skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A similar thing happened to my uncle Paul (Terrell)... after he moved to Portland, he had an Apple I (part of the original run of 50 he famously bought) and many other ancient 8-bit computers, like Exidy Sorcerers, in a garage my cousin was using. One day my cousin got frustrated by the "junk" and hauled a bunch of it away to the dump.

I believe my uncle still has one more bare motherboard squirreled away somewhere -- it used to hang on his wall in a plexiglass case as art.
From TFA: These claims, representing the majority of information publicly presented by the Russian government since the downing of Flight MH17, are a clear attempt by the Russian government to deceive the public, global community, and the families of the Flight MH17 victims, only days after Flight MH17 was shot down.

Basically, the Russian government is being accused of faking images to deflect blame.
Uh oh. What did I just give Google?
From your description, he sounds mentally ill.
HN's sexism at work as usual...

The title of this submission is already pretty sexist. Had it been a man, his gender would not have been mentioned.
The article I wrote was really just documenting all I had learned while researching distributed bug trackers and, when I didn't find any existing distributed bug trackers I liked, writing one myself[0]. I certainly don't dismiss distributed bug trackers and am quite happily using one on a regular basis.

My big question is why distributed bug trackers aren't more popular considering the popularity of distributed version control and the general weakness of the bug trackers on sites like github or bitbucket.

[0] https://github.com/travisb-ca/nitpick
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> And maybe makes static analysis easier.

> But still not sure if it was really needed.

That depends on your definition of "needed" of course. Do we need any abstractions? Why not just write assembly, nay, machine code?

Static analysis enables a lot of tooling (accurate auto-completion, compile-time type checking, null-analysis, ) and can also make life easier for the JIT compilers[1].

On the one end of the spectrum it's not needed because as long as a language is turing-complete it can do anything any other turing-complete language can do.
On the other end it is needed to make your life easier and be more productive by offloading work from your brain to the CPU.

[1] https://developers.google.com/v8/experiments
On modern bows it's called the riser. I'm not sure if that has always been the case though.
Haha. Coursera's verification technology is a joke and prevents only the worst cases of cheating.

It really is terrible. It can't recognize me, so I stopped caring about verification.
> I'm always a bit amazed at how casually people talk about how "slavery ended," punctuated by the civil war, when in fact, the 13th amendment didn't end slavery at all, at least legally.

I always cringe when people talk about sweatshops being a thing of the past.

Being held captive and working for $0.23/hour [0] may not be literal slavery, but it's at best a rounding error away[1]. And that's exactly the state of many prisons in the US, or factories and field work in many other parts of the world.

We haven't really ended labor inequality; we've just exported it, and we continue to benefit from the dirt-cheap costs of exploitative labor on a daily basis[2].

[0] http://www.prisonpolicy.org/prisonindex/prisonlabor.html

[1] Remember that prisoners are usually expected to pay for their own costs-of-living while incarcerated, such as toiletries, and that the prices for these are set by a monopoly seller for the prison.

[2] https://theweek.com/articles/463364/11-products-might-not-re...
Agreed.
We need more funding, research, and articles that remind us about the middle passage and how it relates to the drug war and the current state of the U.S. prison system.
I for one, completely fail to see a relevant relationship.
http://cleanbayarea.com/portfolio/e-waste-recycling/

"Our electronic waste pick-up service is free for all residents of Northern California, CA."

OP is likely assuming they operate like my local dump/recycling center where they record my drivers license info every time I visit and drop something off (electronic or otherwise). Believe it or not they used to physically write down the data, now they swipe. Locally they don't tag what I drop off individually with my ID but they do have my ID on file as a visitor on a certain date.

I have no idea why they collect the data as opposed to mere verification. I suspect its something along the lines of a large difference between resident rates (free) vs business rates (if you have to ask, you can't afford it)
That's certainly a reasonable perspective, and one I take very seriously. (And to be clear, I didn't mean to suggest that services should be based on a la carte pricing instead of subscriptions.)

From a long-term industry perspective, though, I think there are several reasons not to try to milk money out of search (and I think any company that is serious about dislodging Wexis should think hard about these):
# In the short term it's a competitive advantage. Free is better than absurdly expensive or even relatively cheap. That competitive advantage may be enough to get very significant traction. Also, Google Scholar is already free, so paid offerings need to be substantially better than that.
# Search is a gateway, and its a sticky one at that. For many (most?) people, Google is how they enter the internet. Google has built internet dominance out of search. Having people on your site multiple times a day provides a great opportunity to earn trust and layer on additional services.
# Search is ultimately a low yield service. Once finding information gets easy (and everyone will be reasonably good at it in the legal space in 5-10 years), evaluating which is the best bit of information will become the main problem. For example, it's not hard to get a listing of all the restaurants in an area; but figuring out which one I'd like best is far trickier and something I'd pay for. Network effects will help with that, so getting large numbers of users is important.
# The future of legal research (5-10 years out) is in analytics and AI, not search. So the race will be won by whoever produces high quality products in those areas first.
# Web based services tend to be dominated by a single winner that achieves network effects (e.g., Google, Amazon, Facebook) and I expect legal research will be the same. So second place probably still means that you fail.
But they can't, because the website doesn't work on IE.
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I think internet explorer users should use it for what it is made for… downloading a real web browser
You can invest in them, of course. I think the confusion is that fixed income may serve two different purposes.

According to Markowitz, you buy fixed income as "risk free" asset, to offset an optimal portfolio of risky assets. That way, once you have a target combination of risky assets, you just need to decide that % to put on that, and you put the rest to the risk-free asset.

Government bonds are usually very low risk. Of course, they are never risk free, plus you hold inflation risk. But Germany, US, etc. have negligible risk compared to corporate bonds or emerging / distressed government bonds. So they are good to plug into the "risk free" basket of that methodology.

Corporate bonds (as well as some government bonds) are much more risky, so you cannot use them like that. But they can be part of the risky portfolio, as they give much more interest and volatility, with which you can earn more (or lose it!).

So it's a matter of treating them as a different thing as government bonds, and understanding that when people talk about fixed income, they refer to the low risk government one, unless it is obviously otherwise.
What? How on earth is this sexist?

EDIT: Ok, looking through your comment history I am less surprised. You do a disservice to the very real and prevalent instances of sexism when you play the card in situations where it clearly does not apply, like this.
The article suggests we may not have figured out how to properly measure IT productivity growth.

Another possibility (my guess, no research to support it) is that we really have experienced a reduction in productivity growth. Corporations are doing very well post-recession, labor is not. I say and think this over and over again: corporations have figured out how to take a larger share from productivity than labor has.

At some point, labor has to wonder "why should I?"

Skip to about 1:00 if you like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iiOEQOtBlQ
Is it that hard to imagine a title like "Apple I discarded as junk sells for $200k; mystery man stands to get half"...?
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Knowledge graph fail :(
Read the article, the "plot" of the story is the clerk and the donor commiserated for some time on their shared experiences of the loss of a spouse, which the clerk found rather memorable.

In contrast, when I visit the recycling center, I dump my stuff and GTFO so they likely have no memory of my visit.
Essentially, the Laws of Thermodynamics, as normally stated, don't really work at the QM level and Oppenheim is working on restating them to be more applicable.

For example, changing the second law from "the entropy of a closed system never decreases" to "the free energy of a closed system never increases". It's a subtle change, but macroscopically all energies can be treated the same while at the QM level they have to be accounted for more carefully.

It occurs to me as I write this that entropy is harder to explain physically than energy, and that while we have math to manage entropy calculations, it isn't really anything "real", while energy is always conveyed by real things (photons, electrons, etc.).

So the second law has always been stated in a sort of negative (some thing "not a real thing" never decreases) while Oppenheim's work will reformulate in a positive way ("some real thing, quite a complex set of things, actually, never increases").

Intriguing. Simple changes of perspective sometimes have tremendous impacts on physics.
> "trend for increasing charges in MOOCs"

Exactly.
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Is anyone on HN using Julia professionally?
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I don't know much about Ocaml's modules, however Haskell's type-classes require global uniqueness, which makes them anti-modular. Another problem with Haskell's type-classes is that they are magical, in the sense that they aren't either types or values, hence combining type-classes is always an exercise in frustration. If you want to think of type-classes as being much like OOP interfaces, you're making a mistake. Ironically in Scala, which is the lesser FP language, type-classes are modeled by OOP interfaces and instances are values, so you won't get the same problems.
Fortunately you're incorrect, there's no sexism in the title nor the parent's comment.

The use of "mystery man" is common.

http://www.mercurynews.com/scott-herhold/ci_27894894/who-was...

http://www.mercurynews.com/scott-herhold/ci_27941900/catchin...

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_25915857/has-mystery-...

http://www.mercurynews.com/extra/ci_27904858/mystery-man-col...

http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_26196119/concord-myste...

http://www.mercurynews.com/weird-news/ci_27146487/mystery-ma...

and on it goes
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> Your browser sorted 50K Array without any crash or lagging, because your browser supports Web Worker. When you do a job with Web Worker, it's just like when you run a program in another thread. Also you can see the animated progress bar while sorting.
The text clearly explains that it's about not lagging or crashing, not about being faster.
No, but this is HN, with all its silly white knights...
Would have been safer to say "Apply 1 discarded as junk sells for $200k; mystery human stands to get half"
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For what it's worth, it made the title a whole lot more visually appealing that "0" or "zero" when I posted it...and it's true to the page title.
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I think the important thing to remember here - especially for gentrified 21st century software engineers - is that to fully own your guilt for slavery in the Americas, you must first ignore the history of slavery in Africa itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa
It's not, the person was "triggered" by an artificially manufactured offense. Some people refer to it as outrage porn; the desire to seek even the smallest of possible things to generate anger, outrage, etc. which eventually becomes like an emotional addiction.
Exactly. It's not necessarily faster. The point is, I wanted to show that a cpu-bound task like sorting can be done in web browser without experiencing interrupts or hiccups.
Simple translation to the native code of your target environment is a feature in itself, especially when you have to debug. I suppose if you can write everything in Haskell and never have to interact directly with your runtime environment (be it native or a browser), you could treat Haskell itself as a bedrock abstraction (http://www.loper-os.org/?p=55). But in many real projects, you do have to work directly with the underlying environment. In that case, the bedrock abstraction is the machine itself (or, for a browser-based app, the JavaScript runtime). So closeness to the machine is a desirable feature in a language and its compiler, to be balanced with other things like developer productivity (so C with manual memory management is the wrong choice for a lot of applications). That's why, if OCaml is simpler to translate to native code or JS than Haskell, I think I'd prefer OCaml.
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Nice to see OpenFOAM on HN!! Really valuable open source project thats nice to work with.
Yes, we lack the capability at this time (1990 and even today). I'm not sure why a followup post said "No" as if there's any evidence to support that we can destroy human life on earth...much less habitable or even just inhabited lands. I immediately stopped and thought, oh jeeze, now I know some of these numbers are made up.
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Thanks, this is for multi-platform encryption of data at rest, as where I work all systems are using LibreSSL now so can abstract away the openssl shell commands for easy encrypt/decrypt and since Android will soon have a similar library through BoringSSL can extend it to mobile devices.

Went through the Salsa20/ChaCha djb pages to see it doesn't use modes, and LibreSSL source for e_chacha/e_chacha20poly1305.c indicates a 2TB limit but would never come close to encrypting anything that large as that's why we have Tarsnap backups. Reasons I eyed the AEAD stream cipher for file encryption was because how crazy fast it was during tests and the small size of the output, just was wondering about any potential 'gotchas' I wouldn't know about since I'm no expert on crypto hashing/file encryption.
To get a better feel of how it would affect an area, you can use this:

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

I wonder how small you can scale a nuclear weapon -- what's the smallest yield you can actually produce?

The smallest weapon the US ever produced is the Davy Crockett atomic gun which yields 20 Tons which you can also simulate using the above url.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device...
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I can't comment on its "goodness" but the textbook that sprang to mind is Linkers and Loaders: http://www.amazon.com/Linkers-Kaufmann-Software-Engineering-...

The bad news is that it's from '99 but, as far as the foundations go, I can't imagine linkers back then were that different.
I feel like the problem with Flux is the fact that there are multiple stores that the developer has to deal with. It seems easier to combine them and use a single "store" that has similar properties to Meteor, Firebase, PouchDb, etc..
What is a BART (other than a friend of mine)?
had to reread this title like 10 times. kept reading it as "Apple [that] I discarded...." and kept trying to find that angle in the article.

finally cracked the mystery, felt epicly stupid.
https://www.bart.gov/
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Also, here is a Planet Money episode about this: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/27/410085320/episo...
> But with the hole, only about 75% of that pressure is present.

wait, what? this isn't how pressure works... am i missing something here?
Ironically, painting broad swaths of people with labels like "non-virtuous" is how we got extreme sentences In the first place.
Consider the opposing stick argument instead of the carrot; from what I've heard TX and LA and MS and AZ are no fun at all, yet that seems to have little impact on the figures.
Very good point. Outside of temperature control, I have not seen these used. At my workplace, we have a motor and controller that are presently unusable because the supplier can't come up with workable PID settings. Fortunately it's a demo unit for a prototype, so nobody's out any money.
I want to go this route as well, but I am addicted to Google analytics. Any other services people can recommend?
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"But the branch of roleplaying games precipitated by the Forge existed."

And others. Every game I listed, for example.

Given the author's apparent broader experience, I can't account for such a limited essay.
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Isnt VAT equivalent to sales tax and paid by the customer, not the company? Its disingenuous to say 100€ sales if the company sold 83€ of goods. Would not corporate taxes and so on be paid on the 83, not the 100?

I would be curious to see your actual math.
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Url changed from http://io9.com/5929918/so-called-dullest-culture-on-earth-fr..., which points to this.
Philip Wadler's paper Monads for functional programming is the first thing I read that made any sense. FYI this is the horse's mouth.
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I'd argue this abstraction isn't any higher-level than the function equivalent above. More readable, maybe.
This is a terrific paper, not just because of the titular subject matter, but because it's a really great overview of physics in general, and how various core theories (quantum mechanics, relativity, information theory, thermodynamics, and even cosmology) relate to each other.

BTW, there's a simpler way to calculate a physical upper bound on computation (though this method yields a bound that is not as tight): model every elementary particle in the universe as a state machine that advances at the Planck frequency (i.e. the inverse of the Planck time). The number of elementary particles times the number of Planck times between the big bang and the heat death of the universe puts an upper bound on the number of states that such a computer could enumerate. The number turns out to be surprisingly small, about 2^500 or so. Among other surprising consequences, this shows that, if you had the ultimate data compression algorithm, any state computable by this universe could be compressed down to ~500 bits. Note, however, that if you could do that, you could compute Chaitin's omega and solve the halting problem, so optimal compression is impossible. Look up Chaitin's theorem if you want to dive into that rabbit hole.

Fun stuff.
Grep your server logs! There are open source analytic tools available as well like http://piwik.org/ .
Looks cool, for sure! But... most of this can be done in software, and in an even more modular and flexible way.
Yes, I hold variety of Bond ETFs in my portfolio including High Yield Corporate and Government Bond ETF (HYG), Emerging Market Bond ETF (EMB), Investment Grade US Bond (AGG), Inflation adjusted US Treasury I-series Bond. I believe in keeping a diversified portfolio of different asset classes. All asset classes have different risk and return profile and have different correlations with each other.

As for corporate bond being more risky/expensive than government bond, ask investors who invested in Greece Debt vs those who invested in Apple debt.

You may want to consider reading up a few books in investing and finance. /r/personalfinance, /r/investing, /r/financialindependence, and /r/finance are a few good subreddits with some smart regulars. Also these subreddits have good list of recommended books.
Are VCs geeks, fans, MOPS or sociopaths?

Sociopaths.
Can you explain why you find DuckDuckGo technically superior to Google Search? I tried switching to DDG a few months back and found that the results were less relevant overall.
I thought about it at first, then decided against it. I wouldn't mind a moderator change the link to point to the abstract, if that's the norm.

If anyone wants another overview other than the abstract, pls refer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_computation
Indeed, but as I was comparing differences (difference remains the same regardless of the order of the compared), I thought that it actually does not matter and it is understandable from the context.
Compared to facebook's barebone flux library, the only real advantage these frameworks provide is about server side rendering. But I'm worried this will become irrelevant once facebook Relay is out.
Not sure they are on HN, but I know a few companies at least are using the JuliaOpt[1]/ JuMP[2] stack.

[1]: http://juliaopt.org

[2]: https://github.com/JuliaOpt/JuMP.jl
STOP copying and pasting. Try typing every character in your CSS and never rely on external or pre-made libraries and you will learn what is, and more importantly what is not actually required for a layout to work.

In two years of adopting this policy in my own work I would say I learned as fact as the entire decade before that, where I was making quilts by stitching pre-made bits of fabric into one larger piece.

Don't be a quiltmaker any longer!
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Sounds like the solution is to pay them nothing and call it "training".
Yes, I've used it for a number of academic research problems in biophysics. Our first manuscript that used it is in review right now.

To get "real work" done, I stuck with the 0.3 line. I've found it to be quite stable. Master is quite lively but should be settling down soon, at which point I'll migrate.
explicit annotations following a specific syntax can be analyzed by a checker.

you can't really do that (easily) with ad-hoc typecheck wrappers.
I dont want to be a smug asshole but personally I find programming really easy and natural. I wrote my first code ever in March 2012 (I was almost 30) I took to it immediately and have been working in the industry for about a year and a half now.
I'd suggest you don't use the term "mathematical solution" when describing it, because it's a misleading use of relatively established jargon.
Turns out that website crashed all my tabs in Chrome. Never seen that one before.