skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure about this? Cocktails are already heavily diluted; isn't the booziness of the bourbon a rounding error?

Here's a great Dave Arnold article:

http://www.cookingissues.com/2009/10/29/cocktail-science-v-i...
Google insults me
Has Google got a grudge against me or something?
Yup, the incentive is there to state your problem as clearly as possible to get back a good response. By doing this I answer my own question half of the time.
I've never programmed one, but curious which tasks it made harder?
Video engineers wanted. Great team, leading product, passionate customers
It seems pretty clear that Microsoft's problem isn't with their ability to innovate.

It's in their complete inability to get to market quickly, take risks and work together. And that is directly related to their HR policies in particular their ranking system.
nope, not everyone. From time to time I just open links, ignoring the cnversation here on HN.

By using target="_blank" the site owner removes an option for me (see a few comments down, someone said the same thing).
piss off a lot of advertisers though.
Sadly, even that isn't enough.

In our production database, I used CHECK constraints religiously. Worked great.

Then one day, I was no longer able to commit ANY transactions to a particular table, even completely innocuous ones.

The problem? The database itself had violated its own CHECK constraint on a previous commit, but was enforcing it on all subsequent commits, causing them to fail. Brilliant.

Moral: not even CHECK constraints will save you.

----

P.s. This was a proprietary database, and when I reported the problem to the vendor (eventually, I figured out how to reproduce it), the vendor actually refunded our (expensive) support contract rather than fix the bug -- they couldn't figure out how to fix it despite having a small bug report that reproduced the problem.

In the end, I actually had to remove the CHECK constraint altogether. :(
Cyclists usually make use of less congested, slower moving roads, which are funded by local taxes, not federal and state taxes. As far as I know, most local transportation taxes are contributed as regular taxes, not as use taxes, so bicyclists pay their share. Also, not all state and federal transportation funding is paid by motorists, either. Bicycles put negligible wear and tear on the road, and a bicycle malfunction is unlikely to harm anyone but the cyclist, or to poison the air.

The bigger issue with your comment is just how entitled the attitude behind it is. Car driving is an incredibly privileged activity on many levels in the US. Cars are subsidized on every level from manufacturing to international policy to transportation planning policy on every scale. Car right-of-ways take priority almost always, almost everywhere (with good reason much of the time, but explain that to a kid trying to get around town without a car and having to cross a 10-lane freeway on an 8-lane road with 45 mph traffic to get from home to school, a common occurrence where I live).

So the next time you become enraged by a cyclist messing with your right to go fast, why don't you go ask your city council to fund more bike overpasses and dedicated bike lanes in your community? They're an incredibly cheap, great investment that doubles as recreational park land. And if your city has no room for bike lanes, think again about the car-centric planning policy that got you where you are.
Cool, I guess. No instructions what-so-ever. Can we get some documentation on keys to use?
This article[1] suggests excise tax isn't that high ($1 or $2), though GST is 10% so that's certainly part of the overall price.

I rather suspect it is pure price discrimination. I saw Pabst Blue Ribbon for AU$49 a case. PBR! Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is around AU$75 a case. These prices are at a huge discount retailer (Dan Murphy's).

[1] http://theconversation.edu.au/calling-time-on-alcohol-taxati...
Splitting hairs is how you actionably say "such patents are ridiculous." You see if you split enough of these hairs, the judiciary says, "Wait, there is no way this can ever be resolved, it is fundamentally broken." and they toss it out. If folks can only find one or two exceptions, well maybe it is a reasonable principle after all.
Your invite to Social Network for Dedicated Athletes & Nutritionists
>Again, you're confusing DRM with access to the private keys.

How do you imagine DRM could be implemented without access to private keys? Somewhere there exists a piece of proprietary software or hardware that holds the secret. By putting this in the standard you make the standard impossible to fully implement without including that proprietary software or hardware.

>If we can't get Hollywood to accept reality, we would at least be better off with the open W3C proposal (you did read it, right?) rather than continuing to entrench a massive proprietary plugin.

Did you read it? This is from the abstract: "This specification does not define a content protection or Digital Rights Management system."

In other words, they're not standardizing DRM, they're bastardizing the standard so that inherently non-standard proprietary DRM solutions can interface with it and fragment the web into a series of proprietary walled gardens based on which DRM system (if any) your platform implements.
Judging from how I understand their culture I'd say they probably hire after recommendations and/or github scouting and not via the typical path of reading cvs and interviewing candidates.
> And the site itself is JAMMED with affiliate links disguised as pretty pictures.

Those "pretty pictures" are often illustrations from the work shown to assist in the review. That's quite the undertone you're wringing out of her rather mundane actions.
It looks like you have to pay for it so I guess they pay others to get that feedback?

http://www.pickfu.com/pricing
> A nice-looking bytecode doesn't seem worth the loss of backwards compatibility. The encoding is ugly, but compatibility with existing browsers seems like such a huge win for something that really just amounts to a different encoding.

10x slowdown doesn't seem worth keeping backwards compatibility. Why even bother?

2x in the best case is more reasonable, but wouldn't a 1x best case (NaCL) be even better, if you're willing to actually drop backwards compatibility?
No, it's not good at all. Cache stalls can easily account for 1/2 of your processing time. On top of that you have CPU pipelining and multi-issue CPUs. It was a good idea a while ago, now it's really not that great.
"Another"?

Edit: here is the law that was mentioned, just passed in late December. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_law_of_Russian_Federat... It was named after a Russian adoptee who died of heatstroke in Virginia.
Well, not all meteorite strikes could have been reported 4,300+ years ago! This is probably a map of where people have been looking for them. Less developed places, such as in middle America, (which stands out like a sore thumb) might make for good locations to look for such things!
I was mostly agreeing with what you said.. until you somehow conflated steroids to ADHD medication.

Steroids are never prescribed by medical experts, ADHD medication is.
Regarding other kinds of evaluation, like evaluating graphs, this is a bit the idea behind XLR (http://xlr.sf.net). In that case, evaluation by rewriting parse trees.

Example: a factorial is defined as

0! -> 1
N! -> N*(N-1)!

An if-then-else statement as:

if true then X else Y -> X
if false then X else Y -> Y

The core operator is the rewrite -> which means: rewrite the parse tree on the left into the parse tree on the right. There are of course rules about binding and stuff, and the type system is a bit of a challenge. But the idea may be intestto whoever is still hanging around this thread :-)
> I'm also not entirely sure how your logic works here. How does reducing the proof on Makers help Skinnygirl Pre-mixed Processed Cocktail Beverage Product in any way? Those products are presumably already marketed to capture profits for markets that don't care about quality.

TFA explains this. Beam, Inc. strikes a deal with the distributors saying "if you want Maker's you also have to buy Skinnygirl". Once again, if they wanted to dilute it for specific markets, why did they do it for all the markets?

I did think of an alternative explanation, though I think this is less likely. Perhaps Maker's sells well at their current price point because there it's a good value. However, if you raise it by, say, $10/bottle, it will now compete with more premium bourbons where it will not hold up nearly as well. Then, lowering the price on it after the shortage is over will even further cheapen the brand. So perhaps Beam, Inc. was faced with a really tough choice of whether to market Maker's as even more premium and lose, or lower the quality and hope that the customers won't mind. However, I think TFA explains it better, and Occam would probably agree.
Random Javascript point and click game demo in alpha quality. Uses sprites ripped from Diablo 2. Other sprites from an unknown source. Not actually Diablo. Not anywhere close.
It's better (for the environment) to take a bath. You fill up the water once and you're done. Shower is a constant stream.
See comments on the blog. Majority of work is not in xml parsing so lxml does not help (and you're crippled that the rest of the code does not run as fast).
Well, if you're interested in compiling to something that runs in all browsers, you have to compile to JavaScript anyway. Given that, asm.js is strictly an improvement over the current state of affairs: the rails to stay on for high performance are well defined and (hopefully eventually) cross-browser.

The alternative is to try to make a clean break from the past and forego backwards compatibility in the name of a cleaner encoding, so that compiler authors can generate object files with nicer syntax. That sort of thing been tried many times in the history of the Web and usually hasn't ended up succeeding. For example, take XHTML 2: despite the fact that XHTML 2 was hugely cleaner than HTML 4/XHTML 1, it never got any traction and was abandoned by the W3C. At the scale of the Web, practical considerations end up dominating engineering considerations.
Why developers should start choosing conscience over profit
"both the group paying her (Amazon) and Wikipedia refer to affiliate links as ads"

I believe that the reason that Amazon does this (I have an account) was intended to get around the sales tax issue by calling the payments for advertising as opposed to something that a State could take as "reseller" and translate to a presence and have a stronger leg for state sales tax from Amazon (not relevant given the recent changes but it was back when this practice started).
You don't need any special tricks in the backend. The only limits on the backend are the number of file descriptors.

You only need special tricks when you want to simulate a large number of client connections from a single machine (or bunch of machines). The client(s) have a requirement of a unique IP/source-port combination; not the server.
"Well HackerNews, what say you? I dare you to increase your traffic and engagement."

HackerNews [sic], I dare you to allow your users to choose how they want to open new links, even if the mouse/keyboard mechanism for opening them in new tabs isn't completely 100% intuitive to some subset of web users.

I dare you to ignore any so-called "SEO" who thinks he's discovered an incredible "engagement" technique that's really just another tired way of tricking people into staying on your website.

I dare you to consult the relevant RFCs and acknowledge that the behavior of target="_blank" isn't news to anyone here.

I dare you to recognize that not every single thing on the internet has to "optimized" to get more traffic, and that "engagement" isn't just about people clicking on links.

I dare you to consider the possibility that we now have a situation where, thanks to the SEO frenzy of the past few years, there is no "correct" default behavior for links anymore, and it might be better to just let the user have control over it via their browser preferences.

I dare you to tell the world which way you prefer to open links and why it is better.

What say you? WHAT SAY YOU?
Minecraft Tutorials - E74 Wither Boss (Survive and Thrive Season 4)
It appears to be Chrome only which might explain your problem with controls...

Edit: Yes, I did only test in Firefox and Chrome. According to the comments below, it appears to work for modern browsers except Firefox.
At risk of nit-picking, I have a OS X and no default compiler.
Bulleit is also just a name Diageo puts on Kirin product, for whatever it's worth.
That's the spirit! You should also stop services known for spikes in CPU usage like the cron daemon and run the benchmark multiple times.
Oh, I know. Just wondered if the person who posted the comment above mine had just seen that particular episode, too.
Someone has to break it at some point. Making it live longer is not serving us any good. We would still be using primarily ALGOL, COBOL and Fortran 68 with this attitude
The current voice of esurance (post Allstate acquisition) is John Krasinski of The Office.
Yup... I don't think anyone is going to argue that Australia in fact has a higher population density than China.

In fact, the effects of 2) are reinforced even more, since my guess is that many, if not the majority of these findings were by scientific studies/surveys (note that they typically list the date found, not the date it occured). And since no one likes wasting their time, they would obviously pick areas where it would be easiest to find evidence.
Could someone explain why this is helpful? What's an example of a use case where this becomes one of the better solutions?
if you guys need any help in brazil I would be glad to help.
@eluttner
you can assert that "post_id > parent_id", assuming comments are always created subsequent to the creation of their parents (as is the case here) and that integer identifiers are always increasing (otherwise use timestamps). (1, 3) above would indicate an invalid case (not necessarily a cycle, but a precondition for one).
Maybe, but that's not the point. The article is bizarrely arguing that the brain is not computable, somehow can never be simulated with any amount of computing power, despite existing in a universe mostly described by simple mathematical laws. Ridiculous.
You right, but I still see this map as a catalogue of found meteors, rather than an informative visualisation. To make your observations clear, you need to normalise this heatmap by the population density.
The first usehipster.com (now hipster.com) was beautiful and people are still copying it to this date.
Perhaps some things are better left a bit vague.

To explain my discomfort, can I just say that there was an obvious sexual aspect to the "workout" and leave it at that?
I read the article but I still don't see what selling Makers at 42% ABV changes about Skinnygirl.

I agree with you about price vs. demand; I think if you read between the lines what Beam already said, they're more or less acknowledging this (in that you can always solve a demand problem by increasing the price, and they're choosing not to do that).
It's a pretty minor issue - asm.js is viable without it. For multiplications of small numbers, like 5 times x where x is 32-bit, you don't need Math.imul, normal multiply is fine. The only case where Math.imul is useful is x times y where neither x nor y is known at compile-time, so in theory they could be big enough to cause double-rounding in JS.

But even in that case, emscripten can emit code without Math.imul (there is a compiler flag). The code will work, but is a little slower than Math.imul, that's all. In fact in practice you don't even need the polyfill on MDN (which is precise), you can do imprecise multiplication with double-rounding, that works in 99% of cases in my experience, making Math.imul even less crucial.

But it's nice to have Math.imul, just to say that even in the worst case (odd codebase with tons of integer multiplies that are very often of integers both very very large), performance will be predictable and fast.
Thanks for correcting this. People misunderstand how tcp connections work.
Here's a torrent:

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/8159583
What does it mean to be right-to-left? If it means that least significant values are on the right side and most significant ones on the left side, then domain names are left-to-right (as opposed to numeric notation).
Personally I believe that patenting genes in first place is overall a bad idea...

But yet, I see the importance of biotechnology, specially because I believe bioengineering might be useful, actually using biological things to make constructs, like living buildings, vehicles, batteries, and that sort of things.

On this case, I hope monsanto loses. Because they winning would set a too dangerous precedent.

Yet, they losing, would not damage biotech too much, you could always invent biotechnology that cannot be easily reproduced.

My father is friend of a guy that invented a special mix of microbial and fungal life that improve composting technology in a very interesting manner, and for him, there is no need to make crazy contracts about people not reproducing what he sells, because he ships them in a way that you can use the living product on your composting solution, but you cannot replicate the product (with enough effort, you CAN replicate it, but the replica is imperfect and the performance is not the same, so if you want 100% of performance, you must buy more of it), it is actually very clever and interesting.

This sort of thing, I would think it is maybe good.
But using legal means to prevent normal biological behaviour from happening, it is very bad idea, and quite dangerous in what sort of havoc it might unleash.
Which is why I like the work hackivist as it captures the spirit of that activity. Of course it doesn't work with criminal (hackinal?) which some people use 'cracker' (as in criminal hacker).
I don't get this at all.

So you write a comment on HN about a blog you read about another blog? Get a life.
>But Nicolelis is in a camp that thinks that human consciousness (and if you believe in it, the soul) simply can’t be replicated in silicon. That’s because its most important features are the result of unpredictable, non-linear interactions amongst billions of cells, Nicolelis says.

This is a fringe opinion, and I really wish the title reflected that. Ignoring the absurd 'linear' part of the article, I don't believe predictability is important to the brain. While it's possible quantum effects could explain unpredictability in the physical universe, there is no scientific evidence this is relevant to the brain; the brain operates at a much higher, more macro level than quantum mechanics. Besides, randomness can be introduced into silicon if it's that important. I hope the article is misrepresenting his opinion, but they seem dangerously close to 'the brain is more complex than I can comprehend, so it must be magic'.

I and many cognitive and neuroscientists I've spoken to consider this whole line of reasoning to be anti-scientific philosophy (although I may be biased because I studied AI, which rests on the idea that silicon can recreate intelligence).
Ask HN: I have 10,000 IP addresses over 20 servers - how should I use them?
I have a network with 10,000+ IP addresses and 20 servers. Currently I rent the IPs out formats scraping proxies and am expanding into a VPN service like HideMyAss. Does anyone have any ideas for how I could better utilize these addresses? The average resource usage of the servers is a little more than 2% right now.
I call it the House method :)

You bring a detailed problem and break it down, and talk about it to someone else (who often isn't qualified to answer your questions due to knowledge/time constraints) - and in doing so - resolve the problem by challenging one's own assumptions.

This was effectively how every House episode was resolved.
The was an incident in Virginia not long ago. Mistreatment of Russian adoptees by American parents is a current hot-topic in the Russian press. Russia recently banned American adoptions of Russian children.
'My real, “ultimate” goal was never merely launching a product (after all, anyone can do that)...'

Oh if only that were true. I had dinner with a friend last night who has just become the lead on a project where the two founders dropped out and essentially handed him an opportunity because they just couldn't see through to launching it.

I've launched probably 40% of the projects I've worked on.

I think that is a big difference between those who do and those who talk. Those who get it done see launching a product as just a small step that anybody can do. I wonder if those who are successful also think. Is it our own thoughts of the size of the challenges that lead to our failures/challenges?
We use babushka for local machine config and also production. It's radically simpler than Puppet/Chef.

http://babushka.me/
Some people are just freaking difficult to work with. I've worked with people that wouldn't accept responsibility even after every other possible cause was ruled out. I've even gotten this reply: "well, you must have been unlucky to get the faulty e-mail, because it seems to work most of the time". Yeah, because that's how programming works: cowboy coding and hoping for the best.

This guy actually called bugfixes "optimizations": "hey, X the feedback widget on the front page isn't working", "oh, yeah, I haven't worked on that because that's code that needs to be 'optimized', so it's low on my issues list". Ugh.

I've learned my lesson now. In fact, that's an incredible lesson for a startup founder: never, ever, hire someone who dodges a question on an interview. And the first time they avoid taking responsibility for something that was clearly their fault, fire them. The last thing you want is someone who'll blame everyone and anything else for their issues. It's a great way to kill morale and create rifts in a small team.
Well, click left and use 1-9 for drinking potions.

Nothing else is implemented - and that much is probably obvious for people who played a hack'n slay before.

But thinking about it, it is interesting how games explain their shortcuts in the interface.
I suspect it would be extremely challenging to observe a meteor from a rain forest, and practically infeasible to find it after. Unless we'll rely on satellite observations
While terrible, it doesn't seem to be on the same level as feeding a kid psychotropics and beating him. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02...
In what country are the servers and their IPs?
Weird that they don't mention Gaikai... I think that's going to be the real edge for the PS4.

Of course it depends on a fictional and amazing future network, but considering all relevant information I think that it will most likely be the winning edge for the PS4 in the next decade.

Sony is going to fucking print money when they have a subscription for a streaming gaming service.
It depends on what you're after. What you're suggesting would would also distort the data, but in a different way -- it'd make it look like Antarctica was far more likely to get hit than it actually is.

One would expect the true distribution to be extremely uniform, right?
Some people like to call up and chat or vent. We give them the choice.
I am surprised that the FTC's position on this issue is a footnote of the original article and the HN discussion.

From FTC Assistant Deputy Rich Cleland: "a disclosure must be made when a blogger is recommending something and using an affiliate link. He went on to say that “the recommendation triggers the disclosure requirement.”(1)

There is no wiggle room here.

Maria Popova needs to disclose the relationship with her advertisers (Amazon).

The FTC has a gargantuan job ahead of them w/regard to enforcement, but that's no excuse especially given the content that Popova writes about.

(1) http://lovell.com/corporate-blogs/ftc-guidelines-include-aff...
Goedkope vakantie: vroeg boeken of wachten op laste minutes?