skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the whole, no. However, there are recent genres that concentrate on things other than melody, with fan bases that aren't used to following involved melodies.
Yellow journalism is a politicized issue in 2016.
> I've never met anyone that has traveled in Africa that would say otherwise.

I have. Many.

And not just "travelled" to Africa—actually lived there.

Africa can be safe, at times, but it can also turn brutal seemingly overnight depending on where you are.

Saying that it's safe (without any caveats) is basically irresponsible IMO—especially if you are white/foreign. Very different customs/culture. It's not for everyone.
"not entirely sure" doesn't sound like an obstinate position.
Because it's hilarious. He's also trapped alone on a planet and pretty sure he's going to die for most of the book. I'd swear as well.
Numbered hats: yes, they don't hear what the others guess. Of course, they could still "know", if they'd agreed upon guesses beforehand.

Colored hats: true, but you can do better than 75%-ish.
I don't understand your version control equivalence. If someone introduces a non-obvious bug in his formulas, how can you discover it, and restore the file to its previous good state?
I have a lot of respect for the author of that page, Alex Gorrod. However, this benchmark is quite dated (2014). The WiredTiger codebase was still immature when it was written. Since WiredTiger's acquisition by MongoDB (the company) and integration in to MongoDB (the database), the btree and LSM implementations have undergone extensive changes and are now much more hardened and adapted to production workloads. Furthermore it would be worth considering other engines such as InnoDb (btree) and RocksDB (LSM), which along with WiredTiger are considered the leading open source storage engines.

For more recent and realistic benchmarks you should look at the work of Mark Callaghan.
>US to hand over ICANN to UN

ICANN is an independent organization, and DNS will not be controlled by the UN. This is actually a fear-mongering narrative being repeated by American conservative news sites. Obama's administration promised control of DNS would not be handed over to the UN, which would make it susceptible to political pressure from e.g. authoritarian governments.

The plan is for ICANN, a non-profit company located in California, to work with the private sector to steward DNS.
I can understand your viewpoint having gone through similar and fixed it on my own. If people want to cure their depression and anxiety through self help, my advice is to try adjusting your mindset before thinking about nutrients.

My theory is that having the wrong mindset for long enough sets in motion a process that ends up in physical illness, inflammation and nutrient problems - which make the mental illness worse. So people should try learning mindfulness, stoicism, CBT and giving them at least a few months (with a good diet/exercise) before trying this route.

Nutrient deficiencies can cause all sorts of problems - I read about it extensively when I was ill. At one point I was convinced I might have a magnesium deficiency but when I got a proper test done (not the standard one) it showed high levels of magnesium. So, it's not always the miracle that it appears.
If I'm not mistaken, doesn't LMDB have a single, global write lock?
I don't want to be unnecessarily cynical, but I do notice that this research about corn was funded by a company, Tate & Lyle, which provides corn-based ingredients:

http://www.tateandlyle.com/ingredientsandservices/pages/rawm...

Too bad that the researchers couldn't have found more neutral funders.
Oh wow, VRML, I totally forgot about that!

I still remember trying to find all the VRML sites I could find, in all of it's few polygon glory.
It's a very interesting experiment/conclusion, but it rests upon one assumption: The assumption that the entire dataset has been preloaded into the L1/L2/L3 caches.

This assumption is a shaky one to make, and is easily violated. Imagine if you have a hashmap that is small enough to fit entirely in L3 cache. However, most of it has been evicted from the L1/L2 caches, by other data that the core has been reading/writing to as well. Eventually, the thread returns to the hashmap and performs a single lookup on it. In this scenario, the time required will indeed be O(1).

So what you really have is a best-case-complexity of O(sqrt(N)), if your data has been preloaded in the closest possible caches, and a worst-case-complexity of O(1) if your data is stuck in an outer level cache/DRAM. Given that we usually care more about the worst-case-scenarios, not the best-case-scenario, using the O(1) time complexity seems like a reasonable choice.

Going back to the author's premise that the time-complexity of a single memory access is O(sqrt(N)), not O(1), this is true only where N represents all/most of the dataset being processed. If N represents only a small fraction of the dataset being processed, and your caches are going to be mostly filled with other unrelated data, then the time complexity is closer to O(1).

Clearly the O(sqrt(N)) is more accurate than O(1) under some circumstances, but even so, it's not clear what benefit this accuracy confers. All models are inaccurate simplifications of reality, but simple-inaccurate models can still be useful if they can help in decision-making. Big-O analysis isn't used to estimate the practical running-time of an application. For that, you'd be better off just running the thing. Big-O analysis is more used to compare and decide between different competing algorithms/data-structures. And in that sense, whether you choose to model linked-lists/binary-search/hash-maps as O(Nsqrt(N))/O(log(N)sqrt(N))/O(sqrt(N)), or O(N)/O(logN)/O(1), the recommendation you end up with is the same.
As of today, it’s finally legal to fly drones commercially
"To the best of our knowledge, we're just robots"

Due to Bell's theorem, we know that either there is inherent uncertainty in the universe, or the whole bedrock of science gets called into question. If properly informed by physics, the view that we are robots must follow from the view that the uncertainty in nature is uncontrolled, i.e. purely random according to some distribution. Given that we have a subjective experience of choice, this presents the alternate hypothesis that the uncertainty is the result of choice constrained by preference. These aren't the only two possible hypotheses, but remember that all hidden variable models have been effectively ruled out, so no deterministic hypothesis is permissible. I would of course love to hear any plausible alternatives you could present.
Surviving Data Science at the speed of hype
Do any of these clients support side by side diff? Why is that such a rare feature?
Compare a modern popular track to an almost arbitrary Baroque piece, and you'll easily come to this conclusion.

OTOH compare a modern popular track to a modern jazz track, or certain complicated rock tracks (see Dream Theater for example), and you'll likely conclude that it's popularity of simple things, not simplicity of modern things, at work.

(Edited: spelling.)
Honestly, I much prefer the US having control of DNS over pretty much any governmental body. Pretty much every other government has a pretty strong history of wanting to wipe things from the internet without any judicial proceedings.

Though it seems like it's more the US giving more power to ICANN
Totally with you on 'benchmark everything, who knows when the branch predictor will mispredict or a full cache flush will happen. (Interestingly enough, I rarely try to beat the compiler since ICC is super smart but strategically placed, manually inserted CLFLUSHes have sped up some my work. Go figure.)

Eh L1 is bigger than you think. What cache-trashes is context switching. A common technique is shielding processes[1], delegating all interrupts to certain processors. Here's an easy example - since HT has it's own set of caches for both "CPUs" inside the physical CPU [i.e., the ALU (and all the aux AVR registers too) is shared between both], if you're doing anything computationally intensive with an unpredictable set of interrupts, but your crunch pattern is predictable enough do the following-- set the affinity for the 'cruncher' to one CPU with a full shield, and then all other components like interrupts, IO, things that you don't mind re: cache misses, etc.

[1] https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Cpuset_Management_Utili... This is just one way to do it, but it explains the concept.
Yes, there are also other things like meditation and brainwave entrainment (Neuro-Programmer 3). Blood tests, urine tests, hair sample analysis, and assessing gene data are readily accessible (unless too expensive or not covered by insurance), so there shouldn't be anything standing in the way of at least getting those tests done to see if there are any immediately identifiable/addressable issues, deficiencies, or excesses.
Given the exploiting and abuse of the unprotected internet protocols by private and state actors, it's likely that in 10 years we won't rely on one or two central databases controlled by benevolent managers anymore. It will be spread and you'll get to pick what neighborhoods you'd like to visit.
More than 70% of the students who take Harvard's introductory CS class have never programmed before.

Introductory courses often serve the purpose of introducing students to a topic they've only heard of, if that.
Just came here to make the exact same comment.
Choice. Most of my coworkers can't understand why I am doing it. I love the feeling of lightness. And the earthy smell of the outdoors when I wake up in the middle of the night.
If nothing else, he held his equity for long enough to only get hit by long-term capital gains taxes. (per wikipedia, in canada, that's half your typical tax rate).
The entire point of having a representative democracy is that the representatives are supposed to look out for the best interests of the voters when making laws and regulations. If they write laws that benefit multi-billion dollar companies at the expense of everyone else than the representatives aren't doing their job correctly and need to be set straight by the voters.

The reason why the quote about tax minimization is BS is that the government still has to pay its bills. If every rich corporation is taking advantage of every conceivable loophole, and lobbying for ever more loopholes then the share of the bill starts to fall on the shoulders of everyone else, who doesn't have the time or money or both to lobby for special treatment. And that is unfair.

OTOH, there has to be some balance especially with the amounts of money we're talking about, or corporations will stop trying lobbyists and start hiring white collar crooks to hide their money. Which is why the proper place to settle this is in the legislature where everyone gets at least some way to sort out who pays and how much.
This doesn't seem like an appropriate place for this type of... 'content'.
Logical relations and parametricity
Yes, absolutely. It seems very few people commenting here actually read the article or are responding to it, beyond the title chosen here on Hacker News (which isn't even the title displayed on the article! The article's displayed title is "Sad Face", while the URL title is, in full, "Can Smiling Make You Happier? Maybe, Maybe Not; We Have No Idea").
But that would mean that washing machines were at one time considered robots, but now they aren't ... Ohh, okay, I like that definition too.
That was my first thought too !
For another metric, I'm getting that the Bay Area GDP is $800 billion [1] vs the overall US's $18 trillion [2], which would mean the Bay has 4.4% of the economic activity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States
I think basedir like functionality is a good idea, but this is not the languages responsibility, this is an operational concern.

There's too many ways around it if you're trying to do this in a language ... for example, limiting checks on the open() call would be relatively straight forward, but what about people who use syscalls directly from the language? Or what about shelling out to another process?

Chroot jails get kind of close of this in a very broad/blunt way, but back to my original point: This is not the languages responsibility
How is it more faithful to the book?

I also really like both of the films but I don't see how either is more or less faithful to the book.
Bay Area is probably not a good metric because that would include Napa, Sonoma, etc. where you are more likely to find a farmer or a sommelier than a programmer.

Silicon Valley as a measure - 1% of the country's population but 10% of its programmers. So, 10x the national average of programmers.
Ah excellent. Saw the presentation info stuff and stopped reading. Glad to see it - plenty of debates among friends about the actual performance of h265 at 4k, so I'm excited that they're doing it.
I'll be impressed if that was 100k of "taking corners in a spirited manner on potholed" roads, something every car sold to an auto enthusiast in a state with a real winter is subject to. That's where I draw the line for "hard miles". Putting around the southwest in a manner that doesn't scare customers isn't hard miles. "Abused" is a misleading title.
Traders Discuss Data Superhighway from Chicago to Japan
Considering the amount we waste is enough to feed the rest of the planet, no we don't really have scarce resources and resources are becoming less and less scarce every year.
Very rarely do mainstream auto reviewers talk about this sort of thing. A couple of exceptions are in the case of a car that is damn near dangerous to drive, or a car that is expected to handle properly and fails to excel.

Since the Tesla is a car that competes with luxury cars rather than sports cars, it falls into neither of these categories. A reviewer calling it out for poor handling will thus generate a ton of ill-will and angry comments sections from the 'who-cares' crowd, so they don't bother with it.

Here's an example of what passes for an excoriation from mainstream auto media:

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/tesla/model-s/ride

The phrasing here, combined with a lead-photo of abysmal body roll, indicates to car people that this thing handles like a boat. I've verified this myself behind the wheel.

I understand and agree that this car handles just fine for the mass majority of people, but "meets needs" is kind of a shitty bar to set for a car priced to compete with the BMW M4.
Why is that? It's not directly tech, programming, or startup related, but I decided to post it as programmers (a large percentage of users on this site) frequently mention struggling with depression or anxiety.
Australia has already crossed the Rubicon with electronic counting of votes. The sweeping changes to the preference rules just before the last election also meant all the votes are tallied by Fuji Xerox in Canberra. They produced a video of the entire process and posted it to YouTube with locked comments. I have put a copy of this on Vimeo so others can comment on it as it is the scariest thing I have seen in a long long time. Please give it a watch even from 2:10 when the scanning in batches with the Windows PC is being done... https://vimeo.com/177354514
I find it odd that Netflix is using Youtube and Periscope to do their broadcast. I get that that is where the audience is - but I'm surprised they aren't also broadcasting it using their own tech.
Is WIPP back in use? They had an accident (used artificial kitty litter as packing material instead of natural, caused a storage malfunction) about 2 years ago.

My understanding is that the clean up will run around $2 billion.

Don't know if the clean up needs to be complete before use restarts...
> "do something that helps survive, expand and evolve human species"

Sex?
Ive been working on this exact problem, and have been for about a year and a half now.

The idea is to mail a user an EEG, which they rent, then provide real-time feedback to the user. This is called neurofeedback[1] helps the user learn how it feels prior and during various moods and mental states. Overall, this has been around for 30 years, our improvement is that it is doable in the home at 1/10 the price.

We are launching a beta in the bay area soon if anyone is interested.

[1] http://synaptitude.me/blog/neurofeedback-in-200-words/
I did not know that, it's interesting to know. However, Mel Brooks did direct it, and I wonder how genius it would have been without his direction.
Seems so unreal.
A moderator or the submitter should update the grossly editorialized and misleading title of this submission.
> There's clearly a lot of highly creative people out there that can see problems / needs but that have probably come more from a design background rather than a programming / engineering background that may not see the same issues with the node / JavaScript ecosystem that programmers or operational engineers may.

> after significant experience node, JavaScript and npm

Sorry, but I'm having a really hard time reconciling these two points in your post. You have significant experience with node and yet think that node users "probably come more from a design background"? As someone who actually does have significant experience, it's pretty obvious to me that some of the most solid engineers (many from engineering backgrounds) and most prolific OSS heroes today are working on node and contributing packages to npm.

Do you really think all the big companies that adopted node just accidentally hired a bunch of designer-types for their engineering positions instead of vetting that they were solid engineers that, yes, liked and vetted node?
Question about your first point - doesn't it depend on the use case?

What would happen if I wanted to get a list of datasets and papers? (maybe in this case it's nonsensical, but it's a problem with some other APIs I've used and I've never figured a good way to work around it)

GET /apiv2/entries?cat=5&cat=6 vs 2 separate requests and client logic to combine results?
Conservative news sources? Those sadly don't exist.
This misattribution of ICANN is incredible though.
Does this mean that ICE won't be able to do takedowns of domains as easily anymore?
Live video streaming isn't in their wheelhouse.
Legal control of ICANN will be ceded to a board that is ultimately chosen by the UN. Given that the US is pretty much the only country with anything approaching absolutist free speech protections, this is very concerning. Majorities in the UN support banning the "defamation of religion" and other things considered to be hate speech. What you're saying is directly contrary to the facts.

Given that you're directly contradicting the facts presented in the BBC article, you should provide evidence.
A regex language could fix it by some clear prefix convention or whatever for all operators. Though more verbose, it would still be less verbose than alternatives.

Suppose all regex operator characters have to be backslashed (and \\ stands for a single \). Then it's clear. No backslash means it's literal; otherwise it's an operator (and a backslash on a nonexistent operator is a parse error).

The ambiguities exist because regex aficionados want common operators to be just one character long.
The title of this definitely needs to be changed back to the original, not only is it factually wrong, but it tries to paint the issue with a specific narrative/brush.

Currently reads:

> US to hand over ICANN to UN

Original:

> US ready to 'hand over' the internet's naming system
Why is information within a sphere bound by m * r? Naively, I'd expect it to be bound by r^3 or m * r^3.
Vitamin D can be obtained naturally, how it was intended.

1 hour in the mid-day sun (shorts + t-shirt) will yield you 10,000 IU in most cases, depending on location. Ideally, go shirtless. Bright sunlight hitting the retina has clinical studies backing its effectiveness in regulating hormones and potentially improving mental illness.

PS: Northern Hemisphere - Need to supplement during winter.
I'm a bit dismayed at the lack of imagination in this thread.

How about designing public policy that provide incentives to work rather than incentives not to work? (earned income tax credits)

How about decreasing the cost of labor in order to increase employment while simultaneously providing programs that assist during periods of unemployment? (e.g., make it easier to hire and to fire and switch jobs while providing strong unemployment safety net, decouple health insurance from employment)

How about setting expectations that people be self-sufficient and not dependent upon others? This is a more of a cultural problem then a policy problem.
I've contemplated something similar, thanks for the link!

It's that, or get an actual office, but I think I'd prefer to be able to drive somewhere interesting and work from there.
Was anyone else disturbed by Strack and Martin's hand-waving away the null replication result? Based on my (admittedly elementary) knowledge of statistics, it seems like 17 replication attempts (samples) whose means are distributed around zero constitute some pretty airtight empirical evidence that there's no inner emotional effect from smiling. How else to read Strack and Martin's complaints but as a kind of special pleading that there was something ineffable about the experiment that the replications missed? Some of their comments gesture in the direction of claiming that replication may be literally impossible.

I walked away from this article more convinced than ever that there are big problems with this field of research. And I don't "want" to believe it, either -- I loved Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.

Speaking of which, kudos to Kahneman himself for being (apparently) a more committed empiricist than the other psychologists discussed here.
Having a campervan without a toilet might bite you in some places. New Zealand used to be a great place for this but a couple of years ago they made it illegal to sleep in such a vehicle just about everywhere except designated pay-per-night campgrounds and certain districts each with their own special rules. Even then you're usually not allowed to linger more than a few days at a time in one place.

I doubt America will go that way with so many independent states and so much wilderness though. I'm amazed he can sleep in Wal-mart's carpark.
Whenever DANE comes up, DNSSEC in general comes up.

Whenever DNSSEC comes up, a raft of people arrive to say "but this means the government will have complete control and can do what they want".

The evidence of this actually being a reality is then given as the us government took down a known and acknowledged "piracy" site.

A further example is given that e.g bit.ly would have been effectively controllable by Gadafi.

First off: no one forced them to use the .ly domain. If you choose to use a country code domain you should be aware of the situation the controlling country is in.

Second: if your only argument supporting the idea that democratic governments - even those as fucking ass backwards as the USA - will arbitrarily take control of your domain, is a file sharing site, I suggest you look for more evidence.
Elsewhere in this thread, they already claimed that nobody in their company matches the description in the article, so case closed.
Magnet links from torrents already do this. You just need to have the SHA1 reference of the torrent, working effectively as a url, to load the metadata, and then the files described by the metadata payload.

The P2P nature of the network then help the descentralization of sources, populating several clones of the dataset.
Not all of which stems from programming.
PHP doesn't have direct access to syscalls. (not without extensions anyway) exec / system / other shelling out functions should be disabled unless you actually know you need them.