skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah basically that. People don't want extensible services or open platforms. They don't want full control over their data. They don't want 100% privacy. These are all niche things that like less than 1% of people want. Most people just want a thing that does one basic job and does it good enough.
Hello, Kalid. At the "critic" from the HN post, just wanted to say hi and that I am as big a fan as ever. It was interesting to me to read our discussion again.
Hacking Node.js onto an old-school IBM mainframe -- hard hat required [VIDEO]
I would have to argue that if it keeps getting up-voted, perhaps it means that the conversation is still relevant to a lot of people
Systemd is an init written by a terminal stage architectural astronaut
Apple Music has Taylor Swift if I remember correctly
That's why this is a work of an aspiring designer, not an (apple) product designer: can someone point to a motherboard with 16 dedicated thunderbolts, such many lanes of PCIE, and answer why should 850 evos be used instead modern M.2 SSDs? The coolers/fans are OFF - they're not positioned above the GPUs, but above SSDs (which produce almost no heat at all), and the SSDs themselves are located around the thermal core triangles, why?
And GPUs are facing opposite directions, therefore, air streams are broken.
I know I've shouldn't be pissed that much by a stupid render, but this person could dedicate his time to make something meaningful and smart. Instead, he's just pushing the dribbblisation of the design forward. My call: this is stupid, meaningless work
You still didn't define what you mean by "not allowed to speak", and you didn't list any more names.
EVP lets you shoot yourself in the foot in various ways. OpenSSL also doesn't provide any API to e.g. validate a TLS cert chain, so everyone does it their own way and often gets it wrong.
Direct link: http://blog.pandora.com/us/coming-soon-pandora-premium/
OpenRC's the only init system I've actually liked. It's one of the things I really miss from when I used Gentoo, and I don't know why more distros didn't adopt it years ago.
"The C compilation model of separate header files is not a good design"

This is probably just your lack of experience not having worked on 50+ million LOC compiling for 12 hours and not having anything else as a better option. There is a reason these things exist.
Which Masters Program Best Prepares One for a Career in Data Science?
Ask HN: Python Programming for Large-Scale Astronomical Data Mining
What are some of the foundational Python programming styles and libraries relative to software used in large-scale astronomical data mining? An example program would be the SETI@home project that utilizes BOINC and the resource pool of distributed computing power of globally accessed personal computers and servers to hunt for radio signals that exhibit specific characteristics outside natural occurrences. To the Python programmers out there, what software packages have you seen of late that best serve as an example that answers this question?
Please stop trying to move the goalposts, and go back and 1) define what you mean by "not allowed to speak", and 2) list more names of scientists who are "not allowed to speak".
I think xenadu02 raises some valid criticisms, but I think those criticisms would have been better received if they were expressed more politely.

I'd love to see a rebuttal of the specific points made as opposed to just "Most of this comment is incorrect".
Have you looked at the runit init system? Here is /etc/sv/sshd/run on void linux:

#!/bin/sh
ssh-keygen -A >/dev/null 2>&1 # Will generate host keys if they don't already exist
[ -r conf ] && . ./conf
exec /usr/bin/sshd -D $OPTS

Service scripts are dead simple on Void.
Really loved and appreciated what Dalton, Berg, and the team was able to build. It was an awesome community for quite a while. Great job and sorely missed.
That is the nature of reality in the world of tech. You can have the best product in the world but without exposure (media or otherwise), your product will become irrelevant and die. VHS vs Betamax is still relevant.
> Most recently, the disagreements in the field have pulled the American author Tom Wolfe into the fray, with a new book... This has changed the debate a bit, engaging many more people than ever before, but now it’s centred around Wolfe, Noam Chomsky – and me.

What a self-aggrandizing distortion. A non-specialist author writes a research-free book thumbing his nose at Chomsky (also, Darwin), gets some press coverage "engaging many more people than even before" -- except for, you know, linguists -- and now the "debate" is "centred" around this guy who was mentioned in the book.

Give me a break. Here's one of many takedowns of Wolfe, this one by Scientific American.[1] And here's a takedown of Everett, who basically is the only expert on the sole, inaccessible language he claims pokes holes in Universal Grammar, so may be fabricating results.[2]

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/talking-back/tom-wolfe-...

[2] http://www.chronicle.com/article/angry-words/131260
Many comments seem to only compare systemd with SysV init. But there is a whole world of process supervisors out there, particularly in the daemontools[1] family.

systemd is a process supervisor plus additional features; sysv init is not a process supervisor (though the "init" program as configured in /etc/inittab is a supervisor). At a minimum, a process supervisor starts processes and restarts them should they exit.

Some modern daemontools-family systems with additional features beyond basic supervision that put them in the same category as systemd are nosh[2] and s6-rc[3]. These two systems (and all the daemontools family), in contrast to systemd, are not monolithic, but composed of multiple smaller programs.

Notably, they depend on the shell (any script or executable, but traditionally small shell scripts) to perform actions like setting up environment variables, switching to a less privileged user, redirecting output, etc. while systemd has created a large and growing set of directives[4] to accomplish these. This set of directives is one of my annoyances with systemd. As someone familiar with the shell, I find it annoying to learn yet another language (systemd directives) for expressing the same thing, though I recognize not everyone is familiar with shell.

[1] http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

[2] http://jdebp.info./Softwares/nosh/

[3] http://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/

[4] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.dir...
This is such a non-issue for many users, but the simple fact that Pandora requires flash on their web interface is a deal breaker for me.
I'm not sure if probability modifiers are applied appropriately when modeling combat in games. If you are an advanced fighter, you get a +30% chance of winning, right, so you get one biased roll to see who wins. But when I play a better player in tennis say, they win the match almost every time. Of course I win games, but over the match they will take the lead every time.
I think fighting in real life is like this, not a single roll but a set of rolls that magnifies the advantage.

tl;dr I think Civ players are right to expect to win when they have a better unit.
The paper references program synthesis via neural networks. Here is my take on it, using genetic algorithms.

http://www.primaryobjects.com/2013/01/27/using-artificial-in...
I'll put my opinion in the middle ground with systemd as well. I like a lot about it, and I dislike a lot about it. I really think the best thing they could have done would have been to make it modular. If people could just turn off the "features" that they don't want, there wouldn't be so much bitching about it.

Instead they keep trying to shove everything into one giant pile, and don't understand why people get upset.
An interesting side-effect of this style of RNG is that if you need to get a particular RNG roll to win a PVP conflict, you can 'farm' up the roll by waiting until you've gotten sufficiently unlucky during PVE, then go to PVP where you will have a much higher chance of getting one right away.

I'm not sure if Dota2 has mitigations against that, but I've certainly seen it in other games.
I think that's kind of uncertainty of the nature of neutral network? Or the training data is not very trustworthy. IMO, the latter is more probable.
Great design work, as for the idea, I don't think Apple would roll with the alien/spaceship/ninja vibe http://d.pr/i/jzcl
Everblocks: build rooms and furniture with blocks
One thing that many don't realise is Neanderthals aren't gone, because many of us are part Neanderthal. The distinction between what is Neanderthal and what isn't has just been blurred. It would be kind of like saying your mother's lineage went extinct because she had a child with your father.
http://www.soma-zone.com/LaunchControl/

Disclosure: I liked this so much that I gave the developer money.
I recall seeing something like that, which included a Scheme dialect, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called.
That reminds me:

I have a Siemens washing machine, and the interface have a latency of >500 ms. How they fucked it up is way beyond me. It consists of nothing more than a rotary switch, four buttons and three 7-segment LED displays.

I've played with the thought of disassembling the firmware just to see how they fucked this up this bad. I could never make something this unresponsive even if I tried.

It's utterly fascinating and pisses me of every time I do the laundry.
I did this (2010-2014) and recommend it.

The courses are all top notch. There's no distinction between on-campus and online students - all take the same courses (the courses that are online-enabled) and are graded on the same curve. Video recordings of the class are posted for the online students.

Cost: ~30K USD.

I recommend contacting past students of the programs you are interested in and ask for access to past classes - the online coordinators/admins will help you.

Another decent option is http://www.online.colostate.edu/degrees/computer-science/.
If people were dissatisfied with Twitter, they could leave and join App.net. If enough people did this and App.net reached critical mass, it could have become the default service of its kind.

Since the primary motivation for people switching to App.net was them getting upset at Twitter, they slowed down the frequency and breadth of the changes they were making to their service so as to upset fewer people and less frequently. In the end, this was a positive outcome for users that liked Twitter exactly the way it used to be and didn't want it to change.

Of course, Twitter's changes may not have been motivated by App.net at all, but even if not there was still an escape hatch for users if things got too bad.
Just like the designers of the current Mac Pro, you don't get it.

This design (even though it doesn't work in reality) is about creating something that is functionally like the earlier Mac Pros. That means commodity off-the-shelf hardware can be used, not just specialized or outlandish components that are going to be very expensive, if anybody bothered to produce them at all. The current Mac Pro still ships with the outdated GPUs it originally was introduced with, with no upgrade path foreseeable.
Do you want to clarify that, because I think you may have missed a "not" in there.
In my experience building Qt apps for a major automotive manufacturer (and more recently, building a web app), the latter is much easier, even if you know C++ and Qt and have mediocre knowledge of web tech. If you don't know C++, then add 6-24 months to the Qt estimate, and expect it to have more bugs than an Appalachian motel.
Open sourcing, data export and a 2 months notice forward are pretty respectful in my book. I wish these where standard procedures for the industry.
I've seen channels with people uploading an endless number of 10 min empty clips.
I have tried to use the Prime music service in the past, and the catalog was always terrible. Maybe I'll check again.
My Syrian coworker swears by this subreddit.
They switched to HTML5 like 5 years ago.
Ask HN: What are some good documentaries to watch?
A similar thread has been posted 5 1/2 years ago, and I've wanted to see what new content is out there. Additionally, I'm building a website that features documentaries, so I'd like to discover new content for it. Creative Commons or similar type of licensed documentaries are especially welcome, as I'd like to offer them for streaming for free.
Betaworks launches Voicecamp startup accelerator
My paranoid self wanted to replace rm with shred.
Isn't the limitations of the header file system the reason why the C++ module system is being developed?

Why wouldn't something like the C++ module system be of benefit in C also?
> Am I missing something?

You're not. Contrived example is contrived.
I love PersonalFinanceCanada but Canadian subreddits are very hostile to newbies.
App.net combined two big ideas:

1. Social networks are important enough that a subscription model is viable

2. Social networks should be built on a platform for social network applications

Obviously neither idea could save app.net. Which idea caused most of the problems?
If they did, they don't provide any good ways to enable it or cleanly fall back from Flash on Windows.
Science got it wrong because there isn't much science to it at all. It's like bone reading and the article manages to say that in a much more eloquent way.
The ones that haven't been hacked are those that are still on ancient air gapped technologies (msdos/vax). This is likely a major benefit in retrospect.
Translation: both sides said "Bite me."
Is electricity generation using renewable sources inherently cheaper than coal, hydro and nuclear?
I've found runit to be the best (but not perfect) as far as init systems go. Check it out.
I'm a pretty die hard Apple guy starting from the mid 80s, and I find a lot resonates with your friend's "they work" example. Me, I love the fact that the machines are beautiful, but also functional in these subtle ways. Like the fact that you can open the laptops with a finger -- they're balanced correctly, the hinges are and the closing mechanism are calibrated s.t. you can lift the lid without the base coming up. Such a pointless bit of design, really, but it's so satisfying that somebody spent a bunch of time working on that. To say nothing of the trackpads, which were just an order of magnitude better than any trackpad on any other brand of laptop I've ever used. Maybe high end PCs have caught up by now, I don't know. Yet.

There's something about things made with such passion, such attention. They stir up the religious impulse. I really feel that, for the first time since the Jobs comeback, I'm on the verge of losing that religion, at least wrt the Mac line. (The iPhones still seem obsessed over in all the right ways, as far as I can see.)
Anti-science culture is growing, need to engage and educate, say Nobel Laureates
Who said anything about replacing digital? You are clearly more intelligent than my calculator, and yet I could program my calculator to do computations that would be practically impossible for you (unless you happen to be a savant). Strong AI will rely on analog, but through future integration with digital, it can achieve the best of both worlds.

The topic is AI, where efficient, large scale neural nets will require fundamentally different hardware, like the programmable mixed signal Samsung boards used by Synapse. Those are best described as specialized FPAA's and they certainly do rely on digital for programming, and special (although still solid state circuits) for pseudo-analog properties. However, the most interesting parts are yet to come, and are being developed by partners/founders of the program: http://knowm.org/about/

The next generation boards are likely to contain memristors and self organizing memory, with a structure somewhere between the organization level of FPGA LUT blocks and biological nervous systems. This will obviously need to interface with/through digital circuits to be of any use.
probably it is not related to technical, SystemD has Redhat in the back initially I think.
> I'm an engineer too

Yep! Point is, we all are, so we all have to worry about how things break in practice, not only about the theoretical model of compatibility.

And it turns out we break each others' code lots of ways, sometimes even just changing behavior without touching the API. If I had a tool that detected certain build-time problems and worked around others, I could still end up upgrading to a new version of a library that breaks my product. So we end up with vendoring and such where product maintainers sort it out, and probably will continue to need some humans in the loop as long as releases have bugs.

I do think there's plenty to do on the larger issue of compatibility even if not specifically focused on this particular build-time break. There are tools I'd love to see, e.g. to test my program with its deps updated and maybe even do something git-bisect-ish to find just where things went wrong. (Node has something along those lines named Greenkeeper.) Peter Bourgon's got a group working on Go package management, and there's been work done, both practical (e.g. the tools and practices at https://peter.bourgon.org/go-best-practices-2016/#dependency...) and theoretical (https://research.swtch.com/version-sat). Useful progress and interesting stuff.
Strict definition of "privilege" being a special Right granted to a person, or class of people.

I accept his account, and I applaud him for reaching out to those he feels don't have the same opportunity that he had.

Often this type of thinking leads people to believe that violence today will solve the violence of yesterday.
> Admittedly, it requires an environment file

I know almost nothing about systemd, but you can define environment variables inline instead of in a file: `Environment=ENV_VAR=value`.
Schools+Noida+&+Ghaziabad+Breaking+News+Uttar+Pradesh+Schools+News
Probably yes, but then that might mean total standstill, no?

So, if 16 hours of donating effort to society, in exchange for a standard of living means status quo, would investing in 32 hours now, mean improvements that move the needle forward?

Or... is it possible that we wouldn't be able to exactly measure when 16 real hours are logged, because it would require totalitarian surveillance?

Every office I've worked in is filled with people blathering innanely about things that have nothing to do with finishing up our shared miserable toil, and getting the fuck away from my personal nightmare dungeon.

Then there's the meetings.

The meetings where you sit in a room with people who do almost nothing but talk in meetings. To them? That's what work actually is.

Pointless meetings. Hours long meetings. Reading emails. Emails upon emails. Alerts for alerts. Noise without signal. And why? For what?

Somewhere in all this, there's probably a reason for it, but honestly, I get the feeling that half the people with white collar day jobs serve no purpose other than to dress nice and demostrate headcount to rival departments, to justify budgets and win BIGNESS perception contests among "executives." (my staff meeting is bigger than yours, so who's more important?)

If you started extracting "work that matters" from these kinds of corporate heirarchies, I get the feeling we'd start hemorhaging employment rate, and so it must be prevented because people need boondoggles to feel useful, and have a reason to dress nice and belong somewhere for some reason or whatever.
Millions?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/580586/states-with-the-h...
Incidentially it still happens in modern MMOs when the developers forget to put items in a boss loot table. (Can't black-box QA a 1/1000 drop!)
Personnally it's not a matter of time per week. It's a matter of chaos and absurdity.

- not having to fake looking busy

- not rushing through contradictory orders

- no draconian hierarchy that forbid solving problems

etc etc

Each one is different but many desk jobs ended up straining me more than prepping sandwiches from 7am to 2pm. In the latter I was sweating but passed a 3 week adaptation phase things were swift and smooth.
(The other reply answering this seems to have been deleted)

It used to be unlimited supercharging. The assumption was that people would primarily charge at home, and use the supercharger only for long distance travelling.

It seems that in practice far too many people were using the supercharger as the only place to charge their vehicle, with a fair number of people using it for commercial purposes.

The Tesla Taxis at Schipol Airport in Amsterdam were apparently all using the supercharger facility, rather than setting up their own charging infrastructure.

Also, it wasn't, technically, 'free' - a supercharger fee was charged either on purchase of the car or afterwards.
The scary things that happen when as a company, "hey, it's not like our users could possibly hate us more!" is true...and you're doing well financially for long periods of time.
> PrivateTmp=yes
> PrivateUsers=yes
> PrivateNetwork=yes
>The fact that systemd supports these configuration options means that there's a simple and standard way to employ them with any service.

What exactly does 'PrivateUsers' do? What uid do I have? When I write that uidin a db, what value does it keep? Between invocations, does the uid change or is it per unit? If a file is owned by a private uid, what do other processes on the system see? Is PrivateUsers for this unit file only, for the unit files in this group of unit files, across the entire system, across the entire cluster? If I want two different programs to share this PrivateUsers concept, how do I do that?

It turns out that gluing random shit to the side of a monolith gives you the illusion of convenience, but since the monolith will not do that thing well -- for example, identity management -- you will end up with some programs that adopt the half-assed solution, and some programs that are forced to do things a different way because their use case is complex. Now you have two problems.
Yup. I was literally just about to apply this month to make my commute sane....
I was just about to post the same thing :D

The storage facilities are called Ice House [0]. The large ones stored several thousand metric tons and could last through the whole summer, depending on the climate.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_house_(building)
AM is missing other things, like beyonce's latest album.
What about runit?

Unlike all of the above, runit isn't complicated. You write a tiny, often one-line script and it executes, if it exits, it waits a reasonable amount of time and restarts it.

Not only is it not complicated, but it runs beautifully on top of an existing init system. So now wherever I go I have one tiny script that will start my python based web services and similar. I run the same basic script on freebsd rc, ubuntu upstart and arch systemd boxes.
Letting them go home means risking having less people in the office when the manager's boss shows up, which will lower the manager's prestige, and risks harming morale of the other employees. Giving them more work risks having their department fail if the employee leaves for any reason. Subtly encouraging them to waste time is the safest choice.
The sad thing is, you do not really have a second option, yes I know some distros say they have alternatives, but SystemD becomes the "preferred" init system nearly everywhere now.

I just hope Debian to get rid of SystemD and return to whatever else. I know I'm biased, just failed to find a reason to love SystemD, tried a few times.
maybe guix OS service dsl ? ex dmd, now shepherd https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-01/msg002...
It depends on where you live. Lots of wind? Lots of sun hours? Lots of subsidies?
Alibaba/rax –  a universal React-compatible render engine
Luckily, we're just starting an appetite for 360 videos and videos with depth are somewhere on the horizon as well.
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