skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We take the number to be factorized,
N, and its base 4 representation, N4,
expand them in powers of (2 pi) weighted
by the sum of adjacent and errant digits.

Well, that really doesn't seem to mean anything at all. You don't actually describe the process, and I'm not going to spend the time trying to reverse-engineer what you've done.

Then we take the ratio of N4/N10 or N4/N

But they are the same number, so the ratio is 1. I assume you mean something else, but I don't know what.

Then trying to follow through the next part of the example you seem to have apparently arbitrary correction factors, so I have no idea what you mean by "errant digits", nor how you get these weird expansions in powers of (2.pi). I'm sure you must have some process for doing this, but it's not clear from what you have here.

And despite what I said earlier[0] you still haven't just taken an existing, difficult example and given us the factorisation. You say you can do one of the RSA numbers, and yet you haven't.

In an earlier comment[1] you said:

Now factorising Ras 1536. Will
post the results when done.

Do that and I'll listen.

Let me say that people in the past have made amazing advances that have then been ignored by everyone, only later to be found to be exactly right. You may be right, and you may have made an amazing discovery. But you might not, and it's up to you to communicate clearly what you've done. That is, to communicate exactly what you've done.

Demonstrate all of the process, in detail, written clearly, for two small examples. Factor 10^4+1 for me using your method, then factor (10^7-1)/9. Then show your working in parallel for a large example, perhaps 40 digits. Finally, factor a large number such as RSA 1536 and present your answer.

I have to say that I'll also listen more if you spell my name correctly.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9549682

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9499462
To whomever up-voted this, can you tell me why? Are you seeing something here that I'm not?
Isn't the whole medical field probability-based?
My general feeling after many years of internet use was absolutely to limit anonymity (I'm the current SciRate maintainer). Scientific discourse has its own culture, though, which is a bit different to internet culture in general. And the users seem to like anonymous peer review; we've had requests to make it more anonymous: https://github.com/scirate/scirate/issues/304

So currently I'm adopting a "wait and see" approach wrt. trolling. Stay open unless/until it becomes an issue, but make sure to crack down swiftly if it does. For the moment, we do have comment reports/downvotes and moderators.
I agree with you, but her website is hard to read for some people.

If people are going to tweak contrast they should have dark text on an off-white background, rather than strog white background and mid-grey text.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing :-)
This has already been submitted5 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9959628

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9959424
Lookin for trouble. Clearly.
How would that help? If someone hacks the server they can change it to serve whatever they want.
Maybe there are also some lessons to be learned from the FidoNet era.
No apologies necessary, I think that's just the state of mathematics.

The sum of the inverse fourth powers is pi^4/90. Sixth powers, pi^6/915. The pattern keeps going for even powers and not for odd.

I don't think there is a geometric proof. But if there were, it would be incredible.
8) Waterholing targeting a user or group that frequents the site?

I like #2 though, or as I'd put it: flotsam of the internet, like how slammer ended up at davis besse.
The Allies really put the V2 to good use, though.

http://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-first-photo-from-space-...
Karpeles (former MtGox CEO) Arrested in Japan
Testing + refactoring is absolutely not new. Even the Wikipedia article on Extreme Programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming) acknowledes that testing-first was used extensively by NASA durin 1960's, at least for computing.
Gates just revealed the things that could prevent humanity's worst-case scenario
As Project Euler is completely free and has a positive impact on the programming community, it would be very sad if the reasons for the hacking were 3) or 4).
I especially agree with your third point. Any kid getting his first Windows machine was now a computer expert and ran to the (then) only knowledgeable place to get more info, and that was usenet. That turned usenet into reddit without any controls at all. Reddit, at least, does some minimal clean up.
One "journalist", described as a gossip columnist, a genre known for just making things up routinely.
Suppose somebody have written above code. Then under current C++ standard it
would invoke UB on overflow. But, if standard were to change and require
wrapping behaviour for int, then it would be "fixed", i.e, do what programmer
intended it to do. Similarly if you use some compiler specific option to ensure
wrapping behaviour for signed integers like GCC -fwrapv.
76 Years Later, Lost F. Scott Fitzgerald Story Sees the Light of Day
>> all these boring consumer drones in the making.

On the upside, if you raise your own kids right they'll run circles around these drones in the job market. Sometimes having the collective bar set lower works out ok :)
Why Homejoy Failed … and the Future of the On-Demand Economy
distro packagers typically undo vendoring for lots of reasons (among others: smaller packages, fixes propagate automatically, which is particularly important with security issue)

Given how similar libav and ffmpeg still are in places, they might even consider replacing the vendored ffmpeg with the packaged libav (or vice versa, if done the other way).

But the fallout would be for VLC to deal with ("VLC breaks on my Debian, it must be crap").
I've never heard of this split up until today, why are you still salty? You won, you can take over the world now.
Israeli startups got almost twice as much funding in July than in all of 2014
Get off the internet noobz, or people will do it for you.

Teaches them right! They think they know how to host websites, but they are wrong.

Your computer is not yours if you don't know how it works. Same thing with web servers. No control=No ownership.

I hope this teaches them a lesson. If you want to host content on the Net, pay someone to do it. You don't have any clue what you are doing.

Period!
Frontback app won’t be closing but the founders are leaving
The two main points sound counter-intuitive to newcomers (like myself). You think it's polite to ask 'Can I ask you a question' and you get a 'rude' reply with 'Geez, just ask the question'.

I just want to add 3) IRC is not like whatsapp/fb chat, you are allowed to ask longer sentences.

The instant replies are also nice and feel more human.
(scrollsdrollscrolscroll)

What a horrible website. Control your images.
OK, I've followed your process, and now I'll attempt to use it to factor some of my usual examples.

EDIT:

I've now done that. I've implemented your process, restricted to cases where there are no zeros in either the base 10 or the base 4 representations, to simplify the process.

I ran it with N=125 - I got this result:

N10 = 125
N4 = 1331
K4 = 81.8746688941
K10 = 15.4445545759
K4/K10 = 5.30119975244

This matches your example exactly.

Then I ran it on 11111:

N10 = 11111
N4 = 2231213
K4 = 34404.4992922
K10 = 877.71000039
K4/K10 = 39.1980258592

39 is not a factor of 11111.

Let's try 11129:

N10 = 11129
N4 = 2231321
K4 = 34399.2238656
K10 = 873.691116523
K4/K10 = 39.3722944128

Nope, 39 isn't a factor of 11129.

Let's try some more:

N : factors : N4 : K4 : K10 : Eta
112311: 3 3 12479 : 123122313 : 971666.060082 : 5390.130571 : 180.26762...
112313: 31 3623 : 123122321 : 971664.020326 : 5390.021531 : 180.27089...
112315: 5 7 3209 : 123122323 : 971663.763393 : 5389.905399 : 180.27473...
112317: 3 29 1291 : 123122331 : 971662.420476 : 5389.820132 : 180.27733...
112319: 17 6607 : 123122333 : 971662.072077 : 5389.757255 : 180.27937...
112341: 3 37447 : 123123111 : 971604.413941 : 5385.135790 : 180.42338...

As you can see, the factors vary wildly, as expected, the values of K4 and K10 vary slowly, as expected, and Eta varies very little, as expected. Given that the factors vary so wildly, and Eta varies very little, why should we expect this to work?

Well, in these cases it simply doesn't work.
Why do you mention this? It's related to typewriters but still...
Good stuff! Looks very promising!

Haven't had a chance to take it for a trial spin yet, but I was wondering if there is anything in here for applications that have a limited lifespan? Working on a system right now that would have the need for a "central" application that would need to regularly launch subworker apps for a specific task (planning on running each sub app on it's own micro AWS instance) and then "kill it off" once the job was completed.
The font is very thin on Windows Chrome (which sounds like a broken record, because this has always been the case). If you intend to use that font for a general audience, make the colour darker or bump up the font weight.
I think it more or less matches my old mechanical typewriter from early 80s. Adjacent hammers can block each other without jamming when typing too fast.
In my experience, tattoos and piercings are very common in Germany and also in Switzerland. They are certainly no longer limited to certain groups of the population and very visible, especially now in the summer …
I totally agree with this!! I've been learning this the hard way and came to similar conslusions about the need to wrap code with functional testing first and then refactor. It solves the chicken/egg problem with unit test/refactor. But it's not very popular -- maybe because of a percieved two-pass testing. Lots of work.
I think teeth whitening is a bit like steroids or liposuction. It is mostly for people who have insecurities and/or lack discipline to get quick, visible results at the expense of their health. I'm adding health here because these procedures, although deemed safe, are certainly harmful in some way.
It's worrisome that they're not reading the essays based on this specific post. These could all be OP's opinions and I wouldn't know because the post doesn't back up any of its points with data. Just a few dismissive quips about thousand word essays.
Current systems emphasize short trips between generation and consumption to minimize line losses.

Per your cite, Nigeria has a little over 5,000 miles of transmission lines. The US has over 450,000 miles.
http://www.naruc.org/grants/Documents/Silverstein%20NCEP%20T...

Neither of these systems transmit power from one end straight to the other end, but you can do neat things if you can increase your range.

The losses from AC compound rapidly with distance. There's a good bit here:
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003223.html

"In aggregate, the example system comprised of Argonne National Laboratory plus a factory in Nebraska refining corn syrup suffers transmission losses of 785kW, or 0.52%. America is like this. The transmission efficiency looks high (losses of only 10%) because most of the power we use (normalized to capacity) travels only short distances (normalized to length). This does not mean that line losses per distance are low. Mostly it means that the lines are short - not at all adequate to carry power from North Dakota to someplace useful.

So, this is a nice, simple explanation, but is it true? To test it, this site has a useful model of an electrical distribution network. There is a little bit of math ahead, which I only include because I think some readers will like it.

Following the diagram and the text below it, Ohio Edison operates 5757MW of electrical power generation (let’s call it 6000MW). The source voltage is 18kV; this gives 300,000A of current in the generating facilities (rounding for convenience).

The ratio of the step-up transformer to the transmission line is 350/18, which we’ll call 20. This means that the current in the transmission line is 300,000/20, or 15,000A. Current is stepped down in this manner in order to minimize transmission losses, but they cannot be eliminated.

In order to calculate the transmission losses, we’ll assume that the transmission cable used for this application has a resistance of around 0.1 Ohms per km of length. This is at the low end of the range (so the loss estimate will be low) according to a couple of spec sheets I looked at.

This yields (P=I^2R) 22.5MW lost power per km of length, or 0.4% per km. That’s 0.6% per mile, or 10% of the total energy lost over a transmission distance of just 18 miles. After 115 miles, only 50% of the power remains.
An other very strange case: This isle is managed by both France and Spain which control the island for alternating periods of six months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant_Island
It was posted elsewhere that visiting the hacked site triggered downloads of "flash_updater.exe" type trojans, so maybe one reason for the hack was to spread malware.
First thing I do after reading this story: search online to make sure this is not itself a hoax. Seems legitimate though, or somebody has planned the hoax since 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I,_Libertine&oldi...
My two go-to books on the subject, very complementary to each other, are:

- The charisma myth: http://www.amazon.com/The-Charisma-Myth-Personal-Magnetism/d...

- Make your contacts count: http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Contacts-Count-Networking/dp...
Tactile/auditory feedback and visual feedback on the whole carriage. 1960s vintage Lettra, which would jam up sometimes.
The Pope, Science, and Economics. Of the 3, Economics Is the Most Detached
The World Needs a Secular Community Revolution
For anyone familiar with the principles of personal finance and investing, my trick was unimpressive and easily reproducible: Just spend much less than you earn and pour the difference into efficient index funds.

This is the usual US centric nonsense where a certain privileged few can use their privilege to get out of the rat race, whereas the vast majority of the planet can't even get into that race in the first place, never mind hack it for these sort of benefits. I'm rather sick of the bullshit claims that there is no magic and that anybody else can do this too - this is patently untrue. You are ultra privileged; you lucked out in the ethnic and circumstances lottery. By all means share how you did it, but please stop intimating thats its at all possible for the vast majority of the rest of us to do this.
The other night I admitted a woman in her 90s to the hospital. When I asked her how her chest pain started, she said she started feeling it while she was at work. At first I was thinking "Does she have dementia?" but she explained that she works at the downtown Safeway Deli (A US grocery chain for those who are non US). It was pretty special to me because I have never met anyone in their 90s who works, much less with that kind of job. Usually if there's an 80 year old I meet who's still working, they have a more cerebral job like being an engineer or scientist or professor. When I told her how surprised I was she told me that if I lived in Iceland I wouldn't be as surprised as people apparently work these kinds of jobs often.
These do look cool and perhaps are examples of inventions that should be patented, but unfortunately for me, patent abuses have turned me off to the whole patent system. I wouldn't want reminders of this broken system staring me in the face every day.
But HN has a shaded background, which still reduces the contrast.
I think the modern centralization tendency is a bad thing.

If I was going to redesign usenet today ...?

1. You want non-repudiability in transactions: a given user owns their posts or cancel messages and can be linked to them. So, use a blockchain-based solution for authentication. (Not bitcoin; a separate non-financialized system.)

2. Instead of local spools consisting of a directory tree and sync'd via flood-fill, implement it as a virtual filesystem, peer-to-peer discovery, locally requested contents are cached, so high-traffic newsgroups will be cached more widely and therefore be faster to load.

3. Anti-spam: a big problem is preventing spammers sprouting new sock-puppet identities to get around already-imposed blocks. Hence non-repudiability. I'm not sure how to go about enforcing limits on sock-puppeting: this is a hard problem. But if the authentication mechanism is blockchain based we might be able to link it to an underlying funding system and thereby impose a monetary cost on posting -- even $0.01 per message should be enough to put a drag-brake on spamming. This was always the weakness of usenet: spammers externalized all their costs.
Obama to Unveil Tougher Climate Plan with His Legacy in Mind
Oh, you are assuming someone actually wrote that code. That is circular reasoning.

It would be much better to write proper checks or just call functions that do so.
This is not the problem since you can chase out any remaining virus just by extending the treatment time. The real problem is viral reservoirs that the treatment does not reach (eg behind the blood brain barrier).

Having said this if I was infected with HIV this is exactly what I would be doing (ie treating with drugs that suppressed viral replication while chasing the latent virus out of hiding).
Tesla Model S Surges to #1 in Worldwide Electric Car Sales for June 2015
What does it take it to adapt Convox to be installed on a baremetal server like Hetzner?

Can I rent 2-3 servers at Hetzner and have a small cloud of sorts?

Or is that not something that is suggested to be done?
I think that's precisely why this testing insight isn't more commonly used. In reality, it's not about unit vs functional, it seems to be about scope. E.g. If you have behavior that can't be tested without doing a full manual integration test, then that's where you need to start. Automate it and start to push back the layers until you get to functional, until you get to unit.

I've been experimenting with applying code coverage to integration test since it gives testers insight into whether they are testing the code at hand vs internals of other integrated systems (this difficulty is likely what keeps many from trying such testing).

But yes, these methods take a lot of time that we don't have.

The other approach I've been leaning towards is static code-flow analysis, which can also be difficult (esp. in distributed web applications).
Here are some detailed numbers.

http://www.giganews.com/blog/2008/09/clearing-air-usenet-abu...
Title is incorrect. Should either be 'sucks - systemd' or 'Systemd is the best example of Suck.'
White paper doesn't have glare, unlike some monitors.
Here you go - How to be a Kingsman http://i.imgur.com/7IuXtbb.png :-D
Is it still written in plain C like the former dyngen?
A simple explanation I enjoy (not quite visual, but geometric in some sense) is the on the wiki using Fourier series, understanding it requires just a few steps:

1) You accept Parseval's identity: by changing between orthogonal basis, the energy (sum of absolute squared values) remains the same.

2) You find that the energy of the periodic function x mod pi is sum(1/n^2).

3) Evaluating the integral gives pi^2/6!

The square is neatly explained because it involves energies. I guess this is why the pattern works only for even powers.
Jean Shepherd was a genius.

Hundreds of his shows from the 50s through to the 70s are archived at archive.org—so many in fact that I was able to locate the very first show I ever listened to as a kid decades ago. I hadn't heard the episode since its original broadcast but I recognized it immediately which indicates how vividly he can tell a story.

A couple of particularly good ones that I remember:

65. Carbide Canon
88. Toledo Heat
https://archive.org/details/JeanShepherd1973
Some more information from Twitter themselves. It seems the majority of their literature only points to a unique email being a requirement:
https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169956
Here's the WSJ article mentioned:
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/wsj/doc/132305472.html?FMT=ABS&F...

definitely no hoax.
The crucial question is "does Windows 10 automatically the passphrase for every WiFi network with Microsoft any time someone with a Windows 10 connects to it?"

This may be happening, regardless of users' sharing settings, and regardless of whether the WiFi network has `optout` in its name.

I haven't seen this possibility discussed anywhere, and it would be a good idea to try to figure out exactly what happens when a Windows 10 computer encounters a WiFi network.
I didn't upvote this, just guessing ...

Perhaps someone interpreted the title as

"Continued RSA argument by CollinWright (slideshare.net)"

istead of

"Open letter to CollinWright (continued): RSA argument (slideshare.net)"

I think that a more neutral title for the submission is

"RSA argument (continued)"

Note: If someone wants more context, read the comment of ColinWright in a simultaneous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990493
Possibly http://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/BOFs/3d-printing/wd-apple-ipp3d-2... (found via https://www.pwg.org/blog/january-2015-3d-printing.html)

Note the "copyright (C) 2015 Apple Inc" part (makes some sense given that Apple owns CUPS)
First - archival should be the ultimate fair use. Because the explicit deal of copyright is - temporary monopoly vs public domain after its expiry, any attempt to prevent or not aid archiving is equal to directly depraving the public of what it is owned in the future.
"What are your favorite resources that you use to develop those skills?"

Non verbals, body language skills ~ https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/spycatcher
Puush hack postmortem
It took me close to three years to finish it. I would get distracted, put it down, and pick it up again much later, months later. The surrealness of the story reminds me a lot of other Japanese media that I never really fully understand. I chalked it up to the usual "the Japanese are truly mad" maxim, but after finishing the book, I suppose my opinion changed a little.

The book is almost exclusively inspired by Western stories, music, and tropes. It has shades of Alice in Wonderland, cyberpunk, casual sexual themes, jazz and rock and roll. What makes the book look so foreign to me is that those stories are getting retold all mish-mashed together in a dream-like state with a dash of Japanese tropes.

In the end I enjoyed it, but I don't think I really understood it, and I don't think I can explain why I enjoyed it. Can anyone explain it to me?
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ASK HN: 1 core for a 16 core VPS server, is it dedicated or shared?
I was having a discussion with a VPS web host ( a well known web host). I asked them is them about the usage of the core. They said that if I choose a 1 core VPS it will be dedicated to me. To my understanding that cores on a VPS are never reserved for "ONE" user. So if they have 50 different customers would they allot ONE 16 core bare metal box if 1 core is reserved for one customer?

We went on to chat for one hour, and I think they avoided to answer my question or the person on the live chat had no idea what I was asking.

So my question here is if there a bare metal box and the max is 16 core for a VPS server can the web host dedicate 1 core to each user or the core is shared?
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-travis-kalanick-founded-u...

In this sort of context, "baller in San Francisco" (or any city) is code for "guy who plies women with alcohol until they can't say no". It has nothing to do with sports.
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Whose existence they don't seem to acknowledge...
[update] I shall post the chat transcript if required.
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