skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a warning - that page is ~7MB and crashed Firefox for me. Still pretty sad the browser can be halted via zerg rush.
>MasterCard and Visa know more about you than Google ever will

Google has knowledge of routes which you take to work everyday. Friends you are close with. Online services you are using. And you want them to have it. You don't want (atleast intentionally) MC/Visa to have that kind of knowledge about you.
The epistemic view of the wavefunction explains nothing, because it attempts to put all the quantum weirdness into "our knowledge of reality" rather than "reality".

The whole argument seems to me silly, because the epistemic view requires that indistinguishable particles in fact are merely undistinguished particles. That is, the epistemic view requires that reality behaves quantum mechanically when no one is looking at it, whereas what we observe is that reality behaves quantum mechanically when no one can look at it.

These are completely different situations. In one case it is what we do know that matters--which is an epistemic state--in the other it is what we can know that matters, which is an ontic state. And it turns out that reality does limit what we can know, and this has dramatic consequences.

The clearest example of this is the heat capacity of solids. Heat capacity is a measure of how the temperature increases as you add heat energy to an object. The temperature is just the average energy per state in the material, so the heat capacity is a very direct measure of the number of states the collection of particles constituting a material can be in.

It is very simple to show that particles that cannot be distinguished have a different number of states from particles that can be distinguished even if they don't happen to be at the moment. For example, consider two coins: if they can be distinguished they have four possible states, HH, HT, TH and TT. If they can't be distinguished then HT and TH are the same state (because there is no way, even in principle, even if you're god) to distinguish the left coin from the right coin. So there are only three states.

You can do something similar with particles in a crystal lattice and show that they are indistinguishable. So it isn't a question of what we do know, but what we can know, and that is determined by ontology, not epistemology.

The problem is that the ontology of the wavefunction is non-classical in the extreme. Because it is nonlocal it violates the law of non-contradiction from the perspective of locally causal beings (us). That makes it hard to understand, but it doesn't make it any less real. It just means reality is weird, which at this point in history shouldn't come as a huge surprise to anyone.
Yeah it goes on to list all pastes on the site and gives you the ability to edit, destroy or view them.
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I took two years of night classes while working, then I spent another year reading Greek texts with a friend while I took Latin night classes. Then another couple years reading on my own (overlapping with the theology year), then a postbaccalaureate year, then grad school. :-)
These could interest you:
Odroid-C1[1] with 1GB RAM for $35 or U3[2] with 2GB for $69

[1]http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code...
[2]http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code...
That seems highly unlikely, unless he plagiarized himself. You might find something similar, but unlikely a split face with similar styling, the designer/code split, etc.
You could imagine using a special filter to pass your html/css/js though that applied a special transformation that you could later on try to recognize. Perhaps it renames all of the variables with some pattern or from some dictionary that you could later try to use to see if the code matched the pattern. This is along the ideas of stenography.
Thank you! I thought the box keyword was simply a syntactic sugar -- I'm not that familiar with placement new, even in C++.

Note for the interested: the optimization works right now, even though the keyword is behind the box_syntax feature gate.

Updated test: https://play.rust-lang.org/?code=%23!%5Bfeature(core)%5D%0A%...
Yeah, this was a very quick project and that slipped through. All fixed now. If people are interested I'd be happy to put due diligence in and put up a privacy policy!

Edit: maybe I'm an idiot and can't repro the js injection, could you link me? http://copypastecsv.herokuapp.com/pastes/8279b342
Thumbs up for Ghost. Switched to Ghost a few months ago and absolutely love it.
Am I the only one frightened by the thought that only police have guns? Perhaps it's due to the rampant police violence in my (Canadian) city, but that idea terrifies me. Who watches the watchmen?
Are you looking for locals, or willing to sponsor visas or remote work?
Google's entire business is based on completely taking every single one of our actions, thoughts, connections, and interests and selling it out to advertisers.

Most Android phones push you to put everything into the cloud. Do you know why? Oh yeah, that's right, so they can sell your data to advertisers.

Recently, they stopped putting organic search terms in referral traffic from the Google search engine to a website, effectively making it impossible to use any other applications except Google Adsense. Great company, right?

They have had a monopoly as bad and far reaching as Microsoft..yet I rarely hear the hatred that I used to hear about Microsoft in the late 90s.

It seems like all you need to do is support the developer community by giving out lots of free software/open source and the tech community will forgive you for pretty much anything (employing you at $100,000+/year also helps in this forgiveness).
Self driving cars will be available to purchase from multiple manufacturers, and those manufacturers will have to deal with the mapping issues. Accordingly, while Google will be a formidable and perhaps dominant competitor in this space, I don't see mapping as the deciding factor here. The fact that Android, with its massive install base, will likely come with Google's service built in seems much more likely to help them destroy competitors.
I was about to mention the bad security of uploading personal documents to some guy's Heroku instance.

Instead found this a very unprofessional and destructive way to handle a bug report, and possibly illegal[1].

The site's creator Hank Stoever has his public contact information available[2].

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/13/barrett-brown-arres...

[2] http://hankstoever.com

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I've seen a few of these around Melbourne... Always seemed like a great business model.

http://www.taxiboxmobileselfstorage.com.au/
A while back I got really annoyed when two of my competitors copied the buttons, pricing table and the content of two of my websites. This guy is handling it well. I understand getting some inspiration, but copying the whole thing is just too much. They are "designers".
Writing GPL'd synthesis stuff is the #1 item on my "things to do when independently wealthy" list. Personally I'd start with reverse engineering Lattice's FPGAs. They have the most documentation and the simplest chips. Plus as the third horse in the FPGA business they might be the most amiable about the advantages being more open provide.
No. But you can just diff the code and see it's XX% the exact same code.
It reminds me of the Forer Effect, usually used to describe how Horoscopes can sound like they apply to you, but are written in an abstract enough way such that they could possibly apply to anybody.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect
> Computer science and education grant recipients, HB 1813 explains, "must demonstrate engaged and committed leadership in support of introducing historically underrepresented students [including girls, low-income students, and minority students]" and "demonstrate a plan to engage historically underrepresented students with computer science."

This is actually pretty reasonable. It's not like they're setting quotas. As long as nobody is being discouraged from studying CS I think it's great.
Udo: AWS orchestration tools centered around AutoScaling groups
How about just measure entropy based on some criteria (using things from different sets MIGHT count as entropy for each new unique set) and letting the end user decide what goes in to the password and how long it is?
I am not sure what you are trying to get at. The people who are drivers are drivers for many different reasons some of the are quite well educated and I don't think you can conclude what you seem to conclude.

Technology killing jobs is a real problem, technology killing jobs in an increasingly faster and faster pace is an even bigger problem as it doesn't allow people to re-educate themselves.

It's a much much much bigger problem than you seem to imply.
The actual bug was trivial, the backstory was really interesting - it's the kind of thing you'd hear about on the 99% Invisible podcast. Sometimes verbosity is nice, after all, who doesn't like to share a good bug-hunt story?
Read the papers. The articles on news about "science" are only news.
That was typical of computer kits of the day. MVP of the sort I was imagining would have been something that barely worked if at all and was tossed together in two weeks.

Of course what I'm really arguing against is the fake cutout interpretation of MVP, not the concept as a whole.
I am honestly crying with laughter here. Future historians may recognize this as the perfect Hacker News comment.
Did the drivers (or tray apps) bind those keys? What for?
Only if you ignore the consequences of recklessly burning fossil fuels, and are 100% sure wind and solar can replace it. So, no. But to be clear, I didn't say waste bandwidth to drive growth, I said unlimited bandwidth promotes growth of services that use bandwidth.
Or Liberals believe that regulation tainted by economic forces is preferable to a free market in a society that already allows corporations to essentially ignore regulation by paying minuscule fines that pale in comparison to their daily profit. If consumers haven't already moved on from these corporations then maybe regulation is our only protection.

The idea that deregulation would suddenly allow good citizen corporations to destroy evil actors is laughable in most circumstances.
I've noticed a different motive for many of the more kooky science-deniers. I think that kind of denialism is rooted in their own insecurities about their intelligence. In essence, if they can rig up some quick way to prove the experts wrong, then they are smarter than all the experts. Another way of putting it is this: Rather than put in the hard work of understanding a difficult or nuanced argument, they come up with an easy solution that shows, in their mind, how smart they are.
If nature clustered or gradient'ed its way to human intelligence why can't we? We have algorithms that can preform as well as fruit flies in simulations; why can't we continue to expand on the quality of our simulations and algorithmic approaches?
Read the Transcript of Silk Road’s Boss Ordering 5 Assassinations
Yeah, I think this article explains his point of view.
Scroll down to "The Blub Paradox".
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Updated, thanks again!
I'd imagine that this is a hard sell given the govts track record. They want to recruit us, but they still don't get it. Why would we want to work for the bad guys? Why would we want to be second class citizens to clueless politicians that dictate directives from above instead of working in an industry that respects us and views us as leaders?
To be honest, there is not much need for a CSV host as most would just use Google Docs. It's a cool tool for hackers though.

EDIT: typos
I found it interesting that three images were commented out of the article:

http://www.adhamdannaway.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/desi...

http://www.adhamdannaway.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/desi...

http://www.adhamdannaway.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/desi...

I can only guess why they weren't included, but it does seem like they're less blatant rip-offs than the others.
Rent to Buy a Car – Hire to Own Cars – Lease to Buy Cars from My Car Rentals
Perhaps, but that's not what the author said:

"there’s nothing stopping a DirectX 12 enabled machine from fully running VMs on these video cards."
nice catch!!!
If you are willing to go objective-c (or objective-C++):

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/3DDraw...
I applied. Every small difference you can make adds up. With that said, I'd want to help in education, healthcare, anything to help connect citizens more directly to their government.

"Be the change you want to see in the world" and all that jazz. Gives me something to do until Watsi or someone like them needs an ops/infrastructure guy.
It's also pretty similar to the Defensive Patent License. With that, to receive a free patent license, you have to join the 'community' by licensing all of your patents under the DPL to other community members. If you sue a member anyway, your license is terminated. The language in the DPL is more precise in limiting itself to actual lawsuits (rather than just "claims") and excluding counterclaims, but it's the same general idea.

edit: corrected; DPL is not Twitter's license. Twitter's is the "Innovator's Patent Agreement", which is even more broad in its definition of "defensive" lawsuits:

(a) against an Entity that has filed, maintained, threatened, or voluntarily participated in a patent infringement lawsuit against Assignee or any of Assignee’s users, affiliates, customers, suppliers, or distributors;

(b) against an Entity that has filed, maintained, or voluntarily participated in a patent infringement lawsuit against another in the past ten years, so long as the Entity has not instituted the patent infringement lawsuit defensively in response to a patent litigation threat against the Entity; or

(c) otherwise to deter a patent litigation threat against Assignee or Assignee’s users, affiliates, customers, suppliers, or distributors.
This is kind of my initial reaction. "Bad guys" mentality aside, do I really want to put my skills to use battling some bureaucratic middle-man telling me how to do my job?

I mean, hopefully the program is really effective and creates a very concrete high-level goal and lets the tech creators go wild and do their thing, but I really do imagine it being bogged down by nonsense.
> XXX NAME
> Engineer, Healthcare.gov

Not sure you actually want to put that on record with your own picture there. Knowing what a massive mess the whole thing is.
I do not think so, Many times bus routes are created without thinking about traffic. An app like that that dynamically updates based on where the "blob" of riders are would be awesome.
I've seen this before. Capital Factory in Austin had a quiet room just like you describe. It was full of people when I was there.
Because they are hypocrites. They talk about making tech accessible for everyone and how anyone can be an entrepreneur, etc.. yet they will only support people from tier institutions. You have to work much harder to get the attention if you aren't from top tier institutions. Not that I blame them but they should stop pretending they are about the greater good and all that happy jazz.
To be honest, I'm far more worried by cellular level simulations like OpenWorm[0] because there seems to be a clearer path to human level AI: more processing power and more advanced knowledge of brain biology. Given enough time and effort, it seems inevitable to me. Luckily or unluckily - depending on your perspective - we're still far from simulating a human brain.

[0] http://www.artificialbrains.com/openworm
I have met some of the 18F folks here in San Francisco, and I have gradually become convinced that there is a lot of substance to this effort. People, apparently including people at the highest levels, recognize that information technology has made enormous leaps in the private sector, and they are serious about helping government catch up.

One of the most interesting bits to me was something said by Todd Park, a former CTO of the US and still a White House advisor. I was, frankly, suspicious that Washington's culture could really accept a lot of the Agile and Lean notions that are commonplace in the high-tech world. But he pointed out, correctly, that waterfall projects are enormously risky. A big reason Lean Startup advocates place such a strong emphasis on frequent small releases is that it helps us reduce risk by finding and fixing problems early. He pointed out that if bureaucrats really want to play it safe, using agile, iterative approaches is exactly what they'll have to do.

I don't know enough about Washington to say if this really will work, but improving government efficiency through smart use of tech strikes me as exactly the kind of thing people from all parties can get behind. I'm excited to see how it turns out.
Why?

"You can do a hell of a lot more damage in the system than out of it."
- "Stevo", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi2y9-Mxq-0

But seriously, government is what we make of it. We can sit here as sheep and accept the way that we're governed or we can take the leap and try to change it by joining it.

I can't promise that it will ever get better if you sign up to help but I can promise that it won't if you don't.
100% agree.

Think of your code as an operating system. And heck if you write anything complicated it will start to look like that.

As you said, if you write code that needs to co-operatively yield, needs to use defereds, promises, futures, you are back to Windows 3.1 Which is nice, when it came out.[+]

The next level in evolution is pre-emptive multi-tasking. A scheduler interrupts your task and make sure to run other task. You don't have to worry about fairness (or another task being unfair). This is your classic threads running in the same shared memory -- C++,Java,C#. In OS equivalent this is Windows 95. It was a glorious OS for its time. It really was, I am not kidding.

Next level in evolution is pre-emptive multi-tasking with isolated memory. Aha, now one broken/evil/greedy task can't easily foul up other tasks. This was huge. Think jumping from Window 95 to NT or to Unix/Linux. Awesome things like multi-user system, reliable systems with multiple processes starting/stopping that could run for more than 3 days without rebooting. This is what makes the world run today in general computing. In programming languages paradigm there is ... (sorry, if this is dissapointing) only Erlang. You can add its friends (Elixir, LFE and few others running on same VM). Yap, the only one I know that has built-in heap isolation and light tasks (a couple of K's of memory). The non-programming language specific paradigm is of course OS processes, with some messaging. Now you can call them micro-services living in containers to be cool and that's fine. But is really nice. You've caught up with OS technology finally.

[+] : One kind of in-between is semi-pre-emptive multi-tasking and that is when pre-emption happens implicitly during certain system calls (usually IO calls like socket.recv() or say disk.write() or time.sleep(). I think Go works like this and Python's eventlet and gevent work that ways.
> I'll probably get tenured soon

That's a bold claim the face of fewer and fewer tenure-track positions being available, universities opting instead for non-tenure-track, full-time faculty. I'm glad you're able to make that claim, but your case is exceptional and not the average.
Actually, if you consider strict nomenclature, modulo should be positive since it's a mathematical concept and that's what it's mathematical definition would require.

The fact that it has been (ab)used as a shorthand for the remainder of integer division is unfortunate, but that suggests there ought to be a "remainder" keyword (or operator).

We've gotten into a bad habit of calling things by the name of their implementation rather than by what we actually expect of them. This confusion is just a side effect of that problem.
I saw Mikey Dickerson (in the video) speak to a group of ~200 people last summer about the work that he and his team did on healthcare.gov. He was at Google for nearly 8 years and left to run the recovery team for healthcare.gov. Their team is the real deal -- they saved the site in just a few months and now over 6 million people have signed up. Read the Time Magazine story for the full account.

He does not seem like the type of guy that willingly puts up with government b.s. He gets it, and after seeing him speak I believe in him.

When their talk was finished they got a ~5 minute standing ovation and even a few stray tears.

I know it's cheesy but the government simply needs to catch up and I think they are finally ready to try.

I applaud the effort and hope to help out in some way.
Thanks a lot Jake.

Actually thats the idea behind it.
So, I am planning to support all these functionalities which you mentioned. In fact these features will be off by default. You can enable it on need basis per project. But this is still in development.

Do not forget to use it on your next simple project and give me feedback. Just reply to the registration email.
I agree with your overall point, but keep in mind how much low hanging fruit there is to truly improve people's lives here.

Here's a story: I had a small mix up in my taxes that caused the government to think I owed them over $10,000. I called the IRS over and over again and was unable to ever get to speak to anyone. It literally took 5 phone calls to figure out how to get into a queue, and then it had a two hour wait, and it's only open 9-5 so it could only be done during the work day. I'm lucky: I have enough money that I just hired an accountant to tell me what to do and the result was that the government ended up giving me back over $1000. Alternatively if I hadn't responded within 90 days I would've forfeited my right to appeal it at all. For so many people they need to take an entire day off of work just to wait in line, either on phone or in person, just to figure out what the issue is. Hopefully they can fix it on the same day and it doesn't end up costing them another day off which can put their job at risk. There is so much mind boggling inefficiency and it really ends up hurting the poorest people the most. So don't feel like you have to be some kind of NSA supporting, jingoistic jerk to work for the government. There's important, non-politically-controversial stuff to be done there that can have a big positive impact on peoples' lives.
Software for physical therapy students
Unions allow for a "cocky educated" technician.
Actually the team that fixed healthcare.gov got quite a bit of rockstar treatment (deservedly so) and were even on the cover of TIME magazine (sadly the article is behind a paywall now I think: http://time.com/10228/obamas-trauma-team/).

I think the guy that lead them is now the director of the US Digital Services too: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/the-white-house-dickerson/
Northampton's medieval chess workshop 'first to be found'