skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
30K in 8 hours already :)
The Look of the Sound of the Seventies
>First, there's quite a difference between unprofitable and less profitable.

Not for fiber that was never rolled out. That can be exactly as profitable or unprofitable as you need it to be to make your point.
Here's a diagram of what happened to each company:

http://subjunctive.net/klog/images/2008/Att_history.jpg
Elements of Processor Architecture: The Hardware/Software Interplay (2013) [pdf]
No, they are seriously expanding fiber. Almost all of their new hires are trained on and working on building out fiber, and minimal resources are devoted to repairing copper. It would be a complete reversal of their strategy to stop expanding fiber (Source: my dad works there).

In that light I think this is just a rhetorical gambit, and the FCC should call the bluff.
It would be interesting to see the performance characteristics between

1) building a Voronoi tessellation from the given points
2) at each mouse movement perform point-in-polygon queries on all polygons until found
3) rebuild Voronoi as data changes

or

1) at each mouse movement calculate distance-to-point for each point
2) select the shortest
Informally the "Elvis operator".
That's almost definitely mangling of Chinese idiom puns - suffice to say they are much more succinct in Mandarin.
Interesting. I relate to getting used to it, do a fair amount of offshore fishing (very different scale I realize) and by the end of the season I have my legs under me but the first trip of two I'm falling all over myself.

I really would have through carriers with with such a depth and width would have little motion, at least near the waterline.
How do rump kernels differ conceptually from recent academic work on "Library OSes" such as Microsoft's Drawbridge or Linux based Oses such as Bascule or Grapheme?
Does anyone know how well "aligned" the texts are? It's rare to find good bilingual texts for light reading/studying.
I wrote a framework that wrapped dependency properties to accomplish things like this once:

http://bling.codeplex.com

But my feeling is that it was kind of hopeless to do in C#: it is just so different from the language semantics. Something like FRP (real FRP, not Rx) or managed time [1] works much better, IMHO, but requires drastic language changes.

JavaFX Script (F3) also included data binding straight into the language, and is probably an idea of how to do it for C#.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/managedti...
This is very cool!

As a piece of constructive feedback, consider waiting until a visualization is scrolled into view to start animation. I'm particularly thinking of the Exponentiation page. Mike Bostock wrote about this recently: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/#4
Storage Architect to build our distributed data store – TrueVault (YC W14)
Of course things get fixed. And they don't bring the system down like they do in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.
Totally counts. Wow c64 basic. And 40x25 not something you hear people say too often anymore.
AT&T really doesn't understand yet that they are a utility.
As someone who works in the film industry, Hollywood makes movies that reflects the public's hopes and fears. It doesn't do dystopia for its own sake, any more than it does mindless techno-optimism. Picking out the re-release of Blade Runner as an example of what Hollywood churns out 'like clockwork' seems self-contradictory to say the least.

On the larger question of why we don't have a lobby to fund basic research, I don't know - perhaps because nobody wants to expend political capital on research that might not be patentable or commercially exploitable, plus you could argue that private capital is already performing effectively in that area. I think it's absurd to pin the blame on Hollywood and think it's more to do with the limitations of our geographically representative form of government, which makes alternative electoral structures like party lists impossible. Probably the best hope for blue-sky scientific research is a new cold war, sadly :-(
> This is the last place where I would expect anyone to call the Y combinator too highbrow

It's not highbrow at all, that's what annoys me. I can describe in detail how code like this will translate to machine code, the operations on the stack, the flow control going on etc and think of several ways such constructs could be used to solve real problems. I can, however, read the entire Wikipedia page on 'Fixed-point combinators' and learn nothing beyond the first paragraph which describes their broad classification and properties.

Don't you consider it a had sign that the Wiki page for FPCs eventually reads "The analog for mutual recursion is a polyvariadic fix-point combinator, which may be denoted Y*." ... and when you Google 'polyvariadic' the first page of hits is almost entirely Haskell? ... oh and only ~5,000 results. Basic terminology indeed, clearly not niche gouging wankery.

In any case, neat solution to recursing in to a C++ lambda. I'm just venting generally.
Interfaces and overriding usually.
The CEO is implicitly claiming here that: a) given the current regulatory environment, the expansion would be profitable (since they're doing it), and b) if net neutrality were passed, there is a serious possibility that it would no longer be profitable.

Net neutrality does not really affect what customers pay. So, there are two possibilities here: the first is that AT&T was planning on shaking down Netflix, Google, et al for peering, in an amount large enough to make the difference between the expansion being profitable or unprofitable. The second possibility is that he is full of hot air and net neutrality would not significantly affect their profit margin.
From 2013, "U.S. To Restart Plutonium Production for Deep Space Exploration" - http://www.universetoday.com/100875/u-s-to-restart-plutonium... .

"The problem is, plutonium production in the U.S. ceased in 1988 with the end of the Cold War. ... The plutonium that currently powers Curiosity across the surface of Mars was bought from the Russians, and that source ended in 2010. New Horizons is equipped with a spare MMRTG that was built for Cassini, which was launched in 1999. ... The current production run of Pu-238 will be carried out at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) using its High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR)."
I sold my first software internationally at age 9 in 1990. It was Virtual Journal 1.0 by PunkProductions; was sold as shareware for $2 and was built in HyperCard. I recieved checks from all over, the last one I recall getting was years later from Denmark. It was a password protected, unlimited page journaling app. That was the same year I was almost expelled from Belle Valley Elementary in Erie, PA for spreading a virus across the entire district network. My next release was AOLRover - an AOL "hell" program built in OneClick. My most recent, is http://PRMatch.com - a new platform for publicity gettin'. Fun question, thanks!
It works only using a specific metallic surface.
How do you balance this with the network defense guys who want to break and inspect everything?
That's awesome. I have a dialogic card still to this day. Of course it is just collecting dust now, but up until about 5-6 years ago I was still writing code to work with them. Cool hearing from someone else who has done some of that in the not to distant past.

I don't think you missed a ton with Windows. I spent 10 years working in it (writing code for products) and finally went back to *nix and have loved getting back to it.
Maybe it took a world wide live stream audience to find enough loud people to complain about it. Not every one has an issue with his shirt. So it is not without reason to think that nobody he works with took offense to his shirt because they know him for more than his clothes.
U.S. Education Chief Should Know About PLATO and History of Online CS Education
Even with experiments still ongoing, quantum entanglement is most likely real. I think David Kaiser wouldn't suggest otherwise.

There's a real nice section in wikipedia re: the testing of quantum entanglement (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement)

"Systems which contain no entanglement are said to be separable. For 2-Qubit and Qubit-Qutrit systems (2 x 2 and 2 x 3 respectively) the simple Peres-Horodecki criterion provides both a necessary and a sufficient criterion for separability, and thus for detecting entanglement. However, for the general case, the criterion is merely a sufficient one for separability, as the problem becomes NP-hard.[59][60] A numerical approach to the problem is suggested by Jon Magne Leinaas, Jan Myrheim and Eirik Ovrum in their paper "Geometrical aspects of entanglement".[61] Leinaas et al. offer a numerical approach, iteratively refining an estimated separable state towards the target state to be tested, and checking if the target state can indeed be reached. An implementation of the algorithm (including a built in Peres-Horodecki criterion testing) is brought in the "StateSeparator" web-app."
Synthetic != fake. They're just as real as any other diamond. Fake diamonds are definitely not used in saws & drills, but synthetic ones are.
Unfortunately it won't port to IAR, which is a shame. I don't understand why pointers to labels never made it to the C spec; it's one of the (equivaling) features that actually makes assembler look elegant.
If Google and Netflix want to use all of the internet and still take all of your money, why shouldn't they pay for it? Under net neutrality they're not allowed to.
static classes and namespaces seem to have a lot of overlap now. Static partial classes can almost completely replace namespaces now.
These are pretty, but I put absolutely no faith in a "confidence band" implemented by anyone who doesn't feel a need to explain their formula. It's surprisingly difficult (serial correlation, for one thing.)
Totally agree. The browser improvements really have changed development a ton.
I dug into it a bit, and based on what I found on Twitter, the site crashed hard and the owner hasn't gotten to recovering the data yet. (He mentioned possibly having to pull it from Archive.org.)
My apologies if this is a stupid question, but in that case, how can we see it at all?
Math and Movies (Animation at Pixar)
What about three times as much on a video game nobody's heard of?

http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spent-10-million-on-a-vide...
It's a cloud provider problem, but I don't think a technology can be usefully separated from its ecosystem. The cloud can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

On a technical level, VM memory hotplug is probably necessarily slower and flakier (ACPI anyone?) than changing one setting in a cgroup.
You can add any set of impurities you want to an artificial diamond. You can also adjust the isotope ratio, but probably won't, because it does not make any difference at all.
Does this release include systemd?

ducks
Marc Andreessen submits the first html-mode for Emacs (1992)
Docker Container to Collect Docker Container Logs
Not sure if I'd say they are "enjoying" it.

I don't think Google really wants to be in the ISP business, I think they just felt that moving into it would be the best way to stimulate the existing ISPs to raise bandwidth and lower prices (on the premise that as an Internet ad company, the more Internet people consume the better Google does).

Which has worked, but only hyper-locally (eg. Comcast, Time Warner and AT&T customers in areas served by Google Fiber get much better deals from those carriers pre-Google Fiber, but the rest of us get just as fucked as always).
I really don't care. It's not relevant to the original article about the misrepresentation of science in politics, yet your derail has become the largest thing in the thread and sucked all the oxygen out of the original discussion.
A ruby distributed lock using redis
Thank you! I got the most out of this lecture because the presenter went into detail on just one thing.

I feel that almost all of the startup advice is usually more of an idea with a lot of missing details on how to apply it. And this talk showed how important the details are and how if you just take the typical high-level advice of "talk to users" there are a lot of things you can screw up.
don't we need to know the price per watt hour, rather than cost per watt?
No, his shirt wont keep women away from science.

The entire fiasco is not about science, it is LITERALLY the thing that I would want to avoid if I had planned going into this field, and I assume that women also do not want long drawn out discussions about what they are wearing INSTEAD of their impressive scientific achievements.
> It's of course that politicians are only speaking what the electorate wants to hear. Anti-science language wouldn't fly if it didn't result in votes

It's not anti-science language, per se. It's a "hey, look at this wasteful stuff your tax dollars are getting spent on," which only incidentally plays on anti-intellectual/anti-scientific sentiments in the electorate. It's hard to explain why something like this is actually a valuable use of resources, and doubly so when it's easy to characterize as a ridiculous thing.
What kind of cleaning is being done here?
I have to agree with the sibling comment here, I still have no idea what you're getting at with the Blade Runner stuff or how it ties into the rest of your point.
It seems the assertion is that there are 2 options,
1. quantum entanglement exists
2. "Some unnoticed causal mechanism in the past may have fixed the detectors’ settings in advance, or nudged the likelihood that one setting would be chosen over another."

The human brain may or not be deterministic, but it is certainly a complex system. For the results to be so consistent for the multitude of experiments that have been performed, it seems highly unlikely that #2 is the case. I think in this case it's pretty fair to apply Occam's razor.

On a side note, I hate titles for popular physics articles. The next article titles:
"5 super simple steps to splitting the atom"
"20 crazy tips for growing high temperature superconductors"
"Make free cash farming Higgs bosons"
>I know images of a bleak and soulless future rings more bells at the box office than visions of a verdant tech-enabled one.

Interstellar, I'm hoping, re-inspires some of us to dream about science once again.
Traffic on the modern internet is almost totally unidirectional: it comes from big content providers and goes to consumers. When I pay my ISP for internet, I am paying them for the service of delivering the bits from the content providers to me. The concept of Netflix or Google "using up" all the internet is incoherent, because by the definition of an ISP all the traffic they generate is going to consumers who are paying the ISP and are bandwidth-capped.

Imagine if the major postal service providers decided that, instead of only the sender paying for the package, now both the sender and the receiver have to pay, because they are both "using" the service.

I suppose there is nothing inherently wrong with someone being paid twice for the same service, although it comes across as incredibly greedy, but the end effect is that consumers pay more and the ISPs get more profit, because the content providers' costs will be passed on to consumers.

EDIT: There's also no logical reason why the content providers should be paying ISPs for peering. The reverse is equally "logical". You might as well ask why Google and Netflix aren't shaking down ISPs because they provide things that customers want and the ISP would be less desirable without them.
Wow. I remember reading about Hotmail servers running BSD back in the day, but not quite like this.

FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE is also available on these cloud hosting platforms:
- Amazon(R) EC2(TM) FreeBSD/amd64
- Microsoft(R) Azure(TM) FreeBSD/amd64, FreeBSD/i386
I've always been a proponent of autarchy in these matters, and so am intrigued by the idea of the unikernel. I'm also going to spend some time with OCaml, so Mirage looks like something that might turn out to be really fun.
Well it's just like the government inflation "measurement". Everytime it shows something they don't like, they remove stuff. I believe oil was the first "WTF", then energy, and they just kept going. You see, according to the government, oil prices high or low don't affect the lives of Americans. Not that European governments did differently. Or that they stopped there. Then housing was removed. Americans don't see their budgets affected by housing, right ? Not according to the government. (this is talking about the measures the government reports, ie. Core CPI (previously) and PCE-Deflator (now)).

I mean it's a question of degrees. Were the pre-1972 adjustments in the core CPI fraud ? No, not really. Then with oil you start to have this nagging feeling, and what they did last year ... well sorry to say, but that's cheating. That's fraud, no question about it.

And EBITDA, sure. People used to use profit, for 50+ years. Then EBITDA. Why ? Because if you loan money for paying dividends or doing share buybacks profit will drop like a stone, EBITDA will be unaffected. But hell, if they had stopped there, that would have been reasonable. But they started cheating. Then came GAAP. This was modified 10 times over the last 2 decades or so, never to the advantage of investors of course, every single time it was to make companies look better than they did. And now most companies report non-GAAP EBITDA ... Differences are such things as that in non-GAAP future obligations (like a loan that's payment-free for a year) doesn't get counted until the payments start. Non-money agreements (e.g. we're going to build machines for X, they already paid 40% of the price, but we will only start delivery next quarter), the 40% is counted, the future obligation is not.

I mean again there is a spectrum here. Profit vs EBITDA ... probably not fraud. GAAP "adjustments" ... I think we can all agree that this is very dangerous territory. Non-GAAP reporting, for me at least that crosses the line.
>As mentioned in my other reply. If that were the case, why have they just changed the method declaration syntax?

They did change the property declaration syntax too.

public int X => 5;

is the same as

public int X { get { return 5; } }

This is exactly the same change they made to the method declaration syntax, so I'm not sure what you're complaining about.

Of course it isn't identical to public int X { get; } because the latter is assignable in the constructor. But comparing _that_ to methods is apples to oranges since methods aren't assignable.
Bitcoin Company Coinbase Raising New Investment at $400M
In the C# style, someone is still calling next on it somewhere.
All space-faring electronics need to be rad-hardened, and not because of an RTG source that emits only alpha particles.
Call it what you like, but it's base-31 and your name is misleading.
So your post makes no sense. OpenSSL provides the FIPS portion directly. You can just download and compile it according to the instructions and you are now FIPS compliant just awaiting a certification. You can do this yourself, you don't need RedHat or Debian to do it for you.

This is one of the problems with Government and hopefully something that will change. All that is done is piece together bits of what outside vendors have put together and the piecing together is normally done by contractors.
Bitcoins....
Indeed, the fact that extension methods happen to work with `this == null` is more of a bonus feature than something that should be deliberately used.
I have put my dinner plate down to write this comment.

What the fuck did you just say ? You dumb cunt.
Do you have any idea what the fuck you are talking about ? Instead of celebrating his achievements on landing speceship on comet you motherfucking femiNAZI focus on his shirt ?

I 100 % guarantee In you last 10 generation no one has achieved anything and in next 10 generations also no one will achieve anything.

Seriously , if you are so obsessed about women in tech and science why not just leave this planet and create your own instead of CUNTing around ?

I bet my $1M stock options on any woman, YES you FUCKING CUNT, on any women , worthy of this precise level of achievement.

Seriously, you are burden on humanity.
Is the "enlightenment" one gets from using J based on vectorization and linear algebra as everyday tools (much like numpy) or something else?
Oh no doubt the codebase would likely need a massive refactoring (if not even a rewrite) but the name could stay the same.
RedHack hacks Turkey’s Electric website, delete bills worth 1.5 trillion lira
Don't promises solve the callback issue?
VCs Think Cleantech Is a Dirty Word
Theres a couple of issues that rarely are mentioned:

- for very high traffic websites HTTPS costs a lot of money. .gov sites are not very high traffic.

- When you have such high traffic you also have a bunch of old winxp and similar clients. These dont work fast on HTTPS and dont work without sslv3 and what not.

So while HTTPS with safe settings works in most cases it doesnt work in all cases.
To those who want to try something else, here is an incomplete (personal) list of famous contemporary Chinese Sci-Fi novel authors:

Wang Jinkang (王晋康, quite productive), Chen Qiufan (陈楸帆, just started to publish books recent years), Han Song (韩松)

To my surprise, when I wrote this list, I suddenly realized how few names I could think of, even after I looked up in a Chinese website Douban ( http://book.douban.com/tag/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E7%A7%91%E5%B9... ). The truth is: there are quite a few good Sci-Fi writers with a whole bunch of brilliant Sci-Fi short stories in China, but few of them ever writes full-length novels, not to mention "good" or "famous" ones.
"I wouldn't want to work in a workplace which wears its objectification on its sleeve like that"

... and that's why no one wants to work with you as well. I dont know if you are male or female ?
If you are male stop white knighting. YOu are not going to get laid by each time standing up for women. Women have their own mind and their own strength.

If you are female your priorities are fucked up.

Probably that's why you old piece of shit , basement hipster no one wants to hang around.
Microsoft surpasses Exxon as second most valuable company
For someone who "works" in the film industry, you seem to be gleefully unaware of Hollywood's fondness for dystopia.

Interstellar might be one of the few newer breed of films that actually casts human space travel in some positive light.

In fact one is left wanting for instances of the "techno-optimism" - mindless or otherwise - that you describe of, in Hollywood flicks.

List of dystopian films

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_films

A simple Google search

http://i.imgur.com/hHvy0rN.png
Here's a screenshot of some side-by-side diff action: https://fr.atlassian.com/wac/software/fisheye/overview/scree...

Basically, it let's you look at the old code, or look at the new code, or see how they're different, all at the same time.

Inline diffs (github-style) require you to keep a context as you scan through code, and it makes it harder to keep everything in your head.
I used one to "paper" a small F&F pre-seed investment. Hard to comment on the outcome, because I haven't done a new round of funding yet which is when I would expect to run into any problems. (I don't expect any.)

The upside was that it was easy to understand and I was able to edit it myself (copy / pasting additional parts such as MFN clause). So no lawyer fees.

SAFE makes way more sense than a convertible note for taking angel investments. The only downside I can think of is that if you are taking money from investors who are not F&F and who are outside Silicon Valley, you will probably have to explain it to them, and they will probably not understand it.