skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is why I applaud the Microsoft team open sourcing Chakra (their js engine for IE/edge), and their efforts to get it working as an alternate engine for Node.js

More competition is ALWAYS a good thing. It prevents vendor lockin, prevents bugs from becoming defacto standards, and prevents developers trying to "optimize" for the platform and instead has the platform try to optimize for developers (that was a weird way to say that, but I mean things like avoiding "performance bottlenecks in one engine" from becoming "performance bottlenecks in javascript")

A good example of that last one is try/catch blocks. In V8 they trigger a deopt for the whole function making it run slower, in most other engines it doesn't. Because of V8's large usage, many people avoid try/catch in performant code to avoid that penalty, even though it's just an issue with v8's implementation. And because of that you start seeing "avoid try/catch" as a general performance "tip" for javascript.
I wrote my thesis on mathematical filters for robot localization. A true great has passed. =/

If folks are interested, here's some ancient (and likely awful) code I wrote for it. It has a MH set, a Fuzzy set, a PF and a SPKF as well: https://github.com/Qworg/Robot-Sensor-Fusion
I like it, but it also sounds so wrong. Nice hack project.
The Erlang components of Facebook Chat were replaced with C++ several years ago.

The two main reasons I remember are A) it was hard to maintain a group of engineers with acceptable competency in Erlang over time and B) the C++ code offered faster and more consistent performance albeit with somewhat less scalability in terms of sessions per host. We just added X% more servers to the channel pools and were happy to have the chat services in a language where more FB engineers could contribute. There's been a lot more changes in the architecture than just moving to C++ though, so it's hard to do a direct comparison between the products.

This doesn't take anything away from WhatsApp though, who has built a strong product and infrastructure on top of Erlang.
You can form a hypothesis without basing it on anything. You could for example randomly generate 1 billion sentences and then try to test if they are true.
>> Being poor is a thing you can dig yourself out of but it takes a huge amount of energy to do so.

This is why if you want to stop the cycle of poverty, you need to give people incentives to get off assistance and make it possible to succeed, instead of making it easier to stay on welfare. As humans, we will always take the easier route.

It also sad to think we've made it much easier for people to get on welfare and stay on welfare indefinitely. I have several friends who prefer to work just enough hours to get assistance, but not enough to actually get off of it. What does that say about our culture and society when people are content to live off the government instead of wanting to succeed and get out of poverty??

source: after college, I had several bouts of depression, was homeless for a stint and used government programs to get out of the hole I was in. It wasn't easy, but it gave me perspective on what its like to be really poor, and what it takes to get out of that hole.
SYLK isn't binary, it's all ASCII.

Interesting idea on passing the file to multiple parsers simultaneously, although I don't see a benefit over trying them serially.
Curious: where do you live? I assume Europe? Which village/country?
I just got a $2 donation on Pixabay for one of my photos :-)
If the password is weak [e.g. "12345", "pa55w0rd", "eatMoreCHKin68", etc.] and the encryption implementation is available, then an educated brute force generation of encrypted files could recover the password. That's the principal behind rainbow tables.

Of course the data has to be valuable enough to justify such an attack and the cost of using physical methods [e.g. theft, keylogging, etc.] has to be higher.

Good luck.
I guarantee you will do millions of things regarding your child's life that there is no sound evidence to support, simply because it is impossible to live in the manner you suggest.
Am I really seeing this debate again? Really, fuck you web professionals. In 2005 this debate was over, and the standards were understood as positive, accessibility was recognized as important.

Now what we have got is again proprietary code, app just for smartphones, and one browser taking over all the others. Bravo. Great progress here...

I wish the web could stay open.
Facebook's 10-year goal of creating smarter AI through NLP
You only have to be better informed on a specific subject too. If for example your job involves buying large quantities of two brands of bananas, and you notice that one brand is consistently worse than the other. You now have some unique insight that you could use to speculate on the banana market.
America's Female Prison Population Has Grown 800%
You should have realized that opting out of all of Google's data collection years ago probably implies that Google wouldn't provide you access to information that they collect about you.

If it was well populated now, they actually screwed up. The data for the period that you opted out should not have been visible to you.
Most brilliant thing I've seen in some time.

If it highlights the complete waste of time that almost all conference calls are, it would be a service to mankind.
Although in the case of Hong Kong, neither Pinyin input nor Zhuyin input are likely to be used, as both are based on the phonetics of standard Mandarin Chinese. There are alternative input methods that are shape-based (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_input_methods_for_comp...) such as the Cangjie, and Cantonese-only input methods.
Pocket Watch: Verifying Exabytes of Data
Misleading article headline is misleading. It's about the usage of specific words, not misogynistic tweets in general:

Half the aggressive tweets using the words slut and whore analysed by social thinktank Demos came from women and girls, research indicates.
The article could have shown you the actual robot. But instead they decided to let you imagine an indestructible titanium death cheetah.
If I say that I'm twelve feet tall, anyone hearing that would realize that I'm not, but that doesn't make it any less of a lie.

(Not saying you're intentionally misleading, but the effect ends up being the same.)
Its clear its not doing much, but there's this HN narrative about how China can't be criticized and if it is then there's whataboutism with "The US is just as bad" which is often a false narrative. The Dodd-Frank is just something pulled out one's ass to promote that narrative. In reality, US markets are considered very safe even before Dodd-Frank. As much as HN claims $this_year is the end of the "petrodollar", its clear the the USD still rules and is considered a safe currency as well.

A year or two ago this forum was full of "rise of the BRICs" rhetoric. Russia's and Brazil's economy have stagnated with no end in sight, India is going nowhere, and China is playing 'house of cards' with its markets. Trust me, if you want investing advice, don't get it from HN. The narratives here are politically biased to promote an anti-US sentiment and other college identity politics groupthink.
Machine Learning Applications at Bell Labs, Holmdel
How did you decide to move there? How did you pick the place? In which area of Spain is your village?
Nice feature! I might give you a PR with a MOAI front-end some time soon .. :)
Thanks for the links!

The short answer is that safety is handled similar to Rust, using lifetime analysis. It's quite a bit more simplistic than Rust at the moment though. Also, some checks are done at runtime (like bounds checking on arrays, when turned on).
React Native: Toward Better Documentation
How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space
Build a 3D Printer Workhorse, Not an Amazing Disappointment Machine
> Being limited to just remote jobs adds quite a bit of insecurity.

Not finding a job in a city is far worse imho. But ofcourse, it is far easier to find one if there are ones you are qualified for. Our goal however was to never need a job, never have to sit in an office and to never have to commute to work. No matter what happens. I will never stop working nor will my wife (until our minds or we are dead) but we don't have to do what we do; we have the freedom here to just to almost stop working for N years and read books in the sun, working a few hours a week to have money for food etc; our brewery (bootstrapped completely with 2nd hand materials and our own work) makes enough for that by now. Most people in cities cannot do that unless they are quite rich (and/or own their house which is paid off/inherited).

It is not for all and we're not married to Spain; we'll probably move on. Not having kids was a decision of us that makes that easier as well.

> the best connections are ancient DSL. Megabytes a second? Gigabit? Nope.

That's with being happy with what you have, right? :) If you are a programmer, like me, what do you need a fast connection for? I never needed one.

> The large houses with land take a whole lot of work.

Well you can get something smaller ofcourse if you like that (we have something small; still is bigger than our apartment in Amsterdam). Doesn't require too much tbh.

For the rest; I am foreign here which might be a difference from your experience. We will always be foreign so we don't get into that good graces stuff. They find us weird anyway. We have some local friends (Spanish, born and raised) and they don't have that either. But yes, the elderly all hate eachother and we just are friendly but as we are not from Spain we don't really get treated in the same way I guess?
> - Use phone, with number of calls

Oh well, they also store the phone numbers that you called along with the duration. And possibly more data than your mobile service provider manages to store.
This felt incredibly self-masturbatory and read almost like a religious facebook post.
This is not what is meant by "hypothesis" in Occam's razor, which is about hypotheses that are based on actual assumptions (and using these assumptions to pick a "best" hypothesis).
majestic reply on StackOverflow by user Arbel. should be taken as example of completeness and clearity
Primarily stand-alone.
Social Hollywood: how the most conservative industry embraced social media
I don't think Ayn Rand's Objectivism is useful for knowing anything about consciousness.
How light is servo + browser.html? you seem to be implying it's much less than electron. Any figures? I haven't looked at Servo / browser.html / rust at all apart from seeing a few news articles pop up on HN the last few months.
Lung cancer is most closely associated with smoking, but lung cancer can be caused by many air contaminants. Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer, causing 21,000 deaths each year. About 2,900 of those people are non-smokers.[1]

Cancer can be caused by things other than mutagens though. There is a certain rate of transcription errors when cells divide, and these errors can build up in the same way mutations from radiation, etc. build up. Things that kill cells and force them to divide speed up cell division, and can cause cancer that way. For instance, acid reflux and drinking can both cause esophageal cancer.

You can also get cancer from just being extraordinarily unlucky.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/radon/health-risk-radon
The purpose of a definition is to pick out only those instances of a set you're attempting to refer to. The set of objects subject to causal influence by members of the set is well-defined and unique. Your example with black doesn't work because there are multiple non-intersecting sets that satisfy the critera, so we need some further conceptual machinery to distinguish them.

>You seem to be approaching a causal closure of non-physical existence, though one I am not sure is right.

I'm not sure I follow. To be clear, the "causal closure" was referring to the fact that the physical is subject to causation, rather than a generic term describing a set of self-similar items.
Some studies:

http://www.popcenter.org/library/crimeprevention/volume_10/0...

http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2015/07/08/jech-2015-20601...
the war against the machines
Twice the tokens, don't care.

Twice the disk space, who cares?

Twice the cognitive load, I guess I have a high tolerance.

Still don't see a compelling reason one is better than the other.
Indeed I know the reason for it. However the fact remains that Windows cannot be both more expensive and worse, which in my opinion it is.
I'm always surprised by the number of conspiracy theorists on HN. Perhaps I shouldn't be?
> For everyone else on this planet for whom financial security is not a given, it makes sense to keep more things around than needed in a given instance.

I'm not sure that this necessarily follows. What is the sense is there, let's say, of having a basement full of christmas decorations, far more than you have space in your home to put up? Or of having three 8-person dinner sets? Or of keeping clothes that you haven't worn in years? Like, the natural conclusion of having money isn't to just buy things for the sake of it, but that you can get what you need instead. Minimalism isn't just "have less", it's use less.

See I guess I'm technically a minimalist, but not really by choice - it was a necessity as I moved frequently, always by the skin of my teeth and on my last dollar. I'm "rich" insomuch that I have no outstanding debt (worked full time to pay for University, lived a very frugal lifestyle (lots of eggs+rice for a long time)).

It's really weird to me when a template for minimalists gets created, as if the only natural reason why you wouldn't want a lot of things is because you're rich enough to get them. I wasn't starving as I got more from jobs, but I also didn't immediately rush out to fill my apartment with crap once I had a tiny bit saved up.
Good point, nicely thought out.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but laziness is it's apathetic dad.

Kudos, sir. Kudos.
...or a bench providing some privacy when you need to sit next to a stranger.

A bigger problem I see is that such a bench is hard to position on a curb, next to a wall, etc, where both sides cannot be made accessible.
Matt Harrigan – Grand Central Tech [audio]
The link you posted was about switchable GCs in the official Go runtime, which won't be there, but the question was whether there are multiple Go implementations.
As an hobbyist artist I can never get enough free references for drawing.
Having multiple implementations also means any problems in the various web interfaces and specifications are much more likely to be found.
Ganeti: An alternative Hypervisor Manager
As a anecdata-point, Stanford's CS 142: Web Applications course was previously focused on Rails, now it teaches a MEAN stack:

http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs142/

It requires students to test on Chrome:

> Unfortunately, Web browsers are still not 100% identical in their behavior, so Web pages may behave differently on different browsers. For this class, the reference browser is Chrome: your project solutions must work on Chrome, and the CAs will use Chrome to test them. Your solutions need not work on any browser other than Chrome. You may use a different browser to develop your solutions if you wish (Chrome, Firefox, and Safari all have very similar behavior), but please test on Chrome before submitting. We do not recommend that you use Internet Explorer for development: historically, its behavior has been quite different from the other browsers, so things that work on IE may not work on Chrome, and vice versa.

I have mixed feelings on this. Sure...open web, and everything. But in academia, Chrome is one of the more ubiquitous dev environments to be used...I remember being locked into Visual Studio. And purportedly, the class isn't just about job skills...it's attempting to teach HTML/CSS/HTTP/JS to students who may have not had real exposure to any of those concepts, on top of Angular/Mongo/Node/Express. Restricting the environment allows at least for more consistent instruction/grading.
> our agencies are working rather well

To what extent do our agencies "create" the terrorists that they're rewarded to fight against?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-p...
Chances are that they fixed the bug so that items show up as per your opt-in status at that time.
I get what they're doing but it's a false dichotomy and therefore wrong. The dichotomy being it has to be one, ultra-simple GC or what Java was doing.

https://stas-blogspot.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/most-complete-...

It's well-known after over a decade of research and deployments in GC's that certain styles match certain workloads better. So, multiple ones should be available. This can be a small number that are largely pre-built with sane settings. What's left to tune can likewise be small: pause time, max memory, or whatever. There can also be a default as in current Go that covers 95% of apps well. The result is that specific apps or libraries if they went that far can have GC well-suited to their requirements with about one page of HTML describing what those GC's do and how to choose them.

That's what they should do. It will be easy for them and developers. Nothing like JVM mess. Still avoids one-size-fits-all: longest-running, failed concept in IT. Meanwhile, I can't wait to see someone make a HW version of their GC like I've seen in LISP and RT-Java research. IT would be badass given the current metrics. Allow whole OS to be done memory managed like A2 Bluebottle Oberon without performance penalty.
Since there was incontrovertible evidence that Hussein had used gas against his own people, and WMDs are rather low-tech and easy to make, having been widely used in WW I, I never really doubted the intelligence at the time. It played in to what we already knew, and a lot of smart people were convinced.
Sorry, I meant to upvote you but got the wrong arrow.
Anyway, I once read a nice article about light pollution that made this point: light to reduce crime is a common misconception. Criminals don't like dark places any more than we do, and a lack of light makes their job harder, not easier. It would seem that the primary literature continues to bear this out.
Golang's more recent async GC changes begin to resemble Erlang's per-process GC in how they would affect overall system performance.

When people talk about Go's GC freezes, they're talking about the spinup/spindown time before the async GC kicks in. That part is incomparable to Erlang, but its a part which has gotten much faster recently, specifically through virtue of becoming smaller.
I think the point being made was that already existing sites didn't change the status quo, and so you'll need something much better to achieve what they failed to.
You can't expect a company that runs its whole business through its Ireland subsidiary and had its offices raided by French and Spanish revenue authorities to play nicely by EU rules. In the UK they got a pat on the back and an extra 130M in taxes to pay. Of course they claim they did not break any laws and it's probably true - Google just found ways around them. I'm sure they've also found ways around EU data retention regulations.
We usually substitute with a different sounding character which results in a non-sensible string of characters, yet still understandable (to native speakers at least) given sufficient context. As an example, we often joke about how the staff of a certain local noodle soup chain often speak in heavily accented Cantonese by writing their speech as "勿演", "懶肉", "生小辣" ("don't act", "lazy meat", "raw little spicy") instead of the correct "墨丸", "腩肉", "三小辣" ("cuttlefish balls", "pork belly", "3rd little spicy").
The layout of that page is borked in IE11 - the text takes up a narrow portion on the left of the browser window.

Not much better in Chrome where the body of the article is not-really-centre-aligned.

In IE the search box is also of insufficient height, meaning that lower portion of the watermark text is not visible.

Maybe the author was being ironic.
In addition, an important determination is not just if you want layout constraints in both dimensions but if you want/need source order independence in both dimensions.

With flexbox you get layout constraints in both dimensions with proper source nesting (rows inside columns or vice versa, ad infinitum) and you get source order independence in the "current direction" (within this row or this column), but not between rows/columns in the grandparent container (or the great-grandparent, etc).

With grid, you can have source order independence in both directions, very nice and easy.

(Source order independence matters for responsive needs where things reflow to different grid places/flex orders based on viewport width, media type or other factors. Source order independence can also be a big important factor for accessibility. The "semantic web dream" is kind of sort of dead or at least asleep these days, but source order independence is a huge win for the semantic web. Finally, source order independence is just nice for keeping HTML markup clean and minimal, which has long been the dream of CSS.)
Actually, the web is more open than it was a decade ago. Back then I had to use IE-only tricks to make my pages look okay in IE. Today I don't care anymore. It's been several years since I last used an IE trick, and I have no plans of using tricks specific to other browsers in the future. If something doesn't work out of the box in all browsers, I consider this functionality not implemented and do not use it. That's something you could do too and educate others to approach it the same way.
Oh I was being critical. I know. Non the less - I love the idea of minimalism for me personally (even if I do not live it in large parts of my life).

For me as a person decluttering personal relationships and being very selective of people I let into my life is refreshing, freeing and more.

Also when I do buy "stuff" I tend to by tools, not "real stuff". And I tend to watch for quality/value first, not price. Something I also learned from the minimalism community.

Non the less - I just do not like this notion of N=1 has to work for all. I like to be critical and take such things with a huge grain of salt.

But yes - I could have formulated my critique a little bit more diplomatically.
Not in Philly, at least.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/us/hitchhiking-robot-safe-...
Even if you were to delete your Google account, be assured that your data would remain safe with them.
not everyone is trying to live as long as possible.
"KeyBox layers TLS/SSL on top of SSH and acts as a bastion host for administration. Protocols are stacked (TLS/SSL + SSH) so infrastructure cannot be exposed through tunneling / port forwarding."

Okay: you connect with your browser to the server over tls and from there via ssh to the server ... where does the layering come into play?
As for prove, I mean you can't just make crap up and pretend it's true. Your points are more logical than his for your use cases.

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/previous-generation/ -- you have to use a different page. I guess in SSD-land commodity drives versus normal drives don't change much since you're trapped by the number of writes. -- My point about disk sizes is he says something unequivocally: that only i2s have SSDs. He doesn't qualify it. And that's bad netizenship and wrong or whatever. :)
Their was a robot in 1999 that hunted slugs and powered itself from their decomposing bodies.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/503149.stm
Somehow you could list it as a heritage site that needs additional review. The city already has plenty of those.
Odd. It definitely was fulltext when I originally read it. But you can get it off Libgen like usual: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/index.php?s=+Effect+of+Calorie+...