skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems overly simplistic, given the diverse claims as to the nature of God/Gods.

To pick one, the Judaeo-Christian god seems to be unwilling to allow proof of its existence. This seems to be intentional, to place the acceptance/rejection of its existence onto a plane of personal faith, rather than provable fact.
They do (now). It isn't in chronological order.
Martin's talks and blog posts are aways awesome. I'm really excited to see how this plays out for real applications.

The one thing I'm always somewhat confused by though is how a "totally ordered log" intersects with the reality of a partitioned log. The simplicity of a log seems to break down a bit when you partition.

For instance, imagine I want to implement multi-key transactions on top of a distributed datastore. With a totally ordered log this is easy. But with a partitioned log, it becomes much harder.

Alternatively, imagine I want to implement a collaborative editing app like Google Docks or something like Slack. A natural design would be to to have millions of independent logs. I can then replay logs to get current state and watch logs to keep it updated. But as far as I'm aware, partitioned logs like Kafka do not actually support millions of topics. So there's no way to replay a log for something like a channel or document.
It's a bit hard to compare to MPI, which is considerably lower level and is oriented towards tightly coupled compute clusters. MPI is more about passing around data structures and not so much about dispatch and execution of independent tasks, which is more of a distributed computing type endeavor. You can build something like this on top of MPI (and I did once as an experiment), but it is tough to compare them directly since they are designed on different assumptions.
Is it common for managers to actually get involved in projects in other organizations?
Great points!

Just to clarify, our article was not meant to blame any particular party, but rather to provide awareness of the security vulnerabilities that exist even in the latest official images on Docker Hub.

As you point out, this study specifically focused on the OS package vulnerabilities -- including application-level packages and/or other types of vulnerabilities would increase the percentage of vulnerable images.

As we also mention in the article, rebuilding is a great way to solve some of the problems. However, rebuilding comes at a cost -- the overhead of redeploying the container infrastructure, managing audit trails, potential instability introduced to developer applications, etc. These need be balanced against the benefits of rebuilding constantly.
That's quite an assumption. I'm guessing you are young.
Apropos archive.org: I recently found out they interpret a missing robots.txt as access denied. I wonder if that's a mistake or on purpose.
If APIs are copyrightable, then so are protocols. Hmm.
Seems unlikely, since the article mentions that Google has already stopped using the code in question.
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>based on a belief that they "chose" to do whatever they did,

You don't think that people who commit crimes choose to commit then?

What is controlling the minds of murders, rapists, arsonists, ect if not the people performing their actions?
As an engineer it easy to lose track of what people can afford, but I do think most people here in Sweden can afford an unexpected $1,000 bill. I found a study which says that 12% live in households that have a buffer of less than 10,000 SEK (1,175 USD). Most people here do not live from paycheck to paycheck.

The real issues are that the poor commit more crimes and that they also are more heavily targeted by the justice system, plus that the US have larger problems with poverty than Sweden.
How to use your phone the right way. “Minimal mode” for your iPhone.
New CEO and CTO a year ago are a likely source of repositioning: http://basho.com/basho-names-new-ceo-and-cto/

I can't speculate on how that all relates to brain drain.
Well they have to monitze effectively if they expect to retain talent, and so it's definitely related in that way.

It's a nice database, but not well understood. I've found it difficult to communicate how everything fits together to people do don't use this stuff everyday, so maybe this will help? At least it makes it clear that a seemingly complex configuration is perfectly valid and workable in practice.
> DOJ people don't just wake up and submit opinions to the Supreme Court at the approval of some random middle manager.

Well, no, the Solicitor General, under whose authority such things are done (and who is the person to whom the Supreme Court issues -- as it did in this case -- "invitations" [treated as commands] for input), is one of the highest-ranking officers at DoJ.

And still not part of the White House.
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I don't get your meaning here. Do those people feel like the typical high-clearance honcho that Ellsberg described, or like Ellsberg himself with the wisdom of years?
I wonder why Fourier and Laplace transforms were dismissed very early on? It is very tempting to generalize the the differentiation property to non-integer n and do a inverse transform to get any non-integer derivative. For instance, I would imagine that f^(1/2) = L^{-1}[ sqrt(s) L[f] ]. Is there a particular difficulty in doing the integral?
Ask HN: What are the hypergrowth startups in bay area now?
I'm planning to quit my job from a big corp in bay area and move to a startup. My choices are Uber, Zenefits as of now. I'd like to explore more opportunities to know about other hyper growth startups. Where did you recently interview and which startup has good growth and great potential?
tl;dr; the author's personal experience experimenting Modafinil while in Columbia.
You can view the full article and bypass the subscription wall by googling the article link. https://www.google.com/#q=http:%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%...
It's not misleading. It's quite literally their stated opinion: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/google...

This was to let the courts know how they felt on the matter, even though they aren't directly involved.
Perhaps its use has become cliche, but using a well-worn textbook example of a synecdoche isn't exactly sloppy and to describe it as such is ignorant.
answered elsewhere - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9612914
Kidney problems are covered. However, a failure in the most important organ in our bodies often is not covered. Here are some common explanations:

* It's hard to point to a physical cause. Really this amounts to saying, the causes are more complex than we currently can comprehend (at a high level of precision), therefore we'll pretend that there is no cause at all.

* It's a matter of laziness / willpower. Think this through: All you need to do is drive through town, or look in the mirror, to know how absurd this analysis is and how ineffective this solution is. All those things you should be doing and are not -- are you just lazy? All those unhappy people -- they are just lazy? They only need more willpower? If so, willpower is a very hard thing to come by and therefore a poor solution.

* I take care of myself, so can they. 'My kidneys work fine, therefore nobody else has a kidney problem'? Also, you may have a few problems yourself.
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I interviewed at a rather fast growing startup in SF (hear about it here on hn pretty often).

The interview was simply 'sit on that corner and fix this bug'. I said I don't work for free, so they said 'oh sure, we'll pay for that!'. Finished the bug fix, expecting a follow-up review or anything, so their CTO responded with 'oh, that was too fast. Hm, let me get you another bug.'. At that point I realised their git log must have at least a hundred different names on it.

I politely refused and said if there wasn't no interview, I'd just leave. They gave me a check and that was that.

One week later, the CEO emails me saying they'd love to hire me, but I'd have to quit my job first and they'd evaluate my case after 2 months with them (I was an h1b at the time).

'No thanks.'
Just tacking rehabilitation onto our existing system yields a hybridization of rehabilitation and punishment, where people are release either when they are rehabilitated, or when we have determined that they are punished enough. Whichever happened first would trigger the release. This leaves us with a system that deliberately releases non-reformed criminals back into the public.

Maybe that is better than our current system, but I think we should certainly aspire for better.

> "Having indeterminate sentencing would also be rife with possibilities of misconduct"

While that is true, I would argue that not incapacitating somebody for exactly as long as is necessary is itself injustice. It means that we will knowingly be imprisoning people longer than is necessary (obviously abusive) and it means that we will be knowingly releasing non-reformed criminals back into the public (I consider this to be abusive to the public.)

Incapacitation determined on individual basis is a precise tool, a very sharp knife. In the hands of an authoritarian regime, it could be very dangerous. But in the hands of a liberal lawful society, it allows the least harm possible for everybody involved.

We could deny ourselves these tools, for fear of what could be done with them (and in the process, cause certain unnecessary harm). Or we could strive to be the very best that we can be, and give ourselves the tools necessary to achieve that.
The interesting bit is that folks realized that you can combine lasers without having them be coherent and still get decent amounts of power on target. That made a lot of off the shelf lasers much more viable.

The key though is the $10 a shot versus $100,000 a missile. That is what will change the equation permanently. If the price of operation of a PATRIOT type missile battery (or Israel's IRON DOME) goes from $1M/day in combat to $100/day, you will see them deployed a lot more frequently.
> It is unclear whether unpaired surrogate byte sequences are supposed to be well-formed in CESU-8.

According to the Unicode Technical Report #26 that defines CESU-8[1], CESU-8 is a Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16 ("CESU"). In fact, the way the encoding is defined, the source data must be represented in UTF-16 prior to converting to CESU-8. Since UTF-16 cannot represent unpaired surrogates, I think it's safe to say that CESU-8 cannot represent them either.

[1] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr26/
Reading only slightly between the lines, it seems that the authorities want two things:

1. All data transmitted in the clear (in practicality to them)
2. No use of software that can't have back doors put into it.
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Spoke too fast. Just started timing out for us too.
Probably not, but Google has already developed a different runtime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Runtime
Why movies make the best journalism
I've been exposed to or worked on a few style guides on this topic. I think pretty much universally, in US media, "White House" means elements of the executive branch outside the cabinet-level departments. So it includes the Executive Office of the President, the OMB, ONDCP, DoJ, etc.

It does not include law enforcement or intelligence agencies, nor cabinet-level departments. So "White House" does not mean FBI, DEA, Department of the Interior, etc. However, the term "Administration" or "<President's last name> Administration" does include these entities.
No. "GitHub" is a trademark, not a copyrightable work.
Yes, that specific case is possible with some sort of AST rewriting. But it's only one of several ways to introduce a True into the module or local namespace. Another might be:

from _compat import True, False, next, enumerate

This is allowed under Python 2, but not under Python 3. As you suggest, it could be made possible to allow an import like this so long as the actual imported value is indeed the True or False singleton. But it's a lot of work with little gain.

While on the other hand, even in Python 2 it was a SyntaxError to say "None = None" or to import None. Extending that check to include True and False is much easier, and consistent with existing use.
That seems like a great idea! Though that could also create perverse incentives to get arrested in the first place. Those would have to be carefully balanced.
> Having a slam dunk case in no way justifies the maximums.

That wasn't what I implied, though I realise the wording was ambiguous. What I meant was "a slam dunk case where the facts justifies the maximum sentence". So both that the case is a slam dunk and that the maximum sentence is justified.
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So a structural engineer shouldn't worry about the structural integrity of his buildings, only that they stand up under ideal conditions? A car manufacturer shouldn't worry about crash-testing or other safety concerns, only that their car moves?

HOW DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?!?!

Like it or not, we're stuck on Von Neumann architecture, and as a result, data can be treated as code and vice-versa. The consequence of this is that, under certain circumstances, data can be carefully crafted to act as code, and can be executed in an unforeseen context. As a software engineer, it is your job to take precautions when developing software. Precautions that prevent this execution. Security people do the best they can to make it easy to develop safely, but all of that is useless if the developers ignore it. And, because security vulnerabilities are a manipulation of context-and-program-specific control flow, there's not a way to encapsulate all security measures in a way that is transparent. It's just not possible. Only developers know the specifics of their software, and only developers can protect certain edge cases. If you assert otherwise, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the systems that you work with, and you need to re-evaluate your education before continuing to work in the industry (assuming you do). This isn't an opinion. This is a fact.

Lastly, us "security experts" do contribute to our field. Security is one of the hard problems in computer science - far harder than whatever you're doing that lets you "not think about databases, deployment, testing, scaling" - and there's a lot of solutions that have been engineered to deal with software that has been created by people like you. There's static code analysis tools, which can detect bugs in code before it is even compiled. There's memory analyzers that can detect dozens of different classes of memory-related bugs by just watching your software run. There's memory allocators and garbage collectors that can prevent issues with use-after-free and other heap-related exploitation bugs at run-time. There's data execution prevention and buffer execution prevention that, at run-time, help prevent code from being executed from data pages. There's EMET and other real-time exploit detection tools that exist outside of your software and can still prevent exploitation. That's not even an exhaustive list. There are literally hundreds of tools out there that make finding and fixing security bugs easy, but those tools can't patch your code for you. That's why there are consultants, code auditors, and penetration-testers that can give advice on how to fix bugs, find bugs where automated tools fail, and even coach developers into writing more secure code; because having smart, security aware developers is one of the major ways to defend against security bugs.
>She refers to their relationship as long-distance. It takes her an hour to get to where he lives, so she stays for three days at a time, then comes home for one or two.

I assume this isn't a typical reaction? I live in London, and if it takes me an hour to get somewhere, I consider that fairly reasonable. Is it actually common for people over there to consider an hour journey as something extraordinary?
It helps that it's essentially glue for excellent libraries he worked on.
I'm talking about the sort of cases handled by public defenders for people who have trouble making bail. Robbery suspects caught with the stolen goods, drug dealers caught on the street making a sale, etc. Not complex federal crimes where everyone can agree on what happened but disagree on what crime, if any, was committed.
What you are asking for is this:

If you are found "not guilty" in a criminal trial, the state should have to pay all your costs.

I agree. It would disincentivize prosecutors from trying to hammer people with marginal cases.

Civil cases are a different story.
There's evidence in the scientific literature that
we already know how to slow aging.

Hundreds of leads are summarized in the histogram at
http://morse.kiwi.nz/kingsley/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=&media...

The May 22 paper by Hashizume et al suggests
glycine[1].

I took the liberty of data mining my big spread
sheet of life span experiments[2] for it.

It turns out that it was reported in 2011 that
adding glycine to the diet of lab animals let
them live 28% longer[3].

A ton of other cool experiments have already been
done[2].

References

[1] Epigenetic regulation of the nuclear-coded
GCAT and SHMT2 genes confers human age-associated
mitochondrial respiration defects, Nature, May 22,
2015, Hashizume et al.
http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150522/srep10434/full/srep10...

[2] The World's Biggest Spread Sheet of Life Span
Experiments
http://morse.kiwi.nz/kingsley/doku.php?id=science:kingsleys_...
http://morse.kiwi.nz/kingsley/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=:scien...

[3] The FASEB Journal. 2011;25:528.2, Dietary
glycine supplementation mimics lifespan extension
by dietary methionine restriction in Fisher 344
rats, Brind et al.
http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/25/1_Meet...
On a long enough timescale, he's right every time :)
> There is a profound reason most humans choose to have children even though they're a lot of work and often a pain in the neck.

Pretty much everyone I've ever asked who have had kids wasn't consciously trying for their first child. I've personally always felt that a lot of parents later rationalise a decision they didn't really make.
Quick question - do you feel the need to associate this to Apple because of your deep personal hatred for that company, or for your deep abiding love for Google?

Or was it neither, and you just like using rhetorical devices to bolster your weak points?
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Did you ever think of testing these migrations against at least a subset of your production data? It sounds like you just wrote the migrations and let them go into the wild without thought.
Good on them. I've seen way too many instances of people on death row that are eventually proved to be innocent. I think that even if the accuracy of death sentences was 99% (for every 99 criminals that truly did the crime, there is 1 that is innocent), that is unacceptably low. Furthermore, I am unconvinced that the death penalty actually deters crime. If you are committing a crime that results in you being sentenced to death, I don't think you are sane enough to have even considered the punishment.
That was valid before cellphones, nowadays I expect people to call/message if they're late. I suppose that reading Fuxy's post literally implies that no such exception is allowed, but I assume it's not meant to be an inviolable rule.
Without evidence? It is true the US military refuses to count civilian murders and quaintly calls it collateral damage, as if brown kids are but roads and bridges.

What do you call 14 years of war in multiple theaters resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths? It that not fanatical? You should reassess your heart, you're in need of a new one.
I think it would drastically change the way people see the world. If you slow down aging in your early 20s, you'll probably push off having a kid until way farther down the line because you now have time to do all the things you'd want to do while you're young, and still have energy for kids later on.
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You can treat derivation as a linear operator on vector-space of functions, let's name it D. Now second and third derivatives as operators are quite simple since they are just D^2 and D^3. The question is if you can well define sqrt(D), or saying that if there is one and only one operator D_half such that D_half^2 is D (existence and unicity). It breaks at unicity since there are multiple half derivative constructions (frequency domain approach, Taylor-series approach,...).

On the other hand sqrt is well defined for positive real numbers (however not well defined for general complex numbers). There is a similar definition only for positive operators on Hilbert spaces (you pick the positive operator from all the possible square roots). However derivation is not a positive operator on the most used Hilbert-spaces.
> The question of overpopulation is a non-problem. You can't have children, period. It has to be regulated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House_%28...

Frankly, what a depressing world.
Good. The death penalty ensures a false incarceration can never be corrected, costs millions of tax payer dollars because of the long appeals processes, and shows no correlation with decreased crime rates (states with out the death penalty consistently have lower crime rates according to the FBI [0])

[0] - http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/deterrence-states-without-de...
Welcome to civilised society Nebraska! :)

Good to see another state abolish this but as someone not too familiar with how the US law system works why is something like this decided at the state level? Shouldn't something like government sanctioned killing of humans be controlled at a federal level? Also does the federal government have a position on capital punishment?
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The Verge's review is also worth reading: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/27/8661863/pebble-time-review...
We announced http://rustcamp.com/ today.
It is worth noting the limitations of the GIL. However, there are many situations where GIL won't slow down multitasking. There are also plenty of different strategies for mitigating this problem.
There is a museum in Philadelphia (the Barnes Foundation), which houses a collection meticulously arranged by Albert Barnes over the course of his life. I think that arrangement is itself a work of art entitled to copyright protection.
Great post, modded up.

I have a question, since you seem to be rather conversant with aging research. I am a physicist, and I'm interested in how mitochondrial function is measured and the efficiency is defined. I know that it is measured via oxygen consumption rates, but all the papers that I have read do not define precisely how this is measured and defined. Would you kind enough to point me to some resources on this? I am capable at reading the medical/biology literature, but searching it can be a different matter.
I think they did use that explanation at the Appeals Court, which was actually the one that didn't buy it and overturned Alsup's ruling:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140509/10133727178/appea...

Mike's opinion today:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150526/16550931121/obama...
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Lots of differences I think. Probably the main one is that Atomic's workspace will feel more familiar to those used to Adobe apps or Sketch. I think it'd be fair to say proto.io focusses more purely on prototyping, while Atomic tries to integrate design, prototyping, collaboration and version control tools.
I've been working on this for the past 6 months and I'd love to get some feedback from movie lovers and cinema-goers! Any feedback is welcome :)