skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those have words/lyrics. I'm thinking more like silent films except where the music isn't incidental. Symphonies can sometimes have singing, but the singing wouldn't be done by a character on-screen.

There was a scene in Peter Weir's "Fearless" starring Jeff Bridges where a key sequence was silent except for a recording of a Gorecki symphony... beyond that I'm kind of drawing a blank.

EDIT: Ballet would be a better example. Except without so much dancing. :-)
It can be controlled though, you just need to be willing to pay for the infrastructure to do so.
>Does ISIS have a lot of redeeming qualities

they do have. A lot. For Islamic true believers. The same way like Inquisition, with all the tortures and burning at stake, was for Christians. Blind devotion to religion may do that to you.

>that we're overlooking?

of course we don't see these redeeming qualities. Or more precisely - we do see these qualities, only we see them as condemning where is they see exactly the same qualities as redeeming.
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What's the irony?

Assembly's platform is now open source, as are all the products the community built. The blog post you linked highlights a certain ethos we had as a team, and the way Assembly was shut down is right in line with that ethos.
I second http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/, it's a great site for learning the basics.

OGS (http://online-go.com/) also has a large beginner community, but they have some trolls and sandbaggers so you might not want your kid on there unguided.

KGS (http://www.gokgs.com/) has a Beginner Room and a Teaching Ladder room, and it's sort of the de-facto online go community for westerners, but the Java client can be a bit broken and KGS isn't as active as it used to be.

And check for local clubs! I live in a fairly rural area and we (amazingly!) have about 6 regular members in our local Go club, and we love getting new players started. You can check the American Go Association to see if there's a club in your area (http://www.usgo.org/where-play-go), although their list isn't totally comprehensive.

The usual adage is "lose your first 100 games quickly"; once you've played around a hundred games and gotten the hang of the rules and basics, start checking out some of Nick Sibicky's videos on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/nicksibicky/videos?view=0&shelf...). He teaches at the Seattle Go Center and does a really great job working with an audience of beginners. Start with his earlier lectures, because they're more geared towards real beginners, with later lectures starting to target more advanced amateurs as he gets more popular.

Enjoy!
should have put an example to help clarify. For example, instead of throwing implicits around, i'd recommend they manually declare arguments like ExecutionContexts. Also sometimes the best way to teach someone from an OO background, is to first let them write their code imperatively, then work with them gradually to move to more functional approaches.
Neutron beam aimed at 'un-burning' bone
"People who insist on pigeonholing him as a purveyor of bland family entertainment ..."

Seriously, who has ever said that?
As a free resource, I would highly recommend http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/

If you know C# well, this article should definitely open your eyes about what F# brings to the table:

http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/is-your-language-unre...
Just a couple of annoying nitpicks:

> * Most operations on registers, like addition and subtraction, have the side effect of altering status flags, like "the last value computed resulted in zero". There are just a few status flags, and they usually live in a special register.

Note that this is a CISCism. Most RISC designs, like ARM, allow the compiler to specify whether condition codes are to be updated in order to more easily eliminate false dependencies.

> * A CALL is just an unconditional GOTO that pushes the next address on the stack, so a RET instruction can later pop it off and keep going where the CALL left off.

Also a CISCism. Most RISC designs have a "link register" that the return address goes into, and the stack push, if desired, has to be done manually. RET is, in this case, just an unconditional branch to the address in LR.
From what I hear it is in memory of Gene Arndahl:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3004884/high-performanc...
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>target discovery

What a lovely euphemism.
That estimate for an implosion weapon is a little low by my reckoning, for it to be even remotely in that ballpark it'd require extensive reflection and other trickery. Without doing the math, I'd guesstimate a more realistic number to be about 1/3rd to 1/2 that neededfor a realistic implosion weapon.

But an implosion weapon is infinitely more complicated, even if I hand you all the material it just isn't going to happen that someone would be able to build it in their garage. The concept is pretty simple, but there are a lot of little gotchas and also the machining and electrical tolerances are impossibly difficult without very specialized tools even if you had detailed plans. The design for the initiator in particular was notoriously a major problem during the Manhattan project and they really weren't sure if any of the ideas they had would work.

Gun-assembled weapons are simpler but still pretty complicated. I'm not sure there would be much benefit to using only 10kg of U-235, which is way subcritical. You'd get a tiny bit of extra boom and some nasty isotopes from the fissions, but strapping some Co-60 to a bomb would probably be more effective. For comparison, Little Boy used around 64 kg, though that was more than the minimum needed.
> I wouldn't surprise me if this attitude extended to military hardware if the price was right (and in the right currency).

It did. I was in Krosno visiting there right up against the Ukranian border (about 35 km) around that time and there was a 'black market' there that sold just about anything that could be carted across the border or that could move by itself. Regular army gear (including weapons and munition) were openly for sale, vehicles as many as you wanted and 'larger stuff' (unspecified but it was pretty clear what they meant) to order.

Apparently you could even buy warplanes if you had the means to pick them up, and one dutch scrap metal trader did just that (and promptly got caught with 2 more-or-less combat ready Mig 21's at the Dutch border in a large truck...).
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It's pretty easy to build wrappers for things like that, though. Build a constructor that has instances methods of just doing `myQueryInstance.addEqualsQuery(key, value)`. You can then just pass it around and add to the query instance as it moves around, deconstructing it at your database access point.
What's your favorite Linux terminal emulator?
I'm really tired of people saying there is evidence that diversity is good for the bottom line. The numbers in the study only proves correlation, not causation.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Keynes also thought you should run a surplus during good economic times so you could run a deficit in the bad.

Now I know the necessity to do that has been dismissed by modern economists but actual Keynesian policies still have to be implemented by politicians who get elected. During recessions there tends to be a reluctance on the part of electorates to deliberately take on more debt which IMHO leads to Keynesian responses which are never quite robust enough to do the job they're intended to do.

Whereas if you did actually run a surplus during good economic times or at least during some of the good economic times then the public would likely be a lot more likely to back a real Keynesian response.
Gmail Android App Bug Lets You Send Emails Pretending to Be Someone Else
Given your background, I'm going to take this opportunity to ask some very noobish questions. (I will be doing my due diligence to read up on Prometheus, I likely should have done so prior, but these are just some off the top of my head that I'm not sure I'd gain a good intuition for until late in the learning process)

- How is the bulk of this additional compression derived? Is it explicitly the existence of a data model that lets you use more aggressive/intelligent compression strategies?

- Does this come at a cost? (increased CPU overhead, latency at read time, something like that.)
I completely agree. Not being an expert in C++ but someone that uses it almost daily, it's so incredibly frustrating to have to constantly battle the fact that for every choice, there are a million ways of doing it, and they're not all equal, but you only know that if you're an expert, or discover it when you fall flat on your face months later and have to refactor. Feels like I'm constantly shopping and left to figure out which deals suck and which are gems.

Break all the eggs! C++ could be so much more effective if the backwards compatibility requirement could be overridden on the most basic of stuff that's still part of the language even though consensus, i.e., best practice, was to drop it out years ago.
The US Republic is a type of Democracy, but does not have direct democracy in that representatives are elected to represent the public.
I sent you an email with some (hopefully relevant) contact info.
not necessarily classical, but Koyaanisqatsi is similar to what you are describing.
I think the only way for everyone to get what they really want is to separate the "view" from the data. You can pack a lot of metadata, links, binary data (pictures) into a standardized and compressed format, then you can allow all the various mediums (web, desktop view, in-app text only, in-app pictures only, etc.) to create their own support/plugins for accessing that data package. Ship one package, view everywhere. And the plugins can be made for that medium safely from scratch. They can even simplify/allow/disallow certain categories of info as needed (allow text, disable links, don't view pictures) so that the data morphs to the needs of the medium/plugin.

addendum: I would add that mediums are usually just incidental and necessary means to get to content. Why force everyone to adopt a medium (adobe binaries) to get to the real focus? The content? Instead, just package the content, and people are great and finding their own paths to it via plugins if the interface and code is open and standardized.
I agree that in general, this quote gets brought into the discussion rather blindly. But in this specific case, I assert (without an actual legal background) that the word "person" in this law would refer to Google and that this loophole wouldn't work.
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OwnCloud eats files in the most insidious manner, and this is known to the devs, who in the past have suggested that the workaround is to use another sync application. DO NOT USE OWNCLOUD if you value your data!! We discovered OwnCloud eating files after about three months of office paranoia, beginning to wonder if it was an inside job of a disgruntled employee. Turns out it was an inside job of incompetent software.

Also OwnCloud DOES NOT support "delta sync" (i.e. uploading file chunks when tiny portions of files are changed, instead of, for example, needing to upload the ENTIRE gigabytes-large file when only 10KB have changed). The core devs have kicked the can down the road at every opportunity (for example take a look at the huge BountySource bug for that issue, it's like USD 1200 or something, in addition to the issue being locked to contributors because of all the +1s). This means for any use case involving large files (e.g. TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt volumes), you will quickly find yourself in a messy situation of continually uploading gigabytes of data. It was painful to experience even on a gigabit LAN.
> Man, using Perl professionally (as have I). What kind of job was it?

Ten years ago I was using Perl to write web applications with HTML::Mason, in a consulting firm. I can't say I miss that :-).
I guess what I really wanted to communicate is this:

If 100% of the companies decide it is not worth it to train employees because it's easier to hire already trained employees... there would be no trained employees to hire.

So it's like a market force - as long as some companies are paying to train employees, other companies can take advantage and hire externally. But not all companies can do that.
There are some great contemporary directors in the music video space that are doing amazing narrative work with the format. I'd definitely check out these pieces by Tom Haines (https://vimeo.com/72176166) and Abteen Bagheri (https://vimeo.com/129684032).
Yes. It's not an especially exotic level of performance. Especially if you're talking about applications that handle traffic from other machines, as opposed to humans. As websites go, Stack Overflow is of reasonable size, but as systems go it's small.

They have about 7.5m visits per day to Stack Overflow. That's about 86 requests per second, which perhaps at peak is several multiples larger than the average. I wouldn't consider that a particularly gargantuan website. That sounds like traffic that you could service with a reasonable fleet of web servers and database fleet, given caching. Quite a lot of actions on the site can be applied with eventual consistency, I'd imagine.

http://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#traffic

I don't mean to say that the system or the problem that it's solving is trivial - I am sure it is difficult to get right. As websites go, it might be large, but as systems go it's not particularly high traffic among systems that receive traffic from machines rather than humans. Imagine that you operate a data center, and you want to sample CPU, memory, etc. from your machines every minute. If you collect 50 samples per machine per minute, and you have 258 machines, you'll be handling 86 samples per second. Storing 86 samples per second into a time series database is probably considerably easier than SO's website rendering, but it goes to show that high-traffic or high-frequency systems are common in companies beyond small to medium size. It is easy for cross-cutting concerns like this to have massive request volumes, far greater than the human-generated traffic to any website.
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Paris airport cancelled flights because of Windows 3.1 crash (translated)
The problem of sbt isn't a problem of sbt.

sbt's biggest problems is dependency resolution times. and thas mostly caused by the fact of ivy.

compilation times aren't an issue. mostly its faster than most things.
Original article in French:

http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2015/11/11/une-panne-in...
The parent is talking about the costs and benefits of AOT compilation versus the lack. Whether the interpreted language uses a JIT has nothing to do with that trade-off. That's why it's irrelevant.

Also, that the parent bothered specifying "AOT" in the first place is proof enough the entire basis of your belief in their understanding of things is utterly groundless. This would be clearer to you if you understood that JIT compilation cost is amortized, as the parent alludes, and that it doesn't happen in "a" compilation step.
Wait. Radioactive copper in the global electronics supply chain?

What strategies can an average joe use to minimize exposure to that?
Comcast ... I'm on their "Blast" plan.
Well as someone else pointed out, Snow Leopard users literally can't.
Great question. Our projects are lead by a set of maintainers that may change overtime. We love to have folks from the wider community help there too and have had good success with that. Two examples of long term involvement: Ben Darnell from CockroachDB helping maintain the raft library or Simone Gotti helping build out rkt. So, community is one way to sustain and we welcome new folks to join.

We also continue to grow the team at a good pace for the stuff we are building too. We have a diverse set of challenging technology we are building to make everyone successful with distributed systems and containers. If you want to learn more see https://coreos.com/careers
> How to minimize procrastination

http://i.imgur.com/aZ1zkNo.png

Oh. OK then.
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How to improve it? Make it into one big HTML page so I can save it and read it without having to click like crazy! :-)
Salesforce Apex:

system.debug( 0.1 + 0.2 );
09:25:37:027 USER_DEBUG [3]|DEBUG|0.3

However

double a = 0.1;
double b = 0.2;
system.debug( a + b );
09:26:57:043 USER_DEBUG [4]|DEBUG|0.30000000000000004
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But each person participating has to at least make a living, so it's circular to some extent (even if the circle is pretty long).
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>The flip side of that argument is that the top xx% people and organizations have accumulated so much wealth that they really don't know how to allocate it sanely. As soon as some channel opens to receive it (government or private), money starts flooding in, eroding the integrity of that investment channel - and stupid investments inevitably get made.

How does this work, generally? Sure, there are people with "so much wealth they don't really know how to allocate it sanely," as you say. But ultimately what happens with it? The "super wealthy" don't have it sitting under their mattresses--it's in all kinds of investments: stocks, property, etc. I don't really get the point in your words, other than "some people have more money than others".

What counts as a valid use of money, to you? Paying for other people's college? Paying other people's mortgages? What makes one use of money/property more valuable than other uses? As seen on HN recently, mutual funds are investing in startups, some of which essentially pays our salaries. Is paying $10m for a yacht a less sane use of money than a million people paying $10 for gas?

For the 2nd time in as many days, I'll use Bill Gates as an example. He's apparently worth something like $80B. Apparently ~$15B is in Microsoft stocks, and the rest is in Cascade Investment LLC. That's all being invested in a variety of ways, certainly: some public companies, some bonds, some private company, etc. It's all being used in various ways, ultimately paying salaries, paying taxes on properties, investing in capital. If it were to be liquidated (assuming that you could do so without losing value), and given to everyone in the USA equally at $80B / 330 million people => $242/person in the US, why would that necessarily be allocated "better"? My naive guess would be that a significant chunk of it would end up at Walmart, Apple and Samsung--how is that more sanely allocated?

Or is your point that the government could better allocate that money? If the government were given $80B to use "on behalf of the people", do you think it would be better spent?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dwa_financial_crisis

Japan (at the time, primarily a few zaibatsu) had serious financial problems when their export bubble popped in the 1920s. Unfortunately, they bought into myth that austerity lowers debts really badly, and decided it was a good idea to cut out 30% (!) of their GDP in two years. When that only made the situation worse, they doubled down and tried to cut another ~10%.

The zaibatsu and 37 banks went under in the inevitable bank-run, and quite a few financial leaders were assassinated when the military realized their budget was about the only thing left that could be cut.

Compared to that mess, the US has done a relatively good job of inflating away it's debts. Our gridlock blocked most of the austerity "fixes", so while we still have a mess of an economy, at least it isn't slashing a third of our GDP.
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> We need publicly subsidized apprenticeships to replace the assumed role of the outrageously expensive 4 year college degree as the primary means of acquiring skills for the modern labor force.

Public assistance and loan guarantees is how we got outrageously expensive college programs in the first place. Any system will suck up any free floating dollar made available to it.
No, I'm saying input is easy, type system does virtually all the work. Output is where the effort is spent (i.e. pattern match on query expression to assemble the statement).

Why these libraries exist is because of string-ly typed programming; in the case of sql: 1) it doesn't compose; 2) is not safe (sql injection attacks); 3) difficult to refactor; 4) untyped, therefore whole class of bugs arise.

And yes, these libraries do a ton of work, well beyond just generating sql statements, which, in the case of Slick pushes the LOC count way higher (non-blocking IO, supports basically every database engine, native function support, jdbc modeled in scala, etc., etc., it's a huge engineering effort, somehow by one person).

Anyway, I'd like to see a much smaller composable query dsl with fewer features and opt-in database support. Compile that to javascript and run in the browser against local database would be very interesting. I think this can be done, but would probably be pretty restrictive in terms of features supported.
Those waterways fill the same sort of role that barges on the Mississippi fill in the US.
> I pay $70 for AT&T's UVerse GigaPower fiber (300/300 right now) in Austin

Does that include the opt-out from tracking fee?

I don't live in Austin and don't have GigaPower, but I remember there was a kerfuffle around AT&T offering the service at two price points, cheaper if you allow them to track your web activities and something like $30 more if you opt-out.

Or, hopefully that whole thing just went away.

Edit: Link[0] to HN discussion

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743447
What bothers me is that I was under the impression that if you have a HIPAA compliant information system (software or hardware) that none of these criticisms would be true, yet we know that this is essentially the norm and that healthcare providers routinely ignore the problem. What's going on such that hospitals have the worst of both worlds - expensive devices subject to incredible amounts of regulation to safeguard patients but demonstrably insecure systems? I'd hate to think of what would happen if we had no regulations whatsoever, but on the other hand the current effective infosec status of the healthcare industry seems to be not very far off from as if they had no regulations.

Did I miss something in HIPAA about "don't make it easy as hell for any random person to come in and steal patient data or command other HIPAA compliant systems to act as an agent?"
I'd say that the tautology of what the system agrees is legitimate is what is legitimate (no less useful than gravity pulls things together because it pulls things together). Laws promoting racism were broken in the US, and the law-breakers were quickly recognized as legitimate. Perhaps some types of tax dodgers might be considered legitimate. The beauty of a democracy is that if you can convince enough people that something should be legitimate/illegitimate, they can make it so.

And yes "inherently legitimate" was a poor phrase to choose.

And I believe many founders leaned heavily on Rousseau's work. Hamilton and Madison particularly in the Federalist Papers.
> Complexity or learning the language is still the biggest issue I see. That has not changed in 5 years.

That's not true. Most things are them same or easier than on Java8.

If you don't lear Lambda's on Java8 you are missing everything. And most things in Scala's are like Lambda map/foreach all over the place. and generators making things easier to read and easier to understand. Java8 doesn't have this future you end up writing flatmap(data -> return flatmap .. return flatmap return flatmpap) that's awkward.

On scala if you don't use the hard things the language is way easier than the most languages outside of the jvm ecosystem.