skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand, it was more of a comment in general, or maybe the glass room people would stop by and read too ;-)
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This was my experience as well, though fortunately I found out math was actually interesting my junior rather than senior year.
It's interesting that I'm being downvoted for the message above. What's wrong with it?

Incidentally, I just had lunch with an architect and a guy who runs a building company, both London-based. I asked them about this. They both agreed that no sane investor would leave flats bought as investments empty. Investment means basically having tenants. The agreed that there is a media-driven moral panic about this. The architect said he had one client who had a 12 bed-room house in central London that was empty for most of the year ... that customer was a member of Kuwait royal family.
How exactly is the post "wrong"? It only contains opinions, not statements of fact.
Sounds like paper and pen is good for you. :)
Differently! The goal of PHC is to improve upon the current state-of-the-art, which includes bcrypt and scrypt, but there are many tradeoffs involved. A scheme that is better in one aspect might be worse (or just different) in another.

These finalists try to improve upon scrypt (increase attack/defense cost ratio or/and avoid cache-timing side-channels while building upon ideas from scrypt and more): Argon, Catena, Lyra2, yescrypt, and maybe POMELO. Ditto for some non-finalists: Gambit, RIG, TwoCats. (Arguably some other non-finalists fall in this category as well.)

These finalists include bcrypt-like components or properties while being scalable (to a varying extent) to larger than bcrypt's memory usage: battcrypt, POMELO, Pufferfish, yescrypt. And a non-finalist: TwoCats. Unlike bcrypt itself, battcrypt is likely to be implementable in scripting languages that offer native Blowfish.

These finalists are totally different from bcrypt and scrypt, not trying to improve upon them nor even be on par with them: Makwa and Parallel. They are for different applications than bcrypt and scrypt. Parallel can be said to try to improve upon PBKDF2, though.

As to more specific comparisons, with benchmarks and cost estimates for various settings on various types of hardware, this goes beyond a comment reply like this (or I'd need to focus on one PHC candidate, like mine, which would be unfair). It is a topic for the PHC discussions list and for materials included with each PHC candidate (some do include various numbers or/and claims to this extent).
We know we have strong core speech technology based on various comparisons we have done in the context of competitive evaluations done in conjunction with various government funded speech programs. However, our service is still very new. We could have waited for months to tune it, but our primary goal here is to solicit feedback from the community for how to make our services easier to use, especially in the context of our other platform services. We don't want to wait till the design is so mature that it is impossible to change - so any and all feedback is very welcome!
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Agreed, it's hard to find any other marketable IP in IBM's portfolio.
This is awesome, thanks to the scala.js team and community for the hard work.
It was odd that the post was prefaced with a warning that "you will have to use Chrome/Chromium" before opening with an example copied and pasted from Mozilla's docs. This is not true. The example works in the Firefox 35.0.1 console out of the box. There are no feature flags or internal browser configurations that need to be changed. Also worth noting that the first example came from an outdated MDN Proxy API documentation page [1]. The current Proxy API page covers the ECMAScript 6 proposal [2].

If you're interested in seeing which browsers have implemented these ES6 features, Kangax has a nice table up on GitHub pages [3].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Web/Old_Pro...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[3] http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
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He posted them to hackernews, to increase traffic, so he can sell them to someone else now. ;)
We'd love to do an automated AMA. We are not yet there but if the community provided some training data I believe it's within reach. Give us a couple of years!
Yes, I agree. Although using macros is not as easy.
exgfs - and there was me wondering what filesystem it was.
Here's a watch industry instance of cold hardening steel: http://www.damaskousa.com/technology-watchcase.asp
Proof of coverage can be important.

It used to be common for insurance companies to look carefully at your coverage record, and if you had any time during which you were not covered, they'd say stuff like "Oh, that horrible cancer you have? Yeah, we're not paying for it because it was a 'pre-existing condition' that you got during that weekend you had between two jobs six years ago." And the law let them do that.

Health care in the US is . . . the phrase "utterly broken" isn't strong enough. We need a good fifteen syllable German word for how fantastically fucked up it is.

Of course I'm trying to explain Anthem hanging onto data. Probably it was totally selfish ("we can send them spam") or sheer laziness.
What's inconsistent about the notation of Perl 5?
> He's since commented that he should have tried the promotion clause instead. That post-creation copyright extension fails that test.

Honestly, I think he should have tried the "to the creators" phrase, as well: post transfer extensions of copyright no longer held by the original creator creates a new protection that never goes to the creators, and therefore not only fails to serve the purpose of the promotion clause, but isn't even within the scope of the means by which Congress is authorized to serve those purposes.

(Of course, considering this argument alone doesn't stop indefinite extensions, its just means that works transferred before the extension would not be eligible for the extension. But if you include all transfers in that, including by inheritance, your only left with, at most, originally-corporate copyrights that have never been transferred, since the original term of modern personal copyrights already is longer than the life of the original owner.)
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Are there any less well known (or really good) cases out there that deal with a specific person(s) or group that have had to fight for their privacy when there have been attempts to do away with it on bases of cybersecurity, whether from the NSA or another institution?
How about a Haskell DSL? http://www.haskellforall.com/2015/01/use-haskell-for-shell-s...
Ask them to make a better offer. If they can't/won't do that for you, why would you be expected to make a sacrifice for them?

Regardless, your old company can't compel you to go work for a new employer. Morally or legally.

Alternately, what's to stop you from accepting the deal and then leaving in 4-6 months anyway?
The better question is, why does Disney deserve special rights to Mickey Mouse just because he was the first one with the idea? There is no natural right to an idea the same way there is a natural right to physical property. It's a fiction we came up with because we wanted to see creators compensated for their work. I'm all in favor of the general purpose of copyright, but ideas are inherently non-exclusive things, and any argument based on the opposite assumption is flawed on its face.
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yescrypt has ROM capabilities [1], which function like your large file idea.

[1] https://password-hashing.net/wiki/doku.php/yescrypt#read-onl...
As a speech technologist, I am amazed and proud about how far long the technology has progressed, especially over the last few years. Even my wife now uses speech input on mobile devices (and may finally think I may be doing something productive...). With that said, speech input is still a surprisingly finicky technology and different people will see different beahviors across systems from different providers.
@IBM people: Is there any information available yet either regarding future pricing, or regarding timeline for getting pricing information?
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furthermore, that markup is probably classified as unreported income. One more thing to nail the author on.
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How about a separate copyright category for Mickey Mouse?
I purchased Texts.com while in high school (~10 years ago) for ~$15k. I had made a fair amount of money flipping domain names on sites like Namepros / DNForum / a few private forums. A mix of "tulip" LLL.com's, and then a few instances of snagging a name in the aftermarket and immediately flipping it to an "end user."

My biggest domain-fail was letting Naked-Celebs.com expire. I bought it for something like $300 in 2009 and forgot to transfer it to my main portfolio, and somehow let it drop... I still shudder thinking about that sometimes.
Exponenti.al for $100. As a domain hack / shortener for our primary domain exponentialtv.com
> random accesses

That's fairly simple to do:

Do a standard password hash as usual (with salt, of course), then use the hash as an index into the data (or the low/high N bits of the hash, whatever) and use that as the final password hash. Just don't lose the data!

Effectively using your password/salt as the key to a hashmap containing random data.
Try to work on your own ideas.

One of the things I noticed early on was that I always pushed myself that extra mile when I was working on my own ideas.

It's actually intrinsically more rewarding to be able to visualize your idea coming to life.
Yes, that too. Though the counterargument is that by creating a deep market into which they can sell their works and rights, creators benefit. I see a few holes in the counterargument as well, but I'll hold myself to arguing three sides of this debate.
I have relatives in Liberty ME and we Kayak (usually on the coast) quite often.

We'll have to add this to our spots and check it out...

Also, there was an article a while back on HN about some friends who bought an island:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6395148

Wonder how that's going... http://tynan.com/island2
hey, try changing the classifier from "All" to "Scene". It does much better.. and stay tuned we will release some more api's on top of visual recognition to allow for image labeling..
Frank Schaeffer has better first-hand knowledge of this topic than just about anyone else alive. Wikipedia[1] would be a fine place to start educating yourself about his and his father's outsized roles in the formation of the religious right.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Schaeffer#Political_ac...
Most security decisions aren't taken by senior management. I am sure it is not Sony's senior management who decided to store passwords in clear text in the PSN.

Management focus would ensure everyone in the organisation focuses on security but most security breaches are the result of IT people doing stupid things or making stupid decisions on the ground. It's not senior management's role to check that you didn't introduce a SQL injection risk in your code. Like it is not senior management's role to check that the accounting department followed properly the latest US GAAP guidelines. It's down to employees being competent at what they do.
One thing you might miss is the ability to do late binding and open recursion

In the absence of objects, that's what `letrec` is for. Scheme, OCaml, and SML all have it. In Haskell `let` is `letrec` by default. Clojure has `letfn`. C has forward declarations. Without these features you wouldn't be able to write mutually recursive functions.
$500

7 letters, .com address, six or seven years ago

Solid domain name, and I had an interesting product for it. Didn't materialize the way I hoped, so I shut it down. I've kept the domain though.

I've occasionally run across domains in the $5k range that were quite good, but I still seem to find good enough .com addresses that I've yet to resort to buying one. I'm working on a new product now that is a 5 letter .com address, I bought it straight from a registrar, and it's exactly what I was looking for.

I've probably only owned one that was stand-alone valuable. I bought a domain in 1997 via Network Solutions, and have held on to it since then. It's a six letter .com dictionary term.
This[1] linked chapter in Lawrence Lessigs book "Free Culture" is absolutely fascinating, well worth the read if you have the time.

[1] http://www.authorama.com/free-culture-18.html
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Perspective: at least 95% of the UK population is based outside inner London (which is what "London" in the headline refers to).
rurban, I just want to point out that I was not calling for an rpython target for nqp nor was I claiming nqp is the rpython of the perl world. Not really sure what you are correcting.

>No. moar is a vm backend for nqp, with a traditional bytecode interpreter, a jit, gc, ffi, and binary format.

But surely NQP is a "language" and Moar is a vm ?
Is the Watson platform dependent on the hardware, or do you keep updating the hardware that it runs on?
Bitbucket is great, but also check out SourceTree, their git / Mercurial client http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
Let me contradict the other answers with my personal experience: the two IDEs for Scala I know, Scala-IDE (Eclipse based) and IntelliJ are relatively bad.

- They are very slow.

- They have poor refactoring support (Scala-IDE's support is still marked as experimental; all but the simplest refactoring will often randomly break code, either by not doing a full refactor, or by introducing gibberish).

- Until the latest version of Scala-IDE, you couldn't inspect variable contents while debugging. I can confirm the latest version does let you inspect variables, but I'm not sure how stable this is.

- This is the killer disadvantage for me: both Scala-IDE and IntelliJ give spurious compilation errors pretty often, even for relatively trivial code. I know there are valid technical reasons why this isn't solved yet, but to me it's unacceptable that an IDE for a statically typed language gives spurious compilation errors: after all, compile-time errors are the main tool a statically typed language gives us. It's the one feature that absolutely must work correctly.

- Even trivial autocomplete randomly stops working for Scala-IDE. This may be related to the spurious compilation errors.

I've been told the unofficial recommendation from the Scala community is to disable incremental compilation in the IDE and compile with SBT. Consider what this says about the maturity of current IDEs.
That's right, the technical depth that the interviews would dive to would be different depending on the experience your candidate is expected to have.
The Sierras also had titanium pressure hulls. Both classes suffered from major maintenance issues, though, because the titanium was prone to cracking from the severe pressure changes during dives. The Soviets switched back to steel for the Akula class.
I think that you have two decent options:

1) Have a friend send an e-mail asking if it's for sale. If they respond with a reasonable price, buy it.

2) Assuming the owner/squatter is remotely intelligent, they'll do their diligence and realize that the .NET is being actively used. In that case, you'll have to decide how bad you want it and/or if you would ever consider re-branding. You could try the: "This is the best offer you're ever going to get, so take it or leave it." But the owner could always call your bluff, and just hold onto the name knowing that it's getting ever more valuable to you as you grow.

I'd try option 1, wait a few months (depending on what they say), and then try some blend of option 2.
I did the same thing (sent an email to the WHOIS) to a name I wanted. The guy responded and we went back and forth a bit. He had just registered the name a few months prior from godaddy and had just paid the $12 or whatever. He however thought the value had skyrocketed since he bought it and wanted a lot more. I just found another domain that hadn't been registered and bought it.
Can someone explain why GPG in the person of Werner Koch isn't substantially funded under FSFE?

My first thought was the Software Freedom Conservancy. The only reasons I see for them not to take GPG under their wing are lack of will (but why?), sense of funding priorities (but why?), or the possibility that some GPG constituents would be concerned about associating GPG strongly with a US-based organization.
Care to provide some backing info on your statement?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_United_States_paten...
That's a lot of pressure to put on you! If you are really that special an employee, you should ask yourself if there is anything that would convince you to stay. It sounds like you have a great negotiating position. Often people---especially programmers---feel uncomfortable asking for what they want. If the current deal isn't benefiting you personally and you're that important, then tell them what it would take to keep you.

If there is really nothing at all that would make you stay, then I don't think you're obliged to stick around. But you might want to talk with a spouse/friend/family member before making that decision.

Good luck!
I completely agree with this. One skill that I pride myself in is being able to internalize others' ideas. For example, I'm working on a startup right now (it helps that I have equity), and am pretty happy when I'm still up coding at 5am because I just want it to work perfectly.

Part of the reason for requesting others' ideas for this, is that there are so many domain experts for domains other than technology that I want to meet,learn from, and ultimately help.
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Or we could make it a gradual process using Creative Commons' layered licenses: Full copyright for 14 years, CC-BY-NC-NDSA license for next 14, CC-BY-SA for next 14 and CC-BY till the life of author and public domain thereafter.
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Calling GnuPG "email encryption software" really understates its importance. It's also used in countless applications to encrypt data at rest, and GPG signatures are used to secure the distribution of software. For instance, GPG is an essential part of the package managers of Debian, Ubuntu, and RedHat.

Here is a link to the donation page: https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html
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Yeah, unfortunately the Watson's group problem is going to be keeping the life raft from being being swamped by everyone else on the ship. If we see 'Rational Watson Powered by WebSphere' we'll know they didn't swing the oars hard enough...
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How did you find out he sold it for $100K?
Why do you need to copy someone else's book?

Your language betrays your assumptions. You're trying to argue for the property of intellectual works by assuming it, which is obviously circular.
But lisp macros don't give you the strong type safety properties that Haskell gives you with monads. The most general solution is not always the thing you want. Sometimes you want the solution that gives you the strongest guarantees about the potential behavior of code.
Try Facebook's flow.

http://flowtype.org/
take a look @ https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developerc.... There is also doc link once you click on the service you have bounded. There are samples in java and nodejs. (samples coming soon in github)
If it's not already listed for sale somewhere for ~$50, it's very unlikely you're going to get it for a relatively low figure.

Once someone gets contacted about their domain, their estimation of the domain's worth automatically jumps. So if they're thinking it's not all that valuable, your contact will make them think it's worth something. Even a layperson will think it's worth hundreds or thousands of dollars.
I really want to know how much the guys at RapGenius paid for genius.com
Your thinking is double-plus good, citizen.

While we are on the topic of crimes involving sexuality, "... of the nine undercover police identified by the Guardian over the past two years, eight are believed to have slept with the people they were spying on. In other words, it was the norm."[0]

Now, pick up that can.

[0]http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/17/spies-sexual-relat...
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That's a good point, thanks.

I've added the timings from the original post to the tables in this post, which also makes clearer the intended point: the existing systems don't yet have measurements for data at this scale (except Facebook's modified Giraph, which I want to hear more about :))
I recently sold pnthr.com for 9k.
How much does a typical software company burn on talent acquisition? I'd wager it's at least one or two orders of magnitude larger than the rates posted on this page, but I've never hired before.
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Very interesting to see all these comments about pricing. Our introductory prices were based off similar services where you chat with an experienced dev for an hour for help with your code, etc.
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You don't need support for complex data types for a shell to be described as "REPL".

REPL is just a Turing-complete real time interpreter. Which means even the VBA "Immediate" panel in (as seen in MS Office) is REPL. And it means Bash is REPL too.

The question you're raising is whether all REPLs are equal. Lisp machines definitely had more control over the host than VBA does. But that doesn't mean that VBA's immediate panel isn't REPL just because a more powerful example exists.

As for Bash, that's a bit of a weird one because Bash wouldn't be much without the accompanying GNU / POSIX userland. But if you're willing to include a UNIX / Linux userland into scope then Bash has just as much control over the host as Lisp did on Lisp machines. But even without the aid of forking additional executables, Bash can still modify the state of the kernel directly. eg

echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

(For those who may not have been aware, echo is a built in command in Bash)
All these "Uber for" services, excluding Uber, just seem like things for people with too much money on their hands that are unsustainable and will fizzle out in a couple of years.
Dailysnap.com is a pretty great name. You should definitely find something to use it on again during this era of selfies.
Wasn't the JVM originally built to run inside of a toaster?
Maybe we should get a public/private key pair at birth instead.
What is a "natural right" and who decided it applies to physical property but not ideas? And why is the "natural right" based on the ease of copying something, rather than the word work necessary to bring that thing into existence in the first place? To me, it just seems like you're using the concept as a "because I say so" distinction.

The go-to for people who oppose a moral basis for copyright is the ease of copying intangible versus physical goods, but to me it's a nonsense argument. The ease of copying goes to the enforceability of any monopoly on a thing--it does not go to determining the justification for granting a monopoly on a thing to begin with.
Are any of those services any good? People who can code well enough to improve a design after a 1-hour phone call generally aren't incentivized to spend an hour on the phone talking to random developers.