skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair point. Even if your accept() implementation is fine, event-driven workers would instead be select()ing on the shared socket, which can also lead to a thundering herd. I think you'd need quite a few worker threads before this became an issue in practice though.
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The ideal way to change is iteratively otherwise you create a usability problem for your experienced users, which is why you get those revolts. As far as I understand it, FB enhanced their service, whereas Digg reinvented itself, which is a lot more risky.
If people want to buy an unmanaged platform, that should also be their choice, but sadly there are almost no options for that, and they all put the user at a severe disadvantage for having made that decision (of course, and to be clear, along axes that have nothing to do with it being unmanaged).

The reason government exists is that sometimes the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few (or the one). Laws take away people's choices because we consider some choices to be dangerous, whether in the short term (direct damage to others) or in the long term (the relevancy in this context would be our laws against monopolies and trusts).
So the $AUD price is €1021 including the 10% GST. The Ikea/fr website lists €499
The Boxee is based off of XBMC so it will be a night&day improvement over the WD.
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I believe the loan is only guaranteed by the state, but the terms say that the state will own all IP given a default. I'm willing to bet we'd be legally obligated to sell it to help cover the bonds. I know very little about finance, though, so take this with a grain of salt.
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They actually did that with the newest Twisted Metal game. They had to bring in an engineer to customize Havok to make the physics more cartoony, because nobody wants realistic car physics in a Twisted Metal game.
exactly, this is just corruption. politicians using public money to help their friends.
Despite the initial Chromebooks being widely considered a failure, they push on with the next iteration of this product. Google has the kind of determination that only obscene amounts of money can buy.
I always wonder how things with no doors do when it rains. It seems if I commuted in that thing and it rained, I'd show to work soaked.
What is a "power user"?

How do you define this term?

Is it a user who wants to add features to something that otherwise works fine for its intended task? (This is a guess based on how the blog author uses the term.)

If yes, why doesn't he just say, "Screw users who request features?"

What is a "power user"? I hear this term a lot. I'm not sure what it means.
Profiling your WebGL Game with the about:tracing flag
Incidentally, I've heard the IMDB site itself uses cdbs heavily to serve static content and data.
That is how all of our resumes work; HR just verifies the information and has no role in determining whether someone is appropriate...unless it is for an HR job. Someone in our department must review every resume for the initial pass before HR begins the background checks or schedules interviews. It takes longer to hire someone but we know that nobody is making decisions for our department.
Hey, my name's Peter, I put this up. This was the non-language part of our project from the Programming Languages and Translators taught by Al Aho at Columbia last semester. Our team really focused on getting the client and server to talk without really talking about clients and servers too much. Hope you enjoy! We're all here and will answer any questions.
Most of the time protection kicks in _because_ the question has received many "thanks!", "me too!", or spam answers by new users. Indeed, the third deleted answer on any question automatically triggers protection.
So you're saying they would create the model assets, and then do physical calculations on each component of the model, then bake those weights into the model? It sounds somewhat plausible.

My gut tells me they manually place soft body joints and then paint the weights for the models. It seems like that would be easier to maintain and more predictable for the deformations that they expect to see.

For example, you and I know how the front of a truck "should" look if half of it gets crunched in, but that deformation is because of an engine, the body, lots of metal/plastic components, etc. Obviously it's not yet realistic to model every single component of a truck, and perform a physical simulation "baking" step, so that the truck crunches in that way in the game. They have to fudge that kind of crunch...so it makes me think they're manually rigging the softbodies.
Neat hack. Excellent tutorial.
5 will get you 10 that the shooting is drug related. If the US stopped the war on drugs many of the firearms related crimes would disappear.
But an iPad isn't terribly slow and completely worthless without an internet connection.
Um, it's possible I am just stupid and I am still trying to look up info on this. But that doesn't help me adequately understand it.

This piece is interesting to me because I have a form of cystic fibrosis, which is a genetic disorder. Long QT waves -- the heart problem the child had from an antibiotic -- can be caused by a magnesium deficiency. Magnesium supplementation helps a lot of people with CF. Also, they mention a possible treatment for this condition that is currently used for some people with CF. So I am wondering how it relates to my condition, basically. But I have gotten well by framing the question different from the medical community and others with my condition.

In cystic fibrosis, the miscoded protein is the CFTR, which handles traffic into and out of the cell for certain specific molecules. Understanding which molecules are impacted was enormously useful info. People with CF are routinely put on digestive enzymes, which I no longer require. So I am trying to understand what is going on with this child in terms which make sense from my mental framework regarding my genetic disorder and "enzyme deficiency" doesn't sound to me like it is really the root problem (but maybe I am an idiot -- it would hardly be a first). That may not be possible to achieve but I will work on it anyway.

Thank you for replying.
The CPU on the Chromebox is listed as 1.9 GHz Celeron B840. Can this play 1080p MKV? If so, this could my WD Live, Patriot Box Office, etc. Add a BT mouse/keyboard and I'm set.
a mile (1.609344 kilometers) away

i laughed :)
But are they as reliable and available as a laptop and a USB stick? That's a hard one to prove.
This is a fucking awesome comment, perhaps the best one on HN today, and most certainly in this thread.

Even removed from the "kids aren't so great" angle you are saying something I think a lot of people - especially on HN - need to hear, and you are saying it well. Cheers.
I also thought about it. Think about your blog - your posts can be: articles, essays, discussions. I chose essay, and removed comments. In a sense:

"This is what I have to say, I've wrote it and re-written it, and reformulated it and I think its good for publishing. I then published it and if you have comments, send me an Email and I'll consider amending my post".
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Yes, for people who understand how aperture relates to depth of field. But there seem to be a good number of people who understand what depth of field is, without understanding how to control for it using aperture.
You shouldn't. If you don't feel the overwhelming need to have children, you probably shouldn't.

I wanted to have children from when I was about 10. I knew that it would be the most important thing I was to do with my life, and that's how it's turned out.

FWIW I don't know a single parent who would say that it's not absolutely awesome to be a parent. Maybe I don't know many bad parents...
Are you talking about playing both sides as described here in ch 24? http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/catch22/section5.rhtml

If so, I would have to say it is a misconception you have if you think that is something which libertarian law approves of, to engage in war, just because it is a private subcontractor doing it.

Also, if this part from a wikipedia entry is what you are talking about, pay attention to who it is in power who forgives MM:

>However, as M&M Enterprises proves to be incredibly profitable, he hires an expensive lawyer who is able to convince the court that it was capitalism which made America great, and is absolved only by disclosing to the congressional committee investigating what the enormous profit he made by dealing with the Germans was.
I feel the same way. The periods when my motivation and thus productivity at work are lowest, my brain's least productive after work. It's because I am consumed by the guilt of not having done my job during the day.
On the contrary when I am productive at work, there's a spring in my step when I go home and my mind is ready to happily tackle new problems.
Is awesome!
I have noticed that a lot of people would have you believe that disliking Apple products is akin to denying the holocaust...
It's really not that different; you just end up declaring your input arguments one line lower than in most other languages. Not a big deal in practice.

And with @_, you're free to use positional arguments, named arguments, variable arity, etc. without penalty. Some languages only give you some of that.
No, you weren't particularly clear. Mostly because if Google is sharing data between search and adsense internally, it doesn't have anything to do with Adsense storing referrer data anymore.
This is the most important critique of A/B testing. It far outweighs the traditional hoopla about simultaneous inference and Bonferonni corrections.

Epsilon greedy does well on k-armed bandit problems, but in most applications you likely can do significantly better by customizing the strategy to individual users. That's a contextual bandit and there are simple strategies that to pretty well here too. For instance:

http://hunch.net/?p=298

http://hunch.net/~exploration_learning/main.pdf

http://web.mit.edu/hauser/www/Papers/Hauser_Urban_Liberali_B...
Moderation can also get tricky. Pure spam is simple but you will run into comments where the commenter somehow works in their (product || experience). So long as they provided some commentary it is not pure spam. So the situation becomes a bit touchy.

This is a problem we ran into at PhpPhotoUploadr. In our case we have a very talented team so we hacked together a solution.

PS: We're always hiring 忍者!
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The git project itself is a perfect example, and the code reviews on the mailing list will often note changes that should be made to commit messages.
Find a customer, then build it.
This sounds really interesting, I might have been close to building this before without realizing. :)
Seems really easy to setup as well, will be interesting to hear any counter-argument in the comments.
Seems like what Myna is doing: http://mynaweb.com/
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The CLI client can be enhanced but does its job. Waiting for more features :)
We're not talking about laws here, we're describing experiences. Nobody is suggesting that all people should be parents.

Your corrected analogies are as follows:

You aren't gay, so you can't pass judgement on what it means to be gay.

You don't smoke weed, so you have no idea what it's like to be high.

Both of these statements are perfectly valid, and having a bunch of straight people talk about what it is like to be gay or a bunch of prudes talk about how out of sorts you are when you are high is pretty ridiculous.
Exactly. As mentioned in the article, `git reset --keep` is the preferred way to do it these days. It preserves uncommitted worktree changes.
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Amazon gives the advantage of visibility as with a few exceptions they seem to be where most people (at least in fiction, if you're doing non-fiction I don't know) have had the most success (I hear romance does way better on B&N for indies, no clue why).

And Amazon lets the author/publisher choose DRM or not on KDP, though you can't change it without losing all sales rank etc.
There are appropriate solutions to the multi-armed bandit problem, and a wealth of literature out there, however this is not one of those solutions.

Here's a simple thought experiment to show that this will not 'beat A/B testing every time.' Imagine you have two designs, one has a 100% conversion rate, one has a 0% conversion rate. Simple A/B testing will allow you to pick the the winning example. Whereas this solution is still picking the 0% design 10% of the time.

For some other implementations check out the following links:

For Dynamic Resampling:

http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume3/auer02a/auer02a.pdf

http://www.mynaweb.com

For Optimal Termination Time:

http://blog.custora.com/2012/05/a-bayesian-approach-to-ab-te...
There is such a thing in London, a store within a store that is presumably a trial setup.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8800002/Worlds-...
My roommates are all med students, and Stanford "gives" every incoming med student an iPad. They all got a keyboard case for it, and use it for most of their note taking and reviewing.

They only use their laptop at home now, and only when they need to multitask (in which case they often have the iPad sitting on the side as a secondary display of sort) or run medical software that isn't available on the iPad.
Am I the only one annoyed by tutorials in video form? I can't hear myself think, I can't set myself the pace, you can convey up only so many informations with sound and image... I like real lectures in video, but it's not a really good format for quick tutorials.
Historical Fedora kernel bug open rates
The 'set and forget' aspect of this is appealing. I've sometimes wondered if you could automate the whole thing, including option generation. If you can define good enough mutation functions you could have your features literally evolve over time, without developer input. You'd need a lot of throughput to get reasonable evolution rates though. Jacking up the mutation rate won't help because really big mutations will break the layout.

It's almost certainly impracticable, but fun to think about.
What's been gained here? You've traded away one line of boilerplate Perl understood by all, and now everyone who touches your code has to know the semantics of 'method'.
Seconded. As a non-mathsy marketing/biz guy, my response was "whoa, sounds great.", but with the caveat that my response to the actual statistical math side was "Derp."

I'm really looking forward to hearing comments from people With Actual Maths!
You're thinking of this in the completely wrong way. Why should email - the protocol -
offer you all of this? It's nonsense, and goes against basic UNIX philosophy (do one thing).
It does another part of the UNIX philosophy very well, though: it's a universal interface.
Email can be used to communicate between all sorts of applications, and those applications
can give you the features you want easily. Which brings us back to what you're complaints
amount to: client problems.
According to rubygems.org stats page[1], there are 39411 gems available. I think the number 2560 on "all gems" page[2] is the number of gems starting with letter "a".

1. http://rubygems.org/stats

2. http://rubygems.org/gems?letter=A
There are a few people that regret being parents. The funny thing is that if you talk to them you'll find that they've become parents because they though it's something the should do, and not something they wanted to do.
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Different proteins for different disorders - from what you wrote it seems like you read it as one particular protein that's commonly implicated in many different disorders?

Imagine one part of your car was randomly the wrong shape. You'd have Twisted Wheel-Nut Syndrome or Split Spark-Plug Disease or whatever, all of which could be caused by badly copied blueprints for the car.
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What more is there to really aspire to? Virtual sex with an indiscernibly lifelike avatar of anyone we've ever met? Wall-E covered the utopian concept of robot-aided leisure pretty well.

His comment resonated with me as well. However I think there's a libertarian explanation for the decline of Utopian Sci-Fi. It existed out of a general optimism about problems too large for a ragtag group of individualists to solve. Space travel, etc., is the realm of big governments, and exploration of the universe is the stuff of political hegemony.

The real world has gone way beyond that to a place where Peter Thiel is wealthy enough to fund his own space explorations. The problem for Sci-fi is that market based approaches to solving problems are a lot less glamourous than those undertaken by the state. There is also (quite often) far less drama, a simple profit motive, and rather boring incremental progress.

State actions are always impossible to disconnect from the propaganda story accompanying them. Scientific advancement, often undertaken by governments solely for the purpose of warmaking, has been the locus of much propaganda, and it wasn't until the 50s were over that the nation started to get a clue.

That said I hope someone writes a story that proves me wrong.
"401(k) contribution matching, 100% matching up to 6% of your salary + Full coverage for medical, dental, and vision"

Those are normal benefits in corporate America. The 6% 401k match level is an IRS safe-harbor threshold most large employers try to meet each year. Even the vacation time (18 days) is modest for your European competition. I don't see where any of that is getting bubbly.
Exactly. It's ok to lose half your users, if the other half are worth 10x as much because of the change.

This article describes how Meetup went through this and lost, 95% of their user activity overnight... and also incidentally became profitable.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2751-scott-heiferman-looks-ba...

My comments: http://swombat.com/2011/1/26/meetup-charging-bet-the-company
is there a point after which a decrease fulls itself ? I know nothing about stock market, first day drop might signals frailty or wrong pricing but won't stable negative continuity trigger a global resell reflex ?
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I would imagine we don't have self-balancing motorcycles because we don't need them to self-balance. You can just put your foot down when you stop. But this isn't a normal motorcycle. The enclosure makes it necessary to do something else. Self-balance is what they decided to try. Another option could have been some speed triggered training wheels that popped out but that wouldn't be quite as cool looking.
> "It's the response from the vocal minority who are quick to complain about any change."

Who else will complain about bad changes, if not the "vocal minority"? When was the last time somebody appealed to the alleged wisdom of the "silent majority" to support anything worth supporting? Nixon? Falwell?

Internet services rely greatly on word of mouth. You need vocal advocates to spread the word. If you alienate your most vocal users, even if they're just a minority, you've effectively dug your own grave.

The world doesn't need another social bookmarking service.
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How do you add things? In the console category I notice that both the original Xbox and the Xbox 360 are missing.
... now everyone who touches your code has to know the semantics of 'method'.

The same argument applies for every new symbol imported into a namespace.
You would have to be nuts now to even think about taking a job at Facebook and if you are there, I'd think about leaving in all seriousness.

I predict that Facebook is going to have a hard time hiring good talent now. This is one of the downsides of filling up your stock with a lot of hot air. It's all short term gain.
...not sure you understand how market cap is calculated. The float (# of shares available to the public) can vary, but the total # of shares, in the absence of a split/new issue/retire, will remain static.
> What is your emotional response to that request?

Heh the worst upgrade experience I've had with any language was with perl. The issue wasn't with changes to language features, it was chaos resulting from CPAN XS module compatibility and compilation failures. I remember one trivial module (array::compare) went from a having few core dependencies to dozens of CPAN dependencies (including all the moose OO modules). And that was just one module, there was a list of others that had issues.

To be fair, that was a Solaris environment and was the only time I had issues that serious. But I'd argue documentation of dependencies is a much bigger factor no matter what the language.
ICs have their hardware 'configuration' effectively in the metal layers, which are not so susceptible. The configuration is the biggest concern, as this is essentially the processor (or whatever the circuit is) itself. RAM used by a processor is also at risk, but this is easier to handle. From what I'm told, a reasonably large feature size ASIC can have far fewer problems than a modern FPGA.

Also, note that the Spartan 3AN does not seem to use flash for configuration. It looks like the internal flash is just for storage and the configuration is copied into RAM, as with normal Spartan devices. This means one less chip on the board and potentially better security, but no real advantage for avoiding SEUs.
I guess that depends on what a year of experience unit is. 2000 hours? If you used Rails full time in your day job since it was released and built a Rails-based startup on the side, it could be possible to have 10+ unit-years of experience with it.

But yeah, it's a poor measure, plain and simple. Someone who tinkers with Rails one week out of each year could soon claim eight years of experience, even though they'll have no experience compared to someone who has used it in their full-time job over the same number of years.
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Thank you! You see for a minute there I thought you were in the "everyone should have kids" camp. So really we are not so far apart in opinion because if you wanted to have kids since you were 10 and, not really knowing anything else about you but assuming you are a good, responsible person, I would be the first to say you should have kids.

Having had an experience and not desiring to repeat it has nothing to do with whether or not you were good or bad at it. Plenty of bad parents out there who for some reason keep having kids and will probably tell you it's the most awesome thing and most of the good parents I know take a measured approach to their own procreation. Some have honestly said they probably would not do it again - of course who knows as they can't go back.
I see, because of reading the above thread about normal bikes I thought I was still in that subthread and I thought you were talking about the ordinary wheels at ordinary wheel speeds. My bad.

[BTW, the article I linked to mentions that the gyroscopic effect is not solely responsible for stability in ordinary bicycles. There is a site of a guy easily riding a bicycle with an opposite turning plate next to the front wheel to cancel out the gyroscopic effect demonstrating this, although I can't find it.

Edit. Here: http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~hemh/gyrobike.htm ]
To clearify, it is market cap = outstanding shares * price.
This data isn't fully valuable unless you know what alternate behaviour the users are performing (instead of clicking the alternate-coloured buttons). They still could be staying on your site, just not following the same funnel. They could be return visitors as well.