skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the client? Sure, as long at it doesn't grow a brain and starts to SSH into the storage and wipe that clean, too.

On the storage? Nope.

Get backups.
I'm not disputing your claim, but EA does have plenty of games on Steam, they just aren't publishing any new ones to it.

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Electronic%2...
This is really like having cheap, off-the shelf reading glasses even though prescription reading glasses are available and attuned to your eyes.

And folks would be interested for similar reasons. Insurance might not cover the testing that often or the device itself, for instance, or someone might not think they have the time to go to that doctor. Maybe it is only a problem every once in a while, and so on.

And like cheap reading glasses, it might not be a perfect solution, but a solution nonetheless.
We're working on Type Classes. It seems like HKTs (or anything like them) are going to be hard without diverging in a huge way from the rest of the .NET ecosystem.
each standard server rack can store 2400 TB of data if fully populated with 10 TB

240 disks in a rack?? http://www.advancedhpc.com/data_storage/raid_storage/dell/PV... 60 disks per 4u

Thats 600 in a 42u rack
Said another way: I used to consider my own thinking very postmodern. I ran into limitations and adopted new modes of thinking that are different than the ones I previously called postmodern. So even though you may still call my current mode of thinking "postmodern" I see utility in adopting language that points beyond postmodern.

I'm not sure that makes any sense at all: silly language
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One thing I always have to remind myself of is that it is never a binary decision between 'glorious' and 'ridiculous'. There is a continuum between both, where 'great', 'good', 'sufficient', and 'could be better' are valid self-judgements, too. Combine this with the fact that you don't need to be 'glorious' all the time, and that a fair share of 'could be better' is part of everyday life. This helps me to keep a more realistic self-image instead of becoming desperate in cases where I can't assert myself as being 'glorious'.
Are you honestly trying to equate deliberately choosing to wear a gang sign with the nationality of your ancestors which you have no control over?

Of the Japanese interned by these camps, the majority were United States citizens born in the United States.

> I understand why it happened and the reasons, in my opinion, were not evil or selfish.

The official stance of the US government itself after investigating the camps later was that they were a product of "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership."
This is not the industry I work in, but one of which I'm often a customer:

A turnkey package tracking system for small-to-medium shippers.

In much of the world the shipping (as in DHL, FedEx) markets are still very fragmented and do not look like they're going to consolidate all that much. (As to why, I have guesses but I don't know for sure. I'm looking at Central Europe right now but I expect this is true in many other regions).

As far as I can tell the package tracking systems are something the companies compete on, with the result that a lot of them suck or (worst case) don't exist.

Case in point: I'm currently waiting for a shipment that the seller swears they gave to the shipper, but the shipper's system doesn't recognize the code. Both parties maintain it's probably just not "processed" yet at the shipper's, going on three days now.

As a software guy, I find it crazy that nobody has a generic white-label tracking system that any random shipper can use in combination with some smartphones/tablets for label scanning. It only has to cost less than the company pays the owner's cousin's teenage son to write the tracking PHP code these companies would otherwise use, and I bet you could upsell all kinds of premium add-ons if it worked well.

I would love to see this, and I think it's a big enough market to actually accommodate a startup.
I wish they would stop calling this Marketing, and call it Advertising or Sales... or just call it Spam.

Yes, I know that Push Marketing and Marketing Automation is a thing and that they probably originally chose the words because they didn't have such a negative connotation (that's good marketing!), but what does this really have to do with a market? I am not a market... just an unwilling product being packaged and sold.
Oh dear...when will the left learn?

a goal is not a strategy, and as other posters have pointed out, these offerings are Not Very Good. Nor has Frama invested much in making them accessible. For example, I am a big consumer of news, so I clicked on FramaNews...only to be taken to a page entirely in French.

Now I happen to know french, and like it, but most people....don't. And there wasn't much on the page anyway other than an exhortation to use RSS. If you can't be bothered to localize in even a few major languages, how am I supposed to be confident about the development of quality services? I agree wholeheartedly with the principle, but restricting myself to only using Free Software means I'm going to incur a major hit to my productivity, which is strategically stupid. I would be better off leveraging the capitalist establishment's tools against them to provoke change than sitting around waiting for for free software tools to catch up.

It depresses me that a lot of free software advocates don't seem to get or care how shitty their products are. I know, if you've spent ages working for nothing on a very complex software product it's infuriating to have some jackass like me come along and sneer at it. But a lot of Free software products are, well, broken. I use LibreOffice but I hate it, because of things like selecting a single paragraph for a formatting change only to have the paragraph before or after included in the format change as well. I get that making a WYSIWYG word processor is a truly massive software development undertaking, but what's the point if it doesn't work properly for even the most basic tasks? It's like a bicycle with the world's most incredible carbon-fiber frame where one of the wheels consistently falls off. I don't care how brilliantly engineered the thing is or how much work went into it or how great the sacrifices of the designers were; if the wheels fall off it's a shitty bicycle.

I am left-wing. I'm very much in favor of cooperative ventures, Free culture, mutuality, privacy, and all the other things the Frama people care about. I want to live in essentially the same kind of world they want to live in. I want to support this project....but I'm not going to, because my resources are too limited and using (most of) the tools they recommend might make my life better in theory but is definitely going to make it worse in practice.

tl;dr ain't nobody got time for that shit if it don't work right.
Probably not. There is a particular kind of hearing problem, where the brain doesn't process the frequency bins that sounds are broken down into very well. It impacts your ability to do source separation and tell the difference between different sources of sound. The symptom of this particular issue is that you can hear just fine when one person is talking, but have trouble in any environment where there are multiple sources of sound, so several people talking at once, background noise etc.

Because people have no problems in the classic quiet room, one person talking sound test environment, it tends to slip through the simple screening tests.
I work in a noisy (slot tech in a casino) and I was able to adapt to it to be able to hear people distinctly in a very noisy environment it's called the cocktail party effect.

Through a crowd of people and and multiple noisy machines I could hear someone ask me "Where is the bathroom" or "How do I..." I guess it's a learned skill.

Up to a limit I mean it's not a superhuman skill just existing in certain circumstances and in my regular environment. I'm sure I'd be terrible in a noisy environment I'm not used to.
The biggest issue with this for me is the signal to noise ratio is getting too hard to determine. I don't want to ignore a real human reaching out to me for something, but I often do. And for recruiting purposes it's really bad (I'm sure many of you face this). I don't want to just ignore a true recruiter who would like to talk to me about a position, but answering every single spammed out email is out of the question.
It is but you need to understand why that happens (hint: $$)

When you go to the doctor for a sinus infection, the cost of this is not fixed, even across insurance companies. The other factor is the "level" of service. (ref: http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/medical-economics...)

The more in-depth the examination and the more time you spend with the patient, the more they can charge. All those forms are "taking family history", etc. and it is free money since you have to do the work. Those are then scanned so they can be used later in an audit.

(Source: I also worked at a start-up that was trying to disrupt out patient medical systems. It's very hard and has lots of roadblocks. btw, of the top 50 EMRs in the US, only 3 have APIs and these are mostly to pull data, not push it back in).
Tape is your friend. Get a library / autoloader, though, don't want to juggle that many tapes all the time... also, with tape the option of deduplicated backups goes out the window, at least with open source software.
No. There's a difference between needs and wants.
I think you meant https://www.youtube.com/user/jpkiwigeek/

He doesn't appear to have an Alto though, which is popular here because the Alto in general was pretty prescient, and this particular Alto was given to YC by Alan Kay.
Curious, how/how often do you test the BD-Rs? I'd be a bit worried about their long-term stability.
Does it sync w/ Amazon Drive?
And they wouldn't even need to do that.
Especially in the current SV culture, it's really anathema to say, "I don't know".

If this is true, then current SV culture is intellectually bankrupt!

being surrounded by people who know more than I do, is actually a win. Now, "I don't know" turns into "Show me".

This is why they say, if you look around, and you're the smartest guy in the room, then you may be in the wrong room!
Okay, $34, but that's before any quantity discount. For ordinary intra-building 1310nm LX links between equipment.

http://www.fs.com/products/11555.html
Having a composable base is good, but as a high level interface I still prefer the ,,primitive'' syntax.
What's the implication here? Do you eat the 50% storage efficiency with mirrored pools? Or do you use a wider stripe for better resiliency (raidz2, raidz3)?
Too bad you didn't have a legacy "flat design" from the early 90s still at hand, saves time when changing trends every 10-15 years..
$15 each for 2.5 meter

http://www.fs.com/c/10g-sfp-dac-1114
Without a probe, they are almost certainly altering the phase of the each channel to remove background noise

You can do this with at matched pair of mics and a desk that can flip the phase of channels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_Of_Phase_Stereo
Tape is Dead
Disk is Tape
Flash is Disk
RAM Locality is King

Jim Gray, Ten years ago
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both. However earplugs give a longer lasting effect :)
Because in the US (at least) if the victim won't press charges the police can't take action. And in a case like this the defence will attempt to attack the (alleged, at the time of the trial) victim's credibility, which can be devastating. It's the main reason why rapists so often get away with it. Also why gang members are hard to convict.

Some crimes don't have a legal victim, e.g. murder (victim is dead) or so-called "victimless" crimes (prostitution, drug possession, speeding, etc).
Even then, you can get a used (still good, for a couple years at least) LTO-5 drive for around 200-250 EUR. The tapes cost about 20-25 EUR each and are good for 1.5 TB -- with a small tape library you'd break even over hard drives beyond maybe ~20 TB.

Remember, as disks get better, so will tape - the technology isn't the same, but similar enough that advances in one will certainly cause similar advances in the other.
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I can't speak about asylums in the 70s, but I think modern mental health centers have problems, some different, some similar. First is that these tend to be either state-run or contracted, and there is a great incentive to provide the bare minimum of care. There is also a serious issue with organization. My father used to work at some of these institutions. He's a psychologist with a PhD and 20+ years of experience treating the mentally ill. His bosses, who are in charge of running the place and determining policy, had high school educations. The nursing staff, who spent most of the time with the patients, also had high school education (maybe some nursing school education, but usually not). I think we should increase funding for mental health clinics, and put the professionals in charge.

Also, I understand the aversion many people have to even the concept of asylums, but the problem is in the implementation, not the concept. De-institutionalization is great, asylums should be an absolute last resort and many cases can be more easily dealt with in out-patient care or medication. But, absolute de-institutionalization means the mentally ill wind up homeless or in prison.
The Secret to Facebook's Live-Streaming Success
I ran into this exact problem when selling my company. It's horrible.

How far along is the product? Have you talked to any lawyers about it?
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Doesn't GMail do this already? It's not perfect but it extracts data such as plane tickets or hotel reservations and saves those to your calendar.
Someone above linked a writing he had about pomo that I almost completely agree with, the main problem with it being that understanding it pre-rationally leads to nihilism. That does not, however, mean that pomo is nihilistic, only that incomplete interpretations of it are.

Postmodernism as a canon is almost too powerful for its own good, which is ironic in that each of the individual writers almost aspire to powerlessness in their desire to eliminate modernist structures of domination. There have been a few times in my life where I could literally feel my perspective on the world shifting to a higher mode in an instant, the first was with Sartre, and the most recent was with Foucault. Approaching it at the right time and with the right teachers can fucking change your world, but the process to get there is heavily individualized and I fear perhaps can't be standardized. If you don't arrive willing to accept the ideas as divers furtherances on your own conceptualizations, you will reject it as nihilism.
A lot has happened in that space since that 2008 blog post. Unfortunately for us all, what has happened is that automatic parallelism has basically been disproved. It effectively isn't possible. At best, it requires a language so profoundly different than anything we have to prod developers into using it in a way that can be automatically parallelized that it's arguably not really automatic anymore, but a new restricted DSL for the task.

Similarly for STM; it's only practical in a language with enough mutation control built into it that nobody will want to use it, i.e., Haskell. It can't be added to conventional languages. IIRC it was already looking pretty grim by 2008, but now it's certain; you can't bodge STM onto a conventional imperative language.
Absolutely true, but it's weird that socialism had it's chance in states like Minnesota and Kansas. It's sad to see it never went anywhere.
I would second going with something like a synology NAS vs a PC box with freeNAS mostly because of power consumption. A cheap PC box has about ~60W idle when just sitting there doing nothing as a server, while the NAS has 10-15W idle.
If you're targeting Windows, I'd recommend writing a GUI in PHP-Desktop, if you know PHP and can handle working with IE8 without destroying your PC in anger... The binaries are only 5MB + your code, and it works pretty well.
RAID is fine. As long as it's RAID 10 haha.
The path forward for games is roughly similar to where digital audio is now: Comprehensive workstation environments with an easing facade through plugins, presets, etc. The coarse elements of a rendering algorithm or a piece of game logic can be reduced to a processing graph, behavior tree, or other convenient abstractions. They can plug into each other by exposing both assets and processing as globally addressable data. Original coding for game logic will still be required for the foreseeable future, but most of the development problem is weighted towards getting assets in the game, and that can be abstracted.

This is done in bits and pieces across existing engines and third-party tools, but there's a lot of room to make it cheaper and easier.
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This sounds like a massive invasion of privacy, to me. It also sounds like a great opportunity to drive customers further away when you contact them based on that information.
I think startups Trifacta and Paxata are doing this or some aspects of this ... see a comparison (from 2015): https://www.quora.com/How-does-Paxata-compare-to-Trifacta

I don't know much about Paxata but I think Trifacta are well-regarded in industry and academia. Trifacta founders worked on research / open-source-? project Data Wrangler http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/ and turned it into Trifacta.

I don't know much about either product in truth.
Well played, sir!
Are those products you have at stages.co already developed and built or are they in development? Why would someone use that desktop device instead of the headphones?
"Moral relativism is self-determination in the moral realm. Self-determination is a cornerstone of individualism. Therefore, individualism without moral relativism is somewhat compromised."

I'd call that equivocation on the word "self-determination". I'm not even sure the first sentence is correct in any sense. At best engaging in self-determination is a permitted result of moral relativism, but it is not the conceptual essence of it, nor even particularly necessary to be morally relativistic. Declaring all morals are relative, then importing someone else's wholesale is not something that contradicts moral relativism.
Yeah I realize there are more efficient aliases, but even so - just defaulting immutable data structures with only primitive types in them to cretae reference types feels like a massive foot gun performance wise. I couldn't imagine doing C# without value types, so for F# where things are usually more immutable, it has to be painful if e.g. a normal point(x,y) record is a class...
These emails are only a touch worse than corporate blogs that look like personal blogs. If this was on a personal blog it would be genuine, but finishing this post only to see a call to action and marketing speak at the bottom really counters his point.
really interested in the technology behind this. Obviously non voice frequencies can be filtered but how are they determining which voices are too far away to matter?

I'm sure I could probably read up more, but if these work it's definitely a "shut up and take my money" situation for me. I'm about as ADD as it gets and I have a really hard time when there are multiple conversations going and I try to listen to them all.
About a year ago, I got hit on the head (hard) with a metal pole at 9:30 AM, on my way to BART to get to work. The guy asked for my phone. I was too disoriented to take it out of my pocket. He grabbed my earbuds (but didn't get my phone) and walked away.

I lost a lot of blood and had a bad concussion. In the ambulance on my way to the hospital, I couldn't recall my zipcode. I needed seven large staples in the back of my head. After that, the mental fog persisted for about two weeks and I wasn't productive at work.

Up until that point, nothing bad had happened to me. Thankfully, I'm ok now, but I'll never live in Oakland again.
I never understood my poor ability to focus sound could be a thing until I read Douglas Coupland's account of sneezing out a lump of...well..his lung...his brain? I don't really know...but it's a great anecdote:

http://boingboing.net/2011/09/09/how-coughing-up-a-piece-of-...
I love my Synology rack.
Please checkout King–Kopetzky syndrome:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King-Kopetzky_syndrome
SuperMicro has a 90 disk top-loading 4U storage server. It's deeper, of course.

However, they probably thought about standard 2U servers with no second disk row, so 12 disks per 2U = 252 disks / rack.
For me it's the height. I either have to lean in for 10 cm lower or I start missing pieces.
Same for me and apparently many others in this post. Can hear fine with a single source of sound, little noises in distant rooms etc but put me in a noisy bar and I can't make out a thing.
I think you might be very surprised if you read some of the author's other works then. good summary of his work is here:

https://vividness.live/

in particular he has written extensively about Buddhism and speaking personally I think he has a fascinating heterodox perspective on the subject.
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This might already exist depending on your exact requirements and it's a fairly common technology in the world of metrology. I regularly work with manufacturers to reverse engineer and/or measure molds, jigs, and fixtures for which there are no drawings available. A ROMER or FARO arm with a laser scanning head outputting its point cloud to a software like the PolyWorks suite can generate an incredibly accurate CAD model of incredibly large parts in a very short amount of time (an hour or two at worst if the mesh needs a lot of cleanup).

I assume that process would be easy to speed up if the requirement for absolute accuracy was removed. The 8' ROMER arm we use is accurate to ~!2 microns over its entire volume which is absolutely overkill for something intended to produce models for visual arts applications. A quick and dirty approach to generating the mesh might increase the inaccuracy by several orders of magnitude but when coke can has dimensional tolerances to the tune of tenths of a millimeter, the quick and dirty mesh will still be representative of the end product.
$5 doesn't even pay for shipping, sadly. Amazon still pays a average of $6 per order.
I'm interested in .NET ecosystem languages, as well as functional programming. How is the parsing and meta-programming toolset? How easy or hard would it be for me to implement a subset of F# that only allows pure functions?
Thinking about this more, maybe the solution is not to detach self-esteem from skill mastery, but to find a better yardstick to measure skill mastery than our peers' skill level.

Given that all skills are used to achieve an objective, we can measure mastery of a skill by looking at how effectively we are achieving the objective. e.g. I am good at programming because it used to take me hours to solve task A, and now I can solve it in minutes.
Classic sophomoric dismissal.
An app that you can import any spreadsheet into and that generates web/mobile apps to collect the same information would be cool.

And that pushes the data back into the same spreadsheet and a relational database with change history.