skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually nuclear submarines already make their own oxygen with electrolysis so they don't ever need to (nor do they) surface, except to exchange personnel or to load additional food.
It doesn't, really. Chinese policy is to make sure everyone speaks Mandarin, to promote in-country unity. The rhetoric they employ to push that goal is independent of the goal; there is no question anywhere that English is not a dialect of any Sinitic language, but English was required in Chinese schools for policy reasons and they are now beginning to phase it out for (different) policy reasons.

There are no policy implications to using a different term for Cantonese (though the relevant Mandarin terms are 方言 "the speech (语言) of a place (地方)", which makes no distinction between "dialect" and "language" (though "linguistics" is 语言学, the study of 语言), and 粤语 "Cantonese", which is a term fully parallel to 英语 "English", 法语 "French", 日语 "Japanese", etc.). Regardless of term, the policy will be that schooling takes place in Mandarin.
The benchmarks do not use caliper or jmh. This is _very_ important - microbenchmarks on the JVM rarely do what you think they do without extra work.
Okay. For me it looks like the complaint was unsubstantiated. Thanks for the detailed discussion, gorhill.

And thanks for maintaining uBO. Using it happily since it became a topic on HN.
It doesn't matter on high DPI displays by the way.
Are you sure you want to risk buying a post-2014 Lenovo laptop? If they pulled shenanigans once, they are likely to do it again.
IDK, I'm hoping that there are enough people who don't check stars and choose a repo simply because it was the first one they found or because they think it works better with their existing code or for other reasons. And honestly there are many times where I've been that person.
Can confirm, with a Thinkpad T460s. Better than Windows and OS X.
Assuming you value your time at $0/hour
Agreed. But there are many many cities that are big and a lot cheaper than SF, NYC etc.
I've been considering a move from PDX to ABQ this year, for reasons of geography and social culture; however the job market here has completely spoiled me and I haven't followed up on many job leads over there. It does not seem to be exactly what one could remotely consider a tech hub, which is actually part of the draw for me, honestly.
David Jones' EEVBlog had an episode attempting to do powerline analysis of an electronic safe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxQUKAjq-7w

Like other commenters here I'm wary of using an electronic lock because I'm not able to inspect the code for backdoors. I wonder if there's enough of a hacker market to warrant creating a crowdsourced electronic safe (or retrofit of the electronics of an existing electronic safe).
I reckon. I've set up the Rational Suite and FileNet. FileNet alone is worse than a raw Oracle DB. You'd write FileNet SQL, only to work around bugs they have in transforming their SQL to Oracle SQL. Any manager buying IBM software should be in jail for corruption and breach of fiduciary duty.
> This article is saying smart people don't understand how the world works because most of the world's people are average intelligence.

Not at all. It says highly educated people are out of touch with the realities of life of average folks because these categories have very different ranges of first-hand experience.
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So, in a way, they are teaching empathy? While others teach frameworks of social acceptance?
Daniel, the writer, is the founder of a great service that streams from any computer for pennies (paid in bitcoin)
The new web client supports audio calls in Chrom(e|ium) on Linux nowadays.

rm -rf /opt/skype
> ...as long as you avoid nVidia GPUs

You also want to avoid AMD Radeon, which is even more problematic than nVidia. I think the best advice is "as long as you go for Intel graphics".
Airline outages may cause push to cloud?
Ask HN: Did some of you try the digital nomad lifestyle and not like it?
I was just genuinely curious and not experienced enough to hold an opinion stronger than that generally Postgres seems to be a good choice for most of what could be thrown at it in the web world.
>I think they do help. For constant dollars, each study has to balance the detail of the data captured against the size of the population included. Anything that allows more detailed data to be gathered from a larger population is helpful.

Not exactly because we don't know all the factors to control for. You end up with a bunch of correlations but often it isn't clear why. Are people who eat X foods Y because they eat that, or because the common genetic background of people who eat X are Y? Or maybe it is because before they were born their parents did Z?
TCP is not simple.

TCP is a spec, it could have design bugs. There are many implementations of that spec. New ones created, existing ones modified. It should not be surprising that they have bugs.
Anyone else getting this error message?

Error establishing a database connection
A letter from Blaise Pascal to a colleague starts, "I apologize for the length of this letter. It would have been shorter if I'd had more time."

Exupery has the one about perfection being achieved when there is nothing left to take away. I confess you have to unpack that one a bit to turn it into a commentary on simplicity and how it's challenging to achieve.

There's the one attributed to Einstein about 'as simple as possible but no simpler', and for some reason I occasionally swap the two in my head. Any problem is easy to solve if you misunderstand it properly.
LEDs can be pretty darn quick. My friend was able to use a status LED on his FPGA board as a toslink transmitter.
The fact that you've been downvoted is, I think, actually indicative of a major impediment to Linux's spread. Linux is not a consumer OS. There's no way around this: it is not designed to be user-friendly, it's designed to provide power to power users. Using Linux as a consumer is a miserable experience and the vast majority of people who have a choice will choose otherwise.

Unfortunately, the Linux community has such faith in their project that they're ill at ease with hearing about its failings. It's not clear why they should be, though: Linux is a (relatively) great OS for its intended purposes, and there's no need for it to extend to every possible use case. Linux on the desktop is a somewhat pointless goal, and the community would benefit from embracing that fact.
Stop using Skype. Can confirm that the WebRTC client works fine however.

Jitsi Meet is a self-hosted, enterprise-grade alternative which works just as well. It even supports larger video conferences than Skype.
>>So by saying you should attack Islam (with no qualifiers to that statement), you are indeed saying you should attack Muslims.

That is your way of interpreting it.

I never said we should physically attack the Muslim people. I am not against Muslim people, per se. All I am saying is we should attack the vicious ideology of Islam.

If the sentiments of some (potentially radical or not-so-radical) Muslims get hurt due to the thought attacks on the ideology of Islam, so be it. These Muslims should learn to get offended and learn to respect the freedom of expression and learn to respond to such offending expressions in more civilized manners and not by killing people.

You should be telling and encourage these Muslims to learn the fundamentals of free and open society.

If some Muslims are getting offended because some people draw cartoon of their prophet, so be it, these Muslims must learn to live peacefully in a free society even if they get offended by other people.

If some Muslims are getting offended because some people raise the issue of the pedophilia practiced by their prophet Muhammad, so be it, these Muslims must learn to live peacefully in a free society even if they get offended by other people.

The liberals/critical thinkers should not be suppressed just because expression of their thoughts in a peaceful manner hurts the sentiments of some Muslims.

The liberals/critical thinkers have attacked earlier and do attack now also the Christianity/Judaism/Hinduism and our free society never suppresses their thoughts. Islam should not be an exception and hence Islam should not be given special treatment.

Once again let me make it clear that I am not against Muslim people, in fact, I do have many Muslim friends and they are open to such thoughts.
An easier explanation: variation.

Systems can be tremendously complex. There are countless unknown and unknowable variables in play. Moreover, the interactions between those variables can also be unknown and unknowable.

The intellectual world (academia) is based upon professors and schools who can teach the "right way" of doing things and thinking. That's how PHDs work--you have to come up with a "new" idea to get your PHD. As you can see, it creates a conflict of interest.

It would be much better if academia taught simple principles, variability, and how to think.
I don't think this article contradicts anything that PG says. These are just different facets of the broad reality out there. What PG says applies pretty well to the elite group who create startups and push technology forward. This article highlights the discrepancy in first-hand experience between elites and average folks.

Both are valid.
I feel like I am idealizing the digital nomad lifestyle, but I'm pretty sure it's not adapted for everyone.

So instead of a positive experience like I can read everyay on medium, do you have a bad experience with digital nomad lifestyle ?
maybe 'self-defeating' would have been a better choice of words.
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I got one of the original XPS 13 DEs, and a friend of mine had no issues picking up the latest revision recently enough.

If you want something a bit bigger, but that just works, the E5510 is excellent, especially once you have Ubuntu 16.04.1 (or a distro with the 4.4.0 kernel) on it.
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Skype is owned by Microsoft it's not a huge surprise that it's not a smooth experience on Linux.

Linux is a different operating system with a different philosophy. There are windows-y distros, but and the end of the day the core is very different and the UX is very different.

This is quite an irrelevant point. macOS is also very different from Windows, from the POSIX API (which makes it very similar to Linux) to Cocoa. And yet Skype works fine.

The real reason is more likely to be that Microsoft just doesn't want to support Linux properly. Of course, the reasons are more clouded, possible reasons are: virtually no marketshare on the desktop, large fragmentation, or they simply see Linux as a competitor that they don't want to give momentum. Given that they do support Android, iOS, and macOS, my guess would be the former two.
I typed "true", without the quotes.

Did I do it wrong?
Astronomy is actually the field where amateurs make the most useful contributions, and amateurs/pro collaborations are actually a thing. Close enough to astrophysics?
Give me a product that works over any of those.
"The fact that we members of the intellectual professions are quite atypical of the societies in which we live tends to distort our judgment..." << Someone care to explain to me how being atypical distorts my judgement? This piece is not very substanative beyond enumerating how PPPs are different, it then merely says "they don't understand because of their difference." That seems rather like ad hominem.
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Actually it works fine even with Nvidia. You don't get all of the performance benefits but you can reliably disable and even use it using either PRIME or Bumblebee.
I had the misfortune of going through a vulnerability analysis with a government contractor on one of NetApp's products a while ago. I was amazed at how many ways they had figured out how to get data out of the storage unit without using either Ethernet or fiber channel. To be honest though I knew it was going to be rough when they asked if we had tested operating our equipment in a vacuum. (answer no, we depend on air for heat exfiltration).
Here's a cached link to the text from this article if anyone is having problem with the link above:

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> Just because the real world is built on consumption doesn't mean all art has to be.

Correct. But because the real world is built on consumption, criticising creative expression for exploring that is at best invalid. What's going on with Polygon is that they're making this invalid criticism to further their political narratives.
No it wouldn't, it would just require intercepting the computer / parts en-route:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-...
Yeah Skylake has LOTS of issues. External 4k screen with SKL keeps crashing, works fine with anything else.
>For generations, populists of various kinds have argued that intellectuals are unworldly individuals out of touch with the experiences and values of most of their fellow citizens. While anti-intellectual populists have often been wrong about the gold standard or the single tax or other issues, by and large they have been right about intellectuals.

So... intellectuals were right about the issues that they were focused on, but somehow populists are right that they are out of touch? Those seem contradictory to me, if they are problematically out of touch, then why were their ideas still correct? Who cares? At worst these seem like separate qualities, clearly being out of touch didn't make them wrong about the actual issues directly.
The goal is to disprove theory's not to validate them. Remember any valid counter example can disprove a trillion pieces of supporting evidence.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/03/upshot/a-quick...

You can always over fit for existing data. Useful theory's should suggest a novel experiments to test them.
I've dealt with a couple of customers of ours in Australia that have used IBM services for their IT. It's been a complete disaster. I don't know whether they are all that bad, or Australia gets the C team, but, wow.

And don't get me started on TCS. Fucking shitshow.
I couldn't find a link to your git repo on the website btw (repo (https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit) ).

I see that your input/output plugins are written in C[0]. I'm guessing this is because of the constraints of the embedded environment, but it really doesn't seem like it would be worth it in a normal one. The LUA sandbox model (e.g. Heka) just seems highly preferable.

My main problem with Logstash/Fluentd is precisely the fragility and non-robustness of the plugin system.

[0] https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/blob/master/plugins/out...
Does that spec forces you to implement equality test between floating point numbers?
Stop using Skype.

Easier said than done when colleagues, friends, and family use Skype for video calling.
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Very American-centric (but then this is by someone who helped found the "New America Foundation"); for instance outside the US Academia is mostly supported by governments, not gifts. Intellectuals all over can still have their heads up their asses, but that's not particularly new. The figure of the out-of-touch intellectual was common in the 19th century (e.g. Peter in War and Peace).

Many professors do realize that their lives are quite different from those of most folks, but they're not often found in American elite institutions, so they don't show up on CNN.
The Port Authority works well for suburbs east and south of the city. Western and northern suburbs are much more suited for driving; from the north you get an interstate without a tunnel, and the West Hills has multiple ways to get downtown, some of which have minimal traffic.

What's bad about the suburbs is that they're not linked. So even if I got an unlimited pass for cheap, a 15 minute drive to Ikea becomes a trip that takes about an hour and a half (one way!) and involves a transfer.

Looking forward to the new zone-free fares next year, I hope it helps to solve the chicken/egg problem of ridership and routes.
It's less fleshed out than starbound was at its early access release though which is saying something.
It's working intermittently. The first time I clicked it, it worked, but not the second.
I think the idea is rather than just pouring money directly into schools, focusing on creating communities and resources so that students can actually take advantage of what's available. Buying new textbooks and facilities doesn't help when half the students don't have enough to eat, don't have role models and tutors, don't have anyone telling them that education is important.
13 donors as of ~6pm GMT.

McCLIM is ambitious and smells right.

The payment method was really painless.

Visit page, click pay, SSO with github account (public info only), enter dollar amount (one time or monthly), enter credit card info (minimum viable transaction, didn't even have to enter my name, nice!), done.
That landing page doesn't give me any idea in the slightest about what will happen if I click on any of the clickables.
Starbound, Out There and a little Minecraft I would summarize.
How much RAM/heap do you have assigned to the Graylog web frontend node? All on the same instance/physical server? Keep in mind, Graylog is using Elasticsearch under the hood extensively. If you're not allocating enough ram, you're gonna have a bad time.

If you'd like, I can send an initial email to you (from your HN profile) and you can bounce questions off me if you'd like.
To me it feels like you've left out an awful lot of stuff.

First off is project mgmt and coordination. On the government side there's going to be a small host of people involved, not just a single "customer". Meetings and more meetings. Somewhere between 50% and 100% of someone's time is going to be spent just dealing with them. And that's on top of the normal PM effort (so this could easily be 2 full time people).

You've also left off the generation of the mail outs. This means a data load, an id assignment, and a "print file" for the printer/mailer. High coordination costs (PM now dealing with the gov't and the print shop).

Security. Ouch. Need to make some effort to ensure the mail out codes can't be guessed easily... but are still small enough/readable enough that folks can use them (i.e. a GUID would be perfect except for the low usability). Further there ought to be some sort of post processing that attempts to ensure the data is good (i.e. no one played silly buggers and guessed codes).

On the application side "just in case something happens" isn't good enough. Once the incoming census data is accepted it must not be lost. The statistician would go ballistic (what do you mean you don't know how much data you lost?) and there's really no way to recover lost data without sending out new mailings.

On the back end is the final "give the stats guy the data" step. Conceptually just a giant CSV file... but how likely is that really? Also somewhere/somehow someone needs to build a list of households that have not completed the survey (and reporting on how many/what percentage and eventually producing lists of households for census staff to visit... which is probably handled internally by the existing systems... but it's another entire interface).

And all the design back and forth of how the website should look (and it has to be properly accessible). Not really hard to do on IBM's side... but the gov't side is going to be a nightmare of micromanaging UX specialists.

Oh and general security... it's a web app so there's all that. Hopefully the testing would be handled by a separate organization... which means another organization to coordinate with (PM is gonna be busy).

And of course all the QA you can stand.

Plus... there's legal costs (that contract ain't gonna review itself).

Plus... there's the upfront costs of the actual bidding process. Can't bill for it... but this does mean that every successful bid by IBM needs to be higher to cover these sunk costs (i.e. if IBM wins 20% of all its bids then the costs for 80% of the failed bids need to be covered by the winning 20%... if you see what I mean).

And now IBM needs to pay for some PR/damage control.

In the end I'm not so sure that $9 million is so very out of whack.

And damn it all if I didn't forget to include something for planing/supporting defending against denial of service attacks...
> Fedora i don't trust so much.

Why?
This is, frankly, crap. It both ignores the diversity of experience that people that are not "professors, pundits, and policy wonks" have, and implicitly dismisses the idea that an understanding of the world can be gained by systematic study of the world (what academics actually engage in) that is superior to what is gained by isolated, unsystematic, experience with some small slice of it that happens to be at a lower socioeconomic status.

Its essentially a radical rejection of the idea of study and transmissible, shareable knowledge of the world.
The job of the publisher is evolving (and even disappearing) at media companies
This is great, because all distributions will benefit from it eventually, not just RedHat/Fedora. The folks at Canonical, in particular, seem to be very adept at leveraging the work of others for the benefit of Ubuntu.

I would hope these kinds of efforts lead to better collaboration and coordination between the different distros for improving compatibility with desktop, laptop, tablet, and even phone hardware...

...but Unfortunately I don't think we should expect better collaboration and coordination, due to the usual political and quasi-religious barriers between distros.
As a long-time user of the Cloud-to-Butt extension, I appreciate your comment. Good to know I'm not alone. :).
dupe, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235789
>As the CO2 settled, every flame and fire was immediately extinguished, a sign of the doom descending all around Lake Nyos

Despite being relatively enlightened due to living in a modern society, I would be freaked the fuck out if I witnessed this personally.
> It's Independence Day from the aliens' POV. Like locusts, moving from planet to planet, you consume every resource and then move on.

Are we talking about the same movie? I haven't seen Independence Day in a few years, but I don't remember the aliens showing up in a tiny ship, wandering around the surface for an hour, grabbing some iron that was visible, getting lost in a cave for hours, and then flying away. I remember them showing up in giant ships, and obliterating every major human city that they could.

Hell, can you even consume every resource on a planet in No Man's Sky? This is a terrible comparison.
> How do people deal with "eventual consistency"? In my head once a transaction is done, it's everywhere and everyone has access to it.

Different strokes for different folks.

Synchronous replication: the whole cluster is a single unit. COMMIT only returns when it's been truly committed to all nodes. OTOH, it's slow, and may or may not tolerate partitions.

Asynchronous replication: COMMIT returns when it's gone into the current node. It is then the cluster's job to propagate it to the rest. This is a lot faster, and can deal with network partitions. OTOH there is usually a state lag between distant nodes.

Different applications may need either sync or async, depending on requirements.
2-sigma events should vanish all the time. p < 5% just means that you see it (vanishment) happening less than 1-in-20 times. If you have hundreds of such events, you'll have dozens of vanishings.
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So one solution for active upkeep, is to build radioactive waste repositories into toll bridges...
Well, according to the README it allows to forward one http(s) port to multiple different local servers depending on requested host name. Yes, this is also possible using multiple ssh -R in combination with nginx or similar, but I guess the point of the project is to make the process easier.