skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RIP Mihai.
Usually I don't complain about downmodding, but it'd be nice to see why people disagree with this comment.
And the Internet connection you are using.
Who have less than 2000 combined TV show episodes and movies in my country (Germany), and only launched here 4 months ago.
>And really, why not spend additional GDP on public R&D? The benefits have been net positive over the long term, spurring new industries and economic growth. This is a no brainer.

Is there any proof for such a claim? Please, before attacking me, realize that there are many states between "more money for R&D" and "no money for R&D". I am merely asking if there is any evidence that adding more money will produce the benefits you asserted, not proposing to cut funding completely.
Or anywhere else in the world that isn't the US.
3-D image of live embryo turning itself inside out
I would make it clear up front that this is not for offsetting the monetary cost of Uber rides.
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Tech startups such as Nowfloats, Whatfix and Zoho eye potential of local SMEs
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That I'm fine with, and consider more of a business model change.

I'm taking in regards to the other comments with the "capitalism is no-good/evil" nonsense.
I've actually tried logentries and papertrail. For mobile, I highly recommend Bugfender.
Why this CEO believes an MBA is worthless
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Mark Williams on Mindfulness
Neither - my co-founder and I consult over the whole data chain from tracking to recommendation engines and automation, and I write around 10% of the code, usually SQL and scripting; this finances our startup R&D better than taking funding in Singapore, which is only generous towards Singaporeans.

I think finance is a broad industry with a wide mix of experiences and competence and it entirely depends on which firm you are working for. I'd work in any position for someone like Jim Simons, Paul Singer or Seth Klarman, I'd probably try fairly hard (and tried fairly hard back then) to get in somewhere like Glencore, places like IMC or Tibra sound quite fun, but I'd hesitate to take up any kind of job at some of the smaller banks, startup funds or other dubious entities. Even some of the non-bulge bracket but global banks are seriously bureaucratic and technologically still in the 1980s (without the culture of proper engineering allegedly more common back then). Then there's the special cases: at Standard Chartered, you get to work with people like @donsbot which is fantastic for your technical development independently of whether you enjoy the industry or the company.

The money is good, but not that good. By specializing in something there is a lot of demand for outside of finance (say, "big, proper" dev ops) you can pull a lot more money than by being an average quant or the "guy who makes the tools for the traders", even if the best quants will pull large amounts of money. We interviewed dev ops people making north of USD 300k a year for managing less than 100 servers.

Lastly, a lot of business people in finance look down on IT; they see it as a commoditized industry with less intelligent people than those brilliant people who have "survived" markets and bring in revenue (one might make the same argument about them - the most often said thing on a trading floor is "would he make the same money without the bank's name on his business card" and "personality" and free lunches was never a factor in choosing the bank I'd trade with). If you can forgive them for that, wear your suit, swallow your pride and do what you're told, you can make an easy living in those places.
Have you ever heard the phrase "there is truth behind every joke"? It is relevant here.

The joke is in the exaggerations and charicatures. The truth is what is real that would cause this joke to be made in the first place.

Obviously smart does not equate to "snobbery" or "perfectionism". And less smart does not equate to "more horny". It is a comedic layer added by the directors to make you laugh, because it is a comedy.

But the truth beneath the funny is that less smart people generally make poorer life decisions. For many people in many contexts, less children for a longer time is a smart life choice, and more children more quickly is not. Because more children more quickly is, in most contexts, in the category of poor decision, it tends to happen more with less smart or educated people.

I don't see how it is an argument for elitism at all. It's an argument for promoting education.
Even single quotes need some additional escaping, see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427820
No, the ocean blocks radio waves because its index of refraction at RF is very different from that of free space, resulting in a massive impedance mismatch at the boundary. In bulk matter, this is a scale-independent phenomenon.
"I want to say one word to you, just one word: Fairings."
Several cars on a highway moving in one direction.
On a one lane highway several cars can move forward, one after the other concurrently.

On a two lane highway on each lane several cars can move forward one after the other concurrently AND on the other lane other cars can move in parallel to them.

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One CPU (core) having one program counter pc executes one instruction after an other and keeps track of the position in the instruction current by increasing the pc. With special code it is possible to make the pc jump to an completely unrelated code block and later make it jump back to the first code block. The core sees and executes one current of instructions but the code-blocks, the intentions of the code-blocks can be quite unrelated. There can be several concurrent code-blocks managed (usually by the OS, Kernel) interlaced into the instruction current the CPU core executes.

If there are several cpu execution cores several instruction currents with their own interlaced code-blocks can be processed in parallel.

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Hey! At least I tried ;)
The DRM for DCP lets you audit who played your movie. It's not that expensive (I think $7500 or so plus a small per-copy fee), but if a film gets any kind of release at all this is a lot cheaper than paying someone to get on the phone and call around to every theater that booked it to get a written report of how often it was screened etc.
Glad to see this got some good upvotes and discussion as some investors aren't even aware of the wealth of information SEC filings contain. Having worked with the SEC's archaic Edgar "database" with another provider of free SEC Filings and API[1], I respect what Kimonolabs is doing.

[1] https://www.Last10K.com
Nice shout-out to HN there.

The lack of Android lowers my interest in Vivaldi. If it hasn't happen already, I predict soon mobile will account for the majority of web traffic. It's also a platform that still has a lot of room for new ideas. Most features for desktop browsers I think have already been explored.
It is not possible to replicate Disque features as a Redis data type, it is fundamentally a different best unfortunately. The project started exactly as a feature for Redis but was migrated away as a separated system because while I was working on it the tension between what Redis was and what Disque would be were bigger every day.
Cyclomatic Complexity: Logic in CSS
Audi is making fuel from air and water
I wouldn't call myself a physics educator, but I have TAed many physics courses, and I had a temporary employment at my university's physics department working on constructing new numerical term projects for undergraduate introductory physics. And really, electric forces and gravity are both 1/r^2 laws, and the field near the surface of a biological membrane is also fairly uniform, so why not calculate the forces on a virus instead? It's a matter of piqueing the interest of the students.

I remember constructing one numerical assignment for intro phys. for mech. eng. that was supposed to teach numerical integration of ODEs, so I had them set up Newton's second law for a soccer penalty kick, working their way up to including realistic air resistance plus Magnus effect. Boy, they were excited to be able to curve that ball past the keeper into the upper corner of the goal (this was Matlab and I gave them code to draw the path in 3D on a soccer field).
What do you consider prerequisite knowledge for being able to do this course on your own and succeed?
My personal favourite is HMAS Harman - located about 100km from the ocean...

https://encrypted.google.com/maps?q=HMAS+harman&hl=fr&ll=-35...
Iirc, the middle node never has access to the data being sent.

I think only the last node might, and that is because they have to be able to send and receive it, and if the website you are connecting to doesn't support ssl or anything, then there's no way the exit node can send the information it needs to send , without having access to it.

But I think the entry and middle node have no information about the content (other than some bounds on its length)
I can guess the headlines in the next few days: 'Rosemary tea cures depression'.
It's not really relevant to someone who is murdered whether it is a judge or a cop who sentences them to death. The result is the same: someone is murdered and those doing the killing face no consequences whatsoever.
Microsoft could push a security update enabling TLS 1.1 and 1.2 by default?

(I'm not saying they will, but they could.)
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I would suggest adding "in mice" to the title.
> Most features for desktop browsers I think have already been explored.

And then trashed by the likes of Chrome because they want to provide similar experience as on mobile. So mobile support is the last thing I look for in a desktop browser.
5 tools to analyze a website’s design
And https://lwn.net/Articles/636997/

But, let's stop bitching and come up with alternatives, solutions, or closure. I'm tired of hearing about KDBUS (all love to gregkh) and DBUS.
Note that (according to [1]) a distinction in the introductory OS courses is a required prerequisite for this course. That suggests that mostly students likely thrive in such an intense course will take it. In addition, the course's teacher (Gernot Heiser) achieved the first full verification of an OS kernel [2]. This was a pretty major milestone in both program verification and OS. It's probably an amazing experience to be in such an OS hothouse.

[1] https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9242/14/intro/

[2] G. Heiser et al, seL4: Formal verification of an OS kernel, http://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/papers/klein-sosp09.pdf .
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Off topic disclaimer!
Whonix is a funny name in British English, as to nick something is to steal it. So the name sounds like "who steals?" It's either appropriate for the application, or wildly inappropriate, depending on your personal interpretation.
There is a moral responsibility to help your fellow citizen against unreasonable prosecution, especially when police works under the incentive to get higher "stats".

As a citizen, we also have a moral responsibility to demand more efficiency from our government. Tracking criminals should be done under the scrutiny of cost-benefit, which mean they shouldn't focus on getting logs from software which do not log. They should not spend time chasing people when they lack evidence, and whose intent is publicly know (tor exit nodes does this). An IP address is neither DNA, fingerprint or a photo, but rather an address. If you saw a criminal going into a hotel, or going towards a specific road, you don't send the army and pull out everyone who lives there early in the morning. You knock doors, ask for witnesses and behave respectful until further evidence is gathered.

As professionals, we have any additional moral responsibility to protect innocents. We don't share logs, we don't share records, and we don't share journals. Administrators, medical personal, priest, help-lines, lawyers, and so on need to take a stand for people in their care. At times we can't tell the damage that careless behavior can cause, and innocent bystanders might get killed while chasing a criminal.

And then you balance those moral responsibilities and try to do the right thing.
Specifically, I've been to a few of the Functional Programming meetups- they've been good so far. UNSW and USYD are hubs for the CS community in general. As a UTS grad, there wasn't much but Business Analysis going on there.

Generally, recommendation would be to pick a few topics that you're interested and find related communities and meetups. You'll find interesting people through osmosis.
We still just render pages into rectangles for one. Why can't I make an 'L' shape around my console for the tutorial I'm copying. Responsive design isn't done till I can do that.
Anyone interested in this can find an excellent lecture here http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc and of course by looking up leonard susskind's stuff on the black hole wars and universe as a hologram
I couldn't say for sure. If he wasn't actively hiding malicious intent, it sounds like he thought the priest cases were pretty straightforward and awful, rather than involving repressed memories and ambiguous. The article lays out the controversy of that better than I ever could, when I finished it I figured I wouldn't be able to tell without digging into what he actually contributed to the panel.

There does seem to be a common thread through his work, between fighting freudians and disputing repressed memories and multiple personality and I guess the transgender issue, he seems to emphasize that you can't take for granted that self-reporting is as trustworthy as people have tried to make it. But that's just my interpretation, I may be reading into that.
Romanian law enforcement dismantled a cyber criminal gang
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> They would have to transmit accelerometer data (at a reasonably high sampling rate) in real time.

Not necessarily. They could also follow the SETI approach by providing an app for volunteers who collect the data. The app evaluates the data, filters the noise and sends the abstract data results to a server. There are already many data collections of past earthquakes which could be used as patterns for a neural network in the app.
I don't disagree with you. That is why I believe the onus is on the owner of the ecosystem where illegal activities are occurring to take action, to boot out the users attached to the activity and, if it makes sense to do so, to put their materials out where it can be found.

There is no simple answer, I know. Maybe for an Admin to do this without being 100% sure to whom the data belongs is tantamount to framing someone, should the data have been placed by another party. I just can't see _nothing_ being done; if not handed over directly to the authorities, then at least personally do the most your own conscious dictates.

The difficulty of the scenarios is not lost on me...
Totally worth it and you couldn't support a better development team. Looking forward to seeing what they come up with next.
This looks really fun and reminds me of my time studying Mech Eng where we got given big group design projects. Those were lots of late/unending nights and long days in labs but honestly it's those times with good friends hammering through tough work like this that stick in my mind as the best part about uni.

Well, that and the pub. But it ranks up there!
Seems to be some debate as to if this is real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
Man, mice have it good. They get their cancer cured, their lifespan extended... all years ahead of us.

Maybe the Hitchhiker's Guide was right!
How we gathered 2,7K emails and 6,2K page views in 72hrs spending only $150
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Idiocracy is a movie, it's entertainment. There's also two sides to it, one of which a lot of people don't seem to pick up on. The protagonist of the story, the smart guy in the future of idiots, never really applied himself, he was content with being smarter than the average idiots, and he thought that was good enough. It wasn't until he got off his ass and engaged with the world that things started to get better.

Besides which, it's fictional. While there is some truth to the fact that "less educated" people tend to reproduce at a comparatively higher rate than the more educated, it's a fallacy that somehow this is resulting in a "dumbing down" of the human race. For example, raw IQ test scores have been increasing over time quite dramatically (IQ is always normalized to the mean so 100 IQ is by definition the average).

Idiocracy is an entertaining story, and it holds some lessons worth taking to heart, but it is not the truth.
While we are on the subject, can sites that include code samples not put them in those frames/boxes with the scroll bar?

I realize that line shifts ruin the copy/paste experience but maybe just make your page wider than 450px on the main content.

And don't get me started on vertical scrolling on the same, why are you (yes, you!) making me scroll the little box vertically? Are you running out of web-page paper?

Ironic that so many tech bloggers have poor presentation of information on the web.
The Crying of Lot 49 is one of my favorite examples of a book that tells a story about basically nothing, yet happens to be an absolute marvel to absorb.

It has nothing to do with feeling superior and simply reveling in masterful use of language. Does it make one feel superior to watch a world class athlete perform? Reading Pynchon or DFWallace is a pretty similar emotional experience, in my book. 😎
There may be more to the story than the innocent "nothing came of this" that the protagonist originally wrote.
Empty fridge is much more useful than a stocked mini-bar.
Audi E-diesel made from water, CO2 and green power
JAVA 7 NO UPDATE after April 2015
I saw a news piece a few weeks ago about this idea and I think this article refers to idea they were discussing:

http://news.sciencemag.org/earth/2015/04/smart-phones-could-...

I would guess that there are enough phones plugged in at any given moment, even during the day, to provide a large enough sample size. Especially if that were paired with other data sources.
Unfortunately, the kinds of people who care about that sort of thing overlap heavily with rust's intended user base.

Also, end users might not care that much about binary size, but distribution maintainers do -- they want to fit as much functionality they can within a reasonable-sized iso download. If including a rust program in the base OS means omitting a dozen C programs that would have fit in the same space, that's a hard sell.

I am optimistic that these kinds of issues will be worked out as the language stabilizes and the tools improve.
No, paraboloid also has positive curvature. Sign of curvature refers to whether all curves at a point are in the same half-space (saddles have negative curvature).

OP really means something like "eccentricity <1"
He's far from dumb, he's just evil like just about all other psychopaths.
As others say, CBT is not MCBT.

The evidence for CBT is stronger than for MCBT, although they tend to be used for different people.
Good link.

As a side note, I see sorokin's posts about DCOM, RPC and multi-threading:

> Probably some unique thread-id can be propagated through the calls. And if incoming call has the same thread-id as one of our outgoing call it is handled inside this outgoing call as in nested message loop, otherwise a new thread from thread pool is used. This will create an illusion that two processes share the same set of threads and it works well with mutexes.

I think he is slowly driving towards an actor like message passing thing like Erlang, Akka or Orleans without even realizing.

Which reminds me of Virding's law:

http://rvirding.blogspot.com/2008/01/virdings-first-rule-of-...

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Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.

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As far as I know there is nothing more reliable than animals for detecting earthquakes. Typically animals go crazy when they realize a coming earthquake.

http://gizmodo.com/5833733/how-your-dog-knows-an-earthquake-...

One way to take advantage of that could be to stick sensors (radio monitoring, RFID or something) to some animals. If the animals go crazy then the pattern of their movements is a reliable sign of a soon coming earthquake.
> * Publicly available image registry

I am unconvinced downloading system images from the Internet is a great thing overall.
I don't use it, and I won't use it for a very simple, trivial even, yet important usability related reason: there is a gap left between the tabs bar and the top edge of the screen, which is inconvenient for switching tabs.

For UI designers, if they ever wondered why Firefox or Chrome don't have this gap - old but gold: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000063....
Nix (and NixOS, NixOps etc) is totally, totally awesome (only downside is that it's not a statically typed language itself). Just be warned that it does have a non-trivial learning curve of its own though.
He's not saying DBus as a concept is bad, just that the implementation sucks. If he's right, that's something that can be fixed relatively easily (compared to a major architectural change).
> Since then I'm convinced that people who are inventing RPC solve non-existing problems.

Many RPC solutions ultimately failed, because they were slow and overdesigned/complex. (e.g. CORBA, Network OLE/DCOM, Java RMI, XML-RPC/SOAP and other XML-based protocols, etc.)

Whereas e.g. REST (if you call it even RPC) is just very simple and enough for most purposes.

It's more like the concept of Component Object Model failed. For example OLE (the base technology behind DCOM) doesn't fly beside the legacy Office usage. It goes without saying that binary based implementations of such Component Object Model are faster than XML based ones - a fade of the last ten years.

The component format (if you call it that way) that just works is HTML5.

Edit: okay, it seems it's a controversial topic (My comment used examples which were DCOM and OLE 1+2 (the original MS Office thing "Compound document") - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_document , not COM directly)
The OS class I took at UC Berkeley (back in 2010) was in Java, which sucked all the fun out of it. Seeing other universities' OS courses always makes me feel a little jealous.
"And what else floats in water?"

"Bread"

"Apples"

"Very small islands"
Which British accent? One linguist says that you get a noticeable difference about every 25 miles in the UK

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7843058.stm
Well, I've spent the last decade designing FDA cleared systems (class I and class III), and I can tell you that it is. That doesn't mean that mistakes aren't made, and it doesn't mean that you can't outright lie in documentation. There's no way the FDA could catch that short of replicating all of your V&V.

However, most of us aren't trying to cheat, and I can tell you that the amount of engineering rigor that goes into a medical device is leagues beyond what most software devs have ever been a part of. At my company we don't hire "developers"; we hire engineers who have programming in their toolbox.

Medical software screwups are high profile. You don't hear about every bug that the next "disruptive startup" lets into the wild.