skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One example that comes to mind is data analysis for radioastronomy. With arrays of radiotelescopes, as far as I understand it, you will downconvert an incoming frequency band spanning a few GHz, which gives you a few GByte/sec of data for each antenna. Then you might have an array of 50 telescopes (the ALMA array is planned to have 50 or so, I think).

This stream of maybe a TByte/sec of data will then be filtered and decimated/downconverted in real time by racks full of DSP/FPGA boards. Here's a picture of one board used for an Australian facility:

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/news/newsletter/oct06/CABB.htm

5x Virtex II XC2VP50 (23,616 slices, 2 PowerPC CPU blocks, $1700 each)

5x Virtex 4 XC4VSX55 (15,360 slices, $1300 each)

Yes, an ASIC might be more energy efficient and could be made faster, but FPGAs give you the flexibility to adapt your algorithms and filter topologies. And an ASIC run might cost you half a million dollars whereas with FPGAs you only spend ~15'000$/board.
The problem isn't that IPv6 isn't backwards compattible. The problem is that IPv4 is not forwards compattible.

Arstechnica has an article about it: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/ipv6-celebrates-its-...
Why not just spell out the companies' names?
and takes much more resource to develop

This is I do not believe at all. Programming is today is so much more trivial than it was even just 10 years ago it's not even funny. I mean just recently I wrote a little app the allowed people to remotely connect to a server and not only interactively view 3d data stored on that server, but change the shading of the model depending on what factors they where interested in and to click on the models and based on the properties of the triangle they clicked query a database to get more information. A few years ago that would have taken a team of experts month to get up and running. Today I could do it by myself, in a few days, including the time it took for me to get up to speed on webgl/three.js, which I had never used before.
Because he's a strict Constitutionalist. I would suggest a review of his actual written opinions. They are spectacularly in favor of a strict interpretation of the Constitution. His Obamacare dissent is a great recent example: the civil liberty to not be compelled to buy a product.

Also look at Texas v Johnson, Maryland v. King, Kyllo v. United, Florida v Jardines.

Scalia would almost certainly be on Apple's side in this because it represents not a question of legislation but a question of the power of the state.

It's easy to dislike Scalia based on decisions not going the way one's personal convictions would hope, but in questions regarding the power of the state, Scalia is very clear. Remember Scalia defended flag burning as well as opposing thermal imaging into a private home without a warrant. He also opposed involuntary DNA submission -- definitely read the opinions and not simply examine the outcomes.
Because what would a science story be without adding in a little morality lesson, right?

sigh.

<rant>When did we start doing this? Did it begin with the talking animals from Disney? Carl Sagan and his desire to reach out to the masses? At some point we've so mingled drama and science that even a Nature science writer can't tell a science story without adding in a bit of either anthropomorphism or a morality play, or both.

You know, science isn't that dull on its own. It happens to be quite fascinating. Even without all the theatrics.</rant>

Apologies. Must be Grumpy Old Guy Day again.
It seems like suburbs mean different things in different places. Most all of our roads, especially the main ones, have sidewalks.
>Computer systems are designed to be figured out from their manuals or APIs.

Lol. If only every API was designed and documented well.
It's counterintuitive perhaps, but yes. The opposite also happened: during the Antarctic glaciation (build up of ice caps), globally sea levels dropped by 60 m, but in the Antarctic region the sea level rose with 150 meters [1]. Simply because of the huge gravitational pull towards the mass. Ice caps can be several kilometers high...by g=Gm/r^2 and being on a sphere the effect is quite local.

[1] http://www.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail/...
What kind of things you are talking about? I only use StackOverflow
undeliberately, when it pops out for a (mostly trivial) ramp-up code snippet
I could find in documentation, but I'm too lazy to dig in it.
I don't know. The homepage of Phabricator doesn't give me the impression the developers take the task of building a corporate collaboration tool very seriously.
You are right. Four LUTs/slice, with 6inputs/2outputs per LUT.
​Matthew Garrett is not forking Linux (2015)
That's why I don't randomly paste in code from SO. I do use it readily as a resource, but it's not my first port of call, and I always make sure I understand any code that I take from there. It's extremely useful for exposing you to points of view and ideas that you may not have considered, and I certainly wouldn't recommend that any developer skip it outright.
the logical extension is that the government passes a law forbidding encrypted devices that don't have a backdoor from access to cell and wireless networks. This would include the sale of any encrypted devices within its borders and bringing one in would be illegal.

Once they convince the American public that encryption is a threat to both their security and privacy they will have it in the bag. How will the convince that encryption is dangerous to their privacy? Some FUD attack that public behavior studies government wonks will come up with. For the children might work.
Question 1: Do you actually know Haskell?

Question 2: How the F#*$ are you a software developer in Mountain View without a job?
I would have initially expected that these were the brands that support (also financially) this project. But as far as I understand from the other comments this unfortunatly doesn't seems to be the case.
Say for example things you have coded before but can't remember the syntax off hand. Might quickly look it up on StackOverflow. It's like having a pair coder with you.
It's been reported that Apple unlocked phones 70 times in the past. But all those instances were for phones with older versions of iOS that were pre-encryption.
I am more concerned about the idea that the phone password was changed after the government obtained the phone. How is that story not gaining more traction?
Or vote for a high minimum wage and Bernie Sanders
How these communist-era Apple II clones helped shape central Europe's IT sector
Sometimes when googling answers I end up on some odd PHP written forum site from ten years ago--ad heavy, huge profile pics, blinking emoticons, endless user signatures after every comment, answers and useless comments spread over multiple pages. Then I realize what wonderful system StackOverflow has created.

StackOverflow has its flaws but compared to the competition it's heaven. Moreover, when reading OP's 'Computer systems are designed to be figured out from their manuals or APIs' I stop reading. Sometimes systems are so new there isn't a manual yet (eg when Node started) or you just deal with complex matters where multiple systems are interweaved.

I learned tons of stuff on SO I would have never figured out myself. Also, how comments and answers are conceptually and visually separated is just very smart and the pain point of every other Q&A site.
USG V. Apple Compel to Decrypt [pdf]
An Open Letter to My CEO (Yelp)
> Nevertheless, even though political regimes can be overthrown, and ideologies can be criticized and disowned, behind a regime and its ideology there is always a way of thinking and feeling, a group of cultural habits, of obscure instincts and unfathomable drives.

He wrote a whole book about this: The Prague Cemetery.
Powa raised $175 mio to revolutionize shopping – now goes into administration
EU referendum: Cameron sets June date for UK vote
> Why wouldn't they just buy the asset directly, and cut out the middleman?

Let's see, why doesn't Bank of America just buy millions of houses rather than lending out mortgages?

1. They don't need and don't have the manpower to maintain millions of houses.

2. Empty houses owned by the bank are not as valuable as houses with people living in them. If the bank owned every house in a neighborhood, nobody would want to live there and their value would drop.

3. They get to shift some of the risk to the person taking out the loan. If the value of the house drops, the borrower is still on the hook for paying the original amount (up to a point, unless they're willing to go through bankruptcy). So they don't get as much upside, but they have less downside too.

I'm sure there's other reasons as well.
That's actually the best piece of news coming out of the whole affair at this point: despite almost 10 years of practice, authorities still don't have a consistent procedure to deal with iPhones, not even relatively old models. Some groups here and there might know it, but it has not trickled down to average grunts.
The My Own Paradox: Each day, I have walked more miles accumulatively than I have walked ever before in human history; and yet, the world population also uses increasingly more cars every day.
I think it's more that the letter only holds sway in the first place by the implied threat behind it. If the letter is from a bot, there is nothing to back up the threat.
Lessons Learned Launching a Side Product in 48 Hours
Dear New York Times
Cremation for me, thanks.

I think as the world very very slowly loses its religion, this kind of waste will finally come to an end in a few centuries.

Then there is the Tibetan "sky burial" which is amazing.
Humm... is the email address in your profile still valid?
I'm in the UK. Can you give me a URL that is blocked by the national firewall?
Again, I'm only talking about relative security compared to a phone.

In any case you can create an encrypted container locally and then upload it to a remote server, doesn't really matter that it was intercepted.
Anthony Bordaine visits Noma in one of his shows on Netflix if you want to see more, it was alright.
This is very...presumptive.

When I run into an issue, and happen to land on a stack overflow page when searching on it, I don't just try and find a solution that lets me do what I want to do. I try and figure out -why I'm having difficulty- in the first place.

This might be because I don't know the language/library/whatever, or have forgotten some key bugaboo in the stack I'm using, or that its documentation hasn't been updated, or that the holistic knowledge I need to get a useful example isn't really spelled out anywhere canonical (all that exists are descriptions of API endpoints, not a manual or tutorial that tells me how to bring it all together). In which case, a simple "here's how you do it" is -entirely sufficient-; SO can deliver this.

But it also might be because I have a fundamental misunderstanding, as per the OP's example. In which case I read the answers on SO, or anywhere else, -to correct that understanding-. And frequently, SO delivers on that. While there may be a one liner "Just do XYZ" to hack around it, there is almost invariably (and in fact, it's usually the highest rated) an answer from someone explaining the code or idea in question, and the right way to do it. Again, SO can deliver this.

This decision of which sort of answer you're looking for isn't due to a specific source of answers, but what sort of answer is good enough for you. If you have an issue of the latter variety, where you have a misunderstanding, but the former kind of answer is sufficient for someone, where they just are enabled in that misunderstanding, rather than correcting it, then that speaks ill of the person accepting that answer, not of SO enabling that (along with the correct) kind of answer.
Or you get out and set your automatic car to keep driving round and round the block when you need it again you send it a command from your phone.

Back in the 80's at my employer if the traffic wardens where seen one of the messenger boys would be told to drive the partners cars around the block until they had gone
GNU Cash uses a naive bayes classifier with surprising good results. You may want to look at their implementation for something similar.

Could someone tell if there are betters? I guess it must be a big topic for all online accounting software but I haven't seen something good yet.
How to Make Elsa Toy for Kid Easy
I can send you an invite too but you need to put your email address in your profile.
Not just essentially. All monads are functors.
You can quickly look it up on any general internet search engine. I don't see why StackOverflow is somewhat special here.
You'd be surprised. Read Baudilino by Eco, which speaks to this precise point.
Can't the bot account for this by stating that if there's no response, call your local attorney and bring them this summary of facts?
Sounds like if that process were followed a defense attorney would be free to argue that there was no way to prove any evidence produced from the decryption had not been completely invented in the process.
If that quote shows how overrated he is, I should read more of his stuff.
The Greatest Good

Inspired to make a meaningful donation, I wondered: What is the best charitable cause in the world, and was it crazy to think I could find it?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-is-...
And even if they are,I find SO answers will usually encorage you to read it with links directly to the relevant parts and also include additonal resources and information you wouldn't find in any manual.
Never understood why Valve didn't leverage Steam to build a database of performance benchmarks, especially to change the awful System Requirements system.
I would hope that the firewall guys are using a layer of abstraction in their rules rather than just putting the IPs in each rule individually. Network and protocol objects are fantastic, because you can assign names to network resources and then write rules that refer to hosts and networks by human names.

As an added bonus, if a resource changes addresses you just update the object and all of your rules are updated.
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WINE 1.9.4 Released
>Computer systems are designed to be figured out from their manuals or APIs.

Have you tried to code angular2 or something else new? Documentation simply does not exist.

StackOverflow is the de facto documentation source for a lot of things.

On lots of occasions it is not a shortcut, it's simply the only place you can get an answer.
The word "functor" means in OCaml something very different to what it means in Haskel.
Are you also a right person to contact if one wants to work for Swiss company but remotely, from Europe?
Functors are modules that depend on another module. This works like a function whose argument is a module with type given by a signature.

There isn't anything exactly analogous in Java. Functor application can introduce new type definitions at compile time and enforce static type safety. You need this so that you can statically require that you can only take unions of sorted collections whose types came from the same ordering module applied to the same ordered set module.
ASCIIsvg: JavaScript for logical vector Graphics (that dates back to 2004). ≥IE9
Indeed. Much of the time, what we perceive as "that person proposes a bad thing because he has bad intentions and bad motives" is wrong: people have good motives and they mean well, but they should see that what they propose with good intentions will eventually have bad outcomes.

See "unintended consequences".
I really hope for an exit. I just want to see what will happen with UK outside of EU. Especially since they have done nothing to fulfill their pre referendum Scottish promises. The imperial preference days are over. That is a lesson the British need to learn. And a self inflicted wound will be the best way to do it.

So either UK will be in EU as with all other or not at all. The current state of affairs as we are in EU only for the good stuff mightily annoys me.
But if there are Who is Hiring alternatives, it could be interesting.
You might enjoy Cody's Lab: http://youtu.be/2epi6xRFKFE

He makes a lot of stuff from scratch. He successfully makes gunpowder from manure and refines gold chemically.
Some people like this "reject the premise of the question" approach -- "op, what you want to do is wrong, and here's why. This is what you want to do instead, and here's why."

But some people loathe it, because they're forced into some stupid situation by an idiot boss and they know the right way to do something. They don't know the right way to do something, which is why they're asking the question. But now the question isn't about getting them help, but about an argument over whether they're asking the right question or not.

Question askers should probably include a line about whether their happy for the premise to be rejected or not; answerers and commenters need to lay off a bit. (Not completely: the answer is also for the future people who arrive via search engines, and those people probably want the right way answer).
Python 3.4 supports only 100 regex groups
Why would that be? If they are handed the passcode, the device could be decrypted in the presence of the defence, and verified by their experts.
This is off topic and is about wired.com's serving of this page and the user experience.

I read about two paragraphs or so of this article, scrolled down to read further and then was shown a glaring "Here's the thing about Ad Blockers...We get it: Ads aren’t what you’re here for. But ads help us keep the lights on.
So, add us to your ad blocker’s whitelist or pay $1 per week for an ad-free version of WIRED. Either way, you are supporting our journalism. We’d really appreciate it." message.

I immediately closed the tab and remembered that there were other sites reporting the same piece of news. I could've looked at the internals and found a way to read the rest of the article, but it didn't seem worth it.

With the ad blocker on, this page was just about 54 HTTP requests and about 3.5MB in size (including all assets loaded). Not as bad as the homepage which is about 126 HTTP requests and more than 5MB in size with the ad blocker on.

I do whitelist some sites that I visit often and if they don't seem to have many trackers (sometimes temporarily), but wired.com is something I visit only occasionally. I really am not interested in being subjected to what another site (forbes.com) did with the appeal to remove ad blocking software and then get served malware.

I wish there would be an aggregator site that could collect some subscription money, provide information from a basket of websites without ads and trackers (like for ad free paid TV). Paying each site separately or disabling ad blockers on several sites - neither of them are optimal solutions for me right now.
Sorry, forgot about Total Commander.
For Aeson instances you really should be using the Generics. I do agree though that there are useful libraries (AcidState/SafeCopy is one example) that cannot reasonably be used without TemplateHaskell. While TemplateHaskell should be avoided if possible, it isn't the only consideration in choosing a design and dependency tree.
Yes, when the kickstarter launched I actually thought about backing the project, but I don't know if I can go back after experiencing the concave key wells of my Kinesis Advantage (I can't even decide what's more important to me - a columnar layout or concave key wells). But I will certainly give it a try when one of my friends or co workers get it (if they let me ;o). I especially like the key caps, the look beautiful and comfortable.
Stackoverflow has been a real issue for my team. Too many of my junior developers seem to hold the information as gospel. Something I frequently am forced to reiterate is that just because a dozen idiots up vote an incorrect answer doesn't make it the best or proper way to accomplish something.

The second issue is with understanding. I hold a firm rule, never commit code that you do not fully understand. Because when it breaks, you will have no idea how to fix it. Too often I see developers copy/paste directly, and just change variable names. You aren't writing code, you're playing dev Lego.

My final issue is their draconian insistence on what they consider subjective question locking. When I'm making a technological choice, I'm looking for real world usage, and comparisons between frameworks. These questions can be asked and answered in non-subjective ways; yet even when done so, anything with the word "compare" gets locked. This would be the real value to me, as my research time is very limited, and being able to exclude frameworks and tools based on objective comparisons of feature sets or capabilities and limitations would be highly valuable to me.
One thing that he doesn't seem to touch on is the voting system for answers where the best ones usually get the most votes (often it isn't the chosen answer). Google search results are probably based on some blog's popularity rather than their correctness of answer, whereas Stack Overflow answers will be up/down voted by people with at least some knowledge of the subject.
I guess you meant Python 3.4 because 3.5 has no limitation: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.5/Lib/sre_compile.p...
Democracy v Psychology: why people keep electing idiots (2015)
If you still have some FORTRAN compiler installed you can run some simulations yourself [1]. There are two difficulties in 'easily' solving this problem. First of all the high level of feedback: changes in the sea level anywhere influence all other sea levels (conserving mass!). So you cannot solve this problem locally. Secondly, solving problems on spheres is difficult and expensive, so most sea level models solve the problem in spherical harmonics which is faster. (It's like the Fourier Transform, but instead of decomposing 1D signals into sines/cosines, you transform spherical shapes in more fundamental 'blobs'. See the examples here: [2] , after the header 'Jouons un peu avec les coeeficients harmoniques sphériques de la topography Terrestre'. You can see the individual first 0-6 'blobs', which when added form the first image reconstruction
de l = 0 à 6. Which kind of resembles the Earth's topography already.) Spherical harmonics have some desirable mathematical properties and allow for quick simulations, but obviously formulating a problem in a different domain masks the actual physics being modeled. So I doubt you'll become wiser by studying these models...

Maybe you can be more convinced through [3] . Paolo Stocchi developed for the SELEN FORTRAN program.

[1] http://www.fis.uniurb.it/spada/SELEN_minipage.html (nb. this requires GMT, nearly impossible to install on Windows, and needs to be built from source in Linux. But OS X's homebrew has got it easily.)

[2] http://www.geologie.ens.fr/~vigny/cours/chp-gphy-2.html

[3] http://www.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail/...
To be fair there is (now) a Stack Exchange site specifically for this, though I do understand your frustration.

http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/
Prime real estate that could otherwise help lower housing costs.
Oh they tax driving in the UK. Most of the price of petrol/gas is tax.
Go-package for extract data from HTML via CSS selectors
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138086 (85 points, 12 hours ago, 29 comments)
See also: every school shooting.
You Are Not Your Code (2012)
Basically V for Vendetta but with more tech aesthetics.
Agreed this why ipv6 is textbook case in how not to define a standard.
Your third point really hits home for me. The most useful questions & answers I've ever found on S.O. tend to be locked more often than not. And even if they are slightly off topic, they're much more useful and informative to me during my research than the more common type (e.g. http://www.doxdesk.com/img/updates/20091116-so-large.gif). I understand this isn't the point of S.O. but there's really no resource like it for that kind of research.