skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You shouldn't be - all signs point to this being crackpot science. A couple of the biggest reasons are:

1. The magnitudes recorded in the several badly done experiments are very small and there are plenty of possible experimental errors.

2. The original inventor's own theory of how it works plainly violates very fundamental physics, like how all frames of reference are equivalent.

There is really no reason to think this will work, except hope. Still, it's a good idea to do some more research and put the idea to rest.
Agree completely. The Government of India, State Government of Tamil Nadu and Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha are actually institutional members of the Unicode consortium which makes decisions on behalf on India. Safe to say this has not gone well for Indians since the companies who are full members choose to ignore the basic encoding requirements for Indic languages. And oh, the membership fee to Unicode for full votes starts at $12,000 per year.

By the way, could you check out the Swalekh Android keyboard app and give me your honest feedback? Disclaimer: I work for Reverie and we made this keypad.
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> Also note that when a service deletes your account and data, it is more often a soft delete so your data is still with them. Good luck getting a hard deletion of your account/data.

There are reasons for that. If the customer 'accidentally' deletes their data, and they have paid you money, restoring that account would be important for keeping their business. Also, if you have an abusive user, and they have paid for things in the past, they delete their account and file a chargeback, you can provide evidence against that user.
Yeah, honestly POSIX shell already has C arithmetic, so it would be natural for it to have set operations, a la Python (x | y, x & y, etc.) Here's Fizz Buzz in shell, without executing external processes like "expr":

for x in $(seq 100); do
{ (( x % 5 == 0 )) && (( x % 3 == 0 )) && echo "$x fizzbuzz"; } ||
{ (( x % 5 == 0 )) && echo "$x buzz"; } ||
{ (( x % 3 == 0 )) && echo "$x fizz"; } ||
echo "$x"
done

I'm a big fan of the Unix philosophy, but after a few decades, it makes sense to fold commonly-used operations into the shell, especially when they cost almost nothing to implement with zero bugs. There's no benefit to "streaming" for these operations; on the contrary, it's probably an de-optimization.

I plan to add set expressions to my new shell: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/

credit: https://github.com/Aricg/FizzBuzz---Bash/blob/master/FizzBuz...
I knew that was once an issue, I'm surprised to find it's still an issue these days.

In addition, even with minpoll, that's still a hell of a lot of clients abruptly polling him abusively.
Does it have an API?
Interpretations always differ, but that statement does seem patronizing to me.

Communicating in a large internet forum is quite different than in small groups or in person. Among other things, it's much harder to communicate intent, so it's best to either (a) state intent explicitly or (b) edit the post so that it isn't so vulnerable to crossed signals.
SICP is squarely based in Scheme. One of the two authors of SICP is Gerald Sussman. Sussman, together with his then student, Guy Steele, invented Scheme.
Amazon Game Studios has been around for a few years now (released a facebook game back in 2011) and a few mobile games. Their strategy has been a bit different from Lumberyard, though, which seems to focus more on console/PC as well as Twitch (due to their ownership of the popular game streaming platform). We will see if it coalesces into a larger strategy.
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I'm seeing a fair amount of people I talk to in North Dakota thinking of doing solar installs (personal windmills are a pain in the rear). I think our problem is that there is so much problematic information that we cannot get a straight answer. Its really sunny a lot of the winter[1], and seems like the price is getting right. Plus, getting the proper cutoff to go off grid would be welcome given the large number of power outages in the last couple of years.

There doesn't seem to be "that" brand in solar. Who should we look into?

1) a friend who ran a sunglass store in ND said most of his sales came in the winter because the bright sun bouncing light off the snow / ice makes driving a pain.
>What does OnePlus have to do with this?

They have nothing to do with this. I was merely stating that out of the 2 biggest AOSP forks, OnePlus bought the entire PA team to make OxygenOS[1]

CyanogenMod was the official ROM of OnePlus One till they signed a side deal which brought about OxygenOS.

They have done nothing here directly. But the AOSP project could sure do with some diversity which this move just might bring in.

[1]:http://www.androidauthority.com/oneplus-paranoid-android-tea...
I'd rather shame people who do this to break the habit, and shame Google into fixing the problem.
Great!!! I love your possible alternative suggestion.

Perhaps something along the lines of:

This ReadMe document and/or the following statement may not be removed from this project or any works that derive from it:

The creator of PropertyWebBuilder is opposed to the racist statements made by Donald Trump during his presidential campaign of 2016.
To see quick preview of animation: https://youtu.be/MLs1iGUQGaM
Merry Christmas Everybody. :)
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The front-end code uses an API, I suppose we could make it public. I'll make note of that, it would be cool to make it completely public.
Cool but obscure unix tools
If you were to draw a box around a air conditioner and measure the neat heat input/output, you would measure a net heat output. An air condition is a net heating device due to inefficiencies. Even if the power source is clean, excessive air conditioner usage has long term effects of adding heat to the atmosphere. An air conditioner is only one example. How it stacks up against global warming, I don't know, but it is not something to neglect.
The title and content have been updated since I made these posts. The old headline was clickbait claiming the technology was 50x faster than Redis with no justification or analysis on the linked page.
I was one of the first few hundred backers for the game, I'm well aware when they started crowdfunding :)

People complaining that they're late, have too much scope creep, aren't releasing good enough content, etc; all these are valid (albeit completely irrelevant to HN) complaints.

But the comments I'm seeing here are essentially just people disliking the game/the company because they're making money "unfairly". I would simply dismiss them as trolls were they not written by regulars and long timers.

Lumberyard being adopted by a AAA studio is huge news and instead of discussing that, people are shitting on the game. Like, what?
Fractional calculus
I suspect that the notion of managing one's inbox creates a sort of kruger-dunning effect with the inbox owner in terms of perceived productivity.

I've given up active or structured management of my inbox : I read a few times during the work day, try to keep up, but don't get worried about missing 40% of things that come through.

I'm at-ease with the notion that important communications have a way of finding me (email, slack, skype, sms, phone, twitter ...)

On the flip side of the coin I have a fairly unstructured way of finding the weird and surprising and personal by management-by-walking-around, going to the occasional meetup, the dog park, hosting parties at my house, scanning HN comments and reddit.
Patriots vs Jets Live Stream Free
https://studiovox.com/discussions/creative-lives/t/7787
Happiness is wanting what you have, not having what you want.
PS: Not implying that OnePLus was responsible for Cyangen's shutdown. Merely lamenting here about the AOSP community now that 1 major player is out and the second one is going to "rebrand"
Most corporate environments have long defaulted to having a strata 2 NTP server, as long as they use Windows since Kerberos requires clocks to be roughly in sync.

With the advent of the cloud I see a lot of businesses forgoing any central IdM solution like AD or IPA and as a result don't tend to have an NTP server unless they explicitly configured one.

All of my servers are joined to an AD or IPA domain, so they all use my local NTP servers by default.
I was thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw,_Georgia where you are required to own and carry a gun, i.e. mandatory gun-possession ordinance

In 2001, violent crime rates were about 60% below national and state rates. Property crime rates were from 46-56% below national and state rates. From 1999 to 2011, Kennesaw crime statistics reported that both property and violent crimes had decreased, though from 2003 to 2008 the trend in both violent and property crime rates slightly increased.[21] The increase in crime rate overall is attributed to the population growth rate of 37.41%. The population growth rate is much higher than the state average rate of 18.34% and is much higher than the national average rate of 9.71%.[22]
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Would be interested to see how they reply.
Shaws "region" is everywhere west of Hamilton (Toronto). Eastern Canada is Rogers (cable) and Bell (adsl) and Western Canada is Shaw (cable) and Telus (adsl)
Good point, if I push myself too far then I end up focusing too much on the push. But on the other hand if I don't push at least part of the time, the end feeling is not as rewarding.
> Be nice to others and be nice to yourself.

> Don't waste time reading stuff which is boring but... "stay hungry... stay foolish"

this!
"fruits of one's labor are subtle and not immediately observable by the general public"

For balance I suppose this characterization applies to most jobs.
Azure for Gaming [1] is just a collection of Azure services that are related for games, like Notification Hubs, Media Services, etc. Presumably, there's some common SDK for games but I haven't really used it so I can't say.

I suspect (although I haven't looked into it) that the backend services that Lumberyard uses are also just standard AWS services packaged up in nice way like Azure.

Lumberyard is really just CryEngine with the AWS integration I mentioned above, so it's not really directly comparable. I'd say the two backend services would be a more apt comparison, but as I said above, I haven't used the two myself, so I can't give more details.

[1]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/gaming/
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What you describe that way, others might call a religious harangue.

Usually when people say "speaking my mind" they mean venting. Venting is bad for civil discussion because it doesn't take others into account. It's only concerned with discharging one's own feeling. That hits others, who happen to have different associations than you do, with unexpected force, provoking discharges of their own—and so on and so on. Everybody feels justified because it always feels like the other hit first.

This is how we get religious flamewars and other degenerations, so it's important that we all learn to inhibit our ventings and transmute them into civil, substantive discussion.
They both have selects and inserts
The results are garbage. Zero correct results and tons of false positives.

Checked the last dozen or so IP addresses I used. I don't see a single valid result. I torrent lots from the most popular torrents on the biggest site. You'd think it could get that right.
Yep, this drives me crazy. Finally found a solution (Request Desktop Site) but it's incredibly buried.

Shocked that content providers arent suing over this. Google removes all ads (which as a user I like), and any links to the content they are serving. If I were a provider I would be pissed.
The one feature Spotify could implement to crush its competition
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Maybe I'm missing something here, but given the monumental impact of his actions, why didn't win something like the Nobel Peace Prize? Instead he's largely forgotten and unknown.
Why would that be acceptable? It's definitely not acceptable for a restaurant owner to serve, say, muslims or black people. How is that any different?
Ha! using github PR as a todolist, fun.

ps: as a deep nerd, my system is 4 notepad.exe (yes notepad.exe) opened with a bunch of markdown lists... the shame.
My previous apartment building (condos, although I rented) in downtown San Francisco had such a wiring deal with AT&T U-verse from its 2008 construction up until around a year ago. Apparently enough of the condo owners got fed up and got the homeowner association to rewire everything and bring in a new ISP (the mostly excellent Webpass).
I couldn't find either. Only the github page https://github.com/nineties/amber
> Maybe if everyone had all the nuclear weapons they could want, no wars could ever happen again which would be a good thing.

Please see The Weapon by Frederic Brown. [0]

[0] https://writenowisgood.wordpress.com/the-weapon-questions/
Let's say I'm a religious. It IS a choice. Is it OK to ban me from doing anything for this very reason?
> But as mentioned before, web developers can greatly benefit from Elixir.

I'm not saying they wouldn't. I just object against calling Elixir "fast",
because it's not. It's just used in the places where raw sequential processing
speed is not what makes the difference. It only makes up for that loss because
it doesn't degrade when the same procedure is executed many times
simultaneously, which is very hard for anything that's not BEAM (or Go, so
I hear).

>> I doubt it, unless Ruby (MRI is what I think of) is an extremely poorly written interpreter.

> I wrote several things in both languages. CSV parsing is pretty much the same speed, again file handling in Erlang/Elixir.

Funny. I expected MRI to be as fast as Perl or Python. What you say means it's
much slower.

> When it comes to real web apps, Elixir is usually faster by a factor of 10x when DBs are involved and 100x when it comes to plain rendering.

Unless I see how the comparison was arranged, I have trouble to believe that.
I've seen BEAM being very slow for sequential workload, and there's no
mechanism that would explain the speedup right off the bat, barring the
possibility of comparison looking at apples and oranges (e.g. comparing raw
SQL queries in Elixir to Django's ORM).
There's a lot of fluff in the first part that plays up the caricature of rural America -- this hurts the blog post because it makes it easier to dismiss the entire message. Don't.

The oil angle is crucial, although not often talked about. By rallying against projects like Keystone XL -- a Canadian venture to bring Alberta oil sands crude to Gulf of Mexico refineries -- and conflating the legitimate debate over the exact routing of the Bakken formation's Dakota Access Pipeline with a blanket opposition against oil pipelines in general, Democratic voters and leaders are signalling that they're uninterested in supporting a major job producer and the reason for North Dakota's positive balance sheet.

Although several years behind, North Dakota has every opportunity to become like Alberta (or any number of states in OPEC), using oil money to prop up the quality of life of its residents. The influx of money and talent can been used to stimulate job creation and ventures that are less dependent on the momentary price of oil and create lasting wealth in an area of the country that could really use some. These ventures have been pursued since the Bakken boom and have resulted in low unemployment, a state budget surplus, and personal income growth, but have a long way to go before they're self-sufficient.

Climate change affects us all, but not defending domestic energy extraction seriously hurts the Democratic party platform.
This has good information - http://docs.hardentheworld.org/Applications/OpenVPN/

I noticed DH params do get generated via easy-rsa (although not audited that code, so can't comment on how rigid it is, nor what keysize is being used so that could be defaulting to 1024 which isn't all that great nowadays)
The whole tokio stack is having an initial 0.1 release soon. It's incredibly highly anticipated.
Ask HN: What do you use for access control to multiple databases?
Data scientists often need access to a number of databases. But instead of giving them a username/password that they pass around to each other (resulting in a security risk), I'd want something where I can manage all the roles in one place.
I do it's https://blog.gravypod.com but nothing interest is on it right now.

I'd love to write more but I usually need a prompt on a topic that I've thought about. I try to keep my ideas to myself until I've formulated an argument for either side that is "sufficient" in my mind.

I'd love to write about this in more detail and I'll definitely write about anything emailed to me if I'm able to formulate an idea either way. I'm heading home soon and write up something more detailed on this topic and why I feel this way on the topic of education.
Just a thought on the auto-login functionality...

If I run an intercepting proxy and alter all instances of my username in the HTML response from HN servers to appear in every way to be logged in as 'dang'....
How would your extension detect the forgery?
Create a JQuery Like Selector and Events with Just 30 Line of JavaScript Code
Tolstoy was hardly the first to say something like that. The Buddha said roughly the same thing ~24 centuries earlier.

Sage advice no matter who it's from.
I gave it a shot, and it was way above my head. tccboot involves kernel trickery that Belliard himself wrote as not safe at all and just there to make it run a bit. I'm not even kernel developper level, I have no idea how I could migrate this to linux 3.x or 4.x.
The old title claimed it was 50x faster than Redis with no analysis or discussion of tradeoffs. You had to read the fine print to even see the comparison was apples to oranges.

If the comparison were well handled, delving into the architecture tradeoffs, it could be fascinating. But this was just a cheap ploy to get clicks. Now the title has changed, my acidic tone is no longer justified.
My favorite quote from the article:

> One of the sneakier pitfalls of an efficiency-based attitude to time is that we start to feel pressured to use our leisure time “productively”, too – an attitude which implies that enjoying leisure for its own sake, which you might have assumed was the whole point of leisure, is somehow not quite enough.
For nearly all countries in the developed world the medical expenses part is barely an issue.
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I wouldn't really go so far as saying those comments are irrelevant in a topic about the game. Tangentially relevant? Sure, I'll give you that. The topic is about Star Citizen and their engine switch, not about the game not being released. But people are interested in discussing all aspects of the game/company, both good and bad, and a topic that is at least partially relevant is better than, for example, a link about an NTP server costing $500/yr. If it were in that topic, then sure, I'd say irrelevant. :)

I mean, I've seen plenty of tangentially related comments on HN across topics, companies, and products, and people never complain that it's irrelevant to the topic at hand. As long as it has some relevance, it seems to be fine.
Delusion is asserting that you've found some objective measure of happiness that can be generalized to everyone.
Ok, we changed the URL from https://www.google.com/amp/venturebeat.com/2016/12/23/star-c.... Thanks!
I'd recommend treating it as a normal HVAC or construction project. Call local contractors who have experience in the area and climate, get bids and recommendations, then choose a contractor. Most solar contractors either have financing options (like car dealerships) or can point you to one (like realtors). Also, try to find someone who has solar and talk to them. In smaller markets like this, local experience is important.
The leftward leaning party appeals to working class people, just not a certain white subset of working class people. More than half the country can't be "elite" by definition.
* Earth as a singular point of failure is not optimal.
Blizzard actually puts on new games, content for their games, and turns an enormous profit. So no they are not.

I am really curious if you are either an employee at CIG or just a really passionate backer of the project based on your unrelenting defense here. I am not sure why you are surprised by the candor of the comments here - CIG is seen as a running train on fire and is quite literally a joke in the gaming industry. It's unfortunate for those who work there and the people who want the game to succeed, but CIG has earned this reputation.
Yes, physicists are more likely to look for new physics than toss out the the conservation.

But the new physics would have to be fairly narrow since the standard model is fairly well-tested and consistent with most observations.
> They are one of the best studios in the industry right now when it comes to consumer and dev friendliness.

I think it's hard to judge that when the game hasn't been released. Prior to release you could say that about Peter Molyneux or anybody else who promises the sun, moon and stars.

I don't think taking people's money and not delivering anything for 4+ years isn't particularly friendly myself.
Glad you asked! So here is a teaser on how it works: 1. ClapChat gives you a unique id, the extension posts the id in your profile, ClapChat independently verifies that your profile contains the correct ID so that we know you really do own the account, then we double check the ID vs the session that we gave the id to and we can validate the authorization.

I'm working on a blog post that goes into much further detail and will post soon.
They were already using CryEngine, and Lumberyard is based on CryEngine (I assume the changes are mostly licensing rather than technical), so I doubt this was actually hard at all. In fact if you'd read the article:

> Because we share a common technical vision, it has been a very smooth and easy transition to Lumberyard. In fact, we are excited to announce that our upcoming 2.6 Alpha release for Star Citizen is running on Lumberyard and AWS.

All the bait & switch over-promising, over-ambitious probably-never-finished criticisms are true, but it's silly to say that this is one of those Duke Nukem Forever style start from scratch again mistakes.
"holiday"?

Do you mean "christmas"?
This isn't nearly as big of a deal as the headline sounds since Lumberyard is just a free version of CryTek with extra bells and whistles. Why would any dev that was using CryTek not switch to Lumberyard?
Work on projects you find interesting, even if you don't know how to do something 100% correctly. Be resilient: most give up when the going gets tough.
> Build a product that has a monthly recurring revenue of $1,000 (USD)

Don't we all want this? :)

Anyway, good luck! It would be interesting to see how far you get, so please post to HN about your experience.
I find this comment extremely distasteful. Who are you to "shame" another person? He's justified to his own opinion and even if his opinion is damaging, he wasn't trying to force it on anyone else. He asked two questions that are fair and thought-provoking.

Starting and ending your comment in the way you did is almost guaranteed to invoke a negative, defensive reaction from the commenter which will only further drive divisiveness (which you presumably espouse).

Also, instead of just stating the solution, try explaining WHY the solution works.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5k2uyn/bearssl...
In a way, it's kind of like validating a domain name using a TXT record.