skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The lifetime of a company has been getting shorter and shorter for centuries."

> Um: the concept of a joint-stock corporation is a recent phenomenon, for the most part.

"Company" is a far more general term than "joint-stock corporation"; they are not even approximately equivalent. Its true that joint-stock corporations as a common form of structuring a company is a fairly recent phenomenon, but generalities about companies aren't limited to the period where joint-stock corporations were a common way of organizing them.
Hmm, that does make me wonder, actually - as far as I know, you can freely distribute source code for encoders & decoders without having to pay any royalties. Binaries / compiled versions are where the royalties come in. And technically, JS code is source code that gets compiled by the browser... so I'm not actually sure where it falls in all this.
Could you describe how such a cross over could happen smoothly? Seems like there would be mass panic, all the mining rigs would have to re assemble etc.
I think you're being a little bit flip. As a matter of fact, he is famous for hooking up "Hello World" to a random-number generator. You're right that it's not really an extraordinary feat on its face, but he garnered a lot of recognition for it nonetheless. Most of us here don't have well-funded companies approaching us to consult for them, so I'm not sure why you're downplaying how special the results of that were for Patrick.
That's what i'm talking about.
As a particular John Oliver once said, and I paraphrase, "Mr. President, we're not saying you broke the law by collecting people's phone records, we're just saying it's a bit weird you didn't have to."
Ask HN: What Are Outcomes of University Research
If someone with greater depth of knowledge knows more, can you explain this to me.

I believe there are two major roles of a university, the academic side (teaching students) and the research side. If there is a 3rd or more, please list them.

On the academic side you have professors and counselors helping students earn their degrees and charge tuition, etc... On the research side there are grants and stipends and funding to make the research happen. What does that lead to? Is it mostly just public research that gets disclosed? Do they ever commercialize the research. Is there more to this that I am simply not grasping?

Thanks
I can't help but think part of the technology problem is also caused by budget constraints. Less budget means less actual testing and experimentation and more theoretical planning, work and design. I imagine more real world experience with tests and experiments for those involved would help these problems get solved sooner, possibly before they even come about.
If he's using it for Russian immigration, it shouldn't be advertised as a legal defense fund.
Yes, documentation would need to be an ongoing process combined with a policy that code changes need to also update the relevant documentation. This may make development slower but revolutions aren't exactly efficient either (or I've just been playing too much Unity).
Tiny Object Proxy for Client or Server (JavaScript)
I wonder if it's fair to generalize academia as a classic zero-sum game. Funding is, after all, limited by some mechanism analogous to central planning.
Instacart is also a good bit more expensive than Peapod as well, although Instacart's UI is much better.
Swift is a much better language than PHP and Javascript, which the author compares it with. I don't think he's actually used any of the languages he's talking about.
I was just reading another article on here about fractal image compression and stumbled across this: http://pointersgonewild.com/2014/01/02/tile-based-image-comp...

written by this woman: https://twitter.com/Love2Code

Maybe you can't generalize the opinions of two people to 50% of the human race?
I wonder how the attack would fair against other Lattice-based schemes such as NTRU, which was recently open sourced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTRU

https://github.com/NTRUOpenSourceProject/ntru-crypto
AuthorizedKeysCommand doesn't scale. Particularly for Github and Bitbucket because they would need to return a few million lines.

From the man page:

Specifies a program to be used for lookup of the user's public keys. The program will be invoked with its first argument the name of the user being authorized, and should produce on standard output AuthorizedKeys lines (see AUTHORIZED_KEYS in sshd(8)). By default (or when set to the empty string) there is no AuthorizedKeysCommand run. If the AuthorizedKeysCommand does not successfully authorize the user, authorization falls through to the AuthorizedKeysFile. Note that this option has an effect only with PubkeyAuthentication turned on.
As far as I'm aware, TNR was a mainstream Democrat publication. Certainly in no way 'leftist'.
It wasn't sarcasm. I've been working on a game for four years already and I'm just thinking on what if's.
We use instacart, and it's great for the small weekday shopping trip. Maybe in our home we're just more selective grocery shoppers than most, but I would never use them for meat and even much produce. Meat, for example.. I've asked for boneless chicken breasts from the butcher and instead i've gotten prepackaged shrink-wrapped, and recently I requested a single double-cut beef tenderloin and instead got 2 single-cuts. In both cases, InstaCart made amends (50% refund) but I have a meal to cook: I don't want a refund, I want what I ordered.

Another reason we couldn't move totally to IC is how they handle credit cards. We get 6% cashback at grocery stores using the Amex Blue Cash card. (And have a 5% cashback Visa for the stores that don't take Amex). Unfortunately, IC charges come thru as internet services, not grocery. So that's a 6% price increase right off the top, in addition to mark-ups on products and delivery fees.

We purchased their "prime" and will continue to use the service, but i still have the dream of being able to replace all my in-store grocery shopping.
I'm not sure why an article that cites two US Court of Appeals judges with opposing views on the issue provides any indication of what the Supreme Court might do. Especially since the view for which the article is titled, which presumably is why you linked to it, is actually the judges view of what lawmakers should empower the NSA to do, not what is legal for the NSA to do under existing law. I'd certainly agree with the "don't hold your breath" sentiment for other reasons, but the article is a complete non-sequitur on the point.
Reminder: If you haven't already, please sign up for at least a $10/mo recurring donation to the EFF and ACLU.

https://supporters.eff.org/donate

https://www.aclu.org/donate/join-renew-give

These court battles are necessary to protect our civil liberties, and they cost money.
Vox and Gawker have vaguely liberal editorial positions, but I don't think there's anything remotely leftist or ideological about either of them.

Buzzfeed is the outlet that published a damning expose of the folly of big government that consisted of photographs of cracked and stained concrete and ugly sculptures around government buildings. The author of said piece eventually got fired, but only for blatant plagiarism.

As a leftist, I have to confess to being baffled as to what aspects of my ideological position are being promoted by Gawker, Vox, and Buzzfeed.
Some self promotion might be in order. I like the idea of a "word of the day" sort of blurb, but of course with your face and website.

Otherwise, a sub-lease (so to speak) could be nice as well.
(commenting on one of the articles)

Wow. Just stumbled upon the following quote and read the corresponding article.

> Programming language comparisons usually focus on the brevity and expressiveness of the language. If the solution to a programming problem has fewer lines and is “easier to understand” or “clearer” in one language than another, that is an argument for using the former over the latter. This comparison is useful if one supposes that the art of programming is primarily concerned with writing programs. It isn’t, of course. It is mostly concerned with debugging programs.

- https://codewords.hackerschool.com/issues/one/why-are-object...

> In summary, then, every concept that object-orientation brings to the table makes debugging harder.
> If you believe (as I do) that the majority of effort a programmer expends is devoted to finding and fixing bugs, then an imperative programming approach will be more efficient (in programmer time) than an object-oriented approach.
No, the upside of continuing to use it is to show the politically correct bullies that we aren't afraid, and you aren't going to get everything you want.
I'd love to see this in Clojure.

What do you mean by that? Can't you just parse XML into a Clojure map, transform it in Clojure, and then emit the result as XML again? Using this: https://github.com/clojure/data.xml

Or did you mean something else?
Finding startup talent in emerging markets,Seedstars CEO Alisee de Tonnac
I would greatly appreciate if anyone knows how to get around this. I never thought I'd need to jailbreak my browser.
Man this is hilarious

The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”,
“SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in
this document are to be interpreted as the fantastic mythology of those beings
That's really the problem I foresee. It'd be extremely hard to pull off without a bank run or a speculative frenzy. Financial markets are unbelievably skittish about uncertainties.
Phil. Azkals Against Thailand: AFF Suzuki Cup 2014 (Semi-final Round)
The company is well respected for what? Profitability? Product quality? Good work environment?

All that doesn't matter if the company is not a good fit for you and that's what I get from your post. You and the company (or at least what you're tasked with doing) don't mesh well.

No, its not the way life should be. Life is too short for you to be miserable at work. Most people don't actually enjoy their jobs, but it shouldn't be a chore either.
Great publication, will subscribe as soon as the feed's available.
I think the study is assigning health benefits to "being a runner" rather than just "running". It's likely that the selected group of runners who had been running regularly for 6 months had been running regularly for much much longer, perhaps 10+ years. I'm definitely not an expert on the subject, but I don't know how many people are in good enough shape at age 60+ to start running, and I imagine most people running at age 60+ started running no later than their mid 50's.

The real thing you want to control for is the health of the runners and the walkers at the time the runners started running.
If your looking for the AFF Suzuki Cup 2014 complete time, date, venue & TV info's about this live streaming game, here's some of the latest news up-date and live scores happening around.

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ROUND((61 + COS(3 * month - 22.5)) / 2)

Admittedly rounding is still cheating but it allows compacter solutions than being spot-on every time. Handling February is left as an exercise for the reader.
Have a look at Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and note the part about maintenance welders and production welders. You probably want to be the maintenance welder, constantly doing something different. The book used to be on-line, but doesn't seem to be now.

(At least, I assume that's what he means.)
Ahhhh, I freaked out because I forgot this edge case: VPC vs Classic reservations don't affect whether you get a price cut or not, they only affect the capacity portion of the reservations -- being guaranteed to launch an instance of that size in that Region+AZ.
Sorry to be that guy, but are there any apps in production based on FRP/ Elm?

According to the Elm website, under "big projects" it lists the Elm website itself and a couple of rather PoC games.
- http://elm-lang.org/Examples.elm

(I'm not saying that FRP is bad, I think it's an interesting concept, but I'm wondering on how efficient it is in production.)
Yes, what I call "embeddable Docker" is a desirable thing. It will help Docker integrate with other centralized daemons that want to own the process tree, like systemd. I've made it very clear in the past that I want this too, but would welcome help to implement it. I'm actually putting together a "hacking sprint" so that the various interested parties can participate in making it happen. I actually offered the CoreOS guys to join the effort last week - but they seem determined to do it themselves instead. That's OK but they should know they are welcome back if they change their minds.

So, anybody want to help hack on embedded Docker?

See also this good, unbiased explanation of the relationship between Docker, CoreOS and systemd: http://www.ibuildthecloud.com/blog/2014/12/03/is-docker-fund...
What happened to George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1984 and all that hype about eastern bloc, freedom and that crap. Confused. Maybe, George Orwell was an Indian after all.
I don't think source code is exempt from patents per se. I think the rule is more like some point in the supply chain has to have a license. It's common to distribute a chip or software library with no license with the assumption that the final product will get a license. But if the source code is the final product it needs a license. IANAL.
That just means that you'd run them over your source locally and upload the static output to the web server. This is what most static blogging engines, like Jekyl, Pelican etc... do.
Try a couch-to-5k program that will ease you into things without getting you hurt: http://www.reddit.com/r/c25k
Most welcome! Glad to help out where I can.
Another interesting article about Julia by Evan Miller (was on HN a while ago): http://www.evanmiller.org/why-im-betting-on-julia.html

HN thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7109982
The status of economists
Sure, no problem. I updated my comment above to include a link to all the relevant files. As you'll see, despite the significant differences in file size, there is very little discernible difference in image quality.
> the [uncropped] original is a pornographic picture from Playboy magazine

FTFY
What good is of updated documentation if change breaks my code? The good way would be to first define and stabilize interfaces, and work from there - but this would require stopping for a while to think, and refrain from adding new features in the meantime, which doesn't seem likely with Docker.

And while I don't support "revolution" (or even think that Rocket is necessarily better than Docker, or that Better One Should Win), I really appreciate break from monoculture. Having one large player in any area is harmful. Even if Rocket stays a niche project, its existence on the market will influence Docker's strategy.
The cops, courts, judges, congress and executive office all work against the American people. Your disposable income will do nothing in the long-run to stop those that stand to benefit, profit and empower themselves through subverting the average citizen's rights. Enact real change through historically proven measures.
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What's interesing is that Docker used to run (almost) this way some time ago. I guess the daemonless mode won't fly with managing communication (iptables NAT, IP assignment, linked containers, etc).
what languages are more appropriate for today's hardware? The majority of my experience in C (Linux) is on embedded hardware (and quite a few years ago). I've never run into wasted cycles before but that setup is really different from a modern cpu on a desktop.
Yes, I thought that was one of the touted benefits of moving to the new API.
I cried until cthulu refreshed my manifest.
That's a really nice HCI idea. Maybe not too discoverable but very very easy to "trigger" when you want it.
For me it was the free fall. Without any parachute.
When will you guys be working on implementing jails or another containerisation solution?

Pretty much every other major OS out there like GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris offer some sort of solution like that, but OpenBSD and co sadly do not.

Something like that would give me a good deal of motivation to switch.
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I'll link the same paper TD-Linux did in the BPG discussion:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.41....

The damning bits are this: "A fundamental weakness of fractal block coders is that the coders possess no control over the codebook. Codewords are too densely clustered around the very common all-zero subtree and too sparsely distributed elsewhere. This dense clustering of near-zerotrees increases codeword cost but contributes very little to image fidelity. ... At 0.25 b/pixel, over 80% of all coefficients in the 512 × 512 Lena image are assigned to zerotrees by our zerotree-augmented wavelet coder. Hence, only about 20% of the fractal coder’s codewords are significantly different from a zerotree. This redundancy is costly, since when using self-quantization we pay a substantial number of bits to differentiate between these essentially identical zero code words."
The current stable version of Lo-Dash supports _.curry. In 3.0 Lo-Dash will add support _.rearg, _.ary, & _.curryRight.
Using a combo of them you can easily create auto-curried functions.

var where = _.curry(_.rearg(_.where,1,0));
var isMultilang = where({multilanguage: true});
I really enjoy all the comments to these types of articles. Obviously, a whole lot of us are armchair rocket scientists. It's nice that there are clearly a few actual factual rocket scientists here as well.

Here's to lots more to discuss in the coming years...
Just signed up! I'd been meaning to for while, and this reminded me -- thanks.

If you have a workplace gift matching program, don't forget to take advantage of it!
Yeah we used to call it "standalone mode", it was pretty neat but really confused users (it would auto-detect whether to go daemon mode or not, so behavior became contextual and hard to troubleshoot).

Yes, managing communication or other centralized resources is harder that way which is a challenge for "embedded Docker". Rocket does not have this problem because it relies on systemd to manage all this centrally under the hood. So you get "daemonless" as long as you sweep everything under the giant systemd rug :)
Agile development in mobile apps
The lines about making A.Weil upset made me laugh. It's interesting how A.G. apparently rubbed A.Weil and H.Cartan the wrong way, but then Dieudonne was totally at his side at IHES. Fascinating --if you're into Math folklore.
I'm not saying he should have released the documents himself, I'm saying he shouldn't have given anything to the reporters which weren't in the public interest.

Whistleblowing is when you see something illegal and you reveal those specific instances of illegal activity. You can debate whether or not what has been revealed has been beneficial or not, but that doesn't change the definition of whistleblowing - it's not taking a job specifically to gain access to classified information you've never seen before with intention to leak it[1], downloading hundreds of thousands of documents, then handing them over to a few reporters and saying "I'm not sure what's appropriate to reveal to the public, so I'll let you decide." If those reporters reveal something that isn't in the public interest or is damaging to national security, it's a cop-out to say that he wasn't the one who revealed it - he gave it to the reporters and he's responsible for anything they choose to report.

I see people saying all of the time that there's a huge difference between what Manning and Snowden did. The way I see it, the difference is that Manning gave thousands of documents to Julian Assange hoping that he'd act responsibly with them, whereas Snowden gave hundreds of thousands of documents to Greenwald, Poitras and Gellman hoping that they'd act responsibly with them.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/25/politics/nsa-leak-snowden-job/
You have a strong point. I was more struck by the incongruity of the following statement: "We started out using a memory mapped file to store objects in. It had some problems associated with it and was replaced with a storage engine that relied on malloc to store content. While it usually performed better than the memory mapped files performance suffered as the content grew past the limitations imposed by physical memory."

So it looks like they gave up on the "kernel knows best" approach quite a while ago. But then they show a graph, where the older mmap() approach is more than twice as fast as the malloc() approach across the entire range of the graph. They explain this in a sentence below the graph saying "Malloc suffers quite a bit here as the swap performance on Linux is rather abysmally bad. " Well, yes. But presumably that is the case we're interested in, as a cache that has room for everything is a much easier problem.

So what are we to make of the earlier contention that malloc() trumps mmap()?
The submission was about China, not New Zealand, so forgive me for being a bit bemused.
Continuing this pedantry, one could argue s/he isn't claiming that what people _do_ be worth all the stars in the heaven, etc. This guy "getting a house in Montana" is him specifically rejecting that his worth is only his salary or position or career...even his pride. His sanity at least was worth it somewhat for him to take a sabbath to regain it.

I guess the next question then is what is it we value in ourselves and how do wee determine it? That's a harder question.
I'm just glad to see that a lot of people didn't read my full comment. Hard on crime was not what I said, what I said was that there is a finite amount of money available and that when we have to choose between educating prisoners or providing an education to people BEFORE they enter the criminal system the net gain for society is even higher because you stand a far greater chance of keeping them from entering the system to begin with. Making everything else irrelevant.
How come all mobile browser uses software JPEG decoding? Is it because of the startup latency of the hardware decoder?
Where do Startups start up?
> So the real problem will always be the stupidly inefficient method by which we conduct space flight. We send all of our supplies out of an enormous gravity well with a thick atmosphere.

True, but it doesn't actually cost very much to do so. The cost of fuel for getting into orbit is only 0.3% of the total cost for the rocket [1], so if we could rapidly re-use them, we could potentially launch them every day of the year for not a lot of money.

[1]http://www.space.com/21386-spacex-reusable-rockets-cost.html
Is there a particular feature you wish Docker had not added? 1.4 RC had 2 months worth of stabilization and basically no new features.
Their website appears to be a fork of https://github.com/Polymer/docs with just some content changed and the "antha" repo itself appears to be a thin fork of go-lang. Compare:

- https://github.com/antha-lang/antha/blob/master/ast/ast.go

- https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/go/ast/ast.go

...and the antha code as-is doesn't really do anything? (other than be mostly go)

Not really sure what to make of that.
I agree that you can't generalize the opinions of two people (or even three). But you certainly can't generalize from zero.
The more COMPETITORS the better.(I guess?)
Often people want to run without dockerd because they want to use a different orchestration system (systemd, OpenStack, etc.) and usually that system sets up the networking and such.