skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TempleOS is definitely more of a religious experience. They're also way ahead of us in CGA graphics.

I think pretty much anything but the most fly-by-night data centers use parity memory, but I'm always concerned by the failure to spend a couple extra bucks on chicken wire for EMP shielding. The Carrington event actually did happen.
> you'd have to first line up at the turnstile to punch in your destination. Assume 15 seconds each. Then, when a car comes in, you'd have line up to get in

Why can't you load 15 people into 15 pods at once?

> very importantly, each car must have odor detectors / biohazard detectors in case someone has an 'accident' in the car.

The subway doesn't have this, and it works okay. People just use their built in odor detector, and if there's a problem, they avoid sitting in it and notify a conductor.
Like I said, I'm yet to finish boning up on what, exactly, Urbit is .. Sorry - not trying to be pedantic - but how is IPFS not a personal server? I can serve content with it right now, in fact - its what I mostly use it for at the moment.

I guess Urbit is more of an 'operating environment' that allows applications to be built, then?
I do this too, but for me it works really well.

my 4 year old iphone 4 got 3 days on a single charge when I got rid of it.

My year old 6 still gets 2-2.5 days per charge.
Dell's battery utility allows you to set percentages when charging stops and starts.
It's not - replying to myself. That was Bradford Shellhammer of Fab.com before it imploded.
that's not a fair comparison since https is supposed to prevent mitm.
The last part of this complaint is really scary:

"I signed up to get these shoes and didn't realize that they charge if you don't 'skip the month'. The first time I called and they refunded my money and said emails are sent monthly to remind customers to skip the month. Well the emails came for a few months and then they stopped so of course I forgot and was charged. I tried getting a refund and they said no so I had to use the credit. I tried cancelling the membership and my call never went through and when I started an online chat and told the associate the reason for my chatting with her was to cancel she disconnected us so I couldnt. After that my bank froze my card for some fradulent activity and issued me a new card with a new number and everything and so I thought the nightmare with this company was over. Well they charged me again and I called asking how they got my card number and they said they have a contract with a third party member that is able to get the details of my new card and that I agreed to allow that to happen when I signed up. Needless to say I figured out how to bypass the long phone prompts and was able to finally stop my membership with this company. They are ridiculous and should be out of business with the way they run things. "
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Selectors accept wildcards: https://firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/09/mutant-brot...

I wonder what this query returns: _@_

or: _._._._

And the justification textbox has a default width that accommodates about 7 words.

At one point in the article it says the domain of a logged website is considered metadata but the path (full URL) is considered content. However, this screenshot shows a logged HTTP GET including its full path: https://firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/09/cryptome.pn...

"When compared to surveillance rules in place in the U.S., GCHQ notes in one document that the U.K. has 'a light oversight regime.'" ... and UK is one of the US's Five Eyes partners, so the US has a light oversight regime, in effect.

At least the GCHQ shows some honest self-awareness in naming their surveillance apps. Karma Police. For a minute here, it seems like the intelligence agencies have lost themselves. http://genius.com/Radiohead-karma-police-lyrics ... I particularly like the last comment on the page analyzing the song, which begins, "This song is about the projection of guilt onto the Other", and concludes: "Prisoners, soldiers, soldiers' victims; these are all sacrifices, onto which we project our guilt, so that we can be saved."
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I would suggest that WhatsApp does a whole lot less.
Yes, we do have some analogues, but I don't think they're used anymore that much.
See some reddit posts I pointed to in a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10236561
Self-driving cars would still be less workable than rail when there's a certain level of density. I can't see New Yorkers all loading up in self driving cars; they just don't scale as well as trains do. Even assuming quadruple capacity from the roads, you would still need a large number of fairly beefy bridges and tunnels to get everyone coming from outside of Manhattan into Manhattan.
I've used it to figure out the spelling of a word I couldn't understand.

There's a reporter on NPR who sounds like he always introduces himself as "han zhi lu wong". I say that to google voice search, and it corrects it to "Hansi Lo Wang".

So google voice recognition works even if you don't know what words you're saying!
Just so. I'm reminded of Raymond Chen's "what if everyone did this" thought experiments.
Warning: Auto-starting video with sound.

(Seriously, why do people do this? One perfect way to make me close your story and never look at it is to startle me with sound before I specifically asked for it.)
Pretty good start i'd say. Nice to see leaflet.js getting used outside of maps. A couple comments: 1. the choice of the subjects is questionable. Couldn't you have chosen a better scene? Perhaps a landscape/portrait where extra detail can be more easily compared between the photos. Let's be honest, who's ever gonna take a photo with these lenses on a doll. For crying out loud, get some models and I guarantee this will take off! 2. would like to see more lenses to be added, along with different zoom settings
I wouldn't be so sure of that -- none of Google's clusters use ECC, for instance.
All excellent points, and I would add that it changes the semantics of the code when it comes to threading, which is will be a more and more major issue going forward. If the variable is declared outside the parallel section (such as a for loop), it's assumed that it is shared (and therefore synchronized), while if it's declared inside it is clearly private to each thread and no synchronization is required.
I have had success redlining a contract with similar terms, it certainly isn't unheard of.
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To torture your analogy a bit further, though - it might matter to the miners. If you want to go at rocks with a steel pick - you're right: You can pull gold out that way and when someone buys it they don't care how you got it... But if you are mining with more than one person and the other competing mining crews are using power equipment and you're banging metal against rocks with your bare hands, you might find it tougher to get miners on your crew.
Actually, I'd counter that it is sustainable -- for Facebook. They have so much user data and so much ad revenue that they can afford to throw engineers and money at the problem. Big companies can work hard and make things work, smaller shops have to work efficiently out of necessity.
No plans yet, just marvelling at the opportunities :)
Social cost isn't made up and it isn't really the same as seeking approval. It's related to, but deeper than simple approval. For example, you might not care that someone thinks you are a bad parent for not dressing up your daughter as a pirate, however, you do care that the PTA now won't take your opinion seriously because you "aren't invested in your child's education".
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The restriction is for forks that don´t pass the compatibility test, not for AOSP
I don't think the problem is in the developers but rather the employers, especially the recruiters. They love to find a developer that is a perfect fit in terms of stack. If A developer is a better coder than B but if B has experience in the companies stack, they will put B as a higher priority. This makes sense since people can't tell which one is a better programmer by looking at resumes.

So what does a startup developers do? We have to chase after those shiny and new stack to keep up with the trend and be high in the market.

When we are looking for an another job, which job do we apply to? The one that is closer to your stack. You will be high in the market and get to say "I have experience". Because these are the things that recruiter/employer cares the most.
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You're thinking about it backwards. It's not a "better MUNI". There's no turnstiles or gates, just bays. Not 4 or 6 like a train station but 40 to 60. Boarding a few people or more likely 1 takes less than 30s. That's 2/second. Plenty of bandwidth. And these stations are smaller and more dense, not every 15 blocks in the city but every few blocks, maybe in a large building's lobby. There's no swiping, it's on your smartphone and automated ( Open app, click "go home", app says "bay 21, approx, 2 min, pod #123, 1 other passenger"). Doors close when all the passengers are present. Pod has "pad requires service" button on console if there is a cleanliness issue.

This is attractive to the NIMBY crowd, fewer cars, less non-resident parking, less noise ( electric motors ) less local pollution. Who wouldn't want local rapid transit? They're not putting in Walmarts.
Google Services are not open source. Android IS open source
the concepts expressed in the first section "Obstacles" are interesting and make for good reading, but the implementation strategy in "Definition" are nuts. The authors completely disregard human nature and usability when designing Hoon. Random variable names? Sigils-only syntax? If they want to replace Unix and the Internet, they should remember why Unix won: because it was easy tp get things done.

In Urbit new developers not only have to learn all the new concept words, they also have to suffer through a brainfuck/perl syntax and a hostile programming style. Success seems impossible.
I wait until I have an offer, then I ask to see the company's non-compete. Then, if the document says I can't contribute to other projects, I tell them I contribute to a number of open-source and other projects, and I need anything done on my own time to belong to me. I've done this two or three times, and have always gotten the agreement to be amended.

Wait until you have an offer in hand. That is your moment of greatest leverage, when they are most invested in having you on board.
I think this article from 2012 by Brewer himself is a good read too - a bit shorter and somewhat more comprehensible: http://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the...

There's a bunch of other articles listed on the wikipedia CAP page [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem], for example the post by Abadi is worth reading.

The #1 issue is that the "2 out of 3" formulation is utterly misleading, as it sounds as if all the three options are feature of the distributed system. In reality, people don't control "P" - it's a feature of the network. You may be very careful about designing and operating your network, but one day a partition will happen. So "CA" systems are nonsense.

The other problem is that while CAP uses the same basic terms as ACID, the meaning of those terms is entirely different. This makes discussions about the CAP vs. ACID stuff pretty much impossible, because each group thinks Consistency or Availability means the same thing in both worlds. So RDBMS people will shout "We have availability, just like you!" and NoSQL people will shout "We have consistency, just like you!" Madness ...
Sorry if this sounds like a noob question. Since everyone is asking why going with Elixir and not {X}, I am going to ask why would someone go with Elixir/Erlang and not Scala? I am asking this because we are evaluating new languages at the work place.
Not at this point, we are aiming at deep integration with the npm/GitHub ecosystem. Happy to talk to others on how to do it, though, just get in touch: hi@greenkeeper.io
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Product-wise, it's likely that in the long term they're going to break up the FB app into a federation of related apps. They already did that with Messenger.
I plan to leave my job in a few months because I want to work on an open source project unrelated to my job but possibly subject to the "land grab" IP contract I signed as other divisions in the company work on software in that genre. I live in California, but even if the provision is unenforceable I don't have the resources to fight a megacorp and I want to make a clean break. (This also isn't the only reason I'm leaving.)

Looking for a new job is tricky. Being able to work on this and other open source projects is a non-negotiable requirement for me. Similarly, I want to work fewer hours and would be satisfied accepting proportionately lower compensation. How do I make those conditions clear and avoid wasting everyone's time?

I have a very strong open source resume and finding a ordinary job is no problem. You want me on your team.

I'm tempted to just quit outright then start the job search by putting out a full resume along with my conditions. Is that wise?
Ironically my company block that DNS.
I have mixed feelings about this project.

On one hand, it's solving a very real problem. I'm excited that smart people have done their best to release something that can add some trust to voting systems.

On the other hand, every implementation of online and electronic voting has claimed to be secure. No one's marketing "a pretty insecure voting system." While this project definitely looks trustworthy, I'd only be comfortable with several third-party cryptographic and security assessors providing a very thorough evaluation.
Maybe small companies will, but big companies will not "work with you" on it. I remember trying this tactic in the past and receiving a very clear "either sign the IP agreement without modification or good luck in your job search" from legal.
This is an honest question: why create a lisp instead of a scheme? What is the fundamental feature that makes NewLisp a LISP more that a scheme language?
> architecting anything substantial on it is not advisable.

If you're in Toronto, Canada in November you should come to my talk at Pycon CA.

Openstack is a rather large Python codebase that powers some rather large public and private clouds from Rackspace to HP and even CERN. I'll be discussing the various technologies and processes that allow us to do that in Python.

It's also one of the more popular platforms for scientific computing and data analysis. There are huge code-bases designed in Python that work quite well and continue to grow in adoption and usefulness. I don't see why anyone would advise against writing a substantial system in Python.
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From what I've heard, there were tons of these stories in the newspapers at the time of Jesus.
I think the original post was pointing more at a problem of investors pressuring companies to file for SR&ED (and to get the credits) even when they were not really applicable. I don't see how this is a problem with the program, rather than the investors, though.

When you actually are doing appropriate work, it has been reasonably manageable to both get and keep them. I have also, contra the OP, seen this work with 3rd party help on filing, although I wouldn't be surprised if this raises the scrutiny.
It's answered in detail a bit farther down but the tldr is Erlang VM > Java VM for high concurrency.
Can someone comment on what level of court this decision was made at, and how final this decision is likely to be (i.e. how many more appeals are possible at this point)?
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Currently under delightfully heavy load, it would seem, since I can icmp but not http it.
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They started picking and choosing which parts of AppData they backed up, but never informed their users and kept on claiming they backed up "everything." See, the backup app used to be set up so you could see what was being excluded, and modify it if need be. I had the entirety of AppData selected as "for backup," then had several bits of saved user data wiped out. One of those was an extension that stored its data in the browser user profile, something I used frequently and had restored a half-dozen times from backup. Then it was gone. Backblaze stopped backing it up, deleted it from their servers, and I had no way to restore it. Three years of data lost and zero effort from Backblaze to recover it, not even an apology.

The technology isn't bad, but their customer service is some of the worst I've ever seen. I was a Backblaze customer for three years and not once did I have what I'd consider a positive experience. If anything goes wrong they leave you hanging. They're not a company I'd ever trust with valuable data again.
oh, so newlisp is not that much new then.
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Probably not one, but ten people being interviewed that will accept the clauses. These days people are lined up for blocks for work.
iOS apps are shipped as fat binaries, so for one, part of that 100mb app is duplicated slices of binaries for armv7, arm64 and possibly, but not likely, armv7s.

Android apps enjoy bytecode that is getting JIT-ed on install.
But you can have distortions in the data, even if the algorithm is neutral, can't you? The data says "men are more likely to commit rape than women"; OK, that's probably not just that the data encodes a bias. But if your program says "blacks are more likely to be charged with violent crimes", say, is that because blacks are more likely to commit violent crimes, or because blacks are more likely to be charged with violent crimes because the justice system is (or historically has been) skewed?

Even an unbiased analysis system can reach bad conclusions from bad data, and a biased justice system can produce bad data. So the conclusions can be biased even if the program is unbiased.
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Took five minutes to configure the preload directive for HSTS in our nginx headers and submit our domain.
Yes -- Urbit is a "server" in the sense of "computer," which you control and which runs your own apps.

IPFS stores and serves your data; so does Dropbox, Cloudflare, etc. In a sense the best way to see IPFS is as a distributed CDN, of course with an immutable namespace that actually works.
Why praise someone for doing the thing they should have done in the first place? That's like congratulating a cop for not beating up a random pedestrian.

Actually, that's not even completely accurate - it's more like praising a car salesman for not charging you that extra $2,000 that you caught him tacking on.

People should be praising themselves for complaining so loudly that they affected a positive change.
Google voice search is impressive and anecdotal, for me, more accurate that siri and cortana in how it interprets my voice to text. Is there any insight into the hardware needed to run their neural network and store the learned material?
>Interesting stuff, but in my usual 15 minutes of attention-span for things like this, utterly impenetrable.

It's pretty much designed to be as hard to understand as possible.

Look at the source/demo videos - it seems like it's designed to be obfuscated.

https://github.com/urbit/urbit

http://urbit.org/preview/~2015.9.25/materials/part-i

Personally, I can't get over the really made up words.
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I agree, and I think that focus is actually a strength of the product.
Really?

"This paper studied the incidence and characteristics of
DRAM errors in a large fleet of commodity servers. Our
study is based on data collected over more than 2 years and
covers DIMMs of multiple vendors, generations, technolo-
gies, and capacities. All DIMMs were equipped with error
correcting logic (ECC) to correct at least single bit errors"

from conclusion 1.

"The conclusion we draw is that error correcting codes are
crucial for reducing the large number of memory errors to
a manageable number of uncorrectable errors. In fact, we
found that platforms with more powerful error codes (chip-
kill versus SECDED) were able to reduce uncorrectable er-
ror rates by a factor of 4–10 over the less powerful codes."

DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study :
http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html
I don't think that's an issue, especially with the projected use cases. The article says that they're aiming for battery storage of about an hour of flight time, which is plenty for takeoff, final approach, and other situations where you'd want a lot of power in a hurry. Most of the flight, unless it is a very short commuter-type flight where you can conceivably charge with shore power between flights, is going to be running much like a hybrid car, with the jet engine powering a generator working at the best point on its performance/economy curve. So it'll still use fuel, and still get lighter as the trip goes on. Also, those batteries mean you don't need a set of engines that need to handle the power needed at take off, so those can be lighter as well. So I imagine that a 1:1 replacement capacity-wise would probably have at worse the same empty weight, taking into consideration the lighter engines and the smaller fuel tank that would be needed.
If you take not giving a flying fuck what other people think far enough, there can be very serious consequences, such as being investigated by a social worker for how you treat your kids. Parents cannot afford to be too blithe about "that's just your opinion, man!" Society will butt into your business and interfere with or remove your parental rights if they dislike your behavior enough. You do not have to actually be a bad parent for something like that to happen. Only a fool completely disregards the opinions of others, even if they care not one whit about "social approval."
When I signed Google's IP agreement there wasn't even a paper contract - it was all electronic, you e-signed it, there was a form to list previous discoveries, but there was no way to redline or make modifications to the contract itself. The software wouldn't support it.
Frequently, all the install script does is check what OS you're using, and run the relevant package-management incantations (e.g. for Ubuntu, [apt-key add + apt-add-repository +] apt-get update + apt-get install; for OSX, [brew tap +] brew update + brew install).

If package-management systems provided a one-liner "bring in this package source, get up-to-date with manifests, and install the root/default package provided by that source" command (in Ubuntu, "ppa-install" has been suggested numerous times), you could just have a list of such commands on your program's site's Installation page, and they would all fit on a single screen. As it is, though, the stanzas and prerequisites for each OS's incantation are complex enough that it's much simpler to provide the "bash magic" version.
How does one tell if an idea was 'discovered' during office hours or not? The system fails if only 'bad' ideas belong to your employer.

Most contracts I've come across don't define working hours versus not.
A lot of folks may not know, but Peewee has a large "contrib" package full of db-specific extension modules and other neat things called `playhouse`. If you use `pip` to install peewee or clone it from GitHub, the `playhouse` modules are included. So while yes, Peewee is a single module, there are lots of extension modules that add a ton of functionality [1].

1: http://docs.peewee-orm.com/en/latest/peewee/playhouse.html
Please see the above comment from toomuchtodo about HSTS preloading.