skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may interest you to know that some older programming languages didn't originally support recursion, although they did support function calls (early FORTRAN being one example). The return address for a function call was typically stored in a fixed location associated with the target. So if you called that function once, you wouldn't be able to call it a second time until the first call had returned, otherwise you'd end up overwriting the first return address.

Not that I think that is the OP's problem - just a bit of interesting history. Support for recursion may seem obvious in hindsight, but there was a time where that wasn't the case.
If the idea is to make them aware of it and help them get rid of it. Why not? :)
Perhaps I'm missing something, but on first glance, there are some things that jump out at me:

- Sample size of three.

- Linguistic analysis. Perhaps they're not actually sad. Perhaps they just happen to be writing about sad things.

- Unrepresentative sample (they're all successful musical composers).
+1 to this as long as you are ok with an external vendor.

A couple of caveats. If you are coming from Nagios, this is a different worldview on monitoring. Like many other solutions commented here this is all based around metrics and their associated time series, and then you need to alert on those metrics. You ask the system questions with a time series query language.

Wavefront doesn't yet have a great solution for poll-based monitoring (i.e. hitting host Xs /healthcheck endpoint) so I still use terrible 'ol Nagios for that in my environment. However the rest of my work is all done in Wavefront - I'd say easily the high 90% of all my material alerts are done in wavefront with a small subset of work done in Nagios.

The killer feature here is the query language. I don't think there is anything else on the market that has its level of sophistication. I've had ex-Googlers on my team who "grew up" with Borgmon, which is in some sense the Ur-time series monitoring system and they loved it.

All this said, there are a lot of options about there. I have a strong bias against supporting my own complicated monitoring infrastructure. I want to focus on my own product. If you don't share that opinion or are on a super duper tight cash budget (but you do have time) than disregard the above ;)
I just bought a 450K house in Victoria knowing I'll take a haircut. The problem with timing the market is it simply hasn't crashed and I'm out of time - it's time to start a family.
Absolutely; the problem has to go somewhere. It's just the balance of how much semantic weight belongs to the encoder vs. the decoder
Not supporting war crimes or anything, but a more "heavy-handed or not-at-all" american involvement in foreign conflicts would be much better.

Like:

1. if you decide to invade Iraq, do a f proper large scale invasion, sweep the whole country, purge anyone opposing, pay some some of the reconstruction bill by training and equipping local forces, and after like 5 years or so of this occupation and purging, after you cleaned up the mess (or at least after you've reunited the country against one common enemy - YOU, which is still better than leaving a civil war behind), then f leave with parade and give them a "national freedom day" to celebrate or whatever.
or

2. if you want a foreign president down, either do it diplomatically, or give up, or do a proper job of f assassinating him and his entire family, don't start a bloody civil war that destroys an entire country and turns its population into refugees.

...the so called "partial involvement", where you go in, kick the bad guys' ass, and then leave without cleaning the mess or paying for it to be cleaned is the problem.
At least one big use case. NVIDIA: We will build a new control processor core from RISC-V ISA

https://1nv67s1krw3279i5yp7fko14-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
Capital controls. Their investment opportunities in China are limited as long as they have their money there.
My wife and I were just texting about this.

We try to make sure we carve out time for them to strategically be bored. Forced to explore, use their imaginations, build a fort, stomp on bugs, make shit up.
Here in the U.S. people exploit an immigration loophole:

http://www.ibtimes.com/eb-5-investor-visa-demand-booming-dom...

I believe Canada has seen something similar?

I'm very conflicted on this. I want the best people to come into my country, but I don't believe that being wealthy in an undemocratic country where corruption is more acceptable should qualify you for admission outright.
This quote was talking about the Steam Box team, a hardware team that was an enclave inside of a software company. It sounds really hokey for this team developing new hardware to be unable to bring in necessary talent for whatever reason.

It might be different if the new hires did have day-to-day work with these old software or video game developing fogies.
the situation has changed in the last decade. If I was working on a hardware project I would seriously consider relocating to Shenzhen. Anyone not aware of the what's going on over there should check out this documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY&list=PLMOGwaNoHu...
It sounds like you're saying that because it can't be 100% effective, we shouldn't do it at all. You could say the same about having a lock for your front door, but I bet you've got one.
Would the inverse be better? Tax breaks for local buyers to incentivize naturalization, formal taxation, etc?
They are equivalent if you place your entire program into some StateT a IO monad, where a is the contents of the entire memory accessible within your program.

That's to say, you do have a point, but both too big states and too little pure code are well recognizable smells. (I' not sure they are avoidable, but surely are smells.) On that sense, just by being easily recognizable they are already better.

I've been writing a small game in Haskell, and it has been funny to abuse monads and type classes for all sort of architectural features. But it's impossible to look at the code and mistake it for a well organized one.
While it's laughable to us, I don't think its that far off from what people believe about other things.

COLLEGE EDUCATED people believe that vaccines cause autism.
GMOs are considered less healthy than normally grown foods
Organic foods are considered "healthier" than normally grown foods even though studies have shown that there isn't a statistically significant difference in nutrients that matter.
People believe microwaving foods causes cancer in humans and also makes food less nutritious in a significant manner.

These are people who have every single resource in the world to educate themselves on the science of things, and yet believe dumb shit.

Compared to that, some farmers in a small village not completely trusting something that they don't understand or really have any ability to properly understand seems much less crazy.
Ask HN: What Happened to Startup School Radio?
The podcast ran 48 episodes and I was a huge fan. The last episode released was on May 31st. Is the show on a break? Cancelled?
There are several single-board computers with various permutations of USB 3.0, GbE, SATA, mSATA, miniPCIe, etc.

Check out the ODroid series, Banana Pi Pro, ECS Liva, Jetson TK-1, etc.

While I have to acknowledge the RPi's pioneering contributions to the ultra-cheap SBC market, I find it immensely frustrating that it sucks up all of the oxygen on this topic. There are many, many other options at this point and many of them are better choices for the typical "mini Linux server" or "low-power desktop system" use-case.
So why does it need to be Vancouver where prices are already very high? Why not buy in another city that's more reasonable?
I wonder how you calculated 99.99%.

In any case, here's some of the other 0.01%:

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/147894069726/martial-law-coming
Show HN: Uptime and Performance Monitoring
The word "healthy" is often a too-vague description of the benefits. It's become a catch-all phrase to describe numerous attributes. Some foods, like bread, are simultaneously healthy and unhealthy.
I believe this should be an "unoccupancy" tax instead, where owners are taxed if the home is unoccupied:

* increases the supply of available housing

* includes all the properties that have already been purchased for speculation and hits every year

* substitutes an occupancy check (using data like utility utilization or direct observation) rather than a test of foreignness which is too easy to game.

* doesn't dissuade foreign investors but facilitates the creation of safe rental infrastructure serving them.
I believe this should be an "unoccupancy" tax instead, where owners are taxed if the home is unoccupied:
* increases the supply of available housing
* includes all the properties that have already been purchased for speculation and hits every yeat
* substitutes an occupancy check (using data like utility utilization or direct observation) rather than a test of foreignness which is too easy to game.
* doesn't dissuade foreign investors but facilitates the creation of safe rental infrastructure serving them.
> Chinese always hated and rejected the idea that they developed from African/black ancestors

They're not very far behind the West in that regard. Piltdown man was only discredited in 1953...
What an odd thing to say.
My own experience led me to a slightly different conclusion.

I'm considered to be "creative" by my peers as I enjoy the arts and applying them for practical use. Contrary to the article, I found that I was significantly less creative when I was depressed. What was extremely frustrating was that it all felt 'stuck' - you can imagine a composer letting out his black-hole reservoir of pain and sadness in a stream of intense, out-of-world music, a cry for the greater ... but sadly for me it was less romantic. I just got stuck. Unable to speak properly, unable to write or draw or express anything for that matter. And yet it felt like I was ready to explode.

Now that I've recovered and drawn a line to separate those demons, I can get intellectual. One consequence of depression is too much noise; of bad chattering and self cruelty and emptiness. Emptiness can also be crushing. That could explain why I couldn't be 'creative' at all.

On the other hand, the author of the article mentioned a very good point:

>>Negative emotions appeared when they fell on hard times financially, when their health became poor or especially when a close relative died.

But I interpret this slightly differently. Poverty gives pain but I don't think this is the part that gives rise to creativity. I grew up in a very rural area where there was nothing interesting to do like video games and cinemas. That was when I was at my most creative and proactive, like using poor materials to make something really awesome and crazy. I prefer to call this "resourcefulness" but thinking about it now, maybe that is what creativity is all about: the ability to transform something deemed to be poor or average into another thing that is so much more than the sum of its parts. It's a weird irony that when my family moved to a "richer" environment, I found myself hopelessly stuck. Here are the things all laid out for me to draw and model. Here are the information to do this and that. Here's an infinite supply of paper. What a joykiller.
> Turning sound into images necessarily involves some design, and so there's
> no basis for calling any particular rendering the "actual" appearance of a sound.

Turning light into images necessarily invokes a design, too: an eye. And depending on whether this eye is that of a human, a fish, or a fly, a different image will be experienced. So here, too, there is no basis for calling any particular image, that you experience from the light that an object reflects, the actual appearance of that object.

It's just one instance of an appearance of an object in your field of experience at one particular point in time. Not even you will ever experience that object in exactly the same way again.

Furthermore, we have no way of knowing if there, some place on earth or elsewhere, exists a life form that experiences sound exactly as these two-dimensional images. If there has been an evolutionary advantage to doing so, I see nothing preventing a sensory organ from picking up these vibrations and creating this experience out of it.
Hillary, Me and the Digital Divide
> Butter is different, if you keep it for more than an hour at room temperature (20-21 Celsius) it will most certainly start to melt

It will not. It remains on my kitchen counter in a ceramic or glass container and keeps its shape. Lots of people do this, look up "butter bell" or "butter keeper" For example: http://goo.gl/fLIotj

Butter melts above 32 C.
White noise can be filtered out if it's not louder than the source sound within the frequency bands of interest over the time interval that matters for interpreting speech. So make sure it's loud, and maybe contour the noise to match the frequency distribution of speech, and maybe make it unpredictably variable over time.
PCB Design Patterns
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" -Keynes
> You can't afford retail brokerage costs when you're in a highly crowded and competitive trade.

This is very important. Most brokerage charge around $7 per trade, which makes high-volume trading very very expensive and prohibitive.

Robin Hood is an amazing alternative that charges nada for trades, and once they have an API[1], I think they'd be a great choice for small-time developers looking to do some (low-frequency) algorithmic trading.

[1] https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/210216823-Ro...
Not only that, another 'large mammal' in the room is the 'founder effects' that happen on every level (i.e. family, community, regional, ethnic) and their behavioral implications, that were common-sense non-taboo topics of discussion up to early modern times.
Can you provide the source of your data about the risk of dying?
They are also adding that, but the city has to legislate it:

"The B.C. Liberal government will also introduce legislation this week that will allow the City of Vancouver to impose a tax on vacant homes; and follow through on an earlier promise to end self-regulation of the real estate industry."
> No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

Apple could release a car that has fewer features than a Tesla or Mercedes, and if it was designed very well, with seamless integration with the iPhone, lots of people would buy it.
Don't fuck with the free market.

I know the intentions are good, but this will just create 100 loopholes and complexity up the ass. Fail.
>no privacy... not really.

> really wish they had made it easier to opt out of (and indeed not made the privacy invasive stuff the default)

Which is it?
Great idea, especially around optimizing resource usage for items you already have.

I'd like to see more transparency around cost up front - I should not have to dig into the second question of the FAQ page to see that a plan would start at $48+
> ...refrigerators? I doubt it, unless you were an ice man.

Perceived threat to vested/commercial interest? Spot on.

Out here in India, until the early 1980s, there were only two types of (largely indigenous and engineering-wise inferior) cars available in the market. Then, the then prime minister allowed a domestic company to manufacture (more) sophisticate cars in collaboration with Suzuki. The model they started with was far superior as compared to the two ancient mechanical atrocities.

Since the car mechanics at large here had never even seen any piece of engineering like that, leave alone the matter of repairing it, they all generally used to say: Yes, this car is a marvel of technology blah blah... BUT... it won't work on our roads!!
Scratch from MIT is worth taking a look at. Really good fun and we use it in UK schools to teach the kids programming.

There is also Kodu from Microsoft (google it and take a look at the images and video) Kodu is ACE I love love love it. But it may be a little advanced for her.

And roll play games, D&D is tricky for most kids, but there is Hero Kids and Dungeon World (try some of the one shots) these are super geeky and fun and nerdy and min/max characters teach you a lot.
The installation does not work for me. I follow all the steps and then run '$ emacs' in the console and the old GNU emacs just pops up. Anyone got a clue what I'm doing wrong?

Edit: fixed it. It turns out that was an ~/.emacs file present which prevents Spacemacs from starting. If you did the cloning and $ emacs results in your standard GNU emacs, look for the file ~/.emacs and remove it.
Yep. RIP
That's a huge reward for failing. I'm on the wrong side of IT.
"Interestingly, ‘Internet’ doesn’t really rise above 70% in any hotel class, indicating that internet access is as bad in 3 star hotels as in 5 star hotels. One would expect that more expensive hotels would provide a better internet service, but If you’ve ever stayed at a 5 star hotel you know that’s not usually the case..."

The more stars the Hotel has the more likely you have to pay for WiFi. If I have to pay for it, I expect it to perform better than if it's free. So I'm going to diss it harder if it is not fast and consistent.
Thanks for providing that quote! I have not finished reading the book but this is very appropriate.

it is also the reason I think this one is appropriate --> Science advances one funeral at a time. (I think this is Max Planck)
Heroku: A Distributed Systems Approach Using Streams and Apache Kafka
Apple's goal is to make the first well polished version on the market, and then claim they invented it. Looking at MP3Players/Smartphones/TabletsWithPens.
Thanks, it's not so much that he is always bitter... just breaking the news to him has been a tough process. We had good times and bad times...

Made an edit to clarify.
I find it really strange to find this on HN's aggregator. This tax is neither novel, technical, nor an actual solution. There are cities that have solved the speculation problem with social housing and/or planning - Vancouver (and San Fran's) only problem is a lack of will.
So we just recently switched over to Wavefront from an aging Zabbix monitoring. We had tested and reviewed a few time series based monitoring systems and felt Wavefront was what we needed for Enterprise level monitoring.

Some of the key items we liked were:

* Able to consume millions of metrics per second. This is pretty huge. While we're not even close to that much (11k/s at the moment), we expect that number to triple or quadruple in the next year.

* Fast. Wavefront renders graphs quickly. The ability to manipulate the data in real time has been impressive.

* Feature requests. Wavefront has been receptive to ideas from their customer base. They even have a voting system in their community page if other customers like a certain request.

* Support has been great. Questions on issues or general technical guidance has been handled quickly, within the hour.

* Docker ready. Already using Wavefront with our emerging docker infrastructure.

* Engineers are self sufficient. Before, Tech Ops had to do all the monitoring for new services. With technologies such as docker, our engineers are capable of setting up monitoring within the application to directly send to Wavefront. This offloads quite a bit of work from Tech Ops.

No, I'm not affiliated with Wavefront. We just use their monitoring service.
You didn't need to purchase a house to do that. You can rent houses in victoria. Buying a house doesn't mean you'll keep it if economic bad times hit.
Kubernetes uses this way, so why not?
Although higher framerate is preferable, the brain can easily interpret the motion despite the missing information. There is no blurring in reality, so adding blur only makes things worse.
I'm @ Notre Dame. I have to use Amazon and eBay. :)
A fair amount of FreeBSD's infrastructure in hosted in Yahoo!'s datacenter in Santa Clara.

I'm curious how this will affect that relationship, if at all. It's not like Yahoo! is going to stop using FreeBSD overnight or anything but Verizon may decide they don't want third-party infrastructure in "their" datacenter.
The notation system evolved as an efficient way to read Western classical music, both in terms of space and legibility. It's oriented towards the fundamentals of musical performance, and is read by millions of people around the world. For what it does, and the large ground it covers, I would argue it's really tough to beat. Not that people haven't tried!

There are plenty of alternatives, particularly when it comes to translating to a computer (see e.g. Lilypond notation). For many music projects that go from instrument straight into production without having to communicate to an intermediary performer, western music notation is unnecessary - piano rolls are sufficient. Piano rolls can also be useful in limited situations for performance (see Guitar Hero et al) but things fall apart quickly if you need to perform lots of different notes with sophisticated rhythms, and/or need to look significantly far ahead of the current point in time. (These are problems which Guitar Hero happily exploits as part of the game.)

The further away music gets from the Western classical music tradition, the more the notation system is stressed. Many of those traditions, however, are places where oral transmission of musical instructions are preferred, and where written notation may not be as developed. (See e.g. oral transmission systems for taiko and pakhawaj.)
censorship, the panacea of the autocrat, the fear of the progressive, and the joke of the youth.
It sounds like you are trying to use the foot-in-the-door technique. But you are looking at just one concern being very hypothetically alleviated, when there are many many other reasons that have been repeatedly discussed for years. So in practice, the answer to your question is no, and there is no reasonably considered theory where the answer would be yes.
The melting point of butter is 90-95°F (32-35°C)[0]. My family always kept it out on the counter, even in the summer. It never gets that hot inside thanks to the insulation required to keep the house warm in the winter.

I agree with you about the Tomatoes though. That one is backed by science, but what else is impacted by refrigeration that hasn't been discovered by science yet? There's no danger in leaving produce on the counter so long as you eat it within 2-3 days. It varies, of course. I keep bananas on the counter for a full week.

[0]: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/oil-melting-points-d_1088....
Can I build Android and Chrome for my phone?
This is an experiment to determine whether or not Android (and Chrome) are really open source. And, since I'm not much of a systems programmer it will give me a tour of my machine's capabilities in that regard. I'm comfy at the command line and am fluent in both Linux and OSX. My phone happens to me a Moto G, if that matters. (I also have access to a Galaxy S7 and Nexus 6P). Thanks!
Actually, OpenVZ based on RHEL7 (3.10+) kernel is available.
https://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/announce/2016-July/000664...
There's this little desktop box, sold as a development system [1]:

AMD Opteron A1100 series processor
4 x 64-bit ARM Cortex A57 Cores
2 x RDIMM with 8GB DDR4 DRAM
1 x 1GBase-T Ethernet
2 x USB 3.0 ports
2 x SATA 3.0 ports
1 x 1TB HDD
$599

(Pre-Order Now – Delivery July) - not good seeing that on July 25th.

No graphics, though. It's really a server board in a desktop package.

There are lots of small boards which are really tablet-type systems-on-a-chip where the connections from the chip were brought out to connectors. (That's what a Raspberry Pi is.) But they don't usually have PCI or SATA interfaces, so disk I/O capability is limited. There are good embedded 32-bit ARM boards, but the embedded world isn't going 64-bit yet.

Everybody seems to assume you're going to cross-compile and remote debug for embedded and server work. QNX doesn't even self-host any more. (I rather liked having a QNX desktop.)

[1] https://shop.softiron.co.uk/product/overdrive-1000/