skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This works great when it works great. Black boxes everywhere. But then you run into some issue, like, I dunno, your monitoring service is telling clients the site is going down, even though you can't find any evidence of this.

If you know how to go deeper then you run a packet capture and start seeing that, whatdya know, your top-3 IaaS provider's network is shit and is often dropping packets, so those timeouts are actually occurring, though not on anything you control. Now you're able to try to setup a repro, then open a ticket with enough details to get something done. Versus opening a ticket along the lines of "Hi Top-3 IaaS provider. Some monitoring service says our site doesn't always respond, but I'm sure it's not me. Please fix your network, thanks."

Not knowing how things work at a deeper level leads to experienced teams working on high-profile sites to come up with stuff like: "We have 2 domains in use, but need to go SSL only. We only have a certificate for one domain. So please implement a DNS-level redirect from domain A to domain B to avoid browser SSL errors."

Or an experienced dev insisting that a major vendor is shipping invalid binaries because the runtime says so. And insists they aren't metadata-only libs, but isn't comfortable opening up the binaries to verify and thus spends a day trying to figure things out another way.

Being able to get to a baseline of what's working is a fundamental step in troubleshooting. Just like you would always ask a home user to make sure stuff is plugged in, verifying lower-levels of the stack are correctly operating should be a common step - it's unfortunate how common it is that something else is broken under the level you're working at.
Propaganda is aimed to hate "western governments", not usual people. And russians have asian mentality mostly - they'll never show you they dislike you while you're their guest. Drink with them couple of bottles to know their real minds.
I tried writing to a named pipe but youtube-dl griped.

mkfifo FIFO
youtube-dl -o - $SOME_URL > FIFO &
mplayer FIFO

youtube-dl quits:

youtube-dl: error: using output template conflicts with using title, video ID or auto number
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The analogy is to a gas tank in a car.

If you put in 5 gallons per day, but only use 4 gallons per day, there is an extra gallon building up each day, and it will be stored somewhere (fat in the body). Some bodies will be more inclined to store this than others, and store it in different places.

If you put in 3 gallons per day, and burn 4 gallons per day, there is a deficit, and the extra will be burned from stored reserves (stored fat). It must, otherwise the machine would be incapable of traveling the distance that 4 gallons requires, and would not function. When that runs out, you die (i.e. starving to death).

Yes, it factually has to be that simple, for all creatures, there is no possible other way. It is extremely simple science and logic.

Notice I said simple, NOT easy. They are two different things.

Also note that for all people the speed at which your body adjusts to eating less than you burn will be different, as will exactly how your body responds to your eating less than you burn. For example, if you seriously under eat calories, it's widely accepted your body will think it's starving to death, and will conserve energy it normally would not - i.e, you'll be cold, your immune system will be weaker, your digestion will not be optimal, your hair and skin will deteriorate and not be replenished well etc. etc. So even though you're eating less than you were burning last week/month, you might not lose (much/any) weight because your body has quickly adapted and changed the amount of calories required as best as it can by shutting down, or minimizing non-critical functions.
You could imagine an intelligent car doing the same thing when it realizes it isn't being fed enough energy for the demands being put on it - it might turn off the air conditioning, lower itself, jack up the tire pressures, fold in rear view mirrors and limit itself to a top speed of 30mpg all in the name of more efficiency.

Source: I got involved with Weight Watchers years back - have personally been involved with literally thousands of people losing tens of thousands of pounds combined. WW is by very definition eat less energy than you burn. (well, the new formula gives a little bonus if you eat lots of fiber and another if you eat very little fat, but it hardly makes a difference)
Remove all frets and tune to 5ths :|
Not in the USA, it isn't.

http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/HSN/VM/

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSN.VM.C.6
(+) Use matrices to represent and manipulate data, e.g., to represent payoffs or incidence relationships in a network.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSN.VM.C.12
(+) Work with 2 × 2 matrices as a transformations of the plane, and interpret the absolute value of the determinant in terms of area.

Math education gets a bad rap in the USA, because anything that students don't remember learning, is claimed to have never have been taught. And that is just not true. Math teachers aren't as dumb as people pretend they are.
So in a way, we all live in an echo chamber of just one individual.
"sane backend for the chef server"

Would love to understand more as I at times do think of writing a better chef.
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See my comment below. It's widely accepted there is indeed a starvation mode that we (and all mammals) evolved to deal with uncertain food supply.

When faced with severely less calories than it needs, your body can, for example:

^ Run at a colder temperature (ever notice you get cold really easily when you've been hungry for a long time?)

^ Not do such a good job replacing hair and skin cells (notice how hungry people have funny looking skin and "crappy" hair?)
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Stop the Win7 + Win8.1 telemetry updates
It's probably true that 99.9% of music listeners don't know, don't care, and can't tell the difference. But a few of us care a lot, and it's sometimes very important. I've been recently obsessed with barbershop quartet music, where the tuning of chords is absolutely pivotal. The alignment of overtones from justly tuned chords is, if you ask me, the entire point of the genre. The "ringing" produced from the aligned overtones is, I would guess, noticeable to a large portion of people with rudimentary music education.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbershop_music#Ringing_cho...

Two examples of fairly audible ringing (probably start a little before my timestamps to get a little context):

http://youtu.be/KpBRetTqnqQ at 3:07

http://youtu.be/z9L4QEptVRo at 4:23
> The author says that developers can do these things.

I couldn't find this in the article.

You sound even more outraged and polarized than OP is. I've met more than one developer able to do this (hint, I can also do it). Some people are actually paid to write networking software, and they often have a clear understanding of how JunOS and IOS work.

This said, for different reasons, I agree that network operations should not generally be done by your development team, but no one is arguing this anywhere.
> many startups do bad things

I'm sorry, do you think startups are morally obligated to not know how people use their services? Care to justify that position?
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10132991
Same article as this one, extensively discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10123456
Most non keyboard instruments have ways to adjust the pitch slightly per interval while playing, allowing experienced players to play all intervals perfectly.
I never understood why they didn't take the FFI route that Delphi, Pascal dialects, Modula-2, Modula-3, .NET, D, Ada, Rust and many other languages do, for describing bindings to other languages.

When I asked about why going cgo instead, the general reaction was "go away we know better", as usual.

EDIT: Typo (way => away)
Oh wait. The description makes it look like you can server your pages even when YOUR SERVERS are offline.

But in fact, this script just saves stuff somwhere on the client, so the client can see certain things even when THEY ARE offline.

Maybe I was the only one being this mislead.

Just, when I am a client and don't have internet, then I don't have the idea to still browse the internet.
So what are the ultimate goals for this "offline first movement"?
TempleOS is fully open source
Did you come to the US without a bank account in your prior country?

I'd work on the startup as far as possible but not take payments yet. It would be treated as income, the startup as a business and with immigration pending I wouldn't risk it.
There's one guy on youtube who claims Bach's squiggles underneath each piece title in the original WTC manuscript actually represents an ideal tuning system for that piece.

I thought that was a crackpot theory, but then he played some pieces in their respective individual tuning systems on a harpsichord, and they sounded absolutely amazing, better than well tempered (or equal obviously). So who knows!
Measuring a p-value is equivalent to calculating a p-value
(ie. calculate the conditional probability P(X|H)).

I don't really agree that your die experiment is well-formed. For one, you are grossly under-sampling. It's known a priori that there are at least six possible outcomes, yet you are only considering three rolls, so you don't even have the possibility of observing each distinct value even once.

The p-value of a well-formed experiment should converge towards a fixed value as more observations are made. You will experience variance in the computed value due to the inherently discrete nature of experimentation. This will be especially pronounced for the first observations that are made.

I do not know if the Higgs boson experiment is well-formed. If it is well-formed and their null-hypothesis is true, their p-values will trend towards 1.

If their null-hypothesis is not true then the p-values do not mean much and will trend towards 0.

>In this context, reproducibility means "finding the Higgs boson again if the experiment is repeated"

"The Higgs boson exists" is not a valid hypothesis. Usually the null-hypothesis is "the explanation is measurement/background noise". Since that is really the only valid null-hypothesis, it is most likely what they are using.
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Radiolab - which Oliver Sacks frequently appeared on - has a good piece on Memory: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91569-memory-and-forgetting/
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BBC has been showing ads on bbc.com since around 2007 - see
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/nov/06/bbc.advertising
You can listen to barbershop music if you want to hear justly tuned chords. Just don't get too obsessed with it unless you want equal-tempered music (i.e. almost all recorded music) to sound just a bit wrong. YouTube videos are hard to come by, but I posted two examples in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10145785

And another clip I uploaded of using pitch-detecting software on a studio recording (notice it detects a lot more than 4 simultaneous notes, because it's "hearing" overtones):

http://youtu.be/v7kHnEaGIfg
Right. Thanks. Fixed parent post.
in the approximate sense of 99.9% of music listeners.

The best thing about the Internet is that connects the other .1% that actually care, and the rest of humanity that has no appreciation of good music can ignore it. And really, the great composers of the future will be part of that tiny minority.

Seriously though, it would be amazing to have mainstream acceptance and performance of classical works in their intended tunings. That would be cool. Half the stuff just doesn't sound right in equal temperament.
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While true as an abstract point, is there any evidence that US government shares (on a large scale) intel or stolen IP with commercial firms? I mean it's one thing if a high-ranking official would say to a CEO 'we found out company XYZ is bidding x million dollars against you'; but it's another to systematically feed design documents, customer records etc. into firms and keep that under wraps. Occam's Razor says that at some point, someone would have spilled the beans - long before Snowden.
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Seeing the world as "fat and happy" or "anorexic and starving" is common obese rhetoric. Maybe let's not waddle, gasping, down that path.
Someone can compare it to sourcecode pro?
There is also `tmutil` to manage time machine backups, can be handy, especially in scripts.
I can only imagine that similar discoveries / observations even 10 or 20 years ago may have been overlooked. Until the recent conclusion that some dinosaurs were feathered, paleontologists uncovering feathers in amber or elsewhere may have simply concluded it was a bird specimen and moved on.

Which makes me wonder if there are any other specimens in museums (etc) that may warrant further investigation for clues in the evolution of dinosaurs and birds.
Most Windows users are non-technical users who don't read or understand EULAS and they aren't even aware that their personal life is recorded at every action they take. I'm all down for analytics where the user is fully aware of what data is transmited, when and how. Sadly that will never happen because every company is only concerned with their legal obligations and not moral ones.
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I do have a bank account in my prior country, but currency exchange rates aren't favorable, because I'll be collecting money in USD, depositing it in my local currency, and then taking another currency exchange hit when I withdraw from an ATM in the US.
I doubt it will come to fruition.

Where do I start.

1. Sanctions are only effective if a lot of other countries also do it. Who would be willing to follow suit because of a cyber skirmish that doesn't involve them? Traditionally the Europeans would follow suit with this type of thing. But hell, Russia is taking land in their backyard and the Europeans can't even come to a consensus on that. Snow balls chance they form a unified opinion on China. Furthermore they are tired of following America in its quixotic foreign adventures. How about Australia? Nope. Their economy nowadays is shipping mineral wealth to China. Anything short of the PLAN maneuvering towards Sydney would make them think about sanctions. By the same reasoning, discount any country that appears darkly colored on this map: http://imgur.com/msbZwo6

2. Is America's geopolitical enemy China or Russia? Because right now they are getting quite close with each-other. Russia's economy would be even more fucked without China buying its gas, and China needs resources like I need adderall (hint: a lot). If you try to isolate and contain both at once, you'll just end up with a regional power bloc that parallels or even surpasses US hegemony.

3. Right now the Chinese economic slowdown has caused ripples in the world economies. Even though the Chinese stock market is relatively contained, the mere fear that the Chinese engine is stalling has caused a small panic around the world. Are we really so confident in our post-2008 recovery to just yolo it and inform investors that we will be kicking China while its down? This is like pointing a gun at your foot hoping to blow that hang-nail straight off.

4. China isn't some two-bit country. It will look like America is trying to use diplomatic and military clout in lieu of actual competitive advantage to maintain global dominance.

I'd like to imagine that Obama is smart enough not to actually do this (or only have a hopelessly watered down version). Here is my pet theory: Donald goddamn Trump. This upcoming election year the crotchety-old-man demographic has gone mainstream. Trump has bought China (and Mexico and a few other things) to the forefront. If status-quo candidate Clinton is to have a chance, the status-quo needs to look anti-China. Obama can help with that by throwing some hot air around and making some empty threats at China. Its ok, the Chinese understand that election year rhetoric means nothing. Maybe while Xi is dining at 1600 next week, Obama will tell him all of this explicitly.

If you really wanted to f over the Chinese and start a new cold war, start by undermining their canal plans to circumvent the straight of Malaca, promote regime change / instability in Pakistan (see: maritime silk road) and a few other countries (the other silk road project), conclude the Iran deal for good measure, finance Japanese political groups that want to amend away the passive part of their constitution, Strengthen ties with that other billion-people country in the region (India), and use Turkey to keep on doing what their doing with the Uigers. Warning: about half of this may result in another 9/11 at some point.
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On the other hand, their setup claims to melt iron, at 1518C. Which would give you a pretty good carnot efficiency if you'd use it directly to fire a steam turbine.
I view the increasing stance that people should be free with their privacy to be "bad". Third party analytics increase the perception that it's normal, common, OK, to-be-expected, etc. that your activity with one party should be liberally shared with others. Adding GA is probably a fairly minor offense, but I wouldn't call it a good or neutral thing, so it must be slightly bad eh? (I use GA; I don't like to, but it makes economic sense).

Startups do much worse though. See, for instance, apps that try to get every permission. Even if they don't use them, the fact that they ask for such permissions again instills that this is acceptable behaviour in society.

What you said, "know how people use their services" can be OK. A site doing its own analytics on data that users wouldn't reasonably expect to be private is fine (the user is already using the site, and it's fair to believe the site knows what they;re doing). Anything more invasive (in-app: web or otherwise) should get clear consent first. It's hard to give consent for e.g. GA - is that even a thing?

Windows "phoning home" for analytics introduces a new level of data collection. And most of the harm here is because MS has done so in a vague way, apparently with a broken opt-out (going off my Win10 usage and what others have said they've seen with the final release).
I haven't got yet what it makes better than the other ten million build systems we already have. Can someone summarize?
Do you mean "Switched-On Brandenburgs: The Complete Concertos Vol. 1"?
Infrastructure as a database
It depends how you look at it. If what you listed is possible to do, then it's possible to do right now - no war is needed. If people really expect such actions, then security will finally stop being an afterthought.

Credit cards and savings are already being stolen. Industrial controls are not yet taken over, (ignoring one-offs like stux) but they're definitely not controlled very well (have a look at the project which scanned the internet for exposed VNC). While flight tracking is isolated, false flight plans already stopped take-offs for some time.

Sure, governments can go much further than anyone has so far. But if we start to really think about it and protect systems for that possibility - great!
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not gonna watch, but developers who work on release tooling are just a category of developer.

The article is inflammatory to a degree, but it does make sense applied to groups rather to individuals. Devs do have to learn a lot of the skills the other groups do, but it doesn't go the other way. There are still obviously valuable skills that a DBA or sysadmin will have and your average dev won't. It doesn't change the fact that, as groups, I'd rather have a group of devs be forced into DBA and Sysadmin tasks than the other way around.
A really nice setup for that is: bitlbee (for xmpp) and use znc to connect to that and your IRC networks. Now you just need a mobile IRC client that supports push notifications and ZNC (in my case that's Palaver).
I couldn't agree more!

If you've read the Phoenix Project, it clearly states DevOps solves the problem of bottlenecks, which is the single most important aspect in the Product Development lifecycle.
You just can't have developers waiting anymore for Ops to do something, or vice versa... Shit needs to go fast and blocking factors need to disappear, or else you sacrifice agility
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It's a hierarchy of skills. PM and exec skills are almost entirely orthogonal to tech skills. Putting them in this hierarchy makes zero sense as a result.
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Codecasting
I am planning to create a codecasting platform. Wonder is there already one? If not, what are the features we look forward having ?
What I can imagine is finding death preferable to a life of pain or tiredness.

Right, this. I suppose I am saying that old age makes pain and tiredness inevitable without significant genetic engineering and other mechanisms. And then I imagine that only the rich would be able to get those treatments, much like only the rich can afford difficult heart transplants, cancer treatments, etc.

We already live in an unequal world where less fortunate people can't get medical treatment they need. To take it one step further and have only the less fortunate people die while the rich can continue living indefinitely through the ages is a world that scares me. Death is the great humbling equalizer until one day some geniuses make it not so.

It's quite difficult for me to imagine that health care will become universal and free so that everyone can access this biotech no matter what status or class they are. Never say never, but the fairy tale land of Star Trek seems nigh impossible to achieve.
It is true that there are many factors that affect how a calorie is digested and stored, it is a complex system.

But it is also true that there is no other source of energy for the body than mass. There is no metabolic process that can produce energy for more than a few seconds without a reaction that consumes mass (the carbon in said mass being breathed out as CO2).
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Livecoding.TV was in the latest YC batch: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29/yc-backed-livecoding-tv-is-...

However, just using normal YouTube Live Streaming is probably the most sane bet for coding.
The problem I have with DevOps boils down to 2 things.

1. It's really just a dumb buzzword.
2. I really don't like companies dumping more work on devs for the same pay and using a buzzword to justify it. Oh here, you get a pager now because we're DEVOPS! Hire a god damn support staff.

That said, letting people form little kingdoms and toss up walls so that people just end up getting bound up in bureaucracy is also terrible.