skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For critbit trees the entire string _up to_ the critical bit where the string differs from all others already in the datastructure needs to be scanned.

critbit trees degenerate badly if you store strings and their prefixes, e.g. storing a, aa, aaa, ...
Something about DC seems to give people the impression that anyone doing anything else in the world is "stuff that doesn't matter". R&D at these companies is what actually solves problems at the root cause.

How would all of that healthcare exchange work have gone if the tech industry didn't build the massive infrastructure it relies on (database tech, network tech, version control, the Internet)?

It feels like the person that wrote this article is the guy in the war movie yelling at the people designing new defenses for not being on the front lines firing a gun. There is a place for both roles, and shitting all over one half doesn't make you better than them, it just makes you myopic.
The difference being that volunteers edited the data. The whole point of this site pretty much died once Google showed up a long time ago. I'm not sure what makes this site interesting today unless I'm missing something.
I once wrote a multiplayer cardgame server (with a friend) that provided a Game API[0] to Lua scripts to define state and behavior. We scripted multiple card games popular in my country. For example Ace's Up[1].

We also wrote a few clients (ncurses, android, flash), most of them remained unfinished/unreleased, including the server, unfortunately. I meant to put it on GitHub but still hesitating since it would only be for educational purpose and no real interest in pursuing the project much further.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/rndstr/fd7c85d8ee7fad800000
[1]: https://gist.github.com/rndstr/fd7c85d8ee7fad800000#file-gam...
Just to expand on this...

Whenever something in the data goes wrong, is missing or incorrect value etc, we usually notice it far too late and decisions have been made based on incorrect values. Frequently the mistake is introduced in a different part of the company not even aware of our needs. Other times, some vendor is timing out or having API issues and values are missing.

There are too many places things can go wrong but the only central place where this is visible is the data collected for an event.
@waldoh can't reply to you - you've been hellbanned. anyway, the codes are obviously not meaningless in general. As I wrote, they are meaningless to "normal people" meaning the patients. Having an app that just showed you the line items, with the explanation next to it would be a huge improvement.

You're also talking about going to see the Dr for a cold or something. When you've had a major surgery and months of follow-up procedures with pages and pages of line items on your bill, hundreds of codes, disputes with things you think you have already paid, bills that don't match up with what insurance says, etc... then you'll understand what I'm talking about.
> None of the GPL Lisps compare to what is offered by the likes of Allegro Common Lisp and similar environments.

Care to elaborate?
There are a lot of benefits, both direct and indirect, to your country when in your populace you contain a large concentration of rich people. Why does every government agency need to benefit the average US citizen directly?
Solar generation is less predictable, and the grid needs an energy source that is capable of quickly adjusting to the current fluctuation in demand of consumers.
I wonder how much that has to do with CCC and general German culture. The only stories about European customers refusing to use US web infrastructure I hear come from Germany. I live next doors, in Poland, and here it seems like nobody cares.
It's not really a a precursor to Wikipedia. It's just a more open Yahoo; the old version of Yahoo before it became a media site.
I am not sure why you say old company. I don't think he said he left Google.

I also don't think he is against working for profit companies (Google being one of them).

I think you are reading more between the lines than what he meant.
France, unleash the fury
So, comparing the report in your link for cost, Solar PV capital cost is a bit more expensive than "Advanced Nuclear" capital cost. However, the ongoing maintenance costs for solar PV are less than 50% of the ongoing maintenance costs for Advanced Nuclear. In fact, the additional (over Solar PV), annual maintenance costs for Advanced Nuclear are about 17% of the entire capital costs. After just a few years, Solar PV will be saving massive amounts of cost over Advanced Nuclear, just in maintenance.

This seems to at least be partially taken into account in the "Total LCOE" numbers (sorry, but this report doesn't seem to have much as far as exactly how these numbers are calculated). Without subsidies, Solar PV is about 30% higher. However, when you look more closely at the actual ranges behind the averages that are the primarily cited data, you'll find that the Total LCOE estimate ranges for Advanced Nuclear and Solar PV actually overlap. The "minimum" Solar PV estimate is 97.8 and the Advanced Nuclear "maximum" is 101.0.

The claim that atomic energy has major advantages over solar is not borne out in this EIA report. In fact, the report seems to show that solar is highly competitive with almost every generation source and actually has a huge advantage in ongoing maintenance costs, being practically at the bottom.

I haven't investigated the other links yet, since the first one didn't seem to pan out.
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beside the images functionality, i wonder whether it can be used to precisely "herd" say a cloud of deuterium ions to get something like microfusion
Well, they work okay for one off events, but use case I have in mind is the 40 or so wineries in the county where I live; about half or more hire folks to come play music on a Saturday or Sunday.

If they'd all just subscribe to a service, then they wouldn't have to dicker with a bunch of musicians and have their tasting room GMs deal with booking folks.

The same thing could apply to all the little bars and restaurants here; they have a reoccuring need to hire talent, but they usually have some staff member who doesn't want to be doing it (and isn't getting paid much) buying talent, so it's a pain in the butt for musicians and the bars get inconsistent products.

But at that end of the market, the budgets are so small that it'd be tough to take much out to work as a service.
> The job of the NSA is to keep the USA in a position of power economically and politically TO HELP STABILIZE THE WORLD

(emphasis mine)

Why do you think so?
The only graphical programming language I have used is Labview, which I actually found to be good for running basic sensors/actuators.

My biggest complaints about it aren't actually related to the graphical element, but the tooling itself: long compile times, horrid window management. The only language level complaint I have is that the data persistence model is buried in menus, and not readily visible (so if you have a function for computing a running average, by default, it computes the average of all values put into the function anywhere in your program, but you can set it to have a different instance at each spot you put the function).

I wouldn't use it to write things that are typically considered "programs", but there is a wide range between full programs, and things that we want to be able to make the computer do
I think the Online poker executives that got arrested to protect the vested interests of the us gambling industry might think there is not much diference.
Looking at this[0] table of least corrupt countries by perception, Europe has 7 in the top 10. Least corrupt. Least.

Occam's razor: The person who worked in intelligence, and is/was a Washington lawyer lied. Even without data, that surely must have crossed people's minds, no?!

[0] https://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results
Correct. But considering this is just first-generation consumer VR, I would expect this to improve.

For example, here's a prototype[1] using two layered panels to achieve a continuous 4D Lightfield. This allows your eye to naturally accomodate and see the scene with proper depth of field. Just a prototype, yes, but perhaps we could see this in consumer tech in a few years.

Accomodation-vergence mismatch is definitely one of the worst parts of current generation VR, but I've seen a few promising solutions.

[1]: https://vimeo.com/128641900
> In Israel/Palestine an entire people are facing genocide by an illegal occupation

Sorry, you can't get away with saying things like that. This is a blatant lie.
If it were true.

http://wlcentral.org/node/1412
http://wlcentral.org/node/1186
I am intrigued. How could one contact you?
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Naw, it's more like an explanation for why the quality of music is so bad when you go to a bar and there is a live cover band.
I spent some considerable time and effort trying to hack my way into the UK equivalent, and so far have mortally failed. The most frustrating was a failure to use the correct phrasing in the 42 box of the RFQ for getting onto the digital framework for LOcal authorities.

I say go for it - the field is being tilted in your favour a bit - but I am not convinced it's an easy win for a one or two person biz.
Something has orbits around galaxies
failing to follow the law of gravity
from ordinary matter. The orbits
are as if there
there is some more mass with
gravity, mass that doesn't interact with
light.

Something is in/near galaxies is bending
light as if there were more mass there
than there is from just ordinary matter.

So, for that extra mass, call it dark
matter.

Seems simple enough.

"Flaw in the theory of gravity?" Maybe,
but that seems to be the hard way
to get an answer.
I see people running reds all the time in their car, and never see bicyclists do it, so YMMV. Doesn't change the fact that you would likely be dead if it was a car that hit you while going through a red light.
'avoid gratuitous negativity' is a thought we all need to keep in mind more.
That is the perfect use case for tries. For reference (and an excellent writeup):

http://blog.vulcanproxy.com/trie-based-http-requests-routing...
Ditto outside of the USA.
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Yes, same server for inbound and outbound.
Running PDFtk on AWS Lambda
Something about DC seems to give people the impression that anyone doing anything else in the world is "stuff that doesn't matter".

I see this from people that live in the Bay too.

NYC too.
Cool site that lets you create your own custom blend of tea
Haha, wow. :) Thanks for the comment. It was meant to signify the communities in the far north or arctic that currently are reliant on very expensive and dirty diesel... Our webpage is under construction probably to be put up in about a week. You can definitely feel free to ask any questions and would appreciate your thoughts on the new one.
Try with a lowercase l:

https://twitter.com/uptownhr/profile_image?size=original
Here's a question:

The ruling found that APIs form a substantive body of work, similar to something like a play. However, if I took a play and used a computer to detect the sentence boundaries based on punctuation and randomly permuted the sentences, then wrote a book about what happened when I said random subsets of those sentences in random order to a set of undergrads, I'd be considered to be doing derivative work, even if I listed every sentence of the original work, as long as I substantially commented on each sentence in the context of my experiment.

In the context of APIs, isn't it possible to automate the performance of this experiment and writing of subsequent report?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_G%C3%B6ttingen#C...
I think you are being naive. All governments spy. Governments that don't spy are doing a disservice to their citizens. And it is the job of spies to push the envelope.

It would be nice to live in the land of milk and honey in an anarcho-syndicalist commune, but in the mean time we have to be real.

Nothing Edward Snowden revealed should have surprised anyone on this forum. Nor should the fact that everyone else is doing the same kind of thing (indeed, usually with fewer protections for private citizens). The damage to U.S. Largely comes from the idiotic belief that the U.S. Is somehow exceptional in gathering intelligence by whatever means it can. We can argue at the margins about, say, whether cell phone metadata should be held by the provider or the government, but not tracking this stuff is actually impractical so it comes down to whom do you trust more: Verizon or the U.S. Government?

While it's good that Edward Snowden catalyzed awareness and debate over privacy issues, all the "damage" to (for example) US business interests is from the publicizing of NSA actions and not the actions themselves. It's not like Russia (where Snowden now resides) is in any way more transparent or less invasive than the U.S.
"You can criticize communism as a concept or you can criticize existing and past communist states, but those two are not the same thing."

True. And yet I'm happy to criticize each.
ah the good old days of the Google Spreadsheet (well 3 months but it seems like an age :)
I found the most interesting part of the article to be this image of a 1919 newspaper illustrating "Starlight bent by the sun's attraction": The Einstein theory.

https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/847/1*LV-wtp9IclSx...

As for the rest of the article, well, Betteridge's law holds, though with the "as best we know"-suffix implicit to science and science journalism.
> then lots big old libraries will not compile anymore and nobody is willing to fix all the old code.

This is begging for one question in my opinion. Should we keep using old libraries that nobody is maintaining anymore? Isn't that a big security issue?
How open data and api's changed business
It's actually a rule of the site,

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by their own intelligence services who have a stronger allegiance to their links with Five Eyes intelligence services than to French interests.

This is probably pushing it a little too far.
What is "bets that way"? It seems like initially all they knew was that some accounts were unusually active (betting every second, for hours) and implausibly lucky. They saw the flags, they just didn't know any useful way to react (which is also incompetence, but IMO different than what you said.) (I'm assuming a dumb rate-limiting solution would be off the table, as it would be ineffective at stopping the attack, and/or lose money as other players stop betting when they hit a limit.)
How bright is the Sun from Pluto?
reminds me of the snl sketch where the other colors of soylent individually turn out to also be made out of people
> "If you feel like curing malaria is more important than Uber"?

I'm sorry, but that strikes me as a pretty privileged sentiment. Would you say that everyone who feels a calling to work in the nonprofit/humanitarian sphere is merely doing so to assuage their "teen angst"?

If someone else feels compelled to work more directly to help those in need, and he or she is perfectly respectful of others' work (as OP clearly is), why do you feel compelled to reduce their desire to "standard liberal guilt" or "teen angst"?
I'm all for open source, but I don't really understand what its relevance is here. I'm pretty sure OP was talking about infrastructure services. I'm guessing (s)he develops all of his software with OSS backend and frontend frameworks, and open source is completely orthogonal to his client's concerns.
The new face of Fascism.
Waste isn't a significant issue for either of the ycombinator projects. One is mostly-aneutronic fusion, the other is a fast reactor. Fast reactors produce about 1% as much waste and it goes back to the radioactivity of the original ore in a couple centuries.

Fusion has no significant risk. With fission it depends on the design; I don't know much about UPower, but the IFR, another small fast reactor, demonstrated very impressive safety.
Google can still win this on fair use.
Math as code
He was referring to bribery of other countries such as Brazil and Saudi Arabia in his examples.
I mean, the people who maintain far and away the most used closed-source browser, IE[1], are deprecating it and have tried to distance themselves from IE as much as possible in Microsoft Edge. And this is entirely because IE lacks features that Chrome and Firefox have, largely but far from entirely related to standards support for HTML5. I have been using Microsoft Edge since it was available in the Technical Preview, and it is not on par with Chrome or Firefox yet as a daily driver. I hope it gets there someday, but it's not there now.

[1] Safari is kind of a border case -- all the chrome is closed source, but the rendering engine and I think the Javascript engine are open source. I am lumping it in as an open source project here, I can understand why someone might argue the point though.
TinyMCE 4.2 released with Image Tools
someone thinking real hard is as important as testing

With one caveat.

The "thinking real hard" has to happen before and as the code is written.

If you try to catch fundamental design problems and misconceptions during a code review, you're much too late. At that point there is a "status quo" i.e. the existing code, and a defensive resistance to change, even if you can demonstrate clear problems with said code. The end result is band-aids on top of band-aids, rather than a proper solution to the problems.

Edit: the article itself alludes to band-aids:

our developer had improperly patched the glitch

i.e. they attempted a quick fix, instead of understanding at a fundamental level the overall mistakes in what they were doing.
Why is cortana important? They will be competing with similar free products that are hardware subsidized or ad subsidized. Where and how does this turn into income? msft just sold off a big chunk of their ad operations, and almost certainly will not be selling large amounts of hardware. Xbox one has sold ~10mm units, and as a road into the living room has been mostly a complete failure. That's neither large enough for ad subsidies or hardware subsidies to work. What am I missing?
I'm suspicious of wikileaks too, but they do have a whole section of Russian documents.

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Russia
Unfortunately this was a terrible case to have been the first of its kind (in the US). There was much more at play here than API copyright. Google didn't just copy the Java APIs, but it took the syntax as well. Oracle also presented evidence that Google had directly copied implementation of a few API functions, which Google actually admitted was true, but claimed it to be negligible. While all of these claims were examined separately, all of them combined made it much harder for any individual victory.
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From where I came from and where I am now, the trend for freelance jobs is always around PHP. :P

As for Node vs Go, I tend to hear more stuff done in Node rather than Go. One perk of learning Node is that it's just JavaScript. You can easily transition from the server-side to the front-end and get another ballpark to play on. Go tends to be more on infrastructure, which usually exist in big companies with large systems which means regular, permanent positions rather than freelance.

You can learn both though. Nothing's stopping you.
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Sounds great but that isn't the NSA's mission, not even the defensive mission. Their defensive mission is limited to DoD networks and national security related systems, and producing various recommendations.

DHS and/or NIST cover commercial and non-DoD government. But even then it is a voluntary and/or advisory capacity too - there is no authority to make a company fix a software product (unlike say a car defect, which gets into liability issues nobody wants to open for software).

As for discovering and preventing bugs, I think that would be a waste of time/effort in the current towards NSA and software in general. Nobody is going to take a binary patch from them, nobody is going to submit their source code for review, any help given to a company would draw complaints from their competitors, and fundamentally as long as companies aren't actually liable for damages due to bugs or security issues, they aren't going to care much about spending money to improve the situation. A corporation would just rather add another clause to a EULA to disclaim more and more responsibility.

It's a free market failure since bottom line profits aren't affected so there is no incentive to improve. That leaves the question of whether the government should be subsidizing the business world's failure to meaningfully invest in bug fixes and security improvements.
Why? That's the issue that people should solve.

Disclaimer: I have no C experience.
...or it would take more technologically sophisticated and less traceable forms.
What do you mean? It sounds like you see a trend of unnecessary hardware products. Which other physical devices are replacing "pure software"?

And isn't having a physical device (storage) particularly important in this instance, for the purpose of securing your emails?
It reads like a great example of how theory works.

You have some evidence (old planets), and a model that predicts it well (Newton/Kepler). Then some new evidence comes in (Uranus), and the theory is almost right, but not quite. So we modify it a little, or we start searching for an extra mass to explain the error.

Then some more experimental evidence comes in (galactic radial velocity), and we are thinking about modifying the theory a bit more (MOND). This is good for the radial velocity explanation, but not certain other things. We suppose there's some dark matter, and think about the consequences that would have. Then we see evidence consistent with that.

Of course this is a boiled down version. Real science is rarely so clean.
>Austerity yes/no is the economic equivalent of a bikeshed argument.

Well not really - it effects millions of people lives and billions / trillions in economic output and in the 1920's case led to Hitler and WW2. It's not like what colour to paint the bike shed.
Yes this has also to do with german culture (german angst).