access

2.) The current system is vastly more disadvantageous to lower income people who can't afford the ridiculous pricing models ISPs provide
No it is real, however there is another rule called trademark dilution. You can't use someone else's ubiquitous trademark, even if it is totally unrelated.

You could call your store Gnome Bikes, but you can't call it Google Bikes. Google is too famous and too unique.
Still like this as an introduction to git:

http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/

"no deep shit"

The guide that OP posted is great, but once I see a wall of text in table of contents, I'm instantly turned off. Again, maybe most people will have a better attention span than I do, but some of them will not
IRC with an HTTP portal hosted locally would be a bit more friendly to non-IRC expecting types.
I buy 36 bottles of water from Kroger at around $3.50 (plus 7% taxes). Taking one with me on my bike every weekday means they last around two months, at less than $2 per mo.

(Yes, I know it's better for the environment to save plastic. Kroger bottles are not as bad as others, as they feel as thin as a plastic bag, but still I plan to eventually phase them out, but not because of the $)
School: Chicago; year: 1939; achievement: eliminated program.

We do take it as a point of pride. We also had the first Heisman winner ever.
> or to allow officers to use judgement as to when someone needs to be restrained heavily.

With great power comes great responsibility.
Yeah. I thought about shrinking the dataset down to 10k primes instead of 1m primes, as the patterns would still hold up, but the load/rendering times would greatly improve.
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