skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I would add pauses when saying "the horse raced past the barn died"... mainly because in real life there'd be enough context to parse it properly. These sentences are just very artificial examples.
Hackers do the Haka – Advanced packet and stream manipulation language
Baking your images and set your scaling thresholds lower should be able to largely deal with that.

The thing is though, the scaling is nice but most folks just want the auto-recovery. You stick your app over 3 zones, you have autoscaling and you can run with a couple of Ops savy devs and largely forget about it.

You no longer need to pay for that dedicated sysadmin who knows how to manage a datacentre when have a small number of technical staff. The extra hosting bills are less than hiring that other person.
Turkey downs Russian warplane near Syria border
'cache' being pronounced 'kash', not 'kaysh' is one that's still wrong in my brain.
My Family Came to This Country Legally, but Were Almost Deported
Ask HN: List of most payed programming languages: Why is ABAP not on the list?
I was searching for the most payed programming languages, and I found that none of the lists contained ABAP (language of SAP).

I asked a friend who is a head-hunter and according to him companies paying a "fortune" to ABAP-programmers (if they could find any).

How well-known is SAP in the USA?
Sh*t, that won't end well.. Russian warplanes do invade NATO airspace regularly, so it was only a matter of time when this happens.
Mira: create simple read-only APIs from CSV files
Heh - watch out for that... Photographers - in one sense - make the _worst_ drone hobbyists. Some of them are never happy without most of a kilogram of very expensive glass up in the air, because it's quite true that everything GoPro category and down takes quite flawed photographs compares to even mid range DSLR type camera with good lenses. I've got friends who spend more on software licences for their colour grading tool than I've spent in total on my whole fleet of 5 quad copters.

If you just want to be able to see what things look like "from up there", here's a way to do that for ~$130: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigiain/5228554566/

If you want to do _ART_ from a multicopter, you're quite likely to be unhappy with the results of 10 or 20 times that much outlay...

(And, you're quite likely to be distracted from "doing important art" by "having way too much fun with toy helicopters"...)
Note that those studies apply to High Schools. Young kids are notoriously early risers.

Here in Ottawa, Canada, they've stumbled on a good solution. To save money on busing, they've staggered the school start times to allow bus sharing. In my area, that means the buses drop elementary kids off for an 8 o'clock start and then pick up high school kids for a 9 o'clock start.

As far as your suggestion of running four 8 hour school days instead of five 6 hour days, I certainly hope you're talking about high school. 6 hours is already too long for my 6 year old, I can't imagine 8 hours.
Building Better Cloud Applications Using Feedback Driven Development
There is no PowerVR GPU on this SoC. Besides, we are working on that too. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=power-vr-...
Amen. DST feels a lot like trying to combat obesity by changing the kilogram, so that everyone weighs the same. It doesn't affect people's actual weights, just like how DST doesn't affect the amount of daylight we receive.
...about halfway through that article I remembered how he'd said "lucky you," and understood it.

Wow.

I suddenly understand why Firefox isn't the dominant browser anymore. Mozilla hasn't adapted to being the competition. At all. They've, like, spazzed out and are pitifully flailing their arms around as they die. Not a particularly endearing way to go.

What a strange new world we now live in. Blink is now the future of the Web, Webkit is where you'll find occasional snippets of "oh, cute" when OS X updates, EdgeHTML takes over from Presto as the leading closed-source competitor, and Vivaldi trails everyone else as a source of "wat."

I wonder where Cargo will end up. It's a pretty weird sprawling mass as it is right now.

For anyone out there interested in the browser scene (and non-bureaucratic, non-toxic development environments!), I definitely have to recommend http://netsurf-browser.org/ - checking the site, I see they just got a JS engine properly integrated, and it looks like they've finally started major work getting the rendering engine up to scratch to handle dynamic page changes (once the page was in the canvas it used to be unmodifiable).
I'm not sure the people doing that do it 'for fun' -- I think might be a bit of a reaction to what the aviation lobby does around Heathrow: the planes are being kept a low altitude for dozens of miles while making their turns.

I live between Slough and Maidenhead, WAY off heathrow, and you have most planes flying at very low altitude over, especially after take off, because they (presumably) try to save fuel during the takeoff phase and turn for their primary heading.

Problem is, they piss off millions of people over massively populated area by doing that, and are inherently also kept within range of these laser pointers for a lot longer, so they increase the probability of someone stupid wanting to 'do something about it'...

I don't have a solution mind you, apart perhaps installing some filtering for most common laser light on cockpit windows (if it's even possible to stack filters while still seeing thru)?
Well, sure, if HN is your only source of information, then you wouldn't know anything if it wasn't for HN.
Computing Your Skill (2010)
Sports Betting – Usa and Bitcoin casino, poker, slots review
Sorry not sure what you mean by this. Could you explain further please.
Deep Dive into the SIGTTIN / SIGTTOU Terminal Access Control Mechanism in Linux
My main issue with hetzner is the lack of any sort of firewall in front of the servers. Your chosen OS is essentially directly exposed to the internet.
> We need big thinkers

We need some, but there aren't anywhere near enough big-thinking jobs for all these PhDs.

> The success of science and technology will always lead to new ethical dilemmas. How do you spot them and try to work with society before they become problems? A better appreciation of ethics is likely to address what has become an epidemic of retractions in the scientific literature.

All the recent retractions have nothing to do with scientists being unaware of ethical dilemmas raised by their work. They're to do with perverse incentives, p-hacking, and occasionally deliberate dishonesty.
What's Worked in Computer Science
I used to feel that way, but as I get older, I feel the opposite. It's really depressing getting up in the dark, but I love the effect of Christmas lights reflecting off the snow in the dark. I'd rather it be sunny out both times, but if I have to choose between morning and evening, I'd choose to have the sun in the morning.
Witcher 2 is difficult with the minimum specs anyway, because the official support does not include AMD at all :/

I tested it in the beginning with a HD 7850, and later/currently with a 7950. Am not surprised that it does not work with a notebook APU, it runs with my cards but not with high-fps. With a slower gpu it is bound to fail.
Ditto. Here in NL the transition from DST to regular time is super abrupt. Yes, a few more hours of sun in the early morning, but it means no light in the evenings at all (sunrise at 8:20, sunset at 16:40 - so heading to work in the dark and leaving the office in the dark, bleh).
This Is Your Life in 10 Years Time
The Infocom Cabinet: Binders and Folders of Infocom
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As mentioned I use this as a support indicator since I work close with my team and I know them quite well (so I'm usualy aware of such situations you highlighted). This indicator was to help me to identify potential problems rather than to make decisions about rises :-)
This looks really interesting. Can't believe I haven't run across it before.

I've been toying with getting a couple home servers going (replaced home service w/ business service, just installed two router based DMZ, looking at lightweight hardware -- probably will be Fit-PC products). I was going to run a separate reverse proxy and Lighttpd or similar but a quick glance makes it seem like Caddy could be used for both and more easily. Thanks for the link.

(Edit. BTW, you're not here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_server_softw...
I don't know, but that certainly requires quite a beam to still be dangerous over a few hundred meters, especially with the pollution around to scatter the light...
I'd wouldn't think it would be the handheld kind, but I don't know..

What I know is that the military don't have exclusivity on big lazors -- my hackspace has a couple sourced from the medical industry that are scary. They are also the size of a washing machine, so not the 'pointy' kind.
Roku OS 7: Developer Highlights
> Where I am, the sun is up at 4:45am and down at 7pm in the summer. In the winter, the sun is up at 7am and down at 4:45pm.

Was in hokkaido early this month and this was a hellish pain in the arse, the sun was up at 6AM and down at 4:30PM. As far as I could tell, the japanese don't generally start out at 6AM (the hotels I went to had breakfast and check-out no earlier than 7 or even 8 and "rush hour" — where there was such a thing — was definitely after 8)
> As it turns out, I'm working on a solution for that exact problem, within the Linux kernel. I don't see any particular obstacles to doing so.

oooh. I'd be really interested to learn about this... what exactly are you doing? (What can you do?!)
When do I play catch with my kids? In the summer time. In the winter, I go skating with my kids after dark, which works well under the flood lights.
This is a highly subjective topic.

Is it possible that Televisions are just doing a very bad job at interpolating? I've been using the SmoothVideoProject for over a year now and I can't watch movies/series anymore without frame interpolation. It's just to hard to follow what happens in very fast action scenes or enjoy camera pans across a beautiful, nay, any setting in 24/30fps.

Of course native 48/60fps is a lot better, but having a good interpolation is a start.

I highly recommend checking out the SmoothVideoProject at https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/Main_Page
Where we use "small amount of labeled data" is called "semi-supervised".
I still thought that until just now - that there were 2 different words: epitomy and epitome; epitome being stronger: suggesting some kind of singular platonic ideal the former meaning just a good example of this kind of thing

Just as I used to think misled (miss-led) and misled (my-zled) were 2 different words - the latter implying an element of malice
Huh? A painting has no inherent resolution that means anything in the context of digital displays. Are you talking about the resolution of photographs of paintings?
What do you think about the new Wordpress?
If "the evening" refers to the period when the sun sets, then DST doesn't change anything. You still have so much daylight, no matter how you set your clock.
>Yeah, but the rest of the countries will afford less of what you produce, so the demand for your products will decrease.

Except for financial products that generate returns USD.
If I get home at 7 and it's dark then it doesn't really lend itself to going outside.

In daylight savings I still get home at 7 but now there is an hour of daylight left.

So even though there is still the same amount of daylight in the day, due to the rescheduling of the work day with respect to daylight, there is an extra hour of daylight in the evening
Yeah, pretty much exactly this. In the abstract, I fully support teaching science PhDs more about Quine, Russell, Popper, Carnap - they are all great thinkers who had very intelligent ideas. In practice, PhDs at top tier institutions are far too concerned with the day to day rat race that the history of ideas is not likely to be a serious priority.

As long as the competition for stable positions will remain so fierce, and the criteria for which candidates are judged will remain so narrow, the problems are likely to be far more prosaic than those raised by analytical philosophers.
I would argue there's a large grey zone. It isn't binary, I'd say it is more of a spectrum between prescriptivism and descriptivism. After all, grammar and syntax isn't fully randomized even if largely arbitary. We make certain choices (even if we aren't aware of it) prescriptively which we try to teach each other (even if we aren't aware of it), and the mixing and noise creates a set of choices in the language actively in use that simply needs to be described for what it is. There's recurring patterns of various sources.

And if they allow one sentence to be understood by members of the intended audience that knows the common rules and context and usage well, then that's as valid as it gets. Even if only very few can understand it, the fact that it is possible is enough.

A bit like HTML in browsers - there's the written rules and there's what browsers do anyway, and what's valid in real life is whatever gets the point across.
There's not much to learn about React, compared to AngularJS, which is huge (and pointless IMO).

For example, look at this: https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngOptions

Why would you want to learn this kind of obscure syntax, just to make a simple select input (and still be limited in what you can do)? You don't need this kind of stuff in React because you build your views with pure Javascript and HTML.
OTOH, if your kids wake up with the sun, DST is awesome. It means that they wake up slightly less insanely early in the summer time, and makes it slightly easier to wake them up for school at a reasonable time in the winter.
Tits or gtfo?
I find that hard to do when some libraries make heavy use of async, you basically have to bend to the library when writing your own code
Who owns our cities and why this urban takeover should concern us
Nice reference.
sigaction() returns the old action. This permits chaining of the actions. Specifically for SIGSEGV, if Library B does not want the signal, it can invoke Library A (without caring what it is). Similarily, A can invoke B. "Unloading" cannot be done, unless you are aware of the load order. This is a general issue -- dlclose() is reference counted, and you wouldn't know if it actually unloaded the library.
> Sounds like you would like to run on daylight savings time year-round (as would I).

Most Europeans (and probably americans?) would definitely benefit from shifting their timezones by 1h and keeping it there. Hell, Central European Time could probably shift by 2h, the timezone goes from Spain to Poland, Warsaw currently gets sundown at 1530! (Lille which is roughly the same latitude gets sundown at a more respectable 1647)
I have a HD 7950 and I can game very well a lot of games.
I'm just glad to hear that evil has a name. I've bored way too many people going: "...y'know that smooth thing on big tellies..that makes all the old black and white movie actors glide out of rooms on rollers...you do know! You must know! Don't f##king tell me you can't see that... I'll be back in a minute... " and so forth
Didn't made sense to me. Will love if you add some comments below the blog to explain why oil exporters are forced to lower their prices? If US dollar goes up, then going by all capitalist laws, they should look to make more profit because the demand is constant in each economy. Oil isn't like electricity which is wasted if not supplied.
I disagree, and FWIW, I find your tone hostile.

A prescriptivist would say it follows allowed grammar rules but is still unintelligible.

A descriptivist would say it follows common usage patterns but takes it to such an extreme as to be unintelligible.

You see this pattern more often with proper names:

- That's the house Jack built.

- That's the woman the house Jack built fell on.

- That's the lawyer the woman the house Jack built fell on hired.

- That's the briefcase the lawyer the woman the house Jack built fell on hired carried.

At what point does it become "incorrect"? When it becomes unintelligible to most native speakers?

It's also worth noting these sentences seem much stranger in writing than they do when heard. In writing, most sane people will use punctuation in the examples above. But in speaking, our tone of voice conveys enough context to use more streamlined structures.
Not sure if this would come under tech-related, but an audio book that I've really enjoyed is Scrum by Jeff Sutherland, narrated by JJ Sutherland.

http://www.amazon.com/Scrum/dp/B00NHZ6PPE

The book is really interesting, and is not targeted towards the tech entirely which can be great since non-technical people can get into it too.
Wouldn't it be easier to redefine office hours so that people can go home at 6, instead of redefining everyone's concept of time?
It ahem flies past many native speakers initially
Thesis on Free Energy (1992)
Well, I believe React is the right way to do JavaScript UIs until something even better comes along.

It's not about Facebook - it's about the design that promotes "functionality" and modularity etc. That's the big deal.

Angular and Ember are both needlessly complicated to begin with, but even more so because of all the two-way state-mangling going on.

So yes, switching to React will be ever-increasingly worth it, because the benefits of not having to deal with Angular will keep compounding over time.

So instead of "opportunity costs", you'll have "opportunity benefits" :P
RPN does have the advantage that it's unambiguous, yes, but if you miss a token you will end up confused.
Keeping the PilGRIM at a steady pace [pdf]
At my university (TU Delft), we have to include a set of premises/statements that are open for questioning during the thesis defense. You're supposed to list ten statements and the usual breakdown is that a few will be on the specific topic that you're graduating on, a few will be about the field of research at a whole and the rest are "philosophical musings". I've started thinking about mine and I actually think it's a valuable exercise to have this as part of the culmination of a long and arduous journey. I think it's in our graduation process now as a matter of tradition, rather than an impetus to spawn true philosophical debate, which is a shame. Friends who have graduated have put down some pretty deep thoughts, which I think reflects upon the fact that a PhD done right provokes you to think about the nature of research and the world around you.
I quite agree that the post PhD job market is kind of challenging as there are few companies tackling big questions.

However, if you forget the job market, the argument the guy is making is absolutely spot on. There's a solid trend in academia that is "publish early, publish fast". Although one might argue that it actually makes sense (career-wise or whatever), it is intrinsic in such a system to penalise pursuing big, risky ideas. Considering that the PhD (and the few years after) are the most productive in a researcher's life, it is a shame that students are not actively encouraged to think bigger.
Tamper: Serialization protocol for categorical data
Who's right on crypto: An American prosecutor or a Lebanese coder?
That's why number of tickets is only part of the story. The time and lines of code add additional insights. Anyways this was never meant to be "precise" indicator - the goal here was to have some sort of analysis that is easy and fast to come up with.
Yeah, fully acknowledge I get Western news so will have a biased view (even unintentionally) - but Russian politics terrify me - seem to be close to something and I just hope we can pull back from the edge instead of falling off it.
it's dragging it's ass behind GCN for most things that people here would care about (Bitcoin, bruteforcing passwords) even if you are buying Tesla's.

For Neural Nets NVIDIA is the only game in town.

The non-open source drivers (and CUDA libraries) are a huge deal though - as anyone who has tried to get <insert DeepLearning of your choice here> working.
A slide deck overview of the PilGRIM processor design (references to which are otherwise sadly behind Springer Link paywalls: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-24276-2...)
I love web pages about products that don't explain what the hell is this
product about, but are eager to sign me up and declare features like "seamless
foo", "responsive bar", or "baz integration".
What I find amazing is that the US still doesn't have Federal paid maternity leave.

I thankfully live in Canada, a civilized country that allows a full year.
Depression of being left behind is also an important factor.
> If you're arguing over technicalities, you are inherently adopting a prescriptivist approach.

How so? Surely there is room for debate within descriptivism as to what constitutes evidence of something being used?
Only osx? Not interested.
Can't say I expected to see Nvidia fanboys on HN but the R9 Fury X exists and beats 980ti at >1080p resolutions in games not gimped by Nvidia Gameworks: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9390/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-...
At the same price point using only slightly more power and having nice and quite closed loop water cooling.
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Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
Does anybody know of freely available data that a member of the public could use to determine whether the plane crossed the border? I know it's very unlikely that that exists, but who knows.
you can ... So you get unparsable things...

If it's not parseable, then surely you can't.
A lot of work has been done on this. For instance, see also http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39296/simulating-hand... and http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/74878/create-xkcd-sty....
This is really great, got it all set up with Alamofire in a few minutes and already it's been helpful in identifying some slow network requests!
Skype login screen can view images, text files
You've got it backwards. It's not like a bunch of philosophers sat round and came up with the scientific method and until they did that there was no science. Scientists experimented and tried to justify their conclusions (sometimes badly or incorrectly), which lead to the philosophy of science. Karl Popper was a recent philosopher, not a forming giant of science, he rationalized the scientific method with falsifiability after the fact, after Einstein's Theory of Relativity, for example.

It's also easy to get the two mixed up as Philosophy basically used to be the nascent 'science'.

It's also worth reading this before you get too attached to philosophy:

http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html

Ultimately present day philosophy, last I looked and certainly since Wittgenstein, is all about playing with word meaning and almost upfront about it, but pg argues in reality it always was like that.
So few people seem to run a profiler on their Javascript nowadays. It's a shame, really, as the tools are very powerful!
Programming a Multicore Architecture Without Coherency, Atomic Operations (2014) [pdf]
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10613213 (88 points, 4 hours ago, 38 comments)
This is my first winter in Helsinki. Although I was expecting the darkness the abrupt transition caught me by surprise.

I hope the snow people talk about, improving the feel of lightness, comes soon.
I don't think that's the lesson at all. If you write a kernel you'll have to write some assembly. If you really want you can write your own compiler that writes the assembly you need I suppose, but you're still writing the assembly somewhere, or at least aware of exactly what assembly will be omitted. The point of something like C11 atomics is that you don't want to have to know the assembly. In the kernel you don't have that luxury
How farming changed the European genome