skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would happen if these were constrained to run inside irregularly shaped "skins" and bred for "fitness" against some criteria. For example, take a look at Marsaglia's die hard tests for statistical randomness. Any machine that terminates would have a very low random coefficient, and any that turns to noise would have a very high random coefficient. Similarly, ones that repeat quickly could also be selected against. All that remains is to restrict the number of critters, as specified by the number of "skins" and "breed" new critters from old ones which were successful (with a "pleasing" statistical randomness coefficient).
hey, if you are an airbrake user try out https://errormator.com service. We have airbrake compatible endpoint to get you started easly, but our native python client where the service really shines.

Our index page is not the best ever yet - but we were focused on delivering actual app that kicks ass. You get error collection + logging + performance metrics in a single package!

(not with airbrake api obviously - only errors part with their client but it makes it easy to switch)
Yes, I know. Had to work on a commercial project that used gevent. Boy was that a mess. The project was a server that had to handle 30K+ hits/second. The client's engineering dept could only get it to do 3K. When I saw they were using gevent (along with a custom framework that lacked any documentation), I knew their goal had a long way to go. Last thing I heard, they were having trouble hiring people to work with it. I'm glad I dodged that bullet.
It doesn't make a lot of sense that people aren't downloading Home because of missing Android features - most probably wouldn't know there was something missing until they ran it. The simplest explanation is that people don't download something they aren't interested in, as Gruber points out.
Hey guys! I was inspired by all these rave responses. And decided to download and try. When I came to downloads page I saw only about 1000 downloads (uploaded 38 hours ago). And all my inspiration has disappeared.

It would be interesting to compare number of downloads for Python/Ruby.
I would love to know how Linux fares against any of the Windows OSs in this scenario.
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The car would reach a possible 'noticer' (hereafter: victim) at the same time as the light would...
Actually this makes a little bit of sense these days on linux (or maybe it's gnome-specific?) An application that's unresponsive will just hang there, but if you try to interact with it and it doesn't respond you'll get the "do you want to kill it" dialog. Of course that's important only in case you really want to kill it - it won't fix anything.
For me its:

1. Click on chrome to see if the window responds

2. Click on enter to make sure any hidden modals are accepted

3. Alt+F4, die bastard die

4. Ctrl+Alt+Delete, kill it with fire
San Francisco's real startup sauce is people with fucking imagination. Try this experiment anywhere in the world

"Hey, I've written this great thing that can change millions of people's lives. I'd like to start a company around it!"

Typically you can expect:

"With what?"

"What makes you think you can run a company?"

"You're, what, 27?"

"There are teams of dozens of people who can do the same thing, why would you succeed where they can't?"

"Even if you do the work that literally thousands of teams all over the country can do and have actual resources for, what will you do next, you don't have a company"

"Even if you make sales, you are losing way more money than you could by just working as a coder. You're delusional".

"Let's say you get some customers and make more than you would otherwise. You still don't have a business. You haven't run a business! Would you enlist in the olympics without ever having even TRIED the sport?"

etcetcetc

versus San Francisco typical reaction:

"Can I see it?"
Since I'm always in some sort of tmux/screen terminal, I find myself cycling through some combination of Ctrl+a q,Cntrl+q to make sure I didn't turn on flow-control (Ctrl+s).
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Linux! Ha! I am sure the device driver for that 256mb Hello Kitty USB thumb-drive is poetry. Linux is not the first place I'd look for high-quality code. I think I'd start with Minix.
If you research it you'll find both are bottled filtered tap water. For awhile I tried figuring out where they were bottled, mostly unsuccessfully. The holy grail would have been finding competing plants in the same city bottling the same municipal tap water, but I was unsuccessful. Not all corporate bottling plants bottle all products at every plant, I couldn't figure out which of my coke products came from the nearest syrup plant in Chicago or bottling plant in Quincy although it seems all Pepsi products are reminiscent of the proverbial "thousand mile salad" and come from the sand states (or what we in the center of the country call fly over, because we fly over those states on our international vacations which we can easily afford because we don't live on the coasts)
No. Only an imaginary one.
the site is giving me a mysql error :(
There are over 1 million people using it so I wouldn't say people aren't interested. I think more people aren't downloading it because of the bad reviews - which are mainly because of the missing features.
Yes, there are a number of sites blocked by Australian ISPs

Those ISPs have been given a directive to block sites on the "worst of the worst" Interpol list, it's DNS blocking, not at the IP level.

Read the article again :)
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I suspect that Randall would prefer that at least one of his comics wasn't interpreted as a reference to cancer. It must get tiring after a point.
Yes. But I don't think I'd run AdBlock at that point, not because I would be blocked from certain websites, but rather because that would be giving away too much information to a bunch of known liars, cheats and con men. Like I said, advertising is so close to lying, and advertisers cross the line from encouraging to lying so often, that I don't want to give that much real info away.

If I couldn't block the ads for some legal reason, I'd try to come up with a way to fake-click on ads, so as to spread disinformation about myself. The advertisers are almost certainly lying to me, so I'm going to lie to them.
Another (Wordpress) website failing horribly under load after receiving the attention they so desperately desired.

And the failure just dumps the MySQL error on the front page.

Not terribly inspiring.
They're supposed to be internally consistent. "I had no way to know the distributor of the content didn't have the rights to it" isn't an excuse most IP holders will accept, regardless of whether or not you happened to pay for the content.

It's almost as if IP rights for content in the modern era are incredibly complex, and it's very difficult to actually be certain you have the rights for anything, making it kind of absurd to threaten people and take them to court for minor violations that could be resolved through other means!
Changing it to "pirated" would make more sense, since it would be more obviously a verb (I think you're like me and read "pirates" as a plural noun).
Lowering your quality of life is far different from being the most important thing. A lot of things change when you age that work to lower the quality of your life; your happiness depends greatly on how you handle it.
Willingham would be proud, as this is a recurring theme and a whole chapter in his book "Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom." He also made this case on this on his blog when responding to Andrew Hacker's ridiculous suggestion to change math so that you don't actually learn math:

"The problem is that if you try to meet this challenge by teaching the specific skills that people need, you had better be confident that you're going to cover all those skills. Because if you teach students the significance of the Consumer Price Index they are not going to know how to teach themselves the significance of projected inflation rates on their investment in CDs. Their practical knowledge will be specific to what you teach them, and won't transfer.

The best bet for knowledge that can apply to new situations is an abstract understanding--seeing that apparently different problems have a similar underlying structure. And the best bet for students to gain this abstract understanding is to teach it explicitly. (For a discussion of this point as it applies to math education in particular, see Anderson, Reder, & Simon, 1996).

But the explicit teaching of abstractions is not enough. You also need practice in putting the abstractions into concrete situations."

Neither of us, though, can make the point as well as he does. In the book he explains what transfer is, as well as surface knowledge, deep knowledge, etc, and how an understanding of these concepts ca inform a philosophy of education and shape education practices.

Everyone, read his book! If the title worries you that it's too focused on educators, then ignore the title. The content is applicable to anyone interested in learning at all, especially if you want to improve the way you learn. Obviously, I strongly recommend that book, but alternatively, he covers a lot of what's in the book in his articles[2].

</willingham_fan_boy>

[1] http://www.danielwillingham.com/1/post/2012/07/yes-algebra-i...

[2] http://www.danielwillingham.com/articles.html
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The article touches on that angle:

Canipre quickly took on the role of “innocent” infringer and blamed their web design firm for obtaining the photos. The design firm allegedly took content from an image bank, but that would have to be a rogue outfit as Houk never sold away his rights.

In any case, Canipre is of course ultimately responsible for the content that appears on their company website, just like they hold an Internet subscriber responsible for the infringing behavior of their neighbors.

"At least" with direct commercial copyright infringement, there's something to sue over (the profit made from the sale), but when people go so far as to hold ISPs (including individuals running open hotspots, or routing gateways, or Tor exits - which few people can afford to accept liability for) and online services (like Megaupload and the Pirate Bay which, based on my current understanding, are not selling anything they aren't entitled to, even if one could show they made money off of aggregation; they aren't claiming to have made anything they aggregate), for example - when we are effectively holding intermediaries responsible for other people's behaviour I think something is wrong, and service neutrality is effectively on the block.
If that is the benchmark, then Minix beats Linux in virtue of not containing device drivers in kernel space. [1]

DD's have 3-7 times as many bugs in Linux than the other code. [2]

Linux can do better and I am sure Linus would admit this.

[1] http://www.minix3.org/other/reliability.html

[2] http://www.osnews.com/story/15960
Even Nostradamus can't predict which startups will succeed and by how much. Yet you can, simply by adding up the hours worked? That's pretty simplistic.
Ok, so my problem with this is what qualifies as a "bug" in their scans. If there scans are so good at finding these bugs then we need to pay them all tons of money and make our software bug free by using their scanning tool.
An analogy that comes to mind - physical exercise. When you are stopped doing exercise (e.g. running at a traffic light), people often will jog in place. Obvious reasons - keep heart rate from large deltas, muscles warm/responding well, etc.

If you watch competitive PC gaming, you will notice that even professional gamers will often 'spam' their hotkeys in low activity periods, typically the beginning of games. Some people claim that it is simply for actions-per-minute stats, but I could see it as some kind of setting of mental/physical cadence.
I think the GMAT is only required for MBA programs. When I was admitted to Georgia Tech as an Aerospace Engineering graduate student in 1992, I didn't need the GMAT, just the GRE.
On page 1:

"What an interesting comic. This is probably the most simplistic xkcd yet..."
> Anyone else notice that 'The Vagenda' has a lot of articles that are aimed at men being jerks?

I knew immediately by reading the domain that it was going to be a feminist leaning blog, and that's totally fine. Perhaps that's what their content is based on. Unfortunately there's lots of examples of men being jerks, so they have a massive grab bag to pull content from.

> If you don't like it leave

That's always the easy answer, and it's unrealistic and unfair. You don't know the conditions of the author. Maybe they have a boatload of debt or are in a situation where they need stability. Moving jobs is always a risk because there are things like probation periods. Even if you are good at what you do, a probation period is still scary, even more so if you have dependents.
That's quite a jaded view of freelancers. We've depended upon four at Sococo, who have given their lives, weekends, intellect and experience every bit as much as founders.
Fractions of a second of punishment seems far too little for this type of crime. I think the program should be punished for at least whole seconds.
Yep, I looked and discovered the same thing; it isn't a 'pure' CS program. I've discovered lots of these IT programs masquerading as CS programs - it's disappointing, to say the least. I'm really interested in pursuing an undergraduate level degree in CS (I have a liberal arts degree from a Top 15 US school, working full time, but if I could have done everything over, I would have done CS).

In my search thus far, I've found zero schools that offer a traditional undergrad CS program online. And please, before we get into the 'you can learn most of undergrad level CS topics online' - I would like the structure and support from an online, instructor led course that offers student assistance/office-hours. This is something I'd pay for, but because I'm working full time, I can't take classes during the workday.
The paper money market is being closed down too.
I meant blocked in respect to Conroy's blacklist. Your ISP may be blocking other sites on behalf of other parties (or for their own reasons)...it would be most interesting to find out for who and why.
If anything this is a more clear-cut case of the intermediary bearing responsibility. Even if the design agency is responsible for originally stealing the work, they paid for the design without demanding proof that they actually had the rights to use the design, and they put it up on the internet without having proof that they had those rights. And this is all done to directly enrich themselves.

A far cry from 'common carriers' that, despite responding promptly to DMCA takedowns and other requests, still regularly get badgered and legally abused by IP rightsholders.
Because yes, the start menu necessarily has to occupy my entire screen and push out whatever it was I was doing.
The OpenBSD devs have been very critical of it. That may just be sour grapes, but they may have some valid criticisms as well.
> over 1 million people have downloaded it

I don't know how many are actually using it, but I would imagine a lot less (10% of that?)

Of course if you have a big enough brand and enough advertising people will download it, but no amount of advertising will make people continue using a bad product.
> they needed to download two thirds of a terabyte of compressed data. “We’ve got 30 to 40 servers pulling down data from NASA,”

40 servers to download 600 gigabytes of data? Something does not sound right here. If they wanted to avoid overloading the nasa pipes, they could have asked nasa to fedex that amount on couple of hard-drives or something. At this day and age bulk transferring a terabyte or two of data should not be a challenge.
Almost every country is an internet-culture punchline. There are a lot of jokes out there. And Australia's case is somewhat overrated - for a while there, our censorship was considered as bad as China's for simply considering an internet filter despite never having actually implemented it.

Turnbull is unlikely to get tech, simply because apart from the really plum jobs like treasurer, you don't want someone who knows the industry to hold the portfolio - because they won't make cuts to please the head honcho. At least, that's how it was phrased to me by a defence scientist when Bronwyn Bishop had Defence in her portfolio in the 90s.
I'm getting error: https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=AeXXkBwwjeuQUyWi8p6iWU

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I would love it if there was a way of testing these things out. I've a sneaking suspicion (based on absolutely no reason) that the company 'full or retards' would outperform the company of nice, respectful people. But the real world is a big messy place.
I think we just have something against C keys. I do this to a calculator as well. It makes more sense with copying since there's absolutely no feedback that the copy was successful, but with a calculator there's no reason for it.
This reminds me of when the Conference Board of Canada was caught copying content for its copyright policy paper:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/think-tanks-approa...
Hidden modals is the kind of fun people miss in KDE.

But when I use Windows, I'm not bold enough to just click enter on whatever I'm not seeing to get the program back. I'll kill it on control panel before that.
I don't think that the analogy holds. Jogging in place is to maintain movement and keeping the body warm so that it's easier to continue running when you can run.

Spamming before a round starts is done in order to fire off an action before your opponent or just as soon as possible.

Neither scenario is analogous to a non-responsive software application because everything is in fact responsive. If the stop light is red, then that's temporary, it is in fact the whole purpose of the signal. Only if the light hangs for an abnormally long amount of time do people get nervous. In the game scenario, there's usually a countdown to the round starting, so again nothing is frozen.
If you don't like the examples I gave above, use some Google fu - I chose among a bunch of alternatives. I didn't want to just list a pile of URLs.

Any particular instance of DMCA-based speech suppression is probably arguable. "Oh, that's just some crank getting riled up." You have to look at the DMCA as a system. The DMCA encourages notice and takedown, not notice and notice. The bias in copyright law as a whole is towards the rightsholder, so copyright law becomes an easy tool for abuse.
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN - they aren't it
I took a long time to get on Facebook, may be because the notion of telling my friends what I did every minute of my day (or sharing 'interesting' photos) was not my definition of keeping in touch with friends. Yes, Facebook turned out to be a great experience, just not what I had in mind for the use case of keeping in touch with friends.

LinkedIN, defines how we stay in touch with our professional relationship. It is, again, a great tool for that purpose! I cannot think of a better tool, as of now, that serves this purpose.

Twitter - oh God, do not ask me what it is useful for. I am as vague as anyone can be. I am sure it is serving a purpose, I just do not seem to get it.

Anyways, given some of the criticisms I mentioned above, the question I would like to ask is this - can there be a 'different' type of network? After struggling with the question, I think I found one other type of network - network based on merit, not based on who we know, but based on common set of interests.

Imagine being able to identify an interesting 'persona' on the other side of the world that shares your opinions, and being able to converse with them. We do this today, through other people's blogs - if they have one. But blogs are notorious for how hard they are to promote and reach a meaningful readership.

Also, let us say I create a blog and start writing there. But the problem is that I need to maintain the theme of the blog, I cannot write on any topic that deviates from that theme. Hmm...am I to create another blog?

I think blogs is not the answer, at least for those of us that already do not have huge followership. But we still have a lot of good things to share.

That is why we created ShareCred! Please visit <a href="http://sharecred.com">http://sharecred.com</a>, and let us know in the comments what you think.

Signing up is easy - just sign-up through your LinkedIN.

Thank you for your time,
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Well, I'm certainly not looking for somebody to run "every aspect" of my business. I've raised the finance, developed the marketing plan, established contacts with almost a thousand prospective client organisations, defined the product requirements in consultation with the industry, and written the prototype software myself. That's taken years of work and is not something to sneeze at! But ultimately, I'm not a skilled developer, and my cobbled-together prototype is not something that can be taken to market. So a lot of programming will be required to turn this into commercial-quality software.

The reason that I won't hire contractors to do that is that this is a highly specialised application -- not something that fits the mould of a typical web application -- and the developers will be instrumental in developing the core IP. It will take a few months for even the most skilled and experienced developer to get up to get fully up to speed with the internals details of this truly unique platform, and there will need to be many iterations of the platform as the product evolves. While it may be possible to do some of the peripheral work with freelancers (eg., the UI stuff, which will use fairly standard kit wherever possible), the unique core of the platform will only be maintainable if there is a stable team of developers to maintain it.

Imagine if Google had tried to design and implement Pagerank, the Google File System, and its custom server architecture using catch-as-catch-can freelancers. That would have been a catastrophe; you just can't develop truly unique systems that way. I'm in roughly the same boat.

However, if anything about what I've said has given the impression that I want people to "run every aspect of my business", then I am obviously not conveying my message clearly. I welcome suggestions for improvement!
Not trying to be an ass here or anything but something doesn't add up. I understand the memory corruption idea but I wouldn't think that would replicate to the other postgresql server. So am I right in thinking there was no slave ever here?
>Legitimate patents can die for all I care.

I've never had much respect for the way patents really work. But I don't expect to see the whole thing razed any time soon.
http://www.bursar.gatech.edu/student/tuition/Fall_2013/Fall1...

looks more like 60K depending on your in state/out of state status
They'd probably call you gay even if you weren't, whether or not you actually are is probably not that important to them.

You'd also probably get made fun of more for being say Irish or Scottish than for being black.

Whether or not it's "okay" it is not something you could reasonably expect to be changed for one person.

I would think that really her employer should have managed her expectations better.
The blocked site was from government list, and applied to Optus, Telstra and Exetel (maybe more). There seems to be disinformation in the media about it; the ISPs claim that the government told them to block a particular site, and the government says they didn't. I'm inclined to believe the former.

http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/14/it-wasnt-us-ags-dept-deni...