jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I use an Airport Express as an AirPlay receiver, which is connected to a line input on my Sonos setup. Nice thing is that Sonos can switch to that input automatically when it senses a signal.

I've also used Shairport[0] on a Raspberry Pi as an AirPlay receiver - it worked great, I just wanted to keep tinkering with the Pi so I switched to the Airport Express, which I already owned.

[0]: https://github.com/hendrikw82/shairport

Edit: I see someone else already said that, whoops. FWIW, I didn't have any major audio quality issues in the brief time the Pi was used for AirPlay.
I've had pretty mixed-to-bad experiences with profile manager. It doesn't seem to be a product that Apple puts much care into. On the other hand, I've had very good luck with Casper from JAMF.
You can't really compare the range of a scooter / motorcycle to that of a car, be it electric or not.

Having this said, my motorcycle consumes almost as much fuel as an average car.
So Solowheel =~ skis, Onewheel =~ snowboard?
They're widely used for PCB inspection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTij7Juj5qE&feature=youtu.be...
I thought that's what Libra was then I realized it was being taken seriously. If it was posted on the theonion.com or equivalent, that nuance wouldn't have to be questioned. Could just be trolling.
> * Lenovo Thinkpad - A little more configurable than a MacBook, and much better value, but still difficult to repair. Missing premium features like an Aluminium case.

difficult to repair? They're super easy to repair! My T430 even came with a bay to access the RAM and hard drive without opening the case up.

Also replacing things like keyboard usually is only 2 screws even on the newer models.

All screws are standard philips too.

Lenovo also published comprehensive repair guides for all their thinkpad laptops.
Second thought. Completely unrelated but it comes up again and again and again.

If you're here in the USA and you have an RRSP in Canada, be sure you file Form 8891 to make it tax exempt in the USA. If you're living in California guess what -- the earnings inside your RRSP are tax free on your US income tax return (Form 1040) but your RRSP earnings are taxable in California (Form 540).

Also don't forget Form TD F 90-22.1 -- the dreaded FBAR form. You're living here in the USA, so you're a resident and obliged on pain of death (I only slightly exaggerate) to disclose all of your foreign financial accounts. That means all of your Canadian accounts including RRSPs if you have them.
Is this another one of Sokal's submissions to Social Text? Is that you, Alan?
I worked for the last ten years at a major animation studio where we pushed huge I/O over NFS every day. This was a lot easier to do with NFS semantics than it would have been with a less "fallacious" model, but we only got away with it because we had complete control over the whole network.
Quote from the AWS support rep: "I can confirm that ELB has been affected by the EBS issue despite the lack of messaging on the AWS Dashboard".
The leap I am making in my little story is that one would stop to think of your personal machines and your virtual machines as "computers".

Taken in the context of IBM's Watson's perspective at the time, he was looking at the computer as an enormous, extremely complex and costly purpose built device, for say, munitions trajectory calculations.

How many of those can we sell?

Now look at the "computer" as an enormous, extremely complex and costly purpose built device, for say, hosting all the applications made for mobile access.

and the analogy holds.

Start to think of your personal machine simply as a sensor (it senses and collects data that you produce, and ships that data to the hosted applications in the cloud)

The fact that, itself, is a fractal representation of everything that is occurring in the cloud - that it is, indeed, a computer, doesn't matter.

It is a sensor. A very powerful, complex one.
With EC2 you have to ability to set up a website that never goes down.

I find it hard to believe that you have any practical experience to back your claim. Today's incident affected sites that scrupulously respected all HA best practice.
Why not? That's the whole point of cloud computing, that you can cater, or have to ability to cater, for situations like this. If you don't take advantage of those abilities, well, then thats is something you have to sort out with yourself.
Fact check here: in short - the claim is debunked. http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/q/370/96
I was hosting a client's app on Heroku and they had a big pitch today during which they weren't able to show the site. Really, really horrible timing.
My experience in TripleByte is this: even though I passed their quiz and interview, and was referred to companies, I ended up getting only one interview and no offers through them.

I happen to work in a bank doing boring banking-like things and did not attend university. My experience has been that even if one passes their resume-blind interview, the companies are not resume-blind and are still looking for the hot-topic skills and experience du jour.

The people with that kind of skills/experience probably don't need Triplebyte anyway. And my guess is that if you are being turned away from hundreds of online applications that you do not either--despite whatever programming chops you actually possess.
Thank you for your concern. I am seeing a therapist. I don’t think I’m in any kind of crisis though.
I completely agree. Silence is indeed the most useful solution. I routinely block, ignore or otherwise disassociate myself from issues/features/users/etc that I am not interested in.

It is just a whole lot less emotionally demanding than trying to interact with even very polite, but insistent people. There are just too many of them, and only one of me.
There's nowhere I could easily swim, would showering in cold water help?
First off, its probably a toxic work environment, and second, you're at a stage where the walls are closing in so it feels worse than it is. Programming is inherently a creative art with a core of logic and reason. For example, you can solve your business case by writing shell scripts instead of Java. By toxic environment, I mean that there are things at work that contribute, such as the way your coworkers talk to you. One such example is that there is one guy who is the go-to guy for all problems relating to X, and he solves this while telling everyone all about it, all the time. This makes it seem like he is the only one who can do it properly, which is of course never true.

Your financial security is just a product of the times. It used to be you could have a house, a lawn, a car and leftover savings just from working in a factory. Now, you are saddled with an unpayable house-loan even with higher education unless you somehow manage to find a remote job, or you win the startup lottery.

Last, anxiety can form bad feedback loops, where the lack of sleep means you are simply not able to do anything during the day. It can also cause other surprising problems, even wrist pains and RSI, simply because the anxiety causes your body to tense up.

I think you, first of all, need to find a way to let go of the feeling that your job performance has any bearing on your worth as a human being. It really doesn't.
Twitter is to political thought what advertising slogans are to consumer goods or soundbites are to news stories. "It's the real thing" tells us nothing meaningful about Coca Cola. "Just do it" tells us nothing meaningful about Nike sneakers. Slogans, tweets, and soundbites are designed to influence our thinking with catchy thoughts INSTEAD OF informed thought. The ability to create concise content is different than the ability to analyze and understand on a deep level; not mutually exclusive of course, but it doesn't really matter: the masses will be overwhelmingly influenced by the former rather than the latter.
I'm struggling to understand if uncensorable transactions are a good thing (note: struggling not in a sense of "I actually think it is evil but let's hear your bullshit arguments so that I can easily debunk them", but in a sense of really being undecided). I am not a libertarian so I don't think that laws are just a useless form of violence. So how can uncensorable transactions be useful for a law-abiding citizen? One thing I can think of is when a transaction is in the gray area - you do it without asking anyone and then can argue that it is legitimate from a relative position of power, similar to asking for forgiveness instead of permission. Another thing is that existence of uncensorable money can push nation-states to adopt more equitable and just laws. But of course there are downsides in enabling crime and so on. So is uncensorable money a good thing in aggregate? I don't know.
I've seen people implement the opposite with success: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TeamRoom.html

It all comes down to company's culture.
People don't have to fill in all candidates, so some votes may be lost along the way. The winner is guaranteed a 50% vote share of all votes that make it to the final round - and nobody is denied a chance of getting their vote there.
I guess it depends on what the original point was--I took narrator's point to be that certain people have bigger chess smarts than others, where smarts is something that you're blessed with at birth. I may have read too much into that.

And yes, I agree that a sample size of three + massive survivor bias makes for tricky interpretation :) But I think the Polgar story is fascinating; Laszlo had a theory about how to develop genius, and he (rather creepily!) decided to test it out.

From Bounce [0]:

Realizing that the only way to vindicate his theory was to test it out on his own future children, he started corresponding with a number of young ladies, in search of a wife... A young Ukranian named Klara was one of those women. "His letters fizzed with passion as he explained his theories of to produce children with world-class abilities," Klara, a warm and gentle lady, a perfect counterpart to her husband, tells me. "Like many at the time, I thought he was crazy. But we agreed to meet."

What's more, Laszlo would take issue with saying his daughters were born geniuses.

As Polgar puts it: "If they had seen the painfully slow progress, the inch-by-inch improvements, they would not have been so quick to call Susan a prodigy."

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Bounce-Federer-Picasso-Beckham-Science...
Thanks for the feedback. However, I didn't understand about the homepage. Did you mean that all texts there just explain how to configure the feed? And contains no information what Tagmask really is? Initial headline was "Flexible place for programmers to share and discuss technical stuff" but I thought that the current headline is better.
Sort of, although in the case of the OOM killer, the goal is actually to kill the "right" process. Of course choosing the "right" process in code turns out to be exceptionally hard over a lot of different workloads.
Its guaranteed that 50% to either prefer the winning candidate to the other electable candidates or have not expressed a preference.
Nice to listen to something new. I could not drecrease the video to something below 720p. Is this somehow fixed or a bug?
I brought up NFS because it's an example of a service that implements an abstraction but does so in a way that undermines the assumptions of the implemented abstraction. I do not disagree that local disks are an unrealistic strategy for creating a scalable, fault-tolerant system. The disk abstraction is of limited utility when creating such systems, because "disk thinking" leads to giving in to seductive assumptions about the performance and reliability of the storage resources you have at your disposal.
So what's the problem? Android pundits normally champion Choice as one of Android's features, as opposed to the single store (without jailbreaking) available on iOS.

This sounds like a case of "damned if you do, damned if you don't".
Even if this 'bingoogle' thing is lasting one day only, not having the chance to turn it off is quite annoying, actually.
Argument 1: Paul Graham

Predicate: is

Top result: Paul Graham is Dead (17)

Which just goes to show what happens when you consider ancient slashdot comments to be an authoritative source, I guess...
1. Read. Read. Read.

2. Solve problems (anything, it can be hard or easy)

3. GOTO 1

In all seriousness though #1 is the point that will make a big difference. My friends generally mark me as the smartest person in our group (uh, there was no "nice" way to put that). They are perfectly smart individuals; but due to my old social awkwardness and slight insomnia I spent the better part of my school years reading anything I could get my hands on, and that makes a difference.

Ok, so on a public front you simply appear smart for knowing stuff about a diverse range of topics (I recall a particularly crazy conversation on a train at 1am where I met an Aussie and we discussed Scuba diving in some depth :D) - which is a bit of a fake because that is just "knowing stuff".

But knowing stuff is a path to smartness. Pick up threads you find interesting and pursue them. Teach those things to people. Find stuff that excites you and makes you want to solve it.

You mention intuitive learning too; over time you can develop great intuitive learning Just follow what feels "right" in your reading and problem solving; eventually you will find when presented with a problem you can visualize it, break it down/deconstruct it and then solve for x.

(always seek an answer)
Given my experience with home computer users over the last decade who all plumped for Windows, I'd suggest that they'd stick with what they know, or buy what everyone else was buying.

Since according to the latest NPD numbers Blackberries are still selling more than iPhones in the US, and you say most companies offer a choice it appears Blackberry are better by this metric, just like Windows was better by this metric. I'm thinking it's not a very good metric.
But you can compare derivatives. Which is the stab at PHP.
Resource conservation is one of the primary justifications that people cite for why they block ads: many ads have high level of animation, auto-play videos, and so on, that it lags down the experience, especially when a single page has a number of them competing for your attention.

I would be surprised if many would agree with accepting a performance hit for what ostensibly is your browser doing much less.
I've seen similar retorts to explorations of functional or unconventional concepts in C, mainly because the usual approaches work well enough.
AFAIK there aren't any .woff, .woff2, .svg, .eot in there + no CSS snippets to use them. Also 2.5GB is quite a big download.
> One of the absolute worst features of C++ is how it makes a lot of things so context-dependent - which just means that when you look at the code, a local view simply seldom gives enough context to know what is going on.

Good point. Very good point.

Having spent few years developing for the Linux kernel I can say that the most cluttered code I dealt with was the network stack. And exactly because it was done in C++-ish way. It makes an extensive use of tables of function pointers, which is basically an analog of a C++ virtual table. A socket depending on its type would get a pointer to a different table and that table would define the actual flow, say, of the recv() call in the kernel. The concept is very elegant, and it translates into a more compact code, but it also makes tracing the code by hand hard.

So, yeah, Linus got a point there :)
He was the greatest guitarist ever. Wrote a quick tribute: http://katsenblog.com/post/77916159815/paco-de-lucia
Thanks for clarifying.

My project depends on bitcoin-ruby, which uses OpenSSL's EC_KEY_generate_key to generate keys. EC_KEY_generate_key, as far as I can tell, uses OpenSSLs internal PRNG. If I understand you correctly, this is unsafe and it would be better to derive a key from urandom.
I think that it's hard to get an art degree because you need to be able to produce good art in order to get one.

Granted, you don't have to be very good, but then you don't have to be a very good physicist in order to get a physics degree.

>there are a great many pieces of junk littering the grounds that are apparently supposed to be showpiece works of the art students, apparently actually being "good" is not a prerequisite.

What if undergraduate work in math and physics were put on display? Would it necessarily be any more impressive? You don't expect undergraduates to be world-class physicists, and you can't really expect them to be world-class artists either.
I think this is a naive reading. The population may rejoice, but that doesn't mean there won't be "dead-enders" from the regime who would engage in a guerrilla war. There is a cadre of numerous North Korean special and irregular forces who are dedicated to the regime (through brain-washing or for their own reasons) who have been trained with guerrilla fighting and terrorism skills. Read about Korean Air Flight 858 and Kim Hyon Hui, and imagine how many more agents of that sort North Korea has in reserve, and how much damage they could do before they were stopped.

But all of this is a side show. The real reason North Korea has not been invaded is because the Seoul metro-area holds 24 million South Korean citizens, and most of it is extremely vulnerable to potential artillery bombardment from North Korea. Realistically the North Koreans could kill hundreds of thousands if not millions of South Koreans in no more than a day of shelling if war broke out on the peninsula. The only way for the south to effectively wage war would be to completely evacuate Seoul as a prelude, and that action alone would probably trigger a war before the evacuation was complete.

This, of course, doesn't even begin to factor in nuclear weapons.

The Korean peninsula is a long, ongoing hostage situation. North Korea holds its own population hostage as well as much of South Korea. This is why so little progress has been made on getting rid of the North Korean regime, there are only bad options and even worse options at this point.
I'd also recommend using perlbrew+cpanm instead of using cpanm to muck with the system-installed perl, sometimes this can cause breakage for core system components that run on perl (and are only tested against the system-installed version of perl + packages).
> That you expect other people to accept these conclusions simply because you claim to have had certain observations (not even presenting what those observations are), without qualification, is astounding.

Pot, kettle, black. Or, if you prefer, double standards much?

> On the other hand, people are presenting claims of taking offense at certain statements.

You're not paying attention. They claimed to be offended because the statements were supposedly offensive to other people.

While they're entitled to be offended by anything they please, surely it's relevant whether said other people are actually offended by said statements.

>> Why is it so important to you to defend "anti-racists"?

> Because I have been a victim of racism.

How, exactly, has someone saying "that's offensive to others" helped you? If that whinge hasn't helped you, why is defending such people important to you?

Note the specificity. I'm not asking about other people who helped you.
"If I want to release my software under a BSD licence, it's not free software because RMS doesn't think it is."

I thought the FSF had publicly stated that BSD licenses were compatible with the GPL, and thus "Free" software. I wouldn't be surprised if rms wished the software were more free (in his sense of the word), but I don't recall him ever saying it wasn't free.
I wrote a comment about this on Reddit and got downvoted to oblivion, don't know why, but here it is:

I have a PS3. Last night I unplugged it to move it from one room to another. Most of the games I have are downloaded from PSN, and I found out today that I can't play them, even single-player.

See, it apparently checks the system clock before it runs things, unplugging it reset the clock, it only trusts the clock if it was able to set it from the network, and with PSN down...

So is anyone else having this problem?
Goddamnit. I saw this link and I was all careful to turn on Beethoven's Fifth before I clicked it, and then it was a dissappointing "We're going to release these files" with only a few of the files posted.

Assange, you'd better know damn well what you're doing, because sooner or later you're going to be running around yelling about all the shit you have on them and they'll kill you before you can release it.
Or:

use common::sense;

http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/common-sense-3.4/
There's also YC Reject. We are currently accepting late applications at http://www.ycreject.com/p/apply-to-ycr.html
I get sick to my stomach each time I see a contest like this. All risk is born by the participants, and no matter the outcome, the only result for the contest runner is a demonstrably larger bottom line.

I believe that to have paid professionals perform a similar level of work, the price point would be well over the main prize of 25,000.
Agreed. In my company, a fortune 500 company, we are concerned more with revenue than building technology to solve big problems. This leads to quick hacks that solve short term issues only to leave technical debt and little invested in truly solving a problem.
Innovating is not inventing. Innovating, implies copying.
The money wasn't the issue. The fact that there was literally not a single company signed up was the issue. Why would a top company pay for a service that -- as of that time -- no one was using.

The fact of the matter is, it was two guys coming up to a massive company saying "Hey! We've got this site where you can advertise all these items you want to get rid of... but we've got no traffic and you will be the first person on it." There's literally no incentive for them.

Our service depends on having clients to be valuable. So there wasn't any value in our service at the time. However, as soon as you get one of the big guys signed up and putting their items on our site, we instantly add value and get the "hey, if Company X is putting their stuff up there, I want to be there too!" effect.
You may be right but this user seemed to plot a graph with "most often" visited places: http://www.southbayriders.com/forums/showthread.php?t=108489...
Thanks for this. I had designed and partially implemented this exact same thing. Do you know of this running in production anywhere?
This is the latest project from the Minno labs--we're selling Groupon gift certificates for 50% off.

We put this together over the last day or so because we thought it'd be a fun way to show people another interesting use case for Minno.

We'd love to hear your thoughts, both about the project and about the payment experience :)
I'm happily surprised that the word "lifestyle" hasn't been dropped yet in this thread.
No, only miners need to have the whole database. Currently ordinary users have it too, but protocol allows for the "light" client.
Added - you can submit others via the link at the bottom of EC2Disabled.com
I assure you we have been going through the list and pruning as carefully as possible. People that are submitting multiple references to the same site - or people trying to get their functioning site put up on a list with a lot of attention on it - are being handled accordingly.