skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think of "the system" as the entire suite of applications across space and time, then the one approach is no more complicated than the other. One involves some effort thinking about backwards compatibility, the other with trying to get a bunch of teams to all commit to the right branch, and then get it integrated at the same time. My experience is that the latter proves far more disruptive to production. One of our groups (the monolith team) has one month code freezes while they integrate all the teams work into the latest monolith.

Our teams really have no limits on the changes they can do. If the change really is so complex that it requires changing every system, then we just build another system with zero dependencies. In fact we did that once. Got it working really fast. Usually branch-by-abstraction resolves any big issues, while updated method objects or just new methods handle most "changes".

Granted, this is with several hundred developers across multiple engineering departments. YMMV.
Having handled a lot of dialer traffic, the less scrupulous will randomize their numbers. My proof of this is that we monitor call statistics, including the ratio of connected calls to attempts, and short calls (under 6 seconds). Carriers often have a strict rule of how much crap traffic they'll take (like no more than 20% can be short calls).

When we implemented caller ID based blocking, our mix of crap traffic stayed the same. Just instead of getting "good" dialer traffic, we'd just get the bad randomizers. This is because the carrier sending the traffic would tune it to make sure they never exceeded the 20% short call limit. Even at the volume we were doing (hundreds of millions of calls a day), there seemed to be a limitless supply of dialer, good and bad.
> but people won't disconnect from a competitively priced grid before that.

> At this environment, I'd expect houses to organize into largish units that share batteries, if the government allows, or just get enough batteries for themselves.

This is exactly what's happening in Hawaii right now. Because power is so expensive due to petroleum used to generate power, it is cheaper to go off the grid entirely with your own batteries than to wait for the utility to approve your grid tied solar system.
Ever read Harrison Bergeron?

Making everyone equally happy is impossible, so the regime ultimately resorts to making everyone equally miserable.
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DNA testing which ultimately exonerated Morton wasn't available in the US in 1987; a single lab in the UK had pioneered the techniques but they weren't widely available. Arguably a bigger factor than the prosecutor's misconduct in Morton spending so long in jail is whatever procedural rule or individual prevented the DNA evidence from the bandana being brought up and tested until 2011. That was about 23 or so years too late.

The semen in the bed could instead actually have been a core part of the prosecution's crime of passion narrative if it had gone to trial: woman is killed in her own bed in act of brutal sexual violence a day after husband leaves her a note complaining about her unwillingness to have intercourse with him. Reports of unrecognised vans being parked in residential streets might be a police lead but are certainly not exculpatory evidence, and the credit card claims were apparently inaccurate (the police had her not-stolen credit card in their possession)[1].

Overall Anderson's actions are pretty consistent with someone certain he'd got the right man and willing to breach regulations to avoid him taking it to trial and getting off on the basis the evidence against him was as circumstantial as it was compelling. Misconduct which undoubtedly influenced Morton's plea, but it's still likely the judge would (reasonably) have ruled hearsay attributed to the accused's three year old son inadmissible and green vans irrelevant, leaving him highly likely to be convicted unless his defence team were able to successfully lobby for newfangled DNA fingerprinting techniques to be explored. There was, after all, a clear imputed motive consistent with the evidence, no sign of any break-in and no alternative suspects. Even conviction at trial might still have significantly improved Morton's chances of getting the bandana DNA raised at a much earlier appeal but one can't fix the failings of America's judicial system by levying probably unwarranted accusations of malice at one rule-bending prosecutor.

[1]http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/the-guilty-man/
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I think this will probably be a major energy sink going forward, as we've never really had to find a use for "surplus electricity" on this scale before.

Moreover though, I think the general class of chemical storage is likely to be another winner. Reversible reactions in liquid provide so many benefits: modest infrastructure costs (compared to anything but pumped hydro) and scalability in terms of both throughput (more reactors in parallel) and capacity (additional tank volume).
Justice is not necessarily a moral concept, it's quite a reasonable concept as well. Laws are about reason in the sense that they're things we can convince majorities to abide by; sometimes those justifications are moral, but being immoral is not a justification to be illegal as morals themselves are fluid and what is moral for one isn't for another. As there are no absolute morals, laws are thus based on reasoning between moral beings as to what they can agree to.
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Please get some help with your mental health issues.
Heart skips a beat every time I see an email come in until I see it's not them ;)
Ask HN: Good tablet and app for handwriting recognition
I want a tablet with a good pen and app to write documents on a daily basis (~40 pages)

Can you please tell me your experience and recommendations?
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Sorry, off-topic, but if you have those banner ads from 2000 sitting around, you should look into throwing them on archive.org if you haven't already. Nice little piece of Internet history you may have there.
Genetic drift is a slow force, and medicine will easily be able to outpace it.
I'm getting this for everyone in our office.

When we have an office :)
It'll be like Aeron chairs in the 1990s boom!
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While we're at it, Medium is just a ripoff of: https://svbtle.com/.
Did people primarily not use terminal multiplexers like GNU Screen back then (or like tmux today)? It seems to be a lot of windows all over the place.

Other than that, jumping a little ahead --I remember getting Windows XP in late 2001, early 2002. Everything looked so nice and shiny - it may have been the last time I was so unbelievably impressed with Windows. I'm not sure why I liked it so much - either because the UI (at the time) looked gorgeous, or because I was in second grade.

Realistically, it was the latter.
Totally fair points. I'm more of a programming language researcher, hence the interest in classification.

But yes, for production code it is totally the programmer's preference. I come from a background in game development. There are lots of times when game programmers won't trust new features or standard libraries. This is really a bad example of that, unless working with a compiler that doesn't support C++11 features, but it can be annoying when a lone programmer on a project starts using new features.
It might have been a big influence, but I am not entirely sure this will help. Similar issues exist in India without any limit, just because of the cost of raising children.
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I was neither rejected nor accepted, I'm pretty happy with that :)
That requires future developers to check the VCS + Bugtracker diligently and somehow search for relevant issues. My method places the warning right where the mischief might be done
This reminds me of an article & photo from 10 or 15 years ago of a Sun Microsystems programmer who had back problems. He had designed a desk where he would lie on the floor and look upwards at his monitor. I can't for the life of me find the picture using Google, maybe someone else can find it.
I gave up a long time ago, and I just put the keyboard in my lap now. I don't have a 100%-keyboard based workflow, but I do only reach for my trackball infrequently, since I switched to a tile-based window manager. I haven't had any wrist pain since I started doing this. I pair it with a bog-standard split keyboard, which is probably not quite optimal in terms of how my arms end up curved in a bit, but is pretty close. My monitors I move up to the edge of the desk, so that there is just enough room to put my keyboard down when I stand up. It works reasonably well. I'd still rather have what's in the article, but not enough to pay for it, so....
I was looking into options like this 4 months ago. These types of chairs / office solutions have the right intent but are too costly!

What I did was a DIY with 2 Ergotron Arms (the best monitor arms in my opinion) along with a Zero-G deck chair. The deck chairs sell for about $60.

http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/zero-gravity-massage-chair-4.jpg

I had to cut-up the keyboard tray myself to get it to hook into the underside of the Zero-G arm rests while leaving enough room so that it doesn't wobble. The keyboard / mouse stay in position because I simply attached some duct tape to the wire. I also had to hacksaw a small piece off the Ergotron arms to get them to rotate downward at an enhanced degree (safe and took under 5 min .. used this guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPEiM_Qk0SY ).

It's very comfortable. It takes the pressure off lower spine and is how we should be working and gaming. I recommend doing it. It has helped my back so that I can return to mixed martial arts safely.

Not the best picture but:

https://41.media.tumblr.com/d2b79a494bf5cad30bc8e3731c2522cb...
I think Blue Apron has set the price ceiling on this sort of thing: $10/portion.
> can't be reconciled

No, you're wrong about that. They can be reconciled. They have been reconciled. QM is no more mysterious than relativity.

> Some people will disagree with you

I suppose. Some people deny evolution and climate change too.
I was neither rejected nor accepted but then again, I didn't apply.
Ah, my apologies. In that case class this under vehement agreement. :)
You may be surprised, I've seen a lot of Django setups where template rendering was the slowest or second-slowest part of their system behind DB queries.
I'm a food cynic: any food will be branded as bad for you given enough scrutiny. All that does is make it harder to discern between foods that are slightly/possibly unhealthy and foods that are just actually bad for you. (my mother still believes that eggs are bad for you because they contain so much cholesterol)
Sorry, should've said "most of the ideas".
What's the quote from Theo again?

You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.
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That chair reminds me of the one featured in 'Grandma's Boy':

http://www.mwelab.com/index.php/en/products/emperor-LX

It looks really comfy but even worse than google glass or the segway as far as social acceptability.
I'm not a Ruby programmer so maybe this is wrong for some reason. I leave it in place. With intelliJ you can collapse comment blocks so if you have a bad reaction to "messy" code you don;t have to look at it. Leave the corpse where it fell as a warning
I presumed so, I just can't remember the last time I saw anyone using FTP.
Wait what, are you serious. You might have just changed everything I thought I knew about life and cooking....

I'm gonna try this out.
Wow. I feel like I am touching a part of history!
The consideration provided by HomeJoy's customers was, naturally, payment.
Thanks for partially supporting my position :)
One astronaut (the spinning one) will detect a centrifugal force, and the other will not.

If the spinning astronaut took a yo-yo out of her pocket, she would observe it accelerates radially away from her. The stationary astronaut's yo-yo would drift freely with no acceleration.

Edit: See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_argument
Well, push for the council to be replaced with a democratically elected representation?

Only issue: that would mean each EU country would transfer its full sovereignty to the EU. The UK especially dislikes this.
Interesting. We also are starting to have something here sort of like a popup where a guest chef will host in a place like a coffee shop and cook a fancy full course dinner say one night per month. Is that common over there?
> but still manages to enhance them via compiler magic and extensions

The thing is that Scala tried to do that for years, and after years of battling subtle, leaky abstractions, they picked a different design.

It feels like Kotlin designers are completely unaware of what other languages tried and keep repeating all the mistakes ...
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Why is google doing this?
So I've always had a penchant for lying on my stomach with a laptop in front of me. I think it's because that's how I did homework when I was a kid - lying on the floor in front of the TV.
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Thanks for this!
Even if I'm not looking for a new position, I reply to offers which really match my profile. If I don't reply on the first mail, I'll also definitely ignore the follow-ups.
I'd like to add a few things:

1) This is really a fundamental limitation of all encryption: It hides what you are sending, but not the fact that you are sending something. Paging in mobile networks is a broadcast message that basically just says "Device with ID XXXX, please wake up and check in with the network". If you can cause pages (by calling, texting or with Facebook messages) then you can see in what area the pageing is sent, and you can find out the ID (TMSI) of the device.

2) It is not a crash report, but a connection failure report.

3) During the initial connection, before encryption is started, an rogue transmitter can send a connection rejection message to the phone, pretending to be the network. The phone will not try 4G/3G again and downgrade to 2G. The attacker can then break the weak 2G authentication and make the phone believe that it is a real base station. The last part is what an IMSI catcher / Stingray device does.
A CAPTCHA is never the best approach to anything.
More than malaria...? Article mentions nothing about it.
> not talking about "religion" per se [...] following the words of Christ as found in the Bible

We're in some danger of getting no-true-Scotsmanned here, since it's by no means straightforward to determine who is and isn't actually "following the words of Christ as found in the Bible".

Still, let's consider Uganda, where being (actively) homosexual is now punishable by life imprisonment thanks largely to the activism of Christians following the words they find in the Bible. (Not specifically "the words of Christ", but actually that's a bit you just made up; what code4life said was "the new testament Biblical principles".) Now, for all I know you may think this is a good law, and I'm not going to try to change your mind if so -- but what it obviously isn't is an improvement in freedom.

Or consider the long and sad history of how Christians, following the principles they found in the Bible, have tried to prevent schoolteachers telling their pupils accurately about certain areas of science. Again, you might agree with the people who made the laws in question that, e.g., evolution is a damnable atheistic error, but these laws very plainly reduced people's freedom. (In more recent years, as a result of having one such measure after another struck down in the courts, antievolutionists have shifted tactics, and since roughly the 1990s their preferred legal measures haven't been particularly anti-freedom. But that's only because their attempts to get their way by impeding teachers' freedom stopped working.)

> During this time, scripture was taken away from the people and mainly transmitted between clergy in a dead language

I think that's a rather tendentious way of putting it. What happened, rather, was that Latin-as-vernacular largely died out but the prevailing Bible translations remained in Latin. Not a matter of scripture being taken away from the people, but of the people moving away from the language used for the scriptures. (And from written language in general; literacy was very low in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Providing vernacular bibles might not have done anyone much good.)

So, anyway, it's true that mediaeval people generally didn't have Bibles. But they did go to church, where those clergy were supposed to expound on doctrines derived from the Bible, and they did have a culture saturated with Christian ideas. And, actually, it's not even so clear that they didn't have vernacular Bible translations. Take a look here (apologies for the outrageously long Google Books link):

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2pSGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA178&lp...

"To be sure, the Protestant Reformation did achieve a change in the way the Bible was read and the way it functioned within Christian spirituality, but this change was largely due to a long medieval tradition of lay access to biblical texts."
Thank you. You have refuted your own argument ("nobody could straight up dupe their way...").

Folks like Madoff are successful because they take advantage of fear and greed.

An "auditable track record" helps but is not required. See http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/10/follieri200810 for an example.
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What's your general setup to achieve the multi-provider redundancy?
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Something similar happened that left me with mixed feelings recently. I recently came up with a new feature idea for Python, and a core dev ran with it. I was very happy at first, but then he wrote a pep, implemented it, and got all the congrats.
I had hoped to help, and put something on my resume, but was shut out. "Thanks for improving my pep" on a mailing list is all the credit I got (and work I was able to do on it). Kind of disappointing, though I will enjoy the feature.
There's quite a few programs like this, and I've tried them all. What makes this look promising is the peeps behind Cyberduck fame are creating it. I always wanted that feature in Cyberduck, where you can mount any arbitrary legacy file system. All the others I've tried are half-baked attempts and horribly buggy.
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How strange...I host the site on Squarespace, and I wonder if there was a temporary Squarespace outage, or something.

Also, thanks! If you happen to work in the Bay Area, a photograph of mine will be hanging at uBe Art in Berkeley a week from tomorrow: http://www.ube-art.com/#!exhibitionnovember/c1wfb

more at http://www.aaronbrethorstphotography.com/events/2015/11/4/fr...
That's a good advice.
Very interesting. Will this work with a book, pen and paper?

I really believe being slightly reclined is optimal for reducing back strain.

Herman Miller has been marketing the Embody as a (slightly) reclined chair. They've even designed a paired desk, but oddly enough Embody has no headrest:

http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/workspaces/desks/envelo...
Sweet. That means you have the experience for this. I'm ignoring the ones that seem like OSS/academic toys or commercial that are focused on too narrow a model. The two candidates I stumbled upon recently are Synflow's Cx language and Synthagate HLS.

Synflow [1] is interesting because it's a step up from Verilog/VHDL w/ open-source tooling. Their strategy sounds smarter and easier than many where it seems to try to augment the human brain rather than replace it. That it outputs synthesizable Verilog/VHDL is nice. Downside is that one of the founders wrote an article [2] expressing that HLS is dead and they transitioned to an internet-of-things company instead. Upside is they probably keep supporting this, anything OSS can be picked up by another team, and he was on HN very happy to answer any questions. I just lack hands-on experience to properly put Cflow through paces and ask him the right questions, you know.

What got me interested, other than Cflow's design, was that they were offering I.P. blocks for around $500. I never see I.P. for three digits. So, I'm hoping it's because they're onto something good. :)

The other to check out is Synthagate. Syntagate's web site [3] details their methodology using Abstract State Machines with two different types for control and data. That's interesting and it's probably expensive. More interesting was Baranov's book [4] that details his exact methodology for doing HLS. Correct me if I'm wrong, but full details of a HLS process good enough to synthesize microcontrollers rarely leaves trade secret stage. The real value here, other than possibly good HLS tool, is a specific method of doing HLS described in enough detail to clone with OSS tools.

Just need someone with HW design expertise, esp FPGA's, to evaluate what's in the book to tell me if it could be used for algorithms, protocol engines, etc. Does Baranov's method look like it can work for real-world use cases and does his tool do the job for a set of I.P. representative of what people will really use? The former you can just read but the latter might be available with free trial or something.

I'm thinking it is his secret sauce because he (a) sells it and (b) seems to have pulled it off his web site. Goofball forgot about Wayback Machine. Enjoy. :)

[1] http://cx-lang.org/

[2] http://www10.edacafe.com/blogs/disruptedhard/2015/04/13/numb...

[3] http://synthezza.com/what-makes-synthagate-different1/

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20150314182353/http://synthezza....
My diabolic plan is to buy them pre girlfriend/wife (along with some quality japanese knives) and then seduce her with food :P
You either completely missed or completely ignored my point.
Why are our gadgets faking it?
I did almost the exact same thing! The Zero gravity chair is one of the best investments I've ever made. But instead of attaching the monitor to a desk, I attached it to a heavy duty kitchen cart, and it's weighed down by a desktop computer on the bottom shelf. I call it "cartputer", and I can wheel it back to the desk when I feel like sitting in my normal office chair.
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Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler -- a solid, thought provoking, yet quick easy read > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609444-bold

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