skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool article from a technical perspective.

I dont understand the business ask for drawing a map to show potential customers, then placing them randomly on the map. Why not just give rough volume numbers or something instead? It seems at least misleading.
What's it do - presumably it's a connector, glass rod to rubber hose (ie tubing)?

Edit: ah, found this https://github.com/ityonemo/imsocultured/commit/08b57107b757... - "oral microbiome community culturing apparatus" - so the complete apparatus is for culturing whatever bacteria and such you find in your mouth in a mini biome?
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I thought the same, and I freaked out a little bit because this was something I was thinking about just an hour ago (some sort of parallax).
MongoDB vs Couchbase vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak (2011)
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My Reaction to Grand Theft Auto 5 Release
This video is depicting my reaction to the New Grand Theft Auto 5 Game
I doubt it is 4096 exactly, since a RSA key involves generating random large primes, right?
Or you could just use OpenStreetMap which, y'know, gives you access to the Actual Map Data rather than having to reverse-engineer it from the rendered image...
The Architecture of Open Source Applications books[1], while eclectic, seem pretty good from the chapters I've read. They have a few chapters about distributed systems--HDFS, Riak, and a chapter about "Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed Systems" (haven't read it).

1: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
You CAN buy card packs with real money. But you can also spend 100 in-game gold (which you earn from playing the game) for a card pack. (the gold cost per pack might be off, since I'm only recalling it from having watched people play it) You also get free cards for each class when the class you're playing as "levels up" from playing matches. And you can disenchant extra cards to get dust which can be used to straight up make any card in the game.

They also monetize the game by offering an "arena" mode where you pick from 3 random heroes, then 30 sets of 3 random cards to make a deck. Lose three times and that deck is gone forever. (you only play against other people who have done the same) You can pay 100 gold to get into that mode, or a couple dollars.

So they're being pretty smart about monetizing the game.
Indeed. In the first phase of incarceration the priority is to remove threat from society, over time it shifts to rehabilitation.
It's very interesting that Microsoft is the first large tech company to do this in the current cycle. So many of their peers are also wallowing in cash and seemingly unwilling to make large investments so the pile keeps growing.

Companies are supposed to use their capital to innovate and create new, market-changing products and services. Perhaps it's because interest rates are so low and therefore capital is so cheap? Is the hording related to an expectation of another round of the regular tax amnesty for them to repatriate the funds to the US?
> The lack of transitivity for one. Const pointers shouldn't be able to modify the pointed objects

Are they? I either misunderstand or disagree. The syntax gets a bit silly with pointers, because you can have const pointers and pointers to const (and const pointers to const of course):

const Foo* foo; // Cannot change *foo, but can change the pointer (e.g. foo = 0)
Foo* const foo; // Can change *foo, but cannot change the pointer
const Foo* const foo; // Cannot change *foo or the pointer

> The fact that working with non-const-correct libraries is a nightmare (prepare to const_cast a lot!).

Agreed!

> As far as I know, Common Lisp users have some kind of RAII with macros, but I'm not familiar enough to compare it to C++.

In my experience, the kind of problem RAII is useful for is far less common in Lisps (can only really speak for Clojure). One tends to not encapsulate resource management in any way, so handling it explicitly in the caller is fine. And you can use macros to do something when the scope is excited.

So in Clojure e.g., you can use with-open to do something with a file:

(with-open [writer (io/writer "foo.txt")]
(write writer "Hello")))

with-open ensures that the reader is properly closed when the scope is exited or when an exception occurs.

In C++ (or any OOP language I guess), you'd want something like this:

File foo("foo.txt");
foo.write("Hello");

So I suppose it depends on the philosophy. For OOP languages, RAII makes a lot of sense IMO.
I think they look great. I could imagine having a few nitpicks, but never describing them as "yuck"
It's worth nothing that Blizzard did exactly that in World of Warcraft.
> ... but the transgression is not simply perceived.

Prosecutorial discretion.

> Punishment ... is not juvenile.

Criminal law making shows little evidence of utility analysis, operations research, actuarial research, experimental psychology, etc. For the most part it appears to just be one big emotional carnival act designed to draw in the rubes and part them from their money.
In this case, possibly because it may provide some value to anyone reading the comments before the article. I too through it was going to be a diff for text files using a different visualization, not a diff of a specific file type. In that respect, it's a clarification of whatever summary you might infer from the title.

In short, I found the comment useful, it not necessarily inspiring of conversation (although a discussion of different visualizations of changes may be worthwhile).
It's who you know, not what you know.
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>Previously, wasn't it just follow Apple's style guide or go home?

No, it never was that way. In fact, Apple has even given Awards to third party apps with totally unique UIs.
It also did a pretty good job crippling the Barbarian at higher levels.
A ship is something of a special case where the constraints require certain considerations. First of all, a ship will likely be owned by someone, who then had to hire sailors to come work on the ship. This is an excellent framework for setting up some clear rules to which those who come aboard must sign up. The answer to your scenarios lies in what those rules are. Throwing someone overboard implies violence, so that's no-go, but it's perfectly plausible that there could be a clause for a majority to buy out a minority.

To answer your answer in the more general sense: If you raped someone in my community, I might maintain that I'm not justified in causing you direct physical harm. But I do know that you're never doing any business with me. Other people in the community might feel the same, some might not, and if they shelter you, depending on the circumstances, I may or may not include those individuals in my exclusion. If I'm too broad in my banishment, eventually, I myself lose out, so there's a feedback mechanism somewhere in there. I guess that's punishment.

Of course, if you're a direct physical threat to the community, that community is justified in using proportional force in resisting that threat. That would be protection.

Sometimes it's one, sometimes it's the other. I suspect most of the times it would be a mix.
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You should absolutely do this, always speak to founders of companies who've raised money from a given investor before taking money from them. You can also ask investors about other investors (as in "have you co-invested with X before, would you ?").
have you actually played Inferno difficulty pre-1.03?! it was just downright frustrating because everything after Act 2 one-shots your character!
I am interested in learning what you think are good uses cases for selecting MongoDB over Couchbase and vice-versa.

Are any of you willing to indulge me and educate us on the current state of affairs in 2013?
What problem does a predictable nonce cause?
But Apple stopped being shiny in the late '80s, and didn't get shiny again until Steve Jobs came back. Even so, it took many years after that to regain its luster. The iMac looked shiny in some circles, but most technically-minded people I knew thought it was stupid. The iPod, in 2001, was the first thing they made that was truly disruptive, and even then it didn't quite sway public opinion to think Apple was an innovation powerhouse.

Personally, my perception of Apple switched when the iPhone came out in 2007. Other people became interested in 2003 or so. Either way, Apple's shine is around 10 years old, and is starting to fade already.
Speeding fee or speeding tax or speeding fine is kind of a matter of semantics. Some people would view it exactly that way. I knew a doctor who got three speeding tickets in one month and thus had to go traffic school, which he viewed as ridicilously stupid stuff. He had nothing but contempt for the entire thing, tickets, class, all of it. So I guess you and I shall continue to disagree.

Thanks for the discussion.
> I wish people like you would stop judging the game by its version 1.0.0, rather than the 1.0.8 we're at now.

Are we giving up on the idea that a product that people pay for should be good when it's released?
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How is that a 'world first'? Laser TVs are old technology...

And this is what enables them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Micromirror_Device
I cannot wait until they (hopefully) come to Austin. The only chances I have to go to the grocery store are at peak hours, which makes me dread the trip, and often causes me to put it off and eat out.
>Money only has value if people are willing to exchange things for it.

True, but, here we are talking about something different. That is, the value of BTC is not simply defined by its technical merits, but can be devalued if the ecosystem for managing/utilizing/exchanging it is unhealthy.

In other words, the value of money is also affected by whether people are able to exchange things for it.
Hadoop is the problem, MapReduce is not the problem. Having used both Hadoop and Disco, I can say that Disco is by far a net positive on all projects I used it on. And the overhead to coding it in Disco vs single node is about an extra 30 minutes. You can start with working single node and go multinode w/o much effort.

http://discoproject.org

Hadoop on the other hand is a huge, massive pain in the ass. And I am a Hadoop consultant. I recommend that most customers NOT use it.
This does not appear to be correct, while one might logically conclude that a drug causing suppression would negate the effects of adoptive immunotherapy this doesn't appear to be the case.

Recent research (see below) suggests that apoptosis from chemotherapy may actually strengthen the immune response. The same group also conducted pre-clinical trials and observed that immunotherapy directly after chemotherapy was significantly more effective than either group alone or immunotherapy before chemotherapy.

If you do a literature search for adoptive immunotherapy in immunosuppressed patients you will find more studies. The only contraindication appears to be in patients with completely eliminated immune systems, which rarely happens because of chemo.

http://www.discoverymedicine.com/Robbert-G-Van-der-most/2009...

Edited to clarify / change tone.
Why did he pick one up from craigslist?
People are overpricing them so much.
I found new ones on amazon for the same price.
On the other hand, Hadoop also serves a lot more than a computing platform for "big data". The OP probably never worked in a mid/big sized company where sharing data is big issue. HDFS can easily replace a bunch of high maintenance and under performing NFSes. Actually, I think someone should write a Samba clone for HDFS.

The next huge thing in the Hadoop ecosystem is Hive. It's like having an unlimited Postgres server that hundreds of people can work on at the same time. Hive's got its quirks and developers need to be educated on how to write the Hive jobs properly, but it gives a lot more back by allowing joins between a lot of datasets that might not be able to fit in one single machine.

There is a reason why Hadoop is so popular, especially in enterprises. I think that's why Cloudera got such a high valuation.
What's an ask?
A always assumed it was fake until a few years later a friend brought an SGI workstation into work to play with, and showed me the file manager.

Now I generally try to keep an open mind when I see things in movies as elements, while they may not be entirely correct, are sometimes based on reality. It just happens to be a portion of reality you are unfamiliar with.
And the American inner city streets where people are treated like savages.
> Engineers and technical people are not paid what they're worth in Sweden, ...

How much does that have to do with the extreme risk of hiring? (Owing to the difficulty of firing.)
This was my immediate fear. We're geared up to take offline versions 1.0-1.3 of our API, which are used by less than 2% of users (and we gave them a nice banner urging them to update with a future cut-off date). This announcement has me worried, mostly from the customer support standpoint.
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Clinical trials only require you to prove your treatment is better than a placebo, you don't need to prove that it's better than existing drugs.
Thanks for pointing out the typo. Fixed.
Can't say anything about Haskell, but what Scala has is less flexible then const correctness in C++ IIRC. You can't have an immutable reference to a otherwise mutable object and then call non-mutating functions on it. It's either fully immutable or fully mutable. CMIIW by all means.
The map, business logo, and people icons just help illustrate the feature. Volume and other value related benefits are communicated elsewhere in the page content, but aren't really additive to the blog post.
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Oh noes. Yeah, C seems very not the thing to rotate external developers around in an enterprise size code base.
For poor people, there's basiclayy

#1 Convince all the rich people to do the last item on the card from the original article

#2 Try to get your kids to do something different than you, if you're earning $20k/year with no savings, no spouse and have kids it's probably too late for you to save anyway
I recently kayaked around Bastoy (prison), it's a great place; nice beaches; great view on all sides; rapists and axe murderers shuttling to or from places on their bikes.
Does sound like I'm making a joke doesn't it? It's not, it's how it is and I like it and am proud of it.

For cases like Breivik we have forced psychiatric admission, which can be a life-sentence. In fact this was the key point of the Breivik case: Whether he was in a psychotic state of mind, and even more importantly, whether his extreme (religious) views could be deemed delusional.

Revenge is barbaric, and granted some degree of barbarism simply exists within all of us, some more than others.
The court system shouldn't be based around barbarism, and the american use of "justice" really is just a synonym for revenge. Pure and simple.
I don't want this. I don't want to live in a country where our flaws doom us, where mistakes are never forgiven.

Norwegians live in a country where all the money in the world cannot have a man (legally) killed or sentenced to life.
Norwegians live in a country where men and women who take wrong turns in their life are given the opportunity to redeem themselves (and they do, almost always.)

I live here, I love it here, and I love it for reasons US citizens see in movies, but not in society.
>> My metric for metrics is to track things that will change your behavior. If a metric changes and you don't, then it's a pointless metric.

That's an interesting approach, and seems like a really useful filter for quick sanity checks of the correlation or causation question.
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You've made several assertions which have no basis in fact.

"There are so many cultures here that all get along better here than they do anywhere else in the world"

Yes, there are many cultures in the US. If I use language as a proxy for culture, then according to one reference there are 311 languages spoken in the US.

There are 820 in Papua New Guinea, 742 in Indonesia, 516 in Nigeria, and 427 India. So it seems like there are even more cultures in those countries, and a higher diversity. By your argument, those countries should be economic and culture engines, yes?

Sure, that's not an exact measure since in the US there are many different cultures which use English, but then again Hindi plays a similar role in India. You've made the assertion, so it's up to you to back it up.

Or, if I simply ask Wikipedia for countries ranked by diversity it gives me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_eth... , which ranks Cameroon as the most culturally diverse country.

The US is 84th on that list. Canada is 37th on that list, Belgium is 43rd, Switzerland 53rd, New Zealand is 69th ... and Sweden is 128th.

It does not seems that the diversity of the US is sufficiently enormous or exceptional as to give rise to your conclusion. Eg, India has more people and more diversity, but doesn't have the same economic and cultural influence as the US, so certainly something is missing in your analysis.

Then you say "get along better here than they do anywhere else in the world." What does that even mean? How do you know that the diversity of cultures gets along better in the US than in Canada, or in Belgium? Is it a (provincial) belief of yours, or if not, what is the basis for your analysis?
Look, I am probably an idiot, but I simply do not see how you would determine in advance who might want to pay you later for your upfront cost of keeping their data. But, hey, people do stupid shit all the time. I certainly do. I am just wondering out loud what the business model is here. I do not see a viable business here. But since I am not exactly rolling in dough, maybe that is just my own stupidity. Regardless, my suggestion is that there needs to be a payoff for doing this and if you are going to get someone else to seriously consider putting their time, money and effort into your off the cuff suggestion, it might help to point out the stupidly obvious means to rake in the dough with it.

Best of luck.
I bought BTC with my cash there a couple of weeks ago, took the hit, and got out.

Mt. Gox has the distinctive feel that they have inadvertently slipped into Ponzi mode, perhaps as a result of the money they've lost. But, it "feels" like they are moving money around to pay people (whether from collecting additional transaction fees, selling their own BTC, or otherwise). They need more activity to continue cashing people out because they simply don't have the money.

I didn't want to be without a chair when the music stopped.

But, I suppose the more people who do what I did and get out, the better the odds that those who remain will receive their money.
I think that feeling is a major barrier we as a species need to get past, which is more of a spiritual/therapeutic issue than an intellectual one as far as I can tell. This foundation provides free 10-day silent meditation retreats where they push you to have that experience but instead of opening your eyes and "pulling the sleeping bag over your head", you embrace it and explore beyond. It changed my life. I've been to two of these things, one in CA and one in TX and if you ever have time it's worth it in every way. I'm not affiliated with them in any way, I just think it's relevant.
http://www.dhamma.org/
Thanks for making that point. It still seems to me that most domain specific solutions will still make use of many ideas from the CV literature. E.g. looking at the last sections of your video it seems like you settled on a histogram based approach, although I may be wrong.
It's specifically called out in the wiki page linked to earlier, under the "United States" section.
How are you going to get electricity?
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Please don't associate the diversity of builds with the difficulty in changing builds. You have plenty of choices for spec in D3.
Keep in mind that Phase 1 clinical trials are very very easy to pass.
That's true, although perhaps missing the point of the article. The example lets you used any particular image, rather than having to (for example) pull GeoJSON of the extent area, etc. It's a sweet hack.
Why not?

They're in China. As long as they're doing work for the Chinese government, as this article suggests, they're in zero danger.
This is awesome.. And Immediately runs into the problem of being purely SaaS. I can't use this for APIs that I develop internally within my 'Big Company'.

If I could host this somewhere behind my firewall, then something like this becomes a no brainer. But making me try to convince my security team to send all of my API calls and design to an external service puts a huge barrier to entry for me politically.

I love the idea to the point that I started searching for something similar that I could host inside. Even Github lets me host a copy of their software somewhere nice and corporate safe.

I wish more service providers would offer more than just 'pure SaaS' to allow for easier adoption by corporate customers.
One could also argue that Bezos already made up his mind and he just needed to find a line of reasoning that supports his decisions. Well, isn't that how science works, when you do experiments and then come up with theories to support the results?
I'd say at some stage someone has made the quote and all the news stations ran with it, never fact checking.

Most of the people watching can't get complex ideas, but everyone knows rotting food is smelly so it's a story that sells. And you can't have a smelly beach, it's not like there are starving people in the world.

I can't see it much different to a whale beaching.

Back of the envelope -

4000 eat ~ 1kg per day times 10 days

So approx 40 tonnes of food is in the ship.

You'd have to imagine you'd easily recover 80% and remove it.
Oh, you cannot be serious. Generator. Wind power. Solar. This is increasingly easy to provide on a small scale in the middle of nowhere.
> Lack of a police force to enforce basic property rights against squatters/hunters/other "intruders" with different ideas about the meaning of "private propety" than you

I think you overestimate how many patrolling police there are per unit land area in most places. Sure, if you're in a city you can call the police if you're at home and someone's trying to break in, but it's not likely that a random patrolling police officer is going to see and stop a trespasser.
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Javascript tutorials, libraries, tips and performance optimizations
A number of related solutions for web services integration:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/181593/16090
"...just an absolute pleasure to play."

So you're saying that you actually haven't played past Act 2 in Inferno difficulty pre-1.03 patch
You can buy several high quality, factory-made guns at any gun store for the cost of just one 3D printer, so why do you call out 3D printed guns as particularly dangerous? Unless you mean their likelihood of just exploding instead of firing properly?
This whole "casual gamer" centered design is what became the plague of modern gaming.

But I remember the pre-expansion Diablo 1, and it was _sucky_ to be gentle. All the good stuff including runes, higher level uniques (remember there wasn't any uniques in nightmare & hell), runewords, hammerdins (argh!) came much-much later. So I am saving myself for the expansion, I am done with this one.
Subtext: We don't know where to put the $$ at this critical transition point (Ballmer leaving). Rather than figuring it out, we're just going to give the money to shareholders -- that's the safe way so that they can't question our fiduciary responsibility.