skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still sidestepping what the heck all the machines are used for :-) You seem to be hinting that the majority is the recommendations, but even that shouldn't require such large scales. It also doesn't have to be that timely (eg it won't matter that much if the recalculations were once every 23 hours or once every 22). As a user it would be nice if this "strong business advantage" was useful.
But what if an underlying "random number generator" was actually built into the rules of physics? In other words, that quantum randomness appears to be random, but is a byproduct of a (probably much more complicated) underlying scheme that is totally deterministic.

(This random number generator would not be external to the universe, but implicitly built into the rules of this universe.)
Are you managing or leading?
It may lower salaries down. This is not unique to software. Immigrant construction workers lower some wages, shipping steel industries abroad lowers wages and causes unemployment.

The important issue is if it is a net good for the economy and society. Lower wages in one area can also mean lower prices for the rest.
Feeding Infants Peanut Products Could Prevent Allergies
Now the question is how does one become a really good engineer.
Yahoo exec challenges NSA director over spying
Animations that use scroll positions is a great idea - I'd like to see that in CSS regardless of whether the other three suggestions go any further.
That's not how it works. Even if your plumber has "I might come back later and take look your safe" hidden somewhere in his EULA, it's still burglary. Laws are, thank god, over EULAs.
Anecdata, but try moving somewhere else in the world. A few years away may cure it.
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What answer regarding nuclear weapons would you expect to get on a hypothetical news.ycombinator.jp? a .ru? I think the GP and Snowden's point is that the world would be better off without them, not looking to start a debate about which country is the better worldwide nuclear policeman.

What better tech are you hypothesizing? You've seem to have already come to the conclusion that the tech we have isn't enough, while preemptively declaring that policy can't solve the West's issues. I think that technical literacy amongst legal professionals and legal literacy amongst technical professionals are steps in the right direction towards a balance of safety and liberty, and are ones that do not immediately entail increasing the scope of surveillance programs.
In the US. YES. YES. YES.

Work for companies that hire Engineers, not Programmers, or Developers.
This post is the most reliable karma generator I've seen on HN.
After moving out of my parent's house for a year, my allergy to my family cat has returned.
Not so much anymore, from what I've seen, especially when it comes to standards. Chrome (and chromium) seem much more focused on experimental future features than current or near-future standards.
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It surely has to be. The jump from silicon at a mass scale is going to have an incredibly high barrier to entry so I can only see the most entrenched players making it. It seems to me a prime opportunity for the big players to entrench their {mon|du}opoly over the industry.

I know I'd be keeping specifics as tightly controlled as possible until the last moment. It's one of those rare big jumps that really separate the players in the field.
Might not always work for things like hay fever. I had plenty of early exposure to pollens and everything else that'd cause them and never had allergies for my early life. Then one year around my 17th birthday (springish birthday so not thinking it's time based so much) i got probably the worst attack of allergies i've ever seen. All the sudden my body decided that it had had enough and I've had hayfever and other symptoms since. Moving to a different area has helped tremendously but hasn't eliminated it.

Just anecdotal but I wouldn't be surprised if seasonal allergies like that happen through a different mechanism that might not be affected like the peanut one.
I am holding out for ToleroMune, which isn't approved yet but is supposed to require only a few shots.
Wake up via Sleep Cycle
Brush teeth/ Wash Face
Water/tea -> Food (+Fruit)
Pack my Gym Clothes (+Fruit)
Off to BART (Kindle/Nap)
...55 Minutes later arrive (+1 Coffee)
Desk
Gallium Arsenide Valley doesn't have quite the same ring to it does it...
Accidentally reviving a rare blue parrot.
I've heard that a fab run itself is 6 weeks, so maybe 3 months including packaging sounds reasonable. 28nm Bitcoin ASICs have been done in that time frame.

OTOH, if you can't get the fab time below 11 months maybe you should spend more like 24 months on the design.
The usual retort to that is "so you don't want to cure cancer then". The pharmaceutical industry very strongly depends on patents, and would easily be able to convince government through money and "cancer" not to abolish it.

The practical thing then is to come up with a solution for pharma, and then abolish the patent system.
If I was given this question in an interview, I would politely get up, and walk out.
there's a cool book called Anatomy Trains that analyzes the elements of the human body as forming a tensegretic structure, rather than a compression structure. So don't think of all the bones stacking on top of each other like stone, but instead being held in constant tension by muscles and ligaments. Also in the introduction it shows you how to make a tensegretic tetrahedron out of chopsticks and rubber bands. Pretty good stuff.

http://www.anatomytrains.com/fascia/tensegrity/
> Yeah, I was a college kid and all my peers were into anime too, but it stings when your bosses make fun of you every day. If we had had a more sensible cubicle layout with our screens facing away from the entrance, it would have been a less stressful job.

Or if you had bosses with a modicum of respect for their employees, independent of cubicle arrangement.
In the corresponding criminal case, as this is clearly in breach of 18 USC 1030 (eg a(2)(C), https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030#a) couldn't the court require reparations be made?

Presumably anyone with a computer with spyware can get their money back under consumer protection laws as a bare minimum?

USA law really can't consider that there should be no compensation if a company secretly MitM people's bank transactions as long as there is no provable financial damages, can it?

Cost of replacing the computer is an actual damage as is administration of that. Lenovo should also be liable for costs of having a financial audit (to make sure no breeches have followed the MitM of banking transactions) and cost of a full security audit of any computer equipment connected that might also be affected. Plus the cost of changing all passwords used on the computer. The need to get these done is actual damage, the payout should be predicated on costs that reasonably are incurred to recover from the tortuous actions (that also means poor people don't get stiffed).

IMO punishment for this sort of contemptuous action by corporations should be of the order that threatens to shut down the company. Like the average of all profits from the past 5 years is taken and a fine is levied to that amount and paid in to the public purse. Each customer's purchases should be refunded in full and paid damages as above and paid compensation.

The FBI should be at Lenovo headquarters now taking copies of hard-drives so they can put the directors responsible in court to answer for this crime. AFAIK Superfish can be charged too under supply clauses of 18 USC 1030.

This wasn't an accident. It didn't require someone else to commit a crime to become a problem, LinkedIn were negligent but this action by Lenovo's directors was a wilful criminal act; it's nothing like the LinkedIn breach.

LinkedIn did the equivalent of leaving your details open in a file on their desk, but only using a Yale on the door so that someone was able to break in and get your details. Lenovo have done the equivalent of breaking in to your home, finding your files marked "private", copying them and then posting them in public so that everyone can get them. Sure criminals may not have read the details about your bank accounts or whatever but that making them available was OK.
If magic's only chance for success was in ensuring that nobody else could figure out how they were doing it, they weren't going to be in the marketplace for very long anyway.

For reference, almost everybody knows how to wash their car, but that hasn't put car washes out of business. McDonald's doesn't succeed because nobody knows how to make burgers, or that their special sauce is thousand island.

Restaurants, maid services, landscaping, etc., all benefit from the same aims -- if they can provide convenience to the users willing to pay for it, and do so in a way that compels those users to keep paying for it, there will be space in the marketplace for them.
There is also the question of whether Chrome pays a "strategy tax" to Google. Where the interests of the parent company cause some features to be prioritized and others deemphasized.
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That doesn't sound like good news for Intel chip prices.
Will Intel be producing its own III-Vs or will it be sourcing it from somewhere else? Who are the major producers of III-Vs?
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Freaky... I had the exact same thing except it was when I was 18. I also ended up moving to another area which has helped my allergies out a lot.
They aren't a cure, but they are an improvement. I started taking allergy shots 2 years ago (now just getting them once a month).

I used to suffer badly in the spring, even having to go home early from work on occasion (despite taking claratin or zyrtec). I still take a daily allergy pill, but that is now sufficient to curb my allergies.

The downsides are the time and the cost over the course of years. The first 6 months or so, I was getting allergy shots 3 times a week (which also requires waiting in the waiting area for 30 mins). I got a lot of reading done, but it is still a lot of time. It's also pretty expensive (or at least mine is, may have to do with the antigen being custom made for my allergies, I've heard some places have generic "grass" or "tree" vials).
Expect to pay a premium that is commensurate to real estate prices, then advertise that premium. You'll find people.

If you refuse to pay that premium, nobody will move from other cities, so you're fighting for local talent.

If you refuse to even post your salary range, nobody who knows Seattle real estate prices and has wasted time interviewing for Seattle positions before, will even bother applying. That is the case with me.
I think it's a mistake to assume that fiscal policy and monetary policy need to be linked.

The United States (although the federal government has expanded to a level I hope does not happen in Europe) provides an example. There are many state governments which have a dire financial situation. No one suggests the abandonment of the US dollar over it - it's understood that it's possible to have one group managing fiscal policy with a different group managing monetary policy.

I think the same applies to Europe.

And I actually do think that bankruptcy would solve core issues: a clean slate would allow things to be built a new in a more sustainable way.

It's my understanding that bankruptcy did wonders for New Zealand. It's not a wonderful option, but sometimes it's all that is left. And it's the only way capitalism works.
does twilio offer this sort of service? I have a toll free number and would like to offer text based replies.
Killing software patents would be a good start IMO.
You can go down to the local diy electronics store and get what you need to demonstrate "spooky action at a distance" in your own garage. Just like how in Einstein's time anyone with decently precise mirrors and measurement apparatus could tell that the changing velocity of the Earth did not change the relative velocity of light. Such experiments have been replicated tons of times. Yet, phkahler is now calling BS based on... what?
That's the point where you take out the EULA from your pocket that says "This EULA applies when X is brought before any judge. If you intend to declare against X then you forfeit all goods, rights, chattels and possessions to X. By bringing X before you you are agreeing to release him without charge. By not destroying this EULA you accept it's terms as binding on pain of death." ...

They'd still put you away, or whatever, you'd just then have confirmation that the rule of law doesn't apply in that jurisdiction.
In many way's Moore's Law has been a law of economics. Look at the charts in the article; Intel will at least intend to continue the drop in cost per transistor, even if the price of a mm^2 of wafer continues to go up.
This presentation did not include the P&L slide he showed recently in London[1] (excellent presentation at Monkigras). They took huge cashflow risks and were very lucky to survive.

[1] https://twitter.com/justincormack/status/561128891348422657
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I wonder if this is part of a feedback loop, where the gradual creation of peanut-free areas leads to more severe peanut allergies
Hmm I wonder how the peanut allergy epidemic started. Another example of the "hygiene hypothesis"?
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Dropping by once a day to check in isn't micromanaging, it's being a good manager. A bad manager is either never there when you need him, or always under your nose when you don't. A good manager knows how to stay between those extremes, and knows which employees need more "boss presence" and motivation, and which ones work better with minimal supervision.
I hope that after the Alice vs CLS Supreme Court ruling EFF & Co reintroduce the abolishing of "business method" patents, which Microsoft and IBM fought so hard to take out of the previous bill.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/20...
Bear in mind that Unreal and Unity both have some form of internal garbage collection systems that are compiled to asm.js. In the case of Unity, C# is transpiled into asm.js code. You could write in potentially any GC language, it's just that the GC needs to be included.
Even offering a 7-figure salary, you still have the massive filtering problem (because the median programmer is fairly poor, IMO).

The filtering problem might even get worse if you offer such an out-sized salary in the marketing of that open position...
It's interesting that, even though sqlite is free software (it is even public domain), some of the tests are proprietary: https://www.sqlite.org/th3.html. I wonder what's the goal of this...
I know of one important distinction between the US and India with regards to medicine patents. In India you can only patent the means of making a medicine, not the medicine itself. So if you can come up with a substantially different way of making the same thing you have equal rights to it.
I am going to take a guess that you failed to publish the contents of encrypted track 3 due to INTEGRAl security concerns from your university?
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The fact is that no one knows, not even Intel. Many hoped-for technologies have failed to pan out before. For example, the industry had placed high hopes on EUV lithography (in 2007 they hoped it would be ready by 2010), but continued problems make that technology look less and less likely today, at least for the short-term. III-V semiconductors are another major hope for the industry (a hope that's been around for decades), but now delays have pushed that from 10 nm to 7 nm. Imec has been working for over 10 years on a way of growing III-V semiconductors in tiny trenches to make it cheap enough, but until they actually ship product, no one knows if it's good enough to work.

It's a scary time for the industry, as Moore's law comes to an end.

(All that said, even if no one knows for sure what's coming next, that doesn't mean nothing will. The semiconductor industry is throwing billions of dollars and thousands of engineers at many potential solutions in parallel. Even if plan A falls through, there is always a heavily researched plan B, C, and D.)
Cellular cytoskeletons are another interesting area to look for these kind of structures.
The one person I spoke with got a 3x raise when they won the greencard lottery. That's just one data point and it was 15 years ago.
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I don't mean to imply that restricting H1Bvisas would solve our unemployment by any means.

I was just trying to explain why a lot of people here seem suspicious of the motives behind companies hiring H1Bs.
Oklahoma State Student ID's did not use Track 3. We only encoded track 1 & 2 on the blank card.
Man - this guy might have the best title I've seen in a while:

Daniel Nazer
Staff Attorney and the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents
Electronic Frontier Foundation
daniel@eff.org
Usually the private sector comes first, I'm pretty sure in the next elections this will be a strong part of the agenda of any candidate.
Yeah, the russians are most defently looking back on the glory days of socialism.
I would make the case the "big" diffs are a problem. Unless there's a really good reason (and bad dependency management is not a good reason) then commits should be smaller and more logically related.
This was a poorly written article, in my opinion. It failed to communicate the intent of the paper. I think it's trying to say something like...

In quantum information theory there's pure states, like "[Off]", "[On]", "([Off] + [On])/sqrt(2)", "([Off] - [On])/sqrt(2)", and "3/5 [Off] + 4i/5 [On]". There's also mixed states, which are probability distributions of pure states, like "35% [On] + 65% [Off]" or "10% [On] + 90% ([Off] + [On])/sqrt(2)". Pure states behave differently from mixed states (sometimes), which is why the distinction is worth having. Pure states collapse into mixed states when measured.

There's a process to convert any mixed state into a pure state, called purification [1], that works by grafting on a secondary system with the appropriate entanglements. For example, "10% [On] + 90% ([Off] + [On])/sqrt(2)" can be purified into "sqrt(1/10) [On and Extra=0] + sqrt(9/20) [Off and Extra=1] + sqrt(9/20) [On and Extra=1]". This isn't just a theoretical trick to ignore mixed-ness, it's something you can do in practice. You can even verify that it works, statistically, because pure states interfere and correlate in ways that some mixed states can't.

The article appears to be saying that any theory that allows for purification (however they define it) must secretly be isomorphic to quantum mechanics (i.e. the state space is tensor products of complex vectors, the operations are unitary matrices, and measurement outcomes are related to the eigenvalues/vectors of Hermitian matrices).

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purification_of_quantum_state
My professor told me there is a bus that goes from the Bay Area to Boston and back. It doesn't stop anywhere else.
The period of early exposure was at least 4 years of continuous exposure (the subjects were at least 11 months old, the 3-days a week feeding was until they were 60 months old). The nature of seasonal allergies tends to be that while early natural exposure is common, early and continuous natural exposure is not.

So I wouldn't view natural environmental exposure to seasonal allergens as a valid basisi on which to reject the idea that the kind of early and continuous exposure at issue here might work for seasonal allergens.
Is that usage correct? Shouldn't he be described as the holder of the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents, rather than being described as the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents?

Also, every time I read about the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents I have a mysterious urge to watch "Zoolander".
This is a good law for India, because they have the capability to manufacture medicine, while lacking the capability to invent them. It's one of the many ways the world freeloads on U.S. medical R&D spending.
Two words: Quantitative easing. Those LPs must show some returns!
I think this is the right way to go. Short of the argument against patenting math, I think you're hard-pressed to find anything that parallels pharma or hard-goods patents in software.

But with software should go business-process patents, which suffer from the same "patent a way of doing things" problems. Patents do well to cover the result of a process, and shouldn't cover the process itself. In software, you can have two patents end up with the same result, as long as they arrive there by different paths.

With hard goods, you invent inline skates. Someone can't declare another patent arriving at the same result but using a different manufacturing process to create inline skates.
When the double point/reply relationship ended, the comments sections also diverged. This is how it looked while the comments were still identical: http://tinypic.com/r/vn2u0i/8
Even if we keep patents for Big Pharma alone, they need a serious overhaul because right now they are grossly abusing them, too. It's not just tech companies doing it.

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/patents-against-peopl...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/the-drug-that-is...

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/03/31/how-big-pha...

(there are many more such examples)
This is great stuff for plugins, but really bad stuff for scripts. Remember, if you can't trust the server with your secrets, you can't trust the server to send you a script which can decypher your secrets.
Oh okay: http://minus.com/i/v9I7i48WMrN6 Resolves to:

www.youtube -> 127.0.53.53

Has a rather whimsical MX DNS record too:

MX your-dns-needs-immediate-attention.youtube
Better than "Gaas Valley", at least.
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Purely anecdotal, but I used to have terrible allergies (dander, pollen, dust, etc.) for ~25 years.

The past few years living with my wife has changed my diet significantly. Very little dairy, way less sugar, no soda, more vegetables, better meat ...and so on.

My allergies are now almost nonexistent. I have friends with cats that I couldn't visit because of my allergies. Now, absolutely no problems when I'm in their homes.

I don't know what your current diet is like, but it may benefit you to remove certain items for a while (at least several months) and see if that helps.
Yeah, the cubicle configuration was only part of the problem. Early on I had expressed an interest in learning to code (I was taking SQL and Java programming classes alongside my regular courses in college at the time), and I approached the lead programmer/VP with this desire. He said he'd get back to me on it, that they had no problem with training me up to work on the codebase since they needed fresh eyes on it. The next day he drops about a ream of printed paper on my desk and said I should "study this code" and let him know what I thought of it. It wasn't code of course; it was old garbage data they used to test the program. Not a single line of actual code, just pages and pages of test data. I felt it was equivalent to an adult handing their toddler a toy cellphone to keep them occupied.

Needless to say, I quit working there once I was out of school, and went back to government work.