skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone's needs differ, I suppose, so some might consider that "decent". 10ms -- or even 50ms -- might be acceptable for many (most?) use cases but not for me.

From a quick look, my own (stratum 2) server in the pool currently has an offset of just under 1/20th of one millisecond.

Regardless, thanks for contributing to the pool!
I used to do something like that until I had to testify in a deposition about such things for a day or two. Never again.

Now I ignore, delete after a set period of time and have a written procedure in my home directory.
Pancreatic cancer. Sally Ride also died from this. It's the one cancer that when you find out you have it, it's usually too late for treatment.

Almost 9 years has passed since Randy Pausch spoke before Congress and the survival rate has not improved:
https://youtu.be/BaD1TsjGR0w
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You're right, but it is depressing.

I find it akin to hiring a librarian who cannot read. Either because they're cheap, or they have the right friends.
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I may make a larger blog post, but let's try here:

A lot better than iBooks has. This is my first go around at a book, but I can give a review of the three I tried:

- Leanpub: Most of my sales have been through this. Very good royalties (90% minus 50 cents royalties per paid sale). Support (Mike, Len and Peter) is awesome and very snappy. Coupons. Markdown support is great (https://leanpub.com/help/manual). The PDF / ePub / mobi output is beautiful. Web viewer for paying customers. As you can see from the HN post, there is a web view you can make available for free (optionally). There is also a web editor, but I personally use a GitHub hook so I can edit right in vim.

Another thing, my buyers who preorder get to download immediately, even before the book is finished. That’s a key thing.

There are some tweaks I’d like to see made to the HTML, as well as some of the PDF formatting. Over all, I worked around them.

- Amazon KDP: My second most sales have been on Kindle. I’m not part of the “KDP select” program since, to my knowledge, it require exclusivity to Kindle. Royalties are a bit confusing, I’ve heard some say 70% royalty is only for select, but it looks like if you keep your books under 9.99, you get 70%, but if you go above 9.99, you only get 35%. I would really like to price point my book at a higher price, but kindle pushes it down via this. Support is great. Kindle formatting is great. Customers being able to view the book on all their devices makes me happy. The interface for uploading books is superb and just got a face lift this month (Dec 2016).

Overall, I’m happy with KDP so far. Only thing is I don’t think they get previews of my book, and there’s no way for me to give out free copies (for proofreading) or coupons.

Also, recently they launched a way to do paperbacks. Haven’t tried it yet, but looks cool. (https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A38EE2B71PKD7U)

- Apple iBooks: I only got 1 presale from them. And they took my book off their store with no warning. And it’s disappeared from iTunes Producer. Yes, Apple requires another application for uploading books.

Maybe App and Music developers tolerate this, but for eBooks in December 2016, it’s a joke. People I’ve seen on iPhones are using Kindle to read since they’re already invested.

The only thing I miss about it is the feng shui from having a second button to balance out the “Available at Amazon” button on my websites.

Aside from that, Apple needs to step up their game in this department. I hope sincerely they make the publisher experience better. They are a great business and very professional, but I have the impression they’re really sloppy and disconnected compared to the alternatives. I like to stay humble because Apple is brilliant, but the ebooks experience is tacked on and I feel like a third class citizen next to MP3’s and Apps, quite understandably.
>>People should hire the people they are most comfortable with, and when they succeed (or fail), they can be examples to their communities.

Shouldn't it be people should hire people who are most qualified for the position?
Ofcourse diversity police came around because people started hiring people they are most comfortable with (i.e people who like and talk like them) rather than hiring most qualified people.

Most companies are taking easy path while hiring by interviewing mostly people who came through internal reference . This is going to result in toxic cultures and very like minded people on longer run.
I think the Pomodoro Technique is one of those things the article posted warns you against. Having a timer counting down might make you more stressed about time passing. When I was using the Pomodoro Technique many people who I met mentioned that effect to me as a reason why they did not use Pomodoro's.
Which is what I meant to say :)

Obviously teens are aware of the relationship, but contextualizing it within one's own life is hard.
You've got to be kidding. The only white people in my CS classes were immigrants from Israel and the Soviet bloc.

White people (in Canada, at least) flock to management consulting, investment banking, law, and medicine and look down on software developers.
I'm not really sure if that advice is accurate. For both iterators and futures, in most cases you will be returning a concrete type which can be named. You only really need to box it if you have a closure involved (and if you have a complicated adapter chain it becomes cleaner to box/impl trait it)

E.g. in this case there's no specific compulsion to use a trait object.

I wouldn't consider this to be a rule of thumb; it's more like "if you have trouble naming the return type try using Box<Trait>"
Nope, this is from 2014.

If memory serves, Google's "smoothing" the second out over (I think) a 24-hour period. I don't recall the exact time period off the top of my head but it's much, much longer than 20 minutes.
All the CP v. AP and algorithmic discussion aside, I'd be really interested in some actual concrete documentation on the actual peer-to-peer protocol involved (preferably without having to resort to testing my cursory understanding of Javascript by reading the source code). I'd be very interested in trying my hand at some alternate implementations (this sort of thing looks perfect for an Erlang/Elixir project), but if my only hope is to reverse-engineer the reference implementation, I'd be far more inclined to just stick to CouchDB or Barrel.
And how accurate was that data? I'd assume that the commission only has was has been provided to it by others. Someone really wanting to exploit a machine should probably start elsewhere. The russians would do better by just buying some machines and testing them themselves under the guise of 'evaluation'. Russia does have elections and therefor a reason to aquire and test such machines.
I get not wanting to argue. How about instead you give me links explaining "their view of the world" with its principles, challenges, and/or tradeoffs. Even if I disagree, I might learn something about another sector of the market that I can tailor recommendations or solutions to.
I like this! Hopefully it sends some kind of signal and reduces the chance of electronic voting being implemented where I live.
In case anyone is interested, TestCheck.js [0] is a JavaScript implementation of QuickCheck. When I had last checked it out I vaguely remember thinking it was still too young to pick up. But looking over the APIs right now, it looks like its been steadily improving.

I think my first introduction to property based testing was this video [1] from F# for fun and profit. The speaker does a great job at presenting the topic in a way that's clear and approachable. Ff you prefer text over video, on the same post there's links to other blog posts which cover the same material.

[0] https://github.com/leebyron/testcheck-js

[1] https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/pbt/
Can you please provide sources (primary sources with direct evidence, not editorialized articles) in support of these claims?
Regexes also had some changes which have improved our results on regex-heavy benchmarks by as much as 3x.
Someone probably drove the vehicle in question for Euler but:

b.2.b One who drives a vehicle or the animal that draws it; a charioteer, coachman, cabman, etc.; also, one who drives a locomotive engine. (Often with defining word prefixed, as cab-driver, engine-driver, etc., for which see the first element.) [...]

c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6016 All þe dryuers ware agaste þat þe sledd suld ga our faste. 1581 Savile Tacitus 93 (R.) Buffons, stage-players, and charet drivers. 1725 Pope Odyss. xiii. 99 Fiery coursers in the rapid race Urg'd by fierce drivers thro' the dusty space. [...]
If you're into this sort of thing "The History of Rome" by Mike Duncan is an excellent podcast. It's a complete chronological history of Rome that Mike Duncan does a great job of keeping interesting.
And, per mbrock, you can feed that into HipSpec:

http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~jomoa/papers/hipspec-atx.pdf

https://github.com/danr/hipspec
"It just feels like the templeos situation."

Huh? TempleOS is explicitly not meant to be one's primary OS or even really anything besides an educational environment. Gun appears to actually be trying to target production use.

If anything, this is closer to a "MongoDB is web scale" situation.
I believe the information about the proposed launch was not known to the public until (long) after his death.
So far LeanPub has been great for me.

Or else I'd be futzing around with Sphinx (http://www.sphinx-doc.org/).

I'm a happy publisher at this time. My customers are also happy.
Yahoo Caught Working with Secret Govt Court in Plot to Overthrow 4th Amendment
In this case, I think it's probably because most librarians can't read, or at least many in publicly funded libraries. It's hard to point to one illiterate librarian when their colleagues are also illiterate.
Hacker News could do better by recognizing the substance of coarsely-articulated statements instead of engaging in pedantic tone policing.
try passing out walking down street impromptu

you're not even close to the reality of it, you might or might not even be aware of how heavily knocked you are, and it cold go on doe months or years

... "coming to" mid crossing a six lane street narrowly missed by a vehicle... how did you get there? will you reenber the incident two minutes later? or ever?

vr immersion and opiods play vital roles in creating non traumatised memory paths in your brain, and since opiods can be substituted for vr immersion for pain relief in multi amputees, to a considerable degree, that link is worth checking too.
I am so frustrated with how muted the current administration's response has been to the recent hacks. This is an attack on the most fundamental part of US democracy. It should be considered an act of war. Not only should that shape the US response to whoever is responsible, but also the amount of resources it devotes to defending against attacks like this.

Obama telling Putin to "cut it out" isn't enough. No matter what is happening behind the scenes. Our next president might not even go that far.
The US has been guilty of electronic espionage and tampering in other countries. The world would call us out for aggressive retaliation here, and rightly so.
Bias regarding skin color and genetics is greatly different than bias regarding chosen behavior.
A McKinsey report from 2015 found that among 366 companies, those with gender diversity outperform those without it by 15 percent; those with ethnic diversity outperform those without it by 35 percent.

The problem with analyses like this is that they're observational studies rather than interventional studies. Knowing that successful companies are more likely to have gender and ethnic diversity does not necessarily indicate that increasing gender and ethnic diversity will make companies more successful.

There are many things which we consider to be inherently Good Things but are completely disregarded by most of the world's population, simply because they can't afford to be concerned about such things; in a sense, being concerned with diversity is a sign of privilege, and in some cases is a even used as a economic signalling mechanism. If your company is only barely staying afloat, you're far less likely to spend time and money promoting diversity.

Differences in priorities extend all the way down the socioeconomic ladder. In many of the world's slums, an asbestos roof is a sign of success and something which people work hard towards obtaining. Don't they know that asbestos can kill them? Of course they do -- but having an asbestos roof makes their home quieter when it rains, cooler when it's sunny, and they'd have to be extremely lucky to live long enough to get lung cancer from it anyway. In the Western world of course the notion of people willingly exposing themselves to asbestos is horrifying; but it makes sense in their context.

I hope we can all strive to remember that people may have different priorities based on their backgrounds, and especially their socioeconomic backgrounds. Coming from my privileged position, I think diversity is great; but if a small business in rural Wyoming ends up hiring 100% white heterosexual males because those are the people the business owner knows and he can't afford to spend time looking beyond his circle of acquaintances... well, it's unfortunate, but it doesn't make him racist, sexist, or homophobic.
> I'm at a loss

Shocker.

> This is an example of
> contradiction (~(P/\~P)),
> not excluded middle (P\/~P)

However:

~(P/\~P)
<=> De Morgan's
(~P\/~~P)
<=> double negation
(~P\/P)
<=> \/ is commutative
(P\/~P)

Is there a difference between the two? Of course. Is producing notation that can be shown to be equivalent any way to conduct the argument? No, and it was also a clue you wouldn't know how to explain the difference between the two.

> I take it we were
> supposed to infer
> that

You can take whatever you like from it.

The underlying English itself is ambiguous - you can indeed demand something that's optional - so there's not actually a contradiction there. It's more interesting then to draw attention to the fact that a third alternative to the truth value of the statement may be upcoming - perhaps the information will remain optional, unless of course you want any chance at all of your application succeeding? Tertium non datur, yet.
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Do paleontologists do science in your opinion? Or archeologists? They also are using evidence to answer questions of the past. What makes historians different? What is meaningful about the broad definition of science is it separates the people using evidence from those just using "gut feeling" (or mystic intuition or whatever they want to call it).
"Neither Kraft, which makes Cool Whip, nor Saputo, which sells whipped cream under the Land O’Lakes label, responded to questions about whether they too would see shortages."

Would Cool Whip be affected by this? Cool Whip ain't typically distributed in a spray can, last I checked; does it still use nitrous oxide as a preservative?
> Shouldn't it be people should hire people who are most qualified for the position?

If you take that literally (and we are on HN so I will), the most qualified person for any given position probably costs far too much money.

Rather, companies want to hire an arbitrary person from the set of competent people. Hiring someone's friend is arbitrary, but not uniformly random (i.e. diverse). Hence the problem.
This is an excellent article with a great point.

However, I don't think it's a bad next step to train AI's to play game.

Even though games lack several of the difficulties of real world tasks, playing them well is just beyond our current capabilities. It is good to successively solve hard problems, rather than wait for the perfect unified answer to everything thing.
Or it could be total happiness. https://www.wired.com/2016/04/susie-mckinnon-autobiographica...
$90 for 28 Mbps. However, I only get 10 Mb/s, the speed we had paid for previously. Every time I try to get back to 10 Mb/s prices AT&T attempts to repair it, sends a person for diagnostics, acknowledges there is a problem, sends someone who replaces the modem, and then claims the problem is fixed. This has happened three times.
There are tons of early examples of interactive 3D depending on what techniques and technologies you want to consider.

DragonStrike is most like a flight sim, of which the Microsoft Flight Simulator series dates back to 1976-77(for 8080 and Altair!), with FS 3 and 4, from 1988-1989 being most like DragonStrike in terms of tech. Contemporary examples within other genres include: Arctic Fox. M1 Tank Platoon, F-15 Strike Eagle II, Midwinter, Carrier Command, Stunts, and Test Drive III. "Flight sim" style 3D, with wireframes, flat polys and some sprites, was considered the main way to do interactive 3D for a long time, with each renderer having to pick and choose which details to focus on - the most common compromise being to impose heavy distance fog in order to convey detail in screenshots.

In the arcade, flat-shaded, color 3D was done in Atari's I, Robot in 1983! One year later, a simplified raytrace model was used to prerender terrain lighting for Marble Madness - a subtle solution to a problem that otherwise would consume a lot of artist time. Most of the 80's in arcades was dominated by sprite-scaling games with pseudo-3D road engine hardware like Outrun and Space Harrier, though. Wolfenstein 3D and Doom are in many ways more in the pseudo-3D genre than the flight sims, since they exploit a very specific hack with raycasting that gives decent quality and flexibility.

Edit: Wolf3D style raycasting was purportedly used in Alternate Reality: The Dungeon in 1986. You wouldn't know it at a glance, though, since it's a slow-paced RPG where your view is glued to 90-degree angles and snapped to the horizontal center of the grid cells.
You won't even have to go further than this site to run into obstacles, you can't delete your HN account, I've tried. And, like me, OP seems to have used their real name.
You're spot on. I downloaded quite a bit from private trackers and none of it showed up. Nada.
Being able to directly connect to internal addresses from your local dev machine can have it's advantages. Consider the situation where you need to connect to services across a multitude of hosts in an internal network. Using static SSH tunnelling, mapping out each local port to remote host could be a challenge. You can run a SOCKS proxy through an SSH tunnel for dynamic port forwarding, but not everything supports SOCKS.

Another reason could be to bypass censorship / filtering for low volume web traffic websites. You may not trust a paid VPN service.
"any sort of policy based on race is racist." So you cannot identify racism without being a racist. And is the no race policy then racist itself, by being about race? No, this does not work as a blanket statement. Btw, this kind of message of "don't talk about it" has a long history of being pushed by racist people. Perhaps we should focus on race less, but that is different.
Interest is the largest single expense of any debt-financed infrastructure project. Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt [1], has advocated a public infrastructure bank for several years now.

[1] http://www.webofdebt.com/
I dislike employment anti-discrimination laws too. They were originally designed for manual labor jobs and the like. I would be willing to compromise by limiting them to these kinds of jobs.
EconTalk is the one podcast I don't miss each week.

London School of Economics generously podcasts its events. It leads its peers by doing so. This talk remains a favorite: http://www.lse.ac.uk/website-archive/newsAndMedia/videoAndAu...

The storytelling podcasts are a pleasure: Snap judgment, the moth, radiolab, StoryCorps.
Seems to me this method will not solve the big, though not sole, problem we have now: getting along together as rhe one intelligent species on this planet. Perhaps you don't see this as your problem, but had we been acting better the past one hundred years we would probably not have such a high population and have such fear of one another and such a wide spectrum of economic power; I believe a world with people cooperating more on these human problems would allow our technical solutions to be more useful. I don't like us wasting so much effort on problems created by fear, violence and inequality. I would rather we be more educated and launching star ships. To do that the human problem must be addressed, if not by you then at least by the group as a while.
> It is a radical view,

It really isn't. Pretty much like clockwork, anytime anyone says anything about diversity in HN, the top comment is about how everything is fine, we don't need diversity, best person for the job, meritocracy, yadda yadda.

You're not very radical. Whether you're correct or not is a different matter, but please don't feel alone with your opinion. It seems to be the majority opinion at least in HN.
Every alarm should be treated as a false alarm. Except, it's also imperative that your opponent not be able to rely on that.
Thanks for making this wonderful resource!
NAT is DEATH.

IPv6 all the things.
Many people have some sort of mental disorder that forces them to disclose confidential information to unrelated 3rd parties....then bizarrely when they discover that others know this information, they complain about it.

Why do you need facebook? What is the compulsion to include Zuckerberg in all your private conversations?
That's true, but it's a price worth paying IMO.
> I get that HN isn't a platform for political battling

He says after a lot of political battling.

What you conveniently ignore is the centuries of energetic anti-diversity work that you are alsoheir to. The culture you energetically defend treated women as something approaching property for millennia. America was founded by and for white men, many of whom owned black people as actual property. And not just the adults, but their children and their children's children, a situation maintained through pervasive brutality. We have slowly reduced these differentials, but there have been many ups and downs. (E.g., the Nadir, which erased many of the post-Civil-War gains for decades and which most Americans today were never told about. [1]) But we nave not yet even reached a level playing field.

You play a variety of tricks above. One is to confuse "normal" with "neutral" or "fair". Another is not to name the culture you mean, which people you mean; if you did, you'd sound like a Stormfront post. A third is to pretend that out groups are defined by out groups. Which is wrong; the racial boundaries in the US have always been drawn by white people, have varied greatly over time [2], and are mostly used as a means of control and exclusion [3]. And of course you construct a variety of straw men as you dance around racist slander, what with those unnamed people and their "cultural backwardness".

I doubt there's hope for you, of course. You're too busy doubling down on the darker parts of your cultural inheritance. But for those who are more open-minded, do me a favor and take the Implicit Association Test on race. (And a few more if you like while you're there.)

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

It made me realize that although I was consciously opposed to racism, I harbored unconscious racial bias. I've spent the last decade accepting and uprooting that, and studying the history and cultural effects of this pervasive cognitive bias. I don't feel particularly guilty about it; our brains develop all sorts of biases, and this one has been part of our culture for centuries. But I do feel responsible for erasing it in myself, and aim to help end it as a force in American history. Maybe others will feel that way too.

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

[2] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/interactives/multiracial-time...

[3] See, e.g., https://www.amazon.com/Sundown-Towns-Hidden-Dimension-Americ...