skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watching this video actually gave me goosebumps.
Isn't this risky with regards to copyright laws? This seems to download some of the software (including Win 3.x itslef).
I can't see the problem either.

I don't think it's a capitalisation problem; when using 'Watt' as a name, e.g. James Watt, you need to capitalise. But the unit is 'watt', with a lower-case 'w'. The symbol is an uppercase W. Reference: Table 3, in "NIST Special Publication 330: The international System of Units (SI)", Taylor et al (2008).

Nor do I think there's a problem with confusing energy and power, as there currently is in the original title.

So, what's the problem? Jaquesm's "And you still got it wrong" comment is unhelpful because it doesn't identify a specific problem. Maybe he feels that the sound doesn't actually come from the cable. Or maybe the cable isn't carrying 50 kW. I don't know. Maybe there is an obvious problem I'm missing.
> they'd capitalize on the info themselves

You don't know that they aren't. If ciients act on these ideas then they'll help move the market in Goldman's favour.
It was more that Tridge "reversed"[1] the Bitkeeper protocol, leading to licensing issues and the eventual separation of Linux from Bitkeeper. The need for a high performance, distributed replacement motivated Linus to write a git.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/132938/
Indeed, rather than being anti-code sharing it looks very similar to the risks presented by The Wrong Abstraction that was posted a little while back.

http://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstractio...
Is there a way to combine all the processes with the same command name?

I have a ton of mariadb processes (I don't even know if this is normal, but it seems to be working just fine) and it gets tiring having to scroll them just to glance the numbers on other processes.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ghwsh6ye1gt32k1/Screenshot%202016-...
Then you enter the toxic hellstew of Flash Player updates.
Which is certainly not what the average person on the street means when they use that term.
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The Russians don't mess around when it comes to rough terrain vehicles.
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If you don't mind breaking your contract with the publisher.
I do similar with pain - break it into its component parts, and you can experience it as a warm tickling, or pressure, if you've really managed to do a number - although some things one can't map, like having finger nails torn off - although maybe that's because it's an uncommon pain one doesn't usually get a chance to examine.
I am excited to see if this evolutionary bottleneck will take us beyond the von neumann architecture.

The article implies we will get even more specialized hardware that will speed up common categories of algorithms like gpus asics and FPGAs have been used.

I wonder what kinds of performance gains could be had from a merge sort asic for example.

I think the real interesting thing will be if new architectures beyond von neumann will allow us to think outside the box and break out into new algorithmic territory that is not obvious from our current perspective.

It's very hard for us to throw away our toolchain towers of Babel but I think the departure has already begun when you look at bitcoin mining and gpgpu programming.
I was very sick as a child: I had neurodermitis (Lichen simplex chronicus) so I was constantly scratched bloody. I also had asthma and countless plant, animal and food-allergies, so I couldn't eat most things (dairy-products, sugar in every form except honey, salt, chocolate, white flour, eggs, nuts, citrus-fruits, the list goes on and on). Spent a lot of time in hospital.

When I was about 9 or 10 years old I got to a point where I was completely fed-up by all the rules I had to follow: Eat this. Don't eat this. Be careful during sports because of your asthma. There's ozone in the forest.

So I decided to ignore every single symptom until it got so strong that I'd have to go to hospital again. I also started showering cold every day and trained myself to sleep without a blanket, so I wouldn't sweat, which would irritate my skin.

I don't know when it happened, but all my problems completely disappeared over time. I'm 30 now, tests I do now and then, say my allergies and asthma are still there, but i'm more or less symptom-free.

Whenever I feel bad I consciously use the placebo-effect, for example by drinking a large glass of water and telling myself that THIS glass of water is EXACTLY what my body needed right now and will make everything better.

Note that I'm not advocating to reduce medicine: When I have a headache, I'm the first to take an aspirin. All I'm saying is that there's definitely a large cognitive component in health and feeling well, which can be trained.
There's a similar all terrain, inflatable tires motorcycle, also made by Russians(0). Of course, when you have roads(1) as in Russia, you simply have to make something like that.

0. http://blog.motorcycle.com/2014/04/01/funnies/russian-2wd-te...

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg_nUf2W6vU
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This is why copy'n'paste should be banned from developers' IDEs
If you like Switzerland you will like Slovenia, countryside is not that much different, it's not expensive to live and you have lots of nice places to visit. There are not lots of meetups though...
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I like RavenDb, but correct me if I'm wrong, but it isn't free?

http://ravendb.net/buy
Anyone else see this and think "Why the hell didn't they do this years ago?". I was really surprised it was still allowed.
The Americans did make the Rolligon which is pretty neat.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rolligon

William Albee invented the tech but it's now owned by a petroleum production equipment company.
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Does that mean that it now works on OSX without root?
Apparently, hotpatching never really took off:
http://www.itwalkthru.com/2010/10/hotpatching-great-idea-mic...

Not sure if anything has changed in recent years, though.
I believe there are exemptions for the preservation of copyrighted works. Please don't consider this authoritative or even applicable here, but, as an example: https://www.copyright.com/Services/copyrightoncampus/basics/...
Based on their past behavior they often do. But they make sure they disinvest before their advice changes...
This may be a bit rude, but seriously, what the hell?

It sounds like the kids hit high school, and you're already like "it's too late for'im, he's doomed!" That's quite the rough judgement to pass on someone who is still happy about growing some pubes. That has happened to me, and I'll tell you, it's no fun.

Second, academic skills aren't all that different from any other skills. Some people have picked them up by accident, some got them from their parents, and some idiots thought that gifted kids don't need these things, and we didn't protest either, because we were smart beyond our years, not wise. Thing is, you look at what the kids that get it right do, and you can pick them up within a couple of months. Cal Newport[0] wrote some decent books on it, mostly based on studying honours fraternity students and their study habits.

Third, don't make the kid feel inadequate because he lacks those skills. Being treated as the prodigal prodigy isn't a fun place to be, and really, what is he missing? Educational pedigree isn't all what it's hyped up to be any more. Tech people are increasingly self taught, and other industries that still rely on degrees to do the weeding are cutting left and right. Paralegals? Poof. Traders? Poof.

So what's there to be afraid of? Challenge your step-son, demonstrate to him the need to pick up those skills, and he'll probably figure it out. Show your support for him.
You've already singled him out from the other 90% of kids, might as well help him get to the fun end of the bell curve.

[0]http://calnewport.com/books/
Corrected link: http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2012/12/the-continental-...
This letter reminds me of a historical anecdote (I read about it in some history book, it could be apocryphial though) in which Hitler's generals were faced with some ludicrous strategical concepts of his. But, of course, noone really dared to speak up. And finally one gray-haired general clears his throat and says "mein Fuhrer, I'm afraid you are mistaking Stalin for a genius equal to yourself!"
All communities evolve. I don't think there's anything particularly more natural about one approach or another (if anything I'd say phpBB promotes a very unnatural mode of conversation because of the way its "topics" work).
I don't know whether drilling down the message that "she is not gifted, she is just normal" is the right way to go. Maybe she will the get idea that she is not talented enough to try something so why bother. Alternatively you could reframe the message as "You are as gifted as anybody, hardwork is what matters".

A book won't change a person's life, but https://books.google.is/books/about/The_Adventures_of_Johnny...
is a short manga (might not be suitable for the 4-year old but maybe the university student). Lesson 4 is "Persistence trumps talent.".

A summary of the lessons in the book : http://www.danpink.com/2013/05/the-6-essential-lessons-of-a-...
Putin's internet guru says 'nyet' to Windows, 'da' to desktop Linux
When you start looking you might be surprised what you can both legally purchase and actually afford on the surplus market. A US military m35 deuce and a half is pretty cheap and would be generally more useful with large payload capacity and able to cruise close to 60mph. The "argo" is a cool amphibious utility vehicle you could throw in the back to go for a swim. Together they might set you back around $15k for nice ones or quite a bit less if you're willing to do some work which is part of the fun. Not new, but just as much fun.
I'm using Blockr on iOS. It also blocks those cookie warnings! http://blockr-app.com
FWIW I prefer the same kind of spacing. So there's at least two of us.
I just got my son this toy (the nano version for 30 eur), reminds me very much of this concept [0]. The little thing is a lot of fun and very robust and maneuverable with its tank-like control (forward backward for left right wheels only). This movie is not mine by the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=105&v=C3Pry2nLaR...
At least you didn't store the only copy on a floppy in your desk drawer next to your lunch.
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Note that the Anonymity section of this describes Zerocoin. Zcash is an implementation of Zerocash which is a later and more efficient, but cryptographically quite different protocol (by the same and additional authors).
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From the motivation to the way it seems to be executed, this is exactly what I've been looking (and have considered to develop) for a long time. If there were ever a Linux version of something like this, I'd buy it instantly.

For now, I'm using Guitar Pro for persisting ideas, which does work for my purposes but is much too cumbersome to keep a creative pace - it does work nicely for putting down drums and helps a lot in multi-voice stuff, though.
almost felt the same thing. Felt as if this mail by Eric kind of subconsciously forced Linus to write git.
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I'm not the person you asked, but here's my reasons.

I'm on Linux and there no longer is a supported version of Flash by Adobe. (Apparently there is some NPAPI to Pepper bridge though, to get Chrome's Flash working in other browsers.)

I already uninstalled before that, because I wanted to force HTML5 for sites that dynamically switch between Flash and HTML5 and because I wanted to nudge more sites to support HTML5 by boosting the stats of people who don't have Flash installed.
To be fair, the wilderness being littered with dead bodies would probably ruin it more.
Way faster. We are using a rails API and a React+Flux app as a front end. The whole setup time alone is a considerable pain. I feel that the JS tooling is still too fragmented and sometimes messy, but I'm probably biased by years of rails and iOS development.
Writing the app takes more time since you need to write everything from the ground up (e.g.: no Devise views to just style and forget), but I really hope that in the future the investment will pay. I wrote about it a while ago (although now we are using the more terse Alt implementation): http://fancypixel.github.io/blog/2015/01/28/react-plus-flux-...
Historically, it's tended to have had far more zero day exploits than the web browsers themselves. removing Flash removes a huge attack surface, and 95% of the time you don't need it.

I don't have flash installed (usually using Safari and Firefox) and have to jump over to Chrome to use a site maybe once or twice a week, which is more than acceptable given the insecurity of Flash.
Now here's an interesting little tidbit. I'm deuteronopic colorblind and I've always had troubles with color identification under odd lighting. I have no idea which of the blocks in the top two pictures are supposed to be red (several candidate colors could possibly fit the bill), but if I go by the text that says that the red ones are actually purple in one picture and orange in the other, I can tell which ones must be red.

Apparently I haven't lost the distinction that babies are supposed to lose at five months, because I lack some information the rest of you are getting.
Also do that with new relic. I finally found peace at night again.
Heh, yeah, I keep considering getting into LoL or DOTA then remembering why I don't.

It's a pity. They look like fantastic, deep games. But there's the whole "other people" problem...
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Possibly Torvalds can learn from good advice, then?
user_0001 agrees with you, and was being facetious :)
Ahem. That brings back some shameful memories.
In a way Snapchat is trying to be like DRM, and we all know how well that generally works.
Price is misleading. Actually $65k base (http://sherp.ru/en/sherp/)
Still badass.
Thanks for the ideas!

The data we used is not on our repo. It came from a database given to us by our university, and there was confidentiality issues when it came to making it publicly available.
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you can use adblock as a proxy and connect to your wifi through said proxy
Stag machine has a raid1 setup, when it's time to go to prod you take out one of the drives and put it in the prod machine? That would actually have some quite good properties.
Very sad news. Because of the untrustworthiness of the buyers I'll have to find another browser for my phone. Any suggestions?

I started googling around and found an addon for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/text-reflow/r... but it's looks imperfect.

Apparently text reflow won't make its way into Firefox https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710298

It seems that maybe Lightning does it. I'll try it out. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=acr.browser.ba...

Edit: added link to Lightning
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Seeing this post in context of whole conversation will show that Linus' stance was not that bad:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/22/12
(quote from Linus' post)

`It's true that "simple and tested code means less bugs". And quite often, code sharing will imply that the code gets (a) more complex and (b) has cases that people who make changes will never be able to test.

No, I'm not saying that sharing is bad. Sharing is good. But anybody who makes a blanket statement like "sharing reduces bugs" is full of crap.

Good and clear interfaces reduce bugs. Avoiding complexity reduces bugs. Using your brain before you code something up reduces bugs.

But making a very complex driver that handles ten different variations on the same hardware? No. That does _not_ reduce bugs. It's quite often more efficient to have two people work on two drivers that are independent of each other, than to have two persons working on the same driver. Alan put
it well at some point: the way to create working open source software is to minimize the amount of communication needed.`

I think he's veeeeery reasonable in this. This reminds me "Wrong Abstraction" article.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032296
Sometimes it is better to create two separate things than create some weird obscure abstraction which cover all the cases.
Can anyone tell me if the embedding works for them with Internet Archive stuff like this?

It loads okay at the IA site, but when I use their embed code for this, and the previous times I've tried with their DOS and Arcade games, the games/programs load, but they don't load in the right position in the embed, about 30% too far down, so are essentially unusable.
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OP's question is a generalization over a whole generation and can thus hardly be true.

What might be true though is that knowledge in software programming is much more specialized than a couple of years ago. IMHO that is a sign of a growing industry.

That aside I have the feeling that some people did not have the pleasure of a good education in software development, which is the reason they miss some of the more fundamental bits (or they did not pay attention which is another issue). That may be due to the fact that it is easier for lesser-educated (sorry for my english) people to get into software development and that may be due to great demand for developers in general.
I would love to see some additional information. I always have a small worry about uranium and especially medics in the water but no nice place to check for it.
Pull out a disk from array, put in caddy to laptop, copy new source code, plug back into array?
Mining rewards, and the proportion of them that goes to the Zcash company, are transparent (not encrypted).
On first blush I thought this was a knowledgebase article. I guess all MSDN blogs have to look homogeneous now.
As a new literacies researcher, this fascinates me - especially the 'forced informality' through artificial constraints.

"so accustomed is the public to telegraphic brevity, that their use often produces amusement rather than the expression of formality which the sender desired."

In this case the brevity was due to cost, but in this age of abundance we choose such constraints (and complain when they're removed - c.f. Twitter).
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"IE the number 1 browser for downloading Chrome"
> Deployment by RAID

1. Upload files/binaries/assets to a single server
2. Yank out one of the hard drives from the RAID array
3. Insert new HDD and wait for the array to rebuild
4. Goto 2
If you think old rich white heterosexual religious men have historically suffered from being oppressed.
Just dont use it. Its like we discuss the usefulness the of LOVE virus over and over again. When you install it, whatever the original use case would be, you get spied on. As simple as that.
Staging?? What Bureaucracy!
Really?

I mean, linkedin has a legit monetisation strategy just as a socially connected CV platform for recruiters to find people - and charging recruiters for tools to use it effectively.

That seems far far stronger than what I know of twitter. Facebook - well what I really want to know is more detailed metrics like median time spent on it per user, interactions per user, etc etc. I'd be fascinated to know if the trends are downwards.
We walked a 3.5" disc down to a 'build box' in the basement.

Happy days.
The greatest realisation I've had as a developer is that no matter how much I learn and how clever I think I'm being, I'm always going to be limited by the number of hours in the day. If you want to build brilliant, audacious, complicated applications then you simply have to work with other people because you physically can't do everything yourself.

If you're a "lone gunman" you'll have to accept you're limiting yourself to things you can make in your available, very limited time.
I have a theory about this stuff. Some programmers who need to "blow off" a day here or there spend it by lounging around on the sofa playing video games. I don't mean to rag on gamers because I'm one myself, but the point is I'm fascinated by the fact that many video games are also "mental challenges" that are similar in several ways to computer programming and use similar parts of the brain. What factor(s) then make the game-play enjoyable while the heavy-lifting dev-work feels sometimes more tedious ? Maybe there is a way to adjust our methodology to feel more game-like, relaxing, and fun.

I think I've actually stumbled upon a way to do this, allow me to explain: If you start to read about the statistics around social dynamics in MMORPG games then certain things fall out of the data, and game makers have picked up on these ideas and used them to make their games more fun and addictive, and I think these same insights can be applied to organize software development.

Lets start with World of Warcarft. The statistics prove that World of Warcraft is a highly addictive game for many diverse people, but almost everyone agrees that if you were to join an empty server you would find that it's not an addictive game in one player mode. If you take this a bit further and say.. "ok, now you're on a server with other people, but you're not allowed to join a group, but you are allowed to conference with several players, exchange weapons and loot, and message individual players. Well I think in this scenario people would agree that the game does indeed become more fun, beacause now it's social, but yet it's not as much fun as regular WOW.

I'll just cut straight to the point: Pair-programming is more fun even when it's done remotely, because it's like real-time grouping in World of Warcraft. The problem is, just like in World of Warcraft not every group that you join will be fun! The enjoyability of a particular group will depend on both the obvious factors such as the weapons, experience, and spells that the other members bring to the table, but also certain social factors which are perhaps more philsophical in nature and therefor difficult to talk about briefly.

I think that there is real hard evidence that this strategy works, and because of this it's actually the gold standard for the world's leading web-dev consultancies, at least in the Rails space which is my center of gravity.

examples (in no particular order):
http://pivotal.io/labs/process
https://thoughtbot.com/
https://hashrocket.com/
https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/effective-navigat...
Guilting Linus into writing Git.

What a thing!
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Does a tower like this only broadcast one radio station? That's not what I would have naively expected. But if not, why do they pick up that specific one?
Or just, you know, cache it correctly.

@OP there's a more DHH way of caching, but these will serve you well in the meantime: https://github.com/rails/actionpack-page_caching and https://github.com/rails/actionpack-action_caching
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Nice to know!
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