skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for mentioning it! I couldn't figure out how to shoehorn the book description into my comment.

Another point which I think is interesting from the original article is social status signaling. Every city does it slightly differently.

For instance, in the Bay Area, you signal social status by talking about the hot startups you founded, the companies you worked for, and the open source projects you contribute to.

In LA, you signal by the kind of car you drive, the famous people you know, and the kind of clothes you wear (I know, I'm generalizing).

People who move from one area to the other have a harder time making friends, getting jobs, and getting dates cause the signals they send off are all wrong from what others are expecting.
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I found this hard to read and quite honestly gave up midway because of all the excessive quoting.
I use Thoughtbot's Laptop. https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop
This made bot deployment much easier than before, spares additional time needed for tricky deployment and allows to focus on bot development.
We do. But Portugal also has far less severe sentences for murder: maximum 25 years.[1] But it would be inaccurate to say that Portugal has "legalized" murder.

Portugal has decriminalized possession, and the Netherlands has a policy of non-prosecution for possession. But even in the U.S. mere possession is rarely punished with prison time (much less extended sentences and 3-strikes penalties): http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/ame.... And when it comes to things other than possession, the Netherlands does prosecute. The Netherlands conducts about 5,000 marijuana raids every year: http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/ame....

I'm not being merely pedantic. In my opinion, pointing out that Portugal and the Netherlands "legalized drugs" isn't just technically inaccurate, it's a red herring. The real problem is our law enforcement's over-the-top militarism and brutal penalties across-the-board. Law enforcement in the Netherlands doesn't choke people to death for selling untaxed cigarettes--that doesn't mean the problem in the U.S. is that selling untaxed cigarettes is illegal. The real story isn't that Portugal has decriminalized drug possession and why can't we be like that.[1] It's that Portugal rarely even enforces prison sentences under 5 years! Why can't we be like that?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_(Portuguese_law)
> that its proximity is pulling a lot of resources away from mostly Oslo

I can confirm that, some companies I interviewed with in Sweden had Norwegian roots/owners. Two reasons: Sweden is cheaper and is part of EU.
Yes. Each document is separate API. Paid plans support multiple sheets/tabs. Also, on the paid plan you've got bigger quota of available APIs/Sheets you can create and number of hits you can perform to each API.
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> The engineers contend that Apple devices basically don’t return bogus data.

It's much easier to pretend that this is the case when the file system isn't verifying it.

Checksumming would probably expose problems that would otherwise go unnoticed by users or be blamed on computer gremlins. It's hard to say if doing the "correct" thing here would improve the subjective user experience. Maybe putting on airs of infallibility is the more profitable route.
In what way are emotions a dependency on getting anything done? The AI could be like the high-functioning sociopath who doesn't actually experience the subjective feeling of emotion but has learned all the physical cues that convey a given emotion. An AI would execute them flawlessly.
Your definition of reason is different than the law's definition of reason. Under your definition of reason, you'd lose your house because of a typo in your name on the deed.
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You are, I'd guess? :D
if anyone has questions, feel free to ask, some of us developers are here - like a "ask me anything" :)
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Thanks! May objects not bring you any unwanted gifts! :)
A number of high-profile, consumer-centric sites/services were completely offline for around an hour throughout what appears to be a large portion of Europe.

Seems like a fair statement to me

(Dublin, Ireland - a heap of sites and service were completely offline, including hackernews, whatsapp, and reddit)
Correction: ethermine, much to my delight, has enabled individual voting. (I don’t know about the others.)
It was nice to hear a little behind the scenes. I'd be curious to hear any analytics about unique visitors, etc so far from the O'Reilly post if you can share.
Thank you! Things are going great in DC - I happen to be in NYC for ICML this week though, where things are also going pretty great! :)
Garbage collection is an idea. It can be slower, or faster, than other memory management techniques depending on implementation and specific usage.

Functional programming languages do not _require_ a GC. They just largely have it.

"Fibers" like you linked in the presentation (m:n green thread scheduling) have been in use for decades. Many, many languages other than C++ have had them for over a decade. Go is built on them.

Functional languages _can be_ better for multicore because of referential transparency. As a game dev you are used to working on 4-8 cores. Some of us work on 40-80 cores * 10k machines and have been for years. Much of your complaints such as immutable data overhead make sense if it let's you work on 10x more cores at the same time. I will also point out that immutable data _really_ is not 10x slower, unless you think those Haskell micro bench marks are all lies.
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CF seems fair, redundancy is a thing.
true, though there is a difference....

SA will capture issues related to the implementation but in itself it has no knowledge of application-specific behaviour.

Tests on the other hand do have application-specific knowledge and this is where their value lies.
I launched a free API 4 years ago, and in January 2015 I introduced paid plans, which offered several benefits over the free service.

I have done no actual marketing, but the website ranks somewhat okay in search queries. It keeps growing every month, and recently passed $10k/month in profits. This is from pretty much word of mouth via stackoverflow or from google searches.

From this experience I can say that if your service is competitively priced, good, and needed by a somewhat large audience, even with no marketing you can turn a profit really fast.
Basically it's hard to use a Cray node as a stand-alone server. Yes it runs linux, but it has no storage, no external network. There is the so-called cluster compatibility mode but bottom line everything is a scheduled batch job in a very walled garden.
The question asks only about *nix systems, I assume, but it worth mentioning that there is a great tool for Windows too, just in case if someone needs it - https://chocolatey.org/
Can anyone point me to why they chose TCP over UDP. I mean if a packet is resent several seconds later, it's of no use so why waste bandwidth on TCP overhead and unnecessary ACKs?
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The point is about the small shops network in Paris. They are a vital part of the city culture, the social cohesion, the charm of Paris. The city recognize the convenience of Amazon, they are not banned. They city also recognize its commercial aggressiveness and want to protect small shops from it. Not because small shops are cute but because they are an important part of the culture and economy of the city.
This seems like a bad idea. It looks like the author is attempting to reinvent java in C (there is no c++ here) because he really likes c# or java.

Most applications use an embedded interpreter to do runtime inspection and modification. The tools for the job is usually lua/python. Creating your own type system seems like a bad idea.
You are not wrong in your assessment of some of the unfairness of the stigmatization, but alcohol does have some advantages that led to this position.

A) It's "more than just a drug", it's a food. It's actually a food that can taste quite good to be honest. Many other things (especially synthetics) in contrast taste very nasty (usually very bitter).

B) Alcohol has a pretty good dose-response curve. In contrast, dose-response issues are a problem with most synthetics and even injection oriented drugs like heroin -- it is usually "all at once" being difficult to dose any other way. As a result, it is more difficult to build up to a desired level of effect without going overboard.

The stimulant of choice in most of the world is not meth, it is either coffee or tea. These have similar advantages that alcohol does (moreso actually since neither are as damaging or addictive). Consequently, coffee or tea is actually far more socially integrated, and less regulated than alcohol!

I have heard of people using synthetic stimulants in a kind of similar way one would have a few beers at a party (eg as a pep up, to get through a cram or all nighter etc.), but usually when I hear about that it's something like Adderall (aka government regulated, mg clearly stated, etc. amphetamine). Using such off-label is the same sort of illegal in a way, but it seems to have far less social stigma.

Meth has medical uses at lower dose, but stimulant abuse (which due to stuff like Adderall is probably the main case for meth) is all about the "euphoric" dose. That dose is less like someone is having a few beers at a party and more like going for an entire fifth of hard liquor in short order. At that level, damage occurs for any drug pretty fast.

But certainly, there's some additional social / class issues that exaggerate the impact of many recreational chemicals in people's minds. Cannabis after all has a pretty good dose/response curve, and is not terribly offensive in taste, yet for a long time it had a huge stigma as well.
Thanks, I'll give it a look.
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I don't understand people taking it to Twitter to moan about it. Shit happens and it only happens 0.001% of the time in this instance.
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How to speak up about workplace sexism
Why should people move to Norway? Software developers don't really earn more than elsewhere in Europe while the cost of living is drastically higher.
Following the same logic, every website is responsible for itself.
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How many bits of information is needed to find out who you are
Care to share? Since you don't mention the name I guess not, but maybe you simply omitted it out of politeness :)
And somehow that physically prevents you from also carrying your personal phone when you're out and about?
This is my favorite point in this article:

In addition, the rate at which information is created and shared, dictates the rate at which it is consumed. This encourages a shallow culture that skims, snips, and divides content into small “digestible” pieces that lack depth, all while utilizing technology as a creative crutch to create said content.

I think it well-illustrates this hole we've dug for ourselves and makes it clear that it's pretty hard to get out of. Personally, I'm not really sure how to increase my attention span. I think a big part might be allowing my "queue" of emails and phone notifications to grow and only check my phone at designated periods in the day, e.g. 30 minutes after waking, after the stand up meeting, at noon, at a coffee break at 3 p.m., after getting home, after dinner.

That way, at least, it's checking the phone maybe ten times a day, as opposed to 80 or more. I wonder if there are apps that can suppress notifications (using Android administrator API?) until specific time periods.
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It doesn't matter if your company is french, american, italian, brazilian or something else: you really SHOULD write/tweet in english, at least to your customers/clients.

I know lots of companies (for example for mechanical engineering in Germany) where the customers strongly prefer it if they are written to in their native language (in this case German).

No, really: Some companies learnt it the really hard way why they shouldn't try to advertize in English in Germany, see for example this German article: http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/wunderbar/denglisch-in-der-... (TLDR: The uneducated classes misundertand the slogans in really funny ways).
> Google's competitive strength, Greene believes, is the breadth of the tech it can offer an enterprise.

> Enterprise-app developers can tap into things like Maps, Google's computer-vision engine (the tech that powers Google Photos), weather data, and language/translation/speech recognition. They can build apps on top of Google's Calendar, documents, spreadsheet and presentation apps.

> And, under Greene's new integrated organization, they can even tap into the tech that powers Google's ads or YouTube, search, or its many other services.

Probably a good time to reshare the famous Yegge rant about platforms: https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
However if you want telemetry data real time video etc. you will be spending more. Those 8 dollar motors are not very good. You might get might 15 min flight time even with a 5000maH 3S battery. I would know since I built the cheap drone. If you want a more capable drone you will be spending close to 500 bucks. Also you want to be using a PixHawk not apm especially if you want to be able to flash the latest versions of APM.
It's really good that they were honest about it. An hour or so of downtime basically throws any five nines SLA out of the window for the entire year.
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Thanks for the info! I just got my license recently but have been getting a slow start. I'll have to check this out
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Tangential - I wonder what's responsible for that downwards spike in "number of indexed webpages" graph?
I'm very interested in a way to containerize (runing them within a vm) these tools that way nothing needs to be installed, and could go easily from machine to machine, without polluting the filesystem.
How did you acquire your email list? Already highly networked, or?
And Sheets isn't aimed at Excel power users. It's just that Excel is seen as a niche tool in the same way Photoshop or a programming IDE would be. I think that's fairly reasonable.
CPU Pinning and NUMA Awareness in OpenStack
Then I will point back to my original comment which you commented on. Is the importance of these shops something only the ruling class recognizes? If not, why does the protection of them need to be mandated?
This post has a little more detail about the processors:

http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/06/20/look-inside-chinas-ch...

Summary, it's a RISC architecture that resembles an Alpha but it's not a straight-up copy.
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Freedom and privacy might not have instant appeal to the masses, but I will tell you what does: attention-shaping. Google, FB, etc. all shape what information you are exposed to and provide limited or no controls over how to control that exposure. DuckDuckGo got a lot of traction on this issue alone, but I think it remains a key element for any open web advancement. Not to simply say "this replaces Google" or "this is an alternative to Facebook" but to say "how about looking at things from this perspective? What if you want to control these aspects of what you see?"
Not to mention they all solve problems for which the training sets lie on low-dimensional manifolds within a very high-dimensional space. And this brings about arbitrary failures when one goes out of sample and it also serves as the basis for creating adversarial data with ease (use the gradient of the network to mutate the data just a tiny little bit).

I suspect there's a promising future in detecting and potentially correcting for out of sample data, even if the methods for doing so are non-differentiable.
i think it makes a lot of sense. turning on these kinds of checks can be scary. the current situation is mostly no-one is effected by bit-rot. this is probably because when it rarely happens it flips some bits that don't really matter anyway. but as soon as you turn on checksumming in software without any automatic error correction people are going to start freaking out when their files become inaccessible or they have to jump through some hoops to access the 'corrupted' file which looks entirely fine to them anyway.

same deal with some heap protections. say you are running a kernel which doesn't have byte patterns to detect heap overflows or reuse after free. maybe you have some heap overflows which because of their nature never cause any corruption but now you turn on heap protections and peoples kernels are getting more panics :/
Just to be clear here, your meaning is that the reward function should be differentiable so there is a slope to climb to a maxima (local or gobal).

- edit used the wrong word, used derivative meant differentiable.
Sounds like they intend for CUDA to be usable on the surface book and that it's possibly usable at present with some fiddling, just going by http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/surfbook-su... .
Not everybody wants to live in a consumer plantation with ever-widening income inequality and corporate domination of their political system.
He's also mentioned FPGAs in similar terms, but I've not seen any news lately on that topic. Is it not practical? Not worth the effort?

This is a different ballgame but interesting, a recent Raspberry Pi 2 experiment [1] demonstrated good scaling of an Erlang application on multicore ARM up until the concurrency limit inherent in the application (around 128 processes).

[1] - https://medium.com/@pieterjan_m/erlang-pi2-arm-cluster-vs-xe...
The standard does not specify what the standard exceptions return from what(). It does not have to be in English.

Why care about it's prototype? You may want to embed into what() unicode strings that describe the error and came from elsewhere. E.g. a path, a URL, an XML element id, etc. from the context the exception originated. It may be shown to the user or written to the log. Localization is irrelevant here.
I love this short tutorials that give you an introduction to anything in an hour. They help you get interested in stuff you wouldn't have gotten interested in otherwise.
Tl;dr: infinite information and social streams satisfy our needs, TODOs carry a mental tax, http://project.wnyc.org/infomagical/ worked for the author.

I really wish this was framed differently, so I'd know there was an answer buried in there. I read this as an informational article, and didn't realize there was a "solution" until paragraph 33 out of 35.
Check out this post: http://www.sysadminworld.com/2012/how-to-switch-to-the-stand...
You can handwash shirts and hang them up to dry, trousers are more difficult.
It really isn't a French thing to be mortified by people speaking English. Probably, you did something else to offend.

That said it doesn't hurt for bonjour to be the first word out of your mouth. It is France and they speak French after all. The same goes for hello in every other language in every other country on earth as well.

source: American who has lived in France.
Hi Tim. Mathias from geocod.io here. Can you please drop us a line at hello AT geocod.io would love to look into what happened there.

We're using Tiger/Line and Rooftop-level (through OpenAddresses) datasets under the hood. We do not use OSM as it's generally not optimized for geocoding.
I have always thought that it was overselling the fact that all truckers are going to be unemployed. The average age of a semi-truck driver is in the low 50s. Most millennials don't want to do this job, so the robots will just replace baby boomers as they retire and not this massive slaughter of unemployment that everyone fears.
I think you'll see huge changes as a result ... and you also need to remember Diane was a Google board member for three years prior to taking this role.
Sure, I'll add it later. A Github issue is the easiest next time so I don't miss things here in the comments
That wouldn't work (even if you should do that anyway). The stock kernel is in a separate package.
Who said anybody was shocked?
It is really disturbing to look at an article like this and not see a single mention of the HUGE amount of fresh water being dumped into the ocean in order for these locks to function.
"Just" turn off the ringer and put it in a drawer. And close that open e-mail tab in your browser. (If you try it, you'll likely find that it's a rather hard thing to do)

As it turns out, none of the notifications (and very few of the e-mails) are actually relevant to most of our daily lives.
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> potentially the EU breaking apart completely.

You can see it like that, or you can see it the other way around. This is pretty much make-or-break, put-up-or-shut-up time for EU integration. The Lisbon treaty is finally biting. You can't be "mildly pro-EU" or see it as "simply a trade union" anymore; you either go all-in with fiscal and legislative harmonization, or you go home. Italy and Greece were the first to go all-in; Britain might be the first to go home. The next decade is a tipping point one way or another, and it might actually be the beginning of the "real" federal EU a lot of people have been asking for 40 years.
This is great, except for tools. I can't imagine living without enough tools to accomplish most tasks that I am faced with. This means having everything from a soldering iron and shrink tube, to a table-saw. I just can't imagine wanting to build something and not being able to do it. In fact, I see a tig welder in my future for that very reason. I know quite a few people who are completely reliant on others for something as simple as replacing the wax seal under a toilet. I don't want to join those people.
What's a better way for Ubuntu to do that? Given the open-source nature of the product, the trademark is the one avenue they have, and it's reputation quite important to differentiate themselves.
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Also breaking and entering!
Q&A with UX Guru Eric Reiss: “We Don’t Put Lipstick on Pigs”
I personally love feeling crushed by the vast surges of information that surround me, being able to let go of the need to understand it all, or to ride my hunger for information right down to the very moment before it consumes me.

Basic physics shows there will always a disconnect in the way information flows and the obsession over controlling all information is in my opinion physically impossible.
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This is a step in right direction, providing the pluming while I can focus on how to humanize bot communication.
Well, we're drowning in a sea of nearly identical articles about information overload, at least.

It's time we had some novel contributions to the genre: this is not one.
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People can be civilly liable for negligence in their own security without changing the fact that other people are criminally liable for exploiting that negligence. I see this argument in virtually every thread about computer security and the law, and it never makes any sense to me.
Many reasons (basically what the above comments state), but at a high level, people were just not prepared/expecting that, and the (nearby) player poll wasn't that big to allow that.

The world wasn't ready.

I personally think it was the right decision. I enjoyed going to the same server over and over again through a period of years and usually seeing the same people. I learned to recognize them. Some would steamroll over me, some I could dominate, some were a nice challenge. I could pick my battles.
Well it is good for consumers, but it is clearly bad for Intel.