skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to commit treason, be prepared to accept the consequences for treason. To commit the crime and then flee the country to avoid prosecution is complete cowardice.
Is there an equivalent of the spreadsheet for big data?
Unless you mean local DC politicians, that doesn't make sense. The Congressmen/women are the ones who are trying to keep it illegal in DC. Pot legalization in DC has nothing to do with it being where "the politicians" are.
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Google is the payment processor, of course they track and store the transactions.
Let's Build a Compiler, Jack Crenshaw – 1988 – 1995
Was Kepler actually slow, or did it just seem that way because the 680 was built with their mid-range chip while the big high-end GPGPU-oriented chip was initially reserved for the server products?
Both approaches have merit. Any solutions would do well to achieve the best of both while still remaining feasible.

In the past, I've thought about physically-convertible setups, but this is probably far too exotic to be practical. Likewise, affording each employee two desks, one of each type, doesn't rank very high on the feasibility scale either.

What about emulating helicopter cabin communication?

Give each employee audiophile-grade closed headphones and\or in-ear monitors. Then, issue a high quality microphone along with it. Finally, use this setup with say, Slack (once they add voice support).

Open office. Each desk angled back-to-wall or similar to afford visual privacy, and the only problem you're left with is conversational privacy.

For that, anything from conference rooms to sufficiently loud artificial ambient office noise could work.
Special relativity still holds where it is applicable, and general relativity has yet to be refuted, and has been verified in interesting ways (gravitational lensing of Mercury with regards to the precession of it's perihelion for example). Einstein's other ideas about phenomenon such as the photoelectric effect and Brownian motion have been long since verified, so I would say, especially in comparison to some of his contemporaries, his theories oh withstood the test of time very well.
I'm not saying it is or isn't, I'm saying it's argued that it is.

It's my personal belief that it's a rights violation to stop anyone without a reason if you intend to arrest them if they meet some criteria.

In particular, I believe it would be a major rights violation to force everyone to do a breathalyzer at a dui checkpoint. Fortunately, they're not that extreme yet--the have to smell alcohol or suspect impairment afaik.

I've been stopped in approximately 8 DUI checkpoints in my ~15 years of driving. I drive significantly less miles per year than the national average here in America, if that counts for anything.
Pilot wave theory has been known for decades. So can someone explain how whatever they're talking about is different/new?
Coincidentally I just posted an Ask HN question asking how small companies facilitated H1B workers. I run a small company and don't have time to figure the process out. Was wondering how others did it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9096684
Parts of America are also dotted with giant concrete Christmas-tree icons, but the aviation involved with those is a little less benign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree_(aviation)
The quality is very high.
Clerky looks like a lightweight way to get incorporated, which is likely a helpful first step towards a minimum legal shield by making you not personally liable: https://www.clerky.com

An important second step in your minimum legal shield is having a good terms of service agreement for your product, which should further clarify to your users what they are getting, and what you are responsible for. You might look at Snapterms http://snapterms.com
Someone actually pointed me to You Need a Budget as I was nearly ready to launch. Their product is very similar, and I actually really like it. I was very excited to learn about it for several reasons: it proves that there is a market (their product was highly reviewed), and they are much more expensive than Family Fortune: $60 up front. One of my plans of attack is to actually email the blogs and sites that reviewed YNAB and ask them to take a look at my app. Hopefully that'll result in maybe even dozens of users!
And those "stupid" boundaries are just lines in the sand. Yes, 2 disparate groups claim ownership over which side of the line someone/something falls on.

But the underlying point is the same: the reason for the "country" is because people with guns and a fence said it is.

And it would be ideal if we all worked together to do something constructive.
Block encryption methods like XTS have their fair share of problems too: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/04/30/you-dont-want-xts/
Wow, so nice to hear props for Griffiths' textbooks. I think he's by far the best physics textbook author.
Over 20 web designers copied my site and I kinda like it
>I would ask you to explain the rape of Chechnya

what to explain here? Everything is well known. Chechnya wanted independence and it was bloodily squashed. Pretty typical story. Russia isn't a modern Britain where you can have an independence referendum. Russia is a very autocratic imperially ambitious state. Just publicly talking about separation (check the recent set of laws incl. the "public mass media" law) will most probably lead you to jail.

Of course, like pretty much any other power, the Russia uses double standards - one internally and another externally. So right of self-determination of Crimea has existed only until it actually joined Russia :)
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What the hell is wrong with you? He's the founder of a very successful company and the article describes his humble beginning and struggles. How is that different from the bazillion of other links on HN?
Because we have major unemployment inside of the US. We also have the highest ever rate of Computer Science graduates.[1]

Those two combined make the 'need' for foreign tech workers seem very suspicious.

On top of questionable need, there are other facets of the program that are obvious areas of potential abuse (employer reported prevailing wages, employer sponsorship forcing employees to stay out of the competitive job market, etc)

There may be some absolute need for the most talented people other countries have to offer, but there is little evidence that generic 'programmers' or 'analysts' need to be imported into this country when we have 4-5% of college graduates unemployed[2] (thats ~2 million people at least[3])

Or maybe everyone here is a xenophobe

[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2014/analysis-examining-computer-sci...
[2]http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_501.80.as...
[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_U...
That doesn't mean no one would ever log in.
I'm always at a loss as to why people take such delight in the real or perceived decline of Perl.

Perl and Python are similar, excellent programming languages, and I don't imagine Larry and Guido argue like children about it when they meet at conferences.

I'll just quote Bjarne Stroustrop: There are two kinds of programming languages. The one's people complain about, and the one's people do not use.
What's the current status of Bohm's hidden variable theory? Does it stand up in light of the Bell test?

Yes. Bell's theorem doesn't forbid hidden variable theories (in fact, he has a publication preceding his famous result explicitly demonstrating a hidden variable theory that could reproduce QM measurements on a two-level system), just local hidden variable theories. In his collected papers, Bell often remarks that he feels Bohm's interpretation should be more widely studied.

It's a good question why it's not. My understanding, though I'm not well versed in the subject, is that there are some pretty severe shortcomings to it, particularly when you start considering systems with many particles. I've read some of Bohm's writings to try to understand it and as far as I got I found it pretty underwhelming; it seemed more like a bookkeeping trick than any sort of real insight.
I believe asm.js has been trying to counter concerns people might have when considering using it. Also, it could be that some companies may be trying to join efforts in trying to further the asm.js adoption, like Microsoft adding more support for asm.js. So it could be that they are planning ahead much more now. The asm.js effort could be seen as moving on from a prototype to an actual feature companies may depend on in the soon future.

Also, what makes people more cautious about performance concerns is that mobile network and hardware are still catching up to what people have on the desktop. And since about 8 years ago, mobile has been a big opportunity for many companies, which means that the desktop has been taken for a ride by the mobile devices and that is not going to stop.
You can also encrypt N files yielding M > N blocks, to avoid much of the issues you described while still avoiding the one-large-blob concern.
Thanks for the detailed reply! But I'm really curious: That performance is a bit beyond the spec'd max spec for such HDDs (3.0ms seek + 2ms latency, so 50K random IO should need around 31 seconds with 8 disks. I'm guessing a bit of clustering in the packet distribution improves seek time so a sector/page contains multiple hits?

I'm interested because I wrote an app-specific indexer, but with requiring "interactive" query response times over a couple TB, for multiple users. But that was years ago, before LevelDB and Snappy, and Kyoto Cabinet had far too much overhead per kv), and on small CPUs and a single 7200rpm disk. I got compressions rates of 5 to 6 using QuickLZ; a non-trivial gain.

I was looking at this problem space again and considering a delta+int compression approach to offsets, given they're just incremental. (And there are cool SIMD algorithms for 'em.) But it sounds like SSTable + fscache is fast enough, wow, that's pretty cool!

The decompression of blocks in some apps doesn't have to be much of a penalty if there's a reasonable amount of clustering going on in the sample set. What I did was instead of just splitting blocks on time, I segmented them based on flow and time. I did L7 inspection, and an old quad-core Core2 could handle 1Gbps, so 10Gbps is probably achievable nowadays, certainly for L4 flows. That way there's great locality for most queries.

Further, the real cost is the seek, and transferring a few more sectors won't cost as much. If you're using mmap'd IO for reading, you might be able to compress pages and not pay any IO penalty, right? And in fact, it might even reduce the number of seeks, due to increasing clustering of packets onto the same page. And I think some of the fastest compression algorithms only look back a very small amount, like 16K or 64K anyways? Although, this is probably easier done just by using a compressed filesystem cause the cache management code is probably nontrivial.
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The first thing that popped into my head to get around this technique - and in one fell swoop would defeat all others - was : "Switch the phone off and remove the battery".

Of course, as soon as you turn the phone back on again, your adversary can pinpoint your location.

I guess the best overall solution would be to eschew having a phone at all.
Is this only related to Redhat or is any smbd version affected? I am using Ubuntu for example... ?
Thinking mainly of System 76 and the dozens of other similar companies around the world. Sure not quite as easy as walking into a retail store, but on the other hand I don't know anybody who bought their (non-Apple) laptop at a retail store.
say that in the article
There's a massive new leak of confidential spy files from MI6, Mossad and FSB
Also, https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
I am in violent agreement with defen, however I'm not with you.

Given a very naive player with a hand they've seen on the chart is great, I'd advise them to bet it all (early/preflop) rather than try to play a hand out. I think they'll be more profitable on average, particularly against a solid player, which defen mentioned.
When you think of it, it doesn't sound that sketchy: all they need is the authorization to move files around on their storage provider servers so they can be retained for the chosen period of time and sent to the recipients. The importatn part from the ToS here is to enable us to transfer and store your file; it doesn't say it will use them for any other purpose, such as marketing, customer targeting, or anything else.

Now of course these are only words and the only way to be sure is to encrypt your files.
Yes, I did forgo the Facebook app. For a host of reasons though, permissions being only one of them.

Then Facebook Lite came out, and it was what I wanted all along.
Internet opinion hardly matters in most cases.People should be paying too much attention on internet drama. Twitter included. If you don't like that,nobody's forcing anyone to use Twitter.
CRTs that large were pretty rare, though. Monitors tended to stop at 21" (by which point they were a good foot deep, if not more...), and I'm less certain about TVs, but I'd be surprised if even 34" ones were all that common. If nothing else, they're an absolute bugger to move. My parents' 31" widescreen CRT was an absolute monster... my back still twinges just thinking about it.
"if the fundamental particles are just quasiparticles in a superfluid quantum vacuum"

well obviously.
I quite like it. And actually, if you think about it - they're semantically different. In one case you're dealing if a set of different elements, in another you have the definition of a single shape.

More than that though, I work with large svgs and if there were dom nodes for all of the components, nothing would be able to render them :)
It really boggles my mind how the default approach to corporate real estate in the startup world seems to be getting a lease in a trendy (ie, expensive) neighborhood, spending significant money to make the space nicer, paying a lot in terms of perks (food, laundry, etc)....but at the end of the day, everyone's in this big open-air, hangar-like environment where you can't have a private conversation, and there's such a demand for conference room time that it becomes a source of conflict.

I used to work in an office in a trendy part of NYC at a company that had 3 catered meals per day, a VERY well-stocked liquor cabinet, and a varied, seemingly endless supply of high-end drinks and snacks (as in the fresh-squeezed juices that retail for $9.99, candy imported from Japan, etc). They also had an open office that was not horribly crowded but very open nonetheless.

I have also worked in a shabby nondescript office in a standard, non-sexy building and neighborhood where I had my own office with a door that closed. It wasn't big, but it was private.

The latter was definitely cheaper on a $/employee basis, and not only did I prefer it in an abstract way, but I was definitely more productive.
"To completely stereotype"

I wouldn't characterize that as a stereotype as much as a data point. It's very good info and insight, thanks for that.
Choice? In what sense? The JVM is a ridiculously good VM, with tons of languages that compile to it.

Why are we reinventing the wheel?
Flummox (https://github.com/acdlite/flummox) looks quite interesting to me as a more 'tooled out' flux implementation
Ditto. Done with catching up on other stuff? CMD-T n enter. When it's perpetual tab gets closed, that is.
I really wish I could buy one, but alas it's not in the UK yet.

I like the concept, I like the sensors and I love that it's cross phone platform.

I've no idea why they are taking so long to get to other markets. Please don't make this the next Zune.
I agree with you, from a day-to-day standpoint there really is nothing to be done and little point in worrying about it. The only solution is to stop using technology, and that proposition isn't very attractive.

While the ideal solution is technical -- no one can see or interfere your stuff without your permission -- it isn't practical. Solving the problem with laws and societal pressure is more realistic, although still verging on impossible.
Bullshit. Luck is luck. No one can predict the future, and not everyone gets the same opportunities as everyone else.
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Tesla GPUs are also rather slow, but the value of Tesla lies in increased double performance, larger memory and memory correction -- and you cannot beat Tesla GPUs in these departments.
There's a couple of sites where you can still play, however there's not much action and you essentially can't cash out.

I have a buddy with ~200k on some network, I think merge, and he has a pending cashout for 2k (the max) that has been pending for months. He can't initiate another until the last has been resolved.

Until about a year ago (post-black-friday, of course) he was able to remove about 12-14k/year, given the wait time per check and the maximum of 2k per check.

You need to move or play in a casino.
my 12 and 14 year old have absolutely no intention on creating a facebook page.. They do have Instagrams.. my 20 year old uses it all the time. She has more of a millennial outlook though. She says the Freshmen dont use it. I hate fb I absolutely hate it with a hot passion - it is a pit of old girlfriends and weird political rants by people you had no idea felt that way Dead people.. I feel disgusting when I log in like I am touching something.. unclean. I am an outlier I know. it is like AOL it will make people money for years and years. If I had a thousand bucks I would split it with FB Apple and Goog. Somehow I would split it so that I could give one half to each one.
I don't follow you. How is keeping things hand made and priced appropriately nonsensical? What economies of scale even exist when it comes to hand crafting?

Also, how is it anti third world artisan to require they make their own page and get the full first world price themselves?
That's still not weighted for how often a player plays a given hand. It assumes the opponent will play every hand equally as often.
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> if there were dom nodes for all of the components, nothing would be able to render them

Once the components are parsed into whichever data structure is used internally (by the rendering library), wouldn't the memory and processing footprint be the same either way? I do agree, it would make the files much larger, but as pointed out in another comment, that should be a clear indication that XML simply isn't a good fit for this use case.

btw - I use SVG a fair amount myself, and have written my own path parser and builder recently. While it's not inherently too difficult, is definitely is annoying, especially when the format of the file (XML) should be able to accommodate the path components.

Semantically, if child nodes can be used for composition (e.g., a document element with child nodes that describe the document contents), then I don't see how any SVG <shape> should be different.
Chronic hearing loss from loud music is going to be the black lung of cubicle workers.
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I'm getting a 404. This one works for me;

http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-boom-bust-2015...
In my experience, I have had 3-6 hour long blocks with 1-3 members of the company, technical and non-technical. It typically starts with 5-10 minutes of chit-chat about my background and the company, then we do a technical exercise or a series of personality questions (for instance, explaining something technical to an employee in marketing to see if we could work together and if I could communicate across departments). After that, we wrap up with ~10 minutes of Q&A. Since it takes up so much time, it's important to get the phone screen right to not waste time on both sides. I have heard of companies that will have you pair program for a whole day instead of doing whiteboard questions.
I wonder how that affects pg's views on allowing more H1B workers. (http://www.paulgraham.com/95.html)

The H1B program doesn't really help or address the need by startups for qualified employees.
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Think about that for a second. About $130,000/year. How much are they worth to the company? About 10X more. I hope some of these guys realize their worth and just create their own software.
You can buy huge databases from other players, yes. They're full data sets, not "tainted," and have far more hands than have ever been played in the WSOP.

It's considered bad form in the poker world, and generally against site TOS, if you're a player using the data to have a read on a player before you've ever played him.

If you're just doing research, nobody cares at all. They might even give you the datasets, if they actually believe you. Or perhaps if you let them anonymize them?
Feels like yesterday I was told Object.create was the new best way to do this.
Practical geoengineering
I actually acknowledged that in the version of this I posted 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9071064

However, he has JS hanging on for longer than I bet on... once asm.js gets a good DOM binding I expect the explosion of language diversity to take about two years, tops, and for it to rapidly become clear that JS is now just another way of accessing the DOM. I think there's more pressure built up there than people realize, because right now there's no point in thinking about it, but once it's possible, kablooie. Node's value proposition, IMHO, is in some sense correct, but backwards; it's not that we want to write in Javascript on the server, it's that we want "client language = server language"... and once there's no longer a technical handcuff pinning the client side of that equation to Javascript, it will not take that long for it to no longer be Javascript. It is not an impressive language, even within its own 1990s-style dynamic language niche.

(I think this is not because it's "bad", but because it has been developed in this really terrible multiple-vendors-that-actively-don't-want-to-cooperate way for most of its lifetime. It's gotten past that, I think, but during those decades all the other scripting languages were marching right along. None of the other languages could have survived such a process and gotten to where they are today, either.)
There are actually a large number of these studies of which the one you linked is...one.

Your logic as to why management makes these choices suggests you think organizations operate on logic vs institutional habits, trends and intra organization conflict. Citation needed ;).

Your survey of sentiment of the comments here (or the thousands made in similar posts) doesn't seem particular rich or nuanced, perhaps you are working deliberately with a supposition that your current situation is "just fine"?
I'm not aware of a JS adapter for clara rules but per the wiki it does offer ClojureScript support "with a couple constraints"[1]

[1] https://github.com/rbrush/clara-rules/wiki/ClojureScript
That's more convenient than unlocking my phone to get the code when I miss the brief notification. My plan though, is to port my PIN grid proof of concept to the band.

https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=69e92695-f6eb-42e...

Going to have to give UI some serious thought, but looking forward to making it happen.
This is effectively what JavaScript VMs already do and have done for years. They compile to unoptimized machine code that has a bunch of hooks to monitor the types that flow through the code.

After a while, if a chunk of code is identified as "hot", a second-stage compilation kicks in. The code is recompiled to optimized machine code that takes advantage of the types that it previously saw the code use (with fallbacks in case those assumptions later fail).