skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment I was referring to was that sentence about working with LEAs to ensure accuracy.

If I really have concerns about losing a domain in a legal process, (I'm a corporation, or ongoing business) - I would use the services of a domain name portfolio management company, like MarkMonitor. https://www.markmonitor.com/services/domain-management.php
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Except that I would never want my name/email associated with a domain name - spam central. My registrar has my contact information when it comes to renewal, or to contact me for an issue, but the domain names all have dummy values.
I haven't used this but I'm excited to see how it helps to analyze performance. We need more tools there, even the simple slow queries reports are good. I hope this helps.
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Got a second? A leap second that is. Be ready for June 30th
"designed to beat" means better, not perfect. Imperfect means eventually it gets beat. The NSA might say what the IRA told Margaret Thatcher, "Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always."
Yeah, sorry about that :-) I really do appreciate your input -- and the previously linked page-rank example show how using manual data layout can squeeze a problem down -- but I still wonder how many of those techniques could've been made to work with SQL -- and what the resulting overhead would've been. Size on disk would probably have been a problem -- AFAIK postgres tend to compress data a bit, but probably nowhere near as much as manual rle+gzip. But I wonder how far one could've gotten with just hosting the db on a compressed filesystem...
> The question is whether there is a fundamental difference between machines in the real world (with sensors and arms and so on) and the human body and brain.

This is pure philosophy, as no one yet knows the answers, but what if brain-like intelligence is an emergent property of non-deterministic processes? Wouldn't it then follow that a classical computer could not be able to compute the "think function" before the heat death of the universe?

personally my intuition says that strong AI cannot be encoded in silicon, or that it is a victim of the halting problem. I think we need a different substrate on which to model cognition. Or maybe not. Who knows?
Receiving calls is a critical (/the only) point of a cell phone for many people. How do you route the right call to the right hardware if you can't associate the hardware with a phone number?
What does leadership mean in the 21st century?
How much does the fact you have non blocking green threads matters when you have a cluster of 100 machines? Yes, internally in each machine there are less kernel threads and less overhead, but If an actor on one machine sends a message to an actor in another, does it matter if it's a jvm thread or a fiber?
Not arbitrary JS. Semi-arbitrary machine code. The first few CPUs would restrict it to a couple instructions, with later generations potentially adding instructions.

And as for your second, don't think of it as a standard map. I should have elaborated. Think of it more of a for loop with an index variable and temporary variable per-iteration. You can access (read and write) other things outside of that index too - the only restriction being that the iterations of the loop will execute in an arbitrary order, including simultaneously.
Sure, there are other strategies for handling the problem. But many have latent bugs, which is mostly what this article is pointing out.

In your case 2, unless you try to force the finalizer to run (he has a collect/waitforpendingfinalizers sequence in one of his examples) this potentially leaves the resource consumed for an indeterminate amount of time.

Its also not clear to me that the *Handle routines guarantee correct behavior with processes running outside of the CLR. I just looked at the docs and it reenforced my understanding that they seem to be strictly designed to protect .net applications from shooting themselves in the foot. I'm not a .net/CLR expert so take that for what its worth.
For those who want's to know what this 100k deal is...

http://aws.amazon.com/activate/benefits/
This is one of those ideas that is totally obvious once the enabling technologies are in place.

I played a Star Trek themed game on a time-share system around 1975 or so. Unfortunately I can't pin it down exactly, and I don't know who wrote it. You were shown a map using an ASCII character grid, and there was a sensor display that would give you coordinates to objects of interest in your vicinity. You could shoot either phasers or photon torpedoes at any other player, and the damage they did was inversely proportional to the distance between you and the strength of their shields.

The winning strategy was to aim directly at someone, then accelerate and turn yourself 180 degrees, putting all power to the rear shields. Then get out your watch, and time to the second when you would pass them, and fire all you had at their back side once you passed them.

No graphical displays, this was done on a Teletype at 10 characters per second!
Highcharts is beautiful but it's quite expensive for a startup in my country (VN). While the budget for a nascent webapp is around $1000. I choose Flot as the replacement. It's flexible and nice enough with responsive layout, compound charts, clearly script.
I'll bet in a matter of time we will find that indeed you can give something quite analogous to "psychoactive drugs" to a strong AI!
Relies on Linux SNMPD for OS level data, so won't work with AWS RDS :(
So, a 419?
There are some recent examples where people have trained a collection of large nets which are then used to teach a smaller net. The smaller net can learn more quickly and finally achieves better performance than the large collection.

The methods involve providing more detailed feedback at each example. With most training data used now, we give a 0 or 1, does this example belong to this class. In the teacher networks, they were able to teach with more subtly: this is definitely not a car, it is very lizard like and a little snake like.
Welcome to long-form articles.

If leisurely reading is too much of a strain, might I suggest the following?:

http://www.tools4noobs.com/summarize/

http://freesummarizer.com/

http://helpfulpapers.com/summarizer-tool/
>That's one possibility, yes. But if you think that Walmart, for example, is just going to roll over and accept decreased profits without trying to finagle a way out of it

Of course they won't. However, they know as well as anybody that their ability to finagle themselves out of it is limited to their ability to lobby and shape public opinion - against minimum wage hikes.

>Who said they would be taking the hit?

Economic studies on this generally all show that profits get hit first and hardest. Inflation happens in some industries, but only generally industries with wafer thin profit margins. If that phrase accurately described Walmart, the Waltons wouldn't be the richest family in America.
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as a friend reminded me, anonymity only buys you time; it does not buy anyone justice.

and david simon's recapitulation is more succinct and compelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Fv-nJCfrk
Your intro video is waaaay too long, and after looking at it I am not even sure it was an intro video. The email written in the beginning, it never came back to it.

Lost interest halfway through, I think (there are no controls).
>Perhaps the other studies were "better" and not as flawed in their methods

Their methods weren't flawed.

That study undermined the arguments of a very powerful group of lobbyists and left them exposed. Of course they were going to do everything they could to discredit it, including but not limited to outright lies and dubious reinterpretation of the results.
Here are two examples of this in action: http://imgur.com/a/YaQyn#1
> So far scientists haven't found anything special about the human brain that can't be mimicked by a machine.

mimicking the brain's power-consumption-to-compute-power ratio is difficult, if not impossible, with today's technology.

an aside: since reading an article about the potential role of quantum mechanics in photosynthesis, i've wondered, as a lay person, whether quantum mechanics play a role in human cognition.
Are You Talking to a Machine? Image question answering with neural networks
> (Not sure if that's how fork() and friends are actually implemented under the hood.)

If you use strace you can see that it is. fork(2) and pthread_create(3) both show up as calls to clone(2).
Review of the Apple watch from a guy that doesn't exercise
What would they gain by open sourcing it ? They have no incentive to get it to run on other platforms as it implements an open standard already in widespread use. In fact they have an incentive to provide a better browser on their platform only (not saying they are managing to do it, but they have an incentive to do that).

As for why they aren't using Blink/WebKit - I'm guessing they have huge amount of work based on IE and related tech and also integrating LGPL code in to Windows is probably a big no-no.
Is there any group lobbying for an open source proviso from results derived from a certain threshold of government research funding? That feels like a no-brainer to me, and one which could have enormously positive economic impact.
Very relevant recent paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.04771v1.pdf

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> I believe GNU mv was the first to do that, but I could be mistaken.

I was mistaken: BSD mv gained copying directories across devices in 1989, GNU mv didn't get that until 1998
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Cap Hill is a great neighborhood, and just about anywhere you live in the Mile High will give you easy access to great beer, but the more urban neighborhoods will have you set walkability wise. I haven't lived in Colorado for a while, so I'm not sure where the tech clusters are. But for easy access to the mountains the further west you are the better you are. Also the public transit is more than decent by Western US standards, so the 'burbs' aren't completely out of the question.
Mozilla sells browsing history in Firefox
I think what you are looking for is https://github.com/IntelLabs/RiverTrail

The JS SIMD effort is aimed at finer-grained, hand-written but highly reliable and predictable SIMD as compared to the large-scale, convenient but kinda magic of RiverTrail.
It would also be ideal to use a higher level interpreted language, and have it try to generate one page scripts rather than giant mega projects like linux.
Nice work. I use this automator for pretty printing JSON.

import json
import sys

text = sys.stdin.read()
try:
print json.dumps(json.loads(text), sort_keys=False, indent=4)
except Exception as e:
print e
You can't compare the average nonpublic company with the average public company to come to the conclusion that companies should go public. You are including small plumbing businesses, etc. That realistically will never have a chance to go public, with large businesses that were successful enough to go public.
I'd forgotten about that! The "game" needs to get much more complex to simulate life, of course. Now I wonder if they could throw that infrastructure at Minecraft survival mode...
To Internet.org opponents: You are entitled to nothing
> "In the few decades since viruses were first found in the oceans, scientists have only been able to identify a handful of species. A new survey has uncovered nearly all the rest."

My first reaction was "What does 'nearly all the rest' mean and how can one come to such a conclusion?" The article is a basic but interesting writeup about Sullivan and his colleagues did to get there.
If they really become unacceptably bad, people could start backing an alternate DNS root en masse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root

Good luck getting anyone to agree on which one though.
I'm concerned that the study may use "out of sample" reasoning in arriving at its virus population count estimate. Here is a snippet from the Quanta article showing some limitations of the sampling / collection methodology:

> In addition, the scientists sequenced only viruses that use DNA to encode their genes. Some viruses, such as influenza and HIV, use RNA, a single-strand version of DNA, to encode their genes. By one estimate, as many as half of the viruses in the ocean are RNA viruses. What’s more, the Tara Oceans survey only took samples from the surface of the ocean. The deeper regions have viruses, too, as does the sediment at the bottom of the sea.
I believe he is saying that VirtualBox is irrelevant as an alternative to Xen, not that it is irrelevant in general.

Xen is meant for running a potentially large number of server VMs headless. VirtualBox is meant for running desktop VMs. You could make VirtualBox run headless (exposing a pseudo-screen over VRDP) to do what Xen does, but... eww.
This is serious. My browsing history is private. I neither want Google nor Mozilla to sell it to companies which in turn use it to control markets and make me pay more for products. I can't prevent all the stuff Google is doing, but I can prevent Mozilla from accessing my private data.

Well, goodby Firefox, it's been a pleasure for the last 10+ years.
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I dont have kids, I can see kids being at home during working hours may through a wrench into my rant. Especially at a young age when they dont understand what I'm doing.
But usually there's a step after it called residual coding, where you subtract the predicted image from the original and send the difference to make up for errors. Just leaving that out is, um, interesting.

Obviously because it would make the file bigger if that was included...

The concept behind JBIG2 is good - small variations and random pixels are likely to be scanner noise/dust, so suppressing them can reduce filesize significantly. The problem here is that some JBIG2 implementations can be too lossy, and throw away the few pixels that could make all the difference between e.g. a 6 or an 8.
As mentioned in https://www.plos.org/open-access/

> There are many other organizations, such as SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Institute) and the Open Society Foundations, that work tirelessly for progress in Open Access. You can find many free resources to help you learn more or to advocate for OA journals in your institution.

See also: https://doaj.org/oainfo
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Why talking to strangers can make your life better?
This is just a bunch of FUD (fear uncertainly and doubt) that Microsoft spread back in 2012 when Hadoop didn't have Windows support. Get in our time machine and go to 2015, and Hadoop has Windows support. Suddenly Microsoft doesn't seem to mind it. Gee, I wonder why?

Hacker News is ridiculously susceptible to propaganda (MongoDB is WEBSCALE! JS framework of the month is the bee's knees!). Please think for yourself and don't read transparent propaganda that is years old. 3 years is an eternity in the big data world.
"Making my home the office is no different from making the office my home, as makes it feel like I never mentally stop working."

How quotable, I found it hard to separate work and home while working at home, took me a year to get it right, but after 1 year of doing so, I've found a few tricks and with a bit of discipline, I have been able to completely build a wall between work and home even though they are the same place. I will say it wouldn't have been possible if my boss didn't also work from home and encourage it. If my boss expected me to keep up with emails and phone calls after 5:30pm, I would probably hate the home office.
As a father, and as someone interested in this discussion (about "child learning to talk"), I think you will love Prof Deb Roy's insights into how his infant son learned language.

http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word?languag...

As one of the other commenters pointed out - it is like a tree (words/concepts) branching out from one another. I would be fascinated by seeing if this research can be continued into adulthood, where the individual "concepts" aren't as important as the interplay between them.
By the sounds of things building the site you described is well within the realm of doable. If you are looking at web games (as opposed to android which I think is what you were getting at with Java) there is a lot of cool stuff happening with canvas and js. Some tutorials here: http://www.canvasdemos.com/type/games/

I'm looking forward to seeing your project!
What is the legal issue?
Why UPS Trucks Don't Turn Left (2014)
I just lost 45 minutes reading about the Bath County generator - that has 50% more generation than Hoover Dam. Amazing.

In terms of Storage Capacity of a Dam, I checked: http://www.nps.gov/lake/learn/nature/storage-capacity-of-lak...

The water available for power generation starts at 1050 feet, and goes to 1221.4

The Capacity goes from 11,474,857 acre feet to 31,141,756 acre feet. So Hoover Dam has an operational storage of 19,666,899 foot acres

The Turbines have a capacity of 2,080 MW. From: http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/pao/brochures/faq.html#capc we discover

What is the maximum capacity of these works?

About 118,000 cubic feet per second: 32,000 cubic feet per second for power generation and 86,000 cubic feet per second of valve discharge. One cubic foot per second of water equals nearly 7 gallons passing a given point in one second.

So, dividing 19666899 foot acres / 118000 cubic feet/second = 6,408,487,134,720 gallons / 882,701.2987 gallons/second = 7,260,085.76644 seconds = 2,016.69049 hours (only 12 weeks)

So, the operational storage capacity of Hoover dam is 2 GW * 2000 Hours = 4 Terawatt Hours. I realize these are entirely different projects, but it's interesting to get a gut sense of how incredibly large the Bath County generators are - not only do they generate power going down - they can also pump that water up.

Incredible - wonder of the world.
I've seen something like this in action with young kids who are given a tablet and stumble upon cartoons they like on YouTube, but in a different language. After they watch a few cartoons, YouTube's recommender system keeps offering them more cartoons in that language. And it isn't long before they start spouting words and phrases in that language.
> Now watch the downvotes and screams from the intermediaries and their apologists. Hi, enjoy your money!

I downvoted you for this grandstanding, not for the rest of your post (which I agree with, for the most part, I think it's a crock). The "conspiracy behind every hedge" rhetoric stinks, and I wish we wouldn't do it here.
Most tech startups probably aren't going to meet that definition. It looks like a 1-developer license for a typical SaaS offering is going to run you $390. Five developers is $1500.
Can anyone provide a sound argument for choosing MySQL over Postgres?
Merged and deployed. Thank you!
1. I don't have kids, it sounds like I should enjoy WFH while I'm young!

2. Wife also is a full time WFH, ironically we exchange very little dialog other then around lunch time during the day. I'm lucky that she "Gets it" in my case.

3. no pets,

4. we have no dedicated office, in fact my desk is in the living room, and hers is in the bedroom. We relish our frugality though and every time we are about to complain, we look at how much a 2 or 3 bedroom apt costs!

5. I'm impressed this does the trick for you. Driving / commuting just gets me all riled up, I cant stand how they let other people on the road!

6. This was SOO hard during my first year. I was definitely thrown into a slump shortly after I made the switch. I now have a regularly occurring social event 4 days a week that gets me around other people which helps me stay social.

7. Since all my co-workers are also work from home, Email, Phone or gchat usually extracts a reply immediately, even if its "On phone, will get back to you in 1 hour"
I think you missed the start of my first comment: namely, I was not talking about JS. I was talking about SIMD at the instruction-set level in general.
Very nicely done! I am just about to choose a charting library and this will be a great help.

Have you considered adding some sort of user rating system? I find myself kind of just wanting to know which one is most popular or highest rated (i.e. take some of the work out of choosing between 30+ libraries myself).
This part of your comment, "...there are no axiomatic concepts, everything is relative and it just builds on itself", reminded me of this Marvin Minsky paper. If you haven't read him before - enjoy the ride!

https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.ht...
Not only is this from 2014 and not labeled as such, but the shortened title is linkbait. No system gets 100% uptime. This article is about eliminating one small source of downtime for HAProxy systems. Nice, but not exactly a revolution.
New Industries (EC2 and friends) in hosting/cloud services were created with the advent of convenient virtualization. technologies.

I wonder what types of services/industries will be created when you can reliably spin up a hosted instance in 40-60 ms.
You are exactly correct - VirtualBox is a workstation solution, not a back-end server solution. That's the domain of Xen, VMware, and KVM. Xen and KVM are interesting to hosting providers and technology companies like google, everywhere else in the world it's VMware.
One reason I don't like Automator so much is that it forces me think where to save the workflows I create. Automator has a very iTunes-like interface and I would expect that it takes care of organizing the created workflows. Actually, I think the Workflow app for iOS has nailed this down perfectly (together with integration of the workflows with the rest of the system).
Thanks! Looks really slick, I'm giving it a try. It's too bad there's no snapshots or restore/recovery but that's probably fine, with Windows those end up being pretty flakey anyways.
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Maybe I'm jaded but it's pretty refreshing to read about pure passion at work. Three guys put together in the same room hacking (in the real sense of the word - going off message and pushing their machines) to produce a fun game that they could share with their friends. No expectations of business value or multimillion dollar exits - just pure fun.
Windows users are not happy with node-gyp. Help us
That and the related automation scripts. I would have thought that now that they introduced Javascript for Automation (similar to Applescript), it would be a lot more popular and would spur a lot of interest in creating workflows.

So far, I've not seen anything. I do use javascript for automation myself. A useful "trick" is to write Javascript using Script Editor, save the script as a .app file and place it in /Applications or similar and have Spotlight execute that Script. I've done things like Empty Trash, Lock Screen, launching a new Swift Playground (too many steps to do that with Xcode alone), quitting all foreground apps, etc. Almost makes Spotlight act like Alfred or Quicksilver.

I would really like to see what other people can come up.
I switched from MySQL to Postgres. Specifically, we are using CitusDB. The performance we are getting is nothing but staggering, due to MPP.

9.5 is coming with Parallel Sequential Scan (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/30b7f7/parallel...) and lots of other goodies.

So the future is looking very bright for 9.6+ and beyond.

I don't know of any valid reasons why anyone would switch back.
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In Baltic states, majority of TV content either comes in native German or is US shows translated to Russian.

I've picked up quite a bit of Russian by watching Discovery channel this way.
Do you have any of these scripts publicly available?
ReactJS on Rails