skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
title is misleading, the gold nucleii collide to create the a quark-gluon-plasma (probably) which eventually cools and condenses to create these new particles which are made from regular old quarks and gluons like every other baryonic particle.

Rather than somehow magically creating a new form of matter from gold.

I guess the exciting part is that they contain a hyperon which is a baryon with one strange quark in it, in this case it looks like a lambda-bar which is gonna be made from anti up, down and strange quarks. Well that and you've managed to bind three of these anti-particles into an anti-Helium or anti-Hydrogen isotope
Spot on. I'm one of those who eventually adapted to the way people are. Mostly. I even came to see all these customs as "true", in a perverse sense, just because people do in fact hold them in their minds. But internally, I still distinguish between things that are true independently of human social wiring, and things that are only "so" because a lot of people think so. And my loyalty is still mostly to the former, and this probably does still limit me socially, and perhaps even career-wise. But I'm not sure I would feel better about giving in than I feel about being a little limited in those ways.
it doesn't really matter--if deals were done 'rationally', the numbers would get worse and the net effect would be the same. just make sure you're well informed..
Just chiming in - indeed an awesome idea. An element of suspense and a great way to get (more) excited about Django.
What's your native tongue?
I'd suppose they'd just use the apache version then.
> The accelerator pedal would have to be immovable, frozen in place.

In recent Toyota vehicles the pedal isn't connected to the throttle--it's drive by wire. In theory the computer could continue accelerating regardless of the gas pedal's position.
Agree about how Rotten Tomatoes lost its way. But Metacritic does a very good, clean quick aggregation of movie, TV, and game reviews:

http://www.metacritic.com
Getting Real is still sold as a physical book through self publishing marketplace Lulu.

Print on demand publishing is really easy and the value people place on having a hard copy makes it worth looking into as an extra sales channel.

I co-authored a book whose sales are largely driven by bulk orders from high schools. They would never buy 100 licenses for a PDF version, but are quite happy to buy 100 books to distribute to their students.

We considered only publishing it as an ebook, but having negotiated a favourable deal with a print on demand shop we're only selling it as a hard copy with very good margins.

If you outsource fulfillment, the process can be automated just like ebook sales.
Yes. Enterprise glueware. Python 2.6 Queue() objects just worked for my dataset.
When leaders become glory hounds
‘Web Stress’ is Bad for Business
All the time -- in Java, if you use java.util.concurrent, you don't have to deal with much of the complexity -- a LinkedBlockingQueue and producer-consumer pattern will solve 80% of real-world business threading problems just fine.

If you need to go beyond that, you've gotta make sure you understand the java memory model and the way monitors work -- or just put synchronized everywhere -- but that's still pretty straightforward once you get it all straight.
A very high percentage are in my experience. This person is mugging you, probably for drug money, because they don't give two shits about anyone but themselves.
you have to remember that this is not serving web pages - this is fetching and pushing data, which generally takes several seconds or even minutes. Having a clone take 45 seconds isn't really a big deal, but nobody would wait for a webpage load that long - it's a very different beast.

The overhead of a few hundred milliseconds is unnoticeable in almost all cases.
Amazing fact: After most of the Klingon-speaking scenes in Star Trek, the crew had to wipe spittle off the respective actors' faces.
Time to Start Taking the Internet Seriously
Thank you all for responding - this is a great community!
Set up a reverse proxy somewhere for your government friends to use.
Please forward your proof of this to Toyota and the congressional committee to which Toyota swore this was not the case.

It's tempting to blame drive by wire, since electronics is black magic to most people. Keep in mind that most passenger jets in the sky are fly by wire, these days.

For you to point blank claim this to be true, when it's been flatly denied several times, seems a bit over the top, don't you think?
Multi threaded servers on video dispatch devices. Simulations of processors. Convertions to processes from threads for a video display utility. Embedded display utility. Robotic control devices.

They're a hammer. I suggest people also learn the screwdriver (process based development) well enough they can make a choice between nails and screwdrivers.
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Prompted by today's XKCD, most likely.
Ahh. I see. Thanks for that explanation.
it's rather that many nerds easily assume an authoritative tone when voicing their opinion.

i think
"Every man, woman, and child in the U.S. has approximately a one-in-8000 chance of perishing in a car accident every year. Over a decade, that's about one in 800. Given the millions of cars included in the Toyota recalls and the fewer than 20 alleged deaths over the past decade, the alleged fatality rate is about one death per 200,000 recalled Toyotas. Even if all the alleged deaths really are resultant from vehicle defects—highly unlikely—and even if all the worst things people are speculating about Toyotas are true, and you're driving one, and you aren't smart or calm enough to shift to neutral if the thing surges, you're still approximately 250 times likelier to die in one of these cars for reasons having nothing to do with unintended acceleration. So if you can muster the courage to get into a car and drive, the additional alleged risk of driving a Toyota is virtually negligible..."

The rest is in the C&D article referenced, I believe, by the author:

http://www.caranddriver.com/news/car/10q1/toyota_recall_scan...
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The term 'web designer' means different things to different people.

Expanding the term web to website - creates: 'website designer'. And it reads as someone that can design websites. It doesn't even imply that they can create or implement them!

I think of the expression in more holistic terms. But I don't know many individuals who are experts at all the parts. Finding a team of people with a blend of skills that complement each other, is the holy grail in my opinion.

Two print designers, come web designers I have worked with have both been excellent contributers to web projects. One heavily focuses on the look and feel, html and css. The other is gifted in the looks department and is a competent programmer. It took them both a while for them to get the hang of a new medium, but they love it. It does take a while for print designers to understand the elasticity of a web page, some find it hard to relinquish pixel perfection.

I can realise a site design from paper based mockups, bitmaps and vectors. I'd struggle to create a visual design myself but can work with an artist that understands 'web design' principles.

While it may be a nice idea to create 'out of the box' designs, you are still bound to your medium. Understanding that medium's strengths, weaknesses and conventions is very important.

So I'd like to emphasise the point again, that a mult-disiplined team can all contribute something good to a site. That's certainly my experience anyway. Someone without a clue about html or css, may still be the perfect person to organise and map content.
In what way does this analysis of a caricature (based on sitcom character!) resemble reality? Is this really the most sophisticated thing we can say? that "nerds" don't like society because it's illogical?

Color me underwhelmed.
"I think" implies that it is just your opinion and that others may think differently. Omitting it implies certanty and fact. You may think that those two words have no meaning, but to many people they say a lot. Most people are not literal. Their words are loaded with additional layers of meaning.

For example, "I think the world was created 6k years ago," is a very non-threatening statement. It's just an opinion and by stating that it's just your thought, you imply that it's okay that others think differently. If you had said, "The world was created 6k years ago," you are stating a fact and inviting disagreement.

It is not about differentiating fact from opinion, but rather not understanding what implications you words have. "Sometimes what wasn't said is more important than what was said." The stereotypical geek might not understand
that, preferring a literal interpretation of everything.

Note: I caught myself using, "I think," three times when writing this comment.
Why I like Windows Phone 7 (so far)
A surplus of ideas is as dangerous as a drought
Its much easier later in life. Most successful businesses are founded when the founders are in their 40s.
Apple's Newton is sooo doomed...
Rental Cars: As Sanitary as a Public Restroom?
jeez, the tone of that article is absolutely absurd.
Try to make the handoffs between threads as coarse-grained as possible. Passing data between threads means your thread acquires some lock, leaves the data there, then the other thread has to acquire the lock before getting the data -- both situations could involve a thread blocking and going to "blocked", then "runnable", then finally at some point in the future actually being executed and doing their work. If the tasks you're parcelling out are too fine grained and require too much communication, the scheduling overhead will outweigh the parallelism -- and you could be getting effectively singlethreaded performance plus overhead.
The Mythbusters tried to slam a car into reverse at speed. What they discovered, is that there are safety mechanisms to prevent this from happening in automatics.

http://mythbustersresults.com/episode84
It's probably because it is possible to pass on a statement of fact by speaking it too.

To me personally not putting I think before my statements of opinion, as opposed to fact, seems weird.

I think Firefly is the best Sci Fi show ever

and

Firefly is the best Sci Fi show ever

Are 2 completely different statements :)
Really? I think it was an article here (maybe, maybe not, I'm pretty hung over today) that mentioned that the problem was that the primary and backup pedal position sensors' wires could short and max out.
Hypothesis: That's when something triggered inside of Google and it started tracking the trend (based on a build-up of volume? news? sitting in the queue for a while), and the steep initial slope is not real but a relic of the graph going from 0 to whatever their first recorded data point is.

shrug
They should add a <noscript> tag to the page and say "Hey you should be using javascript if you want to see this page."
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I bet there is a mechanical/electrical issue that is blown way out of proportion, and human error in some of these issues.

Once I accidentally slammed on the gas thinking it was the brake. (I got confused switching from a manual transmission to an automatic.) It was scary...the car jumped a curb and my driver's ed teacher was furious. He slammed his brake and it stopped the car.
Very little.

Also, in my experience (including personal experience in the past and observing friends handling the same difficulties now), most of the inability to fit meet social norms is driven by fear more than any other factor.
The answer to the question "Why no Prolog?" is simpler, the organizers set up simple default guaranteed-to-compile "starter" packages for several languages. One surprise was that a Haskell package was included, though it used the antique ghc-6.8. The default way of entering the contest was simply to send back the unaltered starter program, and set about hacking and re-entering from there.

(I entered as the completest Haskell noob imaginable, and was surprised that by making the most elementary revision of the package (which gave your bot the bold strategy of going straight north til it crashed) I managed to place in the top 2/3s. Basically I told it, "if it's the wall, don't go there, take the first of the others available" -- maybe one or two other things. Every klutzy attempt at further 'intelligence' ran into time trouble since I don't yet have any feeling for that kind of optimization. So the package would be excluded as Timed Out if was too slow in too many contests. I consoled myself thinking: At least I my entries never suffered the indignity of the other rejection notice: Garbage Collected)
Tell HN: (spec) US cancels visas of Jamaicans over delayed extradition request?
http://www.tribune242.com/news/03042010_alJamaica_news_pg3

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Wayne-Chen-s-visa-cancelled_7450205

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100305/lead/lead8.html
Context? I have a natural tendency to start sentences with "I think" and the like, and I have to fight myself to NOT to use such phrasing on the job. Every "perhaps," "maybe," "why don't we ... ?" opens a door through which the other party can force his own agenda, I've found. This advice doesn't work in business.
Can someone explain to me why Congress gets involved in investigating things like Toyota's manufacturing defects or the way college football teams are ranked?

Does Congress have a legal mandate to investigate anything it deems to be interesting/fishy/a potential target for legislation? Has Congress always conducted these types of investigations or is it a modern phenomenon?
If you were creative and knew something about cars, you could pull one of many fuses from the fuse box. On cars I've serviced, the computer fuse is always in the driver kick panel, so just rip off that panel and start yanking fuses while watching the road.

Unfortunately, this is probably considerably more dangerous than driving while on your cellphone.
car complexity is exploding; its not far fetched. Of course it's denied.
Complaints of out of control acceleration increased several times over after moving to DbW and some recent complaints have noted that no floor mats were in the vehicle (which makes it hard to blame on floor mats):

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/29/business/la-fi-toyot...

Toyota is claiming it's not the DbW system, but they also thought they had this issue fixed a long time ago. It's a hard thing to prove unless you see it yourself (unlike a broken cable like we used to have before DbW).

Even Woz thinks is the DbW software:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10445564-64.html?tag=mncol...
I've designed systems like this. You use redundant potentiometers to sense throttle position. If they don't match within 5%, you power down.

You also toggle bits in your code. One in the main loop, another in any interrupt service routine that you are dependent upon. These bits then go to a GPIO so that the GPIO toggles. If the ISR freezes or the main loop freezes, the GPIO quits toggling. You then have an hardware, RC-Diode type circuit, that stays high if it's input toggles, but goes low, if it's input goes low and stays low, or goes high and stays high. The output of this circuit drives a relay, so that if the CPU quits toggling the GPIO, the relay clicks off. The output of that relay is a dead-man's switch that powers down the vehicle. The end result is a hardware fail-safe if the CPU misbehaves. There are other tests to confirm that the relay isn't frozen, that the RC-Diode circuit isn't frozen, etc.

So, in theory, if a high-school sophomore designed the vehicle, you might have a problem. Otherwise, I think you don't give the engineers that design these systems enough credit.
A quick and dirty experiment:
I find it helpful that when you are aware of a distraction, it is only helpful to let it flower and watch it blossom. That may be challenging to try, but instead keep a text editor or a blank sheet of paper nearby, in which you could write down your "distractions" as they come by. Tell yourself you will attend to this later and keep writing everything down to complete your thoughts. Come back to this paper later and see your "distractions" - I bet if you got rid that paper, you might not have missed that much.
I wouldn't say "denialism/do-nothing-ism" is unique to HN... If anything, there's a ton of people who say someone needs to do something about climate change... but they themselves are oh too busy driving to work and being in front of an electronic device all day.
Neither would I, but there's a lot of sick fucks out there and there's no telling what they'll do if they have you in a submissive spot. I particularly don't want them knowing where I live. Plenty of people have gotten killed because they got robbed and they didn't have enough money to satiate the thief.
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At the risk of sounding an ass-kisser, this is good, but not as good as PG's Why Nerds are Unpopular ( http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html )

I tend to think of sociability more in terms of the opportunity cost of Chinese-Walling blackboxed components. The cost of the time it takes to learn the muddled API of mores is the time that could be spent learning those muddled API's we actually find fascinating.

It is recursively self-reinforcing as well. An hour spent in hacking Smalltalk will get you more immediate and interesting (to us) results than an hour rehearsing small talk. Which choice will look more appealing the next time? Almost inevitably you will focus on those things that you're already good at, that provide tangible rewards.
Clickable links:

http://www.tribune242.com/news/03042010_alJamaica_news_pg3

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Wayne-Chen-s-visa-cancel...

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100305/lead/lead8.h...
I identify with this! but things are still early for me. Can't resist climbing on all these steep learning curves, but often that means finishing later than those who approach the same problem using familiar tools. I'm hoping that with time having taken on all these challenges will translate into better output - sounds like in your case it has.

I had a great piano teacher who was genius with harmony. He approached jazz standards in this split way, simultaneously obsessive about grasping higher abstractions and about digging into the piano on a low level. (I guess grokking in retrospect.) One thing I left with was the idea that speed and excellence in something come from fluency with it, but getting fluent can take a long time, and you'll be slow and unfinished before you're close.
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Prefixing a statement with "I think" signals that you are open to alternate theories. Without this prefix, social rules like "silence implies agreement" kick in.
All the time. Almost every asynchronous call in .NET uses the process threadpool. Also, anything with a UI typically needs to use a least a few worker threads to remain response while doing real work.
McIntyre's Official Report to the UK Climategate Inquiry
Leaving out "I think" tends to make people think that you are stating a fact that you learned somewhere or somehow, and that it's a step above a "normal opinion"; if that makes any sense. The offense comes in the future as well when they discover you told them something wrong with out the "I think" prefix. Stating opinion as fact is a sure fire way to loose the trust of colleagues.
In fencing, there is an odd thing called "right of way". It works like this, a touch is only valid if you presented your intent to attack and thus gained right of way. It is a very subtle thing, but it has a very important implications for the sport.

It exists because the first person to score a touch gets the point. If right-of-way didn't exist then the right thing to do when your opponent goes for your head would be to poke him very quickly on the arm or torso and just take the blow to the head. If you hit him first, it would be your point. This is pretty silly though and would be an artifact of the stylization of fencing. No rational person would opt to get a small cut on the opponents arm or chest in exchange for a large gash on their head.

In a bloody duel, 90% of your energy needs to be focused on not getting hit. It would be a hollow victory if you got yourself just as cut up as your opponent.

This was always a problem when fencing with new fencers. They didn't understand the right of way and didn't know how to read your actions, so it was very easy to go for a blow and get slapped on the side for it. I'd get the point for having right of way, and I'd have to explain what a silly move it was. Yes, they hit me first, but they still got hit.

It's even harder to parry a knife than a sword. Be ready to bleed.
This is a great short overview of a lot of the issues involved in Climategate in a condensed, factual, easy-to-read form. It's easily better than most of what else has been written on the subject.
My brother in the Army can still see it, so it's apparently not all government.

By the way, he can't get to Hacker News.
> If nerds become the dominant consumer of any given entertainment, it's fucking doomed.

I'm not sure I understand this statement. I don't see the gaming industries (card-, board-, and video- varieties) going out of business. I'd even go as far as saying nerds popularized many of these.
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I've been beginning to suspect this as well, mainly because of all the media coverage this has been getting.

If this theory is true, it's saddening because Toyota's image is completely tarnished in many people's eyes, and they won't be able to recover from this for years (if ever).
The mainstream media does not understand the internet? Incomprehensible!
... And yet there are out of control cars without the pedal being stuck.

"Well, I have many models of Prius that got recalled, but I have a new model that didn't get recalled. This new model has an accelerator that goes wild, but only under certain conditions of cruise control. And I can repeat it over and over and over again--safely."

"This is software. It's not a bad accelerator pedal. It's very scary, but luckily for me, I can hit the brakes," he said.

-- Steve Wozniak

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10445564-64.html
Good article, but I found this one line surprising:

..many nerds actually like being interrupted in mid-sentence when they're wrong..

I don't feel that way (semi-nerd). Do you?
It's Jon. Sorry.
But isn't that an indication that most people are in fact very literal?

Isn't it far more indicative of layers of meaning when someone distinguishes between fact and opinion without literal markers?
Mostly personal projects. A web crawler (multiple crawl threads) and a graphical display (network thread, rendering thread, periodic data processing thread).
You usually design so that a single point of failure can't hurt you. If one position sensor (they use pots, since they're practically indestructable and not vulnerable to ESD, power transients, etc) fails, you sense the problem with the other sensor. They're not "primary and backup", they're both equally important.

You postulate that both sensors short out at the exact same instant, since any other scenario would power down the vehicle. They did it within milliseconds of each other, and they did it at some intermediate, yet believable level. (They didn't "peg at maximum", as that would also alert the software there was a problem. Instead they pegged, identically, at some believable value.

I'll take the other side of that bet any day.
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It will get a spike from today's XKCD, which will sadly probably be higher than the spike it receives when the thing is finally solved.