skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't need you to decide for me what I'm allowed to know about what I eat.
> It's a pity that GoogleTV (which the Chromecast OS appears to be derived from) is such a messed up platform.

At least Google TV seems to be heading in the right direction now (Google Cast support coming [1], coming back to mainline 4.2.2 with NDK support [2]). It might be too little, too late, but, as someone who's happy with his Google TVs, I'm hoping there will be room for a Chromecast+ (where the + can be more apps, an ethernet jack and/or better WiFi for streaming and so on).

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/25/4556420/google-tv-update-t...

[2] http://gigaom.com/2013/05/15/google-tv-android-jelly-bean-up...
My first job when I left Uni in the 90s was tech support for Gateway Computers. I was told that my time per call was too low for someone who had been there for a short time, and they didn't know if I was good at solving calls or ditching customers early. And they had no way of knowing. And they didn't actually listen to any of my calls to check.

But I did get hold of their official expected call time list and after that my stats were perfect, plus I trained up other staff in how to meet management expectations.

There's a good reason Gateway got a reputation for extra bad customer service.
> It's just plain stupidity.

Why shouldn't money have meaning in the political realm? If you take away the ability of wealth to actually influence the world, then all you can do when you're rich is buy increasingly banal toys.
True that, I was just a bit puzzled when I found out. Tried looking around for more details regarding any speculation but no updates from any major sources.
You are having a very strong reaction so I assume it's personal for you. Past experience?

A strong reaction like this is normal if the topic "pushes your buttons" - and we all have buttons to push.

When you notice anger rising in you, take it as an opportunity to see where it's coming from. Don't prevent it (you can't, so no point trying) - but look at it, get to know it. It might take you over temporarily so you're unable to do that - that's fine. At some point you'll have calmed down and the opportunity is created.

What I wrote wasn't meant as advice; it was meant as the truth. If you're ready, you will see it. If you're not ready it probably won't help you at all, it will just seem like gibberish to you. I am not here to save anyone nor could I. Things unfold at their own speed. So I meant he's having this learning experience, the bigger the breakdown, the bigger the chance to see the truth.
Step-by-step beginner's guide to determining the scope of patents:

1. Read the claims.

:-)
Eastasia or Oceania - just flip a coin.)

In Russia we used to call them "the enemies of the people" and, of course, they were among us and everyone could be marked as such just by a gossip or finger-pointing by a neighbor.)
>In terms of my own risk tolerance, I would have been comfortable drinking any of my own samples.

Hmmmm. Maybe so, but would you inject them?
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> Obviously you can be sued for things that aren't technically illegal, and you can lose due to a sympathetic jury.

If you feel that the law is on your side, but the jury won't be then opt for a trial by judge. It's your right as the defendant.
> Properly used mmap is very nice but some people are getting carried away with the superlatives.

Well, it all depends on your access patterns.

The bottom line is: in a modern (later than 1985 or so) Unix system, mmap is hardware based virtual memory; read() and write() can give you software based virtual memory. Who do you think is going to have better performance?

Compare and contrast:

a) mmap an 8GB file into 64-bit address space, start using immediately. only stuff you actually use gets read from disk.

b) using only read() access, read what you need, manage caching to avoid syscalls, etc.

It is unlikely b) can be faster at all, and it will only be competitive if the granularity of reading + the cost of cache management is low.

In cases where either granularity or cache management is expensive (which is common), mmap is likely to win big time.
Immensely entertaining read. Thanks for the link!

She had me curious as to how DK 94 pulled that one off, that grid made it pretty clear.

DK 94 really was a good game.
that’s what our proprietary Mattermark score calculates

Ranking data on a nonpublic metric make the analysis unfair. There's no way to trust that the data is even remotely accurate (and looking at some of the "spiking" startups, I really don't trust it)
Of course, if you use Netmap/DPDK/PF_RING you have to bring your own TCP stack, which is more than many app developers are comfortable with.
Last Song for Migrating Birds
I am consistently amazed by the profound contempt which modern liberalism holds for the traditional role of the wife and mother. In traditional societies, motherhood is not looked down upon or held in contempt, but mothers are honored. As the managers of families and the people that consistently invest the most in the next generation, they are the backbone of society. Every successful person today owes his success to a chain of hundreds of successful mothers, stretching back into pre-history.

It is only as our planning horizon has shrunk from a thousand years to six months that we begin to look on motherhood as a form of slavery. Females are told that they must do anything but a traditional female role to have value in society. We cajole women to act like men. In a way, liberalism is ironically misogynist.

It is little surprise then that Western liberals no longer breed above replacement rates. Denigrating motherhood is not the way for a people to last the aeons of time. I believe the future of the West is profoundly more conservative than the present, because Darwin. Liberalism is a suicidal ideology.
Terrible, bullshit, linkbait article. And I say that as someone who has been managing Web content for well over a decade.

> Content people really hate Lorem Ipsum. It says to us: ‘The words don’t matter very much. Just fill in this space with any old stuff. No one cares.’

No, it says that you, the content person, have not yet provided the real content to the designer. Designers have deadlines and can't/won't/shouldn't wait for content.

It also says that the designer knows that you, the content person, have a nasty habit of changing content or creating new content over time, and the design will need to accomodate that.
Thanks! Best of luck with your project.
Oh, you're just a conspiracy theorist. The commies, the arabs and the jews hate us for our freedom, thank God we have heroes like Dick Cheney, George W Bush and Barack Obama to protect us.
Thanks for sharing your own experience. It makes me incredibly happy to see that; Hurrah!

As Byron Katie says: "I find that every time I fight reality, reality wins."Once you accept what is, new ways to move forward emerge almost instantly. As long as you're in the "I wish that never happened" or in the "Why has this happened to me" state, you're not going to do anything useful.
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Context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dYlbz77uzI

(started by Hank Green of VidCon/vlogbrothers fame)
I thought that already existed, as Facebook Likes boondoggles.
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" is perhaps my favourite short story. Borges is so powerful that he shines through the translation barrier like it didn't exist.

While he is best known for his short stories, his non-fiction - essays, book and film reviews - are, if anything, even better.
Excellent point which I missed :) Can you tell I live in an L3 bubble?

I am surprised (from a quick Google) there is no open-source user-space PF_RING-aware TCP stack. Am I missing something?
For things like YouTube, that could work, but if Netflix tried to do something like that the cable compaines would just start their own services for their customers instead (a la Verizon's Redbox Instant)
Here is a page mirrored at archive.org, now 404ing on Apple's website, that will provide at least a little more information on Bill the Cat.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130723144507/http://www.apple.c...

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mansfield, he was retiring as of 13 months ago but stayed on for some reason, possibly because of Scott Forstall's departure. Given the circumstances, his may have been an interim role while Apple searched for a long-term solution.
> 100% in-memory workload. Don’t even think about hitting disk for 0.0001% of these requests.

They also discuss how these are 1M read requests.
Except it doesn't work that way because nobody who uses Comcast knows that Comcast charges content providers for peering. If you use Comcast, then you aren't the customer, you're the product.
Show HN: a tool for inspecting HTTP callbacks in realtime
The thing that shows off the different parts of the actual status pages is just a big screenshot with explanations controlled with some JS/CSS. The Creating and Managing Your Page section is actually HTML5 controlled videos.
This is just one of the many fights surrounding net neutrality.

We desperately need to break up ISP monopolies and enact strict net neutrality regulation and bandwidth (even latency/routing) guarantees. The idea that a single ISP is in a position to charge both YouTube and its customers is bizarre. By any basic reasoning, an ISP that doesn't enable access to YouTube should be out of customers within a few months. That this doesn't happen is testament to the broken market surrounding internet access, and a bad sign for the fights that await us.

(Google needs to start naming and shaming the ISPs that do not want to peer with them on reasonable conditions or with sufficient capacity when they detect bad performance on YouTube. They have been doing this locally, e.g. they delisted french news sites from Google News when these lobbied for protectionist laws, and they have been stating the parties that forbid them from showing copyrighted content, e.g. the GEMA in Germany.)
Will do thanks for the tip!
Wow. It's a new case study on how process risk equals 1970's-style failures: Big Design Upfront and failure to manage risk. Gambling with people's lives instead of ironing the bugs out in a mock environment, going live on a limited basis (smaller center/group first) and not letting the consultants drive the product.

The operators should've had final say on production worthiness. The arrogance of top-down "solutions" that don't work.

Other observation: results are often inversely proportional to budget, up to a point. Spending instead of thinking is not a solution.
fiverr.com would be the go to for that kind of gig.
From MacRumors:

> According to Reuters reporter Poornima Gupta, "Bob Mansfield is no longer on Apple's exec team but will remain at Apple working on special projects reporting to Cook."

> ...

> Last year, Apple announced that Mansfield would be retiring, but several months later announced he would instead be staying at the company. Later, it leaked that Tim Cook had faced an "insurrection" after Mansfield announced his retirement, and Cook gave him an extremely generous benefits package.

So he's moved on to whatever special arrangement has been made for him?

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/07/28/apple-senior-vice-presid...
You might be projecting a little. The comment you're replying to makes no mention of the role "wife" or "mother" in a disparaging sense, or otherwise.
Please designers, don't build sites like this. It looks super cool and fancy, but even my Macbook Pro with 16GB of RAM and the lastest build of Chromium was sluggish as hell.
Step one here is transparency. Before we impose new mechanisms by legislating, we should allow detailed study of the ones that are in place. To do that we may need legislation that states simply: All such peering agreements, including all of the technical and financial terms, shall be filed as public documents with the FCC at least 7 days prior to taking effect.

This accomplishes two things: It allows third-party analysis, and it provides early warning of change to affected parties.
That's probably intentional. A lot of people would buy the higher plan simply to avoid buying the "hobby" plan.
>We cajole women to act like men.

There's your problem.

Equality means removing old sexist views about the role of men and women in society. "Women to act like men" or "men to act like women" is a farce.

Humans should be free to define their role for themselves.

Also, I don't know why you're worried about the amount of humans on the planet. It's already overpopulated.
So its basically ISPs acting as CDNs, infact the best one money can buy.

Does this mean no one will every be a true competitor to Youtube or match its performance unless they pay all the local ISPs?
Never forget the day I got my first GBC...
I prefer to download videos with an extension and watch the file as it downloads in VLC instead, for longer videos.
What if they acquired a license? We would have come full circle, proving the idiocy of this system and, implicitly, that the intelligence of those who administer it is quite limited at best.
Not to mention it's almost impossible to pay attention to what the page was about. Something to do with that RS article that's also on the front page?
True, but my boondoggle doesn't use Facebook ;)
I agree. I'm not sure if this helps much, but here's the page from 7/23 which included his listing...

http://web.archive.org/web/20130723083752/http://www.apple.c...

And here's his page now returning a 404...

http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/bob-mansfield.html

(And, most importantly, I wanted to say how much I miss Bloom County.)
What does any of that have to do with the marginalization of women? Women are marginalized when they are told that they are simply not allowed to do certain things, or that they are not allowed to do certain things without their husband's or father's permission.

American women are not told that they must do anything but being a housewife. They are actively encouraged to pursue careers that at one time women were basically forbidden to pursue. Most of those careers are compatible with motherhood as much as they are compatible with fatherhood.
In the 1970s we were worried about "global cooling" and a possible coming ice age.
Many of the questions are so stupid that I would refuse to answer them.
I probably should have qualified that a little better: I don't think anyone sane is wanting the next war - which I agree would most likely be US + allies vs. China + allies and would likely spell Armageddon.

My earlier post was really concerned more with those actors within relevant industries whose motive is to maximise profit, not with those actors whose motive is to win a dick measuring competition between their country/empire and someone else’s. If the latter guys win out then yeah, all bets are off I'd say.

Perhaps I'm overestimating their adherence to logic and reason, but I don't think those actors motivated primarily by greed want such a big, uncontrollable war, the outcome of which is not foregone. They want little controllable ones like Gulf War 1 and 2 (or failing this, the surveillance state).
Just wait until Tsarnaev is Time's "person of the year"
If you had bothered to read the article, you would have found that the fire fighting service was offered by a neighboring jurisdiction to a jurisdiction that had no fire service of its own.

Many rural U.S. counties have no standing fire fighters. Fires are fought by volunteers, often using donated equipment. There is nothing immoral about a town offering enhanced fire service to subscribers outside the town.

Similar arrangements are also common between ambulance companies and subscribers. Old people with a fixed income consider it a great deal to pay $50 a year or so for discounted service.
I was responding to an oversimplified and vacuous argument, that naively assumes that supply and demand are the only two market forces. You ought to read up on the field of System Dynamics. I am not "cherrypicking", but you are over simplifying.
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A company I used to work for did exactly that. Our in-house graphic designer took Bootstrap and customized the living snot out of it. We (the devs) could work from the standard Bootstrap docs but the end product looked nothing like stock Bootstrap.

Not only does it give both devs and designers a point of reference for communication, it makes it much easier to ramp up new devs since they don't need to learn the idioms of our style sheets.
I really like overtone and what people could do with it. I had it installed, but I gave up after I realized my emacs muscle memories had atrophied a bit too much. That said the constant development of supercollider has made it the preeminent music programming environment.

This book looks more like the start of the CSound manual. That said, awesome, but not where I would run to to get started making sounds.
A Canadian study found that extremely conservative women reported higher degrees of happiness than average:

http://www.moreright.net/oaks-vs-sandboxes/
Maybe it's because women put greater value in stability and religion is old so it gives illusion of stability.
(experienced body boarder/body surfer, novice actual surfer ;-)

I think the point is that, regardless of which wave you decide to catch, whether it be the first or second one, at some point to need to sync-up. If you miss the first one, then you still have to speed up or you're going to miss the second one too.

There's definitely an optimal timing that takes the minimum amount of energy to accelerate and synchronize with the "sweet spot" of the wave; beginners need to paddle early and paddle hard, whereas an expert has a better feel for it and will exploit his or her experience with the timing to expend less effort catching a wave.

When you surf, paddling up to speed and the timing will make or break catching a particular wave - which is very important is the "good waves" are rarer. With an acoustic loop, it's may be more predictable, but you still probably want to get it right the first time, while you're still in the main accelerator section of the tube.
I'm royal.

(Don't hide behind a throwaway... peasant)
Because many people are incapable of examining that particular issue without emotion

I hope you mean that as directed to both sides of the argument, because it's certainly true.
The 95%-of-diets-fail number comes from a single study in an obesity clinic performed in 1959. Followup studies, also at obesity clinics, found comparably high rates of recidivism.

But when you take the most pathological cases of obesity in a time before obesity was the norm, unsurprisingly those cases are ... pathological. There is a pathology.

These aren't normal people who grew overweight under conditions of stunning caloric abundance.

So let's stop quoting this statistic because the sample bias is kindly stupidly important to its interpretation.
>> religion is partially to blame for them being marginalized in society

Completely not true. It's the nature of work and power in human societies since the Neolithic revolution, that put man in control.
The eyebrow-raiser is that Rolling Stone is hardly a non-biased source, I don't think they even try to pretend otherwise. Therefore by default you should view anything you read there with skepticism.
Here it is, by the way: https://github.com/jckarter/clay/blob/master/examples/hello.....
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thanks for your reply. This will help.
It's not canon. There are lots of theories, but none is widely accepted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion#Possible_cau...
He did not sweep in and take everyone's guns as was the meme at the time. People were literally stockpiling AR-15s and ammo because they believed this.

Stand Your Ground is a horrible law that's ripe for abuse. That's become more evident since his days in the State Senate. Likewise, there wasn't a "shooting spree of the month" at the time. Things have changed, and I would want someone who can reassess and change his position when conditions require. Still, the main point is that conservatives believed in change as much as progressives. It is just the flip side of the same coin: progressives welcomed the change to gun laws and conservatives were rabidly opposed to it. That's the case with much of this discussion.

Regarding taxes, the point is that many on the right (especially Tea-partiers) believed their taxes were higher even when he had actually lowered them across the board. They literally named themselves after a tax revolt because they were so angry that he was raising taxes when in truth he'd lowered them.

How cartoonish is that? But, that was the extent to which they, also, believed in "change". Even facts couldn't sway them from their doggedly held beliefs that he was a socialist who was taxing them to give money to poor people.

Finally, it is far from a "tiny minority" who believed that he was a socialist, outright communist, muslim (as if that were inherently evil), non-U.S. born, etc.

For instance a 2011 CBS poll showed that 45% of Republicans believed he was born in another country.

These conspiracy theories and right wing attacks to paint him as "other" were clearly successful and they contributed greatly to the sense that this man was, indeed, different. For a progressive who was on the fence about whether he was different, the rabid fear and irrational reaction of the right served as evidence that maybe this man was legitimately about change if he so irked the right.

That you act as if none of this happened is incredible. Funny that you mentioned "sleight of hand".
It is. By eating up your memory, this site starves NSA malware.
This should be the first comment on this page.
ViewTube: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011

It replaces the YouTube player with the standard html5 video player. This alone made my experience on YouTube way better.
My connection is slow, so many times I'll just open a YouTube video in a background tab, and leave it loading for a while. With this, I can just preload the whole video.
And seeking doesn't make the video reload.

A side bonus, also, is that every video will use the html5 player, so making flash useless on YouTube (one of the few sites that make me keep flash installed). It will also remove the ads, so it might not be your thing for moral/ethical reasons.
Empirically, what you're saying is not true. Many countries use USD as their primary currency, however their citizens do not pay taxes to the US.

But let's say I agree. I'm gonna switch to Bitcoin and start my own country. Problem is, no one's gonna let me occupy a territory I choose even though it may not be used at all (!) by a government or any of the citizens. The moment I start building my house in the woods, someone's gonna notice and send people in suits to evict me. What's the justification for that? No one uses the land anyway! Why is some government more entitled to it than I am?
If you have a Mac, try a free program called YouView. Google YouView Mac. It gives you YouTube experience, but uses the MP4 files YouTube hosts for the mobile platforms. I never have a problem with YouView. Some times it's slow, but at least you can download the entire movie before watching. Also, it uses a lot less resources, 5-10% CPU vs 30%+ if played via browser. This means better battery life.

I think something like that must exist for windows and Linux, but I could not find anything free.
Really interesting piece. It is amazing that a technique used to optimize shop floors has been applied to the engineering field which I believe to be so creative versus "industrial."
Thanks for the comment. I actually spent a considerably amount of time looking for a meaningful reference. I found the Popkess-Vawter 1998 reference, but could not find the original text. Do you have a better number for "failure" or reference that I could use? I would be happy to update the post.
Seemed mostly fine on my old 2Ghz iMac with 2GB RAM and Chrome 28.0.1500.71. But I still agree with you, all the graphical effects were distracting.