skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Are you saying you manually modify the database?"

Oh manually modifying production database on the fly ain't unheard of.

However it's still not "very Chuck Norris" on a scale of Chuck Norrisness compared to the modification of a running app directly in the REPL. I mean: it doesn't matter if you manually modify the DB itself or not when you directly modify the app from the REPL itself (the app being anyway "in charge" of the DB).

Sure, modifying manually the production DB might be an issue to some. But I can guarantee you that it's the last of your worries when you're actually modifying production code directly from the REPL ; )
Personally, I'd say just take them at their word: this is how they actually feel. Not everyone is trying to win some kind of popularity contents with every sentence they write. While he may have been trying to temper his 1st sentence, as you say, I'm going to just believe he is being genuine here and means exactly what he says. I don't think he is really going out of his way here.
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Yes, I was trying to make posts editable on the HN instance I run, so I got clever and started messing with the files in emacs. Then I learned that the HN code does not like files in the story directory with ~ on the end of their name (emacs backup files), oops ;).
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> It read like a High School essay - no life, no anime.
...
I am not entirely sure those thoughts are joined up (I am procrasting like crazy)

Your procrasting like crazy has much anime.
As things are right now, any meditation technique worth the effort is coming from one or another religious background. So there is going to be some infusion of dogmatic elements into it. At least some schools are honest about it and tell you to feel free and ignore the mythology and focus on the psychological work.

I practice a different meditation system, and they have their own dogma attached to it. I found that whether I "believe" in it or not is irrelevant. Meditation itself is far too fascinating to get distracted with extras.

Another way to look at it is that some dogmatic aspects may not represent literal truths, but are metaphors for certain psychological aspects occurring in meditation or as an effect of it. This appears to be a very appropriate interpretation for many pantheons - heck, even the Greek gods are quite obviously representations of states of consciousness and functions of the mind, and the ancient greeks were not exactly famous for their meditation techniques.
"I could recite chapter and verse of the test drive, the decisions made along the way, the cabin temperature of the car, the cruise control setting and so on. I don’t think that’s useful here."

Yes, yes it would be, especially when addressing the integrity of one of their journalists! She wore kid gloves when she rendered the comments regarding his "mistakes". Kid gloves are not appropriate.

It appears the sentiment of this editor's blog post is essentially "we'll defend our journalists even when their articles have been exposed as unfairly biased." It feels like the journalistic equivalent of the thin blue line.
I have no doubt there are all kinds of "flavors" in your gallon jug of Popov.
Cleveland is (among other things) the more quantitative alternative to Tufte.
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A friend of mine has a charter sailing company in SF and is trying to do SEO and place ads on the web to get customers. Does anyone in the community specialize in this? Would be very interested in speaking.
A constraint on the parent-child link table "Child creation time stamp > Parent creation timestamp" would do it.

Might not be a bad idea, if the site were to have the two requirements "maintenance must be done on the live site from a repl" and "5 nines availability".
The "mapping" of the brain, while accelerating, has been growing at a rather slow pace. In fact one of the few large 'mapping' projects is conducted by a non-academic entity, the Allen (of microsoft fame) institute (http://www.brain-map.org/). The reason for this slow progress is the small scale and scope of most investigations. Thousands of studies are being repeated (and mice sacrificed) because of the lack of both data sharing and concerted planning among neuroscientists. The academic pressure for publishing fast unfortunately limits the scope of most scientists to projects that can bring results easily.

This new project sounds like it is the neuroscientific analog of LHC or the Human Genome Project. The truth is that we wouldn't be able to replace the LHC with 1000 synchrotrons.
Wait. Your chance will come.
Yep. I thought this through as I was typing my comment.

(There must be some joke involving the use of a meta-duck, but I can't come up with it. :) (Same principle applies, of course, just LISP makes the determining of "what" a bit more tricky. (insert discussion here about the general differences between debugging imperative and functional code)))
Hmm, deliberate marketing ploy?
That is some genius marketing move; although an extremely risky one. How much earned media did Maker's Mark get over this? How many people will be buying their bourbon rather than a competitors' because they "decided to do the right thing"?
The most useful take-away from the article:

"In other words, it appeared that pushing people’s emotional buttons, through derogatory comments, made them double down on their preexisting beliefs."

Sounds like politics, doesn't it?
I see where you are coming from. But I am saying this didn't happen because he did things live. This happened because he entered incorrect id making a thread its own parent(or grandparent; doesn't matter).

This is the kind of mistake one would make even if you were writing proper migrations. He was doing things live isn't an issue; neither is an incorrect id. The issue is the code doesn't check for loops.
That's exactly the sort of thing a duck will tell you. "So what has changed? Let's see, new code, new server, and I fixed the commenter's comment. That was simple I just hard-hacked the comment id and . . . excuse me a second."
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Not all speech is literal.

I find myself making this admonition over and over again, when speaking to folks in the computer industry. Occupational hazard, I guess.
It is an ongoing myth that consoles use OpenGL and only Microsoft is the bad boy.

The only console that had some kind of OpenGL support was the PS3 with OpenGL ES 2.0 but using CG instead of OpenGL ES Shading Language. Which most developers did not use anyway, prefering libCGM.

The others just have an OpenGL like API in terms of how they work, but that is all.

Most game studios don't care anyway, because what is important is to make a game, regardless how.
I'm not a drinker, so maybe this is a stupid question, but why can't they dilute their stock with ethanol instead of (or in combination with) water, so the proof is unchanged? They'd be diluting the flavor, of course, but that would happen in any case. No?
I find that if I am doing something "dangerous" (example might be using power tools) I have to say to my self "be careful this is dangerous" to avoid being on autopilot and making casual errors. Maybe a better example is the way you train yourself after you've picked up a box the wrong way and pull something to try to remember each and every time to watch your specific movements.
Add to those NEURON (http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/) which is the most popular for compartmental neuron simulations. It's a terribly old program (1990) with horrible limitations yet people still use it.
Long Beach, Calif.: 2 (meprobamate and phenytoin). [1]

I'm drinking an anti-epileptic and an anti-anxiety. That sucks.

[1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-10-drugs-...
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If I'm understanding the logic that this article presents... Apparently after Prozac was introduced, depression became a huge phenomenon in the US. It showed up everywhere. This is evidence to suggest that antidepressants caused depression.

Wat?
So many people insisting that they can tell the difference between what they like and don't like. No one ever questioned this. It follows from the definition of "like".
Too bad we rarely get a postmortem on batshit insane production hackery that actually goes off without a hitch.
In the case of clothing, limiting your choices seems just like a patch to the problem. When ever I find myself looking for an especific shirt I try to focus on the real problem: find a shirt. Same for shoping.

The more you condition the solution to a problem the harder it is to find it. Sometimes the problem is the solution I propose to the problem.
Is there a karma threshold for this?
If I am not mistaken, even the engine provided by Sony in their SDK does not use it.

FireEngine if memory does not fail me.
Check out http://nipy.sourceforge.net/nipype/ It's basically a pipeline for plugging different packages' outputs and inputs into each other, wrappers are already there for SPM, FSL, and other well known programs and it's easy to write your own stuff if you know some Python. It speaks to exactly this approach, as it is algorithm/implementation agnostic, it just defines the process and tries to formalize getting data from one place to the next.
he's not legendary for his IT skills.
I'm pretty sure his use of the word 'minions' is meant to be ironic.
If they manage to keep most of their features not directly related to the rendering engine that Chrome doesn't have, it would be of great value.
Actually, the VS project file format is standard. Mono supports both Visual Studio formats (.sln, .csproj, *.fsproj, etc) as well as Makefiles
I seem to be able to reply to a reply to a reply

EDIT: but the reply button disappears here
That happens to me a lot. Most of the time I just formulate the question I have in my head into something coherent and by that point I either have the solution, know what to search for or, in case it's not a question but a comment, I realize it's not worth saying.
I have to remind myself this every time I start up Sequel Pro now since in the last release they switched the command keys for Run Selected... and Run All...
As soon as I heard their recant the first thing I thought of was some smug marketing high up grinning at their office that 'his/her plan had worked'. That being said it doesn't sound like that is the popular opinion (esp from this article). More that they were actually going to do this for business reasons.
Also, where I'm from, Mountain Dew is a mixer for alcohol.
Strange...now the reply button reappeared
> I refer to myself here as a “recovering programmer.” That simply means I no longer pursue engineering as a primary activity. And that I’m self aware enough to know that I’ll occasionally fall off the wagon and start coding again.

Slightly off topic:

Is there such a thing as an ex-programmer? Do you know any previously dedicated programmer that went cold turkey on any programming whatsoever?
I learned long time ago to always be loyal to the team members, not to management.

For management each employee is just an expense number in a spreadsheet.
Rubber duck debugging may have actually been the distraction that caused pg to make the mistake, too!
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There's some weird causality here, seemingly suggesting that Prozac caused an increase in depression.

>"Prozac was introduced in 1988, and we all know what happened then. Depression went from a relatively rare condition (affecting well under 100,000 people in the 1950s) to an epidemic disease affecting 27 million Americans. "

I'm pretty sure more than 100,000 people suffered from depression in the US in 1950. They might have just gone undiagnosed and self-medicated with alcohol rather than (non-existent) pharmaceuticals. Given that the mental health state of the art in 1950 was an icepick to the frontal lobe, I can hardly blame them for not seeking treatment.

I would imagine that the increase in _diagnosed_ depressed patients occurred because of an increase in both awareness and viable treatment options.
Thanks - "Deeper not wider" is a nice expression for a feature of my current course that I find frustrating. Most of my in depth knowledge is garnered from personal side projects of interest - and only rarely even has its roots in something I covered whilst doing my course. Spending time with the people has been the most valuable experience for me so far.
> I eventually realised that typing sudo every time he touched a box was no defence against doing the wrong thing.

IIRC, sudo logs all commands to syslog. Which might come in handy. Yes, root commands will be logged by bash to .bash_history, but there are limits of # of commands lots, what happens if you are logged in multiple times into same account etc.

Anyway, that's why I like sudo.
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This, folks, is why NOSQL/new school/whizbang/* will never replace a properly designed RDBMS. Period.
That and something like the Smalltalk Change Log would have made this a no-brainer debug. (Yes, every REPL action in Smalltalk got logged by the same mechanism that logged every code change.) Such mechanisms aren't trivial, but they're not rocket science either, and they have tremendous ROI.
This, I think, is what drives writers to drink. It helps them push through potentially crippling doubt in the quality of their work.

Don, I'd recommend you read 'On Writing' by Stephen King, if you haven't already. It's one of the single best sources of advice for writers. Truly dynamite.
I suspect the implication (I've heard a few notions like this) is similar to the way in which reports of alien abductions rose sharply after the Roswell UFO thingy in 1947.
If I took 1,000 people at the Kentucky Derby and did a blind taste test of 90-proof Makers and 84-proof Makers, what % would you think could notice the difference?

Products are diluted and reformulated all the time to save cost. The half-eaten box of Girl Scout Samoa cookies on my desk right now reminds me every year. But why make it such a public thing so loudly? Were they afraid whisky fans would start an uproar and this was a preemptive notice?
A quote: "What Kaptchuk demonstrated is what some medical thinkers have begun to call the “care effect” — the idea that the opportunity for patients to feel heard and cared for can improve their health."

Old wine in new bottles. This effect is well-known, much studied, and has a name: the "Hawthorne Effect":

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

A quote: "The central idea behind the Hawthorne effect is that changes in participants' behavior during the course of a study may be 'related only to the special social situation and social treatment they received.'"

Studies of the Hawthorne effect date back to the 1950s.

It seems that people in social psychology can't be bothered to read their own literature, and end up rediscovering what's already been discovered.
Two ways to look at growth
Well, you can still laugh at it if you wish. But considering that those paltry few games is a lot more than they had before, I'm willing to say the trend is changing. Somewhere there has to be a point where we can say "this is where it changed". I would think that the release of Steam is possibly that moment.
A workaround appears to be this: when the reply link is hidden on a deeply nested comment, click the "link" link next to the meta of that comment. There is a reply button on the resulting page
You can do that but then you're not Maker's anymore, you're McCormick.
Wow, nice, that was exactly the HW I was predicting; the fastest single-core-performance xeon under turboboost.
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Prozac was the first SSRI. It was introduced with a lot (really, even in the UK there was a lot) of hype.

It was described as "A medication to make you feel better than well. It was an outrage that this med was only available to people with a diagnosis, and we should be campaigning to change the laws about prescription meds to make it available to everyone."

(Edited to make quote clear.)
Thanks a lot for the reply. Unfortunately, we are not based in US, and registering a company is much more complicated in the country we are living in. And, as I said previously, we would like to keep focused on coding, and pass all the legal details to somebody more competent.
This seriously scares my shit out – are there any viable (domestic) water filtration systems that could reliably pull pharmaceuticals out of your drinking water?
AFAIK, Safari only supports WebGL on the desktop, and behind a debug flag. I'd venture to say that Mobile Safari is more of an important browser at this point than old versions of IE.
not sure about the 'decided to do the right thing' part, but knowing supply's tight makes me want to go pick-up a few cases right now.

..which, of course, would only be making the problem worse, so i don't think it’s a marketing ploy as high demand is the issue here.
"we should be campaigning to change the laws about prescription meds to make it available to everyone"

Did you read the article about tap water?
even if you read it metaphorically, it makes the same amount of sense.
This sounds interesting. Would be interested in the user interface of how this turns out.
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You can download it for free, too.

(p.s. no relation to the playstation 3 supercomputer thing)
Gotcha, that sounds great...good luck with everything! Bring it to the less exciting of Pittsburgh as soon as you can :D
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Yes, Pepsi tends to taste more sweet than Coke. While Coke tends to be a bit more carbonated feeling in the mouth, if that makes sense.

If you never had it, New Coke was sweeter like Pepsi, from what I remember.

By the way, what's Thumbs Up? Local brand?
Epilepsy meds are used as mood stabilisers for people with bi-polar and sometimes for people with personality disorders.
Just checked my servers, and not infected (but neither even have libkeyutils, so I don't think I'm vulnerable to this).

After being burned in the past, I always install iptables and block incoming connections. Plus I only allow ssh access to certain ip addresses. This means that even in the worst case if a vulnerability lets a rootkit get installed, there isn't much they can do after that.
> there's no postmortems

1. Press [Home] key.

2. Read postmortem.

3. ???
The same author wrote an article called "Lung Cancer and the Power of Suggestion" recently, which would suggest his hypothesis: http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/02/lung-cancer-and-power...
This should serve as a example template for how to accurately and transparently explain to users what went wrong. No deflecting blame, no useless platitudes.

Credit to PG, RTM and the rest of the team for keeping the sites uptime as high at it is.
"I think it was a shock to my son to see how I was regarded at work. Of course, that didn’t mean he started respecting me at home but, hey, a man can dream."

Ouch. Not sure this sort of public comment would help matters any.
Aren't those AMD cores even slower than Atom? How will it "wipe the floor with ARM chips" when Cortex A15 is significantly faster than Atom?
I meant a commercial VPN service. I agree that if you're just VPNing into the same box that is running ssh, it's no more secure than ssh by itself.

With the commercial VPN service, you run your own server exactly the same way as before, but restrict ssh access to only your VPN endpoint IP. Now your attack surface is way way smaller. (And your ssh logs are nice and clean.)

> Non-https traffic is going to be unencrypted over the open internet anyway, so I see no harm in it being unencrypted on the cafe network.

It's just so much easier to sniff traffic on unsecured WiFi than anywhere else. Not every site you log into implements https, or implements it correctly, and there are a variety of nasty things that can be done with that.

Think of running a Wordpress blog on your own server...how many people bother to force https for that? But if someone hijacks your Wordpress admin session, they've basically got your whole server.
WTF? This is the most missleading response. She takes ZERO responsibility and slightly hints at the fact that the reporter was probably wrong. There was no achgnowledgement that anything wrong was done, rushed, or done in bad judgement. No addressing any bias points, just saying "yeah i reviewed everything and I just dont think the guy was biased, but let me talk about the fact that I reviewed everything, oh did I mention I reviewed everything? Ok cool. So during my review I found that the driver's notes are no match for cold-hard facts.
By your argument, censorship by ISPs is justified.
Russian mafia.

google is your friend.
It might be riskier than you think.
All my friends knew about the shortage, and their plans to water down remaining stocks. However, Maker's reversal might not generate the same buzz that their initial shortage announcement did.
That leaves the casual drinkers only knowing of the watered down Makers, not the "do the right thing" Makers.
> pg just runs this site out of the good of his heart

Hilarious. I would have believed you if you appended "and his wallet"
To me Makers was already a subpar julep liquor for the reason it was 90 proof. Making any weaker simply takes it totally out of contention for serious bartenders. The reality is people who are not serious already don't care and they'll make a julep out of regular Jim Beam. Makers is not in that market though, I generally think of Makers as a good default fallback whiskey if I can't get some great 100 proof small batch whiskey. If they simply turn it into Jim Beam, they're neutering their brand. You have to have SOMETHING so you can charge an extra 7 or 8 bucks, even if it's exclusively perception.
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It is rumored that Nvidia felt burned by the contract on the Xbox and they didn't want to bear the risk of a shrink.
Is this really how people do app discovery though? It seems like this is solving a pretty niche case, of "I know what I want, but I want a knock-off version of it"

One of my biggest challenges in the App Store (vs. the Play Market) is the ability to find an app based on what I need, compatible with the version of software I have on my device. For example: I defy you to try and find a stereo recorder app that is compatible with first-gen iPodTouch (abandoned to iOS v3.1.3). For that, there's no better option than a well-formed Google search.

Popping out the similar apps feels like it would be useful in a few categories (games, maybe one or two others), but isn't really going to help you find that new app you need, just help you in situations where you'd have multiple apps to fulfill the same need.
How switching to Android helped me deal with my addiction to connectedness
I know that Adobe's handling of the Flash Platform gets a lot of hate in these circles, but one thing I really enjoyed during my time there was writing shaders in PixelBender. Basically, it allowed you to write GPU-accelerated image filters in a GLSL-based language.

Most of the WebGL tutorials I've seen either require you to grok the entire OpenGL architecture or rely on something like THREE.js or ProcessingJS. It's really nice to see something in the middle (like PixelBender was).

Thanks!

(I've been keeping this in my to-read list. Seems to be similar, but in bare WebGL:

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/webgl-post-processing/

)
Correct. The key difference is that the enable_if version can be overloaded with mutually exclusive requirements:

template <size_t N>
typename enable_if<(1 < N && N < 10), void>::type
foo(int (&bar)[N])
{
// called when 1 < N && N < 10
}

template <size_t N>
typename enable_if<(N >= 10), void>::type
foo(int (&bar)[N])
{
// called when N >= 10
}

OTOH, the key advantage in static_assert is the meaningful error message.
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