skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I recall, Akka.NET started of as a simple port of Akka to the .NET ecosystem, but evolved from there in a different direction than Akka.

So there will be lots of similarities between the two, since they they started out almost the same, but also lot of differences due to difference paths of evolution.

It wouldn't surprise me if they borrow ideas from each other, but the two are very much independent.
We agree it's not a good way. But it's how the stereotypical OOP project will implement it.

The other way I'm familiar with is implementing rocket audio rendering at a central location (where also sheep and houses audio rendering is implemented).

That's the data oriented way. But the "drawback" is that one then needs access to the "raw" rocket data (one could still do it with a Rocket class, but would have to make a very complicated data-getter interface). Not very OO.

Thanks for your friendly reaction to my criticism, by the way.
Jeff Atwood's "On Parenthood" is by far the best and most honest piece I've ever read on what being a parent is like.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/on-parenthood/
Living-room sized computer to play Tetris
I'm curious to see how they surveyed for "happiness". As a parent the initial years are rough just providing care. In the thick of it if someone comes and asks, "are you happy?", the answer is irrelevant (I understand that the question won't be as direct, but the outcome will be similar). IMHO the best question is, "if you could go back in time would you still decide to have children?".
Interesting! Not sure what's constraining supply to the point that SF's average cost per SQFT is so much higher than Manhattan's? Restrictions on building up? Rent control limiting supply?
The problem is the economics of non-SAS applications: getting an email client right is hard and the free alternatives are good enough for plebe-tier users. $4.99 a one-time pop isn't going to get it done.
That's a great anecdote and makes we want to read TeX: The Program.

I really think there's something in the 'jumping back and forth' of the reader that could be leveraged, like if there was a way of recording, distributing, aggregating, analysing it etc.
Thanks for your comments!

- In my experience, the fish do a very good job of eating any mosquito larvae and other insects that happen to fall into the pool.

- Depending on how you would want to set up the AutoMicroFarm, there would be plenty of hiding places for the fish. In my setup, I only see the fish come out of hiding when I feed them. But, if this is still a concern, you could add a simple net to deter predators.

- I thought about selling just certain parts, but that adds too much complexity. If you're serious about wanting just certain parts, email me and I'll help you out.

- We've had several hard rains and high winds, and I haven't seen any significant erosion... maybe a few grains of sand that got washed out, but that's it. The plant roots are really good about holding on to the sand. :)
If you can come up with an algorithm that reproduces this conclusion - with accuracy even remotely close to the "racist" ones - banks will cross heaven and earth to pay you $billions.

Unfortunately the only public analysis I'm aware of is from a blog using Zillow data: https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/on-t...

This effect is reproduced in various walks of life, e.g. education.

You'll be doing social good in addition to earning billions of dollars. What's not to like?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12049410
That was a fascinating read! Who would have guessed that bees intentionally ferment food sources. I wonder if there is anything humans can learn from bee fermentation process. So cool, thanks for sharing!
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The leader you've just described doesn't exist, since even the most totalitarian leader is still a politician and thus must consider the interests of his power base. In order for Putin to be the leader you want him to be, he has to disregard his rent-seeking siloviki buddies, not to mention feudal lords like Ramzan Kadyrov, which he obviously can't if he wants to remain in power. He is still to a large extent dependent on them. Of course, Putin might be better than the siloviki ruling by themselves, but it's hardly an improvement on a disfunctional liberal democracy.
That paragraph lost my interest in the project. He's writing a function that has to work perfectly, every time, in all situations, and gets used A LOT. And yet, he never bothered to document his reasoning and no longer knows why it works? No thanks.
> Democracy doesn't work in most middle east nations

Democracy doesn't work in a lot of situations; this is not an inherent geographical attribute.

> it doesn't work in Russia also

Well, this has never been observed in Russia, so we'll never know.

> Liberal democracy is not panacea for everything.

Nobody claims this. But you can at least trust your neighbor not to turn you into the police because of due process. I'm that's not necessary in Russia because the government of course never commits human rights violations or makes mistakes.
That link is missing Waterloo, Ontario's Ctrl-V VR arcade [1]. I went with a friend, it's affordable and fun.

[1] http://www.ctrlv.ca/
Docker now includes built-in container orchestration
> My jaw dropped when I read the following because it speaks volumes about his mindset.

> > As such, visitors are mostly privileged web developers using macOS and Google Chrome.

Yeah, mine too. I wouldn't think of using macOS & Chrome as a privilege. A cost of doing business, perhaps, but not a privilege.

I'm privileged to have a job in which I'm running Linux and Firefox, and I really do count that as a privilege.
Super stuff, look forward to diving in deeper!

Are you planning to extend this aspect of the project? What are your other plans for the project?
A huge chunk of china is basically uninhabitable.

http://www.china-mike.com/china-travel-tips/tourist-maps/chi...

PS: You can draw a strait line in China with 6% of the population on the larger half, and 94% of the population on the smaller half.

http://www.undertheraedar.com/2012/06/population-of-china.ht...
I feel Email has evolved organically since eons and what we have today is like the way humans have evolved over millions of years. While the standard look and feel remains the same pretty much, it has become one's identity for receiving messages on the web of all forms and types, of all needs from commerce to friends to business.

It is also a database of all our past communications. Apart that mobile adds further complexity. It is likely that any one answer for it can miss out things in the enthusiasm to bring out a simpler version or in the over-enthusiasm to make it complicated than what it should.

It is hard to quantify the "needs" as it caters to a wide audience as a one stop answer. Slack like app can take away the professional side, or a Facebook can take away the social side, but no matter what, you still need a email as it serves as the identity to reach out for the Web applications.

So whoever is building a new email App needs to keep all of this in mind and come out with something nifty yet powerful.
The browser stats used as the foundation for the post is useless because he does not state how many total users was the sample based and what time frame was it taken at.

At the limit of this kind of "logic" I could equally say that 100% of google search visitors use TorBrowser (out of 1: me in a very precise time frame).
> Has anyone attempted something like this?

Yes, I write all my personal projects in human order. To me human order is when the flow control of human consumption and computer execution are most closely aligned. I attempt to achieve this with depth and order.

1) Have a giant library that defines your library or application.

2) Inside the giant function nest child functions for the primary tasks in the order with which they will execute. In the case of the following example the options evaluation is first, followed by the lexer/parser is the second child task, followed by various code presentation tasks, and finally by an analysis task. http://prettydiff.com/lib/jspretty.js

3) Break the child tasks down, as necessary, into reusable components.

4) I also believe a reference should always be declared before it used, which can dictate the order of reference declaration.

My opinion is that when the flow control of the application is unclear you are wasting time during maintenance. You may not know where a problem is occurring, but if the flow of the application is immediately clear from reading the code you immediately know where to start, where to step to next, and where to stop. There is minimal guessing and it doesn't require breakpoints to figure it out.
Episode 17 – Hacker OPSEC
It keeps sociologists off the streets, where they could get into _real_ trouble.
iOS 10 preview: Apple breaks down its walled garden
It's a lot harder to beat someone to death from the window outside their car.
Yeah i can't help but think he was having a bad time, went a bit deep in the bottle, and the cops, rather than picking him up and getting him home safely, curb stomped him, thus exasperating the situation.
Home Inspection Nightmare?
Suddenly my Latin and Computer Science majors make more sense together.
Thanks for the feedback! Glad folks are reading this stuff :)

> Would you be able to give more details as to how you use disks as raw block devices, bypassing the filesystem? For example, the kind of abstraction layers you use, their interfaces and methods, disk layout of extents, metadata layout, consistency issues, fsync issues, and the various performance advantages from bypassing the filesystem?

We can definitely go into details on the raw block device. Will probably leave that to @jamwt to write a blog post on since there's quite a lot of content there. Most of the motivation for doing so was actually so we could exploit the write-zone layout of SMR disk drives, although we get some other minor benefits like a bit more "formatted" disk space and no filesystem bugs.

> I was also wondering, I know you have two functional zones, but do you also keep an isolated timelapsed append-only backup of all data, in case of ultimate software error (something bad gets past the verifiers, or a delayed bug kicks in)?

Quick summary is that we write typically only data into at least two zones (regions), obviously replicated within these zones, and then we keep "trash" around in case there's a software bug that causes deletion. We also have a delete grace period where we keep data within the storage system for longer in case an application issued an erroneous delete.

The Dropbox filesystem layer actually checks that a file was added to MP before committing it to the metadata layer of the filesystem, so there's an extra check there that the write didn't just disappear.

We also log metadata about each put and every internal data transformation to a separate system so we can retrace our steps if there was ever an issue. This logging system is actually running on HDFS, so MP isn't the only storage system running at Dropbox, but it's by far the biggest one.
It may make you happier, but at what cost? Having children is a monumentally massive physical, emotional, financial, and psychological investment. What if there's a problem in the womb and they're born with a physical defect? What if there's a problem at birth and my spouse is now physically scarred for life? What if I get divorced and my wife now legally fucks me out of everything I own, and grooms the children to despise me (something that has become so common in family court that there's a term for it: parental alienation syndrome)? What if a couple years down the road they turn out to be highly autistic? What if they get hit by a bus in their 16th year? What if they turn into a drug addict when they're 19 and never speak to me again?

The "what ifs" can go on forever. At some point one has to rationalize whether or not all of this is worth it, to invest so much of oneself into another human being without first considering themselves.
Anything other than "yes masta, right away masta" can be considered "resisting arrest", sadly.
I found several problems with the article, and the conclusions of the study. Basic science says correlation != causation, but the study clearly set out with a specific bias in mind.

Case in point, this quote:

“We know that these problems have been endemic for decades now, and we’ve watched the maternal employment rate in the U.S. steadily erode relative to other countries.”

A higher maternal employment rate is now a yardstick for societal health? If that's not evidence of a clear bias on the part of the researchers I don't know what is. The personal fulfillment and societal value of working moms vs stay-at-home moms is a matter that can be debated, but to display such clear bias toward the latter as the 'correct' option makes one question all of the study's conclusions.
The Shifting Sands of SaaS Funding
The whole premise of aquaponics is that you don't need soil, just something that holds the roots in place and allows fish waste to be converted to plant fertilizer by the bacteria.
Wow, I'm really surprised that I've never heard of this before, not because I'm some sort of all knowing cyborg, but because its not like Yahoo acquisition talk just started last week.

This is a company that's essentially had multiple parts of it for sale for the better part of 4 years and this hasn't once come out.

I'm running through all the Yahoo corporate filings that Bloomberg has indexed and I can't find any link to this clause.

I mean this is a very material issue!

If you are to be a share holder in a company that's trying to broker a 3-4 Billion sale of some of its assets, then knowing that the buyer may be on the hook for an additional 1 billion bill probably means that the asset you thought you owned is probably worth 20-25% less than you originally thought.

Someone isn't going to be very happy with the yahoo leadership today:)
Why doesn't the Indian government speak to Tesla Motors/Solar City? They can help you zero down on traffic/power generation related pollution completely.

Indian engineers are smart people and given that much of EV technology is now proven and even open source!, I think it will make sense for the people there to adopt alternative tech. Have you tried talking to Tesla to open up R&D center with Tatas/Mahindras/whoever?

I do sense that corruption and its acceptance among citizenry is still going to be a major impediment but then it might just work. The only challenge would probably be to manufacture at scale and keep the car costs low to fit the average budget there.

But then India does get more than its fair share of tropical sun! :-)
Heck, not even that. The original funding for computers as we know them came from that general area as well.
If you develop a cool app and want to distribute it on the App Store, then you will indeed have to transfer it to a Mac and recompile it there using Xamarin's free product. This is a mix of limitations of Continuous (doesn't have an ARM compiler included) plus a limitation of Apple (you need a Mac per their rules).
You might not want to take parental advice from a fat bastard who sits and plays with his keyboard all day on a computer.

Try a grown-up instead. By which I mean, someone who has chosen to develop emotional intelligence.

Yes I can see the irony in what I'm saying. Thanks.
You could probably do the same in Canada fwiw.
Not so strange, sadly. The combination of drugs and alcohol is an especially bad thing for people experiencing depression. HHS (which includes the CDC) has a lot of papers and studies on this sort of thing.
For #1, I'd imagine that farmers already belong to (or could form?) a farming or agriculture association, and one of the [additional] responsibilities could be data collection, anonymizing and selling to other parties. The association, similar to a labour union, could also potentially hire a 3rd party to do this work on their behalf provided they still retain ownership over the data, but at least the overall coordination and aggregate value would be captured on behalf of the farmers and not the vendors.

#2 would be fulfilled more easily by the association provided there was enough true representation of member interests and concerns.
How many of these would you need to produce enough food for one adult? What kind of fish should you grow, and how long do they take to be adults and edible?

Your project is very cool, I think you're doing an amazing job. Keep it up!
As a society we have directed banks to make bad loans to blacks and charge non-blacks extra to make up the difference? I'd be surprised if even 10% of people know this decision was made.

Also, what makes it acceptable to engage in this form of surreptitious wealth redistribution on racial lines?
Assuming they walk away from Yahoo, though, whom would they select as their next US search partner? Return to Google?
Why Startups Love Moleskines (2015)
Apple allowing a scam in its App Store? Over $200k looted
"It is correct to say that we landed on the moon with 152 Kbytes of onboard computer memory." - Don Eyles

Ref: http://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html

Amazing!
I worked hard to make sure F# got equal support to C# - semantic highlighting, code completion, all that. The only real difference is the F# builds are a bit slower than C#.
Agreed. Some opponents of DRMs say this is the beginning of the end of open computers. We've heard recently about the Intel Management Engine.

On the other hand, almost all DRMs were broken because the content is available in clear:
http://betanews.com/2016/06/26/chrome-drm-streaming-video-fl...
https://iseclab.org/media/uploads/zotero/Steal_This_Movie_-_...
That's all well and good, but data on over 800,000 people really didn't show any statistically-significant fewer number of cancer deaths from fruit-eaters.

Obviously there's benefits, but I maintain that adding fruits and veggies to an otherwise awful lifestyle is akin to putting lipstick on a pig. Eat all the fruit you want -- if you smoke, you're not fooling your body.
Announcing Rust 1.10
Are Men Really Better Gamers Than Women?
> A developer who uses Firefox exclusively will have a similar feeling of privileged disdain for Chrome's bugs: "How can Google ship a browser with this problem? This is unacceptably broken!"

I don't know about its bugs, but that's pretty much how I feel about Chrome's address bar when I'm testing apps in it :)
Based on his state, it seems plausible that he did assault officers, and that they did have a right to use force against him to end that assault and take him into custody. Your offensive inaccurate slavery imagery notwithstanding.
With a billion in their pockets, it might not matter so much to them after all.
Right, but students are written into the grant. Ultimately, nobody gives a shit which post doc or student you put on a project; the assumption (often flawed) is that they're all the same as far as the modular budget is concerned.

If they were special, the reasoning goes, they'd have their own F32 or T32 to work on the project.
At least on an iPad Pro, I have found the split view with Safari docked to the right to be very adequate (actually, good) as the app contains lots of links to online docs.
> I was trying Google Inbox in a new iPad where I didn't configure the built-in Mail, but then I wanted to mail a link to a web page from Safari and I couldn't.

Sure you can – tap on the share button, then scroll to the Gmail icon and tap on it. A new email will be started in the Gmail application containing the page title and URL.

If you don't see the Gmail icon straight away, scroll to the end of the list, and tap on More… to add Gmail to the list.
I've also never seen that code but it's very readable for me, just based on the snippet. It's supposed to encode the information tuple and store it as the next entry of variable length on the position pointed by q. Every tuple ends with the 32-bit literal, but what comes before depends on the size of the displacement, and of course, smaller displacements need less bytes.
I wonder about the valuation of Basecamp, they may almost qualify.
I'm going to need a source on that tranquilizer bit.. When giving a paralytic to a human, you need to have them attached to a vent in order to keep them alive and breathing, I'd be surprised to learn that bears react differently to paralytics. I'm under the impression they use opiods / benzos for large animal sedation.
They probably couldn't make a better offer than Google in monetary terms, but DuckDuckGo seems much more philosophically aligned with Mozilla.
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How did Slack grow so fast?
Commented, thanks!
Greg Kroah-Hartman told me on LKML: "try mutt, you won't regret". I did try, and I don't regret indeed - I migrated to it :)
You should provide a link to your language for those unfamiliar with it.
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention density of cattle farming. I know it's a complicated issue, but my understanding is that industrial animal production affects climate more than transportation does.

http://www.fao.org/Ag/againfo/resources/en/glw/Density_maps/...

https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/global.html
Although just like the things you list, I can think of a plethora of ways with which advertising can literally, indirectly change my life by convincing me to purchase a product or service.
That's a problem with our culture, then, because early retirement (in the sense that you work on whatever you want irrespective of money and spend more time with your children) can be much more fulfilling than the vast majority of office jobs. Financial independence should be a goal of everyone's.
'Failing Light' (with Harold Budd) may be just about the most relaxing music ever. Everything's just growing and existing, perhaps underwater, with nothing ever happening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5VDDA1SPKQ
(Please note that I was specifically talking about "linked" lists: when we use them, their "linked" part rarely matches something in the real-world)

OK, let's go for more examples of well-used classes not representing real-world things: a solver, an interpreter, a compiler, an AST, an arithmetic expression, a grammar, a saved game, a DSP filter, a target architecture, a process, a thread, an AI script, ...

My "Rocket" example isn't a strawman, it's a counter-example. You can ignore the audio rendering part if you don't find it plausible.
I didn't read that. I read that no money was changing hands; just agreements. And of course the farmers benefit greatly; that's the whole point of it all, to make better yields.
Optimizing multi-module setup behind fat Node.js projects
I find strange this whole idea that economic growth requires population growth. Why can't each person, aided by automation, simply produce and consume more?
When people say kids are the most fulfilling thing in their life, is it because they are didn't have anything really fulfilling in their life before that?

I get fulfillment for my job some of the time - though its not the be all and end all in my life and it pissed me off sometimes too. I get a lot more from whitewater kayaking and mountain biking and generally being outdoors in my spare time. Some of my friends have had kids, and most have given up or seriously cut down on the amount that they devote to the sports they loved.

Did you have something that gave you a lot of fulfillment before you had kids?