skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest recalibrating your expectations based on the source. Vox's audience falls somewhere in between the audience of Business Insider and Buzzfeed. This is fairly in-depth for them.
Thanks for the link. Martin's story is interesting, moving, inspiring and genuinely engaging -- particularly his account of his first successful communication with Virna. Also, I have the utmost respect for his parents and carers. They're the real heroes for humanity. I was delighted to read that after having endured such a long period of extreme isolation that Martin was lucky enough to meet -- and marry -- the love of his life.

This article is the first good one I've ever read on the Daily Mail web-site. However, I found that the lack of sections and some of the very short paragraphs made it more difficult to read. I know shorter sentences and paragraphs than would be used in a print are recommended when the medium is the web (something I try to do, myself) but I think the Daily Mail have taken that idea too far.
The images / text to the right of the article content only add to the distraction -- though I presume that's an intentional aspect of the design.

Aside: While reading the article, I wondered for a while who was the "Diana" that he was referring to as she wasn't mentioned anywhere else in his story. Then I realised that he was referring to the deceased ex-wife of Prince Charles.

Finally, having to endure hours on end of Barney. That must have been hell.
The author sounds spoiled and entitled to everything in their life up until YC.
It's interesting how the author of the paper (and work) gets PPS sampling wrong.
The pathway crosses several cells, one in which CO2 is filtered from an oxygen atmosphere and another anoxic stage where the CO2 is fixed again, this time to produce sugars which plants actually need. The two stage fixation prevents something called 'photorespiration' where existing oxygen can 'steal' some of the rubisco mollecules which would otherwise associate with CO2. So this is a multicellular process and could not be adapted to algae.
Totally agree, see also: http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/07/before-you-make-that-pivot/
I, for one, welcome this kind of approach. I'm fed up with laptops that try to be tablets (Windows 8) and tablets that barely tolerate keyboards (iPad). Something that is compatible enough to, say, run Office for Android, a VNC/RDP client (Jump Desktop works great on Android and iOS) and the occasional terminal window would be enough to do a _lot_ of my work.

(I'm actually typing this on an iPad mini, with Microsoft's RD Client and Panic's Prompt in the background...)

The only thing I'd _really_ like to see in this OS is the ability to split the screen vertically (like Modern does on the Surface).

If the build quality matches the looks, I will certainly take a look at one. $349 (quoted on Liliputing) seems pretty decent for a Surface "clone".
Perhaps Charlie Stross' excellent series of articles can help you find reasons why someone might choose to get a publisher. This would be a good one to start with:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/03/why-i-do...
The assumption that the public can be exposed to potentially harmful radiation by people with a badge and no accountable way of verifying any relevant degree of training, study or certification is equally as ludicrous.

There is no justification for violating the privacy of and imposing potential health dangers on the public.
Yeah, it throws me into a calculus of tradeoffs. Am I willing to bet 61 cents that this book will be good enough that I will want to lend it to a friend? What are the odds that the used bookstore will pay something for it? If I do decide to keep the physical copy, which book on my already-full shelves will get removed in favor of it?

Given that it costs them more than 61 cents to print and distribute the physical version, which I interpret them as gouging on the electronic version, there's also a fuck-me-no-fuck-you urge to buy the physical copy.
Note that according to the RFCs, one can be a SNTP sender (master) or receiver, but not both.

This is why OpenNTP is not RFc compliant.
This is what happens when people want to "do a startup" more than they want to build a business doing X. The passion for the idea/product should come first, with incubators (if deemed necessary) being used as a tool towards achieving that goal.
What a great story. Charlie is very brave for telling this, and it's something that more people need to hear.

Getting into YC is not an achievement. Even if you get in, you're not special. You still have to bust your ass like everyone else trying to build a company. Not getting into YC isn't a big deal either, because you're still not special.

Stories like Charlie's should help others highlight this fact. He said that he felt impostor syndrome. I've felt that too. I don't have a great solution for that, but what it should tell you is that even people who you feel are smarter/better than you really are not. We are all the same, and we all face the same struggles, albeit in different circumstances.

PG's advice to Charlie about focusing on an idea they're passionate about, and an idea that they could see themselves working on for the next 5 years is sound. Don't chase trends. Don't chase money. Chase your passion. When you're really passionate about something, it's infectious to others around you. They want to help you. The success and money will usually follow.

I'm glad that people like Charlie tell these stories, since we seem to focus on the success stories. Those are few and far between. Charlie's story is likely more prevalent than we perceive.
I find this paragraph interesting:

"From the outside, it might have looked like I was crazy to feel this way. I had graduated from Stanford, I had a CS degree, and I knew how to play the startup game. In college I had started an ed-tech company, ClassOwl, that raised nearly a million in seed funding."

Pardon my ignorance, but if a startup is a game, wouldn't knowing how to play be knowing how to win, i.e. an exit? I feel like getting venture capital would be the equivalent of prolonging the game, which is a +0 type of action. Is raising money really "playing?" From what I've read raising money just results in needing to raise more money.
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What data and features of this drilling can we learn from sites with earthquakes vs those without. Might be a way to improve drilling without causing earthquakes.
I don't think it has anything to do with targeting GitHub in particular they probably just did a blank "grep" on any word that may match their filename.

I predict this will end by a quick retraction and apology, just to avoid more discussions on how this system is in the first place.
That isn't what I'm thinking of :/. I recall people actually up on a stage staring into each others eyes, and the talk being about that phenomena.
I've been running this kind of setup with a lenovo X220 and a 660 GTX using the cheapo express card adapter from Taiwan. It runs quite well. AMA
No! The title is wrong! The star was not swallowed, she is fine, thanks for asking. The article explain the situation better.

The pulsar is preceding (you can simplify this as "rotating") so the pulsar is no longer "pointing" sometimes to the Earth. We can see directly the pulsar, because it's small and far away. We only can see the emission beams, I like the lighthouse analogy. It's "pointing" elsewhere, so it's still there but we can see it.
> How would you guarantee the trustworthiness of a node?

With math.

First you need a common consensus of what the publicly searchable corpus is at a given point in time. Computing a hash on the entire set may be impractical, so you partition the crawlspace. Dynamic content makes it tricky to validate distributed crawling, which motivates things like http://named-data.net

A blockchain might be useful as the public ledger for retrospective diffs when asking "What is all the currently public available data right now?"
I should point out that my academic background was political science and econometrics, with only a smattering of comp. sci courses in college, so I'm also an autodidact in computer science -- my recommendations come from my own experience.

You will want Knuth's TAOCP (especially since you mentioned you've had trouble with sorting and searching algorithms), but it's not something to start with. Likewise, Hopcroft and Ullman's "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation" is a crucial text, but it's highly abstract (much more so than Knuth, which is a very practical work) and very, very slow going. Pick it up later when you're comfortable with mathematical formalisms.

You'll want to, relatively early on, find a readable introduction to discrete mathematics (the mathematics of "countable" objects, like sets and integers) and some of the more useful optimization techniques like linear programming. I used Grimaldi's "Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics" to good effect.

Eventually, pick up some good textbooks on programming language design (not parsing and compilation), like Turbak et al's "Design Concepts in Programming Languages" and Finkel's "Advanced Programming Language Design."

Also, a few more sitting on my bookshelf that I also highly recommend -- "Computer Organization and Design," "Operating System Concepts" (the famous "Dinosaur book"), and (if you want to get into the nuts and volts of hardware), Horowitz's "Art of Electronics." Great works.

That should tide you over for the next few years -- but it'll be fun reading. Really!
Please tell me that this Ryan Lawler from TechCrunch is writing in that style to insinuate his utter disdain not only for the FanHero business model, but for the whole "free money for 21-year olds with a half-baked idea" industry. He can't possibly write that way for real, could he?
Everyone is okay earning more money.
It's on the boundary now, with Twitter and to a lesser extent Facebook being mentioned casually by celebrities on TV chat shows. The BBC routinely go to Twitter for "vox pops" where previously they'd have gone into the street to ask random people.
What don't you understand? That they are talking about a single particle?

A 'single particle in two places' just means the wave-function is distributed into multiple chunks. Entanglement means that two particles' states are not independent. So it seems like that sentence is talking about how two chunks of a particle's wave-function are not independent, which is probably very obvious.

The obviousness of that means it's not sexy confusing quantum magic, so you don't hear much about it as much. This guy is suggesting that you might be able measure mass differences dependent on the form of the wave-function, which would be very interesting.

That's how I understand it anyway. I could be full of crap.
Can confirm (I'm in France):
http://i.imgur.com/2Mslw61.png
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> I would have to talk to my cohort and confirm that no, we hadn’t found an idea yet and yes, we were still super excited about our “company.” I did little else but eat, code and sleep.

If you don't have an idea what you're doing what are you doing coding?
No I understand the point of learning. My question was what is the practical use of this?
I'm not talking about a risk of cancer from immunosuppression, but about the well-established long-term risk of cancer due to any stem cell therapy.
Is this the Fibonacci sequence?

EDIT: For anyone curious, being rax and rdx the starting terms, the rcx-th term is found in rax at the end of the loop.
I was going to make a similar comment. There is an undercurrent of "raising money = success" in this posting. The whole concept of throwing money at 21-year olds and hoping they find an idea still seems bizarre to me, but obviously it has paid off for the YC guys.
This is exactly what class action suits are for.
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I remember hearing on the Joe Rogan Podcast, Joe Rogan discussing going to Germany with Dana White, the owner of UFC. They did some kind of blood transfusion treatment. Joe did it for his knee, and Dana did it for his Meniere's disease, and supposedly it repaired his knee and stopped the disease. I don't recall what it was called though.
I don't think that invalidates the presumption of innocence.
It's the digital alternative of a search warrant. Imagine a world where prosecutors could not enter your house.
I think he's writing that way on purpose and I share his disdain for "free money for 21-year olds with a half-baked idea"...
Have the same issue and diagnosis (BPPV). 2 yrs ago, I visited my dentist - a marathon 2 hr appointment with my head tilted back - ever since that appointment I've had occasional vertigo. Not sure if it was related - but I'd never had symptoms prior. Head tilting back (while shaving , or roller-coasters or a dental chair), or working near a window/edge thats on the third or fourth floor, can bring it back.
I second this. I had the pleasure of driving a Ferrari 348 TB once in London rush hour traffic. Needless to say, the experience of driving it was curtailed by the pottering along in a series of traffic jams, rude and obstructive behavior towards me from other driver simply because of the car, and to top it all off the engine overheated and had to be repaired afterwards.

But it looked great and sounded amazing.
Since your brought up the prestige issue. Prestige is a very important component when applying to jobs, meeting people, or going to graduate school. So no, Podunk U will not churn out great students.
Yup. The xadd opcode adds the two registers together and swaps them so that the previous element is always in the same register.
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>but eventually I'll have a family and other obligations,

Get them involved. I teach my nephews programming and math. I am teaching him javascript right now. I am not good at javascript myself, but it is an opportunity for me to learn.
Avoid Aspartame like the plague. You'll see people say (regarding Meniere's) that they've stopped drinking coffee, alcohol, soda and it helped with their attacks. The one thing many of those have in common is the wide popularity of "diet" or "lite" versions, usually containing Aspartame.

I noticed the same issues myself with Alcohol but it stopped almost completely once I switched to non-diet drinks (still in moderation, of course). Then I started getting attacks a little more frequently (the shorter "drop" attacks, though). I realized the only thing that had changed was that I'd started up again drinking diet soda containing, wouldn't you know it, aspartame. Since that moment I avoid it and it's served me well, along with consistent exercise.

I'm not a doctor, but I have a theory based on my observations that Aspartame compromises the strength of the barrier around the inner ear. Because of how I've felt the dizzy sensations start and eventually pass, I'm assuming fluid buildup causes the inner ear lining (probably scarred by now if my theory holds) to burst. This causes instant dizziness that subsides rather quickly at this point, likely due to damage of the hair cells. In my theory, the lining will burst either because it's been weakened (aspartame) or excessive pressure (when I've slacked on my workouts), or more often probably a little bit of both.

I'd love to get in contact with a doctor about it to explore the theory further, since I can definitely lay down some scientific method and observation, but my knowledge of the ear is probably pretty limited compared to that of an expert. Up until now, though, most doctors I've talked to seem to treat Meniere's as simply incurable and make no further time investments.

I just might try to reach out to this company and see if anybody there is interested even just give me a good reason my theory is wrong.
It seems wrong that a repo rename be necessary because someone somewhere happened to make a similarly named porn movie.

I entirely sympathize with the repo owner who does not want to engage in legal interaction. I guess in practice it all boils down to where the burden of proof lies. I'd expect that the onus be on "Takedown Piracy LLC" to prove the repo contains infringing content and not on the repo owner to demonstrate that it doesn't. Does anyone know how this works?
It's great to see a company so transparent about their challenges and what they're doing to address them.

I can also whole-heartedly recommend the Saleae logic analyzer, it's saved me literally hundreds of hours over the past few years, and keeps getting better.
Am I missing something here? You can get $$$ and top quality advice for an _idea_ and then just turn around and say "bored now - let's do something else"?

And then, so it seems, when that idea runs out you just say "uhhh... let's do this instead!"

So, what are the YC people investing in? Two guys who seem pretty smart?

I appreciate that you might need to pivot from "a social network for dogs" to "a social network for pets" or even "a dog training forum" - but this just seems like they were given investment for one idea, then immediately dropped it to do something else.

Or, like I say, have I missed something vital?
Looking at this example[1]:

def size(l: List) : Int = (l match {
case Nil => 0
case Cons(_, t) => 1 + size(t)
}) ensuring(res => res >= 0)

What happens if the length of the list is greater than `Int.MaxValue`? Reading the part of the code that says `ensuring(res => res >= 0)` I would expect that it checked for overflow, but I don't understand what prevents this from overflowing, especially since the case classes that define the list are public and as a consequence I may create arbitrarily long lists.

Am I missing something?

[1]: http://leon.epfl.ch/#link/bb8d258a234aaeb380d9e1c46aa60b13-1
I started reading (not yet finished) The Innocents Abroad from Mark Twain. The book was recommended in a previous thread on HN I think.

It's an hilarious read and at the same time it's also interesting to read how people lived in Europe and the Middle East ~150 years ago.
Thanks for the link. "Ori over a WAN outperforms NFS over a LAN" that's a ridiculous claim, maybe if you ignore bandwidth. I might have to give this a shot though. I hope it's stable.
Ask HN: Command-line JavaScript beautifiers?
Are there any javascript beautifiers that don't themselves javascript to run and can be run from the command line?
That was my first thought as well. However, with them going after single words like "edge" and "thrust", I believe this is not possible.
Some physical book purchases include the Kindle edition for free, under the Matchbook program.
Very good info. During christmas break, I came off my exercise/activity routine, and the symptoms are back, after a longish gap.Will certainly try exercise. And avoid aspartame.
What do you do with the random tokens after you've generated them?

The author's proposed solution of "Encrypt then authenticate" seems pretty reasonable.
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The only part you're missing is that PG has said many times in the past that they invest mostly in the team and that many teams that go through YC end up changing their idea slightly or completely. So the beginning of this situation doesn't seem very unusual, just that they never actually figured it out.
In a psychology class I took, we applied this procedure as an in-class exercise, pairing up and asking each other the questions. It works well.
Go make that mobile app then.
Exactly. SpaceX said this would be 50/50 at best so not a failure in that sense. They'll go again in a month with more hydraulic fluid and learn more. No doubt it'll take a whole series of tests to get this working reliably. Still impressive imho.
It's nice to see some of the less flashy and HCI-focused Media Lab research getting some coverage. There are some great things going on in Ed's lab.
Maize is fine but some people like rice and a big yield increase would help feed them.
"So, what are the YC people investing in? Two guys who seem pretty smart?"

Yes, actually. Under the assumption that smart people can adapt and change as situations demand.

Someone with "a good idea" who is not smart is tied to that good idea. If it turns out not to be a good idea, or the environment changes and they need to adapt... I'd rather bet on the smart people.
In general I really like generating passwords like this, but there are some downsides. It is difficult to change it later, e.g., if the password expires or is compromised.
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We have already seen attacks that were stopped because of airline security. One example is Richard Reid, who had to resort to an unusual apparatus in order to get his bomb onto the plane. This resulted in the failure of his attack, which otherwise would have had most likely succeeded.
It sounds like the book Start Small Stay Small by Rob Walling was written specifically for you. I really enjoyed it. He also has a free ebook of his blog posts at softwarebyrob.com.

His advice exceeds anything I could offer you.
Thanks for the response. I used to keep a list of long commands that I had constructed in a plain text file, titled `useful-commands.txt` but that became too unwieldy. Now, similar to you, I try to store them as aliases – even if I don’t use the command exactly as it was saved. The hard part is coming up with a good, succinct name (descriptive but not too long) for the alias.

For a long time, I didn’t like using aliases because I didn’t want to become overly reliant on my custom aliases – and then miss them when working on an unfamiliar system. This generally worked out alright when I was able to use `Ctrl-R` with a large Bash history. Now, I think that was an irrational rationale and that aliases are very useful shell features. I’m currently trying to organise my aliases and functions into useful groups such as `home_aliases.sh`, `cygwin_aliases.sh`, etc. so that they can be loaded as needed. I then plan on adding them to a git repository so that they can easily be used – and updated – on different systems.

BTW, thanks for letting me know about ngrep. It looks like a useful complement to tcpdump.
John Scalzi has also talked about this a number of times on his blog, including these two:

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/02/13/publishing-notes-21314...

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/02/03/why-in-fact-publishing...

The short version is that he thinks publishers do a lot for him, and that he's perfectly happy to keep working with them.
Your assistant didn't sign you up for Pre, given that membership requires an in-person fingerprint scan. You got Pre because Southwest forwarded your information to the TSA which gave you Pre for that trip.

I have Pre through the Global Entry program. Others get it day-of because they were "randomly" sent to that line at the airport. Some airports have touchscreens which decide which line to send passengers to (passenger taps the screen and is told which way to go).
The Thiel Fellow and Dartmouth dropout who tried to impersonate me
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Hey, I have ideas too!

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a prototype is a conversation with yourself

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Though they may not "fall in love", they may still love each other. If love is only of the romantic flavor, than most of what it can be is missing IMO.
Absurd CES startup contest – Richard Branson flying losers to private island
iOS8 simulator – keyboard drawer behavior