skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not familiar with this. Did IBM fork Java when Oracle bought Sun? If so why isn't Oracle going after IBM for "losing them billions of dollars", like when they went after Google?
Hard realtime and control over memory allocation. Also, Erlang is not necessarily great when it comes to static analysis.
I'm weary of these statistics as one can manipulate data to suit one's purpose. Source please?
> There is quite a lot of bad science in the medical field generally. If we were legally allowed to build our own medical devices and mix our own drugs and practice medicine ourselves, I suspect a lot of us would be inclined to do that.

Well, and if you're not allowed to, some people just do it anyway.

http://groups.google.com/group/diybio

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/diybio/faq
The World Spends 0.2% Of Its Time On Facebook
Meh. The Swiss Patent office did more.

Right, yes, excitement is zero sum.

The question shouldn't just be "Was NASA worth it", but "what kind of new problems should mankind be working on".

I agree with the sentiment, but "is/was NASA worth it" is the question in practice. It's a question with a simple answer: yes. But it helps to be able to explain why, especially with examples. Hence this website.
VxWorks has no processes[1]. It has tasks. Basically, you write kernel code, there's no user mode.

[1] As someone mentioned, VxVorks 6 did introduce processes and "usermode", called RTP. As with most features of VxWorks, you compile that into your image if you want the feature. But there's a lot of inertia, and much of the VxWorks stuff I see doesn't use RTP yet.
Schemas vs. Schemaless structures and The PostgreSQL Type Farm
> And a calorie is a calorie with a big if: if your macro nutrients are in range

The statement, 'a calorie is a calorie' is used to make the point that macro ratios don't matter for weight loss/maintenance. ... so then the argument is won, and we can all agree that a calorie is not a calorie.
That's classic ad hominem logic.
Does anyone have any knowledge of why Ada isn't used over C? Specifically, it seems like Ada gives you a lot better tools when it comes to numerical overflows/underflows.

Also, what compiler does NASA use? Something like CompCert? What kind of compiler flags? Do they run it through an optimizer at all?
> A) Why did you think he is American? You can find cusswords distasteful and be from another country.

A squeamishness around swear words ('cussword' is not a word I've ever heard a non-american use) is I'm afriad one of the perceived traits of America by other english-speaking nations, so from a purely Bayesian point of view it's an assumption he could make with some confidence. Just like we (Englishman here) don't understand why one arab would get unspeakably offended by another arab hitting him with a shoe unless someone told us that it was the highest insult, culturally (it is not apparent that this is the most insulting thing you can do in and of itself, it's a conditioned, learned response). There is a quote, attributed to lots of people, but seemingly either George Bernard Shaw or Oscar Wilde, that Britain and America are 'two nations divided by a common language'. There is real incomprehension and bafflement in the UK, for example, that a swear word or nipple on US tv seems to cause comparable levels of outrage to a shooting spree.

So, I wouldn't jump down the GP's throat too much, even if his assertion was put forward rather abrasively.
This is also a perfect parallel to CEOs who have to justify to their shareholders why they spend so much money on R&D.
But a compiler in the sense of translating a higher level language down into C? Or from something isomorphic to C, essentially plugging in values into a boilerplate template? The latter is far more likely
Is the name a recursive apology for its own terrible pun?
Thank you for coming here and clarifying.

I hope this only encourages you to take more photographs, and one day soon you'll have a new species named after you!
Please remember to upload old binaries to the web for others to use.
I really like the interface, it's very clever, only problem I'm having is you have the 5 second gif limit but that isn't explained anywhere and there's no indication of how long 5 seconds is on the timeline.

I would suggest having the pink bar (that indicates the current length) grey out after 5 seconds of time, so if the selected portion is 10 seconds long have 50% of it grey.

I've used another site for this before (called Gifsoup: http://gifsoup.com/) and they charge about $5/m for the option to make longer gifs with no watermark, I think this would be something you could offer. I would definitely convert as I prefer your interface.

edit: The gif quality is pretty terrible, can that be improved?

edit edit: If you click "post to forgif.me" and then have to login and then login it loses the URL, you have to go back to find it again and click the button again.
I’m not the author, so let me quote:

> It turns out that many of the traits of Erlang systems overlap with that of the Rovers. But I don't think this is a coincidence. The software has certain different properties — the rovers are hard realtime whereas the erlang systems are soft realtime.

> The things that do not overlap has to do with the need of having soft realtime vs hard realtime. In Erlang we can yield service. It is bad, but we can do it. On a rover it can be disastrous. Especially in the flight control software. Fire a rocket too late and you are in trouble.
How long should it take to split a video, I think it's been 5 minutes already, and it's still chugging away.
Easily manage your PPA in Ubuntu with Y PPA Manager
See my post below - to reuse code cross platform. There's a diverse set of compiler toolchains, operating systems, architectures. Only ANSI C is supported by all of them. The compilers are specific to the target OS and hardware, and flags are unsurprisingly the strictest possible for C89.
No, the IBM JVM has been around for ages.
I just don't think "simple" is quite the right word for Worse is Better.

"... It's called Accessibility, and it's the most important thing in the computing world.

The. Most. Important. Thing.

..."

https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesv...
The essence of uT is its ability to download. In that I'm perfectly fine with uT supporting in-order downloading, but any content-specific functionality is a feature bloat. It's a slippery slope that it is just all too easy to follow.
Why does this article about begin concise, because no one gives a shit, start with two paragraphs of biography... which I really couldn't give a shit about.

He had a good point, but I almost gave up before getting there.
Thanks Mike. We are starting at the source and will not leave it until there is a genuine shift in how eligibility for healthcare is handled.
How do DNS-based proxy services work (e.g. to watch the BBC olympic feed)?
I have a British wife who was being driven crazy by the US Olympic coverage. Following the suggestions on

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4306600

I used the free trial of www.unotelly.com. It worked like a charm. I pointed my DNS to one of their servers, and I could see the BBC live Olympics streams. I get that they make my computer appear to be in the UK, but how do they do that? It seems like a big improvement over the older VPN services. What's going on under the hood? Any security concerns from a service like this?
Yeah the server it's running on is pretty damn slow. We will move to another server in the next days. Unfortunately we don't show the progress of the video splitting right now. Try again if it takes to long. Sorry for that!
Hi HN, my name is Jacob, I'm the guy that made wtfnasa. Here's my tl;dr reaction to the virality that this project has seen:

wtfnasa was not made to go viral, it was made to be a simple intro to CodeIgniter & a reaction to people upset with NASA, I put ~zero thought into having 'fuck' in the title, it was built in about 10 hours (design, build, data entry, & launch) last Wednesday & Thursday, it had 9 unique visitors as of Friday at noon & right now it has just under 40k.
I'm considering removing the 'f word' based on the loads of kickback I've gotten from it, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks!
Do you know of any research on this? It seems intuitive, but it'd be interesting to look at the numbers, simulated or not.
Very cool! Though the title isn't quite right - there definitely are images in the source, so it's not actually 'only HTML/CSS'
Dingdingding. It's more that military contractors have jobs in literally every district in the country, which makes anything done against them 'hurting jobs', etc. There's a lot of money funneled in that direction, but it isn't because of cronyism or anything- just pure hard corporate strategy choices.
I think IBM has licensed Java for years and built their version in compliance with that license.
In that case it would be a great pun, wouldn't it?
Weakened the piece? The microscope-story was just fluff to prime the reader to be open to the idea that science can benefit humanity. It was loosely based on real events, and the quotes from the count assuredly are made up.

Still, a good story though. Had he ended there, the letter would lack any real substance to argue his point.
The important things are not what he discusses but what he doesn't discuss. For instance, why the space program is supported instead of other initiatives in science and technology or the connection between the space program with defense and propaganda. On the other side of the coin, he doesn't address the use of foreign aid as a tool of international relations and how it destroys local markets for food production. How corruption and lack of infrastructure often thwart well-meaning programs.

He was a smart guy who could spin a good yarn and seemed to care. I sincerely doubt that he did and don't value his opinion.
Thanks for your suggestion, I really appreciate it! The idea of greying the indicator out is nice, I'll implement it tomorrow.

Yes, we were already thinking about providing such a premium service, we'll see what we can do. Right now it's just an experiment, let's hope it'll get bigger :)

Edit: We slice the video into frames by using ffmpeg. Unfortunately, the gif encoder of ffmpeg uses a pretty bad color palette, I already dived into the encoder code but didn't manage to improve it. I'll work on it though.

Edit edit: Yup, known issue, gotta fix that today!
Good point! Changing it now :)
A computer can't (in the general case).

They do this all the time. There are quite a few pre and post-trade checks enforced by the exchanges. The net result is that if things go wildly wrong, trading will most likely stop.

This is part of the reason why Knight Capital's implosion had such a minimal effect on anything besides Knight's shareholders.
read the sequel; then, you should be looking forward to it...
Mascons - gravitational anomalies
Ah, yet another thoughtless comment based purely on reading the first few lines.
It's a fairly recent addition to git (January 2012). You need at least version 1.7.9 to use credential caching. [1]

[1]: http://git-blame.blogspot.com/2012/01/git-179.html
Health generally improves with the underlying economy, not because of charity. The underlying economy is going to correlate with damn near other statistic one way or another.

More credibly, the "War on Poverty" was an abject failure in every way.
Works pretty good: http://forgif.me/gm
He takes it too far, though. A word so broad as to cover "almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science" isn't going to be very useful. Maybe that's why, to the extent the word survived the novel, its meaning narrowed.
If you don't read the article, at least read the tl;dr:

"TL;DR - Some of the traits of the Curiosity Rovers software closely resembles the architecture of Erlang. Are these traits basic for writing robust software?"
Bouncing Python's Generators With a Trampoline
This letter is timeless, and provides such brilliant perspective. It's a fantastic answer to questions I've also been thinking about.

As an aside, I wonder if something so convincing could be written about military spending.
You're not 99% of readers, sorry to say. and you're a different usecase anyway...you go to sources you already have a habit of believing has content worth reading, no matter the presentation. But 99% of aspiring writers are not in these situations...that is, belonging to a brand that has loyal repeat readers. for them, it's best for them to lose any preconceptions of entitlement that they deserve to be read.
gee_totes,

Delivery in what you describe as "the first world" can only happen when FAA and Air Space regulations change. Currently this is not the case and the Obama administration has proposed to open up the air space for commercial applications in 2014.

The regulations are only the first, there is also ITAR which prevents you from selling drones in the first place.

I agree that there will be much better application in cities. It is all part of building a roadless world and this is what we are doing at ARIA.

As for "imaginary farmers", I am glad you see different applications of the network. Since ARIA is focused on building infrastructure and NOT final applications, I think you should pursue such application.

We believe we are at the dawn of a roadless economy. An open backbone that can handle traffic control and prevent high-speed collisions of tiny UAVs is needed.

You can learn more at www.Aria-Logistics.com

Thanks,

Arturo
Good point. It could very well be as much or more matter of aerial perspective rather than atmospheric haze.
Argh. I like my SSH credentials, my GitHub password is not quite so secure.
monkeytests,

The 3D statues are perfect analogs for possible delivery services. Many companies in the healthcare sector have begun looking at 3D printing for building pills and prevent counterfeit medicine which is also a huge issue worldwide.
FastCGI is supported by gitweb, you need to install the dependencies and use a command line flag + env variable (that I think it's required by the module that implements the FastCGI bits). That's not a wrapper.

Read the INSTALL file: http://repo.or.cz/w/alt-git.git?a=blob_plain;f=gitweb/INSTAL... (Requirements, "optional Perl modules")

EDIT: ate a word.
"Under the simple pay-what-you-wish variation, 8.39% of people purchased a photo (almost 17 times more than before), but customers paid only $.92 on average.

The final option — pay what you wish, with half the purchase price going to charity — generated big results: purchase rates of 4.49% and an average purchase price of $5.33"

There is a significant peculiarity here that the author ignores. Yes, pay-what-you-wish generated more money when the purchaser was told that half of the money would go to charity, but the percentage of people purchasing was cut NEARLY IN HALF when they were told that half of the money would go to charity. Doesn't that seem odd? If I tell you you can purchase a photo for whatever price you want, and you are willing to pay $X, and I then tell you that half of the money will go to charity, would you then decide that you are no longer willing to purchase at any price at all?
Visited this on my Nexus 7 and got a message saying it doesn't work because mobile devices don't support the audio tag well. But they do support the Web Audio API! So why not use that?
Your reply couldn't have been a better demonstration of the author's point. When I noticed the length of your reply, and its tone, I stopped reading it. I have limited time, and I could tell that you weren't considering the audience's limited time (although normally I give major leeway towards comments, which are written on the spur of the moment). There are so many other good things on the Internet that I could read, and there are so many things that I want to write. I just don't have time to put up with reading other people's shit.
Can you source your information on the abject failure of the "War on Poverty"in every way? I'm sure you were speaking in hyperbole so I'm not expecting that literally this be shown to be a failure in every way.

The term "War on Poverty" in the U.S. specifically refers to initiatives started by the Johnson administration. Do you refer this or some other war on poverty?
Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution by John Gribbin: review
>As a software engineer I've gone a whole week without sleep. And that was perfectly acceptable. My dad used to tell me, to consider myself lucky to even deserve the opportunity to go and work at a software company. Hence anything was acceptable.

Are you speaking metaphorically? or can you really perform under such conditions? I mean, I'm a SysAdmin, so a lot of my value is in my willingness to get up and fix something when my pager goes off at 4am; but I am very conscious of my declining productivity as I deprive myself of sleep. In fact I try to go to sleep before I'm absolutely exhausted for just this reason. The longest outages are always those that come right when I'm about to go to sleep.

It's not a matter of comfort or will; it's a matter of performance. Yes, I can make myself stay awake for several days, but I will make more mistakes. Way more mistakes. At some point, even in the middle of an outage, it makes sense to set an alarm for a few hours from now and take a nap, otherwise you just keep digging deeper. Staying up, sure, impresses the boss, but it doesn't get the job done any faster.
You were doing pretty well there, then dove back into the ad hominem. Who he is as a person is entirely irrelevant, if you want to criticise the letter then criticise the letter, not the man.
A Graphical Documentation System for C/C++ projects
What browser and OS are you using?
I agree, the biggest philosophical problem with TDD in my mind is that it neglects design -- a little foresight can make all the difference, as in that sudoku case study that went off the rails. But if you are building to a vetted, stable spec as in the case of Java, design isn't nearly as important as compliance so TDD can shine.
Which child will grow up to revolutionize their nation's politics?
:s/AJAX/HTML5

I think PYJS dates back to the days when AJAX was a term that was misused in a similar way that HTML5 is now.
I personally prefer strace's options:

-f -- follow forks, -ff -- with output into separate files
-o file -- send trace output to FILE instead of stderr
There's only one image for the band's texture. The rest is CSS.
Do you think someone would want to read that? :-)
Only one (wristband texture) and removing it still produces a pretty good result: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/LmEkn
I would have liked to provide the source, but it was a New Yorker article that I read in the print edition.

Here's an "abstract" of the article, which hints at my synopsis:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/10/24/051024fa_fact_sp...
Performance of Memory vs Disk
Though, with the coding standards forbidding any recursion (direct or indirect) and requiring statically bounded loops, you're not going to have an infinite loop anyway (or, incidentally, write a UTM).
I never really got the "Worse is Better" essay. It obviously doesn't mean what everyone says it means and what it does mean isn't clear. This post points some of that out. For example, Worse in the essay was associated with simplicity. But the classic examples of Worse triumphing in the marketplace (the OP cites x86 as an example) are anything but simple: they are hypercomplex. Not only that, their complexity is largely what makes them Worse. Simplicity is rather obviously Better, not Worse. Smalltalk (which the OP cites as Better) is far simpler than its more successful peers. The more you look at the original essay, the more its conceptual oppositions seem muddled and at odds with history.
I've concluded that it boils down to exactly one thing: its title. "Worse is Better" is a catchy label that touches on something important about technology and markets and means different things to different people.
The article claims that "this will be a test of a new style of leadership," as if we have no examples of how a large company will run under a Computer Scientist.

To the extent you trust a single example, Schmidt/Google will tell you that a computer scientist CEO will fare running a large company.

The timing of his hiring seems only marginally relevant to the article's claim.
I think you mean wary? Here you can see that as infant mortality increases, population growth is nearly steady or even increases slightly. http://www.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly... (Note the log scale on the vertical axis.) You can "scrub" backward and forward in time with the slider at the bottom.
Actually, it's better to use '.patch' as we format that output specifically for 'am'. The '.diff' extension is for GNU patch or 'git apply'.

GitHub pull requests are made to be compatible with 'git am' on the command line and is documented in the GitHub "Using Pull Requests" help article under the heading "Patch and Apply":

https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/
Crowdfunding Gets Tricky for Amazon
Any _robust_ C program contains an ad-hoc,
informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow
implementation of half of Erlang...

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming
India is a subcontinent with several languages, ethnicities and social realities. To say any one TV Program in a particular language is favorite in India is not right. Each language has its own viewership and its own programs. National media is almost absent in India.
Great comment, and I agree with you on all counts. I believe western medicine should put more emphasis on preventive care and GPs, as most people's first and sometimes only point of contact for health-related matters, should be much more informed and proactive about their patients' fitness and nutrition.

Regarding diet being a rapidly moving target, that is exactly my point. It seems to me, as an uninformed layman, incredible how much we've learned about diseases like cancer and yet how relatively little we seem to know about diet, fitness, and the behavioural research related to them. Not because these topics are in any way more simple than understanding a specific disease, but because they affect everybody.
A New Era in Transportation Systems
I'm not clear on the reason, but desktop GPUs from nvidia and AMD that have similar graphics performance, have very different bitcoin mining performance. The nvidia cards get about half the hash rate of a similar AMD GPU.
Same topic, more comprehensive article from a 2009 issue of EDGE magazine.

http://www.edge-online.com/features/making-playstation
I wish they kept dumping more and more money into NASA instead of just directly into the military.
For them, the hardware order isn't small, no. However, they're pricing it so low that they're almost certainly making very little money per-unit, so they're hoping to make money on their app store.

To make money on their app store, they need games.

Not many developers are going to write games for a platform with around 1/16th of the user base of your average front-line Android phone. (Please don't say "it's an easy port"; it's not and the Ouya people's claim that it is is fucking dishonest.)

A few companies have committed to bringing their products to the Ouya. I am interested in seeing how many of them follow through. Of those who follow through, I am interested in how many just push shovelware because doing a real port to a platform with 60,000 guaranteed users, many of which are probably going to be hacking the shit out of the thing (and making software security a non-starter), is not economically viable for most people.
No, I agree, it seems like a matter of what is easy, rather than what is simple.
Ok, so the story with microscope was a good one. I was initially shortsighted. But coming back to the recent Mars mission, anyone has any ideas, more or less accurate/detailed, of how this particular mission will/could benefit our civilization? This is a serious question.