skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you imagine Akka running at 0.8x speed, right after the upgrade to Scala 2.12?
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Json happens to be the self-describing interchange format that's well known and generally accepted. It's the payload of most tracking cookies (which are the primary type of data we ingest); You don't need any transformation on the ingest tier; Just POST, validate, dump to logfile.

We also support CSV and apache logs, but JSON is what works for customers.
This is peanuts compared what was going on in Florida several years ago http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-06-06/american-p...

> Over 20M pills prescribed, wreaking havoc far beyond just Florida.

Many of the people that were taking these pills have resorted to heroine now that Florida has enacted better oversight
What in the world does a locked down internet have to do with being able to control the code that your own devices are running? It's a tenuous connection at best, but if people really believe these are somehow connected then it would explain some of the odd (to me) resistance I'm seeing in this thread.

Take package signing in Linux: package managers check the provenance of the code before installing it. If this were extended to executables, users would have the benefit of a GPG trust chain, or have to indicate to the system that they want to trust new code before running it.

This is not related at all to the walled gardens. Even though technology could potentially be used to build walled gardens, it doesn't have to be. Just because technology could be used for bad purposes as well as good purposes does not mean that the good purposes should be avoided, does it?
I agree. I hate how everyone trusted the Snowden story without question. It's pretty much US sponsored propaganda. I doubt Snowden is even in Russia.
but first build always take a hit making the build times unpredictable making build time regressions hard to track.
> Why didn't they mention the % of overdoses directly related to Oxy ? My assumption is that it would be significantly smaller number which didn't serve the article's purpose.

Most likely because the statistics aren't available.

> Moral arguments apart, they are simply not in the business of reporting their patients to law enforcement, nor they ever should.

Why should they be allowed to be in business at all when their product is so destructive?
This Bengaluru-based startup built an on-demand marketplace for spiritual gurus
I'd love to see Python and R, the top two data analysis languages. Obviously this will only appeal to a subset of users, but language interoperability for data work is a hot issue right now.
Well the big selling point for the manufacturer is that it's patented and has no generic equivalent. It's no matter if the new feature doesn't really work.
Great, now make it possible to also run Mac and Android.
Watching a VC being interviewed pretending he invented something that will be the second sentence in the first paragraph of your obituary, is stronger than 5 cups of coffee. It's a blessing.
It's a liquidity issue if the bank invested in mortgages (usually), but it can be a solvency issue if they are invested in debt (sovereign or corporate) that can be defaulted on.
Thanks! I get to watch sports all day--I try not to ever complain.
It's probable that they are both over valued. Deutsche Bank supposedly has insane amounts of derivative exposure and is highly leveraged. Then again if you assume that they will be bailed out at any cost you could be right.
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Because of the (implicit) assumption that it runs efficiently (as in, at most in polynomial time) even on "arbitrarily complex" inputs... Otherwise the "superintelligence" would not be any different from your run-of-the-mill Turing-complete interpreter!
Three quick thoughts for you which should hopefully help:

1) Double your prices! They're so cheap! The service is so useful, saves dev and support time, etc. Worth more. ($12, $24, $49 is still crazy cheap.)

2) Yearly plans, especially for businesses. A lot of people will want to expense an entire year and get reimbursed (which is annoying monthly).

3) Add at least one more plan that's something like $199 or $349 or something that feels very high for you. Not sure what features it should have, but there is definitely something you can provide businesses that would be worth that amount. And they'll be fantastic, low-fuss customers.

Good luck!
> (...) but the heart of the matter in the Dallas case is whether the suspect posed an imminent threat which could not be addressed any other way besides lethal force.

At that time, the assailant already stated his purpose of killing as many police officers he could, and during his rampage he already had killed 5 police officers and gunned down dozen or so victims.

The assailant planned for this sort of attack for some time, he purposely took military training in private weekend warrior schools specifically to conduct the attack he was planning, and he even planned and mobilized himself to use explosives.

The assailant's plans were all suicide missions, and their goal was to inflict the most damage possible.

I'm not an american, and I live in a country where there isn't a single police-involved death for years, and even I am well aware that going with such a radical option was quite obviously the only way the police could ensure that the assailant would cease to be a threat to the public.
> The fact that simple HTML delivery can be remarketed as "AMP" is a joke.

Ohhh I so hear you. Thanks for voicing reason in a sea of hipsterity.

Also I do agree with the sentiment, that data decisions should lead an entrepreneur. Non the less everyone should be able to at least grasp an idea of any site.
I don't understand why we haven't seen decently sized scale model before starting full sized tests. It seems that sending packages over a few miles would be an interesting viability test... Connect a bunch of oil pipes, design a self-driven transporter and see what the issues are. Then the public could also see the thing working as well. It's weird to me the groups so far have just started with massive designs.
Yeah, was going to say something similar. You shouldn't be reimplementing linked list unless you have a very good reason and if so you should be taking a careful look at what you do.

Rust does a great job of error checking in the 99% case and the 1% of unsafe should be from well vetted libs. No different than trusting the kernel to do the right thing.
Given that GP was discussing publicly, on a technical internet forum, the relationship between mathematical provability and truth/existence, don't you think it likely that GP was aware of Gödel's Incompleteness theorem? My concern is that the "actually", and the smiley face, seems, to me, very patronizing. I really don't mean to be attacking you for a small point of etiquette, and I also acknowledge that the main purpose of this thread (the nature of reality) is a bit more important, but I do make this point sincerely. This is something I find a real problem when discussing things with software engineers. I personally hate the feeling of being patronized in public, or of someone replying in public with the implication that I was not aware of something which I am perfectly well aware of. I'm not claiming that the GP is an expert on the Incompleteness Theorem, and I'm certainly not, but that "actually", and the smiley, sound and look awful. We should assume that others are competent and knowledgable on the subjects they talk about until given evidence to the contrary.
Read The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. He has some good suggestions. One of the best ideas in there is that certain small habit changes create behavioral cascades. For people trying to lose weight, just writing down what they eat at each meal has a huge effect. When you make up in the morning, making your bed increases the likelihood that you'll do other things that require discipline. The idea is to get many small wins, because they accumulate and give you momentum to tackle harder and harder tasks. When you draw up your goals, the trick is to state the goal, imagine the obstacle that might prevent you from achieving it, and then figure out what you'll do in that scenario. That's the thinking behind the WOOP app: http://www.woopmylife.org/ which I'm not affiliated with, fwiw. Finally, in your HN profile set "noprocrast" to yes. ;)
What could be the challenge of maintaining many miles of near vacuum in California, where the ground will never move... /s
Until the posthumans and transhumanists and left-liberals and queers get their baby-birthing clone facilities up and running.... #cyteen #arianeemory #reseune
Is this really worth arguing?

The reality is that for some people, programming is easy; marketing is hard. For some other people marketing is easy; programming is hard. That's really all it is. Delving into the details doesn't get us any closer to a more useful answer.
Pretty much, I love that video btw.
Philosophy & beer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9SqQNgDrgg
> just cold open a random man page under WSL, compared to a VM, and you will understand how much Windows lag behind Linux in some areas -- next you can try to build a big program: same result: Windows is really slow)

Mate, the thing isn't even released yet and you're bashing it (excuse the pun) for taking too long to open up a man page? Give me a break.

After it's actually released and the performance gets better then it is of course going to trump running a whole VM and to suggest otherwise is just FUD, IMO.
> you can't buy effective
> decongestant

Science has a solution:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/better-livi...
Except that a few billion people can be exterminated by a few people if it comes to that, which is a very new situation.
Very very interesting. How does revenue compare? Have you considered putting adsense ads on during traffic spikes or any similair strategies? Do you share any analytics besides impresssions/clicks/costs with advertisers?

The only time I've seen this is on my school's newspaper, and they are wildly unsuccessful.
Does it matter? He's seriously stimulated a market that has been fairly stagnant for decades, making it an exciting and interesting field again, and encouraging engineers who previously weren't interested in transportation to become interested.
All without the hassles or complications of having to form and run the companies himself, or have to pony up the cash. His only investment has been the work on producing the original whitepaper, and the blast radius is huge.
Would be better to link directly to the original article/source?

http://gizmodo.com/of-course-23andmes-business-plan-has-been...
For most of history whatever your sexuality, you married and had children. Period. You also did whatever else you did, and maybe you had a terrible marriage, but that probably wasn't unusual for straight people for most of history either.
Japan's population is very high and could stand to drop considerably without losing their culture while freeing up more opportunities for young Japanese people, something which is badly needed. Similar thing should occur in Europe, but can't due to the migration crisis.

Otherwise we are saying our population size is a magic number that must always be stable or go upwards irrespective of economic conditions. It makes no sense at all. What is the basis of such reasoning? Are not recessions in house prices and share prices a net positive for younger people?

Populations should decline sometimes. Unless we believe we're immune from the laws of biology.

As for those religious groups that believe promulgating their population is a solution, they are likely to meet a bloody and desperate end. You should notice that despite Africa's incredible birth rates for example, it is also the least densely populated Continent. War, famine and disease.

Some of the middle east is going to implode when the oil price gets too high and we should stand by and allow it to happen. Doing nothing is absolutely the smart choice. I think this perspective is the only way to prevent contagions of disease, violence and war from spreading around the world. There are alternatives but the mindset of people in the West will not find those acceptable at present e.g. voluntary sterilizations, genetic engineering.

We need to totally reject Wilsonianism if we are to prosper in the 21st century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilsonianism

I think this is something the right and left can actually agree wholeheartedly on.

Yarvin has a great quote on this subject:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4bxf6f/im_curtis_yarv...

"Fascism no longer exists. It's as dead as Odinism.

...

What's alive is the ideological system that defeated fascism -- which committed plenty of atrocities of its own. Of our own. When we think about crimes from the last century, it seems more relevant to think about the crimes we committed, not those they committed.

What is fascism? It's exactly what everyone thinks it is. The conventional wisdom is perfectly correct. Our historians have a merciless, laser-sharp understanding of everything bad that fascism was and everything it did wrong. What hasn't been done is turning this same laser on our own institutions."

That Tony Blair and Donald Rumsfeld are not in fear of a Nuremberg trial situation is not a positive statement about our society. The fact is not that our systems are rotten, but that they have been eroding for quite some time, longer than people today suspect.
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I'm not sure that anything you said would be bad for a customer to see. It is a good thing for vendors to have revenue and be stable. And believe me, everyone who pays a yearly contract knows they are the bread and butter of that vendor. As long as it is a win-win situation, it isn't a secret... just business.
I wouldn't consider Bitcoin a startup, though.
Really interesting graph comparing children per woman and life expectancy over the past ~200 years:
http://graphs.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t...
He's not saying that they shouldn't exist today, just that their genes will never make it back into the collective gene pool, stopping their traits and characteristics from ever propagating forward.
I think these two paragraphs nicely frame theme of the problem:
<i>Politicians, he added, have propagated the myth that foreigners commit crimes at a higher rate than Japanese and have suggested that more immigrants could make the country vulnerable to terrorism. Labor unions have also put up a fight.

“Look at nurses, they believe their income will be cut if we let in Filipinos and Indonesians,” said Katsuyuki Yakushiji, a sociologist at Toyo University in Tokyo. “They also say that these people can’t speak Japanese well and that could be risky. Yet, at the same time, they complain about severe overwork and say we need to add nurses.”</i>

On one hand a defiance, even in the face of Armageddon.
On the other it reflects worldwide general negativity, in this case xenophobia under the guise of overzealous job protection, as noone is worried that there will be more nurses per se, just as long as they are not... the "other kind"
This list is depressingly long.
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Related reading: https://tonyarcieri.com/would-rust-have-prevented-heartbleed...
> If it is indeed the latter scenario, it just wastes others' time.

What an absurd, and disgusting, point of view. The author is free to create whatever the fuck he/she wants, for fun. It's not wasting anyone's time -- no one else is obliged to spend any time interacting with it in any way.

You should really reconsider your position. One point is that, while you may have the skills and experience to only work on projects that improve the status quo, many of us do not; and even those who do, as beginners had to pass through the stage where they did not.
> How are you supposed to run Adobe inDesign on a Linux desktop?

With wine...

> Or any other useful application, really.

You search in the software center or in your menu and start the app. Simple. FUD elsewhere, apple-noob.
Facebook might want to reconsider live streaming for all
"Perhaps vast tracts of the earth will be abandoned to wildlife?"

That's already happened in the US.[1] The Buffalo Commons proposal, to depopulate a large part of the Great Plains and let buffalo roam, was a joke when it was first proposed in 1987. Much of the depopulation has already happened. So far, not many buffalo, but they may come back.

Small town America is slowly emptying out.[2] It has no function. Small towns existed mostly to support agriculture. Agriculture is only 3% of the US workforce. Most of the food comes from about 20% of the farms; the rest are marginal producers. Farming is doing fine; it just doesn't take many people.

"Mill towns", where one big employer dominates, die when their mill closes. These can be sizable cities, such as Youngstown, OH. More often, they're small towns with one big plant. Young people leave; old people stay and die in place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Commons
[2] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023033252045794637...
Pretty much the most important pieces of marketing - organic search and paid traffic.
Does it matter? I don't know, we'll have to see if something other than some money going nowhere actually comes from this. If it's just "excitement" and some lucky folks making millions... don't expect me to get in a tizzy.

Edit: If however this leads, by some longshot, to a functional maglev system in Cali or anywhere else in the US? Yes, I'd change my tune then.
I can't comment on the X performance, but I am finding performance of command line applications is a couple of % faster on windows than it is on Linux (if they do little / no I/O).
Oh yes, I sold the prototype version of my platform for a year before I had a chance to replace it.

The prototype was custom pages on a Wordpress site (pretty slow to load, especially on phones, not easily scalable, etc), the new one's a .NET-based site, loads instantly on any device, and when I watch the server load, I can see that this thing will live happily on even a low-end VPS for a long, long time to come (lot of traffic growth so far, no increase in load!).

Keeping technical debt low is good, money's a higher priority. It's a business. That never really hit me before. :)
Thanks for the explanation.

In the x86 code, is there an advantage of using the xor instead of a load/mov?

Is it to avoid a fetch?

(I programmed 6502/6510 assembly as a kid, but have no experience with x86 assembly)
Complete nonsense.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/19/thousands-prot...

The existing bases are in sparsely populated areas. Even so, they're deeply unpopular, mainly because the servicemen have a bad habit of raping and murdering the locals.

Adding more bases to boost the population would be political suicide.
This is the kind of magic that got me excited about programming in the first place.

I remember being in high school and one day, after class, a friend of mine mentioned that the best programmer we knew had once written a breakout clone with ANSI "graphics." We found him and he said he didn't have the source any more, but we asked him how he did it. He then proceeded to rewrite the whole thing, in Pascal, in about an hour, this time adding animations. Thanks antirez for bringing back that feeling (and, oh yeah, for redis too ;))

PS. the "Low level terminal handling" is gold here.
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> Why should they be allowed to be in business at all when their product is so destructive?

I don't think it's that simple.

If you're going to start doing heroin--which you shouldn't--oxy is a much safer form than street level heroin where you have no idea what you're getting.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman ODed and died because he didn't know what he was getting. Heroin is actually pretty safe, but it destroys your soul and you never really "cure" the addiction. Even still, I'd rather have oxy out there than tar heroin from Mexican drug cartels. And I'd rather spend government resources on something else.
That's just the status quo for postdocs and PhD students, AFAICT. And yet universities everywhere still find people to take them up on the deal.
More than twice as many people are killed by automobiles every year.
You are right on the trend :) unfortunately doesn't look very comfortable for more than 10 minutes trip. I am working on a similar concept but you go comfortably sited like a regular small aircraft.

You can see a video of the Puffin here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc66-uEkEBk
Wanting your culture to not drift is expected. It's built into humans to prefer people like ourselves.

It's also expected that people don't want their wages depressed by imported labor.

A democratic government enforcing the above ideals (if supported by a majority of citizens) is expected. That's why Japan is exploring automation instead of immigration for its workforce.

EDIT: @krapp (HN is throttling my posting ability)

Japan is overhauling immigration, but only as a last resort:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-12-07/immigrati...
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That's just an illustration, not 'ideal' code. Of course mkdir -p serves the same purpose; the point is to show the 'file_exists' function.

Mostly it's where using the shell would be painful. Do you have other specific examples?
This sort of data is exactly what I would not want to entrust to any organisation in the midst of all of the leaks and hacks we are seeing in the news. Let alone having them sell it legally to god knows who...

I remember reading about a hack/leak of, I think around 20,000 people's fingerprint data from the US government, and thinking to myself about the consequences of this biological data falling into the wrong hands. If there are any spies in that list and any country, say China, gets a hold of it, there is no way to update that spy's security, you can't change their fingerprints the same way I can think of a new password after a hack.

I might not be worried about anyone seeing my DNA profile at the moment, but maybe I will be in the future, and once the data is out there it can't be taken back or changed on my end.
Automate the rest of food production, and return most of the land to nature as preserves outside of major metros.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/science/e-o-wilson-half-ea...
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I disagree. Even if you make the best software ever, getting your first 100-1000 paid customers is hard. But if your software is good, and you have 1000+ paid users, paste that point, your product will market itself. Or you could just continue to sell to the customers you already have. And even the most clueless entrepreneur will make money.
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And then proceed to do nearly nothing with that information other than in one or two of the most egregious instances "reducing supply" and "instructing sales people that they shouldn't promote Oxy".

It's almost like they did the bare minimum, enough to have some plausible deniability, but not enough to actually be responsible. Oh, and then only after they knew the doctors were out of business (read "already arrested, charged, sent to trial") did they belatedly say "oh hey, you might want to look at them".

When it would do nothing to harm profit, but so no-one could say "you did nothing".
Considering the amount of problems that religion causes at present, I am more skeptical.
What wrong with using aggregate dna data to help target cures for Parkinson's?