skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no new info here, just adding a bashing of Gabriella Coleman (long overdue) on shit we all already know. But Gawker is currently undergoing a long-term assault by 4chan and associated people, by having their scummy behavior and hypocrisy exposed in bite-size infographics and advertisers being emailed and snail-mailed. Because of Adrien Chen's tenure with Gawker (does he have equity?), I'm sure that's what is behind the timing of this article. The article isn't even wrong, but it should be recognized an attrition attack in a war between two Internet cesspits.

Someday I hope for an extensive analysis of Anonymous from someone that isn't Coleman or Chen.
It's a homework-cheating service? Are you undermining student's education just for fun, or for profit?
I'm familiar with that argument. But you seem to be completely ignoring my point about the value of a contemporary context.

If context counts for a lot then it doesn't matter how good the best of the old stuff was when it was created or how easy it is to figure out which bits are the best today. Newer stuff will still be better now because it's more relevant. Much of it won't be better to people in the future, but that doesn't matter to people now.
So now fruit flies can have their own Human action figures :-) Well I guess not action figures, the limbs cannot be repositioned.

The scale of this is pretty impressive, I'm wondering whether or not this would be useful in tissue engineering.
Cool application.
I don't see much justification for double precision arithmetic in this case though, so why would they need the Teslas? Going with Titan Z cards instead I believe they'd come out with comparable single precision performance in the ballpark of half the price? That might be closer to what could be reasonably expected in the target workstation too...
Thanks for the complement! I'm actually a HS student, so I have limited time to work on it and market it. I'm trying to get it into the hands of students and teachers. I've been working with the Director of Ed Tech at my school and sharing a lot on Twitter (Teachers Love Twitter), but only few have tried it out. If you have any ideas for marketing, please share!!
Just wanted to comment to say that the book you mentioned is great, as are most of the other things that economist, Tyler Cowen, has written. He and a colleague have a blog, http://marginalrevolution.com/, that many HN readers will probably enjoy.
Instant Buy doesn't actually process payments, it gives you a virtual card and then you need to use your own credit card processor.
The author covers this obliquely, in the essay at http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/08/writing-restaurant-menu.h... on incorporating checking into a primarily pork BBQ joint:

> The reason that chicken is a royal pain in my ass is the execution of the dish in a barbecue setting. Every other barbecue item has a relatively long shelf life—contrary to what some snobs tell you, it doesn't need to be eaten straight from the smoker. At Franklin Barbecue in Austin, Texas, Aaron Franklin takes his brisket out at 3 a.m. to rest while the rest of his menu items cook. The restaurant opens at 11 a.m. and sells out shortly thereafter, which means that brisket you waited on line for hours for has been sitting in a warming box for no fewer than eight hours.

> In a barbecue setting, everything is done and cooked long before you show up. Now chicken? Kept warm, it'll stay nice and juicy for maybe an hour. After that it's all downhill.

It sounds like both #1 and #2.
Congratulations jgrahamc ! Thank you for your persistence! Truly horrible what happened to somebody who did a lot for Britain, computer science and the world.
I couldn't help but wish there was someone of NASA's calibre with respect to public outreach "handling" this. I really think they got the tone wrong -- 99% of the THOUSANDS of people watching this really just wanted to experience the adventure, warts and all. We know it's hard, we empathise. We wanted to experience the trill, terror and wonder. There really wasn't any need to clam up like they did. If only they had someone (higher profile? I really have been looking for a good feed from with ESA) who could walk around and ask for the pulse of the investigation. "We have no idea, and this is why ..." would still be fascinating.
Edit: And I LOVE that NASA just has a raw feed of the images as they come down. I'm thinking of the Mars rovers here. I can't fault how those programmes are communicated.
The confusion does not come from it being live (it's a web page, duh !), it comes from you taking a page about current status/faq for the public and consider it as the official mission's objectives list.

All you need to do is look at the right document, and if you can't figure that out I certainly wouldn't want you making judgment about any science project involving my tax dollars (well, euros).
Comet has very low gravity and - think of classic 'comet tails' - stuff gets stripped off by solar winds etc near sun. So yes I think it can be a bit dusty
It would be interesting if Outernet were to transmit the Bitcoin blockchain. The maximum data transfer rate of the blockchain is artificially capped at something like 13kbps right now (1x1MB block per 600 seconds), so it would probably be feasible to transmit it. It might allow for some novel economic activity in very poor areas without internet. It would obviously be receive-only, but that could still be useful. It might provide an equivalent to pre-internet banking in areas too poor to be served by banks. ("Pre-internet banking" means you have to take a trip to the bank to send money, but you can call up and ask your balance to make sure you got paid.)
All of the good ones in Austin follow #1.
Does anyone has a link comparing Red to REBOL? I was a heavy REBOL user back then and always missed the language. I wonder if Red is a viable substitute...
It isn't used for symmetric encryption algorithms. They're more easily made verifiably constant time as described in the blog post.

It's a common way to protect something like RSA from timing sidechannels, however.
Actually, as a High School Student, I feel that students waste a lot of time copying definitions from around the web. I would copy them into Quizlet, and then memorize them. Vocabulary is all about memorization, and unless you are hand typing from a paper dictionary, you are not really memorizing.

I try to look at it like this: If you had 1 hour to prepare for your vocabulary quiz, would you rather spend 20 minutes copying and 40 minutes studying, or 5 minutes copying and 55 minutes studying.
http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/08/writing-restaurant-menu.h... says that the brisket at Franklin has been "sitting in a warming box for no fewer than eight hours."
They seem computer generated, and then photoshoped over the electron microscope images. They seem too perfec for that size, and I don't see how they are supported on the surface.

Is there any other picture or article that shows the process and the results?
Interesting.

On 10/30, Qualcomm DMCA'd a few files:

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-10-30-Qualco...

Then, a few days later on 11/10, requested to rescind their original request, for all files:

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-11-10-Qualco...

I guess it's better than no request to rescind...
Reading his other comments on this thread, he's obviously a troll and/or someone who needs to criticize this mission or ESA. He is not having an actual debate, only repeating his points ignoring any answering element he gets.
Not 3d printing, rather it's lithography and a very inaccessible kind.
It's a JavaScript JIT compiler. From the info page [1]:

Some notable features of Higgs include:

- A self-hosted runtime written in extended JavaScript

- Lazy/incremental JIT compilation
Context-driven versioning of basic blocks

- A Foreign Function Interface (FFI) system to interface with C code

- An interactive shell (REPL) with access to low-level primitives.

- A simple module system and a set of useful libraries.

Example usage:

higgs --e "var x = 4; x = x + 5; print(x)"

or

higgs file.js

[1] http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/higgs/
Best answer: It's free to use and super easy to customize
I wrote my first lines of commercial code as an intern at a little company called DataStax in Austin, Texas. I was just coming off my freshman year at UT. I had no idea what I was doing but the people there were fantastic and helped me learn a ton (shout out to Tyler Hobbs). It really kicked off my career. This was like 3 years ago.

I was specifically writing some python code for OpsCenter, their Cassandra management tool. It was pretty cool since it was essentially my first exposure to python, and really my first exposure to working in the industry. My code went out with their 2.1 release and knowing that someone somewhere was running a part of what I wrote was pretty cool.

That "little" company got really really big now! They just recently raised $106mm and are doing really well. I'm quite happy for them and glad they gave me the opportunity so early on.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7949183 (121 points, 142 days ago, 126 comments)
> in all these founder stories [...] you better love what you're doing

I agree with you as a general point but I disagree in that you make it about founders.

As a general rule, if you have the chance/education/abilities to do, you should always pick a job where you love what you're doing, whether you're the founder or an important employee or a random grunt in a giant corporation.

You're going to do that for 8h+ hours a day, 5+ days a week for years on end. Make sure you enjoy it.
>Eyes turn light into electricity without (AFAIK) Silicon.

Correct. A photon hits a chromophore bound to an opsin protein, and flips the chirality of the chromophore from 11-cis to all-trans, which changes the structure of the opsin protein, which starts the cascade of activity leading to sight. We could definitely use chemical detectors to take advantage of this or a similar process.
The Growing Impact of Old Scientific Papers
I am really excited about this idea, especially the disaster information aspect. I hope they build a decent system for prioritising what information should be distributed. The connection between an sms request and receiving the most relevant information is going to be tricky, perhaps something like google's i'm feeling lucky might work.
This site should really have some code examples on the main pages. I shouldn't have to watch videos to get a basic idea of the syntax and what it can do. The blog on the front has some code, but it's not geared towards explaining the basic ideas.
I would only take money from people who get at least the basics here. I wonder if a SAFE might have the added benefit of selecting for knowledgeable folks. If I try putting forward a SAFE I will blog the result.
The first suggestion you make on the front of your site is to print and give it to the teacher.
I used to start backup jobs on a AS/400 during a summer internship back in 1994, just logged in and started the respective job. Only more than a decade later I bothered to delve into how it actually works.

I was quite surprised to discover that Java, .NET, Android, Windows Phone concepts were already successfully implemented in the marked in such systems, so many years before. And that the majority of developers out there are unaware of them.

Thanks for the z/TPF overview.
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I got in to foobar a few days ago off of a search where the invitation window came up. It's a terminal interface were you can solve some challenges in python or java. I solved the first one right away, but then didn't have time to keep going until today. I can still log in, but it says my invitation has expired and I need to continue searching.
Aye, most of the work is already done. I'm sure a second one could be launched at a fraction of the cost.
It's also a bit weird because NVIDIA are usually pretty generous in giving out free K40s to academics. Wonder why they couldn't get some from NVIDIA.
I'll plug my friend's blog here. For years now he's been blogging about visits to BBQ places all over the Southeast, and he's hit a good number of them. A lot of these are the roadside, cinder block building kinda places.

http://marieletseat.com/barbecue/

My brother runs a BBQ place in Flagstaff, of all places, and he's done a lot of traveling to sample BBQ around the country. It really is amazing how much regional variation there is, and how proud each region is of their own style.
Speaking of SSA and optimizations, I just remembered that Andy Wingo (core contributor to Guile scheme) has a treasure trove of great articles, e.g. a fun intro to SSA [1] or CPS as used in Guile [2]. His blog is totally worth just browsing around.

[1] http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/07/12/static-single-assign...

[2] http://wingolog.org/archives/2014/01/12/a-continuation-passi...
Indeed. Bash has, or can be configured, to have almost all the features listed in this article. The article is really a testament to the power of defaults. The bash maintainership is extremely conservative about enabling new features by default even when these features are unalloyed good.

For example, I contributed bracketed paste support to bash and readline. Yay! No more inadvertent command execution! No security problems pasting shell commands from web pages! You'd think we'd want that feature enabled by default, right?

Well, no. The feature will be off by default. For reasons.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-10/msg00211....
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I'm not sure that a government can meaningfully apologize for anything when all the actual participants are dead, including (but especially) the victim.

It's the half-assed, social justice warrior version of a government agreeing that things done in the past are awful. Why stop with Turing? 30,000 years ago one of your ancestors murdered a woman's children, held her captive, and raped her repeatedly. Why not apologize for that? Or for some Babylonian genocide that's 5000 years old?

It's fucking pointless.
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Tens of thousands of people were convicted under the same law. But they weren't famous. Only little people.
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An SMS based service for checking the balance of a Bitcoin address seems much more useful, since people in very poor places are much more likely to have cheap cellphones than devices capable of processing the whole blockchain (and an SDR or so to read the signal).
I made this a couple of weeks ago, it was better than a lot of pizzaria pizzas I've had.

If you have some time, it's even better if you can age the uncooked dough in the refrigerator for 3-4 days. You get bigger bubbles and better texture.
As a Scot born in the late 70s (I mention my vintage as the early 80s probably seems ridiculously long ago to younger people here), I was somewhat shocked to discover that whilst male homosexual acts were decriminalised (to an extent) in 1967 in England and Wales, this did not occur in Scotland until 1980 or in Northern Ireland until 1982.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_1967
I keep seeing people saying this here and there, including the comments of this article. But I can't find any real substantiation of this carcinogenic claim in Googling. Anyone have something resembling real research?
Concerning your critique of the in your opinion overly hard scientific review process. According to her blog the paper was rejected because: "Reviewers at conferences [...] have been very skeptical, and pressed us multiple times to produce some kind of comparison of basic block versioning against tracing."[1] I think this is a very valid concern. When you describe a new scientific approach (Basic Block Versioning) you should compare to the state of the art. Otherwise it is very hard for the reader to judge the merit of the new approach. However I agree with your sentiment that a new approach should not only be judged by performance numbers (there is actually a nice article going deeper on this topic on databasearchitects[2]). But there should at least be a more thorough theoretical discussion than only 3-4 sentences. Benchmarks comparing to existing approaches in this case can help to show pathological cases which might indicate weaknesses of the approach or to empirically demonstrate the feasibility of the new approach.

[1] http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/the-fastest...

[2] http://databasearchitects.blogspot.de/2014/09/experiments-hu...

EDIT: Many conferences also allow publishing papers without a deep comparison to exisiting research in the industrial session. This allows demonstrations of interesting implementation variants or system choices

EDIT 2: The review critisim in older blog posts "Conference reviewers criticized us for not discussing compilation times, and raised the issue that perhaps basic block versioning could drastically increase compilation times." is also very valid for a jit compiler. Again discussion does not have to mean that you have to be faster than all existing systems. Paper acceptance is always a little bit a random process, but at least in this case the review comments are valid from my point of view and her phd advisor should probably have detected these problems in proofreading before submitting. I really hope that the paper will finally be accepted!
If the sheets are handed to a teacher, there is clear Vocabulist branding. The teacher should know that something's fishy. The main idea is for students to study.

I'll probably change the front page text in the near future.
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Do you often label things you don't understand as bullshit?
Sometimes with this sort of thing you can exploit symmetry in the game board to reduce the amount of work you need to do. I don't know enough about Go (or anything at all really) to say if that's possible or not in this situation, but it is probably worth looking into.

I agree though, this does seem like the type of problem that should have a relatively simple solution, or at least a reasonable approximation.
When you say hundreds of thousands of machines, is each one running a consul agent, or do some just make use of answers provided via DNS or the remote api?

Without divilging too many details, what would be the ratio of agents running '-server' to overall agents?
Clever history doesn't really work for me when I use `sudo`

say I type

$ sudo pacman -Syu
$ sudo chown blah blah
$ sudo pa <UP>

I just get `sudo chown blah blah` instead of `sudo pacman -Syu`

Does anybody know how to fix this? :)
Yes. I love nuclear, and think we should use a lot more of it both on earth and in space. But for things in the inner solar system not landing on a planet, solar is often the right answer.
> The gossip algorithm instead is doing peer-to-peer (N-to-N instead of 1-to-1) in a half-duplex model.

Unless you mean you're doing multicast, you're still doing 1-to-1 connections.

> We did develop the algorithm in the open and made a call on the community to provide feedback to help improve the design of the system.

I wouldn't trust myself, let alone many unknown people who are just volunteering their time and have no known credentials as a cryptographer.

> instead stuck to the best practices around the most modern systems.

Except for the whole "don't role your own crypto system" one.

There are just so many things that can go wrong and when crypto fails it can do so very quietly. Additionally, if you ever want anyone to interoperate with you it'll just be a PITA for them, and depending on who it is, a PITA for you.

The overhead of a proper protocol like (D)TLS isn't that much.

> "On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10 KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead. Many people believe that SSL/TLS takes a lot of CPU time and we hope the preceding numbers will help to dispel that."
- Adam Langley, Google
Long articles are fine and there is good content in this one. Just help me navigate it better by using a familiar hierarchy more common to informational essays.
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hey!

First of all, awesome explanation, thanks!

What I didn't understand from your explanation (I don't know if it's explained or if I missed it) is how you identify which node has the value for the key K when the keys are not in the Bs domain. How do you know where to stop the search? What if you have gone to a further node?

I'd be very grateful if you can clarify that :)
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It's hard to wow the governments with "we are going to do the same thing again, much cheaper." Even though it's the good way to get the most science bang for buck.
Obviously anywhere you can download binaries can cause this issue, but it's a bit unfair to call Github a hot bed for it here. Their design encourages publishing source code much more than it does binaries.

This seems more like a case of the binary differing from the published source, which seems like a solvable problem for Github but I wouldn't blame them for it.

It is a bit interesting to see how they could solve this - a potential standardised build process where you could publish your process in your repo and Github would build from your repo source using your repo process and provide some kind of 'guaranteed' binaries. Not easy by any means but it'd be interesting to see them give it a go. That said, they should probably just keep focused on the diffable stuff really.
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1)I didn't discus with many girls/women why/why not choose a scientific or IT career. In fact I didn't discuss that with many men/boys.

I'm studying Computing Engineering and as far I know there are between 2 women for 8 men or 3/7 at best (usually, it could be better or in some classes there are none).

Assume that "is that way because it is" it's strange. Considering how many women I know use technology and are gamers this turns to be strange because the penetration of technology is almost equal in both genders. Yeah I know more techno savvy boys than girls but why.

I could argue about mechanics/electricity engineering that there is something there. For example I don't know many women that love cars or planes but I (and probably my bias, I) know many guys whom are into that.

Then it's strange that boys like technology better, but we are exposed equally...

When Kid I played CS tournaments and girls where pretty rare (I don't remember a single one). I was surprised recently by the number of women playing games as Lineage, it turns they are more than when I played CS, but there are scarce yet.

In the other hand, there are many girls I know whom play Sims, pokemon, Sim City, PES, and Guitar Hero... (not mentioning games as Farm ville).

So they might play different games, but they play games as frequently as men. So this puzzle me.

2)Rationalization does not help. Sometimes that turns into an excuse that keeps justifying a bad habit. It is a reality.

3)I have the opposite though. The whole team didn't receive the same exposure, if that was the case I would totally agree, but he was representing people whom wasn't there.

For the last part I know we are different. I'm not saying we must be equal. That's not the point. If you are saying that there are less women in technology because they are not into for unspecified reasons then I don't know what to say.

And please don't claim because science when neither me nor you gave any scientific reason for our postures.