skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What multiple should we give China’s GDP growth?
How do you propose to differentiate between the 'network is segmented' vs 'servers are simply down' cases?
Same here. I've been through the same song and dance. If something happens over and over and it results in my not getting an interview, much less the job, I'm not going to repeat it. Especially if it's time consuming.

If the company asks for a coding test, I politely decline, but I offer to provide them with a code sample instead. Very rarely has that not resulted in a phone interview and I didn't have to spend hours of my time on it[0].

[0]: per company. Write once, give to many scales better than coding tests.
They're certainly related.

If the economy has any rightness in it at all, it has shown us that California is valuable. People put up with all manner of hardship just to carry out their lives in that location.

Traffic is an effect of that value. Of course, people are not perfectly mobile, and many things tie people to particular geographies and commutes; but in general people still move to California and prioritize the value of the location over commute time.
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I've spilled out too much personal information on this site. I'm afraid I could be fired if my company found out I was on this drug. I think some of my coworkers are on this site. I can guarantee the drug is no cureall. Some people are having a hell of a time getting off it. I was prescribed the drug for a condition other than alcoholism. I'm still not convinced if it was the worst mistake of my life, or it really helped my condition? If you are really in agony, I will leave my email in my profile at between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., seven days from now. Sometimes, I forget I'm on such a public forum. I'm probally being overly paranoid?
At least when concepts like the curvature of space-time are discussed, I can intuitively conduct thought experiments. When we start talking about the Higgs and shit, I just cry, because I really want to viscerally understand.
> How can scientific publication move to such a system?

Complete amatuer speculation: Scientists' professional societies could create elite, free, online journals, with a limited number of articles per month (to ensure only the best are published there), openly stating that they intend these to be the new elite journals in their respective fields.
Sometimes I think that the complexity of concepts in Rust will prevent it's large scale adoption for even it's intended uses. You can't blindly use features, because you get tripped up on the compiler and to understand what the compiler is saying you need to know the details of the things explained in the article :-(. I write networking software for a living in C and would like to use Rust, but the learning curve is pretty steep once you go into the kind of things Rust is cool at.
Archimedes actually did write about how he'd switch between physical and formal reasoning, and his account even survived to today (barely): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Method_of_Mechanical_Theore...
> I never said everyone was motivated purely by vanity, just that it is a major motivator and possible explanation for certain perceived excesses (of languages, frameworks).

Correlation isn't causation, and frankly, I'm not seeing much correlation. The proliferation of languages and frameworks has more to do with itch scratching.

> I'm typing these messages on a machine with NewSpeak installed on it.

Good, then you know that PL designers can be pretty down to earth and in it because they like doing it vs. seeing it as a path to fame and fortune.
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It sounds like you missed the point. The point of the article was that a lot of PL research is focused on non pure SE problems/domains.

That is, a large part of the argument was that only a very small amount of PL research is about designing languages that are intended to be used as programming languages in the software engineering sense of the term.

The article gives a myriad of examples of PL researchers who have contributed novel results to non-PL fields of Computer Science by applying PL techniques. In these cases, PL researchers are solving open problems in other areas of Computer Science, such as checking properties of software-defined networks or adaptive Bayesian inference. In these two cases, these are areas where PL researchers applied PL techniques to open problems that other subdisciplines were already studying, and came up with novel and competitive/superior solutions.

In these cases, the "purely software engineering"-oriented metrics/goals mentioned in your post are irrelevant -- the scientific contributions of the PL research exist and can be evaluated independently of the software engineering implications of the work. The language is the methodology, and isn't necessarily intended for use in software engineering.
I can attest to this methodology for increasing self-motivation for OSS contributions. Great post!
Love the pics!
Is anyone able to parse the explanation below for "Data Gravity"? Even with a great product like Riak, it's difficult to build a hypergrowth standalone business. So apparently they got Cloudera-envy, and decided to.. uh.. synergize new paradigms, and reintermediate plug-and-play partnerships, or something.

> Data gravity describes the effect that as data accumulates, there is a greater likelihood that additional services and applications will be attracted to this data, essentially having the same effect gravity has on objects around a planet. As the mass and density increases, so does the strength of the gravitational pull and as things get closer to the mass, they accelerate towards it at increasing velocity. Although services and applications have their own gravity, data is the most massive and dense, meaning it has the most gravity. If data becomes large enough it can become virtually impossible to move. Usually as services and applications interact with data, they cause even more rapid growth of the data itself, creating a continuous cycle of data growth.
Is it well-known that these diagrams look like VLSI layouts?
> Though most of the video deals with the number of deaths, towards the last 10% of the video, the focus is on the PEACE we are enjoying today. The comparison between how bad the world was in the past to how good it is now, is staggering.

Indeed. What worries me is how deeply dependent that peace has been on policymakers having living memories of how terrible World War 2 actually was, and of how Hiroshima and Nagasaki pointed to the possibility that World War 3 could be even worse. Several times during that long peace the U.S. and the Soviet Union came to the brink of war, only to be pulled back by leaders on both sides who remembered the horrors the war unleashed and didn't want to see them unleashed again.

President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, for instance, had both seen the war first-hand -- Kennedy in a PT boat in the Pacific, Khrushchev as a political commissar in the struggle against the Germans on the Eastern Front. When the Cuban Missile Crisis was at its height, Khrushchev explicitly called on Kennedy to let those experiences guide him to step back (http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2012/fall/cuba...):

Mr. President, we and you ought not now to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war, because the more the two of us pull, the tighter that knot will be tied. And a moment may come when that knot will be tied so tight that even he who tied it will not have the strength to untie it, and then it will be necessary to cut that knot. And what that would mean is not for me to explain to you.

So the question is -- what happens when everyone who carries those memories is long dead? When the leaders only know what war, real war, is from dusty history books and rah-rah action movies? Will they be as willing to swallow their pride in order to pull back from the brink as those who already lived through it once were?
If anyone cares for their proxy links, here are they: http://milankragujevic.com/uploads/hola/?ref=hackernews
And the blog post: http://milankragujevic.com/post.php?id=72&ref=hackernews&cid...
That's why people deal with traffic in LA. People there really do value time differently. Just living is pretty darn good—your time doesn't have to be for something, it is what it is, and you enjoy it. Stereotypically, 'going with the flow' is not too far off.

That's the perfect California response and it contains significant cultural wisdom that answers many confusions in this thread.
Societal Structures Change Much Slower Than the Machines
I dunno, C++ has a similar level of complexity (lots and lots of features and fiddly libraries). Blindly writing C++ causes segfaults and undefined behaviour too.

The difference is that Rust complains at compile time, deterministically. So Rust _feels_ like it's tripping you up, whereas you would have been tripped up (without realizing it, often, because runtime) in C++ too.

The second difference is that people are used to C++ and don't recall how complex it is.
Published the list here: http://milankragujevic.com/post.php?id=72&ref=hackernews&cid...
Eh. Sometimes you need a specific burrito.
I doubt you caused any downtime. All the page content is behind a CDN.
You can take a look at Leon Ferrari Calligraphy Art [1]

[1] https://www.google.com.ar/search?q=leon+ferrari+calligraphy
:D

So that's why you went on a fuzz-all-the-things spree on Servo!

(Btw, thank you for that fuzzing spree -- you got some interesting use cases for afl-rs and found bugs and now I want to do the same!)
Google, and Amazon could very well run within the archive.org network once it is up... and could very well offload a significant amount of data. The nominal cost is anything but near zero... just on the wear of hard drives alone, it will be costly.

My point was you can't rely on them to keep said data available. Not that they couldn't participate.. but I wouldn't trust anything less than a "Lifetime" (of the company) or a 25 year minimum commitment as anything but transient.
It's pretty obviously a game where the goal is to connect the same-colored squares on the cube.
"it's just a few (steel) studs, some sheetrock , wiring and labor"

It's a bit more than that. For example, individual closed offices require their own ducts/convectors/filters for heating and air conditioning, their own fire sprinklers and smoke detectors, their own overhead lighting fixtures, etc. Also, the walls of offices generally need to be painted (nobody wants bare sheetrock), unlike the walls of cubicles.

Cubicles can indeed be expensive, but the labor to build offices is even more expensive.

(As someone who works in a private office, I think the increased productivity it gives me is well worth the expense.)
What's behind the data breach is:

1. A culture of woefully inadequate security over personal data.

2. An infrastructure in which a laughably low standard of identity proof is sufficient.

3. A lack of liability for those who either facilitate or approve fraud.

4. A mis-labeling of impersonation fraud. It's not "identity theft". It's impersonation fraud. And those who accept transactions with insufficient proof of identity are to blame.

I'm increasingly questioning the merits of utilizing the Internet for personal transactions at all. Richard M. Stallman has had some good things to say on this, recently posted to HN.
If indeed Uber personnel actively encrypted their data after it was seized, this brings up an interesting question!

If your property is stolen and taken without your permission, and you can control it - why aren't you entitled to destroy it?

I suppose it depends on the legality and force of the order to seize; but if it did not include an order to the owner, I posit they were within their natural rights to delete their data.
That's quite an autocorrect snafu.
Votes alone don't determine rank. There are other factors, like (in this case) user flags.
Its less about the chance to be born and more about the fault of being born.

This is a moral preference issue and so we can have different views.

Take a less contentious example, good looking people are often thought of as better than their uglier (but equally skilled) colleagues.[1] This is a human cognitive bias, and it takes constant effort
to correct for it.

So the question is, would you prefer a world where the halo effect didn't exist? And since it does exist, would you be averse to compensating ugly people for their misfortune. Do you think because they were born ugly they "deserve" to be treated worse/have less opportunities than their prettier counterparts.

Do you think their parents are to blame instead? Should we disincentivise ugly people from having their own children? After all, pretty people have been selecting each other for generations in order to have prettier kids.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
I did, confirmed by the angered emails from GitHub and the suspension of the relevant repository.
Quick fact:

Cost of a pack of 50 25GB Blueray Disk: $37.75. That's 3.02¢/GB

Price of 1TB hdd: $47. That's 4.59¢/GB

I am guessing 1TB BR disks are going to be costlier than 25GB ones.
I doubt that. You need high density living spaces along with public transportation to get New York. LA is huge suburban sprawl that's too widespread. No rail network can cover that huge area.

Maybe if they took that diagram and put the entire thing in Santa Monica, you can probably make Santa Monica like NYC.
[Appends conspiratorial action-thriller background music.]

Remember when Jobs got in Schmidt's face about poaching Apple employees? It was a chess move. It built an ice wall between Apple's employees and Google's recruiters.

Google hires executives, directors, and managers -- positions based upon experience. Factoring out Apple, who else has this kind of talent? Microsoft.

Microsoft, whose former CEO famously hated Silicon Valley and built a company around this ethos. Whose very soul grates on the fluid agility that embodies the Bay Area. Whose org chart freezes ideas in mid-air.

Microsoft sends more talent to Google than any other company: http://qz.com/342229/where-tech-companies-hire-from/

We can assume that some of Google's 3,000+ ex-Microsofties fill management positions. It is unclear how many ex-Apple employees fill these roles because their numbers don't make the Fast Company list.

Google management has become a self-propelling vortex extracting lifeforce from developers: http://www.fastcompany.com/3022131/leadership-now/does-googl...

Jobs was mad at Google for Android: "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war."

The author of the Fox Business article claims that "it all started when Schmidt turned the company over to Page and Brin."

This is false. Schmidt didn't turn the company over to Page and Brin; he turned it over to Ballmer and Gates.

In other words: Google isn't flailing because engineers work on cool projects. It's flailing because they don't.
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This is just beautifully done. It blends art, documentary, data visualization, and history in a way I've never seen before. It must have taken quite a lot of work.

I'd love more info on the technologies used to produce it.
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Um, yeah. I guess I had it coming, with the length of that comment and my inability to check my writing.
I wonder if the algorithm could be applied to flying robots or other flying vehicles? If there was sufficient height maybe?

It reminds me of this quadcopter drone recovering from the loss of 1 rotor, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsHryqnvyYA

Although the drone in that video uses a pre-computed strategy, I think, not a general experiment and learning approach. And it recovers by spinning around on its axis, which saves the drone, and the environment, from further damage, but makes the damaged drone useless for most applications.
People have been saying the same thing about Google for ages, way before Page took over. "Shooting at too many directions", "lack of focus", ...

I think they've been quite focused. Put yourself in their shoes: almost all their money comes from ads and a large chunk from paid search. What do you do when you have 80% of the market in your main business? Trying to get the next 20% is expensive, maybe impossible since these users may not even have a choice of search engine (locked down company computers with IE, etc...). It's easier to grow by increasing the time their 80% of users spend on the net, searching and receiving ads.

Most of their projects are aligned with this goal. Android is about everyone having a conduit to browsing and searching at all times, even while driving or watching TV. Glass attempts to keep you connected and searching even when your hands are busy. Self driving cars are about converting wasted time during commutes into more time on the net. Their recent robotics companies acquisition spree is the same, less time doing stuff that can be delegated to a robot, more time online. Fiber and wireless are about reducing the costs to get you online and searching.

If all their goals with these projects materialize, people would be generating revenue for Google during almost all their waking hours.
It looks like you can. Most fractional derivative solutions on the Wikipedia page use the gamma function, which is defined for complex numbers.
What properties would we want this to have? For a 1/2 derivative, we want that taking it twice would give the regular derivative. Not sure what the analogue would be here.
I'm curious on how you use ipcluster on top of pbs
Around the world global warming is exposing bodies lost in glaciers
It seems to me, they could have gone a farther step removed via something like Cassandra. With a Cassandra cluster, they could have used a partition key that is the domain name + route in question, they could then do lookup against that entry, with the resource path (excluding querystring params) could be used to find a single resource in cassandra, and return it directly.

A preliminary hit against a domain forwarder would be a good idea as well, but for those CNAME domains, dual-publishing might be a better idea... where the github name would be a pointer for said redirect.

While Cassandra itself might not be quite as comfortable as say mySQL, in my mind this would have been a much better fit... Replacing the file servers and the database servers with a Cassandra cluster... Any server would be able to talk to the cluster, and be able to resolve a response, with a reduced number of round trips and requests... though the gossip in Cassandra would probably balance/reduce some of that benefit.
Mike Monteiro - "Fuck you pay me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3RJhoqgK8

See his comments on contracts, starting generally at 7m 20s

Scope creep is included. Renegotiate. It's a new project.
I can't stand those high walls around the freeway South of San Francisco. Absolutely soul-draining and claustrophobic.
A Logic Named Joe by Murray Leinster - for 1946 was pretty interesting bit on possible consequence of global information and AI.
http://www.baen.com/chapters/w200506/0743499107___2.htm
Silicon Valley Races to Make TV the Next Frontier for Apps
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9615441 and marked it off-topic.
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Mandrake was my second distro. I started with Red Hat, but when I got a new video card Mandrake supported it and RH didn't. I only had dial up so I bought a CD and waited for it to come in the mail. Those were the days.
At some point in my college Linear Algebra class I realized that the exponential function is an eigenvector of the derivative operator. Hilbert spaces are fun.
Thank you for your useful input
Doesn't someone have to be suspicious in order for a police officer to have have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a search or make an arrest? [1]

I completely agree that police have to justify their suspicions and subsequent actions (searches, arrests and other actions), but saying that we, as citizens, should be okay engaging in suspicious behavior, just seems wrong.

We should hold those in law enforcement accountable for their actions and the exercise of the authority given to them, but we should also respect what they do and not make their job unnecessarily harder than it needs to be.

- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_suspicion
Hey, there’s a 1950s audio play version - http://ia802508.us.archive.org/31/items/OTRR_Dimension_X_Sin...
Check out "calvinanddune" on tumblr for a nice mashup.
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It provides plausible deniability. It wasn't me, it was Hola.

The issue is there's no informed consent. Outside of /r/netsec, /r/techsupport and HN etc, there probably aren't people who know how Hola works and what the implications are.

You can bet the majority of Hola users don't know what a MITM attack is. I'd wager more than half wouldn't know what a bot net is, or what an exit node is.

Most Hola users have not given informed consent.
They can last a lifetime (or more!) though. Smartwatches will be out of date within years.
Nice, they can sell 6x the cameras!
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How Sega Brought the Mega Drive into the Mainstream
Ok, so are you going to spend an hour going somewhere? Are you going to go to work (1hr), go to drinks after work (1hr), and then go home (1hr)??

So you spend 3hrs a day just traveling, and you consider that ok?
The really clever way to encrypt your drives is to make the passphrase for the drive decrypt a very small (512-bit) header that contains the decryption key for the rest of the drive. Then wiping the drive consists of just erasing those critical bits quickly.
Property being seized under a legitimate search warrant is very different from property being stolen. Trying to hide property or documents from a legal seizure can result in criminal charges such as obstruction of justice.
A patent is not a monopoly in the pure sense, meaning there is no consumer choice and the consumer must buy what is patented at the asking price. It is quite the opposite in most situations. The competition between companies is fierce. Several companies may have competing similar products, each with their own patents.

I help companies look at patents and find ways to design around the claims or just invalidate them. You would be surprised how often we succeed.

Look at cell phones, there are numerous patents on cell phones, apps, communication technologies, and so on. Yet, there is no lack of choice. We are buried in choice.

Also, I advise my clients to think of every way their invention can be made, including the terrible ways. Many times, the competing, non-patented product will be inferior to the patented product, yet not infringing the claims. The inferior product may just have better marketing. The consumer is usually not an expert in the field and must rely on advertising claims and dubious good reviews.

It is my opinion that patents create constant disruption and competition, which is healthy for the market; and ultimately provides better choice for the consumer. Perfect designs, like paper clips, enjoy 20 years of protection, then eventually become commodities. While imperfect designs will be exploited by the competition, with design-arounds and improvements. And there are very few perfect designs.

Finally, I mainly work with small companies that wish to compete against large companies. They do not wish to be the free R & D lab for the larger company. A patent may allow a small company to compete against the overwhelming resources of a large company; hopefully creating jobs and wealth at the same time. It is still a very hard path that few can navigate. Patents are just one tool to make business a little easier.
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