skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really difficult to compare work in different fields though. "Work" for a theoretician can be an unrelated activity where they're thinking about concepts (perhaps lazily); does work include inspiration time?

I can't remember who it was concerning but I recall an anecdote about a scientist who would appear to be asleep - they would then suddenly "wake" and write something down or try a calculation; are you working if you're lying in bed and your brain is subconsciously processing a conceptualisation of a hypothesis?
Excessive use of anything tends to be bad. "Normal" intake of coffee [1] may have plenty of health benefits, so why quit? Because self control?

I'll drink my 3-4 cups of black filtered coffee a day with a good conscience.

[1] Not including other high-caffeine drinks (energy drinks) or mixing your coffee with lots of sugar and milk, which would be bad mostly for other reasons than the caffeine itself.
I can't find a video of the programme that was on the livestream.

There is a short video of the launch on ESA's youtube channel but the quality is horrible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhriETwPf10
We already have research hubs for free publications. As a former Systems Librarian "Journals provide a filtering intermediary that helps me better use my time" is true for professors period. Students just want articles.

> I don't have a ton of time to search each university's publication database or every 2nd tier research team's private home-grown web site

Directory of Open Access Journals - https://doaj.org/

Advance Public Access to Articles (Chorus) - http://www.chorusaccess.org/
I have a particular interest in truly disruptive start-ups, especially ones thats really flout the law like Uber does. I'm under the impression that conventional entrepeneurial wisdom says "Go ahead and break the rules, by the time they catch up with you or you've gained their attention, you'll have the money or support needed to fight for real change". Of course, all you have to do is look at Zenefits to see this isn't always going to be the case. It makes you wonder what type of person it takes to run a company like that. I relize Thuan isn't the CEO/founder, but when I think about a disruptive business, I weight up the threat of serious fines/jail time against a relatively cushy life with a stable 9 to 5. It's really eye-opening to see what type of person it takes to drive a busines like Uber forward.
A better way to NSA proof your mail would be just using Freenet's mail or something else like that.
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You are right, I made an overstatement about a deviously complex situation. An administrative subpoena, which doesn't come from a judge - just the investigating federal agency, is required for old mail. They send out tens of thousands every year, so I don't think it is a stretch to describe the barrier as essentially a form letter on federal stationery.
Very Interesting
Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown
Former SXSW Darlings: Where Are They Now?
I would follow that channel and its devblogs assiduously
Such a regimen would kill those who immediately jumped into it from a typically sedentary life, sure. But if eased into, there is no reason most people couldn't handle it. Elite athletes didn't become highly performing in a day, and there are no special biological qualities required to become a high performer. It's just a lot of work, and most prefer to not do that work.
> Well that would depend how long you run it for. They don't have to be simultaneous.

The long way of saying "No, I can't, but I really don't want to accept that there might be a better model for this than my out of the box Apache setup."
So this library isn't solving anything then.
Parents' ultimatum: Raise $3M or finish college
Im glad to see work still being done on 0 A.D.

Last time I tried playing with it (over a year ago now), it was having a memory overflow error if maps got too big.

Beyond that though, the game was pretty cool.
This is besides your main point, but I just want to add that the 'problem' of Go is not nearly solved. Rather, nearly solved is the problem of beating a human Go player. There is quite a difference.
"highest in recorded history" is quite a misleading statement. What if used daily measurements instead? Maybe the peak would have been some other time. What if you looked at specific places, their peaks would all be at different times, and many would be wildly far from that baseline by tens of degrees C. What if you averaged over a whole year instead of just a month? This peak will surely flatten out if you do that. What if you averaged over several years or any other time period? So it's not as if people haven't experienced this type of climate before. We didn't even know we'd had it until the satellite told us! That's how hard it is to notice. Yet we easily notice the difference in local temperature from day to day because the swings are much more massive.
Olympic fencer asked to remove hijab for SXSW ID badge
A) Yes John Oliver is awesome

B) Holy Crap! A comedian is the best for reporting on issues that are actually important. What a sad state of journalism we have been for the last decade or so.
> Does "beautiful" means "the software can be twisted in lots of interesting ways"? If so, dynamic language interpreters are "beautiful", while static language compilers are "ugly".

You'd be surprised what people do to static language compilers. C++'s template are turing complete, after all.
"That's really not true. ... in my experience."

The plural of anecdote is not data.

(Although neither the original article provide some...)
>Better thought: Do you think a completely unarmed populace is a better idea given how bad police abuse their power?

Well, yes, I do.

The US is heavily armed. The US has a lot of poorly trained, unskilled, abusive police officers.

Gun ownership hasn't made US police any better. If anything it's made them far more lethal - one reason given (by both pro- and anti- gun advocates) for the shocking numbers of people shot and killed by US police each year is the presence of guns in the population.

When a police officer abuses their power I can grind through it, or I can pull a gun and get shot. In most cases getting shot is the worse outcome.
By the title I thought I'd hear some compelling arguments for Apple to ditch it's os and create a new one. I'm more of a Linux person myself but from what I'm reading osx could use some improvements. It turned out to be an article on semantics and pronunciations...
"Of course this is assuming you're young/no dependents etc. but that's most startup founders."

This is far from true.

"In fact, research shows that the median age of U.S.-born tech company founders is 39, and there are twice as many entrepreneurs older than 50 than there are younger that age 25." [1]

[1] http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/242851
What if there was a model where it depended less heavily on your machine because of over 20 years of development with the goal of providing stable, robust systems aimed specifically at allowing you to run many things in parallel? What if the framework/API for it was developed for production systems from the beginning, meaning its API was made singularly for being able to easily spawn, manage and control these processes?

The whole point of this article is that there is an architecture behind this and that this architecture is believed to be generally useful.
It's tree sort. It does the same comparisons as quicksort, but organizes its data differently.

It's nifty, but not an especially beautiful use of Haskell.

Okasaki's Red-Black Trees rendered in Haskell are nicer, for example.
Is react only for front end gui work?
Nope, its always below average programmers who don't seem especially smart, and who don't want to learn who produce the worst code in my opinion.
Shoreditch and Hoxton lost the battle to gentrification a long time ago.

None of the creatives who reinvigorated the area can afford to live there anymore.

Also, London does not have uncontrolled urban sprawl. It is constrained by the Green Belt, which was designed precisely to prevent sprawl. This is one of many reasons property prices are naturally high.
As I have said elsewhere, I will agree we have achieved true AI when a program, uncoached, creates a persuasive argument that it is intelligent. One nice feature of this test is that you don't have to define intelligence precisely beforehand. Of course, that does not give a specification for developers to work to, but that is the case we have now, anyway.
EF turned me - a Computer Science graduate with a vague interest in startups - into the founder of an angel-backed startup.

The pace of learning during the six pace programme is rapid, but that's not what I see as most important. I'm most grateful for them giving me the opportunity to start my own thing straight out of university.

Without EF, I would have been forced to get a graduate job at a tech company in order to pay the bills. Building a startup in London would have been orders of magnitude harder. I know people who are trying to build products in their spare time, and it's tough.

Thanks to EF, I'm now running a five-person company with nearly 10,000 users.

Oh, and I met my co-founder on the programme. Not bad.
Interesting, thanks for the correction. I had a feeling that was going to happen lol
NeoMutt – a place to gather all the patches against the Mutt MUA
Start shipping? I first saw this on reddit over a year ago, same video, basically same website. Can't believe they are still taking orders, but haven't shipped. I actually thought it was a released product back then!

Looking at the reddit sub, it looks like early adopters are pretty disgruntled too.
He didn't waste your time. He just shown you how much of your time gets wasted (ridiculously) by lawyers and copyright. Too bad you didn't get the message and just got angry at quirky thing not the whole abysmal bureaucracy it clashed against.
I think some of the question is Research versus Development. If you're doing creative work, constraints and deadlines help, but working past coherent thinking doesn't. You hit this point later (but still eventually) in Development projects where the creative demands are lower.
Porsche to take all-electric Mission E concept to production
You could let it run for a while, and then put up a sign in the world saying "This is God speaking: bad news pal, you're actually a bit of Python running on some kid's laptop".
> I worked with Rob on that library and that's really not the case. It was designed from the ground up to replace the existing template library which was bad in several ways. The parser (which is I think what you refer to) is just an implementation detail.

Right, but why can't I call define custom operators? And why is there no bracketing in conditionals? It just feels clunky to me (but maybe I'm too spoiled with Jinja2). I still feel like you could allow execution of functions passed in the data argument (as long as the developer doesn't shoot themselves in the foot, it shouldn't be a security problem).

It's stuff like that which makes me feel like it was a PoC (or at least, not designed to be feature-complete). Still, it works pretty well for plenty of usecases (I use to generate config files every once in a while).
Webby DevOps? We're Not in Kansas Any More, Dorothy
Firefox Marketplace sunset plan
Attempt to translate.....

"If you're over 25, chances are your peers don't play Minecraft. I'm over 25. Therefore, I'll play Minecraft when more players are established working age adults."

Good luck with that. In the meantime, my age 40+ wife and I have Minecraft mountains to craft into beautiful and creative castle homes.
The newscientist.com link is broken for me, due to "Maintenance in Progress".

Alternate links:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/sidekick-chemicals-re...

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/molecules-found-counter-...
LibreBoot is CoreBoot with certain binary blobs removed. Sure, I agree that LibreBoot is better from a freedom perspective, I just assumed that you wouldn't know what LibreBoot is (more people have heard of CoreBoot).
Quitting an addiction is easy, any junkie can do it... several times a day ;)

I went cold-turkey a few years ago, lasted several months, helped immensely with palpitations and sleep-pattern problems. In fact, I should probably do it again at some point this year, but with kids and work it becomes difficult to plan the inevitable couple of weeks of "zombie time". Maybe doctors should start considering it a real addiction, justifying off-time for treatment.
I'm much more interested in an AI that optimizes audience stats than one that optimizes in-game stats.
What New Delhi’s free clinics can teach America about
This is exactly the goal of http://software-carpentry.org/workshops/
Language performance rarely impacts web applications performance.

Actual bottlenecks are the database, and your webserver/architectural choices.
Odd phrase, "in the grand scheme of things".

How statistically significant are each of us "in the grand scheme of things"? Not very. There will be no Hollywood biopic about my life, nor likely yours.

If you believe in an eternal afterlife of joy in a heavenly garden, then even a billion years of life on a single planet is statistically insignificant in the grand scheme of things. (Or, like Secretary of the Interior Watt; if you believe the Rapture will come in our lifetime, then why have an environmental management policy at all?)

If we are but a colony of some Galactic Confederacy, then again we are insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

If the Sun should go nova tomorrow, and destroy all life on Earth, is that really statistically significant in the grand scheme of things? No.

Yet despite all of that, I still think I'm significant enough that others - who are all just about as insignificant as I am - should still care about not littering, about keeping poisons out of my water, about keeping disease causing bacteria out of my food, about keeping CFCs from the ozone layer, and keeping the Earth's climate stable and in the current climate regime.

But of course, how statistically significant is one more piece of trash in the grand scheme of things? Not very. So why not throw that trash out the window?

In other words, I reject your qualifier "grand scheme of things" as meaningless, at least not without further clarification of which grand scheme you mean. Policy decisions must have a more concrete goal, with a more meaningful time span than the heat death of the Universe.
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> I'll drink my 3-4 cups of black filtered coffee a day with a good conscience.

Sounds similar to what I used to drink. I now drink similar amounts of decaf black coffee a day and sleep a whole lot better. This is partly why I quit and definitely why I won't go back to regularly drinking normal coffee (it's been 6 years or so).

(Yes, I know decaf still contains ~10% of the caffeine of normal coffee, this just means I'm down to the equivalent of half a cup of coffee a day, which is below dependency levels as I get no withdrawal effects if I stop this for a few days.)
Some of the resources I've ran across (assuming x86 context):

* Brief intros in Agner Fog's manuals:

- Chapter 12, Using vector operations in http://www.agner.org/optimize/optimizing_cpp.pdf

- Chapter 13, Vector programming in http://www.agner.org/optimize/optimizing_assembly.pdf

* http://www.whatsacreel.net76.net/asmtutes.html / https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0C5C980A28FEE68D

* Kusswurm (2014) "Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming - 32-bit, 64-bit, SSE, and AVX"

* Hughes (2015) "Single-Instruction Multiple-Data Execution"

* The author's website :-) http://wm.ite.pl/articles/#assembler-x86-fpu-mmx-sse-sse2-ss...

References:

* https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/x86-64

* https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/IntrinsicsGuide...

* x86 intrinsics cheat sheet (link at the very bottom): http://db.in.tum.de/~finis/
> I'm really not keen on the whole "patterns" thing

I was surprised to see that the architecture section of the book had recommendations that Android implements (I work on AOSP for a living). I see striking similarities. If the original Android team had consulted this book, then they got a lot of stuff for free... if they didn't, it only re-enforces the fact that patterns do matter. In Android's case, they seem to fit in like a glove.

Someone can correct me, but except for the Read-only Memory and subsequent parts, I think Android seems to have most of the other suggestions implemented.

To others: The books is fairly approachable. Skimming the topics and sub-topics themselves reveal a lot. Absolute gem of a book, IMO.
I've used that for several months. Regarding security in my eyes this only secures that the DNS request is not hijacked by a third party (like Turkey has done with Google's 8.8.8.8 DNS once). All the IP addresses your computer visits can simply be backcoded through a reverse DNS and so it does not hide which websites you are visiting.
> Excessive use of anything tends to be bad.

Many of those 'alarming' articles are mainly studying the point from where the use of anything is dangerous for our health. It is easy to get the numbers and to publish, and the website gets a clickbait.

It's widely knew that too much coffee is dangerous. But a normal dose has plenty of benefits, and a lot of research supports both points.
Addiction is harmful when it reduces the quality of life. Caffeine is addictive but it causes harm to only some people.

For example: If you have problems with sleep, and just can't give up caffeine use and take sleeping pills instead, you have a drug problem.
Efficient binary serialization
Please keep posting.

I really like your comments and believe we need more of what you have to say on HN.

Just try to develop the ability to avoid getting emotionally charged and venting your emotional energy on other commenters.

It's something I've been working on for a long time and I can assure you it's worth the effort.

You're most welcome to email me if you want some suggestions on effective techniques.
Wordpress Configuration Error on XDA-Developers.com Led to Full WebServer Access
You Shouldn't Backfill Unit Tests
Nice to know your criteria. There have been many. The trick is not to decide when you'll 'agree' (whatever your agreement is worth), but to form a consensus in the discussion.

I've known people who've been unable to create a persuasive argument that they are intelligent (or unwilling), and I've know intelligent dogs unable to argue for anything, persuasive or not. I don't fancy your chances of having your definition become the standard.
Don't you currently have some power sharing with a new 3rd party (liberal democrats)?

Besides that, what makes you think you can't for for a party that isn't "realistic"? Do you only want to vote for a party that will probably win? Then it's not really you voting on your own preference, you're instead acting as an amplifier for what other people want.

It's a misconception people have assuming their vote is wasted on a minor candidate and somehow contributes to the success of a major one. A single person's vote is negligible no matter who they vote for. When all the people who want candidate X vote for candidate Y instead, then there's a failure of the system.
Most antibiotics work on one mamial all mamials, this isnt always the case, but usually.

That being said, tests are done on mice to see if it causes harm, as they have a quick turn over rate. Then they usually move to other animals with a slower aging process, but closer physiology
true, but as I said in another comment here: It will not hide the websites you are visiting. This is also a problem in the article... a secure DNS will not make you invisible it is only slightly harder to track the websites you are visiting. All IPs you are visiting can still be transformed through a reverse DNS and you will get all website addresses.

And Chrome cannot be use dnscrypt by default. It uses UDP ports which are sometimes closed on other networks. So there are technical limitations. Even using another DNS than the network one is often not allowed (you will experience that if you travel often).

Also some people will not like using a Google DNS by default ;)
Interesting. I have an invite and so I have thought about buying Scaleways for long. Their storage space fits what I need at an unbeatable price. May be that a better choice for me is the VC1 over the C1, as the CPU seems to be much better (Atom C2750) there. The cores will, however, be shared right? What kind of virtualization are they using, hardware-based? Very happy if you can make a response. This server looks really promising.
>when I think about a disruptive business, I weight up the threat of serious fines/jail time

that is the point to Uber's (and the likes) success - they don't bear the risk of personal fines/jail time, it is the drivers who do. Similar setup to the one which prompted RICO.
It's not a clickbait of course, it's just that the term 'web server' and 'manage' made it easy to misinterpret the subject. Typically, by managing a web server we mean administrative tasks involved in configuring and running a multi-threaded http daemon. Perhaps "2 million web server processes" would have been better.
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Erik Spiekermann has something to say about Dribbble
Well the difference is these stories are really really rare where as stories of struggling college graduates with mountains of debt are pretty commonplace.

Might as well tell people to gather inspiration from tales of lottery winners.
It's enterprise beautiful.
> "decide what I want first and rationalize it later"

Incidentally, this is Jim Jefferies point[1] about guns: guns are fun, people enjoy having them and shooting, so they rationalize with evil governements threats from centuries ago.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0
Of course. It's a demo for Samples.js, which is opensource.
> Can you believe it? Paywalling. PDFs. For billions.

Wow, I'm amazed that a scientists of all people would tolerate such a scam. Why don't they come together, and en masse leave these pay-walled journals, and switch to free open ones?

In politics, you hear about how uneducated voters are tricked by politicians, but this is far more worse. Here you've got some of the most intelligent and creative people on the planet knowingly allow themselves to be screwed over. Wow.
World T20: Confident India Commence Title Bid with New Zealand Game
I weaned myself off of caffeine entirely seven months ago. Being free of caffeine has greatly improved the quality of my sleep and made my mood more even throughout the day. I really appreciate being able to jump straight out of bed in the morning without depending on that coffee to get my brain working.
TrueCraft author here. I expect that at some point it will be forked and someone will add the features of newer versions.
I think that's a result of the culturally unacceptable idea of geoengineering. People worry that promoting those ideas might stop people like you from worrying and lack of worry could lead to everyone emitting more greenhouse gasses.

I think if an emergency happens, we'll be capable enough of mitigating it in the short term until we sort out new agricultural land, move cities, etc. You can move a city in a couple of decades - see most big Chinese cities for proof.
What I'm saying is that it's misleading to call one process a web server when they really are saying "How we handle 2 million simultaneous web requests".
Also I would be very interested in reading such a writeup. There are many different approaches to dealing with it (i.e. on thread per connection / one process / poll based approch). I certainly can see the benefits of having it in lightweight threads called processes in this context.
Roscosmos' video is of a much better quality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r7qqK5E7fU