skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard of two possibilities (as a recommendation) for using data structures in C without having to develop them:

- BSD queue.h offers linked lists, queues, etc [1].

- UT-hash offers hash tables [2].

I've also read some people being frustrated with them, probably due to the quirky syntax/API. On the plus side (BSD at least) it's just a header file that you can download, include and start using.

[1] http://bxr.su/OpenBSD/sys/sys/queue.h

[2] https://troydhanson.github.io/uthash/
>> following the standards and best practices of the industry.

> No they’re not.

Afraid they are, and have the spreadsheets to show it.
swedens working on it:

https://qz.com/1010273/the-algoland-carbon-capture-project-i...

(wood burning power plant is the second subject, under How to heat a cold country in the 21st century section)
> "It's difficult even saying that with all the people that I know behind me that I hurt."

It is interesting to think about who he considers he hurt. The potential winners who relied on lottery winning to secure a future for their families? The lottery workers? He is a criminal surely, but isn't the whole lottery system a tax on lack of education and it just gives false hope to people and encourages gambling. He reduced faith in it somehow being a random lottery so I guess he probably hurt the state income bottom line. At least in some states they claim to use lottery proceeding to improve math education - not sure how truthful that is.
Cost cutting / financial engineering / tax reductions / resource optimisation. It won't be a fun place to work in the next 3-5 years. That raise you think you'll be getting? Don't think so.
I find that hard to believe.
Launch solar shade!

@

Sea levels drop.
Suppose you are an ISP with a new streaming video service as a customer -- ComFlix. You sell a 1Gb/s pipe to ComFlix. You buy a 10Gb/s pipe from Google.

If Google limits, deprioritizes or drops traffic from ComFlix, that's Google committing a NN violation.

If you limit ComFlix's 1 Gb/s pipe to 1 Gb/s, that's not a NN problem.

If Google limits your 10Gb/s pipe to 10Gb/s, that's not a NN problem.

If Google offers to replace your 10Gb/s pipe with a 20Gb/s pipe at the same price on the condition that video streams will be intercepted and limited so that they cannot support more than 480P, and you accept, both you and Google are violating NN.

If you ask Google for a 10Gb/s pipe but they refuse to sell it to you solely because ComFlix is a competitor for YouTube, you have an interesting court case.

Basically, NN violations occur when someone drops packets that they otherwise would have carried, based on the content, source or destination of those packets. But paying more for a bigger or more direct pipe by itself is not an NN problem.
Truly a fascinating concept with dynamic applications!
However, three tests spaced out in 1 month intervals might be enough to measure progression whenever treatment becomes available. I'm not really sold on the idea that measuring this now is relevant or helpful. It's quite iffy.
> Alt-right seems now to be everything that is not included in alt-left.

Since “alt-left” is a term recently made up by the alt-right’s defenders to dismiss everyone who in any way disagreed with them that’s been trivially true since the term “alt-left” was coined.

(“alt-right”, OTOH, was a term invented by people in the movement the term refers to, to distinguish themselves from voices they disagree with that are conventionally characterized as part of the right, particularly, AFAICT, voices that they see as globalist.)
This technology, if viable, could help solve our current nuclear waste problem. Valuable materials could be recycled (by separation) for additional use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing#Pyroproce...

https://youtu.be/oAVCaUonrbE?t=12m7s
The trouser-soiling moment is when the methane clathrate ices start melting.

They call that one the "Clathrate Gun" hypothesis, because you can't un-fire a gun. Once that trigger is pulled, no amount of anthropogenic CO2 emissions reductions will have any effect whatsoever. From then, it will take a positive, intentional, globally coordinated effort to reduce temperatures by other means, or we will be well and truly boned.
This might seem academic, but I actually had a real reason to hand-roll a hash table implementation that would work in process-shared memory (as an Apache module). It was based on the hash table implemented in mod_ldap, and was part of an LRU cache.
I believe (but cannot prove, obviously) that we're way past the tipping point. Meaning simply reducing anthropocentric emissions, even down to zero, will not meaningfully impact atomspheric CO2, methane.

For civilization to survive, we must adapt, mitigate, or both.
If you had unlimited energy, you could probably find a way to shift energy from the atmosphere into space.
Open source professionals are more in demand than ever
CommandScape Is a Secure Home-Automation System from Netscape Founder Jim Clark
Could you please provide examples?
Amazon opens its grocery delivery service to Amazon Business customers
The destruction of civilization will probably cap our ability to do further significant damage. If not, then our extinction surely will.
New service: FreeTemplateOffice.org
Makes you wonder how many people do get away with things like this without anybody realising.
Psilocybin was better than therapy by any measure. It's transformed my life positively.

It's definitely not for everyone! In high dosages it can induce feelings of death. I literally felt like I had died. I had no more ego. I didn't know who I was or where I was. There was only math, logic and reasons. It was as if the veils of reality were lifted to reveal what it was: Math. I saw numbers and formulas everywhere. Then it struck me like a freight train, God IS math, our life is complex system of math, we are living in the body of God.

I've read the pineal gland arises on the 49th day when the baby is inside the womb...how the hell did Tibetan monks know this without science millenias ago? The soul is said to enter the body on the 49th day....it's just...science itself is not enough to explain reality and the universe is what I've come to accept.

I'm hard knock atheist but Psilocybin made me experience spirituality in a highly logical and mathematical manner...it's just frighteningly awesome I am struggling to describe it fully....words can't justify

I realized there was a reason to everything in life. I was here where I was because of reasons which in turn induced actions. I was terribly addicted to substances, locked up in my room.

Just taking Psilocybin a few times induced so much positive changes because it made me experience consciouness on a different world...where I had to physical presence but only my conciousness without ego.

I'm getting goose bumps thinking about the trip. Not so pleasant was seeing eyes, lots of eyes, eyes of providence they call it. I realized those eyes have been watching me all this time and if I didn't turn my life around I would be in hell.

The aftermath of this trip, an overwhelming peace and reduced anxiety, I notice I've become way more social and confident, my posture has improved, I've moved my computer to the living room, I've met new people.

Psilocybin is a drug that will give you answer to all your questions. I reckon religious texts were written while on it.
While ascii art is not easy to edit (it is simple enough for many uses) it shares all other advantages of readable plain text formats.

I loved it.
Choosing the marketing KPIs and metrics that matter to your company
FWIW Amazon drive will store any number of photos (or anything it thinks is a photo -- I havent looked to see if it looks at the file name or checks to see if it's a valid jpeg/png) for free. So if you're really backing up your photos that's an option.
You are right, it does say TB everywhere, and does not mention GB anywhere. But, if this is correct and all prices are per TB, that would be a ~1000x price cut compared to your current pricing, which is per GB.
Also those two do not believe in global warming. (One thing nuclear does not cause)

It make take a long time for thorium reactors to come online but it is hard to believe anybody is going to fund the construction of a new large LWR anywhere outside China.
The problem with bundling is that it stops reflecting underlying costs and creates incentives for customers that skew customer population.

Contrived example of this: since most HDDs workloads are IOPS bound, you decide to sell IOPS bundles and give space for free. Not before long all your customers are backup companies that have low IOPS and high space usage. Your service runs at loss, customers are doing nice price arbitrage on top of it.

Same goes for all aspects of computing platforms for sale: CPUs, RAM, Networking, HDDs, SSDs, GPUs.

Two additional problems are bin packing and provisioning: you need to sell things in such quantities and ratios that you can actually effectively utilize your hardware configurations. You need to order and design your hardware in a flexible manner to be able to adapt for changing ratios of component needs due to changing customer demand.

So it's easier to run "pay for what you use plus profit" pricing, but some customers don't like it due to perceived complexity and potential unpredictability.
It's a rabbit hole, but there is pretty good support for loading OpenStreetMap data onto Garmin devices (other device makers did a better job obscuring their formats):

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin

I guess the routing enabled bike maps will take advantage of whatever data is present.

BBBike supports custom areas:

http://extract.bbbike.org/extract.html
Intentionally not linking to any of the companies I found with just a quick search at google (mislaid the PDF for carrier 2 carrier pricing of a major provider): 40E/month for 30TB traffic, 1G uplink (1G/s guaranteed), 2x500G SSD on a i7.
I think this was open sourced earlier but I just discovered it.

As a personal anecdote, I've written many ad hoc code mods while working on Luna2 (Asana's next framework) and had no idea one of our founders wrote this. He apparently assumed IDEs would just handle this by now.
True, but it's also miles behind C/C++. While Python is arguably the slowest of the mainstream interpreted language, they're all orders of magnitude slower than C.
Lotto in Illinois was introduced as a way to help pay for public education. You can guess how that ended up... hell, they were not even paying the winners for a while (maybe they still are not).
> "Over the last 18 years, we built the world’s largest network, which by some accounts delivers 25-30% of all internet traffic”

I think that's way more than enough already, thank you.
5 Tips for Building Your Java API
I think the general consensus is that by the time you're 75 and symptomatic things have already been going downhill for decades and it's unlikely that much can be done to stop or halt the disease. Thus, while there are no proven treatments at the moment, the candidates more likely to succeed are those that attack the disease process early. In that light, early detection is extremely helpful.
I think it is the specific scripts that are prehistoric, not the idea of scripting.
This has been interesting to follow. I went through something like ten different weather apps before settling on AccuWeather because the app itself is solid (compared to the other free options). Anyone have opinions of other iOS weather apps?
Indeed there are some bugs with unicode output[1]. Just to be clear the standard way to output anything to the console is `echo` (similar to Python's `print`).

It seems that the progress on that issue has stalled. It's unfortunate but we do have limited man-power and rely on the community to help us out, this does mean that at this stage it helps if you don't mind getting your hands dirty with potential bugs.

Unless one of us are directly affected by a bug, or we see a large number of users affected by it, it's unlikely that we will focus on it. Not much we can do there sadly. I hope you can understand.

Regarding static linking I would say that it's challenging for most languages. Especially on Windows. If you pop into our IRC/Gitter channel[2] though I'm sure somebody would help you out. You can also probably get pretty far by asking C users for help.

Regarding the build system, perhaps you are referring to the fairly recent addition of NimScript? I think that has stabilised by now. But if you've got any specific questions about it then feel free to ask them.

1 - https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/2348

2 - https://nim-lang.org/community.html
That's actually informative, thanks.
“Uber had $6.6 billion in cash at quarter's end, down from around $7.2 billion at the end of Q1 ... Uber's global ride-share business was margin positive last quarter, which is a flip from Q1.”

Uber is on a loss run rate of $2.4 billion annually mainly from the US market. The questions become:

* Given that global is positive, what is the loss in US? What will it take to flip US to positive? What will Lyft do?

* Can Uber keep global markets positive or will they have similar challengers that will force additional investment?
Here is one from 2005: https://www.google.com/patents/US20060182137

"An asynchronous message passing mechanism that allows for multiple messages to be batched for delivery between processes, while allowing for full memory protection during data transfers and a lockless mechanism for speeding up queue operation and queuing and delivering messages simultaneously."

Maybe there are older patents that have expired?
You're being attacked

Regardless of how much you may disagree with what someone said or how they said it, attacking them for it (even verbally) is not an appropriate response. It only contributes to worsening the discourse. If you can't find a way to disagree or express an opinion constructively, it's better to refrain from commenting at all.
smart enough to pull it off but dumb enough to think that having your brother win a $14,000,000 prize is not suspicious and wouldn't be investigated... that's impressive.
There is no tradeoff.

Reducing waste (CO2, methane, heat, whatever) increases profits.

Not for the entrenched interests, obviously. Happily, everyone else who's been paying their externalized costs (taxpayers, consumers) benefits.
The title should not have been changed - old version noted the product referenced, Google Cloud Compute.
The Sugiyama Method – Layered Graph Drawing
I am surprised they are using stainless steel instead of Hastelloy-N

http://www.haynesintl.com/alloys/alloy-portfolio_/Corrosion-...

The Hastelloy family of super alloys is basically stainless steel without the steel and was proven in the Oak Ridge MSR experiment.
I would probably try to make a bookmarklet that registered a couple more engines:

https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/...
Either way a sale / transfer of ownership triggers tax consequences.

Couldn't this have been done as an ESOP?
Keynesian economists triumphantly point to the massive QE that has occurred and the seemingly minimal resulting inflation and claim victory for stimulatory monetary policy.

How was the QE performed? Basically printing piles of money and giving it to banks. What have the banks done? Double or triple the value of every equity market. Hardly any of the money ended up in the pockets of regular people buying groceries and petrol. Yet our measures of inflation come from consumer goods, not equity markets. Is it any wonder that our bullshit measures of inflation have barely budged.

I think the coming bust (whenever it occurs) will be the last boom/bust cycle in which this shit flies anymore. We now, finally, have universal, non-inflationary currency of a type which can compete with the unproven conjecture of Keynesian economists. People have been complaining that about economic theories being hard to prove, well here is a battle between the old dogma and a new challenger.
I hate that you made me notice that and I'll never be able to unsee it! :-)

A slash or a dot in the middle would be nice.
Elon Musk Shares SpaceX's Space Suit
After so many “productive” tools, here's a productivity killer
Well, I will be paying cash ....
Even if the market takes a dump, real estate in the hot markets won't dive. It might stall or slump, but the forces creating demand for housing will likely still be in place.
The hardest problem in software – Focus
6 lessons that can improve your startup, in less than 6 minutes
> Can you guide my eye please where we don't specify TB?

I would be extremely surprised to find that the new pricing is 1/1000th what the old price was. It's not really $0.105/TB is it?

I think the key confusing factor on the linked page is there is no "per" anything detailed. To answer your request for guiding your eye: http://imgur.com/a/9je4T

Thanks for taking the time. I figured someone at Google would read my comment and review the pricing table; I did not expect to engage with someone directly involved in the product release.
Given that GP said "cross-platform" and then separately "possible derive mobile", I'm guessing that only supporting OS X on the desktop might not be enough for them. That being said, I'd be very surprised if there weren't cross-platform desktop GUI libraries available for Common Lisp.
Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine
In the terminology (may I say: terms) of term rewriting, you are looking for a so-called completion procedure. This takes a set of axioms and turns it into a convergent term rewriting system (or not, because it may not terminate!).

If the completion procedure succeeds, you end up with rules that always terminate, and which reduce any given term to its normal form. In the literature, search for Knuth-Bendix and Huet completion procedure, if you are interested. For SQL, it may get quite complex, but still doable, potentially with some extensions of the primary method.

There are all kinds of variations on the general scheme. If you are interested in term rewriting, a solid starting point is Term rewriting and all that by Baader and Nipkow.
>Exxon said it acknowledges climate change is a risk that requires action, and it dismissed the conclusions of the study, saying the researchers are looking for money.

>“The study was paid for, written and published by activists leading a five-year campaign against the company,” Exxon said in an emailed statement. “It is inaccurate and preposterous. Rather than pursuing solutions to address the risk of climate change, these activists, along with trial lawyers, have acknowledged a goal of extracting money from our shareholders and attacking the company’s reputation.”

I wonder if the emailed statement ever rose above the ad hominem that was quoted.
Yep, 50 pages of awesomeness!
I don't agree with everything you said, but let's assume you are right - for the sake of the argument.

So what's the plan? Design a car, then let the designs sit on a shelf for 10 years (or more)? In 10 years tastes will change, and the people who made the designs will no longer have them fresh in their mind - if they are even still employed by Apple.

How does that make any sense?
Especially with a frankly embarrassingly poor attempt to place distance between himself and the payouts. He picked his own brother and a close family friend? Might as well have walked up to his boss every other week with a spot of feigned surprise and a new jackpot winning ticket to cash out, figuring they could direct deposit it along with his paycheck.

Really makes you wonder how many moderately intelligent people out there are successfully running schemes like this and just never arouse suspicion.
Surely there is some way to use nearly limitless energy to reduce temperatures or otherwise deal with this problem. There are many technologies we simply cannot use now because they aren't cost effective from an energy standpoint.
The lottery does pay for education. And the pre-existing education funds were removed. Net gain in funding: 0.
No need for conspiracy theories. When one market participant anchors a price at a high premium, you don't need to collude to know that undercutting them is a scorched earth strategy that causes both of you to lose. Part of this is because financial markets value your revenue more than market share, and undercutting bandwidth pricing hurts the former more than it helps the latter.
Can someone explain to a layman how a company losing $600M every 3 months, with $6B remaining of $12B raised (50% loss over 8 years) is "worth" $62B?
I believe he refers to his loved ones.
This. I've seen FP features (and incidentally OOP features as well) misused so hard, I'm thankful for every plain loop (or struct for that matter).
Money represents time and resources. He can't exactly restore those either.
It is 1994 on Wall Street today with Cryptocurrencies and yet so many of them can't see it coming.
I suggest taking a long, hard look at Julia.

It's squarely aimed at high performance numerics and scientific programming, but is in fact a general purpose language with great potential. It's already very, very efficient (written using LLVM), yet has a lot of the clean elegance of Python.
> a tax on lack of education

I hear this a lot, but I think people know what a longshot is.

Is this so much more stupid than throwing your money away on useless consumer junk?
DIDlogic also does this (voip provider)
The investigation started in 2010, so five years. But still, five years is a lot.
And thank you for the free stuff.
Yes. We use [audio] for that by analogy with [video]. Added.
I like Weather Underground. It does have ads, but for $2 you can get rid of them for a year I think.

I remember Yahoo Weather had a good UI, but used 200MB+/month of background data even when not in use...

Edit:
This is a bit off-topic, but aviationweather.gov has a METAR API that works for any airport:
https://aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver

This is a great resource if you want a specific metric from a nearby reliable source, e.g. air pressure or wind speed.
Works for me and it's not for sale unless the offer has more than 8 digits before the decimal point...
There is no cure because there is no "early detection". By the time of current clinical diagnosis (when symptoms appear), the disease has progressed to advanced stages and it's too late for any effective treatment. Our goal is to help pharma companies develop novel drug candidates that can potentially cure the disease "if detected early using our technology". Also, life style modifications are known to delay the symptoms. So knowing is always the best.
There is also a value on people getting used to your service.
What a world we live in. I wish humanity made this turn out differently, where digital privacy was a human right, not something worth $100k.
http://www.weather.gov

I made a bookmarklet on my phone after searching my zip. I use the hourly weather graph which shows temp and odds of rain/snow. you have to scroll, but...

For snow storms read the alerts.

accuweather wanted to shut them down and had their senator introduce a bill, because ad free competition....

I saw the weather.gov page up once in the background of a TV station newscast.
The PATENTS file doesn't explicitly state "litigants may continue to use the IP under the BSD license". What it does explicitly say is "litigants lose the patent rights", which in essence serves to revoke the BSD license. Can't have it both ways.
You are not wrong that there is no "free energy" but energy so much cheaper than now that its cost is a rounding error would does not roll off the tongue.

An army of engineers is much cheaper than what we are doing now with oil, solar and wind which each employ several armies.