skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author of this comparison is a HN user, but he isn't Fabrice Bellard.

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xooyoozoo
How Hubspot Founder Dharmesh Shah Turned a Job into a Business
So how do you go about applying this ruling? If I live in the suburbs do I have this protection? What if I live in a city? There are likely to be thousands of homes in view of existing cameras. Which ones of those are collecting admissible evidence? If a police department doesn't aim the camera at only one person's front door, but films several homes as a pretense, is that ok?

Is two weeks too long to set up surveillance? What about two hours?

I really hate the "reasonable expectation" standard in general and this ruling does nothing to clear the waters.
To be fair I've not worked much in a languages that support generics but I assure you there are type safe solutions to most every problem without them (as long as you don't write yourself into a corner). Whether my life could be simpler using them is unseen but to say the lack of them cripples a language is wholly untrue. You're simply used to using them in your solution and are wired to think with them. That's a flaw in the developer, a lack of imagination, not a flaw in the language. Arguing every language needs every feature every other language has is stupid. "[lang1] is bad because it isn't [lang2]" Is always an infuriatingly stupid and pointless argument. Use lang2 if you love it so much. Seriously.
Why your 64-bit Go programs may have a huge virtual size
What layout engine is it using?
Sigh; whoever nuked my karma, a short story to help you understand. Though I'm after good teachers, perhaps you can follow up?

Research a "three dimensional model of taste," which doesn't exist (yet). Why? Think of a six sided dice, every facet, which combined with it's twin, adds up to seven, a prime.

Now, extrapolate from the flavors you've enjoyed the following:
1. Sweetness - strawberry perhaps?
2. Sourness - a lemon?
3. Saltiness - a saltine cracker maybe? Thirsty?
4. Bitterness - funny how the lips pucker from Grapefruit.
5. Umami / savory - we might not officially recognize this in some places, but we all know "savory," - potatoe soup's a favorite of mine.
6. Spicy - are you feeling the heat, yet?

Now, compare that to any given model of flavor...I'm waiting. Thanks :)

It doesn't match, does it? With taste & smell, alone, a human being can sense four dimensions...all three axes, X, Y and Z on the Cartesian plan. Oddly enough, most flavor models left out, "Spicy," and after I saw a German guy's head nearly explode from a Thai Chili Pepper, I knew, *spicy exists

What's the fourth, for the person who can't see, who can't hear, who can't talk?

Time. If you can taste, taste changes over time. If you can feel, you're Hellen Keller and can understand Braille.

Now, Helen Keller - please next time, throw me some of your clearly larger, more infinite, more awesomely epic knowledge, because I'm confused.

I'm also blind, can't hear, and can't see. When you sh!t on my, "Karma," and refuse to share your overwhelmingly superior knowledge...

...well, we all know :)
65% of human communication is nonverbal. If I'm giving you >$10k I want to meet you in person. Its very easy to lie on a keyboard.
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Though the mechanical equivalent would be something like:

huge(input)
{
output, continue, current_function = f;
do{
if (current_function == f)
{input = x ; continue = true; current_function=g}
if (current_function == g)
{ output = input; continue = false;}
}while(continue);
return output;
}

You would then add any function you would tail call optimize into that function. Granted, with the right structure (inside > outside >... > inside) it can show up more than once on the stack but the same thing can happen despite tail call optimization.
Agree, traditional chinese is a interesting field of research currently. We are looking into it and see some possible solutions.
6 hidden monthly expenses that eat away at your budget
> the Backblaze info seems really unfiltered and close to the real world.

Cloudflare seems to be a similar company. I recommend them both to anyone somewhat technical who needs a CDN.

My only complaint about Backblaze is no Unix client. I thought about setting up a Windows VM to manage backups, but I was terrified that Gninjas would sneak into my house at night and shave my beard.
BREAKING: Facebook buys Mohammed Islam for $72,000,000,000.
Whoops, I assumed that was an arbitrary "quailty" setting. Thanks
One thing I'm still confused about: if the parents have literally excommunicated him/functionally (temporarily) disowned him, who's idea was the PR firm, and moreover, who is paying for it?
Regarding an IT worker making this mistake. The delta of one mistake separates a good opsec plan from one functionally identical to nothing. Even people who have a pretty good idea of what it takes to pull off opsec on the google-searchable web aren't necessarily interested in all of the hoop jumping to stay anonymous. Convenience is one hell of a sumbitch.
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genuine question - this sounds illegal? is it and if so why?
forget about C#, it's dying.
I guarantee you that whatever mistakes the city government in Detroit made, above and on top of socio-economic things that are hard for them to control, nobody ever said "I know, we'll create a socialist mini-state in detroit and that will fix things". That definitely didn't happen.
One would think they'd rather have it as a browser thing than a desktop thing, this is Google we're talking about. Chromebook and what not. I really wonder if this is a sign that Google earth itself is next.
Yes, it's optimized for running multiple websites simultaneously. All tabs are visible and running, but whatever you click on becomes the "active" tab, which helps with resources. Also, non-visible tabs aren't rendered by your video card.

We didn't base this designed on any previous ideas. There have been some other attempts to solve similar problems (tile tabs, etc) but nothing that we felt quite "hit it."
I hope these people do get any justice they truly deserve.

But, I work for a big company. I've only been here 4 years and I've been desired by other teams and at least a half dozen occasions - I do my job, I learn the technology and processes used here, I solve problems, I deliver, I am reliable and consistent, I treat people with respect, etc. Even still being a junior, if I lost my job today, I'd have at least 3 different job offers in different areas of the company just by my perceived worth. No, I'm not a brown noser.

So my question is, how can one work for a company for so many years, deliver and execute on so many projects, only to be invisible to the entire organization? This makes it sound like these are line workers getting laid off despite their long-term employment with the company.

If I was as invisible in my current job as these people were, I'd be looking for a new job so that I can actually be valued for my worth. Are these people victims, or are they mediocre and their career came to an end sooner than retirement?

Just a perspective, don't hate.

Edit: My company isn't one that values young workers - our primary TS core is older. Thing mainframe old. So I don't actually have much of an advantage with my "youth".
"The entire mechanical system can be assembled from 3D printed and off-the-shelf components." http://youtu.be/aEPf0QHVuMM?t=1m18s
Gecko. It's based on Firefox.
Measuring GPS Precision
I think it is clear that Google Maps is taking over the role of Google Earth. There has also been a recent Maps API refresh with Play Services 6.5, that greatly simplifies Google Maps on mobile.
The clean design and smooth little animations give a great UX, yet it's clean and keeps the focus on the content. Looking forward seeing this product evolving.
I'm increasingly of the opinion, after having to deal with biologist data format hackery for many years (they have no shame!), that every biologist should be taught relational database normalisation. That would make them actually stop and think about the structure of the data they're recording and how to make it computationally tractable. Even more, they should not even start their experiment until they've cleared their data recording structure with a bioinformatician.

Then we ban them from using flat files. Related tables or nothing. I've wasted too much time, and they're not competent enough to work with JSON/XML/Excel.
Hey, everything comes back around eventually. ;) No denying that it saves space, and we are going for a search experience that maximizes screen real estate.
> indirectly

adverb

1. In a way that is not directly caused by something; incidentally.

2. Without having had direct experience

They didn't mean to do it, but ultimately that is what happened.
Looks interesting. Wondering about the performance of it. But it definitely looks cool to have tabs next to each other instead of individually. I tend to have two windows open a lot of the time, but the current browsers don't optimize this use case.

As I'm mainly a Linux user, I'm wondering though: is a Linux build planned (in a near future) ?
Indeed Kudos! Doing the same thing, but doing it myself while I make a game. Need to put together a blog like you guys. Got some writings and paintings down...just need to build the site. Thanks for sharing!
Opening line: "Stefan Karpinski was building a software tool that could simulate the behavior of wireless networks, and his code was a complete mess. But it wasn’t his fault."

Interestingly, it was Bjarne Stroustrup's experience implementing a distributed system simulator in Simula that lead to him working on what became C++. He liked the architecture of the code, but it was too slow for him to get any results. He reimplemented the whole thing in BCPL, and that experience got him interested in having a fast language that provided Simula-like abstractions.

I originally read this anecdote in his book "The Design and Evolution of C++", but it's also in the beginning of his History of Programming Languages paper: http://www.stroustrup.com/hopl2.pdf
Is that the only meaning of Hayekian? I'm not too familiar with it myself (okay, I hadn't heard the term before I read the article), but if someone says they're Hayekian, that's what they mean?
the permalink for this article can be found here:

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/zero-knowled...
The cons subsections that say that a generic version can be less optimized than a concrete version should mention which implementation is considered. If you use mono-morphization, then you end up with the same code as you would have written by hand, so there is no loss of performance there.
I enjoyed reading that very much. The quote at the end is fucking amazing.
> Detroit is in a position to because an incredibly techno-smart city.

Unfortunately, you can't change the weather.
Africa, Uncolonized: A Detailed Look at an Alternate Continent
Did anyone actually believe the story when they first read it? My first thought was "Yeah, right."
There are plenty already, by all sorts of players. However the issue is search - which is probably one major aspect of the "friction" mentioned in the parent post:
1. Patents are often not exactly written to easily give their secrets (I would say there are specific forms of patent legalese).
2. You need (costly) experts to look at potential offers.

In addition, there are more disincentives to "easy" IP transactions:
1. Even when you've found a matching patent it doesn't mean that you can just pop out a product. Most of the actual work is still ahead of you.
2. Pricing and contract negotiation is rather difficult and costs as well.
3. The existing marketplaces are mostly rather small with the largest having maybe 20-30k offers. Just not enough to impact the myriads of problems available...

Still interested? Just reply, maybe I can help.
What advantages does Go have over Erlang?
That's wonderful, thank you. I love that we can know the kid's name (and that he apparently dreamed of being a knight, given his self-portrait!).
NASA Voyager: 'Tsunami wave' still flies through interstellar space
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Apple keeps rejecting my binary
As a language, I like Go. I would like it to have generics (Ada-style generic syntax might fit best). I don't care enough to get emotional about it. So, meh.
How to Choose the Right VOC Monitor
Scaled Distribution in JavaScript: WIP and Open Source
On the other hand, Facebook did buy WhatsApp for $18bn.
I have to agree. I only saw the headline yesterday, but even quick mental math led me to think the headline was just clickbait.
> and start producing it.

How? Through transmutation? I can't see that being economically viable.

Helium is a noble gas (generally does not combine into molecules) and tends to leave Earth's atmosphere when released. There's no viable way to produce more of it.
Performance Impact of Popular JavaScript MVC Frameworks
WikiLeaks: Google to Back Hillary Clinton for President in 2016
Open Source, potentially useful, Javascript to compare attribution models or other algorithms impact on data visually.

On Codepen, my CTO has been sharing, well, everything.

It's awesome.

Suppose you want to compare various attribution models to your online marketing, like Google Analytics. It's a bit tricky to get the math right in Javascript to show how the various algorithms impact the distribution of the data.

The project has a link to the open source URL on github, but, I still haven't picked a license type, so, I'm not expecting people to download or contribute (yet). Also, if you do get curious about the code, any / all feedback welcome :) It's why I'm here...

and, if you are passionate about open source license types, as I am, and have wrestled with, "Which one do I pick?" Pointers hugely appreciated. I'm as anxious about helping build the software as I am about making sure that people are encouraged and happy to use what we produce.

(go easy; I bruise).
This is all fine and I don't disagree with you, but how do you propose we fix the real problem (federal control over far too much) without first removing the endemic corruption favoring entrenched interests that our current campaign finance laws not only permit but encourage? Do you expect our current political class to vote for less power for themselves? Or for the corporate entities funding congressment to suggest to those congressmen that the regulations which protect them need to be lifted?
Ignorance, Ineptitude and Incompetence
They get a "B," Microsoft gets a "B," Google gets a "B," Bank Of America get an "F," and so on.

Nothing unusual about their results.
Definitely! For the first release, we had to focus on the biggest bang (Mac/Win) but Linux is coming (as soon as we can).
It can export to HTML, PDF via LaTeX, and a couple of others.

Emacs is definitely not the best editor for everyone. It's a shame that org-mode is sort of a secret weapon of Emacs. It's such a great package that I think it could stand on its own.
Can you configure it to force all tabs to use only the space of one screen - essentially as a tiling manager? I don't want to lose context when looking at other tabs.
Or... you can invest your most precious possesion you have, that is the remaining time in this planet, to have a life ;)
That doesn't go against achieving full potential mentioned above, just that narrowing your efforts and energy only to what is daily job for most people here... let's say most people have other priorities in life
ahh yes, good old 'evidence laundering'
> But how will you reduce the government under the current system? Isn't campaign finance reform a necessary step?

You reduce government by advocating for it. You promote ideas and candidates that will cut government income, control, and spending. The problem is that Government is too big and too powerful. Merely trying to make government function better, without intentionally cutting it, is like trying to make a severely obese man more comfortable by treating his diabetes, high blood pressure, joint problems, etc, but not restricting his caloric intake: it just makes the problem worse.

In computer science, a common way to solve complex problems is just to reduce their size. You sort a big list by splitting it and recursively sorting the smaller lists. You could make the problems of the US government much more manageable by simply abolishing the Federal government and making the fifty states independent. There would still be problems with government, but the problems would be an order of magnitude smaller. Repeat this process until government is truly local.
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Put a big comment on the top DRAFT!! STILL IN PROCESS!! or something.
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React in the real world
Have you by any chance taken a look at applying NLP techniques like generating sentence vectors with recurrent neural networks to this type of data? 2+ pair mappings (ngrams) have been in use successfully for a while in NLP, but they don't know about any context outside the current ngram.

Recent work has involved creating word and sentence vectors that capture much richer dynamics and this is where a lot of the excitement is coming from in the deep learning world wrt text (of any language, maybe even computer code, as it turns out)

I've been wanting to try applying these machine learning techniques to this type of problem (could be for clustering--which was your example--classification, regression, or sample generation--of eg novel and probable sequences?)

If you or anyone here as an interest in this sort of thing on the bio side, please contact me (email in profile)
Well, banks are earning money, and if it ends up this money is essentially just a "gift" to banks from the rest of us in society, that's a problem.

If you object and say "but they deserve these profits!" then you're arguing that they are contributing to productivity (and then the profits would be fine)
Honestly, this story is so unbelievable that it leads me to believe that many journalists have no idea how investing or the stock market work. Even if he started with $100,000 to invest, it would be an insane annual yield. A yield so high, that even crazy frauds like Bernie Madoff wouldn't promise it.

It's not that you couldn't make $72 million dollars by investing in the stock market in a few years, but rather that it would usually take a rather large principal to do so.

This isn't the same as the UVA rape story, as that took months of reporting and fact checking. That's one of the biggest journalistic mess ups in the last decade or so, and will have far reaching consequences for Rolling Stone. We'll be discussing the UVA rape story for the entire next episode of my podcast.

This is the more run-of-the-mill story about how a lot of journalists have so little knowledge about things outside of journalism that they get duped by these stupid and false feel good stories. This is more embarrassing than harmful.
This is the really dangerous consequence of chasing after stories that have nice narratives. If a story fits your ideological narrative perfectly, you should be twice as skeptical - real life stories are messy, imperfect, and very rarely perfectly illustrate whatever theory you have in mind.
I'm not too sure about Firefox specifically but I know there were some vulnerabilities in image format handling etc. that could be exploited without JS; this is the most prominent one that comes to mind:

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

However, to evade detection and frustrate any reverse-engineering attempts, even these sorts of exploits are usually "packaged" in an obfuscated JS wrapper, so they would still require it enabled to work.
Have you read the article?

"Aluminum, discovered in minute quantities in a lab in the eighteen-twenties, was hailed as a wonder substance, with qualities never before seen in a metal: it was lightweight, shiny, resistant to rust, and highly conductive. It could be derived from clay (at first, it was called “silver from clay”), and the idea that a valuable substance was produced from a common one lent it a quality of alchemy. In the eighteen-fifties, a French chemist devised a method for making a few grams at a time, and aluminum was quickly adopted for use in expensive jewelry. Three decades later, a new process, using electricity, allowed industrial production, and the price plummeted."
Looking at the archived page here https://web.archive.org/web/20130501005618/http://blakemaste..., he links to The Counter Revolution Of Science https://archive.org/stream/counterrevolutio030197mbp#page/n1... Also, doesn't that fact that he removed the link imply that he no longer agrees with that view? It kind of makes me suspicious when you have to go far back to find something to disagree with. If someone is thinking wrong, they should be making mistakes constantly, so there shouldn't be a need to dig up old opinions.
> I think you get more casual viewers when something is on a prime channel.

This is how I first came across them as a child.
Yes because ordering freshly squeeze apple juice at a place of eatery denotes baller status..

the author is crazy
A super minimal MVC library
I don't really see a problem using several languages, of course depending on how much and what you're doing with them. Alternating soft and hard layers is well suited to a lot of tasks, with a more dynamic "scripting" language and something closer to the metal. Maybe have a GUI in something different, too (esp. if we're talking 'bout the web), and maybe some build/deployment/data munging...

I'd much rather do that than have four different data formats or complicated protocols (i.e. Java and it's rat's tail of XML and OO-RPC variants, or shudder some abomination that combines ASN.1 and CORBA).
So, how would you deploy a standalone Julia program on someone else's machine?
Orbit: Our new Geo-redundant Object Store
He wasn't actually questioning the value of reading. That question was only a rhetorical device that led into his main point. It was put there as a straw man to start the process of disproving that there's no value to reading if you don't remember details. And that it's unnecessary to lament not remembering details.
I completely agree. It's also a consequence of trying to compete with outlets like Buzzfeed that produce a huge amount of low quality stories on a shoestring budget, then optimize the hell out of SEO to get very high traffic.
I hope not. No live GPS/"moving map" with Google Maps on a laptop.
Seems that it fails to complete downloading, at least for me. Both Chrome and IE complain about download being interrupted/network error.
Wait. I don't get it. Isn't pretty much every game where you kill lots of people (ie. most every FPS, TPS, etc) a "mass murder simulator"? What makes playing those ok and this not?
Solid career advice for CS students
Is there anything in place to ensure accountably of news releases in news organizations? I'm pretty sure that if enough of this happens; the reputation of the news organization will suffer.
I will believe it just as soon as I see it. Until then, I prefer to remain skeptical.
Cool- thanks for the response.

The only thing I'll add is that there are very useful classifications beyond how the regulators see it. That data are much harder to get, but very useful. For example, RIAs are a world unto themselves, but they can be reasonably segmented in a few different ways: subadvisors vs direct advisors, asset gatherers vs. asset managers, use open architecture vs. not.