skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If there’s one thing that militias and Tea Partiers hate more than “fiat money” that’s not backed by gold, it’s fiat money that exists only in electronic form, where it can be easily tracked and controlled by the government."

Ugh. Good article until the author felt the need for this asinine political gem. I am neither a militia member nor a tea party republican, but I recognize the flaws of a system in which a bureaucracy controls money supply based on arbitrary theory rather than some index immune to manipulation. Therefore, I must be a militiaman. Cheap thrills kill copy, journo.
Edward J. Snowden was found died few minutes ago in his home [not verified]
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LispWorks has seen more than you think.

It was the Lisp the most remote from this planet.

A LispWorks program (the Remote Agent) ran onboard Deep Space 1 and controlled the spacecraft 96 million kilometers away from earth.
There's nowhere for the borrowing left to come from. Due to a combination of income inequality and tightening creditworthiness standards, everyone (business and individual) is either too risky to lend to or doesn't need the money but is instead looking for somewhere to park it.
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I just hope they don't change the branding. Well done, particularly the names of their service level packages on the pricing page.
A story about a two year old learning about agency would be a better example, there are millions of better examples for this context.

The most extreme example of a thing you can find is not usually the ideal example to use for most contexts. Rather than clarifying things, if it dwarfs the context, it then appears automatically ridiculous even if the basic argument is sound.
The unwelcome guest: Why VMs aren’t the solution for next-gen applications
1. To anyone. You're just buying the cash. Sell it at a 5% discount to cash on hand and I'll buy it. What the founders do is irrelevant.

2. Founders do get options. They just get them with a very low strike price because when they start the company it's worthless (essentially).

3. Secret didn't fail because it raised money at too high a valuation. It failed because it didn't achieve real product market fit. If it had achieved fit then the excellent terms on which they raised money would have been very good for them.

To your point about "invest on any terms you offer" what I'm trying to show you here is that having investors buy preferred shares is good for everyone involved.
Just like the atheists, who to this day insist the lack of adherence to a religion is a legitimate alternative to spiritual guidance from the church, then crow that they're not subject to canon law?
http://www.getmacapps.com/ could probably save you some times for common applications.
what phone does she have? I gave up on voice recognition a decade ago because I realized the thing has to work as good as an average person's ear/understanding capacity or it just stinks to use. So I said, I'll give it a decade or more. I still thought it was not there, since I never see people use Siri. Maybe I'm wrong?
> ultra-low latency

Agreed. Wonder what they'll suggest? Prob one with tons of fast memory. I read that most devs are using the new Nvidia 980s because the latency is less.
I too had a miserable customer experience with DJI. My repair took 5 times longer than they said it would and I had to follow up with phone calls to basically get them to find my drone at their facility and get working on it.
There's also the point about vendor lock-in, in AWS you do need a systems engineer to setup and automate infrastructure, but pretty much everything (aside from a few products like Redshift, Dynamo and EMR is what I recall from my mind) you can port out of AWS pretty easily if and when the time comes to have your own data center and cut some costs.

Google Cloud is a much bigger vendor lock-in, you could not setup the same environment outside of it.
The SteamVR page seays they will be releasing a developer's edition this spring. Is it supposed to be more or less the same as the consumer version? I'd figure it shouldn't be since they can use the feedback from the developer community, but I haven't heard anything about it.
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YOU'd be happy to pay, but maybe not the rest of the UK companies (or not that much, or not today, etc.). SO the growth of a UK-based Zenefits-clone will be much, much slower, and maybe never reach profitability. So I wouldn't count on that too much :/
Not really. Despite the name and theme, Microcorruption was about the kinds of vulnerabilities that exist in desktop and server systems; actual embedded exploration is very different. Typically there's a site key sent from the lock to the key, which authenticates itself with a second site key - often all in plaintext, on the more insecure systems. So you just sniff the communications.
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By the time the door opens any appreciable amount, the microwaves will have long dissipated. It's a very short burst, so even though it's at full (and decaying) power, the total energy released is harmless.

I still would recommend stopping before opening, if only to avoid accidentally triggering the redundant failsafe switch which shorts out the power and blows the fuse.
>You are not identically valuable to all companies

This is very true and certainly affects the very theoretically top limit of the job offer. But when deciding compensation the actual calculation is only remotely based on the value the employee brings your particular problem.

In practice an offer is mostly based on the employee's current market value (ie how easy it is to get someone cheaper) and how much he is currently making (ie the minimum amount I can offer and still get him to accept) and some social acumen around ability to negotiate a salary.

So yes, when you change jobs your salary is more likely to rise if an organization can use you more effectively. But it will always max out based on how easy you are to replace. This and only this is the pay you will eventually reach if you change jobs enough. And that has no connection to the value you produce but is solely connect to the number of people with your skill vs number of openings.
A whiteboard. Costs a penny and pays a fortune. Or a bunch of whiteboards. Cover the walls in them.

And pens (of course, lots of colours) and other things to stick to them, like Lego bricks with sticky bottoms (workflow/queues), and post-it notes (that are able to stick to whiteboards, a lot of post-its can't), and a countdown timer for your huddles so they don't take that little bit too long, and multiple small screens stuck there too if you have workflow or queues.

And a webcam permanently on if you have a remote employee/partner 'visit' the office on-demand but don't record them because they're likely working from home and they'd like their home privacy.

All of these, and more, are cheap, simple, tactile, and can be mixed around until you find something that fits.
Your comment was also a ridiculous over-simplification. My reply was a bit facetious, which was probably silly of me. But whatever. We both fail at arguing; I have not influenced you nor have you influenced me.

Anyway, it appears that I'm now treading on people's toes so that's enough from me.
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The hash function is completely irrelevant to this bug - whether you use a hash that returns 0 for every input, or invent a hash function that returns a perfectly unique and unpredictable hash for all inputs, PHP will still shoot you in the foot.
Deadline looming, dozens of groups urge Congress to reform bulk surveillance
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He said it was the recruiter's initial e-mail. If someone e-mails you out of the blue with details like that I think you're more than allowed to tell others about it.
hey, I just met you and this is crazy, but here's my number, so call me maybe

WALTER MERCADO
If the Note 5 has a 4k screen, it might. However, I have a feeling Oculus will want to use something that's heavily tested instead (unfortunatley because 4k would be great, going by this: http://vr.mkeblx.net/oculus-sim/ )
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That sounds exactly like our deployment strategy, and I can push to production when GitHub is down. What's preventing you from copying & pasting the build script from Jenkins into a terminal in a local checkout? S3 being down would be a show stopper, but GH being down is just really annoying.
Security researchers found another 'massive security risk' in Lenovo computers
> Those who don't google search are doomed to reinvent..

Not to be critical - but you are also forcing people to reinvent by having a custom-rule parser, rather than wrapping an existing lexer library.
Well, I did slowly get back into the market after 2008. I am in my 60s so my investments are very diversified. I am going for safety, in a chaotic world, rather than trying for maximum growth.
Did they invent something no one else can do? Why would insurance companies not just scrap the middle man and build their own thing?

I once worked for a company that built smaller products for insurance companies. No really big ones, but a decent representation of the market. We would put together an update for what was an internal application, and sometimes it would take 6-8 months or more for them to get around to deploying the new version to their users, assuming they didn't decide to just hold off for the next version for some reason or another.

These companies are pretty absurd in how slowly they move with anything, especially anything technology related.
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I don't think recruitment spam really counts as "in confidence." Certainly he's under no NDA. I guess some might consider it rude, but I wouldn't.
Ask HN: Best resources on project management
I recently took on a position with responsibilities resembling those of a project manager. While I have been able to intuitively manage so far, I am curious as to what "good" project management looks like, and what the best practices are. Any advice or links to relavent resources would be appreciated.
GooFS is specifically mentioned.
I'm genuinely surprised we didn't see a DK3 in crescent bay before commercial release.

Great news!
correction: GitLab is a centralized solution you run on your own servers - you end up with a replicated central set of hosts.
Every time GitHub is down I'm peering at Upsource:

https://www.jetbrains.com/upsource/
Show HN: 30 animated tips on Chrome DevTools
Yes, for production assets. But that's not the only thing deployment scripts serve. Tomorrow we're trying out a feature branch on our staging servers, and will be pulling from Bitbucket as we iterate. If Bitbucket goes down, we can work around it, but we still 'lose productivity' because we're spending our time working around it. Yes, the devs can 'work on other things', but tomorrow's feature branch is what's on their mind, and it's what the sprint target is.

It doesn't matter what kind of deployment you do. Even s3 has outages if the network between you and s3 bites the dust. Even if you deploy straight from the developer's workstation to the production server, you can have an outage - network splits, hardware failure, developer-with-commit-rights gets sick. Working around an outage means you're not working on the product, and that's a loss of productivity.
Did you run these 3 commands?
- npm install
- bower install
- gulp

Can you check if the file web/js/dependencies.js exists in the game folder?
Bell.js – Real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series
Heh. I agree, and I'm doing the same thing for my game.

As for Perlin noise, check out Simplex noise. It's what Perlin designed AFTER Perlin noise. I use 4D Simplex fractals to create my game world which tiles seamlessly when scrolling up/down as well as left/right. And I'm filling the world with random-but-connected cities, factions etc. That's where interesting emergent gameplay comes from.

BTW, I have a few writeups (quite technical) on the correct implementation of Simplex noise on spiralcode.wordpress.com
Is it? Having it hosted on my servers doesn't make it decentralized: it's just centralized in a place I own. If the server(s) go down, same problem as Github (except I may be able to take action). Right?
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Integer Factorization (Recursive)
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Indeed, I think the simplicity of a single search box is so alluring compared to typing out a URL - to many, it's basically their idea vision of a computer as "the device that can answer your questions".

It's somewhat unfortunate, because the Internet is so much more than only what can be found via Google.
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its not a real account. http://www.ibtimes.co.in/edward-snowden-death-hoax-russian-i...
Heard of encryption?
In what sense is tracking an index, or some function of an index, not basing the money supply on "arbitrary theory"? There's no law of nature that says the money supply must have X relation to any index -- if there was, the whole concept of "control of the money supply" would be ill-formed.
Compared to multi-tenancy it seems more decentralized to me since it dispersed functions from a central point. It is not redundant, if that is what you mean. In general having the server together with the rest of your infrastructure ensures it is available when the rest of your infrastructure is available and reduces network/ddos problems.
I think that's a false equivalence. Aphyr is pretty positive about Riak (with the correct configuration) and Cassandra (when used for appropriate scenarios). If I was choosing a new system those are the two I'd be looking at.
Spoiler Warnings ahead.

The TV show is (paradoxically?) more vulgar but also more good-natured (being a comedy) than the real thing.

For example, no one would call a VC a "choad-gargling fuck toilet" in a pitch-- VCs share notes more than is appropriate or legal, and have black-balled people for less-- and I doubt that a group of typical startup engineers could pull off a flawless 3-minute dick joke like the one in Season 1's finale. So, the TV version of the Valley is more overtly vulgar. The real thing tends to be crass and exclusionary, but you're not going to hear words like "shit-riddled anal wasteland" or nicknames like "Cunty" very often. The show focuses on superficial abuses that are funny rather than the long-lived, subtle, and often subversive ones that characterize the actual Valley.

Another discrepancy: when Richard achieves a record-breaking "Weissman score", the entirety of TechCrunch disrupt is in awe. In the real Valley, 95% of them wouldn't know what a Weissman Score is. The technical literacy of the people in the show is actually much higher than in the real Silicon Valley. At one point, there's a reference to a "DFT" (Discrete Fourier Transform, I presume) and I'd bet that only 1% of investors and 5% of SV founders know what a Fourier Transform even is.

The show gets far more right than I would have expected, and more right than it gets wrong. One of the things that is true to life is the purely political promotion of Bighead (an incompetent engineer who gets a great job because the CEO of Hooli wants to fuck over Pied Piper). That happens a lot and I'd love to see his career grow and for him to become a VP, a founder, or even get promoted into the investor ranks. The part that isn't true to life (or, at least, very common) is his humility and self-awareness. He knows that he's mediocre; whereas most people who benefit from political or aggressively aspirational promotions tend to believe they actually deserved it, and get quite arrogant.

Another thing that's true to life is Russ Hanneman's unethical use of information, when he poaches an engineer that Pied Piper wants for another company. That may be the core ethical flaw of Silicon Valley: a complete lack of respect for the idea that there are things that one should not do with others' information. That sort of ethical looseness is common and spot-on. Likewise, the herd mentality of the VCs around Pied Piper hits reality exactly.

Finally, you have Erlich Bachmann and Russ Hanneman (inspired by Sean Parker and, some have said, Mark Cuban). Bachmann is a jerk, superficially, but still a bit too good-natured to be a real player, as we've seen in the recent episodes. Russ Hanneman hits the archetype of the Silicon Valley billionaire ("three comma") on the nose. That said, even he's more self aware than most real SV billionaires.
> ...some index immune to manipulation.

Commodity money and representative money aren't any more immune to manipulation than fiat money. It doesn't matter whether you use gold, silver, or marshmallow peeps -- the value of your holdings are pegged to the value of the assets, which sway with the market. And the central bank can still manipulate that value, they just have to buy and sell the asset to do it.

Fiat money gives nations a central mechanism to manipulate their own currency without hoarding gold and silver. Commodity & representative currency allow other countries to manipulate the currency. In _any_ monetary system, losing control of your money supply causes bad things to happen (see also: Greece).
I diaagree on some points: github/git is not an appropriate backup strategy and github is not user friendly enough for non technical people (the default repository page, github pages is another matter).
There is no mention of bower install in the install doc. I'll try that
Another way is to tile Simplex 4D fractals, with the different levels generating different scales of detail, then do erosion-by-way-of-flooding due to heightmap/rainshadow calculations.
This is unfortunate, there is already a "ccat" command short for "ccrypt cat" installable through "ccrypt" on debian based systems.
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https://github.com/bosons-riemann/riemann is the recursive version of the code for ease of understanding. this can factorize any number on earth in acceptable amounts of time provided your machine stacklimit allows

https://github.com/bosons-riemann/kosen-rufu (branch: laptop) can factorize any number on earth on a simple laptop running redis server.

sharing the complete code , just in case somebody wants to use it and I am not around

This version of the code can truly run on a laptop

https://github.com/bosons-riemann/riemann/wiki/Integer-Facto...

is a short writeup of the logic behind the code if you are interested.
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UpSource IS not a repository.
It is just a Viewer for your repository.
You still need to host everything yourself.

As you can see here:

> https://www.jetbrains.com/upsource/roadmap/

Git hosting is on the roadmap, not ready yet.
Also Upsource takes a shitload of memory.
Alright, gotta say, that's cool.

Frequency-sweeping... How are you doing that? Is the laser itself able to frequency sweep? Or are you chirping pulses?
Not in europe :)
They can't even render 1080p with low enough latency and high enough frame rate currently. Are you going hooking your Occulus up to a super computer?
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> I've heard many non-technical people say that if you're still coding after ~35, you must be lacking important people skills. I don't agree with that kind of generalization, but it seems to be a common viewpoint.

I've never understood that viewpoint either - nobody ever says "if you're still a doctor or lawyer after age X you must be lacking Y"
I guess they don't want it to be a flop, or lacklustre. I think apple have raised the bar with what consumers expect from a 'gadget'...

I hope input is good. I trust that the VR will be good, but input, need good input.
The consumer version of the Rift has been confirmed to have multiple screens. Resolution is not confirmed yet.
You've obviously not tried Google Cloud Platform then.
Yeah, I may has mis-worded that sentiment. My point is, and I'm not the first to have noticed, that much of IT seems to be profoundly cyclical. Not necessarily bad, other than the implication we don't really learn from the mistakes of each cycle. Compare and contrast the trisolarans.

Anyway, memory may be failing, but the big problem was one of configuration data (typically small volumes) that used to be kept in .ini (text) files, now being shuffled into the registry. There wasn't a size or complexity issue that drove that move, unlike the challenge of managing and merging many large log files from disparate services on multiple hosts.

In the particular case the toolkit did eventually catch up, but it took a very long time (3-5 years for us, I think, to recover the same level of deployment, configuration, automation). With Journal, in contrast, the toolkit's already there, and ultimately I'm just not convinced that 'I don't have Journal tools installed on this computer' is a persuasive argument against the tool.

I'm not saying there are no compelling arguments, just that one isn't.
I read about Github being down and know that it sucks for many people. What I find interesting is thinking about how quickly so many installations of distributed version control adopted a de facto central server. Github is a platform that should not need a particularly high uptime from the point of view of any one user.

But of course it does because so much of its utility is that it substitutes for a lower level partition strategy for source code version control at the level of the individual user. By which I mean that the whole point of distributed version control is to have sufficient resources for working at hand regardless of what is happening remotely as the default condition.

Git is designed to be available and partition tolerant. Using it with the expectation of consistency is a mistake and Git requires manual intervention on the part of users to even get good-enough-consistency. Github can't change that.

None of which changes makes Github being down not suck for the people for whom it sucks.
What about the code it has to build? Where does that come from? What about third party libraries it has to pull in? If the only thing the build server needed to build your code was the build script, this would be easy.
It's no different from steps 2 and 3. At each step you're trusting that code you just downloaded from the web is doing what you want it to do.
If Valve's timing on their VR is anything like their timing for, well, everything else they do... I think the Rift will be out first.
>> "Full-time employees of large corporations and government agencies can get through economic downturns with relatively little impact on their paycheck as long as they manage to stay employed. Even if they are laid off, they can often rely on unemployment benefits for a while. But if you're a freelancer and the projects suddenly stop coming, what do you do? Not many countries have the equivalent of unemployment insurance for freelancers, and no amount of unionization will help you survive for long in a world without projects."

Not sure what country you're speaking about here but in the UK at least you can get unemployment benefits for as long as necessary providing you can show you are actively seeking and able to work (i.e. applying for jobs, attending interviews). Your past work history doesn't factor into it.
There were numerous Federal taxes before 1915. Federal taxes on imports were imposed around 1790. Federal excise taxes on domestic goods soon followed, although they were quite unpopular in some circles (Google "Whiskey Rebellion"). Various such taxes came and went many times between then and 1915. There was also a Federal income tax for a while in the mid 19th century to help fund the Civil War.
It's explained at the top of the original post: https://aphyr.com/posts/281-call-me-maybe-carly-rae-jepsen-a...
And especially when you want it to be immune to random failures without data loss.

The last few entries of a log file before something catastrophic happens are precisely the entries that are the most important to make sure they aren't lost.
Where is $1500 per month from? I can not find it in the pricing page.