skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"For my future life of luxury I will have to find a lot of gold so I'm not gonna plant potatoes today."

Boring, pointless potatoes.
Linux-insides: Queued spinlocks in the Linux kernel
This question http://serverfault.com/questions/587102/monday-morning-mista... was posted to server fault. It has since shown to be a marketing tactic ( http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2016/04/15/news/cancella... ). The author did not delete his server, merely claimed to do so to get attention. Server fault community is now indignant about using their community ( which is for answering real questions ) as a deceptive marketing platform.
It's a common problem. Watch this TED Talk about why we procrastinate by Tim Urban and read his articles. They're both funny and insightful.

https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_mas...
What does an app want my IMEI for? How do they work on non-cellular tablets (and PCs) which doesn't have one?
OBS:

https://obsproject.com/
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The former, including your guess. They clearly say so in the video.
I felt the same way (and still do in general, with notable exceptions). I.e. to put this first: I think a lot of the Haskell community is obsessed with mathematical "cuteness", which basically they take to mean "infix-operator-heavy" notation.

Nevertheless, I have learned to like some operators,

<$> <*>, *>, <*

are ones that come to my mind. The operator

<$>

is basically fmap as infix notation, so `fmap f [1,2,3]` would be `f <$> [1,2,3]`. This makes mapping as easy as a normal function call (and the operator name `<$>` was not choosen arbitrarily. `$` by itsself is the function application operator, so `f $ 3` does on a single element, what `f <$> x` maps over an instance of Functor.

With applicatives, the pattern of

f <$> a <*> b <*> c

is very common (with a type signature

f :: a -> b -> c -> ....
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Looks like the one listed in the article is both out of stock and going for ~$1400 (I'm guessing auto pricing?).

The APU boards are nice too; I thought about going for one when I was shopping for a better router and slapping OpenBSD on it. Ultimately I went with an Ubiquiti ERL, mostly because I didn't really want to buy an RS-232 cable, but the PC Engines boards are probably one of the best fully-DIY options you can get.
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Related link with a very detailed writeup: http://danluu.com/file-consistency/ (surprised no one posted it yet).

TL;DR: files are hard; filesystems differ a lot; sqlite is very robust, most other software (git and mercurial including) not that much.
Find the easter-egg on phpkonf.org to get a chance to win a free PHPKonf ticket
7 ways to happiness
Yes but the storage space of the clay tablet is a dealbreaker. It could maybe store 1 kb. And the file format has been lost, and is only usable by historians that have spent decades decrypting it.
I'm guessing here but Turkey/Erdogan are particularly aggressive in attacking stuff they don't like. See for example Germany being made to prosecute one of their comedians and "In 2012 the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ranked Turkey as the worst journalist jailer in the world (ahead of Iran and China), with 49 journalists sitting in jail." Also more ammusingly the doctor facing 5 years for posting pictures of Erdogan next to pictures of Gollum http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/03/lord-of-rings-d...

They are probably threatening to arrest people / ban Facebook if there are any maps of Kurdistan posted.
1) You have absolutely no basis for that statement
2) Fossil aquifers aren't the only sources of water. The aren't even the primary source of water, other than in specific geographically-limited regions.
The perfect example of what you are talking about: the suburbs of Charlotte, NC (the ones I'm thinking of are actually near the SC/NC border).

Wild grow with little planning for transportation and water. It's a complete mess. You can sit in traffic jams in the middle of nowhere. And the crazy thing, they are still building like crazy so it's only going to get much worse than it is now.

I've been visiting the area for 15 years (my Dad lives there), and each year I go back I'm amazed how much worse it is. 15 years ago it was lush forests. Now: mall and housing developments are everywhere, and the roads are mostly the same--there have been some upgrades to roads, but not nearly enough.
From a different article on the same site:

"""Martin Shkreli, a smaller version of Elon Musk, combines wealth with intellectualism, and is very popular among millennials who are rejecting ‘low-information’ SJW-liberalism and class warfare in favor of wealth creation, self-improvement, and intellectualism."""

and

"""Interestingly, on Reddit and 4chan, English, History, and Philosophy majors are also respected, too, as they sacrifice monetary gains to pursue a ‘higher’ calling. Such degrees, even though they may not pay very well or have immediate real-world applications, are a solace of intellectual purity, patience, and understanding in a society spoiled by instant gratification, ostentatious materialism, ‘low-information’ pandering, and sensationalism. Both STEM and some liberal arts (not the useless ones like child development or gender studies) combine authenticity, sufficient intellectual rigor, introspection, and abstractions. For the math major such abstractions include axioms, postulates and theorems; for the literature major, it’s words and grammar; for philosophy, it’s ontology and epistemology. ‘Low-information’ means not circuitous enough, too obvious."""

and I don't know how I'm supposed to take any of this seriously.
Does it matter that it didn't happen, if it could happen? Sounds like a serious issue.
And spend time tracking down memory corruption?
It looks as if IMe depends on local network effects. It seems that it's growth might draw some lessons from the early days of Facebook.

What geographic areas will be targeted first?

What skills will be targeted first?

How will it acquire sufficient users in early markets?
That's not very namaste of you.
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My guess is because there's already a question about accidentally your whole system, which makes it a "dup". Not to mention, it _was_ a "viral" marketing campaign, and I'm sure the community isn't too happy about advertising disguised as legitimate questions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_syndrome
I have a lot of respect for those who know iptables well enough to make things like this. It looks so fascinating, but so complex.
Origin was bought out by EA for 10's of millions of dollars - so hardly destroyed. Both Robert and Richard left several years later to work together again in a new company they both formed - Destination Games. Richard made enough money to pay an estimated 30 million dollars to become a private astronaut.

They were a team and a very successful one. Together they were far more successful than they probably would have been apart.
Dependency Inversion in Java
Ehcache 3.0 released with Off-heap storage
My perspective on this is that lazy be default made sticking to purity much more compelling as if you just dropped print statements in you weren't sure exactly when they get evaluated. This lead to important developments like IO (they started with user input just being a lazy list! Very possible to accidentally block trying to read too much), which might not have happened otherwise.

But now, I do feel like lazy is best kept for core data-structures and places where you know you can use it, and a strict by default variant of Haskell would be better, now that we have learned most of the lessens from lazyness.
Take a step back and think about the environment you were in when you were the most productive. When your mind was the sharpest it has ever been and you were knocking shit out left and right.

Maybe that was in high school or college, or during your first few years in your career. Ask yourself: What was different back then? What was your daily routine? What did you eat? Did you play sports or stay active?

A lot of people suffer from low dopamine levels. You've essentially trained your brain to crave short term reward vs long term reward, which affects your attention span and ability to focus on anything that doesn't provide instant gratification.

http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/04/02/low-dopamine-levels-...

Get enough sleep, exercise every day, clean up your diet, stop fapping, don't drink for a while, detox from caffeine, try meditation.

You want a radical lifestyle change to rewire your brain and fix any chemical imbalances and/or dietary issues you might have.

Attack from all angles!

Your life will change in a matter of weeks if not days.
> Natural language is additive, an immensely powerful feature to have and one I've never seen in a programming language.

You might want to take a look at behavioral programming[1]. It is the brainchild of David Harel, who since the eighties has worked on designing programming paradigms that allow specifying very complex systems in a natural way. One of his older ideas -- hierarchical state machines -- is nearly ubiquitous today in languages for fully verifiable, safety-critical real-time reactive systems.

[1]: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~bprogram/more.html
This is often one of the ways to get a better life through chemistry. Talk to a doctor, tell them what you told us, and listen to what they say.
It's pretty bad for me, I dream about bailing to a blue collar life because then I can focus and work with my hands, and not click around online procrastinating.

All that talk did was talk about the symptoms of what it's like to be a procrastinator. Including the link in another comment. Who wants to talk about how to fix it other than "stop procrastinating!"
I wonder who coddled Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband: https://theintercept.com/2015/09/25/dianne-feinstein-husband...
Two things:

1) Figure out your MBTI type, and research it. I found that my own type (INTP) really described my work pattern quite well. I found it a bit liberating, as I can try to plan towards my strengths a bit.

2) Exercise can really help here. If you're procrastinating, you're not doing useful work. So work out instead. The exercise can help your motivation and focus substantially. Much more than coffee or red bull.
...left because they failed to produce another game? The last of the series was an embarrassing botch, was released broken, and disappointed millions.
Many people procrastinate on both large and small tasks. It's especially hard to get going on large tasks due to, as others have mentioned, a lengthier span of time before you get a sense of completion/accomplishment instead of a quick fix reward. Different methods exist for combating this and tricking your mind into getting its quick fix sooner.

One such method I would suggest trying is 'timeboxing': dividing up tasks into smaller pieces and forcing yourself into 25 or so minute windows that are uninterruptible. This forces you to get into a flow state and also feel accomplished by the end, knowing that you've made progress on any given task. Given enough 25 minute periods, you'll have done more work than you may have otherwise.

The biggest pattern amongst productivity methods is to predetermine a calendar or pattern to stick to for when you do work. In general, when it comes time to doing work without a plan, it's quite easy to get distracted by a quick fix activity instead. Extrapolate this over a long enough period of time, and you'll feel like you never get anything done until the last minute.
I have taken this approach myself, to some extent, but I'd advise a more mixed approach to those who are interested in trying this.

I've spent most of my twenties pursuing social interaction because I felt that I should and that it would be healthy. I even had a few girlfriends, which was all kinds of agonizing. At the end of my twenties I 'took a break'. To my surprise I discovered that I felt so much happier with a life that, too outsiders, was lonely and sad. The 'break' became a new way of life for me.

However, first of all I don't regret pushing myself to socialize. I learned many skills that I feel I wouldn't have learned had I not pushed myself. I can be comfortably normal when I need to, and that gives me many advantages.

Second, even though I'm quite happy being mostly alone, I definitely notice that I a more healthy person if I force myself into some social interaction (including deeper personal and emotional connections).

For me it's a bit like eating. Much of the time I don't really eat well or enough unless I force myself to. But when I do, I have more energy and and a better general sense of well-being. Similarly, when I forego socializing and/or fostering some deeper emotional connections, I have a tendency to spend way too much time thinking about unimportant things, I forget to properly verbalize or structure my thoughts into something 'worthwhile', and my rhythm and structure disappears, including normal sleep. Even minimal interaction with others in the form of flatmates or meetups significantly alleviates much of the bad stuff.
If we were to do this on a large scale, how would it impact the waves we are seeing? Might that impact coastal wildlife? Might it even impact currents and weather patterns?
The complexity split happened when every game started needing full voice acting to be marketable. Before, text was perfectly sufficient, and a lot more flexible.

When text-to-speech algorithms approach real voice acting, game world depth will start to notch back up.
Well, what you are doing is a "generalized" binary search. Suppose you have a four-stor(e)y house. You can start from the second floor and proceed a la standard binary search. You're putting an implicit ordering on the parts of your house, essentially, and then doing a search.

And the bit about cutting the search space to a third (which is what I believe you meant, instead of cutting it /by/ a third) is something you can also do when searching a list, but IIRC halving is preferred because it has better worst-case time-complexity. You can always split a list into 1/3 + 2/3 instead of 1/2 + 1/2, but you risk having to search the 2/3 every time, etc.
FWIW this uncertainty in fsync behavior is essentially the cause of the recent PostgreSQL bug on ext4 (fixed in the last round of minor releases).

Basically, on XFS and all other tested filesystems is seems to work just fine, on EXT4 we may loose the last rename() effects.

So this makes it difficult to get the durability right, even when the project is as careful about it as PostgreSQL.
This is soo true. When I was starting out, I had to save money to buy giant manuals, and then do drive bys of different bookstores to find one that happened to have the thing.. it was a nightmare.. like.. have an idea.. do a month of sourcing, and then maybe have the knowledge to pursue it.. now I research 10 topics in a day.. and have the luxury of choice! It's stunning.
I haven't found a language where that isn't the case.
The closest I've tried is Rust, which is not 100% functional or 100% anything but I like it.
Spw – Node.js simple data throw module
One note is that it's my understanding that running Linux or even FreeBSD will mean that you can't hit 1Mpps if that's important to what you're doing.
Suppose God doesn't exist. Then ... middle, middle, middle,...Contradiction. Thus by "excluded middle", God does exist. I have never seen theology do that.

Theology proceeds by saying God exists with no proof, constructive or otherwise. Then it derives whatever it wants from that. Logic applies only when it's convenient and if you start from false premises, you can prove anything correct.

Nonconstructive proofs usually tell you something exists, but don't give you an example of it. Theology asserts something exists(with no proof), gives you examples(which don't support the assertions). Quite a difference here.
Does this account for things beyond electricity such as fossil fuels?

For example, the shift from using gasoline cars to electric cars would reduce the amount of electricity we use, but would increase the amount of gas. This could be a net good, if we assume that the electricity was produced in a cleaner way.
How can wolf fencing work on unsorted if you have to find out where it happens? Wouldnt that involve iterating on each item to find out where the wolf is?
Oh wow. I experience those sensations but I've never directly associated them with decreased emotions. In hindsight, that does seem accurate though. For me it's the weight pressing on my eyes and sometimes a slight tingly sensation somewhere.
Go do 5 minutes of the work right now. Only five minutes, no more.

Reward yourself afterwards with a banana.
Hadn't seen it before and so looked it up -- pretty neat. Unfortunately the "results page" was broken, but the individual questions & associated heatmaps were still very interesting. Thanks!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/...
Security Week[0]?

[0]: http://securityweek.com/
I think you're underselling this TED talk. The entire 14 minutes is about OP's exact problem.
Wow. I literally didn't notice there was a video. Everything clickable just looks like an ad to me now
This isn't really your fault (nor is it uncommon). Everyone and everything is fighting for your attention 24/7 (including HN).

As far as I can tell there are two ways to deal with it: The first one is to remove every distraction from your live: Install a browser extension that allows you to block specific websites when you're working, close your Twitter client, check your email only once a days, etc. This doesn't really work though because most of us need all this stuff to do our work.

The second way is to learn to focus your attention. Here[1] is a nice introduction to mindfulness/meditation that Jon Kabat-Zinn gave at Google and here[2] are some guided meditations you can use to practice on your own. It works really well and has other useful consequences as well (e.g., stress reduction).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc

[2]: http://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/mindfulness/programs/mbsr...
You can be forgiven for thinking that. But these microservices require configuration and often multiple running processes.

For example, our image scaling pipeline runs multiple processes per machine, all coordinated through RabbitMQ. Ideally we'd scale deployment automatically based on the number of queued-up tasks, but we don't have the infrastructure set up for that at the moment.

There's also language issue, as mentioned: A library-oriented design would require everything to be written in the same language (modulo anything you can do with C bindings and such — no thanks!).

We have stuff written in three different languages, and it's actually very nice to be able to do that, and not worry about language-level compatibility. For example, we are in the process of writing a completely new data backend in Go (the old one is Ruby). We have that choice because no app needs to care what it's written in.

Having each microservice be its own app also forces you into a different and, in my opinion, healthier "shared nothing" mindset. You're not allowed to cheat by bypassing the API and tightly coupling yourself to the internals of the implementation, which in turn forces you to design good distributed APIs.
I think this is because the gulf between the user and one with the ability to do the hacking is so far apart. Those with a pressing need to get Java compiled into a native exe also has ability to pay for an off the shelf solution.
The driver for the network offload is proprietary, however the pre-installed OS is Debian Linux with a fork of Vyatta.
>there is no discourse on how to handle everyone when nobody needs to work.

It seems like you are suggesting that we have not had numerous discussions about a 'Universal Basic Income' on HN? I'm pretty sure that there is a thread/wk on HN about that very topic.
I use MikroTik for the nice hardware, low power, and RouterOS.
Lots of examples abound, of numbers that can be explained by unit conversion.

31.8 mm bicycle handlebar = 1-1/4 inches

68 degrees F (Jimmy Carter recommendation during energy crisis) = 20 C

It's also interesting that the US units of measure are defined in terms of metric. For instance there's no standard inch. The inch is defined as 25.4 mm.
On the other hand, this way they get to make fewer kinds of boxes, which means keeping less empty packages around the factory. They're depending on you to recycle that box. :-)
I'm procrastinating right now reading this post.
> Server fault community is now indignant about using their community ( which is for answering real questions ) as a deceptive marketing platform.

...for someone else's gain. Remember that the majority of employees at SO are selling advertisement. It is a huge marketing platform (that I use heavily, don't get me wrong)
So, in order to prevent people from assuming it was incorrect, they made it incorrect...
That was the one sentence that stood out to me as well. I can imagine this was an incident that had a high impact on "Fisher". I remember watching a live-stream of the incident broadcasted from the building on the other side of the road (which was thankfully the building where my friends stayed).

My friends went inside the school after the raid and took pictures that I can't get out of my head to this day. The whole building looked like a slaughterhouse with blood everywhere. Blood-stains on radiators indicating that peoples heads were repeatedly smashed against them. I also remember the screams you could hear on the live-stream. First it was people yelling "pacifisti" and then just screams for 20min until the screaming stopped and ambulances arrived.

That shit really paves the way for young activists continuous fight against facism of any kind.
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I guess part of the reason the hoax is annoying is that it usually couldn't happen. Recent versions of GNU coreutils rm will refuse to delete /, in order to avoid this kind of bug [1]. So if he was on a linux system like he described, his bug should not have had that effect. The question spreads misinformation (although a fairly harmless kind).

[1] This was added in 2006, apparently: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=af...
I can't speak for others, but for me smaller affectionate interactions are actually 'beyond' sex. If I'm in bed with a girl, or if it's clear that things are about to happen, my brain relaxes and I know pretty well what to do. But when it comes to smaller stuff, I don't know what's appropriate, to pick the right moment, to figure out the frequency, etc. So I prefer to just not think about it.

In fact, I'd go so far as saying that having sex is one of the few 'states' in which I feel that I can just let go and do the right things. It's one of the things I love about sex!
Excellent point. I should have been more specific.
I think that your second indented block, which is currently

<*>

, is supposed to be `<$>` (based on the rest of your discussion).
Not in Italy.
It's probably an educational issue as well. In the place where I came from, the people who ended up writing promotional copy were mostly humanities students in high school and university, but significant figures is considered an "intermediate" science topic not taught to humanities students.
Be careful when using a very small SSD or something like a CF card for a router. Enabling logging to disk can wear the flash memory out in a matter of weeks
This is a sincere question, I guess you read it and feel negative about it and down voted me?

My classmate used it for his master-degree paper, and I just want to know its status when AI is starting to really catch up these days.