skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, tell me which lib takes whatever JSON and allows laying it out like NoFlo and allows custom styling of nodes AND connections (colors, icons, font other styling). Something higher-level then D3.
Check out obtvse2 on github. It's got several themes with a clean look.
"Documentation that is complete and accurate"

If the guy said nothing else, this would earn credibility.

Facebook is a fucking mess. Let's all call it what it is. Maybe there are competent people working deep on the back-end, but for the most part, Facebook is a clinic on shitty design from top to bottom.
Amsterdam has its own problems namely hordes of drunk and high people from UK and US being loud and obnoxious. As a person who drives through the Netherlands sometimes, if you just want to chill out and smoke a nice joint in the park I recommend Eindhoven.
There are other drugs.

I was diagnosed with ADHD a few weeks ago. So far I've trialled ritalin and dexedrine.

Ritalin works very well if I have a clear task.

Dexedrine made me tired, confused and aggressive.

The point is: different drugs work differently for different people. Trial different ones. There are even drugs that have non-stimulant modes of action now.
> Don't pull this kind of stunt again.

This isn't a stunt, this is harmless. Only those with Stockholm Syndrome w/r/t the regulators see this as anything other than harmless. (Regrettably, this may include prosecutors.)

But seriously, this just ain't a big fuckin' deal.
The WordPress leads speak from experience. Caching objects to disk was introduced in WordPress 2.0, released in 2005. Turns out it actually slowed down the vast majority of sites.

Databases are really, really good at storing and retrieving data, much more than filesystems, especially when those filesystems are often remotely mounted drives.

The functionality was pulled back out of WordPress in a later version, leaving all of the various hooks needed for a plugin to super-easily implement it on its own. I use a memcached powered one for example.
"He did this by setting up a series of paradoxes that showed, among other things, that half a given span of time is equal to twice that given span of time, that time and space are neither continuous nor discrete, and that nothing ever moves. Ever."

None of those things are true. One minute isn't equal to four minutes, Zeno didn't prove anything about time and space being neither continuous nor discrete, and things clearly do move.
+1. Software engineering trained me to go for root causes rather than symptoms. As "get your shit together" books go, this one goes the deepest towards the roots of procrastination. Actually it is time for me to re-read it, I spend too much time on HN :-)
Calculus is a tool for reasoning about exactly this kind of thing. If you think there is an actual paradox present, please explain what it is.
I voted it up not because I believed it, but because I don't give a shit if others disbelieve it.

Anything that can further the growing mass of anger and resentment at the US military's illegal surveillance actions and resultant policy of dishonesty is beneficial to our ends.
OK, here goes!

Made me chuckle every time.
What are you talking about? Here is the quote from the article: >>At the time, Volvo was already pushing its brand as a safety conscious automaker. Its CEO, whose relative had recently died in a car crash, decided to hire Nils Bohlin, a man who had previously designed ejector seats for fighter jets, as chief safety engineer (a new position).<<
Life of a stranger who stole my phone
Transmeta was doing dynamic binary translation from x86 to VLIW. I think the grandparent comment is saying that you could distribute programs in an IR and then compile them before running.
And before that we had social networks like email and usenet, and instant-messaging systems like IRC.

Certainly these things are cyclic, but that doesn't mean they're completely beyond the influence of ordinary people, let alone the kinds of people who tend to hang out on HN.
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In Finland, neighbouring Sweden, we also have more different containers for different trash than you'd care for. It takes time to learn all that and when you've finally sorted out all your trash properly to different bins, you sit on your balcony and look at the garbage truck reversing to the yard. The guy goes inside the garbage shed and brings out one bin of certain color, empties it in the truck, and drives away to the next address only to come back a few days later to do the same. When your mind accidentally multiplies this activity by the number of different colored bins you have there, you begin to imagine the local emissions produced by these different trucks circling around all the time, emptying one type of trash each. There are so many bins that each of them must be rather small, so the buffering capacity of the garbage sheds causes excess traffic and pollution due to regular visits by the garbage trucks. Further, some things are collected in certain recycling points, such as non-returnable glass waste like jars and olive oil bottles, which means people take them there with private cars!

For a long time we used to have general waste and compostables. That was quite understandable because you really want the compostables into a separate heap because of...well, composting and you can produce bio gas off composts if the percentage of decomposing waste is high enough. But I'm pretty sure the separation of glass, wood, papers, cardboards etc. could be done in some automated way that reaches a good enough success rate that would make it economically and ecologically viable.
Even with proper locks, an expensive enough bike could have parts taken from it, given a bit of time. Or some asshole could give it a kick just out of spite. No way I'd leave mine around town, even with a huge lock.

Also, a high end road bike, frankly, isn't the most comfortable thing to cruise around on.

I love bikes, in any case, and there's no reason you can't have both! I have a very nice, custom made bike for actual rides, and a dumpy, rusty bike with one speed for cruising around town.
Why did offices become like the home?
I haven't read anything more than the title or any comments and I trust the reputable sources at the register completely.

So i gotta say: Yup, aliens.
Firstly, MySQL is actually terrible at the core task of Wordpress, which is joining tables with TEXT fields. If it finds a TEXT field it throws its hands in the air and joins on disk, taking great care to avoid any indexes you might have added to speed up those joins.

Any time the query cache isn't there to save you, you wind up stomping around on disk anyway. Fun fact: the recent comments widget that ships in mainline blows the query cache.

Secondly, file caching could still ship in mainline with a tickbox to enable it.

Thirdly, I've never seen a site that wasn't improved by file caching. However I believe you that the Wordpress guys get a lot more reports than I do.

Finally, 2005 was eight years ago.
There's a much simpler narrative than "company devotes substantial resources to monitor all google searches":

The person was apparently a very recent former employee. It's pretty standard procedure to log out a recently departed employee's accounts and revoke all of their permissions, and it's not a big stretch to assume some sort of simple audit of their recent activity. Did they have any partially-completed work sitting on their desktop? Were they still logged in to the billing system? Did they have anything checked out? I can imagine an IT guy at a smallish company sitting down at the console and finding a browser window still open with a handful of work tabs, and a tab of google search results, and noticing the google search results are a little bit suspicious.
Honestly, I could practice any instrument for 10,000 hours and still sound like I was touching up a chicken. Or try learning a language for 10,000 hours and sound like I was speaking it through a bucket of horse glue with the accent of a freshly minted coin.

There's a reason "The plural of anecdote is Gladwell"...
OT, but do you think you could point me in the direction of whoever's responsible for WPL/AntiXSS? It's been broken for ages [1] [2]. There seem to be no reliable HTML sanitization library for .NET right now. It looks like the best I could do is to copy and paste a bunch of code and hope that it works [3].

[1] http://wpl.codeplex.com/releases/view/80289#ReviewsAnchor

[2] http://wpl.codeplex.com/workitem/17246

[3] http://eksith.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/whitelist-santize-htm...
> All American technologists are supporting the surveillance state, indirectly but tangibly.

Technically, all American taxpayers are.
If you don't belive you can apply calculus to solve the problem what makes you believe you can use division or addition to define the problem? These are tools too.
Well, that's one way to deal with having to name 10 kids.
Not snark, but how do you figure? I'm curious.
Apparently I was not the only high school student on the 95 beta.

I wonder now if i was the only one to crash our entire novell network by trying to use Microsoft's version of the novell client.
Actually in ISO-8601 it's 2013-213. There is a standard for dates and stuff we can readily use ;-)
I'm not an Objective-C native, but every time I write Objective-C it feels like I'm writing a short story.

applicationDidLoad:withANotification:iWonderWhatTheWeatherTodayIs:LetsAskSiri:
Exactly this is the problem with grafting visual programming interfaces onto textual programming semantics. One of the main important reasons to do VP is to be able to inspect the code, to easier see what it does, ideally at a glance. Yet as you point out, simple recursion can make this really difficult to do. My thesis is that we need VPLs that have semantics specifically tailored for the visual interface. It's possible, but takes a bit of thinking to work out
"if the price of BTC stabilizes" is the key

Does anyone else think that BTC is the greater fool theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory) ?

Will the world allow itself to be swindled by the Winklevoss twins? For all its advantages, it seems there will always be high risk and speculation to it.
++ for pep8 :)
You are assuming more about the Planck units than is currently known. Directly from wikipedia:

"There is currently no directly proven physical significance of the Planck length; it is, however, a topic of research."
I feel the same way about lawyering :)

HN is "tame" to say the least.
"The trick is that if you aren't worried about finishing the task you want to do"

Oh my god, that sounds like putting the finger RIGHT on the sore spot... I always have a fear of finishing something and it's a bit of a problem for me. Thanks for sharing this!
That's hard to say until they actually release documentation. When I first noticed it [1] 10 months ago, it seemed very flaky and slow, but it appears to have improved a lot in the meantime.

[1]: https://twitter.com/marijnjh/status/252814288891285505

Still, it's closed source, so for now, not very relevant for the rest of us.
Nothing wrong in reversing entropy, if you do it by adding energy into the system. I guess shooting photons counts.
That's pretty funny, but the mathematician must be one who lived before the invention of calculus, which resolves such paradoxes. (With either infinitesimals or limits.)
Sounds like patents are a bad idea, then.
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I don't know if I understand it correctly.

If space and time is discrete, and movement is deterministic - Zeno paradox is a paradox - object moving at speed 1 minimal division of space (MDS) per 2 minimal divisions of time (MDT) isn't at any valid point of space after 1 minimal division of time which is paradoxical.

Calculus solved this, but it has assumption that space and time is continuous.

Now we have experiments that shows us it's not true, so probably the assumption about determinism isn't true. So for example object moving 1 MDS per 2 MDT "really" moves 1 MDT per 1 MDT with probability 0.5.

Am I getting this right?
Up to some point in the past, MSVC produced better code than GCC, but most recent benchmarks have them roughly equal. MSVC has actually gotten slower in the last couple iterations, but not by a lot.
> We don't accept based on academic merit. We accept based on government unemployment programs

That's overly pessimistic.

Compared to most of the world, the fact that the size of your wallet doesn't directly determine which schools we can go to is remarkable.
If you're going to look at creating supervisors for web-workers, I encourage you to look at how Erlang deals with this. It's got an exceptional set of standard libraries for managing large numbers of possibly unreliable threads, and it should really be what we're aiming to get to.

I can see the evolution of this already:

* Web workers

* Web worker supervisors

* Realisation that supervisors might die

* Invention of a supervisor tree. Thousands of articles describing how they've implemented it with a catchy name and slightly different semantics.

* Restart strategies. More articles, with different ways of achieving the same thing. Someone invents library called defibrillatr.

* Heartbeat from some core JS module.

* At some point a reasonable programming model emerges and basically all work is moved into these threads.

* Realisation that we're making the same server-client model again and again, standard library is created to deal with this code repetition.

* Finite state machines, etc. added

Can we jump through this somewhat? At least, I'd like to identify where web workers can't match erlang (signals from dying threads?) so we can work out where it's possible to reach in this, then jump right there. Almost all of this is the OTP in erlang, which is just libraries and common code (I'm not sure about exception passing, etc). It's battle hardened and really good.
As a response to your edit, no it doesn't. So what? If you can infinitely divide space in the manner of Zeno's paradox, then the sum is well defined and easy to do. If you can't, the paradox doesn't apply to reality. What's the problem?
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FWIW, Microsoft hasn't made an effort to support much of C99 because almost none of their users (Windows and XBox developers) use C. I don't know any Windows or XBox programmers who uses C.

Your point is still valid: if you want to compile C99 code, MSVC is not even an option.
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But now you are saying that has do with the size of your wallet (or rather lack of), which is true, but that does not mean we are basing it on academic merit. That is jumping to conclusions and assumptions.

What is the academic merits to become a teacher today? Zero?

Edit: Added extra paragraph.
Maybe this explains it...

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/happy-fun-ball/...
It depends on the scale. In Denmark, while we can do it privately by driving to recycle stations - highly inefficient as you mention. The sorting in urban areas however, is mostly glass, paper (and the like), and general waste - it does not matter if a truck picks this up, because he would have to do so as general waste anyway, if it wasn't sorted. Many larger stores also have facilities for batteries, but I'm unsure how many uses them as most people I know toss them in with the general waste.

It has also been tried many times to separate organic matter from the rest (different colour of bags), and using automatic systems to sort it. It has been mostly dropped because it's more expensive than just burning everything unfortunately. Which brings me to the main point. We can be very efficient and recycle most of the waste, find a optimum point where we minimize the environmental footprint - it's just expensive, and the first thing to go when the city need to save money. People just don't care about future generations, or don't believe it's a problem, to accept the cost of recycling.
> I've got the forms and I'm pretty sure you could be Tanaka Taro by the end of today

Now I see where point 39. of your post about names comes from :).
Equating these uses of "force" is an almost troll-like stretch.
Or press tab to get a partial completion and use the arrow keys to pick the right one?
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The map vs. territory issue at hand depends on whether you take Zeno's paradoxes to be statements about physics or statements about logic. If it's the latter, calculus resolves those with ease. If it's the former, well, then you have to look at the physics. And the physics are described in our maps by math which includes differential equations of complex numbers, and hence the paradoxes are again resolved as best as we're capable unless some new representation of physics comes along that makes the paradoxes manifest.
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Forgive my ignorance, but what does 'LTS' stand for?
Dealing with names in Japan is really a life experience in itself. Yes, I was refering to the Alien registration certificate.

As you say, there are so many to choose from. I changed 4 times during my stay (at the end I had my name twice in the same field, one in latin characters and one in katakana, plus a 'nickname' with my wife's family name. BTW it was the best choice so far, even if it's awkward to fill bank papers with 'SOME ROMAJI NAME (カタカナ名)'. Immigration Office staff really do a shitty job at dealing with the registration, but I had it changed at the prefecture I lived. They are much more forthcoming, and will accept to use anything reasonable as a name.
That's so clever it ticks my "creepy" box. Well done... sorta.
You can do something with Twitter instead. No reason to completely drop a project if the first place you look to host it doesn't seem appealing.

Twitter has their share of warts, but they're markedly different when it comes to the speed of "breaking things".

Something to keep in mind though: You're working with someone else's platform which means you participate at their pleasure. Any API provider can do whatever they please with their product so try to decouple API handling from the rest of your client as much as you can so you can reduce the likelihood of being pulled by the tides.
I think mathemathician considered getting there after inf * 30 seconds to be "never".

The important difference between this and Zeno paradox is - in Zeno paradox time is also divided.
> United States, where week starts on Sunday

> Yury Gagarin goes to the space

Gotta love Russian-flavour English.
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Yep, that's the same editor (Monaco). This can be easily verified by checking the HTML.
"Show me all the VPN startups in country X, and give me
the data so I can decrypt and discover users."

Can someone explain this bit to me please? I read this as:

1) The NSA have a list of companies (grouped by country),
which analysts can 'target' for further inspection.
2) The NSA can 'decrypt' that encrypted data.
3) The NSA can 'discover' users.

2) and 3) are weird and scary. This suggests that VPN traffic is not secure at all. It also suggests that they can target specific users exiting at that VPN provider. There is nothing stated about restrictions on particular VPN protocols, suggesting that all are decryptable. Hence, OpenVPN could be also as vulnerable as PPTP and L2TP/IPSEC.

To me this suggests that VPN's provide no privacy value against NSA spying.

How have other people interpreted this slide?