skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of basic research is unprofitable. Private industry has little incentive to pick up that slack. Individual philanthropists might throw basic research a bone here and there, but the most fundamental basic research is completely orthogonal to profit motives. We know about the basic research which led to enormous profits, but that's because of survivor bias. Almost all basic research leads nowhere or takes centuries to mature, and in the rare exceptional cases, it isn't like you can enforce a patent on laws of physics. What we'll get from industry funding is an even bigger circus of 'applied' science (highly credentialed people drawing lines through points and obfuscating everything they say and selling it all as science)
"The only documented risk of water fluoridation is fluorosis, and it is primarily a cosmetic risk," says Barbara Gooch

Well technically we know that the pineal gland absorbs fluoride more readily than any other part of the body.. but we don't yet know the total consequences of messing with this crucial part of our endocrine system.

I'd much rather see this program discontinued than to err on the side of ignorance.
Well it's probably easier and cost effective for "them" to access your remote data (and they probably already have with their dragnet surveillance programs) than to decrypt your laptop.
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I think this is a good thing. Giving 'lethal injection' feels like we are treating a patient where the person is not a patient, he is a criminal and a traitor to his people.
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Vivaldi manages to be much more Opera-ish than the current Opera, but for me it's currently at the "missing that one feature" state. I would go from my current Firefox with 20 gazillon extensions bolted on setup to Vivaldi despite that latter's current flaws (ugly as sin, no customisable toolbars etc) if only it had the "Click on tab to minimise" checkbox. I live in hope...
How should one log a timestamp?
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Very interesting. I was amazed that the video seemed to be uploaded with the intent of showing what a disgusting human being Friedman is, when in fact his points (in this particular discussion) are quite uncontroversial.
A simple test of whether the Universe is a hologram (or a computer)
assume the speed of light (and the uncertainty principle, or the product of the Planck constant and the speed of light) is the processing speed limit of the computer which simulates the universe.

Also assume that the universe has finite computational resources. Therefore resources have to be diminished in one location when they are in in demand another location.

The simulation of a complex event, such as some highly involved, very low redundancy, fast moving and extensive event (like some kind of very large very fast collision between two highly involved structures, there are better examples) will result in significant local load on the universe computer.

Given our two assumptions above then we have a measurable result:

Ether the speed of light (or Planck constants) will be diminished in that local region, or they or their product will be diminished in another region.

If the diminishment is local (or within a testable neighbourhood) this can be tested.

If the diminishment is not in a testable neighbourhood, perhaps other experimental constructions will work.
They're all in C now, using Pintos (I'm in the class right now; the switch happened last semester, AFAIK).
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I ended up having to just update a pointer so that the interrupt subsystem could know which TTY to send input to." (discouraged in rust).

Why would that be discouraged, and what would be the "Rust way"? That sounds like the simplest, most straightforward way to do it.
That logic doesn't seem to apply when a cop pulls you over (while still intact) when caught driving 200km/h on a highway which is not the Autobahn.
There were people in 18th century England whose job was to run alongside coaches: http://kongehuset.dk/english/Historical-Collections/Coaches-...

So one can argue that 4minute mile is not inconceivable with such training.
As someone from the UK, I haven't really noticed this. Is it a US thing? (Possibly related to there being less religious thinking in Europe in general?)

I've always felt that as a culture we see STEM degrees as more "real" or valuable than more social subjects (for better or worse), in sharp contrast to historical thinking. On top of that, TV series about science and mathematics (astronomy in particular) only seem to be becoming more common and popular.
Wouldn't a good supervisor then investigate the art pipeline?
> It blows my mind how such a simple operation as passing messages from process to process can baloon to waste the measured half a million CPU cycles. People manage to have full-blown HTTP servers service a request with less than that.

You're comparing a lightweight thing with a security policy driven message bus. Obviously the latter is going to be more expensive.
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Well, he's not claiming that kdbus is that slow. He's claiming that kdbus is faster not because it's in the kernel, but because it's not shitty code like userspace dbus (completely different implementation).
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I would say its both, a value and a service issue.

I used to pirate a lot of music, but nowadays i rarely do it. Because in my opinion, it's just so much easier to quickly buy them. With only 3 accounts – Bandcamp, Soundcloud and Spotify – I can cover almost all my needs in this regard. This wasn't possible only a few years ago.

Compare that to the state of tv series. I wanted to watch some HBO content recently an typed "HBO GO" into search. First result says:

"HBO GO. It's HBO. Anywhere."

Anywhere, great! click

"To access HBO GO, you must reside within the fifty states of the United States of America."

I didn't even bother trying to circumvent that and went straight for a torrent site …

Of course, a lot of people use a lack of service quality as an excuse, when they just want free content. But for those who are willing to pay, service and availability is a problem.
I think the thing this is most comparable to is NSQ, but NSQ takes a different approach to distribution.

- disque: send to one, read from one. The message is handed off to N replicas, and efforts are made to avoid duplicated or dropped messages. Disque will refuse new messages if RAM is filled across the cluster.

- nsq: send to any. Read from all. NSQ nodes do not communicate or coordinate with each other. Since only one node originates the message, there's no duplication, but a node outage can drop messages, and a partition can isolate them with no consumer. NSQ can grow its queue beyond RAM, so it will keep accepting new messages even if it is partitioned from the consumer.

Personally I think NSQ's approach looks like it's doing a lot less work and achieving almost all the same guarantees.
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What's wrong with telling one's boss, "Hey, I think we have a problem here that you should be aware of"? It sounds like these PHBs are drilling their PHs into the sand...
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I like it! What did you use to layout your CV?
> I had a hard time getting the point of this article at the end about why he shouldn't have written the original story.

You really do sound like the lawyers in the story suggesting he sue to get readmitted. I'm sure it's not just Americans, but Americans in particular really do often look completely oblivious to the opinions, usages, general culture and way of life of the other, non-American people they encounter abroad. Edit: just look at the other posts in this discussion, talking about "the first amendment" when the whole story had nothing to do with the US at all (the UK, and presumably Tristan as well, don't have anything close to a law safeguarding free speech).

Maybe just because they make up a large amount of the tourists in the world, and therefore also a large part of the oblivious tourists as well.

When tourists showed up on Kerguelen island (which isn't comparable to Tristan as the population isn't permanent, but those who stay there for a full year are indeed the ephemeral natives of the place) it was always the Americans that were full of themselves, had their weird expectations and got angry when we couldn't get them fizzy water, or anything fizzy but not Orangina, or "ok just get me a beer right... wait, no not this shitty French beer". Or who wanted to touch the albatross chicks. Or bring home a gentoo egg. Or... "who are you to tell me not to do that? Call your manager right now."

Somehow even French government officials, for all their disconnectedness and abuse of the limited resources not intended for them, or most other foreign tourists, could at least get a sense of the place, and understanding of the people, at the very worst they were aware that they did not understand everything.

Wow, this is sounding very anti-American now that I'm reading this again. But my experience of tourists on a few remote islands really taught me that Americans often seem completely unprepared to meet places and people that aren't either America and American, or completely devoted to catering to their every wish and expectation.

You don't have to understand why people think differently than you do. But when they do and you are their guest, just listen to them and accept that they are different people in a different place, with different rules and different means. It's easy for me to understand how one guy could turn the few hundred inhabitants of his island against one foreigner.
I wish we could form a parallel Internet only accessible by reasonable people like you. :)
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I've tried it and it really has some nice catches that other tools miss. Now their PVS Studio still remains.
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Looks nice.

Some suggestions:

* provide more information about does "audit" consist of.

* update your privacy policy so that your users get aware of which data you will pull out of their GA accounts, what you do with it, how long you will keep it etc...

* dashboard's not too bad, you may make the summary at the top (score, #pass/fail) more prominent, and expand all the fail by default.
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I don't see this image of scientists at all in Europe or the UK. From here, science degrees are by far the most valued, and careers in STEM are viewed favourably.

Where exactly does this "PR problem" come in?
I just can not let go of the thought of somehow having a completely decentralized internet. It would be so extremely powerful. I am aware of those who have tried, but IIRC they usually have some centralized component.
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What does it do? What is meant with "Deep clean" and what does the audit solve?

I notice their services page [0] mentions an audit for US$3000 with different checks and fixes, but no pricing is mentioned at their audit tool page. Is it the same service?

It looks cool, if I know what it does I might press the yellow button to check my GA setup.

[0]: http://mixedanalytics.com/googleanalyticsaudit.html
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Personally, I'd rather like to see a formal proof than a proof that is "optimal" according to some vague metric.
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> The problem with this kind of YAGNI thinking is that it 1. commits everyone to understanding how to do everything and 2. requires everyone to do everything afresh, every project.

IIUC is that how the Go team sets out to do stuff? I have no references but I seem to recall I read something along the lines of "writing a Min(uint, uint) function is easy enough, so there's no real need for it in the stdlib (whereas Min(float, float) is there because it relies on optimized hardware), and you can always implement it and have it published" and "container types are best implemented on a case by case basis because their traversal is best suited to each specific case, so generics aren't needed that badly".

I do undestand such arguments, yet encountering the fifteenth slice Mirror function {which is unconcerned about the type) being either non-optimal, or just wrong due to an off-by-one, or giving up on static typing, gets old fast. And I'm not even talking about tries, b*-trees or whatever other interesting data structure there is.
Same over here, it can be as convenient to use as you want, I'm not going to use a VPN to use a paying service.
You can probably find it here:

https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/dbus/
Thank you for your feedback. Those are all great ideas. Actually none of the user's GA data is directly accessed or stored whatsoever -- it's all done through the Google API using oAuth so we can't see any of their account data. But I will add in some text to explain that more clearly. Thanks again!
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CSS animations? They've got really good support across most browsers (c. 90% coverage).
This is terrible. So Google is trying to get out of the monopoly accusations by bribing the mainstream media. They will make a deal and Google will get its monopole, and the media too.

I don't know if anyone here heard about the "Google tax" in Spain [1], but here are my worst fears: Google will consolidate its monopole, and the mainstream press too.

Here's how it went in Spain. One could go to Google News to get a glance of the news. One could find mainstream press there, international or otherwise, alongside with independent media and bloggers.

So the government in Spain (or, actually, the media lobby?) creates a law tailored to tax Google, and Google just cancels the service. How did that turn out?

People go now directly to the mainstream media sites, and independent media are now completely out of the game. Mainstream papers lost some readers, but made the competency almost invisible in the process.

If this trend goes on, and Google and the mainstream media make "peace deals", it means the same big players as always will get a monopoly on Google services, while Google will secure popular contents for their own services (Google News, Android News widgets, and so on).

We all lose in media plurality and independence. In the future we will be worse informed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_tax
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What is this "4502" processor? I suppose it's related to the 6502 in some way, but I can't find much info on it.

The specs are a bit ridiculous though, especially the graphics: "upto 1920x1200 256 colour" - I don't see how you could even fit that in the 128KB of RAM it claims to have.

Funny they had to blur out "Commodore" in one of the screenshots...
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Why do I have to signup for this?
Any collaborators out there intersted to work with me on a Node.js project?
It is a commandline app documenting Javascript code.
Awesome-rubies – a collection of compilers, interpreters, virtual machines, etc.
Nothing obvious about it.

If you look at the Linus's trace, it's all heap and mutex operations. That's just sloppy internal design full of concurrency bottlenecks and lots of in-memory cloning. You certainly don't mean to imply that both are the only way to implement a "security policy driven message bus" software, do you?
FWIW, I hadn't heard of it before.

(actually that's a lie, I saw it mentioned in the CSV challenge thread. But that was just a few days ago, so the point still stands)
The anti-depressant (and other) properties of Rosemary are already known for many centuries and are recorded in the Ayurveda. Nice to see modern science coming to the same conclusion, although sad that many mice had to be made sick, get treated and then killed for something that scientists of ancient times had already discovered.
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@lukealization: I like the site, I didn't even have problems with the scrolling, but your RSS link is broken and my email to contact@spacexstats.com bounced:

Final-Recipient: rfc822;contact@spacexstats.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 5.7.1 Relaying denied
Thanks for your feedback. They are not the same service -- the web app is a free automated audit that checks for 17 different issues I regularly find while auditing client accounts (for example, problems with event tracking, view filters, marketing campaign tags, etc.) The $3000 audit is a full service audit that is usually requested by large e-commerce sites with custom, complex set-ups. I will make an effort to differentiate these more clearly. Please go ahead and press the button :)
Thanks for that tip. I didn't even think of possibly asking for a discount for a multi-month booking.
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> For this reason, and ​others listed on the Tor Project website, operators are strongly advised to only run their exits remotely, by renting out server space.

Better yet, do that anonymously. Always work via Tor. Use a false identity. Pay with well-mixed Bitcoins. Observe good OPSEC.
Clean design and nice project.
I second the comments here about wondering what an "audit" does here. I have no idea what it means to "audit" my Google Analytics accounts.

The other thing is: I have no idea who you are, so why would I hand over my Google Analytics information to you? You have a client list, but no general "about" page, no information about your team, etc.
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Looks nice, great project
Polymorphic performance
Well actually thats what kdbus would do anyway, all the large transfers will happen over memfd buffers...
Looks pretty, clean design
... and probably keeps doing so, as there was no actual explanation given.

Is this click-bait? Very annoying, at least.
Funny how gender free games are getting harassed by SJW to get more genders in them for sake of gender equality...
If you mean "in the context on secret spying on citizens what would that entail" then the answer is that not all contexts are appropriate for a democracy. Those who are not should be altered to fit democratic procedures or be abolished.

If spying needed to happen, the procedures should be open and transparent. All the stuff Snowden brought forward, should have been released officially in advance.

But before of that, the democratic thing for such a mass offense against privacy would be a referendum: "We need to massively track you, including such and such information and sources. Yes / No".

Furthermore, nothing secret should go on that's not explicitly voted, e.g. absolutely no sharing of the data meant for national security with police departments to head-start a case against a citizen etc.

No indefinite storage of those items either. Delete them with a rolling delete every few years or so.
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I don't think you or the police have any obligation or right to track pedophiles. I think you mean child molesters, exploiters or slave owners.

Your post really challenged me, because I've been thinking of the issue in an us-versus-them mindset (we being criminals).
What is the justification for not believing that from a double negation of A follows A is a valid inference?

I took formal systems in university some years ago and remember something about different axiom systems and how one school of thought rejected one particular rule of inference but was this the one?

I am trying to think of a world where this rule is not valid and not succeeding.
"4502" might be a mushing of "6502" and "4510" together, making a name for their own thing? (The 4510 is a system in package variant of the 65CE02.) I too am not familiar with any "4502" in this context.
There are some informative threads here:

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56191

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51542

"The GS4510 is compatible with the 4502, which in turn is compatible with the 65CE02"

As for the graphics:

"There is a new graphics mode to access the full colour graphics. This is the biggest difference from the real C65's which used an awkward bitplane mode that is not really that friendly to 8-bit CPUs. The new modes are actually enhanced text modes where the characters are defined using 64 bytes, each providing the colour for one of the 64 pixels in the character. This allows large highres images with repetitive sections to be drawn without using gobs of RAM. Remember that 1920x1200 is >2Mpixels, which would be >2MB of chipram required. The C65GS like the real C65 has 128KB of chipram."
> But still, come on, guys...

libnetsnmp used to make close to a million calloc() calls when responding to a query for a number of CPU sockets on the machine. That was kind of amazing in its sheer brazenness.
Oh, just file a bug?
It is still working very well indeed. I was recently trying to add photos to iCloud programmatically on Windows. Guess what, there is a COM interface for that.

https://gist.github.com/tobiasviehweger/7a302b7179efb99082d8
Thanks philipn. Typically web analytics firms call this type of account setup and implementation review an "audit", but you're right, it's not necessarily clear. Let me think what else I can call it... GA is pretty complex these days and many accounts have setup problems. So the point of this tool is to scan through an account and identify any issues.

As for handing over GA info, it's only handing it over to Google as they handle all login and authorization. The data can only be seen by you and is not accessed or stored on our side. However, someone else voiced the same concern, so I will definitely make it more clear.

I have been working in the field of web analytics for many years but this is a brand new site (old one was at akravitz.com) About page is coming!
I agree. Note that the Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn links are wrong. A bit odd for a company that has been around for 3 years, isn't it?

In its current form, I wouldn't trust this one bit.

EDIT: I see from an above comment that it's a new product. Fine. Still: work on your credibility if you don't want to be confused for a phishing attempt.

EDIT2: For anyone wondering, it's definitely legit, see the added LinkedIn profile. Nice work!
I finished this article thinking it must be fiction. I had heard of an island in the Atlantic called Tristan da Cunha, and I figured the general outline was similar to what the article says, but the way the more and more unusual details of the story accumulate makes it read beautifully like someone trying to pull your leg. Amazing that it seems to be true.
This was submitted only 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9425628. There was some discussion back then.
Just tried it, seems legit and gives a couple of good suggestions.

@thatsnice why don't you explain the things your tool checks on the home page like it's explained after I connect a GA account?
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