skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you point out exactly why it's pretty crap?

Again, gpiolib lets you redefine gpio_get_value, gpio_set_value, gpio_cansleep and gpio_to_irq in the BSP to be specialized inline macros if you want to, it means that for a specific board you can just straight to the hardware if you want to avoid any kind of indirection. I don't see what you could possibly do to make it even faster, gpiolib or not.

But even if you don't do that the only cost will mostly be an indirect function pointer call to the GPIO controller's driver, we're talking nanoseconds here (assuming it's in cache). Might be worth it for bitbanging applications.

At any rate, while I totally believe there are situations where the gpiolib doesn't quite cut it I don't think it's good advice to tell kernel beginners (the audience of TFA) to avoid it on principle alone. In my experience 99% of the time I use GPIOs to de-reset a chip, read a switch/button or, when I feel fancy, light up a LED.
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If you liked this, you may be interested in Dorothy Gambrell's analysis from the other direction. She took the top songs from billboard over the past 100 years, and tried to find out which ones have remainied popular.

http://www.verysmallarray.com/?p=1752
I was hoping for a listbox with options for X and a slider controlling the value for Y :)
Well. I live in the south and the government (and private property owners) very aggressively spray and uproot kudzu. I always figured the slowed spread had more to do with that.

It is remarkable how fast it grows - there's a certain spot here where you can almost watch it grow up and over and on the powerlines in a very short span of time, until it is sprayed back and does it all over again.
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/09/agreement-over-co...

> In British English it’s absolutely fine to treat most collective nouns as either singular or plural – you can say my husband’s family is very religious or my husband’s family are very religious.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001874.h...

etc.

With something like collective nouns it's probably wrong to make blanket statements about correct and incorrect, even if you're a prescriptivist not descriptivist.

EDIT: And while I love (but am hopeless with) English usage this is the least interesting bit of the submitted article.
And let's not forget GHCi, which you get when you install Glasgow Haskell Compiler. It's a REPL and one of the best ways to play with Haskell.
If only it were possible to keep those things in git itself. Oh wait, it is.
Wow. The Softpot trick reminds me of the way the Russians bugged typewriters (anyone got that link handy?)
The BBC did a rather splendid pair of documentaries on the technological lead the UK had in aviation after WW2 - "Cold War, Hot Jets":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hhm6z
Because Russians are only concerned with buying more vodka. How much is a piece of bread or a chicken?
An ETF like RSP won't always track the underlying index value exactly, especially in fast-moving markets.

Units of an ETF are just like any other share - an imbalance of sellers over buyers will drive the price down. In an orderly market, that usually isn't a problem - market makers will typically be there ready to absorb market orders and smooth out temporary imbalances, and "authorised participants" can create/redeem units/shares in the ETF if the market price starts to deviate from the NAV (net asset value - the market value of the underlying assets in the fund).

In a situation like we had yesterday morning, it's likely that market makers and authorised participants were staying out the market because it was moving too fast for them. In that sort of situation, if panic-sellers or forced sellers (e.g. due to margin calls) are placing market orders, an order book imbalance could easily develop, temporarily driving the price down to an unreasonable level before the market stabilises.

Sudden drops trigger trading halts, where trading is suspended for ~5 minutes. Trading in RSP was halted ten times between 9:30 and 10:30am yesterday - it didn't actually trade continuously for more than 34 seconds during that time (you can see this on the chart you linked to - there are only 11 points in the big V on the chart, then it reverts back to one point every minute from 10:30 onwards.

The same sort of thing happened during the Flash Crash in 2010.
I would leave a bug that I don't know how to fix just because ...
You missed the key point of the article you linked to:

That IS is not really a group of religious fundamentalists (at least in the higher levels) - rather they are a bunch of Baathists including intelligence people, who are masquerading as religous fundamentalists and exploiting fundamentalists to get back into power.
Contagious? Sure about that? Have you ruled out epigenetics?
Of all the kickstarters I've funded (and it has been a lot) only two have failed to deliver, eventually, and only one of those was a hardware project. It was an attempt to make an open-hardware GPU, and when it turned out way more expensive than he imagined, he released all the work he had done on github.

The other failed project was Neil Stephenson's "Clang!" sword fighting game. We all know how that ended >:(
China does not like some of the projects it hosts, namely the ones used to circumvent its Great Firewall.
I have close to 25 years of experience; I was told the $100 / hour I was asking for was too much for my region and my rate was set at $50 / hour. I still have an account there, though I didn't yet get any job through them. (So maybe they were right and people thought even $50 / hour was too much?) C# backend programmer.

[I will admit that I blame @patio11 for the $100/hour and "charge more" ideas. /grin]

Oh, edit: I had absolutely no problem with the onboarding process, I think it was just fine. It's only the "no you can't set your own rate" part that I disliked.
You mean less optimal not unhealth .
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What makes you think Github is "large and well connected"? Don't get me wrong, I love GitHub, but due to their architecture decisions, they aren't anywhere near a great example of best practices in the industry for preventing DDoS attacks.
Fun thing, some danish guys are trying to do exactly that. They are running a private space program in some sheds in the Copenhagen harbor, using mainly off-the-shelf parts and donations to keep going. As they once stated, they dont want to reinvent the wheel, so they usd freely available plans for rockets - which, incidentially only were the plans for the A4 rocket and engine. With this, they want to put a human in space, making Denmark the fourth country to achieve it worldwide.

Oh, and they also own a submarine.

http://copenhagensuborbitals.com
Everything is subject to sandboxing if it wants to sell through the Mac App Store. He could also just not do that, and have none of those limitations.
The friends part I admit I have heard many times and can completely understand. Cost of living however is offset by the high salaries. Take home pay is one of the highest in the world, definitely you will have hard time finding comparative salaries in Europe, except maybe Luxemburg, where they also speak French, but it's even smaller and hence less job opportunities than Switzerland.
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Yea, it's the speed of the drops. I saw more than a few weird looks from veteran stock analysts yesterday. The analysts who were older than 50 seemed to be the most honestly shocked, but tried to keep their composure. The look was like, 'I'd like to blame this on ETF's, but something else is going on?'
I know I certainly appreciate as little of the markup soup as possible. I tend to try and use as little markup as needed to write semantically correct code. However, these days people expect you to use the twitter bootstrap and markup soup to build sites and web apps. I don't understand why people are fighting the web rather than working with it.
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I was reading "Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute" and they mention Von Braun and his biographical movie "I Aim at the Stars" - he claimed that his wartime work was really motivated by a desire to work on space travel.

Some wit thought the movie should perhaps have been called "I Aim at the Stars (But Sometimes I Hit London)".
Personally I don't use it because I really don't see how giving up my data to some shady Russian guy is better than handing it over to Facebook.
Could you give an example of that?
Depending on who you ask :).
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Those 'artificial' restrictions are as natural as they can get. Different operating systems have different Shells and APIs, even programming languages. Nothing artificial in there.
I think your reply is generally misguided and straw man-like fallacious. I never advocated against having patients involved and making decisions (which I pointed explicitly above), nor said anything which justified you prompting me with something like "Patient choice is (in the UK) written into law" (where have I questioned that?). It seems you're replying to someone else, probably a straw man.

> This assumes that doctors are not subject to the same cognitive biases that patients are.

I really can't tell how could you reach such conclusion. I just said that the doctors are the ones which hold and present the knowledge, as well as supervise your decision. No mentions. at all, to "patients are biased; doctors are 100% objective".

Again, what I was discussing was the knee-jerk reaction to the "thinking for yourself is untenable" argument.
Maybe they're unable to take down a service larger or better connected than Github, perhaps?
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Can you please explain where you see I'm missing exactly the point you mention? I understand that you find the point important to you, but I haven't discussed these details specifically.

Leaders are seldom constrained by the ideology they proclaim.
Talk to users. When I know someone who's waiting for me to complete the next improvement, focus happens more naturally.
Apart from that it doesn't get you any additional protection whatsoever. With all the root OS X exploits floating around that bust you out of the sandbox as well as giving you full system access, as someone that has several utilities on the Mac App Store, it would be trivial to put an app there that gets set off by a timer, exploits root, and wreaks havoc.

Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=os+x+root+exploit&gws_rd=ssl
Possibly just Round 2 of the massive DDOS from March:

https://github.com/blog/1981-large-scale-ddos-attack-on-gith...

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/ddos-attacks-that-cr...
Relatedly, http://harpers.org/archive/2015/09/weed-whackers/ is a good read about the overhyped dangers of "invasives".
Inhouse DDoS seems less likely though, at least ;)
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That's a clear signal those projects have value and that we should work to make more like them.
Which is sad. I really want to see the global economy devastated. It will be quite fun.
Ah, have you actually been told that ("too expensive")? It would have helped me understand the market for (remote) C# development. I just know that I didn't get the couple of jobs I applied to, not why.
Britain was still on war-time food rationing in '47. I really can't blame them.
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Can you explain? How do you store issues in git?
The article appears to make it pretty clear that the engineering breakthroughs were all part of the V2:

"Engineers overseeing the tests realized that von Braun had solved fundamental problems in rocketry: he had designed a sizeable engine, an advanced pump to get fuel in fast enough and a sophisticated guidance system."
But why? Because of similar events/conditions? Because the two busts were roughly 6 years apart and it's 7 years since the last?
As your emphasizing comment embodies, that culture is still strong, and seems incorrigible. Microsoft are The Unredeemable. Even their current era of open sourcing isn't enough to wash away the sins of the past executives.

On a more topical note, one of the limitations of Powershell is it can only do basic math and (obviously) basic Algebra. To extend this, you can invoke .NET from the command line. Try these:

> $Area = [math]::pi

> $eight = [math]::pow( 2, 3 )

http://www.madwithpowershell.com/2013/10/math-in-powershell....
Hence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Integrity_Protection
What? Yes, of course it's a thing. I meet people like that every day.

A better example of following the rules without understanding would be percentages. Many people could tell you what buttons they push to answer "What is 37% of 240?" But many people would be lost if you asked them "What is 84 as a percentage of 270?"

Or "This product now costs £230. It has had a 20% discount applied. How much did it used to cost, before the discount?"
>>> I've had pauses that lasted for weeks or even months. For me the recipe is finding something that is worth solving.

I can totally relate to that. Sometimes I feel that ok, this project is much more complicated than I expected, or maybe it's not that interesting really. Should I abandon it?

So I try to honestly answer to myself, am I just being lazy right now, or is it for real? I find it quite important to distinguish between these two.

If you are just feeling a bit lazy, just try to fix some simple bug, or update readme, something small like that. It can do wonders. Usually, opening the IDE and starting to write the first line of code is the hardest part :) even if you can't be bothered to do anything that night, that's cool. Don't be too harsh on yourself.

But sometimes, you genuinely lose interest in the project. In that case, I think it's fine to just quit (assuming it's a side project which isn't bringing any income and it never will, that kind of stuff). There's no point to push yourself too hard, it's too likely that the product will end up being a bit crappy since you've lost the interest, and you won't have much fun (which often is the top priority) either.
Voice quality on mobile phones is crap. I can't believe you haven't noticed. Landline to landline calls are crystal clear. On cellphone calls I find myself often having to ask people to repeat themselves. I think this is one of the big reasons people tend to prefer SMS to voice on mobile phones.
I've always wondered why github hasn't considered switching to a distributed sub domain layout to help ameliorate this problem. Surely if they spread their infra out that would make ddos that much harder. A subdomain per user or repo should work wonderfully
In Australia that's flat out illegal. You must present a number, and that number has to be connected to your business so that the person receiving the call can call back.
Possibly for SEO reasons.
The younger you are, the less it all matters, as the trend over a decade or more will always be "up". (If not we have bigger problems.)

So if you don't plan on retiring off your investments in the next 10 years, just enjoy the ride. If you do want your money in the next few years, it shouldn't be in stocks.
Hope this is sarcasm. No one really wins from a recession. Sure you may make some money if you go short at the right time, but it's still better to have moderate wealth in a rich world than be among the richest in a poor one.
> the pragmatic choice is to capitulate to a common standard for the sake of higher-level efforts.

That's being very objective. Technical merits can only get you so far. One should never be too attached to them.
That's an unusual assertion. Perl has much better facilities for working with unicode, and many other advanced facilities for parsing and so forth.
I mean I can easily install an app to try it out, then uninstall and be reasonably sure it’s completely gone, without changing the rest of the system by incompetence or ignorance. That’s still pretty good. If the developer wants to harm you intentionally, that’s tough game on any system.
I'd like to ditch my landline, and my internet is over cable rather than the landline, so there should be no inconvenience. However the pricing system (UK, Virgin Media) means that Internet+phone is almost the same as just Internet :/
For 32 bit ARM, it seems to be shortcuts in the SoC design a.k.a there's a reason some boards cost under $50.

There exist some designs with real SATA (eg. Cubietruck) but those have poor CPUs (A7), and there exist many designs with SATA-via-USB which is never going to be fast. Also micro SD cards have abysmal performance for the sort of random I/O that operating system root filesystems have.

Luckily the situation in 64 bit ARM server land is much better. The APM Mustang and AMD designs have a combination of fast cores and properly engineered I/O subsystems. Real SATA, multiple 10gigE and 1gigE interfaces, PCIe, etc.
Epigenetics sound more like another way of mutation to me.
Over the long term, it will. An educated wealthy populace doesn't accept tyranny for long.
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> Company researchers estimate 1 in every 2,200 calls is a fraud attempt.

This number does not pass the smell test for me. About 2 out of 3 landline calls that I receive are fraud attempts.
I don't think that will solve the problem.
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> I'm wondering who on earth is the market for this?

People whose web pages generate a lot of traffic (10TB allowed) with low CPU usage, i.e. static pages and similar.
In other words, they only host content they feel comfortable redistributing?
There's a full transcript: http://talkpython.fm/episodes/transcript/22/cpython-internal...

And the videos from "CPython internals: A ten-hour codewalk through the Python interpreter source code" are here:

http://pgbovine.net/cpython-internals.htm
Although it is possible to write everything, right up to the view model (but not the view) in something cross platform and performant, keeping the GUI/view using only those languages/frameworks which result in native feel (both in terms of look and performance).

Sure, writing the GUI properly for each platform still requires more work, but far far less if all but the front end is cross platform.

However, it very rarely seems to be done, even with modern additions and improvements in C++.
GitHub is not meant for distributing dependencies. Maven Central on the other hand is, the difference being that it is mirrored and if repo1.maven.org goes down, it's not a big deal and your project can still be built and deployed.
Seconded. Free will is a real thing, but are you willing to use it?
One can create a fully offline version of github fork using
https://github.com/joeyh/github-backup + https://gist.github.com/piscisaureus/3342247 ("Checkout github pull requests locally")

(PS: why cannot I reply to paulrouget's message?)
One is almost always multi-cursors (together with regex search).

The other depends on the person. Usually one of [CMD-O + select directory, CMD-R, CMD-T]
That's why it exists. There can never be a commons. There can be large private sites or small ones. Large ones like youtube are more useful.
Well if x% of repos remain up that goes a long way. Right now it's all or nothing.

Also if you're going to respond include a reason why you disagree
You shouldn't expose such information and I will not reply.
Disclaimer: I am one of the most paranoid people I know and I know some pretty radical left-wing hippies.

I never understood why people hate CCTV cameras - they are in public places. Places where anyone can film you at any time. Public places are not private. Online surveillance has better arguments against it but 90% of Internet surveillance is by permission (possibly given by people who are not fully aware they are giving it). It is not as bad as this hyperbole makes it out to be.

But if articles like this is what it will take to finally get mesh network projects off the ground then I'm happy to be outraged.
>Is this document out of date?

No, in the described case, the message can get lost. This is a really unlikely scenario though. The only real-world case that I know of first-hand is using file buffer and somehow being unable to write to disk, possibly because the disk is full. Something like that can be prevented by a fairly routine set of server monitoring alerts.
Yeah, I'm hyped too.
Thanks for pointing this out. I left 'Nazi rocket' in as I felt it was essential to the point of the article: A story about clamour to obtain wartime tech to repurpose for space exploration.

The reason for the change is simple. The one misleading term in the title is the word 'Briton'. A Briton is not a British person, but rather an archaic term for a Celtic person who inhabited ancient Britain.

I thought it would be FAR more click-baity to suggest an ancient Celt tried to reach space in a rocket.
Hear, hear. I've talked about this with people and it's surprisingly hard to convince them that government-sponsored software is a good idea. While a tiny fraction of the amount we already spend on commercial software would utterly transform the free software landscape, it's not politically viable as long as commercial software vendors have lobby power.
Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Help-Your-Kids-Math-problem/dp/0756649...

http://www.amazon.com/Math-Power-Child-Dover-Mathematics/dp/...

http://www.amazon.com/What-Help-Child-Math-Myself/dp/0974168...

Amazon.co.uk

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Help-Your-Kids-Math-Problem/dp/07566...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Math-Power-Child-Dover-Mathematics/d...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Help-Child-Math-Myself/dp/09741...

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http://www.amazon.com/Maths-Mums-Dads-Rob-Eastaway-ebook/dp/...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Maths-Mums-Dads-Mike-Askew/dp/022408...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/More-Maths-Mums-Dads-Askew/dp/022409...

(Amazon: Please have some really easy way to give me a clean url for sharing. I am literally sending potential customers to your website.)
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It was a Nazi rocket through and through, built by slave labor at the Mittelwerk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelwerk) and serving as one of Hitler's vengeance weapons. No need to whitewash it.
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But you did reply.
In my experience cross-platform means "runs just as badly everywhere". They pretty much never feel like native on any platform.

And what's the advantage to the average user? If I'm a Mac user, I'm interested in Application X working just like every other Mac application. Similarly if I'm a Windows user. I'm rarely bothered that Application X works the same on both Windows and Mac.
OK, very nice, but can someone explain the gloves ???
I've been using numbers from Burner to sell stuff on Craigslist, and they actually let you select the area code of the number they assign you. Pretty neat, but it definitely demonstrates the meaninglessness of phone number digits today.
What's most newsworthy about this is the opaque reporting style on a potential securities violation.
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Based on some incredibly cursory pre-coffee googling, it would be about $1200 for the ticket (assuming you want a decent private-ish berth), probably around $500 for a GoPro and various equipment (a way to mount it on the window, spare batteries, chargers, memory, etc.) and somewhere in the neighborhood of $800 for the flight back (I wouldn't want to subject you to eight hours on an S7 flight.)

$2500 is a pretty reasonable goal to throw up on a crowdfunding website.