skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Changed from http://www.ibtimes.co.in/six-more-radio-signals-deep-space-d..., thanks.
No, in general. Is there a solution that is actually well tested in production? I can go through the marketing spiel claiming that the solution in question is "scalable", but I'd rather see that in practice.
Those who can't, send an email about it.
That code is so beatiful: clear, easily understandable. I don't think I've ever seen any C++ code which even comes close to this in readability. And it just flows.

Really, LISP gets way too little credit (and use) than it deserves.
I was talking about the "mental issues" angle. But he is charging 500/hour for consultancy so he is doing something right. This thread has more juice: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5k3367/50x_fas...
Sorry, here is the license for the project:

https://github.com/burtonsamograd/emacs-jit/blob/master/COPY... (GPL v3)

I see nothing else which overrides this but I could be mistaken.
We do know that under the laws of physics evolution of intelligent creatures is possible. We also know that against someone capable of coming here, we're defenseless, conveniently pinned to this beautiful, but small rock and with no way to escape. We also know that space is huge beyond imagination and that the law of large numbers means that after billions of years of unfamiliar evolution across the billions of unfamiliar worlds throughout Milky Way alone almost anything may conceivably come out of it.

At times, I find it weirdly surprising that I don't actually experience fear every time I look up at the sky. Then again the lack of fear is easy to understand: a deadly encounter with an alien race happens only once, so evolution had no chance to tune our responses appropriately.

This reminds me of dodo of Mauritius [1]. It is said that the birds were not fearful of humans (nor presumably of other abstract threats that could conceivably come from across the seas).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
Menders love refactoring, or editing code to enhance clarity.

Yes, I like those things.

Bug fixes genuinely excite them

Not always, but sometimes...

and they get a little giddy about testing.

Hmm, I think you lost me here. "Giddy" is not the word I would use :-)

I can't put myself firmly in either camp. As a matter of necessity I do mostly maintenance, but I really enjoy starting something new. I would go so far as to suggest that the compleat programmer should be good at both.
An encrypted device is more similar to a diary written in code.

Can they compel you to tell them how to decode your diary, or force you to produce a decoded copy of your diary?
The question is not if the government can make the software you describe illegal. The question is if the government can forbid Apple/Google/Microsoft from making it the default.

Existing warrant processes do not get you to the system I describe, because it is not settled law yet whether or not the government can legally compel you to surrender your key, even in cases where there is no dispute that there is a key.

The fact that there exists hypothetical software that would allow someone to plausibly dispute the existence of the key is not relevant to the above question.
Those of us smart enough to buy up the bonds!
What benefit does Elixir provide to content companies (50% of these examples) given the low technical requirements of their product?
Impossible to completely delete yourself - especially with things like the Internet Archive, so even if you delete current pages, there'll be an archive.

Best thing is delete all your accounts, request any mentions of you to be removed, and as others said change your name so that things like Zoominfo and bots don't pick up on you.
https://talks.golang.org/2016/applicative.slide#9
Statically typed is my deal breaker. See how varied people are? :-)
> the same goes for each of them

That's a bold claim. What do you base this on? What makes you think there's more than one? And if there is, why wouldn't they have, say, a hive mind?
Yeah that was my reasoning. The salted hash would be an easy way to implement single-thread username consistency.

Edit: for better readability it could be further mapped into a table of human readable handles, similar to how Google does the "Anonymous Lemur" thing in gDocs.
I doubt if life is plentiful that our planet would be rare enough to burden with the distance.
thanks will check it out.
> they tend to generate so much energy that it could parallel the amount of energy generated by the Sun for a whole day

This is not a good enough reason to think it could be life. So many objects in our universe are orders of magnitude more powerful than our unremarkable sun.

> Repeating Nature an enigma

This is not a good enough reason to think it could be life. Repeating is fundamental to every single branch of physics. So many phenomena emit photons periodically. Charged particles in circular motion, pulsars, quasars, binary stars, solar systems at certain viewing angles, etc.
Chapo was one of my favorite things to have this year. Can recommend the premium content as well.

A good primer is their first episode after November's election: Episode 58 - We Live in The Zone Now https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-58-we-live-i...

Another great starting point is their episode where they first take on the writings of pundit Ross Douthat: Episode 3 - Freeway Ross Douthat Sailboat Dope (3/27/16) by Chapo Trap House https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-3-freeway-ro...
How good is the "dynamic but functional and immutable" nature of the language good at catching potential bugs?
I hope everything your candidate promised on the campaign gets done. I assume that is why you voted for him who must not be named. You will own it.
The book "Algorithms to live by" by Brian Christian pointed out that as a society, we've switched in interpersonal communication from 'circuit switching' to 'packet switching'. I.e nowadays anyone can send anything, and it's the recipients responsibility to deal with all the messages coming in. Earlier, e.g. with phone, fax and paper mail, the communication bandwidth for incoming noise - err, I mean messages - was lower, and the individual did not need to deal with so much traffic.
Won't the binding then be your monkey patched debug method on kernel instead of where you called it from?
> It's not something you want to see in an industrial strength language because it basically turns your language in factorial(n) languages, where n is the number of pragmas.

I don't see this as an issue because here it's just simply an intrinsical part of the "language". Nobody writes the core language consisting of just some ~6 primitives, everything on top is syntactic sugar and language-extension pragmas are just the same principle for the more obscure/experimental (but in no way unstable/less robust) ones.
You lost me at "Life causes the Heisenberg uncertainty". Actually, you lost me at least a paragraph before that, but this statement is just so flat-out wrong that I stopped reading at that point. Life has nothing to do with Heisenberg uncertainty.

Your essay in general is poorly informed and borderline incoherent. But asking for feedback on HN is perfectly OK and you should be downvoted for that. I think it is reasonable to expect people to either give you constructive feedback or STFU.
s/you should/you shouldn't/ ?
Not when you are the head of a huge philanthropic organization.
If 'SuperPoop' and 'Fuego' asked on reddit counts, then there would seem to be 'some dispute' about just about anything you can think of.
The point I now made several times is that it's one of the two major projects that turned kickstarter into a popular platform. It was extremely successful at the time it was released and while projects have since outranked SC in most spend on Kickstarter, it's still one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns of all time by any financial measure.

As for "not released", they've released a lot more than other projects have. Colossal failures such as Everquest Next have absolutely nothing to show for it - if SC stops development tomorrow (which is unlikely), they have in fact released an early stage game and a ton of near-game content.
There's also that if you're using React (vue, Angular, et al) with a JSON API (as is usually the case) you've also got CSRF forgery dealt with somewhat automatically as well.

For once, modern implementations are actually really helping security.
The life on Earth is so wild and varied. I feel it's only logical to assume that life outside this damn blue ball is just as varied in form and function. And if it is a single being, then I don't see the issue with what I said - the same goes for each of them - even if "each" is just one.
It's just basic economics. Supply and demand. There are only two options: raise the price so that producing the drug makes sense, or stop producing the drug altogether. For people who need the drug, the first option is obviously preferable.
They can access your filing cabinet, but if they don't understand what's written on the papers inside, can they compel you to decode the full meaning of all papers so that they can evaluate it? They can have access to physical stuff, but not to information that they are not privy to.
You're right - lessons learnt ;)
See Clinton's emails.

Oh wait, they've been deleted.

Seirously what was released was damning.

Wide spread media collusion, collusion with the DNC in the primaries.

I'm sure all those millions to the Clinton foundation from foreign governments was squeaky clean, cause that's exactly the history of the Clintons, squacky clean people who only collude, delete emails, take donations from foreign governments.

This is why the Democrats lost, wake up already. The truth, try to atleast learn it.
Following this week in rust helps me keep track of what's happening. I also occasionally skim the the internals discourse to see what kind of topics are being discussed.
> It is already well established that the government has a right to (under certain conditions) search through your documents and belongings.

The issue is the broadening of those "certain conditions" to eventually become all-inclusive.
Very much can be done on a case-by-case basis: Get proper warrant, ask telecom provider to provide call logs for customer under investigation. Analyse. Ask for call records for other customers that seems to be interesting based on initial study (if necessary after getting extended warrant.)

None of this needs a constant omnipresent dragnet ir secret courts interpreting secret laws in secret ways.

I'd go so far as to say it is dangerous to spread the idea that this is necessary.
Ways to do load balancing wrong
This looks amazingly useful. I've been looking for a clojure-esque spec package for Go!
There is no reasonable reason why we should fear aliens. There is absolutely nothing present on earth that is not hyper abundant elsewhere and more conveniently harvested from a shallower gravity well. There is just nothing here that is special, especially special enough to travel many light years to get to.
It is also hard to image why a species that have that capability would not be able to synthesize what they want from base materials.
The idea behind this site is a good one, but the suggestions are...

Well, let us say you want to get someone a strategy game, because you know they like them. So, based on this list you give them Settlers of Catan.

Guess what? They already have that game, because it is incredibly popular.:-/

Spot checks on the Card Game, Science Fiction, and Fantasy categories yield similar results.
hey, thanks for replying. Yep, this is what I find hardest these days, asking for feedback. If you happen to be in a life setting where you don't have direct access to informed opinion you must risk the usual down vote of coming out of the blue asking for opinion on internet forums.

regarding the article itself I think you should try to understand I did my best stay away from the horror of the shitty "new age" quantum bullshit interpretation of the measurement problem. it is NOT my intention or idea.

my central idea is that maybe life is a property of the universe not a phenomenon, and try to construct something out of it.

I wish you'd give the perspective a chance :), beyond the annoying paragraphs, and put up with my lack of coherence as a gentle gesture towards an amateur wrestling with an extremely complicated subject.

Thanks again!
> Lack of clarity about SEO rules in this regard. Eg: Will Spanish content rank higher than english one if I search in spanish? Or will google do a combined (transliterated) search and rank the best?

Spanish content will rank higher. No need to know google's official claim here, just try it out.

> Trends show what is being searched for in english. No option to see search trends

I just tried trends.google.com in English, Spanish, and Thai, and they all worked.

> Even if its a non-english website, what are best the practices for URLs? Should they still be in english or can we use the regional language?

Check your regional competition. In general the URLs will be in the foreign language. Sometimes for SEO purposes they will even use non-english character sets (as opposed to more brandable phonetic transliterations like taobao.com or kaidee.com etc, but even then often use local character sets after the domain -- ie: www.booking.com/โรงแรม). Not all TLD's support this but the big generic ones do.
Npms
Yeah, who cares?
MS, Apple and Google has biometric information about you, how will you avoid that? That's the reason I am against fingerprint scanner in iPhone or Macbook as they associate it with Apple ID for transaction. I don't know if facial recognition by MS in Surface associates that information with email id.

Joke:
Nuke fb, ggle, crapple etc.
Interestingly, in my experience, support for encryption is anti-correlated with support for gun rights

IMO this shouldn't necessarily be so. I'm not American but still pretty sure NRA would welcome crypto enthusiasts;-)

At least on my local shooting range there is a lot of different people and possibly the most common trait except liking to shoot is that they aren't convicted of any serious crime :-)
Whenever I am involved in hiring, I look at boring stuff, such as ability to do the job at hand, team fit, alignment of ideas, etc. I look for the best possible person for the job and enterprise at that specific moment in time. I don't look at or consider gender, race, religion, or anything else.

Diversity in the workplace is not my problem. Finding the right person for the job is. I have hired people of all genders, sexualities, races, as well as physical abilities. These things just shouldn't feature in a hiring process either way. I will hire the best candidate for the job, every time.
Zip and ship, make an executable zipfile of your py project
"A common symptom that I have observed when I rationalize is my ignorance of detail"

The writer's ignorance of detail is painfully obvious in his writing. The article doesn't ever expand upon why the author reads history books beyond one sentence.

Pointless.
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I always found asking for sources on the internet kinda odd, you could have found the sources in the same number of characters as your reply.

Seems to mainly be a way to lazily dismiss people relying on their memory, this is a forum and expecting everyone to have a source handy for every belief and opinion they have is absurd.

If you actually care you're going to put your own research in anyways and not rely on the source provided by the OP.

Anyways I was curious and did the 5 mins of research for you.

> Selling Russia Uranium while accusing them of working for the other side.

Seems to be old news and not part of what was released by Wikileaks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-...

> Citibank supplying Obamas entire cabinet.

Evidence seems to be pretty damning. If you want to pick at the source all the pieces are out there for you to look at yourself.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-14/most-important-wiki...

Anyways I'm more concerned about the accuracy of the information than the motive for releasing it, and the accuracy doesn't seem to be in question even by the DNC.

> Wikileaks has clearly hooked its wagon to the anti-NATO, anti-EU, pro-Russia, nationalist movement that elected Donald Trump

I'm not sure they have. I think they are more on the fuck the HRC train, HRCs stance towards whistle blowers while breaking the same rules without repercussions to hide corruption might be what resulted in the unprecedented amount of information that was leaked. There are people who hate HRC.

Whether all this would have happened if the DNC presidential candidate had been someones else is debatable.

Or maybe Russia runs Wikileaks now. Sad that the most effective way Russia can manipulate our nation to provide transparency, the promise of which is the main reason I voted the way I did last election.
Will be nice if you can give a glimpse of your experience.
Learn to understand than you have NO CONTROL over the behaviors of others. It sounds like your rage has a lot to do with a need for you to control people and circumstances around you.
Kubernetes is definitely being used at scale in production.

Spotify uses Helios [1] to run their stuff. We evaluated it briefly and decided it was too limited and immature compared to Kubernetes.

Mesos + a framework such as Marathon or Aurora was the most needy choice before Kubernetes came on the scene. Mesos probably scales farther than Kubernetes in terms of pure cluster sizes, but it also depends on what framework you use on top (Mesos itself is just a scheduler). I don't know if any of them are as flexible as Kubernetes in terms of things like volume management, config/secret management and security. It's also worth pointing out that Kubernetes can run on Mesos.

[1] https://github.com/spotify/helios
because the existence of Bignum and Fixnum is effectively an implementation detail, Float is now implemented in a similar way for example, without having corresponding Flonum and Bigfloat.

There isn't (at least I've never seen it) any reason to distinguish between the two, Fixnum wasn't the proper tool to do machine-precision integer operations either (31 bit).
Thanks, I really appreciate it. Already follow Lemire. I think I've seen you also on encode.ru though that's only for compression. There's also https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mechanical-sympathy .
Regarding the answers:

3. About "parallel query processing". You mean like using multiple cores for 1 query ? Since data is in ram I thought it would be more efficient for single thread ? Or do you mean parallel on the segments (like lucene does) ?

5. I meant what do you do to put food on the table ? Like Lemming is professor. Are you employed/contractor/business ?(just curious)

9. What about "global terms dictionary" ? Or 'global document-id-->numeric-id' dictionary ? Like a service where you send term/doc-id(say url) and get back the numeric-id? Or would those make the posting lists not compresable ? (just thinking ways of lowering overhead on each shard so they take more documents)

10. What about gpu/fpga/asic ,you know of any paper/way that can be used for a search-engine and provides enough value compared to just adding more cpu/ram ? Or they're limited too much by low memory? If yes what about having a ssd(nvme?) on the gpu like AMD intends to? Or using NVME for a ram extension, since it 'acts' like a slower+persistent ram ?
I've been meaning to experiment with adding random patterns into my painting workflow, mainly as starting points. I find it's usually easier to have something other than a blank surface to start from. This looks like it might help, thanks!
> Computer Science is exactly what the OP talks about: computers, CPUs, implementation details, hardware, plumbing, etc... One needs actual hardware on the table to work this out. Imperfect hardware, with latencies, clock issues, etc... THAT is true computer science, IMHO, and is very near Electrical Engineering.

This is typically called Computer Engineering in curricula.

Computer Science is all about the "Science" of Computing, hence its focus on algorithms, computability, etc.

What's missing is actually Programming. "Software Engineering" tends to focus on project management; "Computer Science" is about modeling computing and not programming; "Computer Engineering" is about how the hardware works, not how to use it...

Programming well still tends to be tribal knowledge, apprenticeship, and craft.
In Denmark, or at least on University of Copenhagen, it's a mixture. Many courses introduce the math and the programming paradigm together, and have exercises in both. I think that works out well, as it you can see how to apply the theory in practice as you learn it.
If the mind didn't have a specific location, events st any specific location could not affect it. Since they can (someone talking to me here in my house in England affects my mental state) and events at other locations cannot (unless they have a telephone or similar device relocating the sound of their voice here, if they try talking to me in China it won't affect me at all), clearly the mind has a location.
Humans are already in the process of creating a hive mind (very early stages). Consider the limiting case when every brain has access to the same information. Suppose you get born into such a civilization. Their doctors inject a quantum chip which integrates with your entire nervous system and then open sources all of your data into the common information highway. Your thoughts are known by all as you know them. Data is released, not to be "owned". After all, you're a piece of matter, and your brain represents an unknown to other people who deserve to know the state of the universe just as much as you. Morally, we humans aren't there yet, however, hive minds aren't unreasonable in more advanced and connected societies.

Perhaps someone from 2000 years ago, looking at our society today, might have thought that we had a hive mind (at a first glance). After all, you seem to know your friends' birthdays as they know them. You seem to know their messages to you as they know them.

But our society is still stuck in the "ownership" phase. We have concepts of "corporations" and notions like "privacy" and "secrets", which are in direct contradiction to a pure hive state. Even if we have the technology to do it, we will remain bounded and unable to converge into a hive state. The notion that other societies may be capable of utilizing matter to such an extent doesn't surprise me.
No one forgets that her data was taken/stolen. The fact of the matter is that she didn't come up with the final structure given her brilliant experimental work and results. The history of science is littered with forgotten people who were scooped of the glory just short of the line. Franklin is very well recognised given that she didn't discover the structure of DNA.
Actually, time is relativistic in quantum field theory (QFT), the framework upon which the standard model is built. It has special relativity baked in, but not general relativity (which describes how gravity works).

Unifying QFT and general relativity is a holy grail of physics.

R.e. String theory, I would think time is relativistic also, it is a direct consequence of the speed of light being constant in all frames of reference, which is a fact consistently proven by many experiments over the last 100+ years.
> I just tried trends.google.com in English, Spanish, and Thai, and they all worked.

I am assuming you mean that you searched for specific keywords in those languages and google showed you the frequency of that search. I am sorry, I should've been clearer.

I am looking for 'top-trends' in those languages. One can do trial and error (compare how frequently people search for jobs, education, news etc. in any language) but this leads to a chicken and egg problem. Are people not searching for content in that language because lack of such content ? Or is it because they just aren't interested (or have become accustomed to english)?
It wasn't a personal attack, but OK.