skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's my understanding that occasional sleep paralysis is actually pretty common. Chronic occurrences are more rare, and would be characterised as a disorder, like the parent comment suggests.
And Snapchat might be the next Twitter.
They do, and they use it to support the NX bit, but they artificially restrict memory to 4GB on everything except the most expensive server SKUs.
Juries are instructed to determine the facts of the case beyond a reasonable doubt, and thereby determine the verdict. Mercy is not part of jury instructions. A jury would be a pretty blunt instrument in the delivery of mercy, because they don't control sentencing, but only the verdict. All the jury can say is "guilty" or "not guilty" -- not something like "guilty, but give the guy a merciful sentence because of mitigating factors."
Uber's case for incremental processing on hadoop
What can a hundred bucks buy you in California? Answer: About $89
Apparently these massive day-one patches are a way to work around consoles' certification programs: http://ramiismail.com/2016/08/patch-the-process/
manyxcxi summed it nicely. I want to highlight part of what (s)he wrote.

I've watched this play out for 25 years with dbase, Paradox, Access, and countless other tools intended to empower end-users. Typically only one person in a User Area (UA) has the gumption to want to develop an application. It's wildly successful at first. As time goes along, the person devlops the app based on new requirements as is true with any app. At some point, the complexity exceeds the user's skill and time. Often, it's when they want the app to become multi-concurrent user.

I saw that one play out around 1995 with an app built on Access 2.0. The department had a copy installed on each of 20 desktops. The manager came to realize it needed to be a shared app. The power user didn't know how. My colleague spent the better part of a year doing it.

Whatever the reason, IT gets called in. Then we have to salvage a good-for-an-amateur app. Usually the app has become critical to that department so the developer resource has to be pulled from other priorities to salvage the situation.

The problem isn't the lack of tools or CIO's protecting their turf. It's IT being left with messes when a power user gets into trouble. Whether it's Oracle Glue, Access, Gupta SqlWindows, Crystal Reports, or Frontpage, the scenario consistently plays out the same way.
I was thinking of symbolic integration when I wrote that, but there are also the various numerical solvers and special functions. Honestly though I'm not sure, I never really got into that part of it.
Ok but the north side alone is pretty large and anyway wouldn't you agree that 1500 is a very low number for those three properties combined? I'm sure they have other offices that haven't been made public, too.
People talk about religion like it's been with us since the dawn of man for no good reason at all.
> trying to relieve an underlying issue

Often enough that might simply be hunger and thirst, eg with coffee and cigarettes.

With other addictions a physical dependence is less apparent and I wondered before, why obsessive compulsion is never mention in this regard. Take gambling for example.

As the comment about rat-park points out, nicotine or opiate addiction do have an extrinsic physical aspect. In any case, the internal chemistry always plays a role.
Part of the Real ID program is physical security and internal controls at printing facilities beyond what DMV branch offices are generally capable of, as well as printing processes that require $300k+ of specialized equipment.

The best route to a fake ID was previously to bribe a DMV clerk to use the printer after hours. Those fakes were basically undetectable by physical inspection.

Very few convincing fakes (that are caught) are built to modern standards. Fake ID makers almost always imitate designs from before the institution of Real ID.
Oh, I'd be fine!
Yep, there were experiments using them to transmit sounds directly into people's heads - successfully, I might add. There's a whole crowd of tinfoily types convinced they're victims of govt harassment via these technologies, look up V2K.
The main objection to juries is that judges spend decades developing expertise in the law, but we reduce them to the role of referee and let 12 non-experts make very important and difficult legal decisions. In many cases, the jury comprises 12 people who were too stupid to get out of jury duty.

Another common objection, often brought up in countries without juries, is that only a guilty person would desire a jury, because unlike a judge, it could be misled by appeals to emotion and faulty legal arguments.

Juries also seem to be unnecessary, because there are plenty of countries that don't use juries and have more just and equitable legal systems than countries that do.

These aren't exactly my views, but they are common objections raised against juries.
Add a parser (so I can say "August" or "Aug" instead of 8) and I might start using it (just because the Wolfram|Alpha page loads so slowly).

For example something like this:
https://dateparser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Importing packages every time I want to use them is rather tedious though. I guess I need PYTHONSTARTUP as well.

Overall, though, 10 minutes to setup something I only use once or twice a year seems like a waste.
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No, I liked the book. My point is that there are other great ideas out there that we're not exposed to because they're 100 page ideas rather than 300 page ones. It's less of an issue as we go more digital and rely less on traditional publishing channels, but there's still a knee there right now.
Ah, a linguistic prescriptivist! :)
Actually we do see way more games for Linux. If you paid attention, their amount increased a lot in the past several years. From major engines, to major distributors, Linux is now in the gaming mainstream. Only legacy publishers mostly lag behind (the likes of EA and Blizzard). But they are always followers, not innovators.
This man was the primary cause of the damage and if there was some way that others owed part of the damages he, the defendant, could always sue the others.
"So by extension - if you cannot ensure you see an error in your specifications, what makes you think you should write them?"

Your standard here is that it must achieve perfection or we don't use it at all. A realistic approach is to use anything proven to increase correctness, reliability, security, whatever as much as one can justify. Decades of work in formal specification show they catch all kinds of errors. The most recent, which I think agentultra was referring to, was Amazon's use of TLA catching problems that would've required 30 or more steps in testing. Easily. They caught so many problems & improved their understanding enough that the team is totally sold on it. Same kinds of results as safety-critical industry and high-assurance security. Nobody doubted it was helping them.

So, such empirical evidence showing all kinds of problems caught by the method plus benefits means it's a good method to use if one can. The complexity of distributed systems increasing potential problems means one should be increasing their tooling rather than decreasing it. For another good tool there, check out the Verdi system for verifying distributed systems against failures. As usual, applying it already caught problems in real-world stuff.
Aside from one being voted on by an elected body and on and unelected body what exactly is the difference between regulation and legislation?
Sample product: you can no longer get neodymium magnets from Amazon Shopping. (They were in my Wish List, and then, poof, "This product is no longer available." More searching within the site returned nothing.)
The standard thing to do in these cases is to make zero be a medium gray, so that you can see negative output as well as positive. If you use one of the edge-detection filters, you'll see what I mean.
Been using Ubuntu for about 5-6 years now. On laptops the wifi drops all the time. Bluetooth fails to connect half of the time or gets stuck and needs a reboot. I can use my Brother printer, those drivers "work", but it fails to center the page properly out of the box, comes out all mangled. Just got a 16.04 fresh install from a vendor, software update immediately borked permanently, had to find https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjfMYjRjAv8 to be able to move past it. Again, I'm expected to be IT guy or Geeksquad Man to be able to use this OS, which I'm happy to do at work, just not on my time.

If you go over Ethernet, use extremely conventional hardware and only expect to use it as a machine to browse the Internet then you'll generally be just fine.

It's free, I can't complain, but it doesn't make it any less of a shit show.
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No Doubt, AMP is top ranking factor.
Anyone have same experience?

Accelerated Mobile Pages (we’ll call it AMP from now on) is a global initiative with one major goal; faster mobile websites.
a) It never hurts to let the developers know you want it

b) In theory, you should be able to hibernate Linux and boot in to Windows

> I'd need to share monitors/keyboard for practical reasons, which is a ton of setup I don't really have time to get right

I use a fairly cheap KVM, which isn't problem free, but is less hassle than swapping cables between my macbook and my PC (used for nothing but games). Even swapping the cables between 2 computers isn't that huge of a hassle ;-)
Sorry, I also meant to say that I expect a software product company to have higher revenue per employee. Employees are the main factor in office size, and agency/consulting revenue scales linearly with headcount whereas software product sales aren't constrained as much in that way. Particularly that should be the case with free B2C software.
I don't find it mysterious. I just think that cats are inherently not social, so they only use people to suit their needs at a particular time.

Like when they're getting petted, it might feel nice for a while, then when it suddenly doesn't feel so nice anymore, that's when the scratching starts.

That's why they go to get food from neighbors or anyone else. They don't need the companionship, and only sometimes need the food. It doesn't really matter who supplies the food.

"Why do you scratch and hiss for no reason". What a shitty puzzle. Not a puzzle I'd choose to play.

I suppose some people are gluttons for punishment... or possibly suffering from toxoplasmosis.
Twitter's core business could be handled by a team about the size of Craigslist. They tried to add too many features, many ad-related.

Somebody should set up OpenTweet as a budget competitor.
You mean to say they put resources into lock-in to tax cross platform development. Those who care about the progress of the industry put resources into shared technologies like Vulkan, which makes cross platform development more affordable.
They can't maintain high speed for long. "The charge of the beta particle will continuously cause ionization along the path that it is traveling. Because of this, when a beta particle enters some material, it begins slowing down, and slows down continuously." Same link as above: http://www.alpharubicon.com/basicnbc/RadiationPenetration.ht...
I like that!

My own suggestion would be to make :visited something that renders at the browser-chrome level (like OS tooltips or IME controls), rather than the renderer level (like on-page find result highlights or selection-caret link outlines.) Don't hand the state to the renderer process in the first place; just stuff it in the renderer-inaccessible part of the DOM (like XHR response cookies) and then have the browser indicate where on the rendering surface the visited—or maybe unvisited!—links are, in some floating-control fashion (perhaps like Firefox's find-in-page scroll-bar notches.)
The software controlling the telescopes is a collection of java agents using JADE: http://jade.tilab.com/

There are many agents with different responsibilities,from driving the cameras themselves, to the mount, dome, autoguiders, etc. We use a pubsub based model to keep them all in the know.
> Marketing agencies/consultancies set up on prime real estate in order to impress clients,

which is really bass-ackwards when you think about it. If I have the choice between a badass agency who watches costs or a badass agency that is spending piles of dough on glassy offices, I know where my dollar is going to go further.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2616610?dopt=Abstract found that isolated rats took more heroin earlier than rats in "group housing". It's not clear from the abstract how the "group housing" compares to "Rat Park", but it may be the case that even better housing would delay heroin ingestion even longer. Rat Park has been under-studied.
That sounds like an interesting challenge, actually..
Design Better Data Tables
"For high atomic number materials, there is a chance of the beta particles loosing energy by producing some x-rays. In water, the x-ray production from a beta particle is quite miniscule."

http://www.alpharubicon.com/basicnbc/RadiationPenetration.ht...

By "high atomic number materials" they mean stuff like lead, 82. Aluminum is 13.
There are a bunch of sources for this story, which I mentioned in submitting my link, and I'm not a fan of Joe Mullin's approach to the article, which is why I called him out in the comments section over there.

There are two sides to every story. Running with the narrative that Ahmed's family has put forward ignores that the ISD & City were prohibited from responding due to existing laws. Like HIPAA for students.

This lawsuit might pull that plug.
There's been a few all right. I remember the Celio Redfly for one. None of them worked so well.

That said, tablets didn't work so well when Microsoft tried them out 15 years ago, but they blew up later. Same with a number of other techs that weren't ready. Is this the time for smartphone computers? Nah, but keep an open mind!
http://ramiismail.com/2016/08/patch-the-process/

Not weird at all, "big day 1 patch" is very common for anything being distributed on consoles.
I completely feel you on b. I always have a set of various folders opened and even with shortcuts it's a pain in the ass to reopen them all (because what's open depends on what I'm doing).
That tax is still being paid by capitalism. It is a tax on income made, or future income going to be made (that is when a country debt fund the shortfall in tax revenue).
> "A crash which results in someone tracking down and fixing the bug is far better than quietly doing something which is 100% guaranteed to be wrong."

Not necessarily. Wrong is relative and can have either small or large costs, and crashing also has a cost to the user (and to the developers if they lose users.)

As an example, I play a very old video game (Descent). One of the major problems with one of the modern source ports is that the game crashed under certain conditions -- like if it received a malformed data packet. This is a game that's already fairly tolerant to lost data, so just dropping a bad packet is an acceptable result. By comparison, crashing in the middle of a competitive match is a much worse result, because it affects things like momentum and where various powerups have been left around the map.

It would be great to fix the bug that was resulting in malformed packets -- but the cost of directly affecting a high-stakes match is not worth it. I'd rather tolerate a fraction of a percent of lost data every game for the next 20 years than ever have a high-stakes match where the result was tainted by a badly-timed crash.
Before I even saw your post I was thinking about references to this movie. That's great.
Einstein's “The World as I See It” New Edition Missing Tons of Original Content
You can Google "Amazon phone number" to speak to someone human...
"I'd sell it to the NSA for some bitcoin"
For anything seriously graphical there is Vulkan which is basically the same where it's supported.
Chromebooks start at $149. This is just a Kickstarter price claim, not a real price. It will probably increase after launch, after which it will no longer be competitive.
I currently carry around a bluetooth keyboard and have to awkwardly use it on the train etc, with my phone at awkward angles. I would absolutely get this if it were production ready.
I'm not so sure, unlike other vulnerabilities we talk about here as being nearly worthless (things against facebook, etc) this would take a serious amount of effort to protect the internet against and have a very long tail of patching. I would bet that you could get a pretty penny selling it. To either a state agency or a large criminal enterprise.
No, but I might design one that also works on IE6.
I have no doubt taxes for "the rich" will be raised. I also have no doubt proponents will be shocked to find they end up with very little extra money as a result. Particularly now, when investments are paying almost nothing.
That's a tough one to answer. The cynic in me says probably not. That they're so focused on pharmaceuticals and "analog" medical devices that they haven't developed those capabilities.

But I also know that the FDA is a massive organization, and there's no reason they couldn't hire for this specific purpose. But then the cynic says that government pay grades may not be up to snuff.

See the HCA rollout and subsequent rewrite.

Sorry, that was a long way of writing, "I don't know".
court-ordered AA is illegal. court-ordered rehab is not:

http://www.rehabs.com/pro-talk-articles/you-cant-make-me-or-...
Same here. And funny thing is I have little problem working 60-90 hour weeks.. that would have absolutely killed me working on site. The commute time savings alone is rediculous. That's like 20 hours a week right there, and that's ignoring the cognitive load of scheduling.. etc. Working from home is fantastic.
[Aol drastically miscategorgized R&D as an asset, paid itself, and recognized loans as revenue - to the extent of fraud](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64365-2005Jan...)

As an Atlantan who has seen Ted have to sell most of his Turner based business interests (Braves, Hawks, TBS, Thrashers) I can tell you it wasn't a very profitable merger.
How does the radio work? Do you need line of site to the tower? Mind sharing your experience, or name of such companies? My father uses satellite, it's the only option I was aware of, but it's painful. I would love to learn about other possibilities. I've searched for wireless ISPs but it's a bit difficult to tell which ones are any good.
What the hell are you talking about?

Just take your Unix mentality and make a few substitutions:

* gcc -> cl.exe

* ar -> lib.exe

* ld -> link.exe

* make -> nmake.exe

* libfoo.so -> foo.dll

And there you have it, the world that "didn't exist before .NET" ... This is crazy amounts of ironic because Windows had DLLs at a time when shared libraries were not so much a thing on Unix. Not to mention things like COM which are all about creating de-coupled components.
New Photos Cast Doubt on China’s Vow Not to Militarize Disputed Islands
My German friends had suggested that I read "Mein Weltbild" as it contains a lot of the worldview of Einstein. I tried to look up the English edition for it (now published by a major American publishing house) and it seems like a lot of content on "politics, fascism, Judaism, peace and science" is missing!

Anyone knows where to get an unabridged english version of the book?
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My thoughts exactly. I'll be damned if I'm going to put additional time and effort into meeting some "just hard enough" spec in order to secure my job for the future.

1) I'm lazy
2) I am not worried about job security

Does anyone actually, honestly, incorporate "how can I keep the application of my skills here the right amount of inaccessible to others?" into their time spent on project? Shame on you.
> It's expensive to produce a custom microprocessor, but it's cheaper than it's ever been.

My impression is that it's more expensive these days, which is why we don't see as many startups like MOS or Acorn, and see instead partnerships between larger companies. It also seems less likely for anyone producing an ASIC to get funded in the first place these days. I couldn't find good data to settle the cost issue, though.

> I am comparing a random engineer in your company (cathedral) to one of your customer support staff who is requesting a copy change (bazaar).

I don't understand this argument. I'm not sure what "copy change" means in context, and I don't know how customer support relates to the discussion.

I guess the main point I was trying to make was that the tooling for bazaar-style development is at your fingertips from the moment you sit down at a computer, but the cathedral is harder to make and the publicly available tools aren't as good.
I think we agree, I meant "more than we could" not "more than there used to be" ;-)
Aye. BTW, I just got this promotion from the publisher: Amazon Kindle edition of Battlefield Earth (1094 pages) is available for 99 cents until midnight August 14th.

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best rename it to "Show HN: ..."
It might be better to use the "Scratch Holograms" link at the top of that paper, as it has better exposition and a video. :)

http://amasci.com/amateur/holo1.html
Lol, Have a look at what Monkey Squad is doing with Kerbal Space Program. They added many game-altering and save-breaking "features", even migrated to a new version of unity, post-1.0 release. The days of distinctions between alpha, beta and release are gone. Developers are free to release most anything they want under whatever banner they choose.
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You italicized "valuable features" and I understand why, but I think the trouble spot is actually the word "all"; your parenthetical about adding no value merely begs the question. I'd argue that, indeed, some valuable features can be organically broken down into two-week user-facing deliverables, but certainly not all and probably not even most. There's nothing magical about being able to partition a deliverable into a sprint's time frame that, by such distinction alone, makes it valuable versus valueless.

Systems like scrum try to wrangle into a manageable bolus a process that -- if we're to make good softare -- necessarily includes creativity, inspiration, and the traveling of paths yet unseen. It's like writing a novel and having two-week deliverables like "complete the arc of the Alice character", versus "write approximately 100 pages". It's not valueless to write 100 pages, despite not finishing the Alice section, and perhaps specifically because we discover that Alice's emerging story turns out to intersect perfectly with what we want to do with the Bob arc later on.

So there's writing and engineering and lines of code versus plotting and architecture and inspiration. We need all of it, right? Does everything that's not a "valuable feature" have to be shunted into the cul de sac of a research spike, doomed to be frowned upon by the management for whom the system otherwise provides the sheen of predictable velocity? Does the critical work of "dreaming" of what to do at both macro and micro levels become a casualty of the banal necessity of marching equal-sized boluses through the development tract?

I'm making a florid point, but to me this feels like the essential tension.