skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That video also shows the prime failure in having an anarchy server: It's so easy to cheat. The guy has a radar and can spot any player before they could spot him.

Then there's loads of other plugins that people use to find ore, hidden buildings, track players, speedboost, fly even on servers that disallow it, etc... etc...

I wanted to like Minecraft. The hilariously insecure gameplay is what breaks it. It's not a game of survival, it's a game of trolls who can exploit the most.
If you're worried that a sentient robot is going to kill you, why are you not first worried about a non-sentient robot being able to kill you? If robots are in a position where they can kill, sentient or not, humans will exploit them to do this far before an AI is conscious enough to do so. There is plenty of volition for this from humans, e.g. terrorism.
This is not peer-reviewed science yet, it's a preprint on Arxiv. Anyone (more or less) can upload anything to Arxiv.
The Quiet German (On Merkel, Russia, the US, Ukraine, spying and democracy)
Rust can solve the first problem.

I sure hope so. But the language needs more mileage on it to be confident that the checking works.
Well, the power/gas companies "just good enough" service is better then my ISP service. My ISP tries to raise the price more often and goes out more then my power.
Also see Heideltime: https://code.google.com/p/heideltime/
See my earlier reply on that sentence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8654227
I know what you describe is how it has been at some companies, but that is not how I think it ought to be. While I am at work, it is my opinion that I am not only owed privacy, I think it should be the default expectation (except for exceptional legal circumstances, of course). I would be hesitant to work at any place which does not share my values regarding these types of things, simply because it demonstrates a lack of trust and lack of autonomy within the organization.

Also legally speaking, a company is not allowed to listen in on/record phone calls I make on a company phone and I doubt they are allowed to open snail mail addressed to me. Thus my expectations of privacy is not something inconsistent with the status quo.
Looks like this is the standard reaction to something that is akin to parasite infection in biology - abusive scammers that exploit US legal system to rob companies and individuals with money. There's a theory that a lot of features of modern organisms (including sexual reproduction) has evolved as a defense mechanism to parasites. Looks like we're witnessing such evolution right now. I wonder maybe the solution should be sought elsewhere - not trying to shame Slack (or others) into doing something that makes no sense in current environment and suffer from parasites, but try to fix the parasite problem instead or at least make it less severe.
Have other crowdfunded scientific projects had this problem? It's easier to see why people might unleash a lot of criticism at projects that might receive federal funding, but wouldn't the critics just... not back a crowdfunded test of Woodward's work?
I would make a slight correction to this. There is enough food. It is just in the wrong places. It is a cost / distribution problem.
What do you mean by Point Events getting killed? Here's the http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-pointerevents-20141113/
Quotes from the article:

"ninety-nine percent convinced" That's not "hmm, that's funny, let's investigate more".

"The theory has been sitting in peer-reviewed literature for more than fifteen years" (a single paper in a philosophy journal...)

"Those who are players in the field of advanced propulsion," he says, "feel obligated, for whatever reason, to dissuade people from considering seriously alternatives to their particular scheme. I think they may genuinely feel they are doing a public service when they say, 'Don't spend money on that, it can't possibly work.'" He gives me a wry smile. "But their own schemes have all failed." Implying that the space industry should invest in it.
I didn't read the article. But I wonder, since Rust uses LLVM, isn't the PSP platform a compiler target automatically?

And if not (I suspect it could have something to do with kernel-specific stuff), then shouldn't there be some intermediate kernel-API translator that would make the process of porting the compiler more easy?
Kind of, like in US v. Jones and Florida v. Jardines, where the Katz definition of a search (where the reasonable expectation test comes from), was not in the majority, but rather a simple trespass test was used. But most importantly, at this point in the analysis, we're simply determining was this thing that the government agents did a search? If it was, and there was no warrant, then it is presumptively unreasonable. If it wasn't a search (or seizure), then the 4th amendment does not apply.
cardboard is nowhere where OcuVR is
The $1.5 billion average cost is an average, and includes a lot of stupid ideas that should never have made it past the drawing board, but when you're a rich big pharma with tons of money to throw around, why not.

If you are smart (and quite lucky) it's an order of magnitude less.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmunos/2014/11/20/the-ugly...
I guess they mean that Chrome won't implement Pointer Events: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/google...
> The CPU has no crystal to provide clocking, instead DEC used a delay line in a feedback loop.

Were oscillators back then expensive, unreliable, or it's another reason for not using one?
Nice use of CartoDB. Not surprised to see everything in Financial District and SOMA, but Palo Alto was interesting.
There is a lot of evidence that nothing consistently beats S&P 500 index funds after accounting for risks. However, if you have >$1B there are a lot of snake-oil salesman out there.

Note: Saying Fund X beat the average is meaningless you have to actually investigate their risk profile which takes a lot of effort.
OP here. Two things happened today. Slack adopted new terms of service with a binding arbitration clause, which they linked from this press release. They also announced a new feature, Compliance Export - which allows team owners to inspect direct and private chats under certain circumstances. The blog post talks about that too.

In my opinion, both are pretty serious and not fluff. I'd still advise digging deeper if you're a Slack user.

Update: wow, someone changed both the title and url to point to the konklone article. I originally intended to primarily talk about the privacy implications of Compliance Export. Oh well.
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Looks like issuu uses OCaml in the backend [0].

[0] http://issuu.com/careers/ocamldeveloper
What sort of moronic thinking leads developers to 'remove the override' for advanced users?
Hi, I work at Netflix.

We switched from VC-1 to H.264 a few years ago, so the encodes don't change with the switch from Silverlight to HTML5 video.

Currently just IE 11, Chrome, and Safari 8 in Yosemite support our HTML5 player. It depends on three new APIs in HTML5: MSE, EME, WebCrypto.

Shameless plug: I'm currently hiring for the engineering manager of the team that builds our HTML5 streaming video player. http://jobs.netflix.com/jobs.php?id=NFX01593
Take heart, and permit my anecdotal counterexample -- with a happy ending.

In the mid-90s, we picked up an used Mac Plus for our 5-year-old. He loved it, had no problem playing the heck out of the games, negotiating menus, etc. (Although I did get irrationally mad when, as he was playing Spit on Saddam -- a local Apple guy had written it, so I'd loaded it for kicks -- he actually spit on the screen.)

So great, maybe I can start working in some HyperCard, give him some control. No interest whatsoever. I even hacked some of his games, to show him the possibilities of coding. He was amused, but still had no interest.

He got older and got the thrill of modem WoW with friends, but he still had no interest coding -- althoug I did catch him learning the warez culture.

About this time, I became addicted to browsing the state surplus equipment lot, and found that they had, literally, a pile of computers they sold at auction for essentially the cost of hauling it all away. In each pile, there were always some Macs. So I got to know the computer scrap guys and would buy discarded Macs for $10 a pallet -- and they thought I was a sucker.

To the point, the kid loved taking computers apart -- especially after discovered a PowerMac uprgrade card in a half laptop that I'd told him to toss. Nothing like an elementary kid earning $200 on eBay to keep him interested. He also helped me refurb/clone a bunch of Macs for his brother's preschool.

Bottom line: He learned how to handle the guts of computers, and to build networks from surplus routers so all his friends could come over for game nights, etc. But he never wrote a line of code through high school, despite my best efforts.

Then he got to college, decided he wanted to do CompSci. He was way behind in coding, but -- since it was a small liberal arts school -- the department was glad to have him and was patient. Plus he had some hands-on hardware skills that few others had (because the family computers were too expensive to tinker with, or no one knew anything about the innards).

He's now a gainfully employed SysAdmin, with a wife and mortgage and personal projects on the side -- and all his old pals still get together for game nights.

Maybe I wasn't a skilled or patient instructor, or maybe kids are just going to be what they are.
Use Facebook or LinkedIn.

Honestly, for anything "career," LinkedIn should be the norm unless their API has unsurmountable technical problems.

Quite frankly, I don't like tying my career to my github account. My best work is closed-source!
It is working a great deal better for me since I started using Google Inbox. I was just about to make the move to Fastmail and boom, Inbox arrived and threw me a curve ball.

In a couple of days I'm at inbox zero. Reminders and snooze are awesome, if not the killer feature. I'm using email like Evernote.
Fun fact: according to law in the Netherlands, companies can not restrict their terms to law of another country of the customer is Dutch[1], and binding arbitration clauses involving 'normal' customers are void[2].

No clue how easy it is to sue a company on the other side of the world, though.

All sources are in Dutch, unfortunately.

[1] http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0005289/Boek6/Titel5/Afdeling3/Artikel247/geldigheidsdatum_22-09-2014 (part 4)
[2] http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0005289/Boek6/Titel5/Afdeling3/Artikel236/geldigheidsdatum_22-09-2014 (part n)
[*] IANAL-but-this-guy-is: http://www.iusmentis.com/contracten/algemenevoorwaarden/#zwartelijst
It was my understanding that HipChat would make private logs easily available to any administrator of the company account in the same way that public chat logs were available. It was also made clear that this was not something which could be disabled, otherwise impeded, or a user would be notified of. (somebody correct me on this if things are different)

On Slack, from what they describe, the feature is only available with a certain type of account, you can only export logs in bulk (i.e. it's not something easy to do, it has been made for a specific purpose), and employees will be notified if the feature is enabled/used.
TOR can be compromised easily however...
Edit) So they say...
Except that arrow is simple-minded when trying to parse date strings (compared to dateparser or delorean[1]). By default, it only tries to match a few patterns. You'll see a lot of this:

arrow.parser.ParserError: Could not match input to any of
['YYYY-MM-DD', 'YYYY-MM', 'YYYY'] on '01-06-17'

Here's a list of (US English–centric) test dates that dateparser ((ddp.get_date_data(date)['date_obj']).date()) and delorean (delorean.parse(date, dayfirst=False, yearfirst=False).date) both parse correctly, nearly all of which arrow fails on:

01-06-2017
01-06-17
2017-01-06

01/06/2017
01/06/17
2017/01/06

Jan 6, 2017
Jan 6 2017

2017, Jan 6
2017 Jan 6

2017, January 6
2017 January 6

January 6, 2017
January 6 2017

January 6nd, 2017
January 6rd, 2017
January 6st, 2017
January 6th, 2017

January 6nd 2017
January 6rd 2017
January 6st 2017
January 6th 2017

2017, January 6nd
2017, January 6rd
2017, January 6st
2017, January 6th

2017 January 6nd
2017 January 6rd
2017 January 6st
2017 January 6th

01//06/2017
01//06//2017
01--06-2017
01--06--2017

01/06-2017
01-06/2017

I like Delorean's API better than arrow's (strictly personal preference) but think dateparser's language detection is interesting.

[1] http://delorean.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart.html
Does anyone know/think that the Sony & Craiglist attacks are related? Seems quite coincidental that both would happen within 24 hours of each other.
FYI in Clojure (with a live demo): http://duckling-lib.org
Ah, I didn't hear about this. Too bad.
Even as a male entrepreneur, this collection is pure gold. So much to learn. Thank you for doing this.

Any chance this series could be made as videos? I would like my daughter to see them as she grows up.
I don't think self promotion is allowed in threads like these...
Rosetta: An important leap forward towards space mining
Coding Alone in the Dark
Maybe this will help http://google-chrome.en.uptodown.com/mac/old (fair warning, I didn't actually tried to download/use any of these).
No longer a concept.
I think that is a backward thinking argument. We need browser competition. It doesn't matter who it comes from. The more browser choice we have the better.
Sorry, I must Reddit too much. I'll shoot you an email.
> Who wouldn't want a reactionless-ish thruster?

anyone who understands that it's a device for turning bricks into weapons of mass destruction. not that a conventional nuclear reactor isn't one, it's just that it uses more sophisticated bricks.
As the primary author of Nimrod I disagree. ;-)
And to be blunt: I know the person has no idea of what he talks about when he uses the word "transpile".
Oh, people have tried. It never lasts.

http://minecraft2b2t.thecomicseries.com/comics/104/

EDIT: Looks like I've gotten sucked in again. Feel free to message me if you want to try.
That account was not banned.

All: please follow the HN guidelines and email us (hn@ycombinator.com) rather than posting in the threads. There are two reasons: (a) it's the only reliable way to get things like this fixed, and (b) these meta-subthreads add noise.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> argument from authority, very unscientific. If an unemployed poodle shaver publishes a replicable experiment, it is science.

Except for the fact that he says: "The theory has been sitting in peer-reviewed literature for more than fifteen years, so if there was something obviously wrong with it, the odds are, more than one person would have said that it's not right.". I'm just counting that claim.

> if the experiment works and can be replicated, they certainly can.

And guess what, it wasn't replicated!

> There's also a misunderstanding of scientific epistemology in your last statement.

I understand that, but conservation of momentum is one of the most fundamental facts of physics, maybe even THE most fundamental fact of physics, certainly as fundamental as conservation of energy (in relativity it's basically the same thing -- both are components of the energy-momentum 4 vector). It holds in Newtonian mechanics, general relativity, and in quantum mechanics. It is at the very basis of those theories. Finding something that contradicts that would completely destroy that foundation. It would be the single biggest discovery in the history of science. To present that with such confidence as the article does is just ludicrous. If the article was about creating energy from nothing, should that be taken seriously too, with similarly weak evidence?
zSeries have transactional memory -- it'd be interesting to see that used for opportunistic multithreading in node.js.
There's one big difference, huge difference in my opinion, between Haskell and OCaml:

OCaml makes monads almost invisible. They're much more in-your-face in Haskell. I'm not sure which one I like better, but it's nice to have a plain ol' for-loop available in OCaml.
From my limited understanding, it seems that the current prototype requires a ton of power (far more than you could fit in a nanosat) and produces a miniscule amount of thrust (even in space with a nanosat it might not move much).
In the case of the GCHQ, I believe there's a system which picks two random words to concatenate. The intention is that the codename would not reaveal anything about the program to which it refers.
That's what the prompt answers back.

# 3;;
- : int = 3
# fun x -> x*x;;
- : int -> int = <fun>
Another point:

Every time a "Shark" does an Reddit AMA, they get asked about what goes on behind the scenes/what doesn't make it on camera, and in many cases, they are condensing multiple hours of a company in front of the Sharks to 5-10 minutes of TV time.

You can Google back to the Mark Cuban Reddit AMA where he goes into the immense side that goes on off-camera.
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There seems to be a lot of comments on how this product seems dated. It prints polaroids. Polaroids are dated. Relax, it's fun low tech.
Absolutely and that was a generalization.
I'm curious what you think about Clojurescript? leaving aside that it may be harder for teams to move to Clojurescript than to improve their JS codebase.

The reason for the question is that Clojurescript supports all the FP idioms of your slides more naturally and also has more FP features.
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To be totally fair to the dude, he's not claiming anything yet, because he maintains that the experiments he's done are inconclusive, and he still needs to control for additional effects. As far as I can tell, he's basically doing a series of experiments where he's trying to disprove his own project because he doesn't want another Dean drive.

The data can't 'go against' general relativity because it's agreed by everyone--the researcher included--that he hasn't got all the variables controlled, and so the data doesn't 'go' at all.

It'd be pseudoscience if he was cherry-picking data that shows his theory to be correct, or ignoring existing data that conclusively shows that his theory is incorrect. He doesn't seem to be doing the former; I don't really have a way of telling if he's doing the latter.
My current employer offered a 10 week training course on mainframes and COBOL programming, which I happily took. Because of the impending talent gap in the area of mainframes, I see them coming back in the public mindset in a pretty big way.
It might be an unrealistic ideal, but I hope that when I'll be a father, I'll be able to give it my 100%. I don't like the idea of always considering "Should I spend time with my kids" vs "Should I do my best to make the startup succeed". I think this is what scares me the most about having a startup and a young family at the same time.
As per the link, I'm talking about less "opening" a PDF by shelling out to pdftotext. "Hiding" is a good word for the behavior. :)
is that a question ?
Yes. And in fact I tested it that way first.

But with the CD route, I trust them with something that cost a few cents, and with an interface they already know (play, stop, and next track buttons). Way easier for them and far fewer consequences for trips or spilled water!
multithreading programming is not "super easy." threads/parallelism give us power, but it definitely increased complexity and makes it harder to reason about the behavior of programs.
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Just to expand: I think it's important to note that the resolution limits are not only a theoretical problem with analog computers, but a practical problem that strongly limits their power.

If your analog machinery can distinguish between a million different values in practice, that sounds like a lot! But it's equivalent to only twenty bits of a digital computer, and you can probably build the digital one much more easily, and it will probably be a lot more reliable.

Maybe you're going to go completely nuts and build a machine that can distinguish between a quadrillion different values. Much better, right? Well, that's still only about 50 bits.

Let's go really nuts. Let's say you had a machine that could represent numbers using the entire diameter of the observable universe (about 92 billion light years) with a resolution of one planck length (about 1.6e-35m, way smaller than any known particle or other object, and one of the smallest lengths related to any known physics). Even that is not so impressive. That's equivalent to about 205 bits of digital storage.
The paper is submitted but not accepted (passed review yet), in this you're right, but I think its a growing practice for reputable scientists (as well as nobodies) to post to Arxiv immediately after they've submitted to a 'top' journal.

Anyways, here's the lead authors page, for the curious: http://physics.ucsd.edu/~diventra/
Discussion is taking place at the original posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8653416
Confusing title - this is the (formerly) Facebook Phabricator project that Wikimedia is now using, not something they built from scratch.
In Israel, I don't think there is as much of that "early start" mentality.
Yeah, the "game" part of Minecraft is shallow enough as it is, and it only gets shallower when you cheat.

On the other hand, when almost everyone is using those cheats, it levels the playing field a bit.
"Your access to this site has been limited" Http 503.
I have a box with Intel HD 4000 graphics (Ivy Bridge, when Intel graphics started being half-decent) and WebGL is great on Linux.
Yeah, most of the services that I work on in my team at issuu are written in OCaml :)
I started programming in grade school. I didn't learn anything about algorithms until college. I don't think starting early helps out that much for anything beyond pretty simple concepts.

There are those who pick up amazing amounts, algorithms and all, on their own, but I think that has more to do with the person than with starting early.