skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two main ideas I think people may get wrong.

One is that there needs to be survival of an individual (not dying), while it rather refers to survival of a species (not going extinct). This survival thus has little to do with actual life or death, rather it has to do with reproduction. For example a one-day-fly is, generally spoken, in a terrible situation when it comes to survival, it's life/death perspective is awful, just one day. But it survives as a species because its able to reproduce so rapidly that even a short life doesn't make the species go extinct. Evolution doesn't care for survival of an individual as long as that individual manages to reproduce before it does.

The second is that there is somehow some 'fitness' variable, the better the more you survive. So a lion would be more fit than say a fly because it's stronger. But this too refers to a different concept, which is that 'fit' is in relation to the environment. A fly is quite fit to live in many environments over long periods of time, whereas a lion isn't fit for many environments and will have trouble surviving say changes in climate and habitat. Fitness is thus purely in relation to its environment.

So really 'survival of the fittest' is more like 'species fit for the environment will survive long enough to reproduce', or something to that effect. From this then originates the argument that random mutations of a species will create different offspring that is more or less fit for the environment, and those more fit will survive, those less fit will not. That is survival of the fittest. And again, when I refer to survive, I mean the species, on the basis that when individuals of a species are fit for their environment, they have a good chance of reproducing enough offspring before death preventing the species from going extinct.
I've spent a great deal of effort trying to convince people around me to do things that are clearly healthy in the short and long-term… Eat vegetables, drink enough water, avoid artificial colors, preservatives and sweeteners, exercise proper precautions in workshops. It's futile.

I agree it's frustrating that people won't simply believe facts about how to fix their health problems when presented to them, and then are happy to embrace superstitious symbols instead of logic. But I'm not surprised, considering how many people I know who complain about the common symptoms of dehydration daily but refuse to believe that what they need to do is just drink some water... But are happy to take an Excederin with Coca Cola to mask their dehydration headache.
FWIW - I found the 'horrific smelling gas' went away with 1.3.
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Though a fictitious example, in the book Cryptonomicon, the protagonist did a similar trick to try to counter the emissions from his computer being read. I don't know how practical that would be IRL, however. I use Gentoo on my daily driver, and even I am not compiling all the time. And a compile job small enough to run in an infinite loop without impacting your ability to get other work done might not make enough making noise, or might have enough of a pattern to it that it could be filtered out.
> How would you fund ... fire departments

Well you'd just wait for Marcus Crassus to come down with his fleet of slaves to offer you a rock-bottom price for your home in exchange for his firefighting services -- so you can at least get your possessions out before it burns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_firefighting#Rome
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I agree with you. I hate hate hate having every single operation on a website take 1-2 seconds in good conditions, and 5-6 seconds on average conditions. I've developed a habit of tab clicking every hyperlink I think I might need just to navigate a little faster. Having the browser act like an application and then that application query data from the server fixes the performance problem... well at the least makes the performance problem fixable.

The problem is, Just because the client should download the application to work with your server, does NOT mean that the application has to be written in an insanely complicated framework with a year long spin up time and constantly changing semantics that makes it impossible to debug anything and obscures the performance of your application. Those two things are different.
Yes: one room appartement reasonnably close, or a larger place further away -- most of my colleagues there spend the same, some had a longer commute.
If you don't use DTrace to debug php, you're missing a lot: http://php.net/manual/en/features.dtrace.dtrace.php. Same for python and ruby and node.js. All these have DTrace support.

DTrace is not hard, it's essential; and it's significantly easier, than say, awk, which is another crucial tool.
FAFSA documents are not complicated to fill out, but the overall process require you to spend some amount of time on jumping through various hoops. Also, it has prerequisites and conditions you need to keep track of. For people who are short on money (and therefore time) all of that has significance.
Using an absolute like "there are no coffee shop hackers" isn't accurate. It's probably not common but there are some.

I've thought about why you'd target people in coffee shops / public places. There's a coffee shop in Austin near the capitol that's frequented by politicians and their associates. They often have meetings there or sit and work on their laptops. I think the reasons you'd target them are obvious.
I'm not sure why FreeBSD defaults to csh for interactive use other than it's probably just developer preference on their part. But for scripting, this old gem kept coming up for me when reading about FreeBSD:

http://www.perl.com/doc/FMTEYEWTK/versus/csh.whynot

It's basically a bunch of reasons why c shell scripting is not recommended...
I was excited about Apple Pay and used it where I could for about a month or so. Though, as we all have to do once or twice a month (ridiculous) I had to get a new debit card and since I havent bothered taking a pic of my newest card for Passbook.

The first few times I used it at Wegmans and Walgreens it was quick and awesome. It probably still is great to use at Wegmans, but Walgreens bogged down the experience by adding tons of prompts for me to agree to complete my order.

Maybe one day mobile payments will be realized, but until Apple gets every huge to mid size retailer on board it's just not useful to me.
The seat liners can be installed in Soyuz on-orbit. When the Shuttle was delivering someone who would return on a Soyuz, they'd bring the liner up as cargo on the Shuttle and swap it in. I imagine they routinely do the same for crew who arrive and depart on different Sayuz (which happens fairly regularly.)
I would argue that some limited monopolies like those provided by patents on a truly novel invention makes sense. Our current patent system implementation is pretty broken but I think some limited protection, and thus monopolies, for new inventions makes sense to encourage people to invest in new technologies. I certainly don't see Peter arguing for the more egregious types of government/legislative monopolies.
1) The component used for the web interface is not part of the demo

2) Check out hyperdemo/scripts/tpch/load.sql, HyPer uses the same syntax as Postgres, i.e. you run bin/sql, create a customer table and load it with

copy customer from '../tpch/customer.csv' delimiter ',';

3) Please contact us http://www.hyper-db.com/#team
Non-cooperative docking has only been done exactly once in the history of human spaceflight on the Soyuz T-13 mission to the Salyut 7 space station [0]. In addition, Wikipedia mentions a few unmanned tests.

In practice, all spacecraft docking and berthing operations are fully automated and no human intervention is required apart from emergency conditions (which have never occured). The last intentional attempt (1997) at manual docking ended up in a bad collision between the Mir space station and a Progress spacecraft [1]. The last Mir mission (Soyuz TM-30) did the last few meters under manual control. ISS crews are trained for manual docking but I don't think has ever been necessary.

In the hypothetical situation that the ISS would be left unmanned, it's extremely unlikely that they would decide to (or have time to) power down the attitude control systems (control moment gyroscopes and thrusters). So even if the station ended up unmanned, it's not likely that it would be non-cooperative (ie. out of control). If all the attitude control systems would disabled because of damage (e.g. fire), the station would probably not be salvageable.

So it's possible but very unlikely to have a scenario where a manned mission would need to manually dock an out of control space station. But it has happened once before, so it's not impossible either.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_and_berthing_of_spacecr...
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_M-34#Collision
I'm glad that it worked for him, but my community college was a complete waste of time with the exception of two (just two!) courses and the internship program.

I think the true way forward is in replacing community colleges with certificates from online courses (with some in-person labs, probably). It's cheaper and would make for better quality of education.
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The article did mention that he contacted a number of doctors around the country, and it didn't sound like he had a horde of them competing over who would have the opportunity to perform the operation, just the one guy at UPMC.

Plus since he had done a lot of research and "shopping around" for the thyroid procedure previously, he probably had a good idea of how to navigate the medical system to do this sort of thing.
This is already an established attack vector. Furthermore, even if you have sound proofed the room high quality DSLRs can pick up enough vibration from things like plants to reenact the sound.

Edit: Also it goes beyond just password interception. By following patterns of key presses you can detect things like language and even application.
Community College isn't just about college level work. Some of their developmental courses start at the fourth grade level. Many of the people attending are fairly new to the country.
> "[...] should this affect my rotation policy for encryption keys?"

Only if you're in the habit of displaying them or typing them in or otherwise transmitting them over leaky I/O channels. If all they do is get loaded from your internal SSD to RAM, then they're pretty safe. Your passwords are what's really at risk, and any secrets that you put on screen.
Oh, municipal governments. From the headline, I though he was proposing some national thing.
A big use case is people who want privacy. Modern phones have back doors that can be activated remotely by the manufacturer. Don't want to be tracked for a while? Disconnect the baseband. Don't want to be watched? Disconnect the camera. I can see a lot of people wanting a phone that's under their control.
Huh, I would've thought that Kickstarter was way above and beyond, given the amount of press they get. Perhaps it is because the things funded on Kickstarter get a lot of press themselves.
47 miles one way. I time my commute to miss the bulk of traffic and on average it takes me 60 minutes. I also WFH 1-2 times per week and have a carpool partner.

I'm in Silicon Valley and my commute is on the upper range of normal.
I first thought about wrapping malloc to register all allocated data, and then free everything before exiting, but it wasn’t a satisfying solution.

Quick question, Isn't this the same with just leak all the memory that you've allocated. Because, after a process died, operating system will just take it back the memory it used.
Times have really changed... North Technologies domain name is:

n-o-r-t-h-t-e-c-h-n-o-l-o-g-i-e-s.com
Here is a good explanation: http://etherealmind.com/allocating-64-wasteful-ipv6-not/.
This is an initiative that will lead to higher earning potential for Americans, leading to higher tax revenues over the long term. Will it pay for itself? Probably not, but it's juvenile to act like all government spending is equal when it comes to the country's long term financial health.
Thank you for the well-thought-out reply. On the other hand, I don't know whom I should cite to convince you if I can't cite generally well-respected academic articles and periodicals. If you want me to make a strong, free-standing argument, I believe it would take many more words than would be warranted in small comment section of a news site.
Interesting, this method has lead to the game freezing a couple times. And another time it seemed that the computer just skipped it's turn.
IMO, just having something of the quality of FreeBSD's handbook (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/) is a significant point to consider. It is the best piece of documentation for a system I have ever read.
At first I thought you could do this with window functions (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/tutorial-window.ht...) but now I'm not so sure, or at least it doesn't seem very straightforward to me - very neat!
> for what triggered this change

You are doing it too. A change is not triggered by anything - you are talking as if there is some latent change waiting to be activated.
Don't take this too seriously, e.g. from the very beginning:

"is a functioning CDC Biosafety Level 3 laboratory, the standard to do infectious disease research in the United States."

That's a standard to do infectious disease research ... and not the one required for Ebola, which is BSL-4; a lot of testing labs are trying for ~BLS-3 because it's cheaper and much more quickly achievable. And because researchers often work with large and/or concentrated quantity of the pathogens they're researching, vs. the much small quantities involved in just testing samples.
This... just.. no.

You prefer basically to enlist in the hope that more communities win the lottery of making a super rich person happy, than you do finding a way to extend access to pretty much everyone? I can't even fathom this line of thinking.

Myself, I prefer the vision of a society that, through enacted laws, reaffirms a belief that it is worth all of us paying for people to be educated.
I agree that diversity of opinions, perspectives, skills and backgrounds is important. That's one reason I oppose the monocultural idea that has crept in over the last few decades, that the one true path for everyone is spending their youth sitting in classrooms.
sago hits the nail on the head to answer the "why". When the People have any sort of influence at all, everything becomes politicized, and those who don't want the system to crumble insist that all voters be educated in an ever-increasing set of things in order to vote sanely about them. To question the need to learn a particular thing that's already been politicized like evolution is to question democracy itself.
This says less about education than it does about the inefficiency of the Iraq war.
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> A misconception that affects the way people think is the idea that the study of the past is a necessary and integral part of the theory.

> the roots of the science are in observing the stars we see today

I agree with your point, but just made me smile in that we tend to look at a lot of (possibly) long dead stars from our past, too!
Visa is on the receiving end of chargeback fees, they have no interest in fraud detection.

For example, it's still not possible to report clearly compromised cards to the issuing bank, Visa has no provisions for that. Pretty much tells you all you want to know about their stance on the card fraud.
See also Melissa Elliott's Defcon 2012 talk "Exploring Unintentional Radio Emissions":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N1C3WB8c0o

(I actually bought a cheap SDR dongle after watching it, to see what I could pick up. So far I've found that the antenna it comes with makes tuning into FM radio difficult :/, and when I went to use it to do some investigation about WiFi signal traffic I was reminded they have a limited range on the spectrum...)
We're way past bankrupt already. That's what debt is. Zero was a long time ago.
I was frequently pushed and challenged by excellent professors who had true passion for their subjects

I'm paying $47,336 to go to a private institution and wish this was true. Internal politics and tenure have ensured friends of department chairs have gotten the jobs irregardless of teaching ability, skill, research, knowledge in the subject area..
>>Not everything human produces ought to have an economic component.
Painters, Poets, Musicians... ?

Can you explain why someone needs a college education to become a painter, poet or musician?
Not all community colleges are the same. If you live in close proximity to universities with high academic standards, most of the professors are going to be recent graduates of those programs, or educators picking up extra cash and some experience teaching at CC.

BFE Community College will not have the same level of academic excellence.
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Fact is, xenophobia is a problem of ignorance and ignorance is far more acceptable among people who have not had the opportunity to learn better than it is among people who have. You appear to have a surprisingly simplistic attitude to life - do you also judge an illiterate toddler the same way you would an illiterate college student?
I'd absolutely switch jobs if I was required to set up a Facebook for Work account with my real information. Then again, I'm an engineer, and am allowed a certain amount of leeway with my crackpot privacy theories.
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Wow. I guess it doesn't really matter to them considering they're building multiple products. The domains for those products are probably more important unless they were branding the products with North.
I came here to suggest (white|pink|brown) noise.
http://simplynoise.com/ is a great source.
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Do they support IPv6? The IPv6 link from their list of features page just links to their blog entry about Singapore.

What kind of IPv6 allocation do they provide?
Having been there, it is hard to imagine wanting to live in/near Roswell.
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Try New Relic. There's a free tier. They have server and service monitoring with monitoring & instrumentation plugins for whatever stack you use (e.g. there are plugins for PHP, MySQL and Apache). You'll have a nice web interface the non-terminal folks might even be able to use to monitor performance, error rates, and go deep into individual sessions/stack traces when needed.
I think the important point here is that you still have some anonymity in the sense that your data is processed in the same way as everybody else's. Saying "Google reads your emails" is basically a fear-inducing way of saying "Google scans everybody's emails."

Yes, they scan your emails. But not _particularly_.
Yes, EVA is cool. Space in general is cool. I have a brother-in-law who went from subcontractor to Boeing to Boeing employee while working on ISS. But there have been long career stretches of flights to El Paso for two weeks at White Sands. That's a career in aerospace. So, I appreciate what where you're coming from so let me clarify my point about fecal cohesion:

In regards to this internship there's no evidence of planning. No projects suitable for completion within the duration of the internship have been prepared.

Because the internship is not viewed as an extension of the classroom, there's a fundamental misunderstanding of what an internship is supposed to be. An internship is not just a part time entry level job.

It's normal to throw an entry level employee at a pile of work that's considered beneath the senior staff. But again, that's not a meaningful internship.

The idea that the less domain relevant background a person has the more likely they are to be writing the documentation upon which people may have to rely suggests that the Wiki is a waterfall style contractual obligation. There's nothing wrong with over the transom requirements and back over the transom fulfilment of them. There are even valuable lessons in waterfall development to be gleaned from that process.

But if that's what the person will experience, then make a plan around that decision so that the internship has maximum value.

If the goal is to develop software to sync ground and orbital resources, then make a plan around that and select a candidate who can complete it in the time alloted...or don't do it.

Decide what your time commitment is as a field instructor. Make your decisions based on your responsibility as an educator. Take the internship seriously from an academic standpoint. Professionalism means not wasting other people's time.

Good luck.
I freelance. I can’t be productive at all working from home, so I just work at coffeeshops, anywhere from a 1-minute walk or a 20-minute bus ride.
As I understand it, the NX bit is just a new permission bit to say "Don't execute this page". The i386 architecture only had read and write bits, and assumed that read also meant execute.

W^X is a policy that a kernel can choose to implement, that if the W bit is set on a page table entry, so is the NX bit. You need the NX bit to be available in hardware for this to be useful, but hardware support for NX doesn't mean that you have to use it, let alone implement W^X.

This means that amd64 processors are backwards-compatible with kernel and userspace designs that require W|X, even in long (64-bit) mode.
Can you elaborate a bit more on what you found bloated about Atom-Shell over Node-Webkit?

I've been going down the AS route as I too found Node-Webkit was stale and AS was very active.

I may switch to NW.JS if the reasons are compelling enough though...
I think the fundamental problem is that "species" is a way for human to divide up organisms, rather than a fundamental function of biology or evolution. Every organism has its own DNA but "species" is a way of trying to group those into patterns that make sense to humans.

That is, it's easy enough to demonstrate that evolution drives changes in DNA. That's objective. Whether or not you call it a species change is subjective.
It is nearly unbelievable to me that this hasn't been done already by shipping companies.
Ask HN: You have a lot of data, what would you do?
tldr: All websites from HN&co-outgoig links indexed and prepared for a machine learning task (not only "normally" indexed, but tokenized, POS tagged, Sentiment Analyzed, NER, ..., know how many comments, points, was on which site of HN, termVectors, etc.). What would you do? And what to do to earn money with that?

long story:
I was having some fun with financial-News-data and the Forex market for my masters thesis. Well: no, I did not get rich :). But I've learned a lot. A lot about Sentiment detection, about NLP, about all that stuff. I found bitcoins are a fun playground, but I do not want to put my money directly into the whole thing. I want to provide a service that could help cluster/filter the news in a very specific way so that someone who is really into the financial markets in any way could benefit from it - or something completely different. I am crawling constantly since Oct 2014 from HN/Reddit and 36 other datasources links and comments and I could do a lot of fun things. A neat sideproject resulting out of the whole thing is http://search.nagrgtr.com or another is a similarity service, where similar articles are found to an url in the index: http://nagrgtr.com/morelikethis . Nothing special, but still a pretty nice to have. The question is now: What do you think would be beneficial to do in order to earn a living out of it? A google-news for hackers? Or something completely different? Any ideas anyone?