skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's likely this is related to DNS lookups.
Doing a lookup on a modern operating system requires calling in to some C library. The call in to the C code means that the thread can no longer be used to schedule goroutines, the runtime doesn't know how long the C call will take so it creates a new thread to keep running goroutines.
For calls in to C that are very quick this can lead to a lot of thread creation.

You can do one of:

1. limit thread creation by using your operating systems limiting features. eg ulimit

2. rebuild the standard lib with DISABLE_CGO=1 to avoid the calls in to C if that's possible in your environment.

3. batch all your dns lookups in to a single goroutine.

4. make changes to the operating system so provide async dns lookups.
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> Perhaps you could name this mysterious IDE

Is it just you, or does everyone using eclipse take "what eclipse does" to be refactoring?

I didn't mention IDE even once. A small part of refactoring can be done by eclipse. Rest of it is to be done by the programmer.

I am not a Fowlerian, but this is the only reference I could find. http://www.refactoring.com/catalog/index.html

Eclipse helps with a small subset - rest has to be done by the programmer. And most of it is easier to do in Ruby than in Java.

Compare the ruby edition http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Ruby-Edition-Jay-Fields/dp... to the java edition http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-...

On an average, ruby code ends up easier to modify and concise.
People are often demonstrably incapable of deciding whether results are poor, misleading, or wrong. For example, they routinely delegate that decisionmaking to trusted advisors who they have picked in a not-strictly-speaking-rational manner (e.g. most middle class people abominably overpay for investment advice from people who give them screamingly bad advice. This is the nearly universal finding of decades of research. Evidence for "If you're paying 2% to a broker to buy a mutual fund with 2% fees you are making a bad decision" is substantially more certain than "Cigarettes: not that great for you!" and yet people make that decision every day. They will make it, in controlled laboratory settings, for things as frivolous as $250 of airline miles.)

A specific example of this with regards to information search problems: not only are people incapable of telling whether a SERP is a good SERP or not, you can create objectively bad SERPS and then sell them as good by, e.g., mimicking either a) the design, b) the branding, or c) the design and branding of, e.g., a Google SERP. There exist studies of what happens when you e.g. dress up Yahoo results in Google CSS (people will prefer them over Google results in Yahoo CSS or, for that matter, Google results in Google CSS).

With specific relevance to the giving of money, I have access to anecdotes from the SEO world that occasionally curl my toes. A fairly common trick is a review site with the review stars awarded by "sort by affiliate commission, descending", which obviously bears no relationship to quality results. It doesn't just work, it works astoundingly well. And not only does it work astoundingly well, it works astoundingly well on people who one would presume are fairly savvy about quite-involved purchases where the dollar amounts involved will, frankly, swamp the total lifetime value of all paid-for HN searches. (e.g. Obscuring particulars a little bit, would you expect that anyone would make a decision for a seven-figure software deployment at a $FINANCIAL_INSTITUTION on the basis of a starred review site with a name spiritually similar to www.best-bank-software.biz? cough Demonstrable evidence of success.)
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Were not that far from mostly automated architectural design.
This is from an article(in 2005) about an automated system to design custom metal buildings[1]:

"The automated engineering done with the EDS, which is still being extended, is close to 98% complete for the simplest buildings and 50-60% complete for the most complex buildings. The tasks that are remaining are not automated, as they are either highly custom, or occur so seldom that the added knowledge capture for these few occurrences does not justify the automation cost."

There's also a similar tool for design of private construction[2].I think the software even understand civil codes.

[1]http://www.aecbytes.com/buildingthefuture/2005/RCCstudy.html
[2]http://www.aecbytes.com/feature/2005/Norway_prefab.html
Sounds like a great title for a new blog entry. Does Betteridge's Law apply all of the time?

Obviously this is true about factual reporting -- the real law seems to be making a judgment on the supportability of the facts, which is only important when you are doing factual reporting. If you are doing analysis, many times the entire purpose is to answer some tough question, so having a head with a question mark makes sense.

Also note that if you couldn't answer the question with a "no" then there wouldn't be much point in doing the analysis in the first place. Many times the nature of these stories are such that you could call it either way, and what the editor wants is for you to go research it and make the best guess you can. That's a fair type of analysis article Note the I believe analysis and commentary articles should be clearly-marked and set aside from normal reporting.

What I see a lot of -- in major media outlets -- is analysis pieces masquerading as news stories. From bloggers I see a lot of half-baked opinion pieces with question mark heads where the blogger basically just throws a couple of facts out and waves his hands around some, hoping to stir up a fight. It's true that question marks in headlines are a warning sign, but it's a heuristic, not a law.
It is but they've fixed it in MySQL and Ubuntu have pinned the HEAD mysql build to the broken one and have pretty much stopped supporting it. LTS my arse.
All I/O is evented I/O. It's just that with modern I/O requirements it's too expensive to use a whole thread to wait for the event.
Silicon Valley Bank Launches In London To Bridge The Tech Funding Gap
Any more details? Not had any problems on that side of things yet.
Indeed, the FFI in GHC is one of the best ones out there. It makes it convenient to call C from Haskell and vice versa(!). I wish every language had an FFI and RTS that good!
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Launch for the ones you love
One problem with this path of investing in robotic technologies, is that even if some jobs are created in the u.s., you help improve the technology so that many other jobs are becoming unnecessary.

It's hard to tell in advance if this will bring more jobs to low/medium skilled people , which are the ones mostly struggling, or destroy their jobs.
For that, Facebook will have to give in to a surveillance backdoor and respond to realtime censorship demands. I just can't see them going there.
Yep, I know, just chiming in with some relevant experience.
Germany is interesting as a control, because its overall tax rates are much higher than in the U.S.--- 41% of GDP for Germany, versus only 27% of GDP (at all levels of government) for the USA. But its corporate tax rate is lower, because it gets most of its tax revenue from personal income taxes and VAT.

If we wanted the American tax system to become like Germany's, the steps would look roughly like: 1. significantly lower corporate tax rates; 2. nearly double personal income tax rates; 3. institute a federal VAT.

But you don't end up with the German economic model if you do only #1...
Intel claims Android is not ready for multi-core processors
The various tacts and arguments taken by Scientology apologists in this discussion makes for interesting reading. But I suspect that Hacker News has more than it's fair share of Devil's Advocates and contrarians - and I'm sure Scientology's official social media 'shepherds' are focussing their attentions on much bigger news and social media sites than this.

I used to find it quite interesting to map the rigour, rhetoric and "set plays" demonstrated by a number of pro-china/anti-Dalai Lama redditors who I'm sure were tasked by the People's Liberation Army to do that for a living... Now THAT would make for an engaging AMA! They were actually quite effective at gently nudging the hive mind sometimes - I found the only way to cancel out their influence was via what amounted to incessant trolling and arguing semantics. This usually meant they were too caught up in my tomfoolery to properly engage in the more substantial conversation; it was an interesting experiment, but I don't really have the time or energy for all that these days.
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Facebook enters the age of accidental oversharing
In search of that freaking designer ...
I've just finished reading Boomerang by Michael Lewis and that huge concentration of assets in real estate sounds awfully like Ireland before the crash of 2008 - on a tiny scale compared to China, of course.

Do you think that is valid comparison? (NB In many ways I hope it isn't as a crash like Ireland's on the scale of China would presumably be disastrous).
Actually, last I heard Intel had outsourced the actual assembly of their chips to places like Malaysia with low labour costs because that's still not entirely automated. The only thing that they do in high-labour-cost countries is patterning and doping the wafers to create the silicon die inside the chips. That's both a lot easier to automate than sewing (no moving parts) and a lot more important to automate because, due to the small scale, they need to keep out contamination by dust which is a lot easier if few humans are involved.
> For argument's sake, let's assume there's no such thing as God -- then the entire basis for every religion is fraudulent

but it's not -knowingly- fraudulent, which is the major test for culpability.
You assume that waking productive human time (spent walking to/from the distribution center, or waiting for mass transit connections) is worth absolutely nothing.

It's the scarcest resource of all of this.
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I really don't know.

Sure these programming jobs open doors to them, even if they have to work sometimes 12 hours a day, with no vacations, no available compensations, no ability to have an union defending them, and earning a lot less than the companies that explore them should pay as a salary.

On the other hand lots of people are not able to get a job, because they just work 8h a day, have vacation rights, insurance, and an union that defends workers from corporation interests. Not to forget what is very important to business, they cost 5x the "price" of poor workers.

My dream is that the work conditions in poor countries improve to the point that exploring poor countries workers is no longer viable.

This is the point of view from someone that works in the off-shoring industry.
It's difficult to think of anything that could make 30% of users take some action. Most radical I can think of is not allowing access to your account before a vote has been cast.
The usual phrasing of the law is nice and snappy, but I think one of the examples in the Wikipedia article -- "Can the middle class be saved?" -- demonstrates that the right formulation is something like this: If a headline is in the form of a question, the right answer is almost certainly whatever answer is least surprising. If you see a headline along the lines of "Did we really evolve from apes?", "Does the earth still go round the sun?", "Can humanity survive?", etc., it probably means that some crackpottish idea has come up that would make the answer "no", and that the headline writer knows that actually endorsing it would be a step too far.
Introduction to OMeta/JS
Yep, if you're blocking remote hosts to authenticate on 3306 (or any other port you're running mysqld on) you're safe. The attacking host can't authenticate itself, so it's unable to exploit this bug.
And COBOL is also not far away!

Every time I look at this index (probably too often) I cannot fail to notice that the variance for all languages below the 3rd place is so enormous (VB.NET from 29 to 12 thanks to 0.78 percent of something) that this list is nothing more than a collection of footnotes to Java and C.

Maybe that's even realistic.
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/haskell-researche...
I find the idea of a professor pushing his own book quite appalling in education.
Every company, of course, protects its interests in the places where laws are made and adjudicated, so in hiring its corps of Washington insiders and dispensing cash from its political action committee, Facebook is just joining the mainstream. But Facebook’s way of friending the powerful is original. It ingratiates itself with members of Congress by sending helpers to maximize the constituent-pleasing, re-election-securing power of their Facebook pages. “If you want to have long-term influence, there’s nothing better than having politicians dependent on your product,” one envious Silicon Valley executive told me.

Amazing. This would be like Google sending out employees to politicians helping them get their political talking points ranking as #1 on certain critical Google searches.
I have one goal: to get everyone to know God, love God and obey God.

Forget about "obey". That will mess you up. It happens naturally when you love God.

God can speak for Himself. I'm not Catholic.

God says...

meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of
hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out
a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

3:11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not
destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her
fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

3:12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a
delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

3:13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye
say, What have we spoken so much against thee? 3:14 Ye have said, It
is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his
ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of
hosts? 3:15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work
wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

----

You scientists! God might let slip some details of history. It's kinda bad to use Him for details on dinosaurs and evolution -- it's almost as bad as being after His money. Maybe, He will give you a Christmas gift every year or so. He has told me a handful of awesome details. If you don't tell, He might tell you more. I don't know.

I asked if stegasaurus was "lame like turtles". He said "not pet rocks".

He said brontosaurus' feet hurt when he steps.

Getting monkey mothers to hold babies for nursiing was really difficult.

----

God says...

2:1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged
Solomon his son, saying, 2:2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou
strong therefore, and shew thyself a man; 2:3 And keep the charge of
the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his
commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written
in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest,
and whithersoever thou turnest thyself: 2:4 That the LORD may continue
his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take
heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and
with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the
throne of Israel.

2:5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me,
and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner
the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and
shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his
girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his
feet.

----

Once you know God, He likes to say dire stuff which makes your eyes wide open, then you realize it's something funny. I'm puzzling over girdles for dinosaurs and blood distribution. Fighter pilots have suits.
That's the conventional wisdom among commercial AI-research spinoffs: the fact that you can get such cheap human labor in a globalized labor pool has been a major impediment to commercializing pretty big segments of AI research. The funding agencies even seem to agree, and have been putting quite a bit of funding in recent years into crowdsourcing and "human computation" projects to take advantage of that labor pool, instead of trying to replace it with machines.
This is the first time I've seen SPICE used as suitable duct tape for a problem.

Interesting solution! Thanks for posting.
Interesting. Destroying mechanical looms is not a practical solution of course, but in theory yes: The benefit to so many poor people would be so great that it could be worth having an inefficient textile industry. There are probably less costly ways of helping the poor, but it would be better than the status quo.
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I remember there was a story where Intel said their mobile chips were better than what Apple used in the iPhone and Apple forced them to publicly retract the statement. I can't seem to Google it up right now.

ah got it: http://betanews.com/2008/10/24/intel-retracts-inappropriate-...

"The shortcomings of the iPhone have come from ARM," Kedia was quoted by ZDNet Australia as saying. "Any sort of application that requires any horsepower at all, and the iPhone struggles...If you want to run full Internet, you're going to have to run an Intel-based architecture."

then, shortly after:

"As general manager of the Group responsible for Intel's ultra-mobility products, [Chandrasekher] acknowledged that Intel's low-power Atom processor does not yet match the battery life characteristics of the ARM processor in a phone form factor; and, that while Intel does have plans on the books to get us to be competitive in the ultra low power domain, we are not there as yet. Secondly, Apple's iPhone offering is an extremely innovative product that enables new and exciting market opportunities. The statements made in Taiwan were inappropriate, and Intel representatives should not have been commenting on specific customer designs."
B&N: Ebooks Should Be Expensive So Amazon Doesn't Make Them Expensive Later
Interesting idea, but I'd execute it differently.

First off, it's fairly obvious that you could have a "hacker shelf", "new mom shelf", "mathematician's shelf", and so on.

Second off, I see little point in making your own database, when Amazon is.. well, pretty much the standard app and user interface for searching for books.

My suggestion is to do something which integrates with Amazon and lets people define their own "shelves" by choosing Amazon products. Everyone could define themselves as a mathematician, hacker, new mom, etc. It would be kinda like social networking gone Amazon.

P.S. Upvote for letting me know about a few really cool books, like the Haskell School of Music which I intend to read.
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Massive MYSQL Authentication Bypass Exploit
The ultrabooks offer 2 main benefits: better design and higher portability. So if you care about the design a lot or you have to carry it around with you all the time, then you might want an ultrabook. Future ultrabooks will also have much better IPS and higher resolution displays. So that's a big one, too.

I wouldn't really consider the "extra performance" from the SSD a benefit, because you also get significantly weaker CPU's and GPU's, so at best it's a wash. You also get less storage, unless you get a hybrid with at least 64 GB SSD for Windows and cache, and a HDD for regular storage.
yeah its called 'highlighting hypocrisy'
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The blog has crapped out does anyone have a direct link to the video?
I totally agree. Build your own app/platform based on good and well tested frameworks. Use the big companies's API's to add value and content to your app/platform. And if your idea is good, business model is good and you believe in what you do, you will succeed.
Here in Germany, the voting was announced in the TV news (I remember seeing it in the 'heute journal' and 'Tagesschau').
I've thought this for years.

Automation makes people redundant and you end up with people who consume but produce nothing. Those people are labelled as 'poor' as they are given minimal cash to survive on as they have no value to add to mainstream society.

If you increase automation and drop the retirement age in most countries to shorten the workforce and allow people to exist comfortably after retirement, I reckon you'd solve both ends of the problem i.e. less "poor" people and more people doing something constructive.

Smashing looms however doesn't do anything other than commit more people to slavery and poverty.
You're right, sorry, I got mixed up.
And another reason to be cynical, check out the labour cost on this consumer device made in China - iPhone. The savings made via further automation would be basically meaningless. I'm willing to bet that label brand clothes have far higher profit margins than i-devices too. www.asymco.com/2012/02/26/iphone-sine-qua-non/
> bought a camera with a 18-35mm lens ... thanks prime ... shipped me the bundle with a 15mm lens.

Well, duh. You should have selected Amazon Zoom instead of Amazon Prime.