skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you can reload all the beam files (even if you have to unsticky them -- you can do that), but that doesn't mean r16 -> r17 didn't make changes you can't safely load. Some parts of OTP have state upgraders, and some don't; some may depend on bif/nif changes as well.

>> I have to use DNS for load balancing [because the load balancers fall over often].

>Oh lord. That's a terrible situation to be in.

It's not terrible, it's just not great. Our hosting environment is generally very reliable, so if I don't screw things up, my systems won't fall over. It's just their loadbalancers are crap, the suggested upgrade path was run a load balancer in a VM appliance; which seems like maybe I should just run CARP myself on the hosts (or something), instead, and skip a layer, but I'll probably never get around to that, because it doesn't come up that often :)
Well, it's not. It's using pressure differentials to cause small capillaries to burst(?), causing minimal damage as possible.

I can see why Google might be interested in doing this. They're already in the smart watch market, it's only a short leap into the world of medical devices if they invent a way to continuously monitor blood sugar levels (among other metrics) for the user.
> but they feel like prison cells

Prison cells furnished by Ikea. To be fair, it's quite an amazing experience to change cities and countries while encountering near-identical furniture and bedding sets.
Yes.

They bat cleanup in an established no-fly zone.
LSD is a powerful drug. Why would it make him not believe in the importance of medicine?
Their core advertising business
Yes, I'm sure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2#Encryption_2

"Working Group finally did not reach consensus over the mandatory encryption,[22] although most client implementations require it, which makes encryption a de facto requirement."

You can also test for yourself: when you access any http/2 website using http (assuming it doesn't redirect you to https), you'll see it's using the http/1.1 protocol.
The cameras are there. They are not going away. Cameras are incredibly cheap, tiny and readily available, and legislating them out of private hands just isn't going to happen.

So we'll have to deal with them somehow, and I'd prefer that the government not have a monopoly on the data -- frankly, I think that the data that the government collects in public should be made public, rather immediately, so that we can see what is being collected.
Like slide rules :-)
I don't think anyone serious about stealing cars would drive them around with their original license plate.

Most likely the first thing thieves do is switch their plate with the plate of a similar car (same make, same color), then drive to another country where they'll be resold.
A lot of these spurs were torn up in the 40s and 50s when the freeway was going to be the savior of all our transit needs. In Los Angeles especially, they're now reactivating a lot of lines when they can as money comes in, because there's a lot of real estate that was wisely bought up by the local transit agencies when the various private transit companies stopped running.
I totally agree about Ghandi. It was an amazing strategy. And nonviolent resistance has been so successful for so many.

Maybe you're right about radical Wahhabi terrorism. There is a lot of incoherent rage. But I do think that, at least for the rational planners, the goal is to draw the Christians into battle in the Middle East. Look at how they played the US into attacking Iraq, ruled by their former pocket anti-Communist strongman, and creating chaos that ISIS could later exploit. It's beyond amusing how both the radical Christian new right and the radical Wahhabis see conflict in the Middle East in the context of Armageddon. They just disagree about which side Christ will favor.
Still responsible. Else no jail sentence should be more than 5 or 10 years either. Still failing logic.
Google's Sergey Brin [1] is married to 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki [2], so there's a connection there...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki
In true (original) Matrix fashion, you should make it a matrix inside of a matrix, where in the inner matrix, they're simply simulations, but in the outer matrix, half their cpu time is taken up to compute the inner matrix.
Or when all the planets aligned you actually got to post an article on slashdot (I never did).
Title is a bit misleading. Actual content title is 'Do not underestimate credentials leaks.'

The article states that many popular Node.js packages have had leaks (in the past). Also, this article was not the source of many of these leaks (example: bower's github oauth token was expired by github itself when it was posted to the website).
not at all - and exponential growth is a more nuanced term than you may realize. UN population growth projection for the next 100 years shows (95% conf) at most a doubling of population. development of nations has roared ahead since the industrial revolution, and petroleum reserve development has easily kept pace. I really am saying that time spent worrying about running out of oil -- ESPECIALLY running out for the purposes of plastics production is a complete waste of your time and a distraction from actually important things. Come to think of it, worrying about over-population is also a curious preoccupation of rich, privileged, people like ourselves.

Malthus was wrong.

That there is a commons does not mean there is a tragedy.
Android Wear smartwatch with automatic glucose monitoring.
There are things that are built cheaply that look fine in photographs. Some things aren't cheap but it is still clear they weren't purchased by someone who intended to use them.

Airbnb photographs don't reflect noise, the hardness of a mattress, and they often hide windows. Hotel reviewers are harsh, and these sorts of problems show up quick. I would venture to guess that the person to person nature of Airbnb, much like Linkedin, mean less honest reviews. Enough bad reviewers and hosts will exclude you.
So we need an (a) method to freeze object and it children, (b) to indicate that function will accept and/or return only read-only objects. Reserved "const" keyword is perfect for that.
As a type-1 diabetic, to check my glucose, I have to use a spring-loaded device that pricks my finger with a needle which I then squeeze out to get a large enough sample, then pick up another device with a test strip attached where I collect the sample.

Read the last paragraph (0003) of the Background and then look at that watch device. If I could flip my wrist over, push a button, hear a hiss and 5 seconds later I can tell where my levels are, my day to day life, for the rest of my life, is made that much easier.
Apparently[1] by running a firewall or configuring servers to accept connections only from where they should, gets instantly to the top 30%.
was married. Divorced in June.
The name is confusing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell#Version_2.x
> Make this available for free to anyone who doesn’t sue Google, doesn’t object to patents, etc

Fixed this for you.

Legally, according to the patent license, I can’t use VP8 (Google) or react (Facebook) either, as I believe the patents, like all software patents, are invalid and should not have been granted.
It's obviously not still alive and stopped updating last December. Am I missing something?

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/dr-dobbs-arch...
"Patenting it so someone else can't" is just something people say. Publishing the details of the technique would be enough to establish prior art--no need to file a patent. There is such a thing as defensive patenting, but that's more about building up a portfolio of patents in an area so that if someone sues you, you have something to counterclaim with.
You're right - it is sickening. And it's increasingly becoming this elephant in the room nobody wants to talk about.

I used to be totally in the bandwagon of "those annoying vegans trying to make people feel bad for eating meat". Now I agree - why shouldn't you shame someone for doing something bad? Buying and consuming animal products is bad for everyone involved: bad for the person eating them, the environment and the animals. We would shame corporations for polluting the environment and we would shame a person for abusing their pets in the way factory farming does animals, so why is it ok if they do it by proxy?

I read a nutrition book called "The China Study" about 6 months ago and it was the push I needed to seriously give veganism a try. I don't deny it, I love the taste of certain meats and at times I do miss them and I do occasionally still eat fish (sushi is my favourite food).

I'm feeling better in every sense. I was surprised to see that my body composition is actually better now, even though my protein intake is markedly lower (I was 95kg and ~14% body fat before and am 87kg and ~10% now, judging BF% with calipers so not exactly precise), my weightlifting strength is up, my cardio endurance is improved, my skin is _hugely_ clearer and I anecdotally seem to have more energy - I definitely feel less lethargic after eating. My biggest concern was loss of muscle mass given lower protein intake, somehow I am looking better and feeling stronger than before. I'm eating around 3-600g of carbs per day (!) which is all coming from whole fruit and veg, which seemed totally ridiculous to me before coming from a close-to-paleo high fat high protein diet.

FWIW I'm a 22 y/o male and consume around 3-4000 cals/day and work out 5-6 times per week so YMMV.
They are actually talking about replacing the troublesome old engines with ones from modern passenger planes - it hinges on the expected lifetime to recoup the costs through maintenance and efficiency (a bet that would have been wonderful at any time in the past). :)
> Although I think the reason I'm getting downvoted isn't for being unclear, but rather for shitting on people's self-identities.

Just to add my two cents, I downvoted your original comment because I thought it made no sense and was bordering on trolling. This reply is much more eloquent and puts it into perspective, so I've upvoted it. I think this is a completely valid and interesting opinion on the "worth" of a programmer, and it's not one that is ever really explored. Our industry tends to focus too much on the general "market value" of developers without considering that they are more than the sum of their skills.

That said, I think you're drawing a line where one does not exist in practice. Very few developers these days are paid to just crank out lines of code. At work, I'm not asked to write a function that takes certain inputs and returns a certain output; I'm tasked with building a feature for a product. This requires much more than the skill of knowing how to code: I have to have a good understanding of the product as a whole, how everything fits together from a technical perspective, and the end users' needs. The titles of "programmer" and "software developer" (and all the other variations) are used interchangeably because the distinction essentially doesn't exist anymore—if you hire a programmer, you're expecting them to know more than just how to write code.
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I'd give anything for one of those... Those Dexcom CGM needles are scary long. =\
Going into it I assumed this article was about data structures like the PHP "array", which are basically ordered hashtables that allow the programmer to treat them like either lists or hashes depending on context and still get reasonable performance. (I haven't seen this pattern used much elsewhere, has anyone?)
This article seems to be aimed at the Astrophysics PhD-holding crowd. Should be called "Science-fictional shibboleths for the overly pedantic".
> The long-range pathfinder can be simpler and more efficient if it has a grid representation of the map.

> (Since our maps are large and open [] and must support dynamic generation [] and dynamic modification [], a grid is likely better than a nav mesh)

Can someone explain why this is the case? I feel like using a grid will result in them generating the equivalent of a fresh nav mesh every time they want to pathfind, as opposed to using a cached navmesh (generated when terrain is loaded) which they can modify in place every time a dynamic event occurs (building placed).
>It seems easy to tell the negative effects of eating meat (might cause cancer, etc).

We've all seen the UN report on red meat but I haven't seen anything negative about poultry or fish.
Ask HN: Why making something people want is so hard?
It could be that I need a new perspective, but my impression is that making / finding something people want is really hard. Even if you forget about making money.

Not sure which examples to give to back my point
- let's say you make a car and sell it cheap. Still initially no one will trust the car is worth anything. It'll take years of making better cars than competition before reputation is established. With this in mind I tend to buy products / services from companies on the rise that need to prove themselves rather than companies "monetising their reputation". cough VW cough

I'm currently reading "Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture" and it strikes me how easy it was to sell a game back then. Like there was much more demand than supply so people would buy anything.

Nowadays just about any market is covered / commoditised by a big corporation. And it's never the case that they are maxed out on production capacity.

My impression is that much more supply of everything and people already have everything they need / want and more.

Can someone who witnessed the tech revolution of the last 20 years say if it was any different at any point? Was it ever obvious what people need and "if you build it, they will come"?
Thanks for the link to breeding human slaves article, didn't know about that.

And agree with you, that article is totally sickening and we should look beyond meat - we certainly have the brains and the tech, but not enough people are willing to kick their meat addiction or are just not aware of the destructive effect the large scale meat industry has.
There are vast areas of research where every credible paper gets posted to the arxiv. So even though being on the arxiv does not imply credibility, not being on the arxiv implies lack thereof.
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It was pretty odd. I was on the outside (we were developing the office software) but it was clear Palm were struggling. I don't know the original plans, but it was our longest running project - 2 years maybe?

The platform kept changing and we'd get builds with obvious bugs - they once didn't notice they'd completely removed modal dialogs until we pointed it out. I suspect they'd lost a lot of their experienced developers by then. Towards the end there were delays because someone high up decided the screen resolution was too low and was then overruled I believe. My best guess would be that it was meant to be out a year earlier?

Of course, I went from that to WebOS. Maybe I'm software's equivalent of Jonah?
I think UPEI had some tool which showed something like or maybe it was sea level not so much soil loss, Wade was pushing it in Paris at the climate conference.
The China Study[1] is a really good book that contains a lot of research about the effect on chronic disease a vegan diet has. I found it very interesting.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-China-Study-Comprehensive-Implicat...
100000% this. If someone is hiring you as a junior developer, it's because they want to mentor/train you!
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> the only reason for eating meat is taste

I'd rather eat meat than most of the product that passes for protein in many restricted diets. Not just because of the taste.

> a life of absolute misery.

No. Not all. Some yes, and mistreatment of animals is definitely a problem, but I can't agree with the conclusion that because some animals are mistreated, we shouldn't eat any.

I do know that the majority of the meat (beef) I eat is extremely well treated for its entire life. Yes, they are bred and grown for a purpose. Yes, it lives in a paddock and yes, we eat it. But "enslaved" and "misery" are not words which are applicable.

FWIW, I'm not from the USA, and have grown up around farms and farm animals.

(When I say "majority" above, I mean that we also buy some meat from supermarkets and I can't be totally certain of how it has been treated, but in my opinion, the vast majority of farmers treat their animals very well here.)
Light travels really fast. As each pulse has an extremely short length, and there aren't that many scans per second comparative to the lengths of the pulses, collisions should be rare. When you do have a collision, it will look completely different from the pulses around it, so you can easily discard it.
"Never mind that if we actually wanted to nuke Moscow, we would use ICBMs instead."

Look up "nuclear triad", "not putting all your eggs in one basket", and "suspenders and belt".
Carpet bombing is carpet bombing. Carpet bombing, also known as saturation bombing, is aerial bombing done in order to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land.

Are you saying President Clinton did NOT use B-52s to carpet bomb?

Please check your history.

"Further details were added by the Reuters that on Wednesday, June 9, reported that a NATO B-52 bomber caught two Yugoslav Army battalions in the open after Serbia stalled on pulling its troops out of Kosovo . The B-52 dropped sticks of gravity bombs on the troop concentrations near the Kosovo – Albania border Monday, carpeting a hillside area where some 400 to 800 soldiers were estimated to have been in the field. Moreover the Reuters added that NATO military spokesman Gen. Walter Jerts confirmed that “heavy bombers had been diverted at short notice to attack troops in Kosovo.”

In 1944, the US bombed German troops in Operation Cobra.
The tactic of bombing troops in field in a massive attack without precision weapons is called "carpet bombing".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cobra
"Approximately 3,000 U.S. aircraft had carpet-bombed a narrow section of the front, with the Panzer-Lehr-Division taking the brunt of the attack"
One thing many people don't understand is that sometimes it is easier to prove a stronger result than a particular result, which could be exactly this case. I don't know if this paper is correct, but the technique used seems plausible independent of the length of the paper.
Google also has a whole bio lab developing artificial human skin. just completely normal and innocuous coder edm bro stuff. nbd.

https://www.google.com/search?q=google+human+skin
FWIW, the Boeing E3 Sentry (the "AWACS plane") was based on the Boeing 707.

But for a B-52 replacement, I think civilian planes have quite a few problems. For one, the wings are attached in the wrong place; on the B-52 they're more to the front, since the bomb bay has to be at the centre of balance. (Otherwise the plane becomes difficult to control after dropping the payload.) Another issue is that a commercial jet has a unneccesarily wide body, increasing drag. (Bombs are much denser than people.) A third is that commercial jets probably can't take the same level of structural loads in case of evasive action, particularly at lower altitudes. Compare the AWACS example: that airplane should never come close to enemy fire. A bomber most certainly would have to.

All those are engineering challenges, and could be solved. I guess the biggest reason is that it would cost more than you would gain.
That would be workable only if missions entailed takeoff, climb to 30,000 feet, dropping bombs and returning.

Much of the design difference between an airliner and a strategic bomber is due to extreme stresses from flying balls-out speed at treetop altitude. Older B-52 variants (pre-G) were retired when they couldn't take the load, because they were designed for max altitude cruise and weapons delivery. A big part of the B-1A to B-1B redesign involved removing the fancy high-altitude air intakes and restressing for extended treetop flight (and reducing RCS).
You obviously couldn't bother to read three paragraphs in to see clearly how this is not.
I don't know; that's the point. There is NO WAY of knowing what Steve would or would not have believed, been, done, etc. without having had LSD.
You would think right?

For a parallel, let's look at the state of the USAF tanker fleet ("Nobody kicks ass without tanker gas!") The workhorse of the fleet is the pride of 1957, the KC-135. They're old, and so the Air Force wants to replace them, with the KC-46, which is pretty much a Boeing 767 but with seats replaced with big gas tank, and boom off the back. The 767 isn't a new airframe, it's a 30 year old design. And aerial refueling isn't a new technology either. Afterall, the plane that's being replaced has been in service for almost 60 years. Proven airframe. Proven technology. This is a slam dunk right?

Well, no. The KC-46 keeps getting delayed.[1] It's essentially too complicated and too flashy. For exampe, Boeing is ditching the tried and true, and dirt simple system of guiding refueling booms by having a guy look at a window and put the boom into the receptacle, and instead go with some unproven system using an occulus rift and stereo cameras. Why? I don't know. I guess because it's "high tech".

And do you want to know the most damning part of all? Boeing currently sells the KC-767, a refueling tanker based on the 767 airframe, that not only works, but is cheaper than the KC-46, and available today!

It's almost as bad as the F-35 debacle, but not quite.

Honestly, I don't think the military knows how to buy anything, and the contractors take advantage of that. It's Eisenhower's Military-Industrial Complex writ large.

[1] http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/broken-booms-why-is-it-so-h...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_KC-46_Pegasus
I would recommend learning Julia. It is an easy, fast, powerful general purpose programming language: http://julialang.org
Is this a joke? I don't believe HBS would allow its logo to be placed on such obvious trolling.
So this thing is basically shooting you with a very tiny bullet? Interesting.
Yep, I'll be adding an example js client, but I don't intend on standardizing this. Mostly because I'm also a js guy and I like mootools, and I don't want to start a best-js-framework flamewar with an official client. But example code will be up for sure.
Haven't some or most Indians been vegan/vegetarian for generations? Anectdotally, I have met Indian vegans with really high IQs. Also, Indians in general seem to have short stature. I wonder how much of that is due to genes and how much can be attributed to diet.
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The beyond meat products seem ludicrously expensive compared to the products they seek to replace/displace (like 3-6x the cost).
I'm curious: why would I use this over just assigning DNS names to the instances?
Nice work!

Consider something like mkstemp() or mkdtemp() instead (really, it should be marked 'insecure' until updated.)

https://docs.python.org/2/library/tempfile.html#tempfile.mkd...

It's a great idea and might work well w jumpbox config @ Userify ... I'll send over a pull request if I get a chance this week!
Bringing up a subject while denying it should be brought up generally considered a dirty rhetorical trick, particularly when done in a distasteful way like you did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis.