skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two other approaches, a bit messier but with bigger coverage:

* ConceptNet (http://conceptnet5.media.mit.edu/), I think the first major attempt at a "messier" crowdsourced commonsense-facts database. Not a carefully designed hierarchical ontology like Cyc, but rather a large set of lightly curated statements about natural-language nouns and verbs. Has the pros and cons you might expect: better coverage, and easier to use, but less precision and a lot of ambiguity due to polysemy.

* CMU's "Read the Web" (http://rtw.ml.cmu.edu/rtw/) and U. Washington's "Open IE" (http://openie.cs.washington.edu/), both projects that combine a shallow-parsing fact-extractor with web-scale crawling. They are truly gigantic, but the accuracy is not very high.
Agreed, if you can find the name of the exact location on the bottle then you are probably protected under a European PDO. Kalamata is an island famed for the quality of its olives. In the UK I buy Iliada oil from the supermarket, it is a good quality Greek olive oil that is one of the most popular brands in Greece (not just a made up brand for export).

Remember that each oil has its own smoke point and you shouldn't take Olive oil to it's smoke point. If you need to cook with smoking oil (some Asian cooking) then you need a different oil. I once saw a chart of which oils were best for different uses but I can't find it now.
Thanks, Jeroen. You're correct, it doesn't strictly follow the Google brand guidelines. Like the current identity, I wanted the brand to have hints of Google's branding, while remaining fairly independent.
This is a CEO issue, not a "new building" issue. The new building is a symptom, not a cause.

When experienced managers and leaders start trying to manage beyond their competence it's more often a result of arrogance rather than ignorance.
This project is so cool, only Elixir on Xen could be just as cool.
But what fraction of those A8s were purchased in the last six months, when Tesla has been an option?
The initial amount of memory required by VM, while being significant for small command line utilities is only a fraction of total memory required by an application. In a web application tuned for performance a lot of the memory will be used for caching anyways. Also, I'd be glad to pay a small memory hit upfront if that means that I will get a top quality GC and very low probability of memory leaks in the long run.

As for the startup time, MojoJolo summed it up.
GitHub API is down
https://status.github.com

API Availability — Experiencing Problems. Well, it is down in fact for us
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Why is ft.com allowed here?

Most users will not have ready access to the article contents therefore will be commenting mostly on the title itself. This sways the discussion towards the shallow end.

I must agree with junto. Boo FT paywall. Boo.
Speak for yourself, this is a lot clearer for me. I'm used to navigating grammars, but I can't deal with regex (way too terse). Especially when I'm not just matching, but I want to extract info. Some verbosity can go a long way to making things clearer.

Don't know if this is the solution I'm looking for though
Please go read Kurzweil. Scientific advancement is dead on track on an exponential curve. Moore's law is still accurate.

Will it keep this rate as Kurzweil postulates? I have no idea. Until now, though, he's correct.

Comparing tech today with sci-fi of the past is wrong. Predictions fail both ways: there's lots of tech we do have that is missing in sci-fi.
What exactly is this "relationship"? Quarks dancing around in fields are quarks dancing around in fields, whether they together make planets or plants or something else is irrelevant to the laws of physics.
TIOBE Programming Community Index for August 2013

(...) Winners are Go (from 42 to 26), (...)

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
I've got an iPad 2 which was made after she lobbed herself out of a window. Nice to see mike daisey has got a new job though.

Doesn't Foxconn have a lower rate of suicides than the average Chinese city?
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> I've never understood the weird fascination with "many-worlds".

In addition to the parsimony/redundancy argument already brought up, our weird fascination with "many worlds" should be utterly obvious from a psychological perspective. It's a powerful, potentially soothing thought: anything that could have been has been, in some strange way.

Thinking about the "what if" constitutes a deeply human tendency (or weakness, if you will). The notion that all our missed chances, fantasies, dreams, ideas, etc. may be actual as opposed to potential -- that's way too attractive a thought to ignore.
Why report it at all? Seriously. If I'm affected, I'll find out. If I'm not affected, why should you tell me?

It seems that every time a well-known service goes down, for however long, for whatever reason, instantly there's a flurry of posts here making sure everyone knows something that they either already know, or won't care about.

I'd really like that to stop, although perhaps I'm just a curmudgeonly old grey-beard.
Based on the speed with which the post received votes, I suspect most of the "votes" came from people trying to submit the news that had already been submitted.

I agree with you, OP, but it seems there were a lot of people jumping on that bandwagon.
Bitcoin + an article about exif divulging your location gives me the chills.
> The most plausible explanation would amount essentially to a misconfigured library, not a fundamental advantage due to say, advanced JVM JIT.

Really, the most plausible explanation? I'd say the most plausible explanation is that M:N scheduling has always been bad at latency and fair scheduling. That's why everybody else abandoned it when that matters. It's basically only good for when fair and efficient scheduling doesn't matter, like maths for instance, which is why it's still used in Haskell and Rust. I wouldn't be surprised to see Rust at least abandon M:N soon though once they start really optimizing performance.
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How easy it is to install non-free packages in Debian?

I myself have been considering to switch to Debian, the only thing holding me back is Debian's policy on not including packages that don't meet their requirement as "Free Software" in their official repository.
I've seen this mentality time and time again at the company i work, the old C programmers who tried C++ once and found a thing or two that didn't appeal to them and from that time on C++ was marked as BS.
Thanks to parent (after edit) for really testing. It turns out that he was right that Go on Mac is substantially worse than Linux - my bad. Maybe the Go lib authors didn't put much effort into reading the subtly different BSD/Darwin vs Linux syscall semantics.

To explain the Nagle algorithm's irrelevance to this case, we have to understand how it works. It doesn't delay any writes once you read. It only affects two consecutive small writes (my memory was fuzzy so I checked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle's_algorithm ). Odds of preemption between the client's write and its read seem small, so it shouldn't matter whether you Nagle or not.
Are you sure? Since version 1, they can recognize themselves in a mirror.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157157
If we keep writing down common sense datums until 2100, we can make computers as smart as people.

We learn more about brains and making smart computers, but we seem to have run out of major architectural innovations -- better ones won't make a huge difference. The big stumbling block seems to be how much "common sense" a system knows, like that things tend to fall down when you bump them. One group has been writing these down for fifteen years with moderate success; a century more effort may be plenty.

This seems like a really inefficient way to go about it.
Despite what people say, I still don't think that Java has shaken the image of being bloated and slow and requiring a heavy VM and loads of RAM.
You edit one file, uncomment the non-free repos, and do apt-get update.

That's it.
To anyone who haven't red "The Definitive ANTLR reference" by Terrence Par. I can highly recommend it. It is beautiful.

http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ANTLR4/ANTLR+4+Documentati...
-People notice that downtime posts end up on the front page.

-Those who care about fake internet points see downtime messages as "easy karma." No thought required.

-The mad rush to submit the "news" for easy karma results in votes for the first submission.

-The cycle repeats.

Downtime messages aren't the only thing. Sometimes things make it to the front page based on their perceived likelihood to make it to the front page.
You'd have a risk of falling into a trap of a local maximum, especially with a naive algorithm. It's pretty much the cause of buffer bloat - everyone adjusting the buffer sizes to handle current load without losing packets. Which makes things worse globally of all systems do it. For a learning algorithm to work, I think it would have to be a distributed learning system in your whole network (or multiple connected networks).
Is the OS not scheduling M runnable threads on N cores? Blocking/non-blocking is just an API distinction, and languages implement one in terms of the other.
Why is there no script bytecode?
asm.js is the nearest thing to it, but V8 has a internal bytecode and it's a shame it cannot be precompiled and included as a script type.
People never live in today, but in the afterimages from different times in the past. Your friend from college has changed; that little town you visited near Prague years ago is quite different now.

The America most people see in their mind is the one of decades ago; it's not the America of today. The America of today is quite poor, with around 40% making below the minimum wage of 1968. While there's still a lot of wealth there, it's heavily concentrated into the hands of a few, as is typical in second-world and third-world countries. And it's difficult to reconcile that image with the one in our minds.
So if you are a hotel owner which happens to be used for illegal operations, say pimping, money laundering or drug dealing you are "a facilitator" for these crimes?
Samsung mass produces industry's first 3D NAND flash chips
You can buy anonymous prepaid CC in Europe (e.g. UK, Germany) to buy hosting.
True, but maybe they bought it for the userbase, as much as for the games? I'm just speculating but if you have someone spending money on a game or gaming online, is it easier to cross-sell them?
How to marry someone hotter than you, Timing is everything.
And for every idea that ends up taking off, a hundred others don't.
I'm curious: are you saying Go is M:N and JVM is not? I had to look up M:N - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing)#M:N_.28Hybri... - but ultimately I don't know anything about JVM or Go threading, and your comment didn't go enough into detail for me to follow your reasoning.
Remove OrderedCollection from JavaScript or add it to Dart, then compare. This extra level of indirection on every container is very costly in V8 and Ion. At least four of your coworkers are aware of this. They should have communicated it to you a long time ago.
Well, I guess it depends on how broadly you want to define religion. A handful of traditional and possibly superstitious behaviors and cave paintings of the big, scary blob of fire in the sky could qualify, but I think we were talking about a much more complex set of beliefs and value systems involving omnipotent, omniscient being(s).

Were the seeds of religion sown in primitive peoples observations of and attempts to reckon with all the scary shit they would witness in the natural world? Absolutely. But any "definitive" statements on pre-historical belief systems are probably anthropological hearsay, possibly weighted by our current knowledge of and feelings towards religion. What was going on back then could have been just slightly more complex than a dog hiding under the bed when there's thunder.

And keep in mind, we're talking about a 200,000 year run up to recorded history. However, I'm sure there was a more complex oral tradition of storytelling and mythmaking that was starting to develop before the Sumerians took off.
As someone who doesn't like admitting I don't understand things, it pains me to say that I can make no sense of the final diagram.
https://code.google.com/p/google-apps-script-issues/issues/d...

This issue almost took more than a year to get fixed - I had to drop a project midway and start with other technologies from the scratch to build the same thing.

The developer experience could have been better.
Was this the article that you were talking about?

http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2012/11/28/amazon-and-margins
My computer in 1998 had:

- the same amount of storage (2GB)

- 1/16th of the RAM

- No wireless (modem instead)

- Pentium II -_-

- more than 500 time the weight.

- and was playing choppy video at 240p

Take that!
Isn't this sort of Godwinning the thread? He didn't mention Snowden just for the sake of it, he was making a valid point.
I don't know where the poster's "performance" came from in the title, the TLDP doc just calls these "obscure settings".

Actually it seems someone just copypasted the whole set of sysctls from the kernel ip-sysctl.txt, as the list includes the most common settings such as net/ipv4/ip_forward, net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time and net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range.
you're better off going with a best practice

No-one ever got fired for buying IBM.
version two disease
Google for the title and click the linked result to circumvent the paywall once...
Are you talking about iOS game companies or other game companies? I'm talking about iOS game companies.

Also, I didn't say it was a guarantee, but it is far far easier. Also, remember the scale of Draw Something. Over 100 million downloads in the first year.
You think? VC funds, record labels, games studios are all hits-run businesses. Of course some of them make profits, but none can guarantee hits.
There's OCaml on Xen (http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/mirage-os.html).
Yes I forget the audience. Go uses M:N scheduling meaning that the OS has M threads and Go multiplexes N of its own threads on top of these. The JVM uses N:1 like basically every other program where the kernel does all scheduling.

The basic problem with M:N scheduling is that the OS and program work against each other because they have imperfect information, causing inefficiencies.
The cheaper trim levels and options packages are not available Stateside.
An entity controlling traffic at your internet connection can force node selection during circuit building by failing requests to uncontrolled nodes. The path bias warning is informational only AFAIK (was added in 2012?) and is not perfect.
Can you name these companies?

I would like to add them to the StartHQ SaaS directory, if they're not there already: https://starthq.com/apps/?category=creative
Chaos theory [1] will make sure that any minor change will result in drastically different result, so assumptions and guesses won't be sufficient.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
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I think there's a whole range of existing Android HDMI sticks that come close in price and far exceed it in specs and hackability to the point where you don't really need to hack them, just install android apps to do whatever you want.
I've never felt much need for downvote privileges before, but I cannot believe that parent comment and the resulting thread are still positive.

At best this is substance-less noise with respect to the article, and at worst, an attempt to troll users into a heated, pointless, debate.
Is this that much more of an issue than every NSA story rehash, most of which doesn't offer any new info?
Working with Vagrant, Chef and XDebug
> ... but there are no equations or even firm rules for when this collapse is supposed to happen

That's why it isn't science ;)

Maybe when QM was being developed "collapse" was a debated concept; I'm not too familiar with its history. Currently though, modern QM predicts that ensembles of identically prepared systems select an eigenstate of the linear operator corresponding to whatever observable it is you're measuring. Each of these eigenstates has a probability that can be calculated for it, and the mean value of these measurements is given by <Ψ|A|Ψ>, where A is the operator. I see no implications of collapse with this -- just probabilities of what values you will obtain in experiment.
Anyone know the code behind the new Tumblr 'like' animation?
Hi guys, so I noticed this new Tumblr 'like' animation (although it was around a few months ago) on the dashboard. Anyone know the tech behind it? I want to implement it to some of my projects. Thanks
Here's the gif
http://media.tumblr.com/4e16fe3161714c52a91c3dcc2b7a8261/tumblr_inline_mnoaselA2C1qz4rgp.gif
Write a gateway in-between to process success and smooth out the error message the end user sees.
And how do those millions of unemployed people feel about the fact that they probably won't get that call simply because of the incompetency of said recruiters?
Scala can also host the JVM (well, a subset of it, enough to run itself): https://github.com/lihaoyi/Metascala
Ask HN: Is the word "Computer" outdated?
I had a discussion with myself while driving the other day (who doesn't do that?), and I saw this jumbo ad for "PC computers", which got me smiling, since the C stands for computer anyway.

But it got me thinking at the same time - back in the old days, computers really were computing and were used for it, but nowadays the computing part is just an underlying cause/feature for their existence, but we use them mainly for media consumption and communication, so naming them computers doesn't feel right any more - it's like cars would be called spinners because spinning wheels (or engine) is what gets us around.

Your thoughts?
I haven't tried it myself yet, but I really wish that somebody would continue working on this as I think it is an awesome project. My CS knowledge is not deep enough to work on this myself, I fear. The author wrote this about the project in February (on the mailing list):

"So, it's not dead but there's (currently) noone working on it besides me
and my time for it is very limited (to barely more than zero over the
last year). I'm hopeful that I'll be able to find more time, hopefully
around summer. That said, if anyone is interested in working on it, I'm
more than happy to have the help. I do promise to make some time to work
with potential contributors, but as you can see my latency can be pretty
bad at times. "

And last year in June he wrote this:
"Also, most any normal scala program will not work since many parts of the standard library are not compatible yet with LLVM (because of java library dependencies)."

Which probably still stands as there's no way to easily convert the java library to Scala and then to llvm.
A billion times this!

Twice in the last 4 days, 2 stories to hit the front page in a row have been "ZONOES GITHUB DOWN!!!" when it's been a small blip.
this was really detailed. very impressed.
This post is worse than what it derides, of course. It fits well within the category of things that pollute people's RSS feeds unnecessarily.

This is hacker news, and many of the hackers here use GitHub so when it goes down they might be spinning their wheels. If it is down for less than three minutes it probably won't make it off the new page. I think your arbitrary 30-40 minutes isn't better than what became the norm based on user behavior on HN. Why do you, Toshio, think you know with a high level of precision, how long GitHub needs to be down for it to be relevant to HN?
They seem to be suggesting that you've got two weeks to change your mind and return it for a different style, though I don't know how many times you can do that.
From the Big Bang to Dark Energy
Thanks Jay, much appreciated.
OP: Business is hard, stop whining.

There's not much rhyme/reason for landing a hit, just don't fuck it up too much.

Get your meta game together and fucking hustle. If you can't work with people and (hack or hustle), you are better off doing something besides startups.
Rape has meanings other than non-consensual sex.

Not really. Ravish might. But other than on, say, gamer message boards, 'rape' doesn't have many other meanings than forcible sexual assault. Take a look at the usage in print and find casual uses of 'rape' in that context.
I live in Germany. I am quite genuinely not experiencing any mass public aversion to the Snowden revelations. Small coverage on TV news. A few talk show programs. A couple of public protests that attracted less than 1000 people in all cases.

Nothing that the NSA should be worried about. Keep up the 'good work' NSA. Seems like nobody cares. Crisis averted. Defcon 5.
Greg Chaitin has lots of lectures about this up on youtube http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=greg+chaitin

He is a very watchable speaker. There's an amusing moment in one of them where he talks about getting high on hyperoperators. I wish I could remember which one it was.

Among other things he tries to convince you that real numbers are a figment of our imagination, an obvious consequence of digital physics, but still quite startling. He has decent arguments.
What are we supposed to do with this? Did you intend to stimulate discussion? Or are you asserting your views in the hope that others will buy into them just because you happen to be first commenter?

Last time I checked HN was still interested in rational and scientific discourse. Most of your "True/False/Maybe" assertions are nothing of the sort.

I say "most" because for #2, #3, #4, #11, #12, #13 there is room for scientific falsifiability so we could set up experiments to support or invalidate your hypotheses. From there rational discussion is possible.

For the rest... about #1, #6: there's no way you can know this for sure. As another commenter says these theories are untestable. So it's just your beliefs speaking.

About #8 and #9: the Beginning of Infinity you cite is also fiction with little to no scientific support. I can't see how you can support an assertion with this reference.

I can specifically address #5, #7, #8, #9 as I have studied this stuff: all I can say is that your statements amount to a big optimistic wish for the future. There is in our current world and recent history no evidence whatsoever that we can escape the cyclical rise and fall of civilizations. All exponential laws supporting your wishes (Moore's law, economic growth etc) are not really "laws" but simply models of recent history built in hindsight. The real question to be asked is: what are the enabling factors that make this model accurate until now, and will these enabling factors continue to exist for 80 more years?

Of course it boils down to 1) USA supremacy in world politics, a mere historical incident due to WWII and 2) fossil fuels.

For all we know at this time, infighting and China will probably make #1 disappear within <20 years, and finite supply will take care of #2 within <50 years. Then what? Your belief there will be a magic way can save the energy and politic stability is just that -- belief.

(This is where HN turns into Reddit or 4chan. A series of sci-fi statements cited from a blog, with the commenters assertions next to them with no justification whatsoever. Not cool.)
I think you are misunderstanding what digital physics proposes. Yes the information is 0s and 1s but the actual program does not have to be. Physics is modeled by information and inherently seems to be connected to physical values. Seems logical to me.
There's quite some space between opposing something and not finding something important enough to fund activism in favour of it.