skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imho "soft" and "hard" real time distinguish pretty well between "must meet deadline" and "should meet deadline". The only problem I see is that they sound so similar, although the development process is radically different between the two.
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Because every new framework is trying to outdo all the previous frameworks, and they figure that by adding one, two or more feature is the key. You don't have to consume all the new stuff. You can always choose to stay lean.
The closest paradigm to what I was trying to imply are more general purpose declarative languages. Something like sql or rich logic libraries that let the developer describe the desired result rather than the 'how.' Now advance this by 100 years, and I would hope anyone can program arbitrarily complex things by using graphical/natural-language tools to specify constraints, and then the 'program' arbitrarily generates the lower-level code.
> However, the Soviets were still angry with the Germans for having done so much damage to their homeland in the Second World War three decades earlier, so they did not care about East Germany’s bleak economic prospects.

Not true. East Germany was socialism's window to the west so they were supposed to look their best all the time. As a result, they had the best lives in the Soviet Bloc. The rest of us had it much worse.
Yes, it's the probability of rain.
Based on [0], I would say that it is Bobspeak for error :). For those to lazy to look, the first result for "觬巂" in google is this article. Of the remaining first page results, the string "觬巂" never appears.

[0] https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
I'm old. When I see "Popcorn Time" I always do a double-take, because when I was growing up, you would dial "POP-CORN" (767-2676) to get the time. "At the tone, Pacific Daylight time will be ..."

Considering the history of the app, I'm sure there's no connection.
> Here's the cold hard fact stated yet again: PowerShell's object pipeline is functionally analogous to function chaining in languages like Ruby, Python, and JavaScript, not Unix pipelines.

Ok, what then is the functionally analogous function chaining of Ruby, Python or JavaScript to the following:

cat log.txt -wait | sls "error"

A simple function chain will do.
I would like to add here a bit if I can.

I'm from Western country and I was/am living in Eastern culture (China)

I'm still learning about Chinese concepts of family and "filial piety". Thanks to long (and sometimes hot) discussions with gf, I feel now that my behaviour towards family and close friends have changed in better way - I understand/feel without thinking that there are situations where my concept of being adult and self sustainable person with own opinions should give way to another person even if I'm right (and they are wrong) because they are elders in the conversation. I understand in better way that there are social constructs that even if not best, they keep people close to you (that's important part) in greater mood than if you constantly try to set your opinions on them.

Sometimes you don't want to tell people close to you that your tooth hurst so they are not worried.

Even though there's a lot of wrong with social behaviours in China on a greater scale (look up problems with "good Samaritans" for simplest examples), the family scale I feel is much better and greater than what I learned/grow up with in West. I feel that if we could learn from Chinese concepts of family, we would be much better in West.

While saying above, I have to think that it still can be coming from my raising and history and I'm still learning about historical/philosophical entires in our social life, so I hope I didn't offend anyone with above.
Central PA? Glad to see other Pennsylvanians on here.

And yes, the stuff they put on the roads here (and really NY, NJ, most of the NE US) does some serious damage.
Ordered Graph Data Language
Also other, more concentrated dairy products: cheese, yogurt, sour cream, etc.

Making cheese requires lots of cow's milk, removes much of its moisture (hence its weight) and also has preservative effects.
> A Totalitarian Capitalist state is an oxymoron.

One billion Chinese beg to differ.
My old boss was a South African expat who had also lived in the UK for a little while. Her comment on the two weather services: In the UK, they'll predict it will rain tomorrow at 3pm for 15 minutes, and it does. Whereas in Capetown, you can actually physically see the storm approaching over the sea, and they'll still be forecasting fine weather...
Well, they had submersible underwater scooters back then. I thought that escape was pretty cool--Manfred Burmeister, 1969.
> the slowest car that you can consistently drive the hardest might prove to be the most fun to drive.

Daihatsu Copen. Dirt cheap, street legal, go-kart with a license plate.
Or you could make the title even more ambiguous by calling it a "Former Russian Ghost Ship."
> They can wait 7~10 years, no? Patents are not forever.

For people with many illnesses it means death (literally, "forever"). For others, it means 7-10 years of suffering or debilitating illness.

Regarding your other questions/points, I wonder if I misunderstand them because the answers are very well-known. Sorry if I'm missing something:

> Is your theory that billions should be allocated (somehow) to researching a list of things that some people somewhere need with no prospect of recouping that expense?

The enterprise of science has proceeded for centuries on exactly this basis, and society (via government) has funded it successfully. Much of what you benefit from now was funded by fellow citizens, past and present.

> of the thousands of things that people think they need, which ones get priority?

There is no definitive solution, of course, but this issue has long been addressesed by funding organizations such as the NSF, NIH, etc.
Jacques, may I ask what brought you to Romania (are you still there)?
You have the reference, read the paper at your leisure.
A contract job. I'm back in NL right now.
(Member of USDS) - I'm sorry we gave you a bad experience. It is not something I want to have happen to anyone.

If anyone asking "why is it so bad" actually genuinely wanted an answer, here is part of one: There's some finite amount of process change that we can absorb per unit time. We have tended not to prioritize process improvements that would reduce the risk of an individual getting a bad experience, in favor of ones that will increase the total yield of qualified hires. We know we are paying a price for this, so we keep an eye on places like HN to see how high it is.
> I always fail at converting measurements from US recipes because it looks like there are many different varieties of "cups"

American; never heard of such a thing. There's a unit of volume called "cup", and it's the same (~237 mL) everywhere.

We measure spices by volume, not weight: 1 cup = 16 tablespoons ("tbsp"); 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons ("tsp").
I'm not sure you are right in saying that movies are typically rendered with radiosity. Global illumination, yes. Radiosity only deals with diffuse surfaces, not specular reflection or arbitrary BRDFs, right?
Is it just me, or does the (otherwise well-written) article smell like native advertising?

"52 years of staying true to its roots" sounds a little too much like "David Miscavige Leads Scientology to Milestone Year"[0] for my tastes.

0: http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/200593/the-atlantic-pu...
That was interesting and proficient Theremin playing, thanks for the link.
It's worth mentioning the besides the steps for requirements installation, this workflow isn't limited to Python. Sphinx has support for writing referential documentation with many other languages. Integrating with per-language tools to provide automatically generated reference docs is something we're starting to build out more with https://github.com/rtfd/sphinx-autoapi, though it's still in its early stages.
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You have asked Firefox to connect securely
to projectcloudly.com, but we can't confirm
that your connection is secure.

Hmm.
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Reminds me of an X Files episode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(The_X-Files)

It was one of those lovely standalone episodes built on a What if premise, that is never mentioned again.
Not sure if available worldwide, but there was a very interesting Radio 4 program recently, "What's the Point of The Met Office?", asking all sorts of awkward questions of this venerable institution.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06418l5

Of particular interest is the Met Office's constant demand for bigger more expensive computers, and its recent moves into the more politically contentious territory of climate change policy.
Not out of the box. There are however a few projects out there trying to add symbolic manipulation to Julia.
Is the dataset available for download?
The other article on the Ghost Ship (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10106130) reminded me of this article - it's one of my favorites
Phrasing seems off here. Can you identify a recipe that uses "1 cup coffee" to mean 6 oz? I'd expect, very strongly, that "1 cup coffee" in a recipe would refer to 1 cup, and 6 oz would be indicated as "3/4 cup".
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I don't think there is a way to ask this without sounding rude, but it isn't my intent, please don't interpret it that way:

Do you really have an expectation of anything on todays internet to work without JS running?
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Good editor. I also like Medium's clone - https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor.
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I accidentally had a popular political live stream
I use the windows calculator's "convert" functionality. :/
They have that. It's called Java.
I'm certainly not implying that there aren't major non-government research efforts out there. Perhaps even more effective in some cases. But simply by sheer numbers, 2016 NIH proposed budget is $31.3 billion (http://officeofbudget.od.nih.gov/). That's a single year.

The entire endowment of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (if the numbers are up-to-date on Wikipedia) is worth ~$19 billion. According to some basic info I've found online it appears March of Dimes averages approximately $200 million per year in donations.

$30+ billion is already alot, but, given the right circumstances, at the drop of a hat a future president might be so bold to ask to redirect even more of the US Federal government's ~$4 trillion annual budget toward those efforts.
> The bit about getting a work permit is a little weird. At that time average monthly salary was ~$5. His Dutch parents could literally just send him lunch money, and it would be enough to for an upper class lifestyle at the time.

I've never depended on anybody for my living expenses after I turned 17 and to ask my parents for money simply never even occurred to me.

Also, once you were legally employed you could drop the exchange requirement (which in terms of western money was substantial, you are looking at the $5 as the black market exchange rate, unfortunately for westerners living in Poland the exchange rate was substantially worse which meant that doing this legally would cost many 100's of $ per month).

> Flower/grape/whatever picking for a month in the west was enough to finance rest of the year.

Yes, because the money brought in from the west was exchange piecemeal on the black market.

> It was as bad as in Greece right now, everything worth something got sold to multinationals for pennies on the dollar.

The rape of Poland by the Western countries was - and is - an absolutely horrific crime. Not that anybody will ever by punished for it but it is incredibly bitter that the first contact between Eastern and Western economies led to yet another round of those people being taken advantage of. The damage from this lasts to this day. If that story interests you research 'polinvest' and several other nasty schemes that were pulled off just after the change.

> All the famous polish brands absorbed into mcdonalds/cocacolas/pepsis of the world.

And the Philipses, Volkswagens and Siemenses...
"Porsche: Laziest designers in the wuurld" - Jeremy Clarkson
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Doesn't even have to be at the border. If a SWAT team in the US does a no-knock entry on a residence, but gets the address wrong, do you think that they pay for any damage from their forced entry?
Seems to be the fate of any cool-sounding term. Eg. 'Quantum'

http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1841#comic

Though I must say the software industry is particularly guilty of stealing and corrupting terms from other fields. One particularly irksome example for me (as a former architect) is the word 'design'. When a software engineer says design he means css essentially, making it visually pretty. Whereas in architecture / engineering / industrial design etc. 'Design' means.. everything, the overall design or plan of your entire system.
Thats just one small example that gets my goat up, there are tonnes more!

ps. The votey (red button which you click for another little panel) is particularly good for that smbc!

pps. Also as a game developer I reckon I'm safe using the term realtime if somethings being calculated at 60fps :) ie. realtime shadows vs. baked ones. If for example the shadows were lagging one frame behind everything else that would be unacceptable for a game.
Based on the article it should mean _something_ in Chinese but you won't fool the Chinese with that and the English wouldn't use Chinese error messages.
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A shared source licence still allows commercial use of the software - it just has to be paid for. If it is given away, with or without strings attached, there is no direct way for the developers to be remunerated for their effort. Open source might encourage a few companies to contribute to projects, but that only pays the developers of that software who are employed by those companies.

Private individuals, or non-profit institutions, can still use shared source software. A few might be put off if they think it won't help them to find a job, but even they will think twice if companies start paying to use it.

Having popular software is nice, but it doesn't pay the bills if you can't charge for it.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10040076
Did you honestly create an account just to make this comment? Is your sole purpose in life to shill against Israel, I find it astounding.
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What's missing from most cars today, and most drivers experiences, is a manual transmission. I hadn't driven one in about 15 years, and when I decided to buy a sportier car for fun driving, it was really hard to find one in my (cheap) price range. Are cars with the paddle shifter thing anything like a clutched manual transmission? It always seemed to me that they were just throwing software into the mix.
Did some reading on ScaleFT website.

To be honest - I'm a bit conservative especially when dealing with security. I don't believe you should "put your ssh keys in the cloud" to make them more secure. So I'm somewhat biassed.

Anyway - considering the single developer's laptop, you can't improve much on ssh keys. You might be able to add 2FA using some token. You might also improve the key management software to notify and help rotate keys. "Cloud" based solutions won't add security either - the api keys used to access the service can be compromised as easily.

If we are taking about a company/enterprise, then I'm all for centralized authentication/authorization. But in this case there are a couple of decades old solutions - Kerberos. It won't give you expiring SSH keys, but week give you expiring tickets.
And that is why, a century ago, German was used frequently in science: A language where every word is a literal description of its meaning.
Of all the classic games that I wish would be brought to modern specs that's it.

For those not indoctrinated Its a love song to Porsche, you drive and race every model from inception to late 1990s.

It still holds up pretty well and it's amazing the detail they put into cataloging cars, upgrades, etc. - every car and generation feels completely unique.
US and European law, and surrounding practices, are quite different. It's not what it sounds like to an American.

I guess they've only admitted to having run the sites (probably easy to prove), not necessarily admitted to any wrongdoing.
Innovation always leads to change. The fact that framework complexity has been increasing is only incidental.

In fact, I think we're starting to see a trend in the other direction. Angular 1 was a massive mess of complexity, but Angular 2, React-based frameworks, and various other frameworks coming out these days tend to be much simpler.

Believe it or not, the web has been the platform where most of the innovation in UI development paradigms has been taking place in the past few years. And I don't just mean in terms of the sheer number of new things coming out.

The web community pioneered UI development paradigms involving functional programming techniques and immutable data, and have brought its benefits to other platforms (through React Native). I personally would never want to go back to the old way of building UIs. And I suspect I'll feel the same way about client-centric data fetching when I get to try out Relay/GraphQL, Falcor, Om Next, etc in production.

If constant change is the price we have to pay for innovation at such a relentless pace, I personally welcome it with open arms.
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I am confused by this. So is the problem that realtime 'should' just be used when there is a critical 'life threatening' problem if the deadline is not met, but to use realtime for a system that is not critical is seen as wrong?

Lets say you have an algo controlling a fighter jet. That is realtime. If you had exactly the same algo in a 3d fighter pilot game. That should not be called realtime?

Is this just an ego thing?
I've often thought recipes could benefit from a more structured representation. One idea I had was to recursively define a recipe as either:

A) a raw ingredient

B) a procedure (measurement [4 cups, 2 stalks, 3 pinches], reduction [slicing, dicing, julienne], combination [folding, mixing, blending], heating [sautee, fry, bake, roast]) on one or more recipes

It would be interesting to compare the resulting recipe "trees" across region, cuisine, chef, etc.
Given that you seem to think that pcwalton is the creator of Rust, I'm guessing that your professed knowledge of the demographics of the Rust community is also entirely fantastical. Would you like to cite a source for your ad-hominem throwaway comments?
State Capitalism and Crony capitalism is not free market Capitalism. But sure, word Capitalism is used in a wide spectrum for smearing. However, Chinese calls themselves `Socialist Market Economy `

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_market_economy

A quote from Mises: "The socialist movement takes great pains to circulate frequently new labels for its ideally constructed state. Each worn-out label is replaced by another which raises hopes of an ultimate solution of the insoluble basic problem of Socialism—until it becomes obvious that nothing has been changed but the name. The most recent slogan is "State Capitalism." It is not commonly realized that this covers nothing more than what used to be called Planned Economy and State Socialism, and that State Capitalism, Planned Economy, and State Socialism diverge only in non-essentials from the "classic" ideal of egalitarian Socialism."
Roots? The reasons behind the design have all fallen by the wayside.

The need to keep weight over the rear tires to increase traction was killed off long ago by increases in tire performance and the development of limited-slip differentials. Design and market changes have rendered the once functional shape purely aesthetic. Today's cars are neither fuel-efficient nor speed daemons. And the engines are water-cooled. So the aerodynamic shape has lost it's function. If it is holding true to its mechanical roots, those roots are long dead.

So what's left? From a mechanical point of view it is a rear-engine car fighting to become mid-engined without admitting the change. The shape's only function is aesthetic. Anyone claiming its shape or design layout is mechanically relevant comes off like those poodle owners who insist the silly haircuts are to keep the dog warm while swimming. If you like the look then you like the look. Don't try to justify your taste with engineering gobbledygook.
Agree. Startup and Silicon Valley culture pieces as well as anything relating to web development are easily the least interesting pieces on HN in my view.
In fact, gabapentin was one of the exceptions I was thinking of. Opioids don't work well for neuropathic pain, but gabapentin was a huge leap forward.

To give you a sense as to how difficult drug discovery is, just look at the discovery of gabapentin. GABA is a inhibitor neurotransmitter. The idea behind gabapentin was to create a molecule that looks just like GABA, but can't be broken down by GABAase. The logical result is more GABA would be floating around, inhibiting the transmission of painful nerve signals.

The funny part is, the major effect of gabapentin isn't even through the GABA neurotransmitter. It actually binds to the alpha-2-delta subunit of calcium channels and prevents the release of excitatory neurotransmitters.

The discover of gabapentin was completely serendipitous!
This may be of help - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34031785
You can expect pretty much any of the automotive coverage (I'm not singling out this author in particular) on ArsTechnica to be essentially native advertising. Auto makers carefully parcel out access to their products and materials (all the photos in this article are helpfully credited to Porsche) to publications they can expect favorable coverage from.
Thanks for sharing your personal experiences.
Ah, the memories! I still remember getting 1:52 (I'm pretty sure it was either 1:52 or 1:27) in Pyrenees (IIRC, snowy track with rocks protruding on the road) with flat tires and the Carrera RS, beating the 'standard best time' by quite a bit. And every time I play a racing game on my iPad I ask me why we don't get as much quality as NFS:PU had.
To be honest, I had little to do with what notes were played in this; it was a Hackathon Project and the actual chord 'stuff' was done by another person and I simply wrote the playback engine/UI. I can pass along this feedback and maybe he can improve the notes the the compiler spits out :)
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