skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With LoL being the most popular video game in the world right now, it's also the most relevant game of all time. How they build and test it is fascinating.

I've played this game for 7+ years now and as a programmer love to hear about all this. A Rioter said a couple years ago that they used Erlang[0] and as a longtime Erlang (and now Elixir) admirer and tinkerer that was great to know my favorite game uses it.

[0]https://erlangcentral.org/scaling-league-of-legends-chat-to-...
> If you actually email the users, I guarantee they'll tell you that isn't their real public key.

Have you tried emailing them to test your theory?
This quote made my day, thanks! And after coming across headlines about Wren before, this post makes me interested.
That's a start, but until you can let people stop having to pick between voting their conscience and voting out of fear, the parties and incumbents can still wield a lot of power, IMHO. Having an election that lets people rank their preferences could remove the voting out of fear and let us actually focus on voting for our hopes and our ideals.
Well, let's have fun with the words you chose. Hobby Lobby is famously a "closely-held family business"... and it has 23,000 employees and $3.3bn in annual revenue. I'm not going to lose sleep over that being subject to taxation, and though someone could spin it as "mom and pop's family crafts store", it would be disingenuous to do so.
Inevitably there will be too much content to digest, though. At that point we might create services that offer smaller "blogs," with limited-length content. Maybe call them "microblogs."
I would argue that it doesn't matter if the bulk of use is though closed interactions like web mail providers.

Usage defines the capability. Just like anything.
Yes, but removal of units from the long-term lease market is not a reason for the problem; it is the consequence of imbalance caused by regulation (of zoning and now also rent control in Berlin).

Berlin overall is an anomaly in Germany; during the Cold War division of Germany to BRD and DDR, living in Berlin was heavily subsidized, and that still shows up in the planning, the structures and the market. But the impact of a 40-year "siege" is going away now 25 years after it ended, and at the same time the capital has moved to Berlin, along with lots of administration and related jobs and businesses.
For $1000 and $30 a month, anybody in the world could hire someone to setup and maintain a personal email server.

Of course being user owned, by definition users should be allowed to outsource their email service to large companies, and they do, because it's a lot cheaper that way.

But an email server they own themselves, with their own rules, own display preferences, compatible with billions of other email accounts, is well within their reach. And millions of people do just that.
Any ideas on how this is different from compose.io's offering: https://compose.io/postgresql/?

Hourly billing?
Or we could do away with the idea of giving people stock that they can't ever legally sell.
By "opportunities" do you mean "funding?"
But that doesn't say anything about the person in academia who writes a speculative generic research paper about a way too simple implementation of a decision tree. I don't want to demean that accomplishment, but for me it would be hard to have sustained excitement from that. Also I think that a counter argument is that just because the initial work of X, Y and Z algorithm were sketched out in academia, they still very much so would have been scaled in industry once the actual need has been found for them.
Some of them have legit self-sigs. Also cosmic rays?
Check your monitor gamma and white level using something like this: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/gamma_calibration.php

You might be crushing whites, or just have incorrect gamma.
CEO Warren Buffett says he agrees that dealing with climate change is important for society, but he doesn’t think climate change creates serious risks for Berkshire’s insurance businesses.

Buffett says the fact that Berkshire generally writes insurance policies for one-year periods allows it to regularly re-evaluate risks, such as climate change.

Misleading title.
I have a positive view of Harris and this is the first time I've encountered this line of criticism. She doesn't sound like an "anti-drug warrior" [1]. What examples do you have in mind?

[1]: http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2015/05/19/kamala-harri...
A part of the problem in London is the strength of rule of law, which means that rich people from everywhere in the world are storing nest eggs there by buying property, even if they don't live in that property. Almost every dictator, oligarch and prince of an oil-rich country puts in a stake, and smaller-scale money - which is still big scale - also finds a safe haven in the London property market.

I don't really think this has much significant impact on the housing shortage and pricing there, but some part of the housing stock there is owned by people who don't actually live there, and who can afford to keep it vacant just in case they need to move in one day.
I did a little easier than that. I picked two people at random with vanity domains (assuming they'd advertise their key on their site) and did a keyserver lookup for them, and noticed that two keys were submitted to the keyserver on the same exact day for both of them: the broken one from this Web site, and the other one that they advertise as their PGP key. Same key type, same size, same date, same UIDs, different fingerprints.

Not really data, but interesting nonetheless to OP's point (and, if true, a little more ammo in my disliking-keyservers gun).

The real data is how often the exponent 281479271743489 appears on that page. That really points toward bugs in key generation, IMO. Bad gpg at some point?
> simple, nationally run zoning laws

> Yakuza to thank for that

Your pithy one-liner isn't very enlightening. Could you elaborate?
I absolutely agree. It's ironic that we move to the places we fall in love with, only to modify them to our own needs. But this is the history of cities. It should always be up to local communities to accept or reject us. In a way, you can measure the strength of local culture by how it assimilates outsiders. Conversely, you can probably gauge the strength of an outside culture by how resistant it is to local assimilation. Of course, purchasing power speaks many languages.
I have really enjoyed Scala. The more depth I gain in the language, the more I appreciate it. It has the ability to be compact without being overly terse, and is very readable if you don't get too crazy with using symbol overloading and overly-complicated types.
Every right of first refusal clause I've ever been subjected to or subjected others to has had a thirty day deadline, so I don't think this is accurate. It's unlikely that the set of companies I worked for / founded was that unrepresentative.

Mind you, when I did do a sale on the secondary market, it always took the full thirty days for the company to approve.
Oh wow, your recall rate is excellent. Thank you, Citizen! The advertising is working!
I think we should limit the presidency to, one, six year term. That way they don't need to worry about getting re-elected and playing it safe.
I'm actually of the opinion that when we can't scale smaller we will then scale horizontally/laterally.

More transistors, larger chips.

We have bought so much physical space going smaller and smaller - and I think a lot of people will happily pay for a thicker iPhone if it's not more room allocated for a larger battery.

Eventually - when that becomes ridiculous - we will write better software. More likely we'll buy an extra couple years after the end of Moore's Law and Intel will make some unexpected breakthroughs to go smaller again.

Color me cynical?
you dramatize well.
I agree with you that Redrick "Red" Schuhart is a better character. It's a great novel. I wish someone would make a film out of it that was faithful to the book.

The story about the Strugatskys' involvement in the film is interesting, actually. During principal photography, Tarkovsky had not just one, but two catastrophic incidences with his film stock, which was out of date. The Soviet film processing technology was limited compared to the rest of the world, and in fact he had to fight with the labs to convince them that the stock was bad. He had shot film for weeks, now ruined, and was running out of money, and was having an existential crisis. He managed to convince the Soviet culture ministry (or whoever it was that oversaw funding) that he was instead going to make it a two-part film, and therefore needed more money. Meanwhile, Tarkovsky was making large modifications to the original script, which was in fact fairly faithful to the novel when he started out, and moving increasingly away from the source material.

Arkady traveled to meet Tarkovsky, and worked closely with him through several iterations — which Tarkovsky wasn't happy with — before eventually convincing Tarkovsky that maybe they should just drop the science fiction stuff. He loved the idea (which he admitted he himself had been considering but didn't mention for fear of insulting the Strugatskys), and Arkady and Boris went back and wrote a kind of minimal script, mostly consisting of dialogue, that was less science-fiction-based and more abstract and philosophical. It was a breakthrough for Tarkovsky, who had felt restricted by the original material (much as he had with Solyaris), and with the authors' (mostly Arkady's; Boris seems to have been less happy with the whole ordeal) blessing finally felt free to do what he really wanted.

(For more behind-the-scenes gossip, there's more in The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue by Vida T. Johnson and Graham Petrie [1].)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Films-Andrei-Tarkovsky-Visual-Fugue/dp...
Yes, let's go the OP that I addressed. Nowhere have I made claims supporting the original articles conclusions. Only claims supporting emotional contagion that was dismissed out of hand by Geekette.

>I think the concept of “emotional contagion” is a stretch. I simply do not believe that empirically[1], people who smell sweat excreted by frightened people will also feel fear.

Is this a reasonable statement without doing any prior research? This is a rejection without reason given prior evidence to the contrary.

My response was simply that it's absurd to reject an entire idea without doing any prior research. I'm sure you'd agree with that so I have to imagine we're just engaging in mental grad student masturbation that we've all been trained to do. But let's address your points.

> Two studies that show statistically significant effects for a total of ~60 people smelling odors from two different conditions (fear and disgust) is not nearly enough evidence to back up an assertion as broad as "smell is important in social bonding,"

I, nor the studies I linked, claimed this.

>"Statistical significance" is not a substitute for critical thought on how much evidence stands for and against the hypothesis.

Evidence against has yet to be presented.

>If I set up two experiments that showed that gravity doesn't exist, p=0.04 for both, would you set aside the totality of the evidence saying it does?

This is an absurd hypothetical. Our prior for knowledge about emotional contagion via smell is uninformed. We see two studies supporting the idea, can we conclude the idea is true? Of course not, but it's even more absurd to claim the exact opposite as Geekette did.

>You set up a strawman by saying that I'm asking the impossible—that large-scale behavioral cohorts must be assembled for preliminary studies. I'm not. I'm simply expecting some honesty in how people report the conclusions of preliminary studies.

We've had a bit of misunderstanding here. You argue against the original article and presume I'm defending it. I'm not, it's mediocre reporting that widely extrapolates these studies. All I suggested was that dismissing something out of hand is absurd without doing research.

>You are incorrect, probably because you did not read past the abstract.

Sorry I confused the controls in the studies. Check the other which used a sport sweat control.

As fun as this is I'm not going to continue past here.
Spring Framework!?! Really? If you fetishize abstraction, maybe: http://docs.spring.io/autorepo/docs/spring/2.5.x/api/org/spr...

To me the Spring Framework represents everything wrong with the Java way of doing things.
What a singularly useless response.

Disagreeing is fine, but "breathless drivel"? Come on, this isn't reddit.
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Tarkovsky was using outdated film stock and had two separate shoots ruined — he had a very hard time even convincing the Soviet film labs that the stock was bad. I didn't know that they actually kept some of the material, that's very interesting.
The EU cookie policy and its non-existent design unity is driving me crazy
I'm with you on this one. I feel my time would be better spent watching Glenn Beck mash his face into a plate of Cheetos (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/glenn-beck-cheetos-vid...) than reading this ridiculous analysis of demographics.

The whole thing was insultingly naive when making statements, and completely without any foundation when trying to make bold claims.
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So, to be clear, you're predicting that quantum computers will work on exactly the same code but give a magical speedup?

Seems naive to me.

Quantum computers may work in analogous ways, but making predictions about what you'll need to know is presumptuous. `factor` is the easiest way to use a quantum computer in an "api" sense and, by itself, isn't very useful at all.
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Jesus Christ....
It's 15 times cheaper ($23 vs $353 monthly for 4GB RAM). Assuming the pricing on that page doesn't change too much.
Show HN: Wooden cluster chassi
oh this will be a smart move.. FLOW from microsoft looks cool
Other than the "code smell", what do you see as the main dangers of using "__asm volatile" rather than just "__asm"? Assuming that there are cases where I do get significantly better performance from specifying the exact ordering of instructions, what can I do to minimize these dangers while keeping the better performance?
I think that some webcam indicator lights are vulnerable to remote disabling. Although it is certainly possible that some are not, I and most other users have no way of knowing which lights are reliable, and which ones are vulnerable.

As such, I put a Band-Aid over my webcam.

Now if only I could figure out an equally easy way to reliably disable my laptop microphone without opening up the laptop and cutting the cable.
You make it sound so easy. From [1]:

Let’s look at one of those deals in detail.
In 2004, Frank McCourt sold 23 acres of open
parking lots on the South Boston waterfront to
News Corp. for $145 million ... Two years later,
News Corp. sold the same land ... to Morgan
Stanley for $204 million. ... When the
BRA [Boston Redevelopment Authority] approved
the Seaport Square Master Plan, paving the way
for major development of midsize towers in 2010,
the land finally had real value. ... To limit
speculating, the BRA could have made Morgan
Stanley’s Seaport approvals non-transferrable.
But it didn’t.

Instead, over the next five years, Morgan Stanley
parceled out its 23 ... acres ... for a total
of $654 million. ...

After changing so many hands, ... housing, like
at Waterside Place, where a 598-square-foot
one-bedroom can be all yours for $2,685 per month.

Where the ellipses ("...") have been added for brevity.

When the people who are engaging in housing development are
shaping policy to maximize short term profit, this is the
result.

I don't have a clear understanding of how to prevent this
from happening but my strong suspicion is that better
government regulation needs to be in place that holds
the public interest at heart.

Disclaimer: I live in the Boston area.

[1] http://www.bostonmagazine.com/property/article/2016/02/21/bo...
I believe OVH offering will be cheaper, and hourly billing but only available in Europe. While compose.io's offering have more locations (US, Europe, Asia, etc).

It is good to see more and more PostgreSQL as Service offering.
Or a better way to put it in my own opinion: in the early days of any emerging technology, most of the founding members have little clue what to do except the concepts and ideas, so implementing toolsets which can be used on both quantum computers and non-quantum computers will be a learn-on-job work for most people, leaving a very very very small pools of experts who devoted his/her life to this area.
Dietary+and+tasty.+Quick+casserole
IBM estimated in the '90s that an average desktop computer experienced soft-errors from cosmic rays (energetic neutrons striking a memory cell or data bus, perturbing it enough to flip a bit) at a rate of 1 incident/per 256 Megs of RAM/per month
Because it's a good 800 km from Tokyo, and 4 hours one-way even by bullet train. And because, A-bomb sites and Miyajima aside, there's not all that much of interest in the city of nearby.

On the other side of the coin, I also find it a bit odd to describe Hiroshima as a cliché. Quite the opposite, it's near-unique: Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only cities ever attacked with nuclear bombs, and you can't get the experience of visiting them anywhere else.
Yes, I think we need to go in this direction. The problem is that the container system is yet another tool for researchers to learn. The first step is to get everyone using VCS and nightly testing. Many are still at the point of clumsily written, old Fortran code that gets emailed around and exists in N different variants. (Not that there is anything wrong with Fortran.) Many are at the point where if you email them a link to a git repo to clone, they're clueless about what to do.
OVH also release PaaS DB MySQL https://www.runabove.com/PaaSDBMySQL.xml
That's hardly fair. It's one thing to make an anonymous accusation like: "He touched me inappropriately", but troisx follows more of a "I think <these facts> are pretty awful", and does not rely on him or his experience to any extent.

I really don't think Dan acted out of a conflict-of-interest, and in general I agree with the substance of his reply -- but a public chastising was out of place here.
IIRC there are ISA changes that need to be finalised before the support goes upstream. The support is already developed and available on github though.
Thanks! I'll try to add one later this week, I've been meaning to :)
I read abt this quite a bit, the refutation is attacking a small portion of the data, because that small portion is trendy and hot in politics.

Judging academically, the original paper and the refuting paper is a healthy debate, but the dynamic of the society and politics ab-use them to attack a whole school of thought at large (the austrian school: less bailout, less intervention by government, less control over everything) in favor of keynesian school (more bailout, more government spending, more public debt, especially in recession and crisis).

Anyway, it remains a controversy, because theoretically one can do what one wants, but once it involves policy and real life matters, it is hard to argue for what method is right and what is wrong, in the presence of so many (ready to b angry) interest groups.
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> CISC has always been much nicer to hard write assembly code in than RISC is.

I don't see this. Do you have any examples? x86 was only "nicer" for the first 10 hours of assembly—and if you're writing your own (dis)assembler, it's about 10x harder than any risc. It's also much harder to compute cycle time, which is the only reason I can think of to be staring at assembly for multiple hours (as opposed to e.g. c).

It's also much harder to get "good" at x86, and it mostly consists of learning the subset of x86 that is actually optimized in the way you might expect. The vast majority of instructions you shouldn't be using at all.
Where did the Etruscans come from? The genetic clues are piling up
This was obviously written by an insecure 40 year old. Let's tar and feather him.
The central tension alluded to here is "database people" vs "big data people". Which is a real dichotomy – as a "big data person" I've got a lot of leverage out of going "c'mon, we don't need Hadoop, we just need a relational database here, let's use Postgres", which is an option which gets culturally dismissed rather than on technical grounds. Me, I'm happy that I get to do less work and look clever while I'm doing it, but...

Marketing and cultural positioning matter. That really isn't news. But when people have identity invested in denying that, on both sides, it's difficult to overcome.
Waste heat could possibly replace natural gas for heating. Eventually that won't be enough, but I'm sure by the time it becomes a problem we'll figure something out.
US has a pretty strong political leverage in most of europe. 1.Believable defence against Russia is built on the existence of Nato and the US forces it brings. 2. I guess there is still a sense of goodwill involved. US funds helped to rebuild europe after ww2 to stopgap Soviet Union. 3. Economic threat (not direct, but latent). 4. Personal reputation. I guess being too anti US is considered a faux pass in various places.
Do you have anything to back up that it's the refugees who put pressure on the market?

Refugees usually don't have enough money to compete on the open rental market in Berlin's central districts. They can apply for "WBS" which can get them an apartment that is subsidized by the state (for which the landlord has to apply upfront) and which tend not to be in the center anymore but in low-income areas where landlords have an incentive to enter that contract with the state - they are sure that they get the rent every month on time in contrast to fighting for months to get rid of tenants who default on their rent.

250 applications coming in over night were already common 5 years ago. I remember that in 2001 I was seeing an apartment together with about 50 other interested people - the ad had been up since the day before 3pm...
I was hoping this would be about PLace Oriented Programming (PLOP) which confuses identity with state. It's a problem for OOP in general, where the identity of objects is predicated on their particular state. The talk http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic... goes over the idea in more detail.
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