skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yes, I remember you and your eminently googlable uname!

I'm just glad that nobody can google the message I sent to the LISP@AI mailing list asking how to set the value of a variable. Soooooo embarrassing!

I'm sure KMP's eyes rolled up to the back of his head, but then he took the time to help me out with TEACH-LISP (which Jerry Pournelle was ignorant enough to cite in a not-friendly light when he condemned LISP in his Byte column Cretin Manor [1]).

"The man has learned nothing from his presence on MC and sets a bad example of what people might potentially accomplish there. I'd rather recycle his account for some bright 12-yr-old..." -KMP

"One thing that is known about ARPA: you can be heaved off it for supporting the policies of the Department of Defense. Of course that was intended to anger me. If you have an ARPA account, please tell CSTACY that he was successful; now let us see if my Pentagon friends can upset him. Or perhaps some reporter friends. Or both., Or even the House Armed Services Committee." -POURNE

Speaking of googling for unames, it's amusing how POURNE's right wing nut bag GamerGate supporters defended him by complaining about KLOTZ's name and presumed gender [2]:

"The first thing I noticed was that the nasty message to Dr. Pournelle came from a woman bureaucrat. Those broads are the worst type of mean, nasty and petty, hiding their vindictiveness behind a facade of professional-sounding language. Love Jerry's response! Seppuku, ha!"

In reply one of them attempted to dox and defame the people on USER-A and their infamous careers and naming conventions:

"Actually, if you mean "Leigh L Klotz" that's not a woman. I did a little research on the names there. A Leigh L. Klotz Jr. - male - graduated from MIT in 1989 and went on to work at Xerox PARC and is active on the W3C. Unless there was a Klotz Sr. professoring at MIT (I can't find a record of such), then Dr. Pournelle was being hectored by a snot-nosed undergrad.

David Vinayak Wallace I don't have an age or graduation date for, but he went on to co-found Cygnus Support (later merged into Red Hat) in 1989, the same year Klotz graduated. When Wallace got married, he hyphenated his name and now goes by David Henkel-Wallace.

Kent Pitman has made a career out of LISP, and responds to Pournelle's criticism of his pet language with typical gamma rage. Like Klotz, he's made committees a big part of his life.

Having worked with the W3C in the past, I have very little respect for anyone who maintains a long-standing releationship with that body. It is a perfect warren of passive-aggressive rabbits."

"Klotz"? Seriously?

"Take note of Aspinall as well.

For our hodge-podge of a language and culture, it kind of sucks that we don't have the kind of family names that readily describe family values or characteristics in the plain language like, say, Russian does. It makes for a better sense of irony and justice when telling the story. Treasure the times when the power of fate brings them together in English, like here for instance."

[1] http://www.stormtiger.org/bob/humor/pournell/story.html

[2] http://voxday.blogspot.md/2014/12/some-things-never-change.h...
This is the perspective that I hardly ever hear discussed when the issue of "human freedom" is brought up. If you assume we are a result of the big bang, then the causal relationship infers humans are not free. If on the other hand you assume humans "are" the universe, then an entirely different perspective seems to be possible albeit one that is much more confusing to reason about.
Wait, what? Did you just say software companies intentionally embed vulnerabilities in software?
My favourite by them was Galaxian. There were a dozen games of that kind, I don't remember the names. But on top of a great gameplay, I would like to remark how good the graphics were. Very low-res by today standards, it's so difficult to express how nice the colours felt at the time.
I can't believe they spent 3 years on this, I can do all this and more with Quip as a super performant native Mobile and native Desktop. The killing feature of Quip is it's ability to Mix, in a single document, an spreadsheet(most of what you'd use in Excel), formatted source code, images, todo-list, mentions & collaboration, version control and rich formatting. The desktop app is a mix of web and native, but is not a memory hog like a CEF app, it's pretty slick.
Definitely. I believe amazing things can happen the more we make the collective knowledge of humanity accessible to all. Thankfully, I think we are moving in that direction.
Only the Fitbit Surge has built-in GPS (the first generation Charge and Charge HR didn't).

The Charge 2 does cost more at retail presently, however.
I agree with you if the content is actually stretched out (like filler episodes), but I find a lot of TV made for streaming is lacking filler content and is just telling a longer story. It's to the point now where when I watch a 90-120 minute story a lot of the plot development feels seriously rushed because it has to fit that 90-120 minute timeline.

One example that springs to mind is in the first Thor movie. I didn't even realize the love interest was actually supposed to be that because it felt like they met and interacted for a grand total of 30 minutes (in their world, not screentime) before the climactic ending with Thor and love interest kissing.

I watched iBoy on Netflix as well (90 minutes) and despite any other criticism of the plot or production value, it just felt like things escalated incredibly quickly without any time for character development or fleshing out any plot details.
> However, the seven countries under Trump’s ban do not include several that have been tied to terrorists involved in major attacks or attempted plots in the United States.

> Trump’s aides continued over the weekend to point to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Boston Marathon bombing and San Bernardino, Calif., shooting rampage, none of which involved people born in countries listed on the ban.

They must realize the irony.
Since Parse announced the final of service as itselve, we were finding an option as easy as Parse is, so we found SashiDo, great solution our apps are on track again. They give us a great and proactive service.

Hernan Mejia
SECUOIA CEO
Either it's too complicated for the average human or it can be automated ...
Thank you so much for making "What is Mithril?" the very first thing on your website!

> Mithril is a modern client-side Javascript framework for building Single Page Applications.
anybody else noticed incredible resemblence to quip.com?
I've been playing with passing markdown+css file+image tree to: pandoc {options} -H file.css --self-contained. It base64 encodes the images directly into the HTML5. The css in file.css is wrapped in <style></style> and is inlined in the header. The result is a fat HTML file with all the basic bits to make an article included. Exact line: pandoc --standalone --toc -V "toctitle:'Title'" --self-contained --to html5 -H article.css -o file.html file.markdown. Image links in code: ![Some Server](images/some_server.png)\ <-- escaped space to force inline image.
I don't know if this replaces google docs for me (for any serious document editing), but it may possibly replace Evernote as a simple jot pad.
I can see that, and it does match my expectations at least. It somewhat gamifies the process of me getting up from my desk every so often to walk around the lab complex.
Ask HN: Is Genetic Programming The Best Way To Discover New Quantum Algorithms?
I want to compile a list of effective techniques if there are others.
That's Google told.
Agreed. As I like to say, Uber screws their drivers (already, but wait for autonomous cars...), Uber screws their competition (subsidised), and their investors, too.

For now, they don't screw their customers, but let's see what happens when they've gotten to monopoly market share.

I've also argued before that it is somewhat of a natural monopoly insofar as the biggest player will typically have more cars nearer you, and their app will offer the shortest waiting time. To combat that, one could regulate taxis like a public utility, and require that all providers submit their data to a register that collates the data and lists all cars and all riders centrally. Then one could have different companies and different apps compete on a level playing field.

Some people disagree with that. I think it boils down to the definition of monopoly (barriers to entry? decreasing marginal cost? network effect? ...?), but at the end of the day definitions don't really matter -- what matters is a better outcome for consumers, and I fear regulation is required for that at some point.
I use AsciiDoc for my more complicated documents. It's a lot like Markdown, but with more options when I need them to do specific things with formatting my documents.
That should have been a blog post
amazing tasting tomatoes still exist around the world, if you are on vacation in Italy in the summer buy some "cuor di bue" tomatoes at the supermarket and they will be amazing.

Of course if you happen to know somebody that grows them and you can pick them off the plant they will be even more incredible, but even the "normal" supermarket ones are going to be orders of magnitude tastier than anything you can find in North America in my experience.

The issue is of course that said tomatoes are available only for a short period of time, so if you are having a craving for them in December, you are out of luck, but that's the way it's always been, the summer ones are just as tasty now as they've always been so there's no need to put taste "back" into them.
Uhm... Weren't package managers (APT or Yum, for instance) designed specifically for such thing?
I usually post something if I don't see it posted before and want to say something or think it's techie/cool.

I hear that time of day and day of post make a lot of impact if you want the most exposure.

For show/ask HN I don't need it to take off and be #1, just a few comments is usually enough to get many insights.
Many of the Iranians who are living in the US and trying to live here are those who most hate that rhetoric and the theocratic regime now in power.

We're deporting people back to the autocratic regime they've opposed.
I'd have to say mission incomplete. Part of the whole 'Kill Hollywood' meme was that a ground-breaking startup would appear with a business model to succeed the current production and distribution systems. Anyone nailing that?
I wonder whether this could be an area where Google has a huge head start on everyone else. They've literally got images of millions of city streets around the world at ground level for the Street View feature of Maps. And they're not exactly lacking in AI talent. If anyone is able to generate realistic CGI models automatically, it would be them.

I could see them offering Hollywood a service that would allow production assistants to scout locations in Maps and then, after choosing one, get back detailed CGI models which allow all filming to happen on a green screen for a fraction of the current cost of filming on location.
Kind of strange that you just threw in RxDB (your own creation?) and GunDB (which is easily torn apart as snakeoil whenever it appears on HN) along with the rest of them.
Very misleading title! This article doesn't really discuss the "evidence", you will need to dig deeper. The article is a summary of what holography is, and not much more.

> They found that some of the simplest quantum field theories could explain nearly all cosmological observations of the early universe.

This seems to be very, very old news. Like all theories, holography sounds very interesting. This article implies that a prediction made by holography has been observed. This is not the case, apparently. The math may a lot more elegant, but what new predictions are there, and have we observed them? This is what the article claimed to be about, alas it wasn't.
FI: Financial Independence
Thanks for the feedback. Interesting - unfortunately my "cheap" MacBook Pro only has ports on the left side!
But what does it, you know, do?
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Joins NY Tech Leaders in Opposing Immigration Ban
> I think that's a function of awards eligibility windows.

Only marginally at best; read the GQ article from 2011. "Summer" has been starting earlier and earlier and ending later and later for decades, mostly because studios realize that "Summer" blockbusters can make a ton of money. Check the cross-over between highest grossing films versus AFI's top lists.
Sorry, but, this required a new study? Sleep is the most consistent way of preventing, and curing ailments. At even the slightest hint of feeling run down, I'll go to bed extra early.
I generally appreciate divide and conquer algorithms of any type
We are using it all day every day at our offices, it's a superb shared Notepad that combines speed, simplicity, robust media features (such as embed, code blocks...), notification system, Dropbox integration and share-ability into a tight little package. Haven't looked back to Google Docs ever since.
How to prevent systemd installation on Ubuntu 14.04 and other Debian-based distros
I only work remotely. I will travel for meetings that should be face to face, but slack, skype/hangouts, email and phone should be the main form of comms for day to day stuff. No open plans. No constant interruptions.
Small, but important distinction: Studios don't make content. Studios made deals.

Film production is a smiling curve: on the left you have "development"; on the right, distribution. Actual content creation is 100% farmed out to production companies and their vendors (like VFX houses, et al).
Non-dual philosophies, such as transcendental non-dual Shaiva Tantra is based around that.
I don't have kids but I can see where shutting off screens early would be a pain. Personally I will bend the rule to watch the occasional movie or TV show. For me the bigger benefit of having a stop-time is just avoiding the endless scroll of social media or getting lost in some rabbit hole like Reddit or HN. Additionally, I find it easier to fall asleep if I've spent a some time consciously preparing food, clothes, brain for the next morning and I can feel organized and calm than if I try to zone out watching Netflix or something.
Engineers are people, my friend.

One of the lessons learned from history is the danger of professionals considering their actions to be removed from politics and morals, and their jobs to be just implementing whatever their boss wants from them (c. f. Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil": http://amzn.to/2kMX4Wd)
It's Google docs but instead of being aimed at producing documents for prints, it is aimed at producing document for online consumption (multimedia)

These documents can be used for notes about ideas, documentation, business plans, etc., etc.

Kinda like webpages, but with an easy-to-write interface, collaborative chat, and easy user access management.

Honestly, I thought the landing page showed that quite well.

It did leave me questions about if documents are interlinked like a wiki, and where and how they drew data for the graphs.
Any one have an idea on what pricing will be moving forward? Can't seem to find it anywhere.
Milton Friedman Puts a Young Michael Moore in His Place [video]
I think the reason we are seeing so many coming out this year is exactly because people are regaining that optimism because of SpaceX and the Mars colonization plan. Which is why I would like to see an adaptation of KSR's Mars trilogy. It could galvanize support for manned Mars exploration.

I've been reading the books for the last few weeks and I've found them especially gripping because it feels like we are so close to making it a reality.
How to radically improve your website performance (Part 2)
Wonder how this compares to NFS/pNFS.
Dropbox actually bought Hackpad and this is the fruit of that acquisition.
This is not new.

It's interesting to note that Trump has placed a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office, as there are many parallels between Trump's rise to power and Jackson's.

> In a popular quotation that is believed to be apocryphal, President Andrew Jackson reportedly responded: "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" This derives from Jackson's comments on the case in a letter to John Coffee, "...the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate".

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia#Effects

A President wielding Presidential authority is not a coup, it's acting within the authority given to the office via the Constitution and Congress. If you believe the President has too much power then I would urge you to be doing all you can to limit the power of the office, not just change who is in it.
"licensed"?
> Can we get a Red/Green/Blue Mars miniseries on HBO, please? That would make my decade.

OMG, yes.

I'll just add as a reply to you and GP, science fiction isn't about the spaceships or technology; it's more about the "what if?", and the best scifi are human stories at their core. Almost all of the time the "what if?" is precipitated by technology, but it's still a human story. I don't give a rat's ass about a story "with scifi elements" I want real science fiction, with the science front and center, not hand-waved, religified, demonized, or taking a backseat to the action or romance. If I wanted veneers, I'd go to the dentist.
My first stop is almost always the thesaurus, from there I usually move on to combinations of two words or two synonyms of what I'm trying to build. My current project is a scheduled API monitoring tool, and I came up with the word "Schezzle" to represent what it is. A 90s rap influenced spin on the word "schedule." I think the trick is to find something that's easy to say and that can be communicated to other by word-of-mouth without having to spell it.
In all fairness, I can't really blame Oracle on this one. That's a fairly well documented issue, because Oracle places the hash value of each query into the shared SQL pool, and if CURSOR_SHARING is set to exact and you've stopped the query from aging out then Oracle will see it as a different query.

That's not even really a CBO issue. But I hear your pain :-)
Too meta
In case anyone else was wondering how the auto keep-warm feature is implemented: it's a CloudWatch Event that runs the Lambda every four minutes by default.

While this probably keeps the majority of the requests warm, I would expect that there would still be some cold ones every now and then. Amazon doesn't provide a guarantee in how the containers get recycled.

This is just me speculating, though.
My personal belief is what will kill (and is killing) Hollywood is what (effectively) killed TV: Scale, and blandness. Hollywood had a hard enough time being interesting when it had to appeal to a broad swath of Americans. Now they want to make world-friendly films, which has already sparked a race to the bottom in terms of common denominator. This will continue as more and more markets are able to access maintstream films, and the end result will be nothing but the least-offensive, most-broadly-kinda-appealing pablum.
I worked in industrial automation controls for a while. There they used a concept called quadrature to determine servo movement precisely. Quadrature is basically a grey code of [00, 01, 11, 10] that is repeated. You know what direction you are going by where you are and what comes next. If you are on 01 and see 00 you know you are going left. If you are on 01 and see 11 then you are going right.

With a tad bit of math involving the gear box attached to the servo you know that one tick is real world distance X. From there it is a matter of establishing a "home" position, and counting your ticks as you move.
who's fault is that? there's plenty of articles out there, pick one or read a few and synthesize. Or go straight to the source: reddit.com/r/altright (warning: contains explicit white nationalism/anti-semitism)
> And we capture this knowledge and bring it into our tiny space, information encoded in structures along the skin of this rock floating in space.

Hey, this is imaginative, even if it's armchair philosophy. Seems like you are thinking that the holography principle is self-similar at many scales.
Everything that you said in that post also applies to Dropbox Paper, sans the desktop app which Dropbox doesn't (AFAIK) offer.
You're confusing your grade with academic success. Those two things are related, but not the same. If this is something you want to pursue, go after it. Grades matter, but they're not the only thing that matters.
The example I put in there was loan applications, which are quite complex. Loan origination (especially Business Loans) is perhaps the most complex business process I've ever encountered.
I used Wave extensively with an international team for project management and we found it extremely useful. The main problem was i) Yes, you had to get around a new way of working that merbed previously seperate paradigms - ii) (the killer) performance in the browser was completely horrendous.

It was the cumbersome Web interface that was the main problem, rather (the execution) rather than the concept.
I'll throw Notion (https://notion.so/) into the mix here, as an (as far as I can tell far more full-featured) alternative to this.

I've used Paper a number of times, starting from long before Notion was a thing, having been a happy Etherpad and Hackpad user in the past. Somehow Paper managed to inspire less in my collaborators than either the latter services (where perhaps plain text was the factor) or than Notion (the reaction of almost everyone I've shown it to has been amazement and excitement).

Since this is the second time I'm mentioning Notion here, I'll reiterate that I'm not affiliated - just a happy customer.
https://schezzle.com, which coincidentally is a side-project of mine. There are lots of other ones out there too though. During my day job we use things like splunk, cloudwatch, etc.
I use MySQL Workbench if I need a GUI, works well and is actually more powerful than Sequel Pro, however the UI is nowhere near as pretty. Still, it is an adequate replacement recommend checking it out.
Considering the fact that the adults mentioned in the article can't pass a 9th grade test, I think advanced math refers to "Algebra 2", or "Geometry" here, rather than calc/precalc.
> There's a reason they're the goto brand for cyclists, runners and triathletes. It's because they work reliably.

Garmins are buggy though, but once you get used to working around the most common bugs they are quite reliable.

I think Garmin just had the best devices in the early days, and now rely more upon brand loyalty (myself included) than technical advances. Touch bezels in the Forerunner range deserve a special place in design hell though.

(Granted I'm not the average Garmin user as I'm more interested in ultra-distance.)
> When they are available it is usually 5$ for a "rental". Is that a joke? I used to pay that at Blockbuster, and they had a physical location and employees!

Blockbuster did not have to operate a huge IT infrastructure to bring you a movie.

Also, with Blockbuster you had to make a trek to the store, hope the movie was there behind that huge wall of movie boxes, wait in line to check it out, take it home, rewind it (in VHS days), and then make a trip to return it. With streaming or cable video on demand, you push a button and get better picture quality than DVD or VHS too. Even the device is cheaper: I can get a Roku or similar for less than $100, while VHS and DVD players were more expensive than that for a long time.

So in absolutely every respect it's a better product than Blockbuster, yet on an inflation-adjusted basis it is cheaper.

But if you are really looking for cheap content with potential for being a constant consumer, Netflix still ships DVDs, and cable operators are always offering free on demand movies.