skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not for tcloo objects, channels and file handles. I don't think you get it. In sane languages like C++ you can expect a destructor to call itself no matter where a function exited.
In fairness that is something you can get better at with practice.

In IT we tend to train our brains to commit processes (eg ways to research information) rather than facts. But we also have the luxury of being able to be lazy (internet, functioning limbs so can write notes, etc). Heck, before IDEs and the internet I used to remember every function name and order of parameters for any particular programming languages I was proficient in. These days I just learn the function name and let the IDE remind me of the rest (sometimes I don't even learn the function name and just search for it in the package namespace).
IANAL, but I don't see how this sort of thing doesn't count as copyright violation on a massive scale.

The users probably agree to it in a terms of service, but the served websites do not, and AT&T is creating what logically seems like a highly derivative (but altered) copy of their content with their own content inserted without permission of the original copyright owners.

While some amount of data rewriting is inherent in the nature of how the Internet works, modifying the content of web page bodies to insert advertisements just feels like it steps way, way over the lines of that, especially when it can easily present situations where you have ads selling products that would be vehemently opposed by the people whose site it seems to be appearing on to the average user.
It was relatively straightforward to set up an IPSEC VPN on my Digital Ocean VPS using these instructions https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/IPSEC_L2TP_vpn_with_Ubuntu_14... . Also, it worked with the VPN clients built into OS X and iOS.
The Privacy Devil and the Art of Misdirection
The drugs that make them billions are things like Xanax, Prozac and Viagra.

We need to incentivize research into important medicine (ie antibiotics, or something to actually cure AIDS and malaria for good), which is hard because as soon as they develop something actually useful, people refuse to honor their patents.
And as an advertiser even more so
The new tool colleges are using in admissions decisions: big data
You realize i686 is a catch-all term for 32-bit x86 processors, right? It's arguably the only 32-bit architecture anyone cares about.
This would have been nearly perfect for me if it had supported disconnected operation with later synchronization (~ Dropbox, CODA, ..). Alas, it's a live fs. (Dropbox is great except it doesn't encrypt locally and has to have a local copy of everything, unlike a cache).
I've seen this happen on a commercial ISP. I used to work for a web dev firm, and our ISP decided to start injecting ads.

Ads that immediately broke all of our javascript that we were testing on QA sites.

It took us an hour to realize what was going on, and that it wasn't our code that was breaking, and another 30 minutes of angry phone yelling before they backed down and turned that shit off.
Same guy being interviewed in a software-defined-networking podcast

http://blog.ipspace.net/2015/03/tcp-optimization-with-juho-s...
From the SpiNNaker project page:

>The control interface is two 100Mbps Ethernet connections, one for the Board Management Processor and the second for the SpiNNaker array. There are options to use the six on-board 3.1Gbps high-speed serial interfaces (using SATA cables, but not necessarily the SATA protocol) for I/O...
This is unreadable on mobile
Here's another interesting one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle

Landauer's principle is a theoretical lower limit on the amount of energy required to perform a computation that destroys information.
Hard or Soft VR: Which Do Investors Prefer?
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Wow, that's actually really cool. Interesting to see the FTC getting involved with the community like that.
This is just an error on your part. Y cups of hot water measures 8 oz cups.

In trying to back up your claim for you, I checked three brands of instant coffee: Folgers, Nescafe, and Maxwell House (chosen because they were the brands I saw when searching Amazon for "instant coffee"). Folgers provides a website full of coffee-related recipes. Here are a few:

http://www.folgerscoffee.com/coffee-how-to/how-to-make-coffe...

"How to make coffee" tells us that a single-serve coffee packet should be added to "6 fluid ounces" of water (or optionally, milk).

http://www.folgerscoffee.com/coffee-how-to/how-to-make-coffe...

"How to make coffee (in a coffee maker)" tells us that a "serving size" is "6 fluid ounces", and that however much water you put in to the coffee maker, you should add about 1 tablespoon of coffee per 6 oz water for mild coffee and double that for strong coffee.

http://www.folgerscoffee.com/coffee-how-to/how-to-measure-co...

"How to measure coffee" makes no particular recommendation on serving sizes, but implies that natural measurement amounts are "6 fluid ounces", "30 fluid ounces", and "60 fluid ounces" of water.

http://www.folgerscoffee.com/coffee-drink-recipes/vanilla-la...

"Vanilla Latte", a recipe which includes brewed coffee as an ingredient, calls for "1/2 cup milk" and "1/4 cup" brewed coffee. If we assume they're still thinking that 6 oz is a natural serving size, then 1/4 cup of brewed coffee is, according to the folgers people, 2 fluid ounces. In fact, they have several different recipes under different categories ("latte", "mocha", "cappuccino"...) all of which call for (1) 1/2 cup milk; (2) 1/4 cup either water or brewed coffee; and (3) a generous dollop of flavoring, usually syrup.

I didn't find any single-serving recipes for Nescafe or Maxwell House (or Kraft, which owns Maxwell House), so I looked at the packaging:

http://www.amazon.com/Maxwell-House-Roast-Ground-Coffee/dp/B...

Maxwell House helpfully informs us that coffee should be mixed one tablespoon of coffee to one "serving" of water, or 8 tablespoons of coffee to ten "servings" of water. They also note, "1 serving of water is 6 fl oz (3/4 cup)".

http://www.amazon.com/Nescafe-Classic-Instant-Coffee-Ounce/d...

Nescafe says "Use 1 heaping teaspoon of coffee per cup". However, it is immediately apparent that "cup" is not a measurement, because step 2 is "Pour 6 oz hot water over coffee".

But wait! I did find a coffee recipe ("Pumpkin spice latte") on Kraft. It's multiple-serving, which is the ideal case for an instruction of the form "Mix X T of coffee with Y cups of hot water". But here are the relevant ingredients:

1. "1/2 cup GEVALIA House Blend"

2. "1 qt. (4 cups) water"

There's no way to interpret those cups as being 6 ounces, since 4 of them make a quart.

In sum, you have no clue what you're talking about. Where did you get this idea, and why are you polluting the comments with it?
I have TMO with 4.5GB + tethering and have used it copiously. On a normal month I never get near the limit. On a heavy month, usually when traveling with family, I have dipped into and subsequently drained my Data Stash, but I currently have 13GB there for that heavy month.

In general however, I rely heavily on hotel wifi, as weak data signal is a real thing and drains battery. Tethering is a great backup, but not my daily driver even if I had unlimited.
>Clearly, they currently have sufficient incentive since they're currently investing in research

Drug research takes a long time. The drugs that cause this debate are drugs that the pharmaceutical companies decided to research decades ago, when they seriously expected people would respect intellectual property rights more than human lives.

Now that they know better, they will probably go invent a new Viagra or something instead of inventing something useful which can be prematurely generified for the common good.
It's unreadable on desktop too. What's with this new fashion?
I wonder how AT&T's ad injection will fare with iOS9's content blocking capabilities...
Cloak is pretty, but my goodness their site is light on technical detail. I can't tell where their servers are located, what protocols they support, who owns the servers. It's so vague and hand-wavy that I'm not sure why I'm supposed to trust them.
Not all linux systems do that. Arch symlinks everything to /usr/bin, I believe.
I remember this library being discussed on the Eigen list in 2012. Here's the thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.eigen/3423

The main critique at the time was that Blaze always assumes perfectly aligned data, including inside(!) the matrix, and pads the data with zeros if that is not the case. Of course, this makes it impossible to map external data, which is a huge downside. I'm not sure if that is still the case, but from skimming through the docs it doesn't look to me like this has changed.
All known physical processes only transform information, it's never actually lost (although it may get "transformed" in a way that it's irretrievably scrambled). Black holes are the only known thing that may cause information to disappear from the universe - or not, that's the open question.
This is one segment of the industry Shazam is hoping to disrupt. The theory is that songs people are most curious about Shazaming is a better perceptual signal than adjusting a knob 700 times and you can gather way more data points way more cheaply.

If you think the process is horrific, at least there's people trying to make it more accurate.
Awesome project!

It might just be a release timing thing, but what's the advantage of this over Amazon Elastic File System [1]? I see you've got a tagline on your signup No need to wait for EFS, are you planning a feature comparison or similar?

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/efs/

edit: derp. Turns out I should have read further!

How is ObjectiveFS different from Amazon EFS?

ObjectiveFS uses highly durable object stores (Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage) to store your files. Your data is accessible from all regions, your office and your laptops. Performance scales with your object store.

ObjectiveFS supports Linux and OS X and is running in production today.

Amazon EFS is NFS-based, with access to each file system limited to EC2 instances in the same region. It is not available today and will only be in limited preview for some customers in summer 2015. It will cost $0.30/GB and performance will scale with the number of GB stored.

https://objectivefs.com/faq#how-is-objectivefs-different-fro...
Ask HN: What are some of the pain points of making hardware products?
Recently there has been several posts regarding hardware being hard. Such as a hacker news link on this:
https://medium.com/bolt-blog/will-your-hardware-startup-make-money-677a8e6c665b

Probably due to the latest batch of YC having an increase in hardware companies? Who knows.

In any case, for anyone who has made hardware products before (crowfunded or not, both), what are some pain points that are so stupid and irrational, you wonder why it hasn't been automated yet?

Please share your stories!
This should be prerequisite reading material for anyone doing a hardware kickstarter. Still waiting on my 3D printer 3 years later...
The diminishing return approach is this:

#ifdef LINUX
// include Linux headers
#elif defined(BSD)
// include BSD headers
#elif defined(WINDOWS)
// include Windows headers.
# else
#error "unsupported system"
#endif
This article in Fortune suggests Apple Watch is selling strongly in Best Buy stores: http://fortune.com/2015/08/25/best-buy-apple/
Nice try, CIA.
The comments on this post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101469

feature technical information about the technology used to block VPNs.
Production Code is Dirty
If you develop for different platforms then it may actually make sense to do a "if linux / elif bsd / elif windows / else #error unsupported". At least it gives you a proper answer in case you forgot you have some wild crosscompiler in your path. But I understand it's not a popular concern...
I specifically called out that the linguistics community says a lot of very reasonable stuff here, in contrast to the public. Are you disagreeing with me about the public? I'm not disagreeing about the linguistics community (except to say that there are definitely pieces of it that take a whole-hog preserve-them-regardless-of-their-own-good view of things).

The demand for monolinguistic isolation is real, and springs from the same realistic viewpoint you've stated that "the economic necessity will always win out". That you don't share it doesn't mean nobody shares it.
I'm somewhat glad to see so many people in this thread having the same "Didn't we already know this?" reaction to the article.
I think a lot of the people worrying about this separation of concerns, and feel it's such an obvious problem that they don't even need to expand on it at all, are probably people who had to deal with hideous PHP (in the unenlightened days before Laravel, let's say) where views, business logic, and everything else get snarled up together in a horrible mess between some opening and closing PHP tags.

I had similar worries when I first saw JSX. Having used it quite extensively, though, it does feel like it's a sensible idea now, from a development perspective at least. That said, it does increasingly feel like the days where certain people could just write HTML and CSS, and other people could handle the trickier JavaScript, are long gone (especially with things like Radium for React).
What about quantum mechanics? How can you get a true quantum random number generator if information is preserved?
actually doing both makes a lot of sense.

a: build a method of detection and prevention and

b: find and coerce developer to stop improving software,

#b is required assuming the developer(s) is considered to be an above average adversary. When there is no silver bullet solution a cat+mouse game is inevitable. That further increases the value of this action.

#a being done at same time as #b has an effect on the collective behavior of the adversary. I'm sure various members for the RIAA and MPAA are wondering how they could have dealt with "filesharing" in a similar manner during the Napster days. But in the end it only buys you time in a cat+mouse games. meh, im sure there is some sun tzu art of war blah blah somewhere saying the same. more poetically of course.
Author here, feel free to ask me any questions.
The phrase communist country is a contradiction, communism means there are no countries.

The people drawing cave paintings in Chauvet 30,000 years ago were living in a communist society. 10,000 years ago the entire world was communist. Then slave societies arose in the Middle East and elsewhere.
I haven't noticed, because I've only used a landline a couple of times, years ago. I'm not having trouble understanding people during cell phone-to-cell phone or VoiP calls either, and I'm probably in the minority with this, but I prefer calling to texting.
I can understand that people want to keep their landline connection if it's that much cheaper for international calls for example, but it never really occurred to me get one.
Ah very cool. I'm sure I will be using that one as well. Thanks for sharing.
In my analysis, they are in favor of stasis per se; I see this as the same wish that drives most of the modern environmental movement. The arguments for preserving linguistic and ecological diversity tend to be the same, and quite often are nothing more than "if you can identify the agent, change is bad".
Being a good science communicator and doing significant serious research are not mutually exclusive.
Cool! I created something similar a while back just using the browser Audio API: http://musictheorysite.com/ear-training
Ads are fine over https. Choose your ad networks wisely.
[Troll] 100 bn neurons * 7k connections + 1 soul. Nait! :)
> or a unit of weight (1/16th of a pound).

Or 1/12 of a pound, though, to be fair, I don't think anyone uses troy ounces in recipes.

> They are equivalent for water, almost equivalent for most liquids, and not equivalent for most solids.

Even solid foods are often right around the same density of water, so its often quite close for solid foods. (And, usually, if volume is intended rather than weight, listings will specify fluid ounces.)
There's a delay on reply links appearing in deeply nested threads, but they should be there by now. Obviously it's up to you whether to say your name or not. I do need to ask you, though, not to post comments impugning other users. In the rare case where there's real evidence about something relevant, such a post might be admissible, maybe. But the bar for that is high, and your comments in this thread don't come close.

The general churn of this forum needs to be kept free of accusations and insinuations against other users, or we'll lose what tenuous grip on civility we have. So please don't do that.
Why not use a bitemporal data model instead, it's cleaner and easier to reason about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_database
No results found for this search. There's a reasonable chance that it's safe...

But you can never be quite sure. There are over 6,000 languages spoken in the world. Somewhere deep in the Amazonian jungle, "anal" could be an insult that gets you killed.
This is a real common theme I find in driven people. Throughout my life I have built glass castles, as I like to call them, that I derived my sense of identity from. I was always prone to get into singular focus mode, whether it was school or my business.

Over the course of talking to other founders I saw how common and destructive it is; hinging on a subtle form of narcissism. I was inspired to write the article by a vacation I took working at the Special Olympic games. The event was about taking a step outside of your own shoes and deriving esteem from the athletes that were competing. Giving, participating in the lives of others was an antidote to being rapt in yourself and all the liabilities that come with that. It was a powerful way of diversifying our happiness.
Uber Open Source
I think there was some serious experimentation in 2000s, just not in the area of popular systems. Plan9 started to hit the news properly around then. A few OSes in managed languages were developed: MS Singularity, and smaller experiments like JNode and SharpOS.
Holy shit!

They log pretty much ALL of the traffic too. Not just CAN LOG. They DO LOG.

-

See http://www.ragapa.com "analytics" tab:

Here are some of the analytics RaGaPa device collect:

Geographical Location

Mac Address/Cookie Tracking

User Agent

User Browser

Destination URL

Ad/Message Impressions

Ad/Message Clicks

User Activity with Time
http://www.amazon.co.uk/this-text-is-arbitrary/dp/0224086359
Approaching a Global Deflationary Crisis?
Dealing with incompetent managers.
Thanks! We plan to publish a feature comparison table soon. A couple more differences:

1. We have strong end-to-end integrity checks and encryption on by default.

2. Amazon EFS's performance is dependent on the filesystem size: larger filesystems include more iops.
I don't think it says good things about your company if you brag about your customer support directly after you let things fall through the cracks in the most atrocious manner, like that woman whose account was nuked with no explanation whatsoever.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10090119
I used to have unlimited data on my iPhone but ditched it for 15GB and unlimited talk and text (wife and I split) and its 15 bucks less than we were paying a month and she used to have line 350mb of data. They would not allow me to tether with my unlimited data. Now I don't know if that got lifted or not for grandfathered plans. But I use my tethering all the time with my laptop and it's great.
Do you need to generate an unlimited number of them ? Could you just listen to the radio for a few hours and write down some patterns?

I know next to nothing about music theory.
All the information about the state of a particle is contained in its wavefunction. The uncertainty comes from the fact that the wavefunction can only tell you the probability of getting each value of a specific quantity when you make a measurement of that quantity, which doesn't mean you lack information about the state of the particle.
Have you looked at http://www.donorschoose.org/? From their site:

DonorsChoose.org makes it easy to help classrooms in need. Public school teachers post classroom project requests which range from pencils for poetry to microscopes for mitochondria.

I bet there's a way you could sneak in support for your Coursera teaching.

As for uploading content, that seems like a really tough and time consuming problem. Are you allowed to put together a wiki or webpage? I was doing some prep for an Operating Systems course and read this excellent blog post about why textbooks should be free [1]. In the post, the writer mentions that "perfect is the ultimate enemy of good", so he decided to write the initial draft of a textbook purely in plain text rather than properly format it with something like LaTeX. Getting the necessary content out there seems like a good first step for you and your team.

[1] http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-case-for-fre...
The many worlds interpretations. Roughly speaking, if there is a quantum system that is in a superposition of states A and B, and we observe it, we then become entangled with it and are then in a superposition of having observed A and having observed B. No information has been lost from the universe, but there is no way for those of us living in the A state to observe anything about the B state.
Ask HN: Utilize databases of manufacturing components to create a configurator?
Say a Window Treatment manufacturer wants to build custom configuring software which would lessen the presence of human error, by verifying compatibility of key parts of the process involved in manufacturing. Something which would take all the empirical knowledge from the collective minds of certain 'key' employees & distribute it to 'minions' doing the grunt work, thus freeing the key employees' time to work on that which is absolutely necessary for them to work on (QC comes to mind). The app wouldn't just be for the manufacturing team, but also sales staff, as a tool to generate error-proof BOM's & customer quotes.

It would require the use of many databases of various manufacturers whose parts are involved in fabricating the finished product.

I haven't looked, but its my guess that there aren't any databases such as these- the old-fashioned way of doing things is for someone with lots of product knowledge to sort through catalogs published by raw materials manufacturers & do all sorts of calculations to get things right- in their heads. Thus the need for this application, to configure whatever project properly the first time.

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Are you implying that people think the world ends when they die?

Non-sequitur!
It's local socializing. But to call online interactions "not as social" seems quite silly to me. If anything, it has the possibility of being more social.

The internet has connected me with people worldwide. I've stayed with people I've met online. Something my parents would never have dreamed of being able to do. I learn about global politics and the differing worldviews of people from Australia, Japan, Germany, Brazil, Sweden, the list goes on and on.

I'd much rather discuss the cherry blossoms in the Spring than play a game of cards. Or learn how a saying in America might have a different meaning in Australia (and vice-versa).

I find my online social life far more enriching than the forced interactions of my life offline and find it irritating when anyone ever implies it's not "real social interaction".

My "fake" social interactions have taught me a foreign language, made me more aware of geo-political differences, and put me in touch with people I'd never have gotten a chance to meet if I went out to the park to socialize with the local kids instead.
This is not right.
Most TOS, in most states in the US (and a lot of countries), are going to be binding.

There are some that overreach. I expect google/twitter/et al have written theirs carefully enough to not fall into this case.