skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory link to Jim Gray's "Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?":
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-85.7.pdf

TL;DR:
Most software bugs that make it past testing are transient "heisenbugs". That is, they're the kind of bug that goes away when if you restart the program.

Related: This is actually a core tenet of the Erlang ecosystem -- spend any length of time around Erlangers and you're bound to hear the phrase "let it crash". Erlang actually has support for this built into the system: Supervisor processes exist to automatically "power cycle" your code if an unhandled error occurs.
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It's hard for me to tell whether this is just a "correction" (massive deflation after exuberance) or an actual meltdown. I had predicted the actual meltdown for September of 2015, but I guess this is pretty close. I wonder how this will affect my life, if at all.

"The New York Stock Exchange said it will halt trading for 15 minutes if the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index drops 7 percent." [0]

How is it fair that the markets get put on pause if they're failing? I really don't understand.

[0]:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-24/nyse-will-...
Installing a major OS version day 1 isn't a smart move... You should always wait 6 month or so for updates and other hidden features....
We are a private school, but 25% of our population is here on scholarship. Those families who cannot afford one are provided a computer by the school (and often books, supplies, uniforms, and even money to go on the "optional" trips like the class ski trip, etc.)

As cableshaft said, many of our peer public schools do require students to purchase expensive supplies like calculators. We are actually moving away from requiring students to purchase a graphing calculator; instead we ask them to buy the computer (good for all subjects) and we have been providing graphing calculators in math classes for a while now.
> the normal trash of the ocean

What a depressing phrase.
> even the premise of index buying requires some smart timing

Or just investing a regular amount of new money on a regular schedule, which will even out the timing issues.
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So one example that we use is for many input fields to have formatting done based on the client and their 'settings'/locale. It's basically just a wrapper around the html 5 input with the different types. So decimal places, right aligned, currency symbol, certain client validation that may be different per customer, etc. At the same time we name those components different than something like < Button /> so that it is very clear it's not just a UI wrapper, it has functionality.
Well you don't need to hope for a drop, there's one going on right now! I bought more SPY today, not sure about the OP.
You're assuming the false data has to be some kind of "white noise composite" of all internet content, including the bad stuff.

I would think it would be trivial to collect relatively innocent concepts and flood the net with them. Such that the nym "VLM" would now and forever be associated solely with thousands, perhaps millions, of facebook posts of cute kitten memes. That would be easy to filter, but its not like world wide civilization has any shortage of blandly familiar inoffensive fluff to use as a source.

Meanwhile build a worldwide black list, so no religious commentary at all, no alcohol / tobacco / other drug use, no political commentary.

It seems like a reasonable startup opportunity.

Meanwhile working the other side, another startup can work on filtering bland stuff from social media. Maybe with a secret back channel to the flooders. I would imagine, unfortunately, if you crossed off all the inane posts from most social media users, the end result would be many totally legit people having no record at all!
The cheap and easy way to do this is to buy a hub and plug it into your router the computer you want to analyse and another computer.
This does NOT support DRM content (like Hbo Go,etc).
However the version in ChromeOS does.
Google and Adobe have refused to include DRM support in general Linux.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=245999#c...
Not to mention the likelihood that similar "voyeuristic curiosity", as opposed to an active desire to start an affair, was behind many of the signups' decision to register for the site in the first place. Their decision to stroll in the sewer didn't help them out too much, and similarly I can't imagine someone sharing the information that they've been through the list of names winning them too many friends, regardless of what they choose to find or not disclose.
They have serious competition from Amazon and Uber. These are low/no margin, cash flow businesses, surviving on economies of scale. Can they survive a funding crunch? Who knows...
Interested to know which statistics you based this opinion of the US economy being "quite healthy" on. Anything deeper than top level unemployment rate?
The biggest "secret" on Wall Street is that active money management is often worthless. The ability of someone to 'beat the market' on a long term basis is extremely limited. Most investors are better off just buying a few index ETFs and letting it ride for 30 years.

Given that many banks have gotten out of prop trading and are now shifting into "wealth management" shops (hey we lost all our money when we tried that game... why don't we try it with your money!) there's clearly a lot of effort to convince people otherwise... but the numbers don't lie.
SteamOS officially launches in November. It's starting to get pretty good. Don't know about Wine.
"Nothing about Linux on the desktop "works fine". It's horrible."

Strongly disagree. I have no trouble getting around in KDE, Cinnamon, Mate, XFCE or i3. They are all just fine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10109381

Currently number 2 on the front page.
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This quite true although they have case studies to follow from the west and Asia. This statement from the '97 Asian Crisis [0]

Unlike investments of many of the Southeast Asian nations, almost all
of China's foreign investment took the form of factories on the
ground rather than securities, which insulated the country from rapid
capital flight.

shows the contrast with current realities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Asian_financial_crisis#Ch...
A simple explanation for this: cutting carbs is tricky and requires a lot of careful planning etc., increasing the likelihood that people actually stay under their maintenance caloric intake. It doesn't really matter how you do it. As long as your expenditure is larger than your intake, you'll lose weight.

In any case, your point doesn't say anything about the healthiness of carbohydrates.
Maybe the failure of central banking bubble-blowing will finally be realized... I'm guessing not though.
There sure is something to be said... They're horrible keyboards. We're going to give more kids RSI.

http://looknohands.me/

http://24ways.org/2014/dont-push-through-the-pain/

http://markmcb.com/2014/10/13/severe-hand-rsi-pain-and-recov...

We need more wireless ergonomic keyboards.

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/the-model-01-an-heir...
There was an article a few months ago, I think on HN, with a headline to the effect of "Scientists link <some chemical> to <some mental health issue>". Clicking through a few links to get to a more authoritative source, and it sounded more like "Our results show a correlation with a larger uncertainty than we'd like to see, and this contradicts a similar study done previously". People need to understand the statistical nature of these studies and what conclusions that should be drawing. IMO an understanding of correlation vs. causation, factors, levels and control groups, etc. should be part of any decent education (i.e. well before college). We can't expect mainstream media to help of it's own accord.
When I read the #1 comment here by someone I can't depict other than George Orwell himself, I started shouting "THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!"
I don’t know, I think it’s less useful to read ‘lifelong’ into the word monogamy. It simply describes the number of simultaneous relationships—whether it lasts for a week or forever is another dimension.
> So how would you write that message?

I guess I wouldn't write it. When I read transfire's and roymurdock's comments, it's not obvious to me whose opinion is more informed, or if the question even makes sense. Their experiences with women could just be different, and one ended up more cynical than the other.

> Btw I don't think it's OK to remove your claim that roymurdock's response was "mean"

Yeah. Sorry. I was just trying to make my own comment less mean :-/
"However, it’s important to remember that Flash was developed in a time where the desktop was king. The long load times it commands simply aren’t conducive to mobile environments — a deal-breaker for today’s mobile-first world."

Has he looked at the sheer amount of JavaScript modern HTML5-based sites download, especially the advertising-based ones? They make Flash look positively efficient and friendly.
I think they're the only ones who should really feel much need for anyone to save the day.

These kinds of daily and hourly aerobatics are high-frequency noise that should only be interesting to people who make money by speculating or placing advertisements next to the articles they write.
> It's worth remembering how markets really work

The panic button has been pressed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbv5B71KmkA
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1. F8 to boot from CD
2. Let DBAN do its job.

So, 1.
I am also interested in seeing the data which claims that the US economy is quite healthy right now.

The unemployment rate is a juked stat; check out the labor force participation rates if you want the full story. A primer: labor force participation got smashed in the Great Financial Crisis, and still hasn't recovered.
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This is interesting:

> A majority of graduates in the UK are getting jobs where they do not need a degree, according to a report.

But I have to say the three examples are not. Two of the three degrees are jobless anyway, and the one that isn't ("town planning") is extremely specific, and as the article said the dude just got unlucky.

Please list off what jobs are available for "conservation biology" and "politics and philosophy" which ARE degree specific.

If it is true that the "majority of graduates" aren't getting jobs where their degree applies, that is genuinely interesting, and something worth discussing. The rest of the article is just "I did a stupid degree and didn't get a job!"
Personally, I'll be getting a windows 10 box running soon enough. It's going to be headless and only have steam installed on it, and I'll be using it to play windows only games over steam in-home streaming on my linux desktop and laptop.
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It's not "fair", but it is a legal requirement.

You should definitely remove the idea that markets are "fair" from your mind. If they were "fair" that would be a lottery not a market.
> The best thing though would be having programmers really think about locality when writing their programs though.

You should talk to the Rust compiler folks :)
Debt to income ratios, capitalization of companies, worker productivity, oil prices, savings rates, more healthy housing prices (in most areas), foreclosure rates, industrial orders, housing starts, .... This isn't 2007-08.
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Facing divorce because your name appeared on a list is more than just embarrassing.
I agree with you. I've spent few years being a mainframe monkey (support). I got out when I had the opportunity. I have seen how people in other countries are taking on this role (of being mainframe monkeys) like there's nothing else in the world. This is mainly because they are cheap labor. While at the same time, the people in the States doing the same, are on the edge of their seats with minimum wage (ask MF operators).

The high-end MF programmers are far and few. Most of them, are there in a unique position within any company (there are hardly two of the same kind within the same company). They are mostly pricks and aholes in themselves (because of their position, their ego makes them as such). But that's a side topic.

Irrespective of what we see with the collaboration in educational field, the MF jobs are just not economically appealing enough for US graduates. Indians, Brazilians and Chinese, on the other hand, have that opportunity because American companies are getting them cheap comparatively.
> EOL from Adobe wouldn't mean anything

I disagree. There are many people who simply say: Adobe is still developing this, as such it is viable technology.

Eol-ing this would solve that problem. I agree it is not any technical solution.
This is not the general public experience. Sure, I've had similar issues before. Usually, I could trace the culprit to a specific motherboard chipset, or graphics card, not swap. Unless one of these apps is leaking memory.

On the other hand, I've had my fair share of windows weirdness. My work machine will from time to time not shutdown and I'll come the next day to a bluescreen. What does that say about windows? Nothing at all, it's likely a driver issue too.
Well, I have a feeling problems will be not so huge as in 2009 due to increased money velocity index, but I can't find statistics behind that (imports shrinked though http://www.tradingeconomics.com/russia/imports ).
Win10 is working great on my gaming machine, pretty big improvement over Win7 in terms of performance so far.
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I can't wait for the day that we are able to give a dolphin a brainwave controlled arm prosthetic and some building material/tools. I feel they're just as smart as humans but we just brush them off as stupid because they haven't built anything. But I man what do you really expect from them? They have flippers for hands and minimal resources to build anything.
Of course, this advice should only be followed in moderation; for instance, there's no healthy amount of trans-fats.
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PS... I don't deny that a subset of the US economy/workforce got hit really hard in 2008 and never recovered. But when you look at the US economy as a whole things are doing quite well.
"I had predicted the actual meltdown for September of 2015, but I guess this is pretty close. I wonder how this will affect my life, if at all."

If you predicted it, then it should at least make you rich? :)
It's a sympathetic response.

Some of it is going to be people selling assets to cover margin calls if they are overly leveraged.

Some of it is people selling because everything's declining and the want to wait it out.
No, You Do Not Have to Trust What Mainstream Media Says Every Day.
Is DirectX 12(or whatever the next version name is) tied to 10 ? That's the only thing I care about. If not then I won't be upgrading.
You know, you can always ask your friend to let you enter the password on his computer yourself without telling them. It will be stored on their computer in both cases anyway.
Perhaps, but the comparison to 1999 giants is completely nonsensical, IMO.

Uber are breaking records in building a business segment from scratch over an incredibly short span of time. They have been taking investment in order to grow fast. That's reasonable because (1) they have been able to use it to grow fast and (2) this is a business that probably tends to the winner-takes-all end of the spectrum.

Is it riskier than ExomMobile? Yes. Is it a nonsensical investment no? Will they be harmed if all finance markets dry up completely. Yes. Would it kill them? Probably not, but who knows. But, the only reason for a tootle dry-up is if the fundamentals are totally broken, and there is no reason to think they are.

Uber generates revenue. It's business model is pretty solid. Customer like it. This is nothing like the 99 companies.
Personally I'd buy oil futures, it's trading low right now and it's almost certainly going to rebound.
I'd have thought so but my daughters prefer their Chromebooks to their Nooks running CyanogenMod. Part of that is the Chromebooks don't have to be held: the screen can be adjusted to the proper angle without a stand. They're sprawled on the floor or huddled in a chair.

Some of that is that Flash works on Chromebooks, not on tablets. Eventually Flash will be dead but there are still times that I end up closing a browser tab because I don't have Flash installed for Safari on my MacBook.

Part of it is that Chromebooks are faster than tablets. I find pages are much snappier on a Chromebook than my iPad Air. A huge chunk of that may be due to uBlock Origin on the Chromebooks and ad-blocking and tracking not available on iOS. iOS9 might make quite a difference.
You are missing the point. "Proprietary system" here means Windows.

All these applications could run under Linux just fine if the vendors cared.
Self-employed, so my "work" machine is mine. Might as well bite the bullet and get the upgrade done.
If I go for a pee and it's yellowish I have more water. Also I do it when I'm thirsty.
China (as we know it) can't suffering economic down turn.

The Communists largely maintain power though the threat of Its us or chaos. Which before and during the communist rise China was pretty bad off. This is more or less the social contract we make your life better, you give up your rights.

If it becomes clear the central government can't control the economy. We'll likely see a rise in anti-government protests.
Sorry I probably wasn't clear but I meant 88/hour for a salaried gig or a contracting gig that you would apply to on a jobs website and would last 6+ months. Not working smaller gigs where you need be both developer, marketers and sales person. In that case I definitely agree that you need to be charging more to make up for reduced billable hours. I thought this was a fairer comparison because it seems to me that working for toptal you don't need to market or sell and you get to spend the majority of your time on billable tasks.
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Amazon workers who join full time must stay for three years before they vest in the company match. Leave after two years and 11 months? You're out of luck.

While Amazon's policy does seem incredibly limited, this particular jab makes no sense. Three years is the point at which you can begin contributing. So if your hypothetical worker survived that extra month and made it to three years instead of 2 years 11 months, he'd only get an employer contribution match on one month's paycheck.
This is only true if your investment horizon is sufficiently long (I expect you know this, but it's important to point out for correctness).
So many conflicting stories. What to trust these days? But I can understand that indeed it depends on the type of person.
> How is it fair that the markets get put on pause if they're failing? I really don't understand.

That just means the ruling class is in panic mode, trying to prevent the inevitable from happening, just like their peers in China recently.

In China they managed to temporarily stem the tide, but the real crash is still coming, of course, just like it is all over the West.
It does look like that the near future will have more individualized health advice rather than generic one-line suggestions regarding nutritions and diets. The problem looks from my personal point of view that we are lacking measuring tools which can help identify what status the body is in and how it reacts to changes, and from there having the medical expertise to understand the whole picture.
My boys have been using Chromebooks for school work both at home and in school for a couple years now, and we've had the same issue here. I don't think they print stuff up at school often (if ever). The silver lining is that now they have to share their work with me or my wife, so we get a chance to look at it before they can turn it in. But yeah, being able to print correctly would be real nice.
Different reasons for different machines; my wife's laptop was simply unstable under Windows 10 so it went back to 7. My gaming desktop ran great, but I purposely planned to test Windows 10 and go back to 7 after about a week, just to make sure it would run well. Given some of the privacy revelations the past few days though, as well as some incompatibility with older games, I may just keep Windows 7 on that machine indefinitely. My wife's desktop is running great with 8.1 and she has no complaints, so it will probably be a while before we upgrade it as well.

My main workstation runs Slackware Linux so Windows 10 doesn't enter into the picture there, and my laptop is so old (Dell D400 from 2003 also running Slackware) that it wouldn't run 10 due to no DirectX 9 hardware, and even if it did I'd have to buy a copy anyway since that machine came with XP originally.
> When I read transfire's and roymurdock's comments, it's not obvious to me whose opinion is more informed,

Please watch Monty Python's sketch "Nudge nudge."
Same poison different bottle. Socialism is a memetic meme that leads to totalitarianism everytime. Why? Because it centralizes power and always fails. As it inevitably fails the ideology is never blamed, just faulted for being impure, and therefore in need of a stronger dose. Since the structure of control is already in place, the measures become more extreme and its ideological opponents demonized and propagandized as the cause to divert attention from the root cause. Even a cursory look at the history of leftist movements shows the same pattern and same end result of misery. You already see elements of this on the left in America, were SJW extremists think nothing of destroying peoples lives and careers.
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I don't think it's even true that keyloggers are any harder to write on say Windows. The only thing they can't trivially get hold of is your password for the machine itself. (Of course, if you write a naive keylogger you're going to get caught by any AV software worth its salt.)
When I updated to Win10, I decided to never install Flash on the fresh install. So far so good, any site still requiring flash is now behind the times.
Oh look, an opportunity to buy.
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The participation rate is down 3.3% from 2005 [1]. Given the huge shift in demographics over the last 10 years [2], I don't think that's a data point that screams "smashed."

[1] http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

[2] Lost of baby boomers retiring and Gen X being such a small demo compared to the boomers and the millennials.
Misinformed due to the large scale FUD campaigns of copyright holders and lobbyists.
That's relatively new. We haven't had to provision iPads yet this year. This is the first year in several I haven't bought any (yet). Given Apple's track record (they obviously hate schools, they do everything they can to upset school IT departments, like getting rid of their servers, breaking their directory services, making device enrollment as painful as possible) I don't have high hopes. (Sent from my Mac Pro.)
Yeah, there are number of people I know who are otherwise intelligent who seem to blame almost every minor ailment they have on being "dehydrated". And when I say I'm not dehydrated because I have 2 small glasses of water, 2 cups of tea and coffee almost gasp because "coffee dehydrates you".... No. Actually it doesn't. It's about 99% water...