jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They redirect to random landing pages. That will be a nasty Easter egg when you see a serious landing page and you ask somebody to Google it and they get the spoof page.Whats the error message? And do native English speakers associate "fibery" with "healthy"? Don't get me started on fans spinning hard on FF in Ubuntu.
Correct.

Senators are required, since the installation of dial phones in the Capitol, to perform the duties of telephone operators

And also seems that it was more than UX that bothered them...
Mandate that the new businesses hire only locals.

I think this handily solves the problem - rents can't go up too much, otherwise the possible employees leave and the business shutters. Locals are employed, business runs, things improve in the neighbourhood and lift all boats.
I address this argument in the rest of my comment. Asm.js is not standards track as far as I know.

Actually let me post a thought experiment. Suppose that Dartium, instead of processing straight Dart source, processed a format that is like JS except that all the Dart is in JavaScript comments at the top of each Dart2JS-outputted function.

And suppose developers compiled their Dart to these JS-with-Dart-in-comments files, and distributed these on the web instead of Dart and JS as two separate files?

At that point, how is Dart different than asm.js?
The all powerful, at the time anyway, Symbian team didn't like competition and did everything they could to muck up Maemo/Meego development.
The Oculus software and hardware will improve this situation in the upcoming months. Source: I work at Oculus.
Papers and talks about "consciousness" are usually very bad. This is better than most, but not great. The beginning is a rehash of Philosophy 101, but after a while he gets into neural models of visual processing in the brain which can be implemented in software. That part is quite good. That alone would have been a good talk.

Around 13 minutes in, after mentioning and dismissing linguistic representations, he starts talking about simulation-type representations of the external world. This is progress. Historically, there's been an obsession with linguistic (or worse, predicate-calculus) models. Simulation-type representations, ones which can answer "what happens next" or "what if" questions, But he doesn't develop that concept further.

Then, around 20 minutes in, he gets off on dreams and meditation, and "how is it possible to be conscious without a self", and "free will is a social notion", none of which is helpful. By minute 26, he's off on psychedelic experiences and love. Around minute 30, he's off on dualism, questions like "is the mind part of the universe", and "could we build a mind in Minecraft". Then there's solipsism, and "are we living in a simulation", and whether it matters.

"Preference criteria for suitable encoding", at minute 34, starts to explore computational metaphysics, the nature of reality, and other deep subjects. Shallowly.

There's some good stuff in here, but it's not sorted out between what's actually known, what's conjectured, and what's speculated. If you stop watching at minute 20, you'll have seen all the good stuff. The philosophical excess baggage can be skipped.

I would have liked to see more on simulation-type representations of the real world. That's where "common sense" is probably implemented. (A useful definition of common sense, from a robotics or animal perspective, is that it is about getting through the next ten seconds or so of life without screwing up big-time. As a practical matter, we really need to get a good handle on that to build useful robots for unstructured environments. Google is trying to do this for automatic driving, apparently as a big-data problem.)
Looks like they used LaTeX/Beamer http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Presentations
I guess, the 2015 date doesn't cover which month they may likely launch a 6.0.0 version. Plus given the fact that a beta version may be out and held at that stage even until late 2015(http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/24/day-24-seeing-wr...) means we will have to wait until 2016 to see some genuine action.
I found this introductory explanation worth reading.
http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/653/basic-explanat...
> If I had to sum up all of these in one challenge, it is that however you find you can divide the work across geography at a point in time, it simply isn’t sustainable. The very model you use to keep work geographically efficient are globally sub-optimal for the evolution of your code.

I think this is true of any organization, geographically divided or not. These are the challenges of organizational structure, and I've seen them affect organizations in a single location just as much as organizations with remote engineers.

In my mind, the single most important thing to do is to re-evaluate and adjust the structure early and often. The way you divide up work today will almost never be sustainable - regardless of geography. The trick is to help everyone understand and expect those changes to occur frequently.
Excellent book! I'm enjoying my copy and find it a great complement to the other two.

riak_kv uses gen_fsm, so people looking for a real world use case could check out their usage:
https://github.com/basho/riak_kv/blob/master/src/riak_kv_get...
https://github.com/basho/riak_kv/blob/master/src/riak_kv_put...

I'm a relatively new to Erlang, but being familiar with gen_server made it pretty easy to understand the gen_fsm docs and figure out what was going on. I don't see the exclusion as a big deal.
I would argue the opposite. The dissenting opinion's rationale doesn't hold up in this case

> Heat waves, like aromas that are generated in a kitchen, or in a laboratory or opium den, enter the public domain if and when they leave a building.

In the case of thermal imaging, you measure light waves that is already leaving the building. In the case of radar, you are actively sending in light waves to bounce off the inside and return to you.
google and facebook have requirements for data center reliability that are, ah, quite a bit different from most of us further down the food chain. My understanding is that google has some data centers that simply run on outside air with no provision (other than just shutting the whole damn thing down and routing traffic elsewhere) for days when outside air is too hot to use.

When you own the application stack, and when you are willing and able to handle failures at that level, there are all sorts of optimizations you can do; optimizations that are not possible if you have a bunch of individual boxes that can't go down.

Even amazon's SLA tends to focus more on the ability to bring up new nodes rather than saying anything about the longevity of your existing nodes.

As for rackspace, you have a point; they are in a space where uptime on individual servers matters. However, judging from their prices and their scale, they have industry-leading levels of margin, and they get this margin, in part, through having a good reputation. I bet that the reliability hit they'd take trying something new is large enough to scare them away from trying much anything radical in this regard. Every sysadmin knows that you take a reliability hit whenever you change anything, even if it's a good idea in the long term, and how long that reliability hit lasts depends largely on the complexity of the change.

Now, I'm not saying that oil immersion is the right answer; we've seen it talked about, tried, and we've seen it fail many times; It's got lots of problems. Someone has got to implement it well, and then make the required parts standard before it will catch on; something that is almost as difficult as implementing it well in the first place.

But the fact that google and facebook don't use it does not mean it's not useful for people with different data center requirements.
I appreciate the correction on the timing - I didn't check the comment ids when I discovered it initially and I've repeated the claim more than once, so mea culpa. Still, I don't think I'm outrageously wrong. Being fair, the earlier comment you cite is in the same thread.

That precursor thread is excellent history, thanks also for that.

EDIT: Wait, are we not both wrong here? Isn't this the first? Which, honestly, might be funnier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599936
That has bit me so many times. Especially since Q is right next to W. Trying to close a tab with Ctrl-W and accidentally hit Q :(
I think Ada get’s quite close to that approach.
Mostly you describe data structures you need, rather a representation the computer understands. The compiler is supposed to sort out the transition from programmer need to computer need.
E.g.

type Day_Type is range 1 .. 31;

type Integ_Type is digits 5 range -1.0 .. 1.0;

The compiler then chooses the best representation.
"Mozilla" is a large umbrella which spans several different rendering engines and a whole host of browsers.
Nuclear propulsion in an aircraft? Isn't that going to spray radioactive matter everywhere?
How does interacting with reps have anything to do with "onboarding"? This is more or less an evaluation of how easy it is to take advantage of credits.

I'd be more interested in how easy it is to use a credit card and get a service off the ground. What is the relative quality of the products on offer by either vendor?
8% is a lot! and Firefox isn't alone, Safari is also on the same path.
Its the old boys club. You do realize there are tons of programmers in just the US that have no contacts with the coasts? This is what makes the Ivy League so valuable which is very good at discriminating over large groups of people.

My favorite is businesses and colleges that don't take applicants from PO Boxes.
> What you are calling ‘value’ in this case is just a measure of how much other people want the property. It has nothing whatsoever to do with cost. This just makes it easier for even richer people to take existing property rather than invest in developing other places.

Allocating resources to the people who want it most (and presumably make the most of it) seems like a good goal to have. Wouldn't that be the most effective use of resources?
At least Android allows sideloading.
I am a bit torn apart reading into it and watching a presentation by him. I think it might work well in some cultures and with some speakers. Being at a university seeing a lot of technical presentation by students I think he is quite heavy on presentations, which I typically always suggest to use really carefully my students and inexperienced speakers.
Could we build a huge hyperbaric building and place all the patients in there?

Would that accomplish the same goal as a ventilator?
I bought a Targus laptop backpack 19 years ago, during freshman year of college. I have used it almost daily since then, carrying not just laptops but all kinds of other loads: clothing, snacks, books, you name it. I have traveled internationally. I've taken it with me to rugged hiking trips. Anything you can imagine.

It's still in fantastic condition. Never had to repair it, except for one time when one of the strap clips got crushed by my car's door.

Imagine that: a backpack, almost daily heavy use, carrying all kinds of stuff in it, and it almost never required repair.

I'm 100% sure they don't make them like that anymore.
Thank you for that. I've watched it. It's nice to hear that the Italian doctors are concerned about the issue and trying to stave off use of ventilators.

The interviewer suggested this is a different policy from what is happening in the UK/English-speaking world where they/we are basically begging for more ventilator capacity.
A monoclonal antibody (-mab) already existed in a lab in the Netherlands, because it had been developed for SARS and turned out to work for SARS-CoV-2. But it will take weeks before this can be industrialized, let alone approved.
So you think people would open another website and then go through the "expand" rather than just do it on the website they are currently on? I don't think so to be honest.
Thanks, that's a great suggestion. I had tried pure touch controls before but it was a complete disaster. Never even occurred to me to anchor against a dynamic touchpoint. That'a a really interesting idea. I'll have to check out how it works in NOVA 3.

Tbh, I've never been satisfied by the tilt controls: they work OK if you're stood or sat still, but if you need to move at all whilst playing it can end up going sideways. I probably haven't yet put in enough effort to get them to feel right whatever the ambient orientation of the phone.

I think you're right though: I need to offer an alternative control scheme that's touch only.
There are third-party mods for the client (see ex. https://github.com/powercord-org/powercord), but those are generally responsible in discouraging API abuse.
My argument is if some people aren't regularly looking in their safe deposit box, the fraud might never cause a collapse.
The key here is that iMessage collects a device identifier. Apple will cross reference this with everything else on your phone and know more than all the other apps put together.
Look at the privacy data for the Wallet app, because that's where the data you're referring to is tracked. iMessage itself is just a container.
What are the pros vs cons of running a stack like this compared to something more common on Linux like Postfix-Dovecot-Spam Assassin?
It's the same today I think. Recently bought a Moog Sirin (released in 2019, compared to Prodigy that was released in 1979[?]) that also comes with a circuit diagram. Couple of other synths I own does the same.
> an SBCL program can.

SBCL will only perform TCO at specific optimization levels, so you can't even rely on it in SBCL.
Sure, but if you want fast easy math, it's hard to beat wolfram alpha, where you can just enter something like "solve x^2+5a=y for x" and get the answer right away.
Consider how you'd phrase it if your comrade were standing next to you instead of being on the Internet.

I understand your point that git is git. The code wouldn't be lost. But it would be an undeniable several months of chaos if Github's servers were wiped. Every project standing up its own site... the open source world would effectively cease development for a short time.
I really want to love influxdb because I think the world needs a better answer to time series databases that doesn't include java (OpenTSDB, Cassandra). The underlying storage engine (leveldb/rocksdb) is quite solid. I'm currently running 3 nodes in production (for collecting stats) and doing a few thousand writes/s. I'm not using any of the clustering features, I probably won't even evaluate that until 0.9.

I'm currently running the latest 0.8.x release and there are a few issues:

1.My influxdb instances stop servicing reads once every 12 hours so I have a cron job that force restarts it. https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/1116

2. Enabling the graphite plugin on the first run can crash the process (the creation of the default cluster admin user seems to be racy). Not a big deal except in automated deployment scenarios.

3. I lost an entire database (luckily it was just used for storing grafana graph definitions and not actual data).

4. I'm not sure if anyone's currently working on their admin UI. I submitted a pull request to their admin UI to sort shards by ID because currently it randomizes the order on every load (I presume because of golang's randomized map iteration). It's sat there since January. The last PR they merged into that repo was in May of 2014.

I really want influxdb to be successful. Every organization I've worked for in the last few years has serious graphite scaling issues and influxdb is well positioned to fix those. I think even in it's current state it's a better option than graphite (and the influxdb-graphite plugin gives you all the graphite features).
They probably meant they went to college for something like computer science or computer engineering that includes a ton of classes that involve a lot of programming?
Hahaha, of course they aren't. Really, you should be able to calculate how much they paid for your facilities need (square footage of your workspace, connection, IT equipment, etc) and it should be directly reflected in your salary.....
Ah, that makes sense then. I assumed they were because the instructions showed the US style specifically.

Thanks!
This outage is affecting all AZ's in the East. So even a multizone setup wouldn't help for this one. Only a multiregion setup.

This outage is a lot like having your entire datacenter lose power.
Also Cuorizini (http://cuorizini.heroku.com) is down!
They can ask. You don't have to answer/compily. That's the important distinction
I don't know if this is their motivation for it, but SpiderMonkey implements many useful non-standard features, including generators and iterators.

JS 1.5: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/New_in_JavaScrip...

JS 1.6: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/New_in_JavaScrip...

JS 1.7: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/New_in_JavaScrip... <- generators, iterators, and more

JS 1.8: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/New_in_JavaScrip...

(As a side note, I once implemented Twisted's inlineCallbacks in JS 1.7; this worked because it had those Python-like generators. Too bad it doesn't work anywhere but SpiderMonkey.)
My four-day weekend is already off to a bad start(UK here).
> Microsoft word on a macbook, and your penultimate version of a file is not backed up.

From that sentence, I interpreted it as the latest version of the thesis was not backed up, and that she may have lost several days' work.
I couldn't find a Javascript environment for running this. Anybody knows if it exists?

If not, who's up for a github night ? ;-)
This discovery doesn't have to do with magnets 'polarizing' light. Rather it's using light's magnetic component to setup a charge separation. You also can't "steer" light by polarizing it. Polarization is just the 'angle' that EM makes with its direction of travel. Polarizing light just means selecting which angle you want your light to have.
I find this works for me when i working on "output" related tasks..such as assignments, projects (ie creating something).

However when I am trying to learn/study and retain information I find I need a mostly quiet area.
Sorry I meant to say "false positive", total brainfart from me.
You can't join multiple groups/teams with HipChat, which is one of the most absurd design assumptions I've encountered. This was completely unusable for us, and many others. For reference, have a look at their uservoice thread, which has been running for a few years and has a few thousand votes
Correct, a commercialization clause is clearly incompatible with the GPL as is mentioned in their FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NoMilitary

So short of proper dual-licensing (which this isn't), that clause isn't valid.
Why? Finance wouldn't be worth much after an armageddon anyway.
I'm truly glad it works for you and nothing that I or others say should distract you from that course.

I know it works for some people and I knew that before I posted that comment. Again, that's truly great for them. However, it's my understanding that all too many do not have your level of self-perception nor do they have the same level of self-control that you do and so they end up on a horrible carousel ride until they fall off - big-time.

This seems to be the major reason why doctors do not want to prescribe it. The fact that these concerns about disulfiram have been reoccurring in the literature since the 1960s is pretty much proof of the fact.

I suppose the real problem is the difficulty in determining who will actually benefit from it and who will not, and that's an age old problem that medicine hasn't solved as yet (or as I reckon won't take the necessary time with individual patients to determine those who are suitable - thus it all gets chucked into the 'too-hard' basket).

Just keep at it. Best of luck.

:-)
I don't understand your point. The iPad has a 130 dpi display, if anything, it should be easier to double that than it was to double the iPhone 3GS's 160 dpi. (I know that making larger displays at that resolution is harder and more expensive, but that won't be an issue forever.)
Thanks for actually doing the work I was only bitching about!
The most pleasant and most informative set of slides I've seen for a long time. Well done!
afaik, amazon does not use this kind of tech, at least for most of the shipments. does anyone know why? not ready for amazon-scale operations?
Ice tea?

Actually simply making a large pot of tea and then cool it and put it into the fridge for some time results in a very nice drink.
The Taliban have significantly more military skill than the Afghan warlords they've been fighting for the last decade.

A contrary view was posted to HN just yesterday, as I recall.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1427866

When the national population is largely in the thralls of tribal superstition, it's easy for people who share that fanaticism (the Taliban) to gain a kind of superficial control over much of the population, but it's not clear that "religious fanatics" (your term) of the Taliban kind will retain the support of the population over the long term.
What benefits do you feel from having four filters? Not hating, genuinely curious. It's just never occurred to me to filter the air in my home aside from burning something on the stove or similar
> If someone gave me 100,000 USD...

The language you use here is concerning and not empowering. Why would someone 'give' you $100k? Despite some arguable edge cases (hft, etc.) money is only earned by creating value.

> Some days I just "can't even". With my faith, my wife, my friends, I try to be upbeat and positive when it comes to the future but when I see people like Musk, Bezos, even Gates ...

Comparison is the thief of joy. My (unsolicited) advise is to narrow your focus to doing whatever you can to make you and your family's life better.
Thanks, random internet stranger. This literally bit me this morning.
Unless your taxes are really simple I’d suggest hiring a professional to do it for you. It is money well spent
The case has been thrown out, which gives you a sense of how ridiculous the prosecutors position was. Quoting the Harris County judge who threw it out,

> In the number of words usually taken to describe an allegation of retail shoplifting, the State attempts, for the first time, to criminalize a doctor’s documented administration of vaccine doses during a public health emergency,” Bynum wrote in his order, adding the prosecutor’s affidavit was “riddled with sloppiness and errors.”

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/am...
Before you get an ergodox, make sure your desk height, chair position, monitor height, etc. are as good as you can make them. I've resorted to using stacks of books when necessary :)
> Credit Karma is free.

That just makes me wonder what Credit Karma is getting out of the deal.