skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of us (engineers of any kind) learn quite lot of maths during uni, and most of us forget 90% of that as it's not needed in most jobs, which is a shame.

The thing I have needed all the time is statistics and prob. theory, that keeps coming up literally everywhere. Calculus - not so much. If you need something, you can always re-learn it quickly. (For example, I learned quite a lot of linear algebra, but haven't used it for ~10 years, so when I had to write some 3D gfx/shader code, I had to spend like two days on quaternions, etc.)
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I would disagree, Calculus and Linear Algebra ist only the first semester usually, then it gets harder (Analysis, Statistics, Crypto)
This looks pretty awesome and will just get better as more languages get supported. But, it comments on commits, not on the diff in the PR. I think commeting on the diff looks nicer (you see code snippet with the comment) and in my opinion it's also easyer to find all the comments that way. Instead of clicking the commit hash on the commen each time.
I dont (fully) want to be defensive about Hammond, after all in my original comment, I said that he strikes me as someone who would be OK turning violent if he thought justified.

But the examples you give are more like excited teenagers as terrorism. There's a big difference between planning an act of terrorism and planning to protest some little speech and a few of you turning slightly violent by throwing things.

You're right that my statement was probably technically inaccurate (although I don't know if there's evidence he was one of the ones who did anything more than "go there" regarding the holocaust denier, and the gay rights rally without knowing the details I'm just as inclined to assume police brutality as Hammond being violent). But in the context of my comment I was talking violence as relates to terrorism, not petty assaults.
Pointed it at Dolphin Emulator:

https://commits.io/builds/e217f8be3dd

Doesn't work.
Do you have children?
I hear that TRT causes infertility so you need to abandon any hope of that while you are on it, is this the case?
The article gives rather short shrift at the end to what seems like a pretty strong argument against this theory, which is that it isn't clear what it would get the FBI. Is there any info they can get from running the site that they can't from just logging torrent traffic?

Plus, while the FBI is allowed to facilitate minor illegal actions during under-cover operations (like having one of their agents work as a mod at Silk Road), this would involve them essentially paying for and running the infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of acts of piracy. I'm pretty sceptical the people in charge would sign off on that, especially if most of the information could be gathered using other methods.
They could be, but then they just don't understand the tech involved. If you want to log who's seeding, just hop onto the torrent and log away.
I dont quite follow your point - youre worried that I might have used my real email address when creating this HN account, or used the same password as a different HN account?
A related "Ask HN" from a couple of months ago: How or where to begin learning mathematics from first principles? [1]

I'm at the very start of what I hope might be a similar journey, and have signed-up for a Coursera "Introduction to Mathematical Thinking" course. I'm hoping it might give me some insight to build on. The course starts in about ten days, so apprehension hasn't kicked-in yet.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8697772

[2] https://www.coursera.org/course/maththink
.NET Garbage Collector source code
PyPy dev here. I would be interested to explore the ideas what can be done to improve our funding situation. We seem to have moderate success in those fundraisers, but nothing REALLY huge.
Thanks! Will check and handle this.
I followed the creation of ORG through the pages of NTK.

Looking back it makes me realise how much I miss NTK. Even though back then I wasn't working in the tech industry I felt a lot more connected to UK scene than I do now.
How would it be any different to the world today? The chasm between rich and poor nations is huge. The argument against this is similar in many ways to arguing against, say, smartphones because only the rich can afford them. And yet 'poor' people, even in our own countries, and in 'poor' countries have smartphones, or soon will have access to them.

As soon as a nation of people get organised enough to plan ahead well enough to copy existing technology, or trade it, then technology can be had by all.

I don't believe it makes a whole lot of sense for 'rich' people to preserve a specific set of technologies for themselves when they can get richer if more people are able to pay for it. And where that doesn't happen we see other countries copying the technology.
The vaccination situation proves that there are idiots in the world, if you take those people as example of "can't prove X" then we might as well stop all scientific research right now. There's also people who believe the world is only a few thousand years old.

To get societal (and legal) change, you don't need to convince 100% of the crazies. Convincing most of the sane people is enough.

(I'm not saying only crazies are against psychedelics, just that the vaccination comparison isn't useful.)
Seems like a relevant time to post http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unsolicited_redesigns
Would you be kind enough to share your experience?

I ask you this as a 29 yrs old who's mortified of aging and feels guilty as hell for having a "all-day-sitting" job.
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Can anyone link to a gwern-style review of it?

Unfortunately a google search for the same just yields a bunch of T-Nation style spam aimed at wannabe bodybuilders.
Dotnet/corefx
This looks pretty great.

Getting closer to a world where The Young Lady's Primer is possible :)
you have missed

mkdir -p ~/.config/git
The 'best' find I've ever had in a skip ( UKian dumpster ) was half a spool of Cat5. That's it.

Perhaps companies here just don't dump stuff so readily.
Doesn't this perhaps show selection based on language? People who speaks similar languages are more likely to interact and reproduce, eventually narrowing the gene pool.
Sublime devs released a build today:

http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17509

The product is alive but understandably slow with a single developer.
Except, that was the first computing cloud. It predated EC2 by a few months.
NetBeans looks very native.
Indeed. Good comment growthape!
It does actually. The statement:

"What’s more, there is an energy associated with any given volume of the universe. If that volume increases, the inescapable conclusion is that this energy must increase as well. And yet physicists generally think that energy creation is forbidden."

is regarding vacuum energy = dark energy = cosmological constant, etc, and continues to discuss it after that.

Another thing I find annoying is when they (this article and also others I have seen linked here on HN) paint the picture of that breaking energy conservation is some kind of magic going on -- it is far from it.

In General relativity (GR) you can construct conserved quantities from Killing vectors [1]. For example, if you have a time-independent metric (the GR tool for measuring lengths in space-time) you get a time-like Killing vector, which is associated to a certain conserved quantity; Energy. (Another example is when the metric has certain angular independences and you get conservation of angular momentum.)

Now in metrics that mimics cosmological evolution (that is, evolution in time), you have to break time-independence, hence your time-like Killing vector is gone and your energy conservation law is gone!

This is portrayed as some magic-like thing (at least that is how it sounds to me when I read these popular cosmology articles), but it is simply a consequence of the mathematics of GR. It might break some usual physics intuition, but I would not say that physicists (at least in this field) are surprised by it.

So it does not really "contradict basic physics", one just needs to know more about the details to get a good view of it. We do not need to figure out (or "conjure into existence") a way to break conservation of energy (as is the example here), it is already there in GR.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_vector_field#Geodesics
The article on wikipedia is quite lacking on this point, but I link it here anyway.
(Prometheus author here)

Yeah, I did that benchmark with 11x overhead for storing typical Prometheus metrics in InfluxDB in March of 2014. Not sure if anything has changed conceptually since then, but if anyone can point out any flaws in my reasoning, that'd be interesting:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OgnI7YBCT_Ub9Em39dEfx9Bu...
Firing the whole mod team is weird.
Api(Application Programming interface)
Am I wrong to assume that you weren't using an init script of some sort because this stopped multiple services, perhaps in a specific order?
Like who? The uploaders behind seven proxies? It's a better idea to trace the initial seeds, although even those are likely to be anonymous/hacked seedboxes.
Won't you be stuck exposing those APIs for the lifetime of the product or risk breaking backwards compatibility?

A real revelation for me over the last year of using nodejs more and more, is that every component can use its own dependencies, at exactly the versions it requires. So, when you add to an API, bump minor. When you take away, bump major. Either way, you can bump patch for bug fixes, on any major-minor combo, whenever you want. So "stuck" isn't really possible any more.
So this is like Hound[1]? - I am (kinda) building something for PHP, Anorak[2] which uses something else I built.

What's your plan on this? I'd like to use it for our private repositories.

Edit: My web hooks are returning errors. I'll submit some feedback.

[1] https://houndci.com

[2] https://github.com/jbrooksuk/anorak
What is also a disconcertingly plausible conspiracy theory? The recording industry spreading the rumor on Twitter that filesharing sites are being monitored by the FBI.

Not that I believe that, but it's simple to point out that all evidence for this theory is a bunch of Twitter messages with second hand information.

Nice journalism on Vice's part..
Yep. The protocol is one thing, but what's also needed is distributed curation. This is a trickier problem that no one has solved yet [for a universal system where no-one has to go to jail].

There's a user story in this: "I use this thing to get stuff that I want". If the system backing that action isn't distributed then it's vulnerable.

For the average user, a legit torrent site is indistinguishable from a spam site. TPB have actually done an enormous service to the Internet for years by reducing the amount of malware installed by "download assistants" and so on. Despite the issues with many of the torrents themselves.
I totally get the argument for using testosterone for sex changes.

But as a man who takes his health and fitness into his own hands, I can't help but wonder if something like testosterone would become slightly addictive. Is it something one can use to get out of a slump and then stop taking, or is it more that when one gets to a certain age, it becomes necessary for staying at desired fitness levels?
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I was actually being cautious. American colleges like to make sure you pay for as many BS courses as possible. Calculus 1, Calculus 2, Calculus 3...

Besides, I never heard of math majors taking cryptography that early. Usually, Intro to Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra and Abstract Linear Algebra come first.
GATTACA was a film about a society that only thought they were measuring genetic superiority.

Which is still a great warning to heed, but the hero of the film is the hero because he proves that the genetic screening was wrong about him.
Cringely said, and I quote, "One in four IBMers reading this column will probably start looking for a new job next week. Those employees will all be gone by the end of February" so he does not have a lot of time to be right.
I just looked up side-effects of testosterone, again to be sure. Why is this article on the top of HN. It's basically promoting use of a drug with well known side effects which can cause serious damage to your health.
As a machine learning guy, I can't imagine doing stats without calculus and linear algebra :)
CompSci is not engineering. It's almost math major, heavily on the discrete side of things.
I thoroughly agree with everything this person just said, with only one exception.

I would contend nuclear is limited only by politics. Removing the political impediments to new nuclear would help a lot. The capital risks are a political problem, not an economical.
(initial Prometheus author here)

I wouldn't totally rule out the pushgateway for this use case. If we decided to implement a metrics timeout in the pushgateway (https://github.com/prometheus/pushgateway/issues/19), this would also take care of stale metrics from targets that are down or decommissioned. The pushing clients would probably even want to set a client-side timestamp in that case, as they are expected to be pushing regularly enough for the timestamp to not become stale (currently Prometheus considers time series stale that are >5 minutes old by default, see also the "Improved staleness handling" item in http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/roadmap/.
I think they would monitor who is actually sharing the copyrighted files with bittorrent, not who log into tracker sites.
There is nothing illegal with visiting the pirate bay, right?
As someone who went from 430 ng/dl to 1024 ng/dl naturally in about two years time (from age 23 to 25) the only thing I can say is don't jump to too many conclusions here.

- Your testosterone should be naturally high if you're below 30 (and male)

- If not, something is wrong and you need to fix it (start with blood work, check your diet, move)

- If you testosterone is in the normal ranges (blood work recommends between 600 and 1200, which is ridiculous), you'll feel good 80-90% of the time

- the 10-20% are probably psychological worries that you might have, start meditating

- I didn't get huge muscles or less body fat with more testosterone (huge myth that I thought would change for me)

- TRT is used heavily in pro-sports (look for UFC fighters and bodybuilders, they have the most experience, since a lot of them are doing it)

- TRT is a problem if you keep going for too long, because your body just doesn't produce testosterone as it used to, because it expects it from the outside, so below 35 or rather below 40 year olds: don't sign up for this too quickly.

- Cold showers/baths do work, but probably not for increasing your testosterone, still, do it from time to time :)

- Intermittent Fasting helps immensely with boosting your testosterone naturally.

I can provide more info or details/specifics if wanted/needed.
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This treatment doesn't do anything to reward the mutated mitochondrial genes (your 'step in a direction'), it eliminates them from the population.

If you were saying that the mutated mitochondrial genes were a sign of otherwise inferior genetics, gross.
See my comment elsewhere with regard to the question of what the child's rights might be.
It would be nice to have broader shoulders, but an increased sex drive sounds inconvenient. Life is just more dignified without so much neediness. I don't get why anyone (without a more sex-hungry partner, ie most men) would want that. Is it just a gender stereotype / bro thing?
I've always thought that it's beneficial to wear multiple hats and sit with multiple teams/people either throughout your employment or at the beginning. I think the more hands on you are with every aspect of a business the less likely you are to insulate yourself or create silos and barriers.
I put this same question to my brother, an executive in a small business recently. His answer was lawsuits. Some people take dismissals hard even when they are done for the best of reasons. It just makes sense to offer a modest severance package that settles the matter up front rather than risking the time and expense of vindictive legal action.
My doctor said, when I asked for a vasectomy, "It's a common complaint!"
(Prometheus author here)

Thanks, that's awesome to hear! Feel free to also join us on #prometheus on freenode or our mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/prometheus-developer...
It seems comparable, though we are supporting different languages. Plans are to support a lot more languages, and support private repos also. (Actually they are already supported, but linthubot needs to have read only access to the repository). All feedback is welcome.
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The article feels pretty one-sided. Ethical dilemmas are more mentioned than actually explained to the reader, while there was space for two interviews with women in favor of the technique (giving that side of the story a personal tone; no sceptic is interviewed, they're just "some people"), plus these emotionally loaded, cheesy subtitles ("life-saving", "proud")...
You 're quite young. i wonder if it is possible to change so fast when you're older.
Isn't IBM a huge proponent of JAVA since 1995 (Eclipse et al)? Do they even offer to work in .NET ?
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Biggest rodent 'fought with teeth' like tusks
mortified of aging

Isn't that rather a psychological issue? After all, aging is still quite unavoidable. Would postponing the unavoidable end really make you less mortified?

feels guilty

Sort of the same remark as above. Moreover, it is (afaik) not proven taking any kind of drug will counter or reverse the damage done by sitting all day - so taking drugs anyway would just act as a placebo: it doesn't really help with the actual problem, but you wouldn't feel guilty because you would think it does help. Which is maybe worse than your current situation as you would be less tempted to find a more suitable solution. Which is hard to figure out without knowing your particular situation, but would typically include things such as less continuous sitting, more breaks, more moving around.
I've never tried it, but listening to strength training/powerlifting podcasts they do say that after coming off it can be psychologically addictive as your lifts and physical capabilities drop.
Thanks! Are you planning on charging for this? I have an error, can I email you guys?

Edit: Nevermind, I found the support form.
I wonder if it is possible to compare today's T levels with men of 100 years ago or even more. It could be that the industrialization and urbanization has caused a massive change in T levels because of natural reasons (less sun, less exercise, less anxiety, processed foods, tight clothing, what have you)
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What not to do in a Bitcoin-related drug and money-laundering trial: annoy the judge. http://ia600603.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.42...
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Any idea how to grab the login details for accounts setup for Facebook login?