skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally dislike video and prefer reading myself, I would however like to point out that video (compared with someone standing at the front of a room and lecturing to you) gives you much more control over pacing. You can pause, rewind, fast-forward and even, on Youtube and HTML5 video (though dependant on your browser), watch at various speeds faster and slower than real-time. (Khan apparently switched from tutoring his cousins face-to-face precisely because they said the preferred him on Youtube, which he'd originally done as a "second-best" offer when he wasn't available, as it put them back in control.)

Complaints from people who make videos and put them online (like the lady in the article) get far more respect from me than people who vaguely claim that you can't replace face-to-face lecturing, and that all face-to-face lecturing is of a high-quality. Doubly so since, I personally would prefer a well written article/book to either.

This particular lady's videos reminded me of suffering through bad powerpoints, that could be much better done as written material. All they seem to add is someone reading to me, and not in a particularly pleasant tone (think how much criticism she'd get from someone who does voiceovers professionally! These amateurs who don't know anything trying to do stuff themselves, not even realising what a fool they make of themselves!) At least Khan works through problems in the traditional blackboard manner, which seems slightly harder to translate to simple ebooks.
... and so, eventually, they moved to http://experts-exchange.com/.
It helps if people actually read, no one is saying all religious content is off limits or should be disallowed.
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Way better than the current one IMO.
Thanks for submitting this. A true loss for the literary world.

Below is one of his poems, "The Rain Stick", which I love and for some reason have always thought of in terms of how we create and invent things -- music we never would have known to listen for. Today, I plan to accept his challenge to "listen now again" to the music in my life that I know to listen for. Thanks, Seamus.

Edit: HN doesn't preserve line breaks, so below is a link to Pastebin instead.

http://pastebin.com/2eyTu1Bm
How Do People Die?
> every process is supervised by some other process which will restart it on failure

I'm curious if this works in practice for you. The current OOM algorithm in Linux sums up the memory usage of a process and all its children. So there are good chances that the restarter process is killed first, and then the main software is killed too (when OOM killer realizes the last kill didn't free enough memory).

This is exactly the problem we're facing at work here: on a computational cluster, users sometimes start wild code that consumes all the memory, but the OOM decides to kill the batch-queue daemon first, because it's the root of all misbehaving processes. We have to explcitly set `oom_adj` on the important daemons to prevent the machines from becoming unresponsive because of a bad OOM decision.
I'm still trying to figure out what a s-ex change is.
At least offer parachutes?
I feel the same way about Code Complete. I tried to read it but just couldn't force myself to as much of it seemed obvious. Maybe back in the day it was as amazing as people say.
Arithmetic, Population and Energy
An absolutely brilliant one hour talk by Dr. Albert Bartlett, Professor Emeritus in Nuclear Physics at University of Colorado at Boulder, on the unsustainability of our growth.
No seriously, tell me[with citation] that it is not bing front-end. I am all for it.
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Better than the current one, but not really that great? It feels like they're riffing on the new iOS 7 style but not quite pulling it off...
Wait what? Since when does a tesla car have a gas tank or am I missing something?
That is until you get a process that triggers OOM due to a bug on startup (pissing all over RAM) that ends up getting stuck in a restart loop which cripples your machine so you cant get in and fix it. Either that or it fails and neutralises supervisord or something resulting in site down anyway.

ulimit is a better solution i.e. set reasonable constraints based on available resources.
Note however, that turning off overcommit might yield unexpected results upon fork()/exec(): http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-disadvantages-of-disabling...

For instance, if you run a Redis server and turn off memory overcommit, you might not be able to background save.
Simple script to call it from command line. Uses bash, works from other shells as long as its installed. Require curl to be installed.

https://gist.github.com/ekyo/6389069
Most likely, they have to meet VC benchmarks on the number of registered users. Sad what that site has become.
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Code is now on github: https://github.com/idank/explainshell
That's not their real new logo. They are doing "30 days of change", where they use a different logo each day, leading up to the real on one on Sept 5. The OP is the day 24 logo.

http://www.yahoo.com/dailylogo
The real irony here is that airlines actually do something very much like overcommit & OOM killer when it comes to reservations, and for precisely the same reasons: they know that not all the reservations will be used at the same time, but sometimes they do end up double booked, so then someone has to be kicked off the flight.
I'm pretty sure that this is just temporary as it's part of Yahoo's Thirty Days of Change (http://www.yahoo.com/dailylogo).
As a hardware and platform engineer, I can relate to the very satisfying feeling that is making a tool that enable several projects beyond what you could do by yourself.

This is why a part of me dies everytime I read "full stack engineer". Not only it is imprecise, it sounds a little sad. I like being in the bottom layers of the stack, enabling several people in the others.
Site is down for me: "Error establishing a database connection"
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Here's a novel way to deal with an out of memory situation caused by slow memory leaks in a long-running server process: start swapping memory that hasn't been touched in literally days or weeks to /dev/null, and pray the process doesn't ever need it again.
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I find it a little absurd that this even needs to be said. As long as we're still humans, we'll always want private communications. Always. Even if US and all of the world's "democracies" turn into totalitarian surveillance states, we'll still want to have private communications with each other, and we'll find ways to do it - especially if in such a world the governments have no shame nor limitation in abusing that power (which you can bet will happen, and is already happening. We're just now finding out about some of them).
This is fixed wireless internet access, rather than a local GSM network. It's very unlikely that Ofcom would licence a small local mobile network.
Convert anything to anything
what exactly, in your opinion, are the most important parts of an IDE that vim lacks?
Yah-Do?
Try and stay away from England, they'll tax you right down to the amount of hairs you have on your nuts.
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Yes, sorry. He actually meant: "You are not the only one who thinks that part of your job is making your boss look good."

Kinda seems obvious now.
The reason you don't see an image is because you're signed in or you happen to be viewing an unblurred answer...

As someone who has never used this site I can assure you that answers are a blurred PNG with the title "Sign up to view the contents of this answer."[1]

It's not misinformation if it's correct.

[1]http://www.quora.com/iPhone/How-do-I-move-contacts-between-g...
I approve this too. Don't go to Germany.

As a German citizen I really hate to say this, but recently there has been a hitch in the media where there were protests by neonazi groups in front of asylum homes. Sadly, there are still people who see asylum seekers as potential job-stealers, showing them nothing but hate and would like to throw them all out, regardless of their skills.

This is absolutely not the general opinion in Germany, but at least some people think so.
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I've never seen a process supervisor daemon that didn't have an "if process FOO exceeds X restarts in Y milliseconds, stop trying to start FOO" clause.
You're fooling yourself. Google and Startpage return Cucumber BDD as a second result whether you're logged in or not. And in foreign countries such as France, it's even the first result.

Compare to Bing: in France, "cucumber" returns a porn(!) site as the first result (note: I don't visit porn sites or use bing).

DuckDuckGo and Bing simply aren't good enough, but it has nothing to do with whether they respect your privacy.
On the German DHL package tracking page, you have to enter the recipient ZIP code before being shown recipient details like name and signature. The tracking code itself is 20 decimal characters, although it is not randomly generated.
The web page of the project:
http://rhizomatica.org/
You have missed few important parts:

1) It (supposedly) happened in March 2005, when world's (and US agencies') eyes were on Iraq war.

2) "<...> US authorities admitted to their Indian counterparts the complete failure of their satellites to detect the blasts"

Which is quite believable if nuclear blasts were low-yield as stated in the article.
My "restarter process" is upstart. It's convenient, since the OOM-killer tries to not kill init (for bad things happen when you kill init), so it's a somewhat-safe place to put supervisory logic. One of the better calls Canonical has made, I think. :)

Still, in your use-case, I'd definitely recommend only letting users run their "wild code" inside a memory cgroup+process namespace (e.g. an LXC container.)

Crash-only systems only work when a faulty component crashes itself before it crashes you. Processes modellable as mutually-untrustworthy agents should always have a failure boundary drawn between them. (User A shouldn't be able to bring down the cluster-agent; but they shouldn't be able to snipe user B's job by OOMing their job on the same cluster node, either.) And on a Unix box, the only true failure boundaries are jails/zones/containers; nothing else really stops a user from using up any number of not-oft-considered resources (file descriptors, PIDs, etc.)
And if something typed doesn't show up onscreen (like a password), you can just eavesdrop on the keyboard. http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/keyboard/
I don't know why people point fingers at Khan Academy! I mean he is doing something good, something that no one thought of doing. Quoting from article-
"Sal Khan made little YouTube videos to teach a family member maths. Other people watched them and found them useful. Bill Gates discovered them and threw money at them. Now there are heaps of videos, with some back up exercises, and some people think this is the best thing to happen to maths (and other) education"
I think people are jealous because Salman Khan did something which other people might also do but they didn't! Even if they did, money might be the main motive where for Khan Academy, its the free & better education.
Update: I was reading comments and found that lady saying "Unfortunately they take a lot of effort to make when you do it properly, and I don’t have the backing of Bill Gates." This is ridiculous.
The point was that people who have financial interests can still provide useful information for the community. Of course you knew what the point was and decided to take us on a pedantic tangent.

Another point I could make is that analogies don't have to be perfect to be useful.

Another point might be that the people making ad hominem attacks on FM aren't actually adding anything constructive to the discussion while he did. In fact his contribution to the thread added more than everyone elses' combined.

And while I don't really care for FM himself, there are many people who spin and editorialize heavily that are still very much worth reading. If you're interested at all in tech patents, he's one of them along with whatever ends up replacing Groklaw.
HN isn't an obituary column for every single person that dies and has an obit in the news. I don't know who he is, how this is relevant, or how he's unrelated to tech, business, science, etc.

Flagging in this case just isn't enough. People upvote anything with "dies" or "has died" in the title with little thought to whether it's relevant to HN.
It is not misinformation. Here is a screenshot of a quora page with source: http://i.imgur.com/x8Ic69y.jpg
You've never seen an "enterprise" software init script then. 5-nines? Stick it in an endless loop and no one will notice (Atlassian I'm looking at you).
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Precisely. The OOM killer has its uses, and while it's debatable if it is suited for this workload or that workload, it is easily tunable for specific use cases, and you can disable it altogether if you'd like the classic behavior.
Why would you report him?
The man who builds things on water
In the UK, the balance is roughly 50/50, from a sample size of 100 (me going into streets and counting the cars). I did a simulation of petrol stations when I was at university, trying to work out optimal arrangements of pumps, so I needed to know if there was a bias towards the fuel cap being on a particular side of the car (there wasn't). This could be because in the UK our cars come from a wide-variety of places.
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> Not Germany, France, Italy, USA, Turkey they all suck

As a German, I really have to agree. Don't get trapped here. It's not a very friendly country, especially compared to the scandinavian ones. Xenophobia is also an issue. If I was seeking asylum in order to start a new life somewhere, I'd much rather try for London or Stockholm. Asylum in Germany is more like being in protective custody. Do not do this.
That's great information. I'd get out of there now; Equador doesn't require a visa and looks like a great place to go and work out what to do next.
He's not talking to you! Notice the [dead] = deleted comment
The same is true of England. We have the EDL who are a bunch of racist morons. But they are a tiny, despised minority, and certainly shouldn't deter anyone from seeking asylum here.
> sometimes they do end up double booked

Sometimes is pretty much all of the time. My SO works as cabin crew for one of the large airlines you will have heard of, and they typically always overcommit. It isn't just because they are greedy and want lots of money though (well I guess it kind of is). As you said, they know some people won't turn up, but also they may decide to change the class of the airline (economy and business -> economy, business and first) depending on how people book or what aircraft are available on the day.
I want to make some clever/witty comment here, but science funding is just too messed up these days. To be honest, we HEP folks (at my Uni) had to borrow the toys from the condensed matter folks just to do our homework. They had several SEM, TEM machines, we had none, the machines are quite handy. Also, condensed matter folk make the best wires and magnets (ever see a 5HP motor that can fit in your hand?), but, HEP folk try hard not to care about details like that. Nope, if you want to see cool science-ey stuff, talk to a condensed matter physicist or a material scientist, a fluid dynamics guy, or even (gasp) a chemist. If you ask a HEP guy, he'll just show you pictures of himself standing on a huge metal scaffold looking thing with a bunch of wires sticking out of it. That's his experiment, which he visits two or three times per year, and which is probably located in another country).

Here just for fun, a few more (non accelerator) HEP proposals:

1. Let's dig a really deep hole, and fill it with big tanks of distilled and purified Perrier, photomultiplier tubes[2], wires, some soda straws, and the most expensive amplifiers[1] we can get our hands on.

2. Let's do it again, this time under a mountain.

3. At the South Pole.

4. And in Canada.

5. At the bottom of the ocean?

6. All of the above, but this time, in close proximity to a Nuke-yoo-lar Reee-acter[3]

(I worked in HEP for almost 10 years, but not as a physicist)

[1] Also, lots of FPGA's. No, wait ASIC's (FPGA's are too slow and expensive). Oh, and High Voltage. Oh, and flammable gases!

[2] If you're Japanese, do it twice! (see: the Super-K PMT disaster)
This sounds like a good plan - you've got a definite escape route and high probability of getting a comfortable life a the other end.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=873734#c2
Well I was going simply off the article. Still, even that entry shows pretty consistent spurts of deaths hitting 3 - 5% of the population so it's pretty consistent with the point of the article (after multiple years of deaths they were force/spurred to act)
Germany is difficult, but not impossible. As an alternative you could try not to get asylum, but a blue card (EU). Unfortunately you'll need a university degree + yearly incoming in 2013 of 46.400 OR uni degree + special demand in germany (IT is such an area) + yearly income of 36.192.

The good thing is, according to my research the income requirement is floating. In other terms, you just need an income which is "usual for your region".

Of course, you would need a visa too.

What I am trying to suggest is you search an potential employer first and ask him to deal with the visa/eu card details. That way you wouldn't get the german citizenship in first glance; not sure if you really aim at that or if you would like to return after the war.

Anyway you can reach citizenship after living 8 years in germany (please note there are some restrictions, like no criminal acts, accepting liberal and democratic orders and so on).

I believe with your skills you might have a good chance to find a position in the Berlin or even Munich scene. Just prepare a CV and try to contact as many startups as you can. Look out for guides like this:
http://www.berlinstartup.de/startup-guide.php
http://berlinstartupjobs.com/

Good luck and take care mate.

Links:
http://www.arbeitsagentur.de/nn_566780/Dienststellen/besonde...

http://www.arbeitsagentur.de/nn_616850/Navigation/Dienststel...

(german, despite they aim for migrants. Send them to potential employers).
It doesn't matter which side the filler opening is on because the pump nozzles reach.
So, the actual sentencing is certainly overzealous, but are you arguing that "unauthorized access" shouldn't be illegal? Should it just be a free-for-all: if you can get into it, you're welcome, and you can do whatever you want with any data you can get your hands on? If not, what's the threshold? Are you allowed to guess a password? What if you bruteforce it? Can you use a zero-day vulnerability in Rails?

Both Weev and this guy clearly knew that they were accessing data they weren't supposed to access, even if the protection in place was/is clearly inadequate.
Whenever there's discussion of timing attacks on Tor, somebody always says "that's impossible unless they were able to monitor a very significant amount of all Tor traffic. Tor is safe."

Somehow, they don't realize that the NSA's upstream program is exactly that. They've been intercepting any Internet traffic they can get their hands on all the way back to 2003. Tor is not safe.
As a german I am ashamed to read this, because I have to agree. Embarrassing.
The threshold for a blue card work permit as a developer has been lowered to 36.192 Euro a few months ago.
You just need to get a proper work contract to be eligible for the visa.
The English Defence League's stature within society can be easily understood by the fact that their homepage is outranked on google by the English Disco Lovers, a group set up specifically to steal their acronym.
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You should try Ireland. There's a plenty of IT jobs and it's easier to come in than the rest of Europe.
Is pray a syscall?
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1. Keep your job with the Australian start up.
2. Fly to Malaysia. You don't need visa to enter the country.
3. Once you are in region in a safe place, you can figure out the next step. You will be in the most growing economic zone in the world. Don't go to Europe. Everybody's trying to get to Europe right now.
... I miss versioning; between Alpha, beta, revised, etc till now many cards have changed in their use. Nearly 20 years of crud to deal with...
ML : Using less data
The content may keep coming up because the individual user pages do show the non-obscured content linking back to the parent question.

Observe, please...

I made this search :

https://www.google.com/search?q=python+vs+php+quora

And got a topic with answers obscured.

http://www.quora.com/Python-programming-language-1/Which-is-...

I then selected a portion of the obscured text and made this query :

https://www.google.com/search?q=python+vs+php+"Here are just a few reasons based on my"

Came up with the original obscured answer on that very same question :

http://www.quora.com/Python-programming-language-1/Which-is-...

Check out that page's source. You'll note the canonical URL is the original question.

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.quora.com/Python-programming-language-1/Which-is-better-PHP-or-Python-Why" />

Since Googlebot will dutifully obey canonical, we now have link-bait to the original question with obscured content instead of the non-obscured answers. Again, this is gaming the system. You may disagree, and Quora may as well, regardless that's what's happening.

Edit: Link to webmaster guidelines on rel="canonical" :

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en

Adding this link and attribute lets site owners identify sets of identical
content and suggest to Google: "Of all these pages with identical content,
this page is the most useful. Please prioritize it in search results."

Quora is gaming the system. Period. I won't pursue this point any further.
Paper plane launched from space
The end of programming books? Programming in today's world...
Indeed Israel would be impossible. Turkey seems to be the best option (but would require smuggling probably).
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After the past few months there is virtually no situation in which you should have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
daemontools / supervise doesn't have it and it's a fairly popular solution. (not that I recommend ever using it...)
with regard to most people with a grain insight this article is all about stating the obvious, albeit in very big letters.

I agree nonetheless. apart from the 'give me your passwords' example, that's not what privacy is about. 'automatically cc me all your incoming and outgoing email' might be a better analogy.
I see that a lot of people aren't happy with Quora, why is that? I've only asked one or two questions on there but the answers I've received have been alright.
Websites are growing in their nuisance of DOM-level UI breaking. I'm increasingly using the Inspector dev tool just to delete entire chunks of elements on websites.

"Oh, you need me to click LIKE on your page? ... Deleted!"

"Oh, your news article is 25% of the width of the page and the other 75% is navigation, ads, and other unrelated articles? Deleted!"

"Oh, you have the annoying chat box that hovers in the bottom corner and hides things I actually wanted to see? Baleted!"

I keep telling myself that eventually I'll add a deletion option to the right-click context menu but I never actually bother with it.
That's so indescribably worse than just killing that process the mind boggles. Breaking in a simple, predictable, and detectable way vs. corrupting data and hoping (excuse me, "praying") nobody notices.
That's what you need the expert for