skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a preliminary research study and may not be replicated. Things I would want to know, after a replication study is published, is what the effect size is across more than one animal model (both mice and rats should be tried, and different strains of inbred mice with known differences in cognitive performance on mouse cognitive tasks should definitely be tried). I would also want a broader survey of human patients from more different parts of the world to see how many human beings show the same clinical sign the authors report here. And I'd want some of the human surveys to include very young participants, to see if rates of purported infection increase as human beings age. Right now, if I were to bet on this, my bet is that this result doesn't even replicate. (That's a reasonably good bet, as only about 50 percent of all scientific first findings, even those that have been published in a peer-reviewed journal, ever do replicate.)
Yeah, and WP and Fox News are the trustworthy sources. :D
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This article is talking about "lit crit" (literary criticism) and deconstruction, presented in a light and superficial way so the reader doesn't notice the depth of the topic.

Ironic!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction
I'm not sure how to interpret that quote.

In the context of Docker it's inconvenient, but entirely straightforward to create images that don't include those elements.

It's a matter of creating an unwieldy chain of build steps to avoid committing intermediate containers.

If/when something like this [1] gets merged things will be greatly simplified.

1: https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/8021
I hope that is irony because I can't believe someone is so ignorant of Brazil to be able to say such things and believe they are true.

This country went from a colony, to an empire, to a monarchy, to a republic, to military dictatorship, rinse, repeat and is now currently a democratic republic. We just had presidential elections last month.

If you're going to talk about some country please do your research.
Do you know a Brazilian company that has the knowhow to face Amazon/Microsoft though? Any time "cloud computing" is mentioned is Brazil it's nothing more than traditional datacenters and virtual machines. Nothing close to the wide range of cloud services that AWS/Azure provides.

The Cisco InterCloud initiative might be an option for independent Brazilian datacenters to improve their service and offer something close to AWS/Azure (although much less flexible).
I'm shocked that you value your free time so low.

Let's do the math.

There are 24 hours in a day.
You should be sleeping for ~8 of those leaving 16.
Assuming you are supposed to be at the office for 8 hours (pipe dream, but let's just go for it) that leaves 8 hours of time for other stuff.
If you previously had a great 15-30 minute commute then you would have 7 hours of free time to work on side projects and do things you want to do. That would be a pretty sweet normal life.
Adding an extra hour to the commute cuts your free time down by ~30%. That is a big deal.

I also find it very helpful to include any time spent commuting as "working time" when considering where to work. You should also consider the increased cost to commute from a more like this. An extra hour of driving 5 days/week represents a non-trivial amount of money. So the salary needs to compensate, or the time at the office needs to go down.

No matter how you look at this, a move like this is asking all of the employees on the short end of the stick to effectively take home less money (not exactly a pay cut, but the end result is the same).

Edit: oh and I'm not from SF, I live in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. This has nothing to do with SF.
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Sticking with the hypothetical, you forgot to calculate 3% per year. That's $23.4 million per year ($70.2 million up to this point +/-).
I understand. But I would have published.

There is a lot of crap on npmjs.org and your little toy, despite being just a toy, is organized and have a purpose; it makes sense to people other than you. Plus got on HN front page.

I see npmjs.org as something more handy than formal. It's just me?
It should be noted that the Inbox folks didn't bother to report the issue, and that once it was reported it was fixed within a few hours....
I believe that if you setup your infrastructure correctly on your end you can still create a personal cert for your own use from kerberos valid for a week for all gsa services. The paper identrust was more of a back-up method for those that hadn't.
Thank you, Ray.
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This is from a fun thread that's been posted here before:

http://math.stackexchange.com/a/734790
True, i say publish it, this package is a hell of alot better than most of the crap on npm.
F# one ups this by letting you implicitly pass arguments as quotations.
You'd think that would've happened years ago, after all the "protecting our infrastructure" and "cyberthreats" rhetoric from certain parts of the government.
One of the interesting things about tap water is that it periodically suffers from algae 'blooms' (which is addressed by chlorine but the remnants of the algae persist. I've asked Dr Yolken for a copy of the paper and if they have checked that vector. Once again I find myself thinking I should get a DNA sequencer so that I could analyze my own tap water more quickly.

[1] Original paper -- http://www.pnas.org/content/111/45/16106.abstract
Excellent. I am going to make sure my kids do not become religious by getting them to memorize the answers to these questions.
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Having discovered HN two years ago, I'm humbled to share a little, micro js library I developed last night after not being able to find an existing solution for the problem I had. I'd love to get some feedback from this fantastic community.
That's the whole point of hashtags. Just make a hashtag for your post, based on the date, originator, and serial number
<future>I'd like to see $CLOUD selling micro-VMs with burstable memory in the tens of MBs, billed by actual CPU time used, similar to what AWS Lambda does.</future>

As for lack of VM resizing, that is a hypervisor/Unikernel implementation detail.
convincing of what? Someone said that renewables aren't viable because they are subsidized. I said that fossil fuels are also subsidized so that is an odd argument to make. I've shown that fossil fuels do get subsidies. I'm not sure what you are going on about.
Do you want zombies? Cause this is how you get zombies.
I'm confused by this. Frank Church was a pretty powerful politician, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I believe. Who did what to Frank Church?
You probably couldn't do the latter very often or for much money. But man would it undermine the markets when it came to light.
I believe Yishan now that he's saying that the issue was long-term burnout, and the office thing just the last straw. That's not how it was initially framed by anyone.
I suppose, but with there being a lot of crap, why publish something I'm unlikely to support? I'll give it a re-think.
Here's a StackExchange thread full of similar visualizations (which has been shared here a few times in the past):

http://math.stackexchange.com/q/733754
They can't seriously trust them (or anyone, for that matter). It's just PR, as usual. Some friends of the government are likely expanding their wallets.
Upvoted. Ministry of Truth is doing its job very well (on the other part of the world).
I think most of us have known "real" VR is inevitable ever since the idea clicked, round about 1990 or so. So far it's lacked the urgency that could have made it a "moon landing"- level quest. Maybe it lacks a killer app.

I think what Palmer has done is organize a vote, where the verdict was, "Yeah, we want it now. Let us find our own killer apps." Whatever, we now have Carmack, Patron Saint of end-to-end Latency, and Samsung, kind of working together-ish in as concerted an effort as there's ever been to make VR work.

Oculus is bound to seem stone-aged even 15 years out, but it's a strong start.

From the article: one thing that stood out that I haven't thought much about is the potential to use VR to achieve altered states (other than the standard immersion and nausea).
Inconstants of Nature
It would be interesting to see if you could explain something like galois set theory in purely visual terms.
This reminds me of Netflix's Chaos Monkey[1]. I'm becoming increasingly convinced that a system that has been exposed to random faults during development and maybe in production as well is the only way to go. It forces one to automate recovery from most failure states, and alert an engineer only when absolutely necessary.

[1] http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...
So now when I tell friends and relatives who can't get a job that pays more than $12 per hour that they should learn how to code in their spare time, I have more ammunition.

My favorite story to relay is an Indian woman whose husband came to the U.S. on an H1B visa. She came here on an unskilled visa. In her spare time at home while she was working as a maid, she taught herself programming. A year later she was making $60,000 per year. A few years later, making $80,000 per year.

Every time I relay a story like this - the person I'm trying to convince has an excuse as to why it won't work for them. "Oh, but that was a different time! There are no jobs today!"

I can't wait to hear the excuse as to why they can't learn to code even though prison inmates are now doing it.
engagement -> ad views -> revenue -> bond payment
I'm ditching virtualenvs and going with old good Debian packaging and private APT repository.

For VMs/containers that already run a single application, except for some weird edge cases, there's really no point in having a virtual environment in a virtual environment.

I have initial success with a few simpler projects, now looking into transitioning more complex ones. Not sure whenever it'll go without any hassle, but seems worth trying. At worst, I'd just waste my time and return to virtualenvs.
The "Werner Hertzog reads..." series on Youtube is pretty amazing. It ranges from a kinda silly, rambling take on Where's Waldo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvWh6PMi9Ek through a pretty thoughtful version of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z1R5vDG2Tg to an incredibly deep interpretation of Madeline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57EDxvldLD4
So the US is what? Communist? Capitalism, socialism, communist... none of that matters when national interests (of the elite) are at play.
> This makes its performances impossible to match in other languages such as C or Java that do not provide static introspection.

A CHALLENGE!

So, er, who's up for it?

You could implement an analogue of this approach in Java. It's true that Java doesn't have language constructs that would let you do this as part of compilation, but Java has its ways. You could write an annotation processor to do this at compile time, or use a bytecode parser at runtime (this is yucky, but a fairly standard technique these days). Either way, the output would be a pair of synthetic classes which implemented the parser and encoder. A tool like this would be moderately laborious to write, but a straightforward matter of programming.
Dash is one of those Mac apps you didn't realize you absolutely needed until you have it (like Bartender or FlyCut or Divvy). That said, buying it again for iOS isn't appealing.
With AWS having brazillian hosting and established firms already there operating at a high price, it does seem like the skillset is in place for someone in brazil to do something entrepreneurial.
I may be extrapolating the current situation out too far, but I figure that it'll just sharpen the distinction that already exists between startups and big companies. Right now you can go to a big company and make triple, or you can work for a startup because some combination of the risk/responsibility/potential equity payoff makes up for the loss in salary. I was just extending that idea out further; I already know multiple people who have saved a few 100k a couple years out of college and are much, much less motivated by money now (vs the non-monetary payoffs that startups offer). Sure, the pool of engineers who would do so may be small, but that doesn't mean EVERY startup needs to take this route. Either way, it's an interesting thought.
Maybe but that also assumes they had all of the losses at the start of the 10th year and made all of the profits at the end of the 10th year.

Also what returns 3%/year? I could imagine 3%/10 years (or even 15 years).
Thanks all for the responses! I have a lot of new tech to try out.

For those wanting an example:

http://kut.org/term/google-fiber

Basically just a grey/white map showing important navigational details like roads and rivers, with different color sections overlaying it.
Call the parent method and treat the startup just like any other business.
Calling me "ageist" is a bit extreme. I'm not aware of any law in this country (US) that allows one to hire a 5 year old, regardless of certifications.

What I am suggesting is that companies (who may or may not know the value of particular "certifications") stop putting so much emphasis on them. The fact that a 5 year old has now set the bar for the MCP, highlights that very issue.

I put more value on 1-5 years of work experience than I do on the MCP.
> I feel like a scatterplot highlight should be the easiest god damn thing ever.

For a charting library, yes I would expect this to be easy. But to be fair, D3js is not a charting library. The OP here is showing their version of a charting library based off of D3js.

Remember, D3 = Data Driven Documents, which can be leveraged for extremely fast interactive visualizations

For further clarification here is the goal/definition from D3js.org:

"D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven transformations to the document. For example, you can use D3 to generate an HTML table from an array of numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive SVG bar chart with smooth transitions and interaction."

A charting library wouldn't give you the flexibility to do this: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/d8e15a0ab7f85818a5bd
or this: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/shuffle/

Edit: a must see are the creations from the man himself. Mike Bostock
http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock
This is funny. You have one part of the government activly promoting monopoly and things like that while you have another part of government that is claming to prefent the same thing.

The reality is that antitrust law has been used more often to destroy competition that underpriced you rather than taking out evil monopolys. Many free market economist are against antitrust regulation.
> ... perhaps the problem is not that drugs are being developed for rare cancers (which does not harm patients in any way that I can see), ....

I don't think the article explains this very well. The idea seems to be that if the money weren't spent on a goal that is unlikely to be met (getting a drug approved for a rare cancer), then it could be spent on a goal that is more likely (getting a drug approved for a more common cancer). What "hurts patients" is that the latter is not happening. Dolgin is essentially claiming that if the former happened less, then the latter could happen more.

This might be true to some extent, but it is a fallacy -- often seen in discussions of governmental funding -- that if some money is not spent on item A, then that same amount will be available for item B. On the contrary, the emotional impact or political timeliness of item A might be what scared up the money in the first place. Furthermore, even the money is still available, the people who decide how to spend it might choose to spend it on options other than item B.

In any case, the general principle of targeting funding at projects that are actually likely to help people, seems to be a good one.
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Bonds are not stocks. There's no upside to a bond beyond "getting your money back with the agreed interest"
As an undergrad I had a job working as a ecologist for the Highways Agency in the UK. My job was to perform endangered species surveys and supervise roadworks sites to make sure they didn't cause (too much) ecological damage.

One job I worked on was resurfacing 12 miles of road in Somerset. At one stage I was supervising a crew as they dug out a trench beside the road overnight. After a couple of hours, a blacked-out 4x4 rolled up to the site and out get three guys in suits demanding to see the site manager.

It turned out the JCB bucket had damaged the tunnel housing a major national fibre-optic link and they had detected the damage. We uncovered the damaged concrete housing and they had a crew come out to repair it.

Moral of the story: at least in the UK, the integrity of cable networks is remotely monitored. I wouldn't assume the NSA can easily tap into a major fibre-optic cable without being detected.
So they tested a bunch of people, and found that those of them who regularly eat algae are a little less intelligent. Well, yeah.
>By your logic, since AFAIK the NSA hasn't ever targeted me specifically, then they must be a okay!

An exact example of the false equivalence fallacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
I haven't played with it much, but it says in the FAQ[1] :

"Will Server/Desktop apps benefit from .NET Native and/or the Compiler in the Cloud?

Desktop apps are a very important part of our strategy. Initially, we are focusing on Windows Store apps with .NET Native. In the longer term we will continue to improve native compilation for all .NET applications."

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vstudio/dn642499.aspx
When Google _wants_ to make sure something they create works with Firefox, they take some steps to make that happen. Things like filing bugs on issues in Firefox that are blocking it working and contacting Mozilla about those issues directly via the dedicated coordination mailing list we have set up for issues like this.

None of those things happend with Inbox. There were no bug reports filed, no mention of issues getting it to work, nothing.

So this was a pure business decision to not put any particular effort into making Inbox work in Firefox.

Now you might say that simply writing to standards should make it work in Firefox and if it doesn't that's a problem with Firefox, and I agree. But in my experience "writing to standards" doesn't really describe Google properties very well, especially when they try to push the envelope where standards don't exist yet.
Feeling kind of dull, but I still don't get it...
I think what's important is that they are making good choices, such as immutability, take fewer lines of code. This pulls the default developer in the direction of writing immutable by default, which I think is great change.
Can you link to some examples of high-quality content, extremely interesting for hackers, that bombed because a moderator reverted the title?
I don't understand the 4 downvotes. The blogger himself says "However, we still haven't figured out exactly why Google is blocking Inbox on Firefox. That the application is not working, seems to not be fully true."
I don't know what you consider an unwieldy chain of build steps, but for Ruby it's simply a matter of building the container, and run it with your app directory (or a suitable build location) mounted as a volume, install dev-dependencies then executing "bundler install --standalone --path vendor", and subsequently using that as the basis for building the final container image.

You can make that cleaner by making the build steps into one Docker image, the final app into a second, and have them share a base image that contains all the basic dependencies.

For Ruby at least the intermediate build step would typically only need to be re-run whenever your Gemfile/Gemfile.lock changes.
You're just providing your opinion.

Umm, no. It was the opinion of the court that ordered his conviction reversed, as well as of the court that rejected the appeal to have his charged re-tried. From WP:

On June 20, 2014, upon reviewing the evidence, Justice Ronald Zweibel published a 71-page opinion in which the court ruled that F.B.I. “did not have probable cause to arrest defendant, let alone search him or his home.” The arrest was “illegal,” and Mr. Aleynikov’s “Fourth Amendment rights were violated as a result of a mistake of law.”

Really now -- it's not too hard to find information about important events (before simply making up facts about them), these days. You should give it a try sometime.
That attitude doesn't require the test, nor does the test require the attitude.

The real problem is that "I am a genius" is seen as being automatically anti-social. "Smarter" is seen as "better" and that separates them. Ultimately it comes back to the conformist attitude I'm arguing against. That is the problem. Get rid of that, make it acceptable to be different, and passing a test won't matter.
Never read the FAQ, honestly, but I think this must be covered in the classified Cold War appendix :)
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> They're working to solve it,

They are?

They didn't even take the first step to solving it, which is filing a bug about it with Mozilla. When they mentioned the problem on HN, a Mozilla developer filed the bug for them and fixed it within a few hours.

So had they been _working_ to solve it, it would have been solved long ago. Like within days of them encountering it (adding some extra time to pin down the problem, which they _did_ do before not bothering to tell anyone about it).
RapidJSON claims to support "in-situ parsing", which is presumably mostly zero copy, and presumably doesn't allocate much either. I'd like to see benchmarks over comparable code.
Interesting story. Maybe those guys in the dark glasses and suits weren't the cable provider, but the NSA! The fibre provider hadn't noticed.
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Is the 'buying' not appealing, or is using Dash on iOS not appealing? If you don't think you would look up API much on an iOS device, fair enough. For me, being able to use an iPad as my go-to documentation viewer is tremendously appealing. This is a professional tool, that I use daily (on OS X), and having it on iOS will make my life better.
Reminds me of http://solowheel.com
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SF has <500K actual residents.

The bay area has something like 15 million people.

Do the math.

One either has a shitty rent/house payment or a shitty commute.
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> array slicing on sparse arrays in Firefox is much, much slower

You mean "was", since it's fixed?

> It's not a matter of lacking competence or skills or anything of the sort.

Yes, it is. Not reporting a bug when you run into it but instead just complaining about it is in fact lack of competence.

Arguably using super-sparse arrays in JS is also lack of competence, but the other is much more obvuous.

> It's a basic question of what level of resources you are willing to put in

Filing a bug takes about 5 minutes.
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Author here, I can take questions.

For those wondering, we'll be releasing an official Docker image for ASP.NET soon. This tutorial goes to the depths of what that image will look like.