skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfsck

I am wondering how it's ready for production use.
3-D Simulation Technology Creates a New Kind of Map
Or just mixing intervals of memory installation; so you install the next SSD at half the life-span of the previous one.
The last bit of news anyone has been able to find is related to a screening in June 2012:
https://www.facebook.com/events/407114895977032/
Ignore all the antisemitic and racist comments here, 90% of them belong to the same user, who also seems to supports the Syrian regime and claims it's not Asad bombing his own citizens but the CIA, and the other is probably from Norway if he uses the same user in twitter, linked-in etc, which will be surprising if he didn't say something completely ignorant of facts and nasty about Israel, all Jews there died in the Holocaust so there is no one left to defend the growing internal antisemitic propaganda promoted by the growing pro Palestinian immigrants.

Funny thing is that I really am for a Palestinian state and think that the settlements should stop, but I don't go and blabber all about it in HN in a low and disgraceful language.
To extend on your comment: It's not possible to predict individual drive failure with reasonable accuracy. It's disconcerting to see the parent comment suggesting this still sits at the top of the thread.

You can roughly predict the longest possible lifespan for a SSD under a given workload. Regardless, a significant percentage of drives will still die earlier than that.
kewl nag..+1
A very nice book available for free. It makes me very happy that I can learn new ways to do my work smarter.

Some of the best known advantages of Unix text processing tools is, as long as you can reduce your problem to 'Text'- There exist some very powerful, succinct and quick solutions to even some very difficult problems.

Well it takes some time to get a grip on how to work with Unix text processing utilities and tools like Perl. Once you are upto speed, you see how much work you can do so quickly with so much little effort. In fact the more you get into it, you realize how much useless code you have writing over the years. While all you needed was a command with a few options.
Google Reportedly Skirts $2 Billion In Taxes With Offshore Haven
Nah, you can consider puberty to be a less extreme form of metamorphasis. Hundreds of genes are switched on and off to accomplish rather drastic sexual and physical changes.

Switching genes is cheap and easy. You have dozens of genes that switch on/off acting as pacemakers and timers. You have other genes that switch on when there is a boost of insulin, and then turn back off once the insulin is gone. There are genes that are only turned on when stressed, hypoxic, over-temperature, under-temperature, over-fed, underfed, growing, not growing, genes that turn on when neurons are excited or inhibited. The list is endless.

If you think of your body as one giant state machine, it makes sense that you need thousands of flags to control the exact state that it is in.

It's actually much more complicated, since genes really aren't binary. Each gene is also a scalar, producing varying quantities of protein, or causing various kinks in the DNA which affects nearby genes (called "enhancers"). So really, you have a bunch of binary states which are then modulated by the amount of protein that is being created.

Then you have different parts of a gene that can be individually turned on/off, producing different isoforms of a single protein. Each isoform has different capabilities, especially when paired with regulatory proteins that modulate it's behavior (which also have their own regulation at the genetic and proteomic level). And each of these proteins in turn effects an numerable array of other proteins and genes, cascading throughout the entire system.

The body is a remarkably vast state machine.

Edit: This is totally ignoring all the microRNA and shRNA which modulates the state between DNA translation and transcription. Basically, add a few more million states to the state machine.
Led lighting
Led lights are now there for every style and every room type. You have made, it into kitchen, living and dining room. At desk lamps provide the perfect lighting for small LEDs to work
Having an enterprise market of license slaves does not matter. If we took away the enterprise licenses these numbers would be very different. Once again MS confuses pervasiveness for giveashitiveness. Perhaps they dont realize that we are running to other platforms BECAUSE Windows is so pervasive and essentially soul destroying. Telling me how "big" they are is like reminding me that restaurants have toilets, I know where to go to shit already.
There's a happy median.

Don't throw darts at employees who don't engage in dart throwing. Don't be excessively loud. Don't drum on other people's desks.

On the flipside: don't get angry when people aren't enforcing library rules around you. Use headphones as a signal that you don't wish to be disturbed (and to block out noise, obviously.)

Et cetera.
You're right - I apologize. I am just getting a little tired of hearing the D word 10 times a day in relation to anything that is not strictly normal.
Bryan, the font on your app site seems broken for me on Chrome/Windows 7. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/jkUkD.png
I really hope Twitter can capture the popular appeal with this.

Because at the moment, the person on the street only knows Facebook and Instagram as their social networking.

Which isn't very social, when you think about it.
That's because he makes all of his music money from touring. Almost all music acts can't do that because they don't have the exposure - pirating or not.
Sorry, I don't enough about what happens during the metamorphosis. I hope that someone can answer that. (Another question: If the caterpillar lost a leg, the butterfly has a missing leg?)

Changing the form is very popular between insects. (Almost?) All of them do it. For example:

* Grasshoppers: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snodgrass_Melanoplus_...

* The young grasshoppers look like small wingless grasshoppers, so it is not a surprising transformation (if you ignore the wings and some internal details)

* Ants: http://askabiologist.asu.edu/individual-life-cycle

* Bees: http://www.magicpest.com/the-life-cycle-of-an-arizona-bee/

* The young ants / bees look like eggs, because they live safely inside the hive, and get the food from their sisters. So we don't have a special name for them.

* Mosquitoes: http://www.mosquito-misting.com/life%20cycle.htm

* Flies: http://www.flycontrol.novartis.com/species/housefly/en/life_...

* The young mosquitoes / flies are very different from the adult forms, they have a very different lifestyle and food. But they are nasty so it's better to just ignore them.

* Butterflies: http://questgarden.com/120/22/8/110228062006/process.htm

* Young butterflies live in the wild without protection like the ants/bees equivalent. So they are easy to spot and they are more difficult to relate to the adult forms. They are colorful to hide or as a bad taste signal, so they are nice and many of them have a special name that is unrelated to the name of the adult form. Butterflies in general are colorful and nice too, so we know a lot of names of the species of caterpillars and butterflies.

(You can find more examples in Google, searching for: life cycle <insect> )

So the changes are very common insects, but the case of the caterpillars / butterflies is more surprising because both forms are popular.

(Changes are also common in other kinds of animals / plants /fungus / etc., but this is getting too long, so lets analyze only.)
Was the first thing to come to my mind as well. Used it every day in the mid to late 80s.
I see, so you really think that the LPs are the true entrepreneurs -- Harvard, Stanford, various state pensions/treasury departments and the like -- the ones who invest money in VC funds.

Risking your life, status, health, happiness, and wealth in order to realize a huge, positive change in the world -- that's what it's about in my book.
ArXiv paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847

This work attempts to draw out the presence of a simulation by looking for tiny violations of known/expected symmetries, which is always worth doing. We should note, however, that an excellent simulation could exactly cover its tracks, lest the underlying architecture cause unintended artifacts.

From a CS perspective, the simulation's developer might create unit tests that guarantee the preservation of symmetries.

A theorist who develops an experimental test that could prove we do not live in a simulation should be lauded. There are experimentalists (like me) just waiting for such guidance. John Bell's theorem [1] was/is a shining guidestar for physics.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_theorem
The scientific paper deals with "the hypothesis that the observed universe is a numerical simulation performed on a cubic space-time lattice or grid".

Just because the universe may operate with computer-like regularity and grid-like data structures does not mean "the universe is a computer simulation." At best it means the fundamental laws of physics are "computer-like".

Whether "resembles a computer simulation" equals "is a computer simulation" is a metaphysical/philosophical question.

Finding uncanny resemblance between our own reasoning concepts and the universe is not new - and this uncanny mirroring between abstract mathematical concepts and the laws of physics has been known for quite some time. It's a mystery, not an answer. See: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" by Eugene Wigner:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html
I hope this gets released. I worked for Eugene Jarvis (indirectly) and certainly knew and appreciated a lot of the others in these snippets.

These were titans that saw an entire industry as it could be as opposed to the "entrepreneurs" we see now that stand on the shoulders of giants and still manage to only reach their navels.
Data breaches and US law regarding the spoils
An office with "jail rules"
Not sure what plastic discs have to do with anything when you can leagally buy tons of content from Hulu, Lovefilm, Amazon, iTunes, Netflix and tons of other places digitally with ease.
I think it seems like a rude question? I have coworkers that keep asking me trivial development questions and I don't really know how to say, "I'm going to need your first reaction to a problem to be Googling it".
Moderate quiet combined with just one conversation that you can overhear is far more annoying than just general ambient noise like a street.
What? then have no VLC for metro because they gave the kitty away and had no work done at all? Defeats the purpose don't you think?
Absolutely agree.

if (a == null) return false;
stuff();

is considerably better than

if (a != null) {
stuff();
}

Especially once you start dealing with a ton of these cases.
Thanks for the screenshot, we'll check it out.
Thank you for answering my question.

I wish I knew that before going into all of this. How would they even know how much money you are making? Hopefully not by the number of people using the app.

The 30% cut would make sense if they were hosting my servers but 30% for just being a name is insane.
What you have stated is an article of faith from the structured programming movement back in the 1970s. There should be one and only one exit from a function or loop. However this is an article of faith that does not tend to be backed up with any concrete evidence that it is right - just unsupported assertions.

By contrast http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts//papers/SIGCSE-... from 1995 does a very good job of arguing the opposite side of that. Not simply as an article of faith - but with actual data showing that internal loop and function exits make correct programming easier and more efficient. There are common problems that are significantly easier both for novices and experts to get right if you allow internal loop exits, and potentially multiple returns. (In particular the "loop and a half" problem.)

That doesn't mean that you should go crazy with the construct. You should be particularly careful with long functions (long functions are their own code smell). However judicious use of it is most certainly justifiable.
Save respect or thanks to your friends.
Bryan, out of curiosity, apart from the IOS app, which web platform has order fulfillment system been developed on?
quick question

There need to be library rules about this office behavior, too. The road to hell is paved with "quick questions".
Why was it inadequate? Perhaps it is not well supported anymore but I haven't heard it called inadequate before.
Except the numbers Microsoft have been throwing about say Windows 8 is outselling Windows 7. The key is if it continues to sell well, chances are it will thanks to OEM deals.

Anecdotally a large percentage of people I know have upgraded, I'm well of aware of this due to discussions about (both negatie and positive) but using it. Mostly negative TBH LOL.
Yes you're right, I missed that bit. Quite interesting that "butchers, farmers, and food industry executives" would be tackling the "problem" of getting people to eat less meat! Perhaps they are vegetarian butchers.
A lot of insects have a fully intact, if immature, nervous system during their adolescence. For example, fruit flies (drosophilla) have brain features called "mushroom bodies". These grow during larval development then hit a state of hibernation until the larva changes into an adult fly, at which point growth continues and the mushroom body fully develops.

I'm not familiar with a lot of other insects, but I believe it is fairly common for the bulk of structures to form, hibernate, and then finish growing during metamorphosis.
WebRTC hits Firefox, Android and iOS
I wish D was more popular. Only reason I'm not using is because it isn't a popular language. Same reason I'm not using Go :/.
I see resources about Unix text processing utilities, about Bash, about readline shortcuts, etc. etc. submitted very often to HN.

Exactly how useful are they? Would you say they're among the most important skills a programmer could have? Or do we just have a disproportionately large amount of sysadmins for HN readers? Isn't some general-purpose language like Python or Ruby almost always much better, much faster than these solutions? Isn't it worth it to rather invest your time learning Python well -- instead of getting familiar to the segregated and messy environment of modern Unix-land? Certainly, the learning curve is much steep for Unix utilities than, say, Python.
If the universe is a simulation, what's to stop the simulation from recognizing that it's being tested and dedicating more resources to making the test result indicate that there is no simulation going on.
Hey Joe,

We're attempting to solve all the problems you just mentioned - we've definitely still got a lot to learn.

I would love the opp to talk further and understand your business / pain point - see if we can help or point you in the right direction.

emails in profile
Just a couple quick responses, at least as far as Server Check.in is concerned:

a, b, c are currently not on my radar (since I don't want to spread myself thin :).

d - I have the site name, but not the status, at this time. That's a good point (of course, SMS messages being limited to 160 characters makes this a bit tougher than it should be for SMS).

e - Server Check.in uses one predictable number (no email-to-sms from a random number) - see https://servercheck.in/sms

f - For now, we're just measuring from the east coast, USA, but I'm planning on averaging results from a node there, a node in Dallas, TX, a node in Seattle, WA, and a node somewhere in the EU within the next year or so.

g - Since I'm using Drupal for the site's front-end, this is incredibly easy—Drupal tries to autodetect your TZ on signup, and you can change it in your account settings. All times should be displayed in your TZ. (If they aren't, let me know and I'll fix it!)
What stuck out to me was how you pursued this on your own time ... does Twitter not give its engineers time on the clock to pursue things like this? How do you feel about that?
I don't know to what degree the UT bots qualify as AI players... their strategies are coded into the level, not the bots. (disclaimer: I read guides to making UT levels, but never actually made one. Details may be misremembered. However, the fact that two levels with identical topography might be treated entirely differently by the same bots (owing to different bot-path placement in each) doesn't leave me filled with awe at the bots' decision-making.)
That sounds a lot like a measurement having an effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function_collapse
I suppose you could look at it as a parasitic relationship. But it's actually much simpler than that. (Hydra are super cool, so allow me to geek out for a sec)

Basically, every cell in the hydra knows how to become a new hydra. What prevents a single hydra organism from trying to become a thousand hydras is a dual chemical gradient. The head emits one chemical, the tail emits another. Cells respond to this gradient depending on how concentrated it is in one particular direction

At the "head" end, the "head" chemical is very strong. Those cells respond by being the "head". At the other end, the "head" chemical is very weak (and the "tail" very strong). Those cells respond by becoming the appendages.

If you chop a hydra in half, the gradient becomes altered. On one half of the hydra, there is only "head" chemical diffusing. The other half only has "tail" chemical. These changes in chemical gradients signal the cells to start producing the parts of the body that were just lost. Eventually, you end up with two identical, smaller hydra.

Theoretically, you could keep chopping hydra in half and keep getting identical, smaller hydra. Obviously you hit a point where you are just going to kill the poor thing, but in theory it doesn't matter...the hydra will always be capable of regenerating.

Cool, right!
> What you have stated is an article of faith from the structured programming movement back in the 1970s. There should be one and only one exit from a function or loop. However this is an article of faith that does not tend to be backed up with any concrete evidence that it is right - just unsupported assertions.

This is a little overboard, considering that I did offer support for my assertions: My own personal experience, and sound explanation. I have had to maintain code heavy with returns, and not of the sane, early-exit kind mentioned by peterhunt - deeply nested returns based on obscure logic. I didn't even know before now that there was any such "movement" around this particular opinion, however long ago, I just know that it makes sense for me and will always appear in my style guidelines.

And yes, it would be much better to finely modularize your code in the first place so that low level flow-control guidelines like this become trivial, but that's not always practical on a large team with programmers of varying skill.
That video claims to have been uploaded in 2009, but it was made on 18 July 2001. Four years later, a funny thing happened to the PPC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apples_transition_to_Intel_proc...
Ha, this was all I could think about while reading.
Isaac Asimov's 'The Last Question' answers that.
Thanks for posting this Fat, much appreciated.
Apple blocking SkyDrive from iOS store, wants cut of revenue
STIX & Stones: New Draft Standard for Intel Sharing
I agree, you can have openness without a lot of talking, and you can have a lot of talking without openness. The two might be correlated, but not as strongly as one might thing. Information sharing and openness are what you want to promote, and it's the culture, not the seating plan, that either promotes or stifles it.
You Are Naturally Short Housing
Jimmy Wales: $50 Android smartphones are disrupting Africa
dammit Dewitt - stop stealing all the good ones with your fancy Google.com address...
'Likes' & '+1s' are making our Internet worse
It seems like IE is going to remain behind with yet another major web technology.
I can confirm. Win8/x86/Chrome.
Golly, that brings back memories [played Spacewar fairly often back in the '70s, albeit on PDP-15 clones].
plus verizon's comes with unlocked GSM
I thought it was shitty for databases. Is that still true? I forget what version I heard that for, but it was at least a year ago.
Instead of feeding your compiler and other tools ASCII documents, get out of the 1970's and feed it rich documents with graphics and links like html. I guess mathmatica beat me to it.

http://www.sparrowos.com

Mine supports links, graphics, superscripts and subscripts and full 255 symbol alphabet.

Make flow charts in your code if you like.

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fucken in jail.

God is just. Are you screwed? Do the math. Egypt killed Israel babies and got their babies killed at passover.

God says...
in_practice I'll_let_you_know don't_even_think_about_it
vengeful I'm_grieved quit_it surprise_surprise debt humongous
lying what_a_nightmare

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Niggers can't percieve God.

1 Corinthians 2

New International Version (NIV)

2 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.

God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit

6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”[b]—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—

10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[c] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”[d]

But we have the mind of Christ.

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God says...
govemed over fixed nilled resembling all-renewing shower
sung taken foolishness
Yes, that, and also another factor (although still a relatively small slice of the market) is the people who buy machines with OEM bundled Windows and then just install some form of Linux on it to use instead. Those people aren't going to be consuming any Windows "apps" either, but they would be counted in Microsoft's total.

Basically, it's an empty boast intended to obscure the fact that Windows is losing market share incredibly fast.
Me layman's hunch is that we would only be able to test this if either (a) the simulation is flawed, or (b) the simulation designer chooses to give us hints (perhaps more subtle than 'miracles' or revelatory visions).