skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except search engines have sole control over the systems doing the calculations. It's easy to see how they could just go ahead and use the patented methods on their private servers, and no one on the outside would be able to legally prove that they copied their patented method, at least for a long time.

Just some patents would never have kept competitors from moving in on this 200B market.
Nice! Great little tool :) Could you explain a bit better the coloring legend? Thanks!
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Smb: Play Sound Effects from Super Mario Bros (NES) for Mercurial Commands
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Thanks. It loads quite a few dependencies:

Loading NaCl module.
Loaded runnable-ld.so [1057 KiB]
Loaded emacs_x86_64.nexe [5559 KiB]
Loaded libppapi_simple.so [390 KiB]
Loaded libpthread.so.1106743a [1529 KiB]
Loaded libnacl_io.so [3626 KiB]
Loaded libppapi_cpp.so [2489 KiB]
Loaded libstdc++.so.6 [5583 KiB]
Loaded libtiff.so.5 [659 KiB]
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Unable to create home directory in persistent storage: No such file or directory

At that point I thought it had failed, but after about a minute emacs came up. On OSX it seems to use about 215-240 MB, vs anywhere from 50-200 MB for my other chrome tabs.

Anyone have crouton handy to compare the overhead?
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Well, that's for a good cause.
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Funny how something that hits so close to the truth is more scary than funny.
> In NYC, for instance, subways could be built to NJ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_%28rail_system%29
1. No I would have delivered pizzas, done consulting, or tried to raise money from individual angels. I would have done whatever it took to keep the company alive, but I can promise we would have never even considered another accelerator.

2. I will never apply to another accelerator.
Glad to hear! It just started.
I know C and also Javascript/jQuery/CSS/HTML and I want to work on a project, so as to apply what I've learnt into something that is actually useful.
For cross-datacenter replication you should be using a secured VPN anyway.
Ugh, the private sector is laughably bad at drug development. All the big pharma companies combined haven't put out more than a handful of genuinely innovative drugs in the past two decades.
In the US, there were some pretty significant efforts to standardize road names and house numbering (this largely happened at the county level). One of the big reasons was to improve fire response, which was largely accomplished by pushing the system in the direction of being logical (so roads in a county will often be numbered sequentially and the like).

Are there agencies in Costa Rica that would push such a standardization, or if the existing names and numbers are already reasonable, push the use of them?
"Our model
makes two very strong predictions. The first is that the rate of de novo mutations in affected
children from multiplex families will be barely above that of an unaffected control population.
On this point, the literature presently has conflicting reports [3,6,22]. The samples needed to
resolve this question properly, namely blood derived DNAs from multiplex families, has either
not yet been collected or sequenced. The second prediction made by our model is that there will
be a high rate of transmission of strong alleles in multiplex families, typically from the mother,
and in the same genes targeted by de novo mutation in simplex autism. While there is some
indirect support for a female carrier effect based on half-sibs [23], a genetic study of
transmission based on the targets of de novo mutation is only now possible [21]."

This seems like a succinct summary for the paper. Or at least, it's the part that stuck out to me.
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Having spoken with Prof. Wilson on numerous occasions (long ago), and thus knowing what a charming gentleman he is, I can't help but suspect that he would have preferred this work escape the attention of combative public intellectuals like Dawkins, Pinker, and Taleb.

The actual paper with math in it, rather than this gloss of an abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279739/bin/NIHM...
Do any such studies address sequestration (or other suitable term) of emissions? I may produce more emissions, but I also maintain near an acre (and aspiring to much more) of CO2/etc-absorbing forest & other foliage. Not sure how it all actually balances out, but I never see reported studies addressing suburban/rural foliage conservation impact vs urban bulldozing & paving every square foot for miles.
Simple Python asyncio-based actors in a single file
Does that token not become a new attack vector that also needs a certain level of security or encryption?

Or because it expires, the duration means it doesn't matter if it's compromised?
7 Bits Are Not Enough for 2-Digit Accuracy
More people ALSO means more odds of a genius group having critical mass.

Just saying it works both ways.
TellYouLater: Time-Locked Encryption Service
Whats the future there for awesome tools like d3 to create some awesome datavis?
Leaked TPP Investment Chapter Reveals Serious Threat to User Safeguards
Oh --- so this bcrypt stuff does not apply to session tokens? Those are okay to leave unencrypted in memory or on disk or something?
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YC doesn't require you to relocate to SFBA. It requires you to be present for the very limited duration of the program. There are YC companies in Austin.
Eelis has also written the IRC bot geordi. The bot "evaluates" C++ snippets by compiling them with GCC (or clang), executing the resulting binary in a sandbox and pipes the output back to IRC. It's heavily used in C++ channels on multiple IRC networks.

http://www.eelis.net/geordi
Excellent explanation. I'll further this by adding that, in my use of the excellent PBKDF2.NET library, I generate a salt with the same number of bits that the hashing algorithm generates (e.g., 256-bit salt for SHA256). I can't remember where I read that this was a good practice, though. :(
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> 1. Empirically: most of the applications I reviewed that used bcrypt simply used the defaults.

Isn't that a security risk of it's own though? Wouldn't creating a rainbow table for (non-salted) passwords hashed with the default bcrypt settings then make sense again?
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> This guy had MRI scans which don't rely on ionising radiation and have no known adverse effects.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21412810

Also, the price of a single scan is measured in thousands of dollars.
I wonder if the relative rate and effect of false alarms is constant or if it increases as a function of how frequently scans are done. This is related to what studies are finding about cancer screenings. The more screenings you have, the time at which potential tumors are spotted is pushed back, and more non-dangerous tumors are caught. These benign tumors are mistakenly treated as malignant tumors because they were detected too early. I would imagine something similar would happen if people went for all out CT-scans.
I walked around Tokyo a bit last year and without my phone + Wifi I would have been horribly lost. There are no street signs anywhere.
<Eelis> i could implement a "geordi, fix my code" command, and
still most people would remember me for those cursed analog
literals.

geordi is an IRC C++ bot that Eelis made in Haskell. It parses and runs C++:

http://www.eelis.net/geordi/

Since it actually can parse C++, it can be given C++ editing commands, although you have to know the C++ grammar in order to give it those commands.
Often, it doesn't register that I need a household item replaced until it's gone. In this case, going to the store would fulfill my needs immediately whereas ordering from amazon could cause me to wait two days for a roll of toilet paper.
Most DoS vectors are non-obvious, so this seems like a very weak reason to change the way you do password hashing.
There's a slight difference. Even in the 20s, I believe there was a proposed mechanism of action for X-rays to emit harmful ionizing radiation.

Has there been any alleged mechanism of action for how ALA and EPA may cause harm?
MQ?
The attack you are describing would just be a rainbow table. That's exactly the point.
Japan's Disposable Workers: Net Cafe Refugees
>maintaining safety is more important than shaving a few seconds off your commute.

Nothing more satisfying than to watch a car aggressively weaving in and out of lanes only to miles later encounter that same car stuck in the same traffic as you.
What Makes a Microservice “Micro”?
Here's my rant

Recruiters, (some) are bad, companies recruiting are 10x worse

The recruiter usually wants to solve a problem. Their tendency is to push for an agreement

Companies, a lot of them nowadays, seems to make a Hunger Games out of their recruiting process, they'd rather pick CVs optimistically and then sharply cut than take a more efficient approach (especially one that's not as taxing and alienating on the candidate)
He's not using "broken" in the sense of "arbitrary preimages", is he? He's using "broken" in the sense of "easy to brute-force", right?
This seems like a very interesting subject but the analysis seems very one-handed. You can't just project like that, remove current regulations and expect the city to remain the same except for all the economical growth. Would people with money actually stay there or would those cities turn into a unbreathable bee-hives from which people would flee as soon as they had any money to do it?

It would be interesting to see comparison inside the same country of cities with harsher versus lighter regulations and how they actually evolve economically and socially. Maybe it's not even possible to remove certain regulations in western cities without committing political suicide and having them removed once the next major comes to power.
I'd first learn git basics and start my own 'testing' repos. Then, I'd start contributing to certain frameworks, libraries, modules/gems I use in my own side-projects.

Regardless, the rule of thumb is to not be afraid of contributing. As a beginner, that's usually the biggest issue.
Because countering verbal BS with ad hominem attacks is clearly the answer ...
This analysis is dubious. The main problem I see just eyeballing the numbers is that the ratio of the funds raised in each round to the post-money valuation averages around 1:6 to 1:8. Or said another way, the investors in each of the rounds are buying around 12%-18% of the company during the round.

I'm not an up to the minute expert so maybe this is the new normal, but in my experience, those ratios are usually more like 1:3 or 1:4. It's pretty normal for VC's to own 30-35% of the company after a Series A.

Very hot and high growth companies (Facebook, famously) have been able to sell off single digit percentages of the company with incredibly high valuation increases between rounds. But those results may not be typical.
Great! My shadow ban has been kind of subtle on the normal (desktop) HN version, but it was kind of too obvious on the mobile version. I think HN can do much better passive aggressive-wise, and waste people's time even more, on the mobile version. I intend to delve into that code base so that the mobile version can be as cryptic and still-works-but-kind-of-stand-off-ish like the desktop, with random long loading times, "you're submitting too fast" messages, shadow banned comments, etc.

Again, thanks for bringing that to my attention! Passive aggressive bans will soon be a force on mobile, too!
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That's actually kind of cool though no joke.
explicit reference! I thought it was a good parallel since in the film Max uses the chip to help him uncover the mathematical algorithms driving the world. My system sort of does exactly the same but in reverse, allowing people to construct algorithms and see the resulting world rendered on the display.

Also I'm just a huge fan of the film.
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Also whoa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_cake
I think this article from last year sums up the context of the situation pretty well:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/07/richard-dawki...

To me, the simplest explanation for why Taleb is getting involved is because he can't stand Dawkins. Not exactly pure motives.
But I guess this site is for handing out shadow bans instead of outright telling you that you are banned. What a fine bunch, the lot of you.
Ned Batchelder has a good page with "Kindling projects" http://nedbatchelder.com/text/kindling.html
Why?

Also; if you don't feel like writing a useful response feel free not to respond at all.
is this a Java stack or Node.js? I haven't really used Java in a long time.
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PageRank (and other such systems like Kleinberg's HITS) was a big step up from the traditional IR approach people were taking in the late 90s. But Google quickly moved beyond it and incorporated a whole slew of other signals.
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While you are technically correct, it appears you've missed the point: being able to detect tumors better doesn't improve lifespan if we end up aggressively treating benign ones. This isn't a theoretical problem, rather one we are seeing right now.

Look at thyroid cancer: detection and treatment rates are much higher than they used to be but the death rate has remained steady.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/health/study-warns-against...
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In Nordics, the authorities attempt to create larger schools because they think they are more effective. (I'm suspicious, though, and your references are interesting).

I think that the reason for better results in Nordic schools is that they have not as many students who are unable to understand teaching language. The population is ethnically rather uniform and there is relatively strong social cohesion.
Mercurial queues. I thought that's what you meant with "patches".
No, of course not. The CS problem behind a password hash (or KDF) is to exploit time and memory to convert a low-entropy secret into something with the strength of a high-entropy secret. But when you're securing individual HTTP requests with session tokens, you simply use high-entropy secrets, and thus don't have the password hash problem.
Don't go meta, just answer the question.
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What about these combo keyboard-braille displays? Or the braille display laptop attachments?

http://store.humanware.com/hus/at-school
Such is the curse of a bilingual white dude.
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> for human health in it.

In the US, life expectancy is higher for people in urban areas than rural areas. Urban areas have less obesity, lower rates of suicide, lower rates of accidental death, higher quality of life for the elderly, and higher rates of healthy exercise.

It's true that some studies have shown higher rates of asthma and allergies in cities, but there are also contradictory studies saying that those things are just identified and treated more aggressively in cities -- because they tend to have much better access to healthcare services.