skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Design paradigms based on mapping of user interaction to memory rather than intent may be the reason that memory is a constraint. Query is to memory as search is to intent.
A book: Graph Theory, by R. Diestel, Springer Verlag.
I was wondering the same, especially as it comes out naturally as it was something obvious
I think one of the biggest differences a visitor from 1950 would notice is food.

The Germans were called "Krauts" in the second world war because they ate Sauerkraut, a then prevalent way to preserve some food with vitamins for the winter.

And today you can go into the store in winter, and buy twenty kinds of fresh fruit from all over the world, and twenty more types of vegetables.

You don't have to stockpile for winter, and don't have to change your diet signficantly because fresh stuff is unavailable.

We don't think of that as a huge technological advancment, but it has a huge impact on the daily life. Likewise the prevalence of washing machines. The availability of public and private transport in a way unimaginable to somebody from 1950.
I like the idea of focusing on words related to a concept.

Maybe I could add the ability to like each word independently, and change the probability distribution of the following words using the closeness to the ones liked. That way the user will narrow the space of possibilities to the ones related with the topic of interest.
> If people outside the US don't understand why that's offensive I guess they're bigots.

Yeah look at this bigoted Swedish wikipedia article https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bro

> In all seriousness, this has to be the height of meddling for the sake of meddling.

For me it is not only meddling. The abbreviation was changed without proper explanation. "I have asked a feminist friend from the North American culture-sphere, and she advised against bro." is devoid of any actual information why it is important to change. I think reasons of "misogynistic" and "offensive" is not enough.

Because if we look at the other offensive and unacceptable words I'm aware of I know why they are loaded and how they are perceived badly.
I don't think I would entirely agree with that. Surely it depends on the developer. I can build a traditional CLI program faster than I can arrange a GUI for an equivalent program in something like interface builder although I've met developers who are faster the other way around.
No. The list of available domains is the list of all possible domains less the list of registered domains. The list of registered domains is vastly smaller than the list of possible domains. The list of available domains would mostly consist of junk nobody would be interested in.
But significant resources were diverted. Around 2,000 Nazi soldiers were tied down by around 1,000 Jewish resistance fighters armed with ancient revolvers and molotov cocktails. And they were tied down for longer than it took the German army to conquer all of Poland and France.

Holding up 2,000 soldiers for a month isn't a big deal in the scheme of millions of soldiers. But when it's done by only 1,000 incredibly poorly armed civilians, it shows what could have been done with more and better armed civilians.
If you are independent enough to live by yourself, I suggest doing so, and temporarily getting rid of your mobile devices and staying away from your family for a while so that they do not interpret your thoughts the wrong way and get you committed against your will and put on drugs which can ruin your life.

When I was 20, I abruptly left my parents and moved into an apartment. We were having personal conflicts, and had I stayed, there's a possibility, however remote, that I would have been told by family members to see shrinks and take drugs (they didn't have enough money to have me committed). It was the best decision I made. Within two years I was working in the technology sector and I've never looked back.

Mental illnesses are often just political problems in the family, and if you can break free and gain independence, you can avoid a vicious cycle which leads to family members running to psychiatric drugs to explain away and suppress political issues.

Anxiety, depression and lucid dreams or paranoid thoughts are often the result of being in the wrong environment. I've had symptoms which, if I disclosed them, might be considered paranoid or mentally ill; but when I've changed jobs or moved to better environments, all of the symptoms have disappeared. I believe it's the body's way of telling you something is wrong out there.

Reading books can be a good way to take your mind off of difficult issues.

I would also eliminate caffeine and sugary foods from your diet.
Never say never.

I was very anti-drug when I was young, due to being very trusting of the tons of anti-drug propaganda I was fed, and my lack of knowledge about drugs.

As I learned more about them I found out that they were not necessarily so evil and their users not so stupid as I'd been taught. In fact, there were some brilliant users and advocates of drugs, and their effects could be quite interesting and useful. That included pot.

Eventually, my attitude towards drugs turned almost 180 degrees. Now I recognize that currently illegal drugs have benefits and drawbacks. Some of them (psychedelics in particular) have quite amazing benefits. A lot depends on who uses them, with what knowledge, mind-set, and intention, and how they are used.

It's possible to have respectful, constructive, and beneficial use of drugs. That's something the laws and most mainstream society do not yet recognize. To them all use is abuse. I believe that's a mistake. Scientific research on psychedelics is bearing this out. Barring another major conservative backlash against drugs (which is still quite possible), there may be a positive sea-change of attitudes towards drugs in the not-so-distant future.
I find this distinction important and relevant, akin to the maintenance of the "social fabric" of courtesy. Like a water fountain on a hot day, if there's a line, it takes a special kind of mental composition to want to finish drinking then turn off the water and stand in the way of the next user. Or think that by not having a license plate it's totally cool to park in handicapped spaces...
I have my sister's ashes in my home. My mother has my father's in her house. She wants their ashes scattered together in the mountains.
Free ticking pomodoro technique mp3
"The Google example points at one mayor constraint of text-based UIs: either you severely restrict the language that people can use to query the system, or you will be dealing with a really hard, Google-size problem."

I disagree, and I think we can see the counter-example very clearly with altavista.

You could go to altavista and type in "dumb" search queries, just like google.

But simultaneously, with no change at all in the UI and no constraints imposed on the "dumb" users, you could also type in very sophisticated boolean searches like:

linux grep ("regular expression" and "regex")

and get very precise and sophisticated search results.

I miss this every single day
For virtual machines, whether economies of scale are important depends on whether you define cloud based on minimum time units - hourly or minute increments - or in service expectation - the provider doesn't work particularly hard to keep your machine up on a given server but it's automatically brought back up when the underlying hardware has a failure. If you define it based on minimum time of compute, this means having enough spare capacity to handle highly variable demand and the resources to absorb the costs of having the hardware sit idle.

If you own your own datacenter and there are physical machines, you can turn off the power and not pay for it so as long as the initial investment is paid off, it doesn't hurt too much financially. Without your own data center, the cost is fixed regardless of whether the servers are in use or not which is why we (prgmr.com) do not plan to offer hourly pricing any time in the foreseeable future. Someone with a larger user base is also going to be able to negotiate better rates such that idle machines do not hurt as much.

DO is currently "cloud" based on pricing and not necessarily how it globally provides service, as at least some subset of VMs are subject to routine maintenance or downtime. But to bring up a server almost immediately on another machine if one has a hardware failure is a more tractable problem and it is a service we eventually intend to offer. Xen has a feature called remus http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Remus which effectively does continual live migration which would be pretty cool to implement, though support on Linux is not mainstreamed yet.
I seriously wish I had stayed the hell away from college until I was mature enough to handle it. I wasted money going too early. Frankly, I may of gravitated to my profession without the aid of college. Throughout my career I've always ended up as informal tech support, and an informal in house developer. By jumping from job to job and accumulating developer experience in these informal venues, I may of had an alternative way to get my foot in the door to a real programming job.
There are very good reasons for this data being closed, not least of which is that allowing zone transfer by arbitrary individuals is an excellent way of allowing your DNS server to be DOS'd.
Oh. You meant in real elections. I thought on here.
Raw materials and energy need to be expensive or we will over-use them. That puts limits on how large the rest of the economy can be by comparison. On the other side, intangible things like music and entertainment are much easier to make cheaper or even free. If we can reduce the price to near zero then that limits how large a part of the economy they can be. For more about this:

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/can-economic-gro...
Whether any particular person makes a naive argument depends on the details of that argument, so I'm not going to delve into that further without a specific example.

I want to defend the general point though, that "If people are making a general class of error in some context, then that class should be pointed out, even if not everyone in that context makes that error." You're right: some people do go far enough to (dubiously) make a case about how eg surge pricing reduces availability. These arguments are the exception, not the norm, and people should be made aware of the more general, mistaken point.

And for what it's worth, I most certainly do try to find these "they're making it strictly worse than had they not intervened" arguments, but the popular expositions never make them. The fact that "oh, someone else makes arguments somewhere that aren't crappy" is no defense, and it does not improve the debate to let bad arguments linger because you prefer they be equated with better ones (which really just confuses things). If someone makes an error, that error should be corrected, whether or not there's an argument for the same conclusion that doesn't.

You really don't have to go far to find a protectionist argument that's 100% "dey took are jerbs" and 0% "this is not the optimal tariff defined in the literature."
Yes but I'd not seen that book, no such thing as an original idea I guess, I was thinking more of Nestle and their attempts to control water supplies.
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Apple Might Not Build a Car Itself
There may not necessarily be any 'tricking' going on, perhaps our hypothetical oil company started prospecting under one government and there's been an election/regime change since then...

And I guess if the other country can seriously threaten force without bluffing then we never really had sovereignty all along...
Wouldn't it be easier and more efficient to just black-list them from the charging spots in an automated way? (Some technology would be needed, of course.)
CLR is probably the easiest to get started with:
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Edition-Thomas...
You might want to arrange a "Rainy Day Action Plan" with a family member or close friend that you trust.

This would involve you writing a list of stuff that you do and don't want to happen if people ever feel the need to provide treatment. It can include signs to look out for - that mean things aren't going well and that people should take action.

I'm not going to do any kind of diagnostic stuff but early intervention is important.

EDIT: obviously, you should see a doctor rather than relying on Internet advice.

EDIT: here's a sample plan

http://www.2gether.nhs.uk/advanced-care-planning
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Very specific to OOP : "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides
That is where we are as a society now? Discussing the influence of global organizations on sovereignty is consider conspiracy theory? Every organization I've mentioned has publicly stated mandates, far from conspiracy theory.
They beat Lycos etc by having a better product built around a very different paradigm : better performance from the text search, negating need for the heavy graphical hinting.

That's what I was trying to get at :)

For the time I'd also argue that their "on-boarding" was excellent: a textbox and two buttons, you can't get simpler :)

The 2015 equivalent would be adding animated instructions in a pencil typeface on the search box and buttons. The demographics and expectations are different now.
Perhaps I've just been lucky, but I've been working in the US for the last 15 years, and the policy at all 4 of the companies I've worked for has been: "if you're sick, don't come in".

None of the companies I've worked for has set a limit on the number of days you could be sick for, nor encouraged anyone who didn't feel healthy to come in to work. I appreciate that some companies may do that, but I've never really understood how that works, given that illness is (mostly) not something you can control.
When Private Browsing Isn't Private on iOS: HTML5 and AirPlay
I agree. I always thought of Basic Income as a first step towards switching away from capitalism, but even a form that would replace current ubercomplicated welfare system while leaving rest of the economy intact would be a really good idea and a step towards a better future.
The headline does not match the article. The article raves about one particular feature on Slack, then shows that their tool works well with it. This is not an article about UI. This is marketing.

Even worse, it is marketing that failed -- all it has done here is invoke disagreement from a tech community.
Sure but it's not mainly the R&D, it's the capital cost of such large, complex reactors. MIT's ARC, to take the most conservative alternative, is also a tokamak, but with much stronger superconductors it can be built a lot smaller and cheaper.

MIT has a lot of experience in this area since they already have a tokamak with the strongest magnetic fields of any in the world. They've made at least one fundamental breakthrough with it, not too long ago. Of course Congress is about to cancel their funding.
As opposed to the discoverability within the Mac interface for showing disk usage? I can't tell you how long it took me to find it.

And heaven help you if you want to find out where all of that data is on the hard drive.

Oh, by the way, it's at:

Apple menu -> About This Mac -> Storage

And don't alt-tab away from it; you can't get back to it using the keyboard. You have to use Mission Control or back through the Apple menu again.
Whether you view a new fangled technology as "magic" depends on if you understand how it works. Scientists in the 1800s knew much about electricity, combustion, etc well before a "19th century rube":

Our 19th Century rube would fail to recognize cars/trucks, airplanes, helicopters, and rockets; radio, and television (the telephone was 1875, so just missed this one); toasters, blenders, and electric ranges. Also unknown to the world of 1885 are inventions like radar, nuclear fission, and atomic bombs. The list could go on. Daily life would have undergone so many changes that the old timer would be pretty bewildered, I imagine. It would appear as if the world had blossomed with magic: voices from afar; miniature people dancing in a little picture box; zooming along wide, hard, flat roads at unimaginable speeds—much faster than when uncle Billy’s horse got into the cayenne pepper. The list of “magic” devices would seem to be innumerable.

Similarly the perspective of the average 21st century "rube" (though likely to be better educated than his 19th century counterpart) has little understanding of computing or networking, or genome sequencing etc.

Growing up in the 90s reading Bruce Coville's "my teacher is an alien" series, I remember being awed by the description of a "universal translator" device gifted by aliens to the main character. Yet within 20 years, everyone I know has a much more capable version of that device in their pocket.

The author obviously has a right to his opinions, but it's clear that this article is just that: an opinion piece. Since he's a physicist, his perspective might be somewhat muddled by the place of science in technological progress:

Science > Engineering > Market Adoption

Today's scientists are discovering things that tomorrow's engineers will turn into technologies that day after tomorrow's entrepreneurs will consumerize. It's worked this way throughout history, and yes, it's faster now than ever before.
Exactly. The title "How to Download a List of All Registered Domain Names" is not correct.

For example in .com .net if a registrar puts a domain "on hold" that pulls it from the zone file. As such it will not appear in any zone file download. This is in fact a way for a company to keep a domain under wraps. As such:

register domain name (in .com )

pull the name servers

The name won't be in any zone file. And will be off the radar until it has nameservers or until someone guesses to see if it's been registered.

(Note other registries work differently (or the same) the above is specific to .com and .net)
My reading of the thread was that pregnant women are not allowed to work for Markhor.

I interpreted "I personally would love...Unfortunately..." and "Perhaps at some point...we would be able to...see if it needs to be changed for some women" as implying the policy is that pregnant women can't work for them right now, but maybe in the future this could change.

To be clear why I'm confused, myself and others interpreted her statements as meaning pregnant women can't work there and explicitly asked about this. I didn't read anyplace where she said "no, pregnant women actually can work for us, techcrunch is wrong and your shoe might be made by a pregnant woman" in response.

I'll take your word that I'm brainfarting and pregnant women are actually allowed to work for Markhor after all. I'm still not seeing how that follows from the comment thread, but if that is the case I offer my apologies.
That's a bit misleading. As the author of your linked article points out, the ere interpretations of all observed phenomena that are still consistent with conservation of energy. I think the least-confusing way to state it is "to the best of our knowledge, the mass-energy of the Universe is constant, but due to ambiguities in accounting for gravitational energy, we cannot presently prove that this holds true for sub-divisions of the Universe".

The author states that he prefers to ignore the energy of the gravitational field because there isn't a unique solution to apportioning the energy of the gravitational field to some subdivision of the Universe unless one takes local conservation of energy as an axiom.

So, conservation of energy of the whole Universe is still believed to hold if one takes gravitational energy into account. We can take conservation of energy of a block of space (accounting for gravitational energy) as an axiom and get consistent equations. It's just that we don't (at least as of yet) have other equations that prevent us from apportioning the gravitational energy in a way that violates conservation of energy for a given block of space. Maybe we'll later discover other laws that force us to apportion the gravitational energy in a way that proves conservation of energy for sub-divisions of the Universe, or maybe we'll discover other laws that force us to apportion gravitational energy in a way that's inconsistent with local conservation of energy. Maybe we'll never discover any additional laws that force us either way.

EDIT: bringing it back to the original context: to the best of our knowledge, locally violating conservation of energy to charge a phone ultrasonically at a rate higher than the energy is being put into the sound waves would involve manipulating the gravitational field, and many people would consider the local violation of conservation of energy to just be an accounting trick.
The part about the empty barrels and the ones that were filled with water would indicate that yes, a process of siphoning was involved. I'd reckon the crew came up with some pretty innovative techniques, but I'd also reckon the investigators would rather not make too much public. As in, the facility in West, Texas that exploded (and cost a lot of lives and damage) was frequently targeted by alleged methamphetamine producers for the regulated chemicals on site.
It's already handed out to addicts for free where I live. Immediate benefit was discovering weening people off heroin with heroin works much better than methadone, throngs of violent street dealers disappeared, no more seeing countless people sprawled out in alleys shooting up either.
The Art of Computer Programming

It also contains instructive exercises and answers.
A simple question is, "What value would someone get from intruding on my life?" If you're not a corporate CEO, a politician, a billionaire, etc chances are that the risk someone would target you to upend your life are extremely low. Either way, it's good you are documenting your experience. This could help when describing what you're going through to a physician. Please seek medical help, you sound like you are a bright individual that just needs a helping hand right now.
Technology-related Delays
Something that is surely implicit in the claim that the limits on economic growth are not related to physical resource limits, is some definition of the minimum quantity of stuff, and perhaps of the types of stuff, that are required to make this possible.

I find it relatively easy to imagine that there is some quantity of material that would allow a group of people to exist in an approximately steady state economy, with economic value being consumed roughly at the rate at which it is produced (i.e. zero growth). However, it is not clear to me that there is fixed quantity above which one can achieve continued (i.e. unbounded) economic growth. This seems to imply that it is possible to come up with infinitely many, increasingly useful, ways of using the same stuff.

Is it possible to achieve continued economic growth in an empty room?
I am more likely to follow links with a human-readable slug because it acts as a double-check that I'm not being baited by the link text. For example, if the text is "You'll never guess what this guy has on his face" and the slug says "this_guys_facial_hair", then I have a better idea of what I'm going to get into.
Stephen Hawking is not on welfare. Neither was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was wheelchair bound due to having had polio.

Having a handicap does not mean I am some worthless piece of shit with nothing of value to offer. Furthermore, I had food stamps for a time. Someone dropped the ball and they were not renewed in January. I reapplied. Someone else dropped the ball and I was told I would need to reapply again. I decided not to, in part because going to the welfare office makes me so ill, in part for other reasons that I don't care to go into both because it is not actually anyone's business and because I am currently under time pressure to try to make enough money this month. My expenses were higher than usual at the start of the month and I am fond of eating every day.