skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There does seem to be a body of anecdotal evidence pointing towards some kind actual happening "outside what we know" for phenomenon like the "kundalini" effect, however I don't see how the mechanism of action could be quantum in nature. That is, I suppose, not saying much as I don't see how it could work in any case, but I think more exploratory work does need to be done. Then again, I don't really know and if anyone does know of any scientific studies on kundalini phenomenon, I'd love to read about them.
Steam is OK. I agree it's leaps and bounds ahead of competition, but that doesn't make it a "great experience". They can do a lot better, but the lack of real competition isn't pushing them at all.
Depends if TCP keepalives are enabled, but if the connection goes through a NAT gateway, that will certainly have a tracking state timeout. Usually it is on the order of at least hours though, sometimes days.
> If you are thinking about writing distributed systems code you need to understand this behavior of TCP/IP completely.

Not necessarily. If you have a good RPC layer, it will abstract away most of these details. For example, gRPC automatically does periodic health checking so you never see a connection hang forever. (But you do see some CPU and network cost associated with open channels!) gRPC (or at least gRPC's predecessor, Stubby) has various other quirks which are more critical to understand if you build your system on top of it. I expect the same is true of other RPC layers. Some examples below:

* a boolean controlling "initial reachability" of a channel before a TCP connection is established (when load-balancing between several servers, you generally want it to be false so your RPC goes to a known-working server)

* situations in which existing channels are working but establishing new ones does not

* the notion of "fail-fast" when a channel is unreachable

* lame-ducking when a server is planning to shut down

* deadlines being automatically adjusted for expected round-trip transit time

* load-balanced channels: various algorithms, subsetting

* quirky but extremely useful built-in debugging webpages

It's valuable to understand all the layers underneath when abstractions leak, but the abstractions work most of the time. I'd say it's more essentially to understand the abstraction you're using than ones two or three layers down. People build (or at least contribute to) wildly successful distributed systems without a complete understanding of TCP or IP or Ethernet every day.
The technique described in the blog post doesn't differentiate between user code and library code. It's all code. Any method the linker or the compiler can get rid of it does.
I think in this analogy, it compiles & runs & passes it's unit tests, but it hasn't been deployed or had integration tests run on it.
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Hi all. Something I left out of the post that I should have mentioned: if you are wondering why a Hello World program is hundreds of kilobytes instead of tens like a C program, it is because Go programs are statically linked.

You can dynamically link Go on linux to see similar numbers:

$ go install -buildmode=shared std
$ go build -linkshared hello.go
$ ./hello
Hello, World!
$ ls -l hello
-rwxr-x--- 1 crawshaw eng 15713 Aug 18 19:26 hello

(Dynamic linking in Go was funded by Canonical, which is pretty cool!)
I wasn't suggesting that triangles avoid cyclic occlusion; I was suggesting that a triangle can't be concave. :)

The best solution for the cyclic occlusion problem still seems like a depth buffer.
"iconography"? Dr. MLK, Jr. literally died 48 years ago. There are people who marched with him still alive today. I don't really get this fantasy that what MLK was protesting just magically went away in less than five decades. We've had wars last longer than that.

People who say "It's a class issue" seem to miss that it's much easier to recognize race than class.

People discriminated through redlining (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining) would disagree that "It's a class issue":

>For example, in Atlanta in the 1980s, a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles by investigative-reporter Bill Dedman showed that banks would often lend to lower-income whites but not to middle- or upper-income blacks.

People who read the stats showing the differences in sentencing between black males and white males, even when controlled for income, would hardly say "It's a class issue."
Servo's compile time went down by about 20% or so. We think that it's because non-zeroing drop enabled LLVM's memcpy optimizer (which is currently pretty fragile pending the MemorySSA rewrite) to do a better job.
tl;dr. Because there are a ton of them. There is a ton of stuff below them. And there is a ton of stuff above them.
One Atlanta could not meet.
I'm in NYC currently attending a tech meetup. I received an Apple alert telling me that traffic was heavy and to allow for 40 minutes. Yet, I was able to arrive in 15 mins by subway: two stops express from 96th st to 42nd st. Then transfer local 4 stops.
Do you have a reliable source for that? I omitted adding a source because if you look for scientific research on homeopathy you find essentially only studies stating that it does not work, Wikipedia has plenty of references.
'peek and shriek' is great and totally describes some of the stuff I have to deal with at work too
> predictable, stable hours

Probably with gradually reduced overall pay, because there will be a fraction of the jobs with the same number of potential truckers. I'm sure investors will see a solid return though.
The use of the wildcard as a type parameter seems odd here. Why not use (array: 'a[]) for example? I'm guessing its a quirk of the F# syntax?

let filter f (array: _[]) =
checkNonNull "array" array
let res = List<_>() // ResizeArray
for i = 0 to array.Length - 1 do
let x = array.[i]
if f x then res.Add(x)
res.ToArray()
> I think we'll start to see a gradual crumbling/disintegration of suburbia as the houses fall into disrepair and the mortgage debtors are in too far over their heads to afford proper maintenance.

This hits the nail on the head.
OK, so you can finally fix the bug that breaks non-ASCII, LF line endings and binary redirection.
Link: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/1908
Unless you're poor. Then you don't have a computer.
If the government owns the atmosphere, then you need a license to use it. That license comes with a requirement that you will not use it to engage in bad speech. You're still free to write down whatever you'd like.

> I haven't rejected any analysis

You have repeatedly rejected applying the concept of "freedom of speech" to analyze the community of twitter users. Deprecating this widely-known general quality obscures the phenomenon as if it were something novel.

> We're building that society by choice; if we don't fully agree with the ramifications of it, we should build it differently.

Yes. Being able to express thoughts like "centralized platforms destroy freedom of speech" facilitates deciding and doing so.

> It seems most people are happy with the compromise that the commons should be privately controlled (at least online) if it gives them the convenience they are looking for

Actually most people just assume there should be someone telling them what to do, and then make up for their disempowerment by mobbing together against some minority. The entire point of rights is to protect the minority.
You might want to retract "vaguely racist username" and read this very interesting post by @red-indian about names for the indigenous populations of North America.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10829124
This link seems relevant
https://klmlinks.wordpress.com/2015/10/12/fucked-by-the-clou...
I'll accept a connection every now and again, and only if we share connections with at least 2 other non-recruiters/technical people.

I try not to overload my connections with recruiters as they don't provide much network feedback value (i.e. they rarely comment or like anything I post).
See RFC 763, page 77, "User Timeout". This is a bit ambiguous, and there's an attempt to clarify it in RFC 5482.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc0793
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5482
The novel was based on Penrose's Earlier book I believe.
Well said. If it only happened a decade or more earlier than it did, I think MS wouldn't have lost as many customers.
I'm curious if you think this is new, or companies have always been that way. Is there any evidence that government bureaucracies are any better?
Not to take away from your argument, but I'd argue that Automattic's acquisition of .blog is worse than .app
If there's any condescension, it's not towards what they're doing now.

A lot of it, I think, is cultural. Growing up poor but with a shot at college, you tend to make choices to not be poor. If you grow up affluent, there's a lot of "follow your dream"/"do what you love" despite the probability of maintaining affluence. So you end up studying musical theatre or Celtic Studies and working as an articulate barista.
The source is not in any way controversial.

When you run a well-conducted trial you find zero benefit to homeopathy. When you run a poorly-conducted study, with poor blinding or weak randomization you find some benefits to homeopathy. When you don't even run a study, but just give people homeopathy in clinics they'll tell you it works because they say they can feel a difference.
> The people in charge exist for the sole purpose of making people unhappy

Are you saying that all business owners (including small businesses) are sadists?
Either you have worked in only really bad workplaces or you have a really distorted view on reality.

Every business owner I know would prefer for their employees to be enjoying their work. What possible motivation could their be for them to desire the opposite?
That's the usual answer, but I think there may be more happening here than that. One slight oddity is that there was no "vouch" button visible to me on the dead comment. This made me wonder if there was a separate mechanism in play here. Out of self-interest, it also made me wonder if maybe my "vouching" privileges have been removed.

Separately, although multiple flags can kill a comment, it's still subject to moderator review. Since Dan commented in this thread, this probably implies that he consciously decided to let the user flagging stand rather than reverse it. My phrasing may have been poor, but I wondered why this was.

I've argued elsewhere in this thread that it would be interesting for both flags and downvotes to be public. I don't expect Dan to release this information here, but I'd personally be very interested to know who those user's were in this case, and on what basis they were flagging it.

Separately, your tone seems particularly condescending. Is this by design? Why?
"my income, one of the highest in the world, is not guaranteed for life!"

This Anxious in America series is questionable. The last one about the vape lounge was widely derided even by the Times' usually sympathetic commenters.

That said, they may be reporting on Millennials anxiety but not endorsing it as justified. Just informing us this is how they're thinking.
> It’s technically open-source, that’s the point. There’s more to open-source than license. Sorry but there’s no way for me to clarify without just repeating my original comment.

It's free software, and in that sense the license is the only thing that really matters. However, if you're discussing open collaboration styles then that's a whole different discussion. Either your project is free software or it isn't. Whether it has a diverse and open development community is a separate problem, and doesn't fall under "is this project [free software]".
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For one, sane dependency management that doesn't require vendoring.
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Sounds like something that would make the claims made by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denuvo copy-protection, actually plausible.
Otto [1] is the world largest mail order company[2], so not really a good name to pick anyway

[1] https://www.otto.de/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_GmbH
I was under the assumption that the working theory is birds share a similar feature as fruit flies and possibly foxes. The cones that allow us to see blue light actually work as compasses when suspended in a fluid, and they are not attached to the retina of a fruit fly but are suspended in their eye and thus shape incoming visual patterns around magnetic fields

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoreception
I just wonder, why do people in NYC bother to use cars? Bikes, subway and taxis are not enough?
In Kim Stanley Robinson's fictional series on Mars (Red, Blue, Green Mars), researches discover that memory is actually based on quantum physics.

It's a really good series I highly recommend, and it's won awards because Robinson put a lot of research into make the book believable. The descriptions and time scales used in the book make it very accessible to engineers while also containing incredible character development.

Anyway, memory could be very well related to the quantum world. There's a lot we do not understand about the brain, and what we do know raises a bunch of questions about how does our brain store information when it seems to have such limited potential capacity?
I had the exact same reaction. My other thought was how can a brand new start up founder in SF have the time to take 10 mile walks? Consider the average walking speed is 3 miles an hour. It all feels very press-release ready - two car-based start up guys walking ...
China's big push in AI
A lot more poor people have a computer today than ever before. Nothing illustrates this better than seeing the homeless on their iPhones using the Starbucks wifi to access the Internet.
Such hype, such article
'Seems much easier to learn'? I'd attribute the ability to work with it from a managed language with a large part of its success relative to UE4.

Large swathes of even professional programmers have now come into the industry never having had to really deal with manual memory management. (And I happen to think that's fine.)

Given that, and the rising popularity of indie/amateur games, I fail to see how one couldn't count C/C++ as a negative as far as market penetration is concerned.
> One slight oddity is that there was no "vouch" button visible to me on the dead comment.

The vouch button appears for me.

> and on what basis they were flagging it.

I didn't flag it, but it contains some deliberately provocative phrasing from someone who's previously had user flags (and a ban) for their posting style.

In particular:

>> the original post which dang replied to and subsequently killed.

These comments tend to attract downvotes and flags because they're untrue. For one thing that post doesn't appear to have been killed, and if it had been killed it probably would have been user flags, not mods, that did the killing.
> ... chemistry is a leaky abstraction ...

Well I second you on that. Even stronger:

All of (theoretical) science is a leaky abstraction. When an area is new, people are doing the spherical-cow-approximation willy nilly. After it gets established, corner cases start to surface.

Incidentally, theoretical physicists are the masters of creating spherical-cow-approximations and leaky-abstractions. They're always going for the next big unexplored territory. E.g., once QM got established as a theory, they moved on to high-energy, while there is about 1000x more work to be done picking up the pieces of QM in the areas of solid-state-physics and molecular-chemistry. (largely speaking that is; not everyone is like that).
Maybe, but Martin Luther King Jr. was a reverend, and I have friends who attend GLBT or African American Churches that I'd never call part of the religious right. And even within the right, there are lots of different types of people.

I am not super informed about Christianity in America, but it strikes me as a topic more complex and nuanced then your words might suggest you believe, and as a group more varied then you seem to have experienced.
>If you hold everyone to that standard you'll never be able to trust anything anyone says.

Can you link to the Bernie Sanders super predator video? Do you know why you can't find it? Integrity. Is that really an unreasonable requirement in this day and age?
And either the "ip" command can never change how it formats its output, or your script with that command will break some day.
I hang around computational chemists. They wouldn't say "Algol-like" in the first place. So, double lucky!
There is a simple and clear lack of EMPATHY on the part of the politicians and many of our fellow citizens. They are so far removed from even feeling sympathy that there is absolutely not even a remote chance that they'd be able to begin to understand the feelings of other people. "Texas sounds tough" is a quote from the article that reads like a dagger. I don't think 'tough' describes the situation that Oregon and his mother went through as he died helplessly. Tough is leaving your wallet at home and having to ask someone for help paying for lunch. Not dying like an animal because our government can't function or take care of its most marginalized.
> They might be open, but there’s democracy and then there’s democracy. See for example recent MSBuild incident (but don’t try to argue about it it’s just an example).

> As I said, it’s a feeling. The feeling is it’s Microsoft’s project, everyone else is along for a ride. And that’s fine, but it’s something different. Let’s just not pretend technical merits drive adoption, that’s rarely true.

Uhm. So many free software projects work like that. A company creates something, releases it as free software. Yes, people contribute (and that's awesome by the way) but in general all of the engineering talent works at the company because they wrote it in the first place (and they hire contributors). At SUSE this is how YaST, zypper, spacewalk, et al development works (with significant contributions from the openSUSE community, but we have teams of people working on those projects so our contributions are more of a concentrated effort). There's nothing new or different about this model of free software development (Sun did the same thing with OpenSolaris and Joyent does the same thing with SmartOS). Yes, GNU and Linux follow the hobbyist model but that's not how all projects work.
That's something to check, but seems unlikely. The effect is noticeable in freestyle, where it's kinda hard to DQ, and there's a judge in every lane (iirc), so there's no reason to slow down.

The graphs make the effect look pretty linear, which doesn't fit with my model of sports psych. Shouldn't there also be a slight bump for lanes 7 and 8, because they're also closer to the smaller crowd on that side? Instead it's a straight slope straight across the pool. Is the inspiration boost that comes from moving from lane 2 to lane 1 equivalent to the boost from moving from 8 to 7? I'd expect some inverse square law to apply.
What kills me about Gawker is their unrelenting hypocrisy.

They refused to take down the Hulk Hogan video saying it was their right to share. Then when "the fappening" hit, they started chastising anyone who even looked at the pictures saying that we should all respect people's privacy.

So glad they're gone...
Your main point is you like it. The other is it's popular, which is non-technical. Glad you enjoyed using it, though. I'm all for programmers enjoying their work. Everyone's preferences are different on that.

"I don't think anyone really likes COBOL."

COBOL was like the Visual Basic of mainframes. It looked close enough to pseudo-code or business problems that even lay people could learn to write mediocre code in it. They could Get Stuff Done. Versus assembly, ALGOL, or C, they'd prefer it since they can grok it. Truth is that those people probably don't need to be coding business-critical apps but that plus mainframes making compilers for it gave COBOL an adoption advantage. Much like relationship between cheap hardware, spread of UNIX, and C compiler availability.

Personally, I can't stand to look at COBOL. I tried to do my part ridding us of it by forwarding things like Semantic Designs Inc to COBOL shops where possible. Very entrenched, though, due to inertia of tons of software written in about a billion lines or so of it in shops where it's what most people know. Sound familiar?
Niall Ferguson called this several years ago.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9338997/R...

His Reith Lectures on the subject (Burke's social contract and its implications today) are worth putting into your mp3 player.

Ctrl-F niall

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9/episodes/downloads
I too would be interested in a source. I don't think that homeopathy works, but I am willing to admit I can be wrong. Doubt is essential to make progress:

http://khanism.org/science/doubt/

Also, the placebo effect shouldn't be used dismissively. If you convince someone they should be feeling pain (tell them they're next to a low frequency transmitter that causes pain when they're really next to an empty speaker box), that pain is real in the sense their nervous system can have a physical reaction to it. It is in their heads, but perceptions can generate physical responses.
That is simply not correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy#Efficacy

https://nccih.nih.gov/health/homeopathy#hed4

http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html
How did Intel lose ground with Broadwell?
Hostile and unwelcoming is a fair characterization. Not all subjects have been that way, but this one turned out to be hot potato and so I tried to withdraw in the only way available on this site, only to have that used as an excuse to attack me (by an apparent moderator no less.)
Not sure if I have some other program intercepting it, but Shift-Escape hasn't worked for me on Windows in a long time.
How about I film you and your parent having sex, then post it on a popular site without your knowledge of the video or permission, then refuse to take it down when you ask, and then I'll ask you how you feel about gawker getting destroyed.
This could definitely be spun in to a TED Talk, the script is pretty much written.
> I don't think many of us regret the loss of ability of restaurateurs to make these particular economic decisions

It's probably worth pointing out that the restaurateurs didn't have the ability to make those decisions; that was the point of the Jim Crow legal regime. Left to themselves, they kept wanting to serve blacks.
Or if someone on Otto's management team has parents with a vacation house in NY.
That's fascinating, but birds do have their rods and cones attached to the retina. IIRC birds are though to be in some way detecting either directly, or through secondary effect, polarization of light.
Right isn't their pitch to drivers "be your own boss"?
Today's truck stops could actually become where drivers start their drive. Do a local delivery, pick up new freight and drop the rig back off at the truck stop to send it on its way to wherever.
I refuse to accept this ridiculous idea that you are making some great sacrifice by taking time off after your kid is born. If it's so horrible then don't take the time off.
Why did they mention her burlesque dancing? It adds literally nothing to the discussion.
If we can help to your use GitLab CI to test your app we would be happy to. Since GitLab already runs on Sandstorm I think we can do it relatively easily compared to Jenkins. Of course the privileged syscalls still are an issue. But maybe we can host the GitLab Runner on a non-Sandstorm box to work around that.