skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a different issue, I think. Your point appears to be that it needs monitoring to make it work. Which may well be the case.

My question is: what's wrong with people just sitting around being lazy?

If the system produced a reasonable outcome for everyone in the country, but you could still see other people being lazy, would this spoil it for you?
Finding Go performs well at this shouldn't be surprising.

Go doesn't do SIMD at all (see note 1). Personally I leverage Go coupled with the Intel Compiler (Go happily links with and uses very high performance C-built libraries, where I'm rocking out with SSE3 / AVX / AVX2).

To respond to something that Ptacek said above, many of us do expect Go to achieve C-level performance eventually. There is nothing stopping the Go compiler from using SIMD and automatic vectorization, it just doesn't yet. There is nothing about the language that prohibits it from a very high level of optimization, and indeed the language is generally sparse in a manner that allows for those optimizations.

*1 - For performance critical code you are supposed to use gccgo, which uses the same intermediary as the C compiler, allowing it to do all of the vectorization and the like. Unfortunately for this specific code gccgo generates terrible code, yielding a runtime that is magnitudes slower (albeit absolutely tiny). Haven't looked into why that is.
Being cognizant of project management implications is actually an important skill for a programmer. Nothing gets developed in a vacuum.
If you don't have a CS degree, though, falling back may be harder. Pure web front end development isn't as valuable an application of programming as systems and full stack development.
This reminds me a lot of Android App Inventor. The main difference is that app inventor is a bit more advanced programming wise.
xiphmont_: huh demo4:CfL is on HN already
jobstijl0: I posted it, didn't saw you where still working
on it
xiphmont: ah, it wasn't actually due to be up for real
until I got back from vacation in two weeks
xiphmont: no harm, just 'agh, nothing is tested yet!'
1) The park police are roving, and not dedicated to particular monuments or parks in the DC area. I wasn't aware of the interpretive Rangers working 2 hours a day, but regardless, they have definitely increased staff at all of the DC monuments.

In addition, they've attempted to close attractions they don't manage, like Mount Vernon, among others.

2) The WW2 memorial, and memorials in the DC area aren't the only places that security has been increased.

I'm sure you're not wrong in that over all of the 400+ locations, we have likely seen a decrease in personnel, but the executive branch is decidedly making a point of ensuring that the most pain is felt because of the shutdown.
The problem was solved. By Summify. Then twitter bought them and that was the end of that.
So, please just use nginx to host some static html files for your blog

Wordpress + W3 Total Cache can handle a hundred HNs with ease. There is absolutely no reason to go to the past, and poorly configured blogs don't justify that Luddite argument.
Also, middle-earth was supposed to be a mythology for England... naturally the 'men of the west' would be English (white)?

Anyway, I always thought 'mysterious dark-skinned bad guys from the south' was cultural legacy from the Moorish invasion & Christian reconquest of Spain.

EDIT: Then again, we're talking about a Japanese video game (albeit with the trappings of traditional European fantasy) so I'm not sure how much of the above applies.
Isn't the Smithsonian shutdown along with the rest of the gov't? Or is Smithsonianmag.com not affiliated with the museums?
There's a mention of lava lamps as a source of entropy... Here's the history on that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

See also http://www.lavarnd.org/

Meta - noticed two typos:

1. "By hashing the entire pool and and some"

2. "and how they effect (should be affect) programs"
Let's come to a truce. When managers start listening, we'll stop saying those things. Wow, add that to the list of things that "we" say.
> on a moderately complex website like Google Search

Oh how times have changed.
Except that it's probably prohibitively difficult to convince 10,000 people individually to go to the hassle of filing an arbitration action just to get a small amount of money. I could be wrong, but I don't see this being a realistic method of going after companies for contract violations at all.
Ha? Doesn't it work through the 'import "C"' and then it's just regular C?
I am rooting for a LandStrider model.
You can use C files and GCC syntax in your Go project. Go will use Cgo and compile it with GCC.
Gotcha, thanks for the response. I think a lot of why Maven doesn't bug me is because I'm not really an "enterprisey" Java/Scala guy, I use it to build more discrete and contained stuff. I had to look up what JasperReports was. :-P But I use it for libgdx projects, for Android stuff, and for just quick one-offs without a hitch. Before Play (which uses SBT, which I'm not thrilled about, but, anyway...) came around I strictly used embedded Jetty--I'd use Dropwizard these days if I was to do that with Maven again, it's great.
Yes, it's pretty funny that 90%+ of "contracts" in the US mobile phone marketplace are things the buyer would be much happier not to have.
Ask HN: The Man from Earth
I saw the movie a couple days ago and it really impressed me. Everything in this movie happens in a little cabin where one guy tells a story to some of his friends. Still its probably one of the best movies I've every seen. What do you think about it?
Our ancestors have put up a direct democratic system for a reason: In the believe that it will serve as a sufficient check on political groups not to perform experiments on our society that the majority of people don't agree with. Sorry, but there's just no way this is going to happen.

On a related note: In the light of recent history I more and more come to believe that exactly these checks are what's missing in the USA. We Europeans have a lot to thank the Americans, first of all the Republican system they pioneered - however our nation founders have gradually improved on their template. It'd be about time for them to roll out version 2.0, based on all the things that have been learned about shortcomings. Step one would be to not allow a single person to completely blockade a political process in congress.
I teach CS at a small undergrad college, and we often need adjuncts to help us teach intro classes when we have more sections that the full-time faculty can cover. You might check with your local colleges and universities.
I got a Mac more to get experience with an Apple product but I can't stand the iPhone.
I meant something like this, i.e. not going through C at all: http://golang.org/src/pkg/syscall/asm_freebsd_amd64.s
You Can Build That In Your Browser
I can't explain your observations. On my machine, I tried cat`ting entropy_avail every .1s. My observation it that in consistently rises until it hits 190, when it instantly drops to around 140. The upper bound of 190 seems to be pretty consistent (very occasionally it drops earlier, it never seems to exceed 191), where the lower bound goes between 130 and 160.
I'd assume this means that I'm low on entropy (especially because the post indicates that below 200 indicates that the system is running low), however I cannot think of anything special I am running that would be eating entropy. Also, mashing my keyboard and mouse does not seem to affect the rate of entropy accumulation.
Decreasing my sample rate also does not seem to slow down the rate of accumulation, so it looks like cat`ing does not affect the value on my machine.
Sometimes CEOs ( or Managing Directors ) do 'sack' customers. The MD of my ISP did so, a few years back:

http://revk.www.me.uk/2009/11/being-rude-to-customer.html

Quote: "so I've decided to give her 30 days notice, as we can"
The lowest bidder who met the minimum requirements.
It's still emptier than most other freeways and expressways in the area, I think you'll agree. Even during the morning commute north, it's very reasonable except for maybe the 85 intersection (and before you get into SF, naturally). Compare that to the dreadful 101.
Has to be asked. Why would you name a library this?
Brevity and expressiveness are not the same.
I think this shows you are disconnected from how the world really is outside of fairly small bubble, just being honest.

Recognizing reality does not mean that you personally have some fundamental flaw in how to view work.
The Linux utility the creator of this couldn't find: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
Maybe correlation is not causation here? Something else is using entropy faster than it's being replenished? I wonder if there's a way to see what's consuming entropy? Maybe lsof on /dev/random.
Well, also because it's a waste of money; administering a food stamp system is far more costly than administering a welfare giro system, and has no clear benefit.
A lot of the verbosity in Go comes from error handling; the language forces you to deal with errors (I think it's a good thing, some may disagree).
Expressiveness is real, 'duck typing' does give it a feel of scripting language like Python, and it is way less verbose than Java (apart from error handling).
And to be fair, Go is faster than Python (the numbers tell you that), and (slightly?) more expressive than C --and just in a league of its own for concurrency.
> You're assuming that people who aren't getting notified of their replies are thinking about what they're going to say on the topic

No, i'm not assuming this.

For example one difference is that situation #1 is a surprise (you get a notification while you were in the middle of something else) and situation #2 is not (it's anticipated, you decide to check the HN website and decide to check for replies to your comments).

Situation #1 generates a startle reflex in some manner, whereas the anticipated visit #2 does not.
Doesn't seem to work in Chromium... I just get a "loading" message in the bar on the left side.
The same thing that would happen anytime would happen now.

The military isn't suddenly closed down - just the relatively benign and semi-tolerable parts of the government are neutered for political reasons.

Getting useless paperwork through the system isn't going to happen today, but you can be rest assured that the IRS will still be collecting taxes and the NSA will still be spying on you.
Swimming robot hunts overpopulated jellyfish and shreds them
All property rights are exclusive rights granted by law for the public good.
The same things that would normally happen? Shutdown only applies to non-essential personnel. The only impact to the military are things like the training academies, or recruiting.
Interesting. Great for people completely submerged into Google's ecosystem but still clinging onto the Windows OS. For others especially who uses one or few of Google's products, this sucks. When I got my Surface Pro tablet, I just wanted to install Chrome Desktop, but nope, it automatically installs into the metro apps and goes ahead and sets itself as the default browser. The worst part is that it sucked compared to the IE metro. On desktop it doesn't get better, with the lack of support for High-DPI scaling, the touch events are about an inch away resulting in false clicks all the time.

I hope they don't ruin the Chrome browser with techniques used to promote Google+. I don't want to see a tomorrow where you download Google Chrome and it comes pre-installed with Google Drive, Google Docs, Google+ etc. Shoving things down people throat isn't going to end well.
That doesn't explain how it would help alleviate the tax burden. I would also quit my job if I had a basic income, but my own ideas/interests would not generate me any money so I would definitely go from someone supporting the system (financially) to someone mooching off of it.
Where "everyone else" is at least two different syntaxes in the first place, Intel and AT&T.
Google Gem smartwatch coming to Android 4.4 KitKat launch?
Thanks. Typos fixed.
That interesting question was asked on Stack Overflow, and closed as off topic. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13170334/reading-entropy-...)

A comment says that cat is consuming the entropy, not reading the file.

An answer links to (https://blog.flameeyes.eu/2011/03/entropy-broken) which says "starting a process consumes entropy" but otherwise didn't seem to have an answer. (But I only skimmed.)

This thread (http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2013/07/monitoring-e...) says that you're just using cat while entropy is being used, and if you keep using cat you see the numbers go down and up.
I really don't get this. It doesn't make sense at all.

Its like going into McDonalds and finding a Burger King stall inside it.

This is going to be an experience as smooth as a 1974 land rover with no tyres on it.
fast and nice clean interface. I would like to see a 'run now' button when adding a thing to watch to see if it works immediately.

do you have a specific target audience for this?
That article has so many holes in it, I don't know where to start, short of going back in time and writing it for them and then setting it on fire.

This really says it all, "An 8-ounce bag of Reese's Pieces is just a cup of candy. But with 1,160 calories and 35 grams of saturated fat, it's like eating a 16-ounce T-bone steak plus a buttered baked potato." These two things have the same amount of calories and saturated fat, but one of them is obviously real food and the other, well, you guess.

Further, CSPI's history is more than a little sketchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSPI

Mark Sisson has a lot of good material if you're interested in saturated fats and other food info. This article is even from 2009: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/saturated-fat-healthy/
Still, few moms are likely to be computer experts.
Yeah, no. Gradle is really nothing like Ant. A bad build script author can use it to write build scrips that look like Ant with curly brackets, but then you can write COBOL in any language. If you take the ten minutes to learn how Gradle actually works, then you don't end up with scripts that are like Ant.

Advocating Maven over Gradle is just a joke. I routinely do things in Gradle scripts that would require writing an whole new plugin to do in Maven.
So what happens if everyone in Switzerland is given 1,000,000 Francs? You really think they all will end up being millionaires? LOL, you will jut create a lot of inflation that's all. Amazing how economically illiterate leftists usually are.
You're empirically wrong.

I actually did write a fair amount of Go code (my primary languages are C++ and Python).

On real, non-toy programs it is significantly more concise than C++, in the ballpark of Python code.

This isn't visible on code snippets (less than 500 loc) like the toy raytracer, but trust me: you'll see a big difference on 10k loc codebase.
An accurate headline would have save time though.
To make you buy another phone when you travel internationally.
One of my all time favorite films. One of those films which you wont notice how long it was on for and no hollywood effects or sets to keep you watching, just a good script.
Mention some of those things, then.

I suppose programming Microcontrollers for appliances, but I have never seen job postings for that (although they must exist). Might be because I didn't look at C jobs, though.

What I meant is also that most apps these days can be coded as web apps, and it is difficult to justify not doing so.
This Alkaline African Lake Turns Animals into Stone
Ten ideas to make the most of National Customer Service Week
PHP vs. Python vs. Ruby vs. Java vs. NET
I'm a web developer that considers myself "up-to-date" but there was quite a bit in there that I need to read up on (notably Hadoop and ElasticSearch). Thanks for the links!

I'd also recommend, as some alternatives:

* Ruby as an alternative "general purpose language"

* Mongo as an alternative swiss army database

* Backbone + Marionette as an alternative front-end JS framework

* CoffeeScript as a better Javascript syntax
How is "average cost" computed without knowing how many units will be purchased?
Er, we do ask for more oil on potato chips. The marketing name is "kettle cooked", but "oilier chips" is basically what they're selling.
The Acer runs an Intel chip, as do all other Chromebooks/boxes except for the base model Samsung Chromebook.
"I documented to the person" - that is a euphemism i will have to remember.

Yeah, I documented it to Jim. That's a documenting he won't forget in a hurry, make no mistake.
There's an additional trick possible to dissuade these types of attacks, but I'm not sure if everyone is up to that type of dedication.

I once worked with an admin who would setup a script to enable SSH passthrough on the firewall (also OpenBSD) at a specific time of day, but never the same time. Once connected in the allowed window and he finished his business, he would reset the timer for another time of day (or perhaps several days to a week later if he's going to be away for a while).

It's a bit like the timed bank vault where even the manager couldn't open it until the timer on the door allowed it.
Firefox too, probably not browser-specific.
yep. A pair of Levi's that are basically 250usd (200 chf) in Zurich are 25usd at Wall Mart in DC. I live in DC and used to work for Credit Suisse in Zurich. I take US any day. My wife's soccer mom car - Land Rover LR4 - is rich bankers car in Switzerland. It's a luxury to own any car in Switzerland. Of course they think that's progress for me that's regress.
Whoa. Definitely wasn't ready for HN-style exposure.

As bmoskowitz pointed out we have some rough words about the project. For this group, I'd in particular point out the roadmap and CONTRIBUTORS.md documents on the github repo:

https://github.com/mozilla/appmaker/blob/master/ROADMAP.md

https://github.com/mozilla/appmaker/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

I wrote some earlier words at https://github.com/mozilla/appmaker-words/wiki, but that's quite possibly out of date.

At the highest level, we're exploring whether it's possible to make a tool that lets non-devs (_not_ you folks!) who currently see their phones as a pure engine of consumption, as a place where they can create something fun or useful.

It's very, very early software, and it's public mostly because a) we kinda don't know how to do anything else, and b) we're going to use early and frequent user feedback to correct the aim on the product.

If people are interested, we're more than happy to entertain questions either here or on github, irc, the mailing list, etc.

Oh, and yeah, many of the components are broken, brittle, etc. This is still just a prototype.

That said, we're getting positive reactions from people close to our target audience, such as high school teachers, people teaching others how to make their first app, etc.

I'm sure we have loads of x-browser compatibility bugs, as well as known issues with respect to accessibility, absent localization, no great mechanism for contributing new components, and many more.

Oh, and the gamification bits in particular were really just testing the gamification APIs -- the levels we have in place are deeply unuseful =).
I reckon you could go a bit beyond simple tile-based puzzles with that beautiful logic engine. A boulderdash-type game seems feasible, but what about Dwarf Fortress?
It can.

I have the Android SDK on my Samsung series 5..

There's only a single Chromebook that runs on an ARM chip. I have no idea why everybody thinks all these devices are ARM based.
Just to play devil's advocate:

* Your golden age was about decade out from the Wright flyer and Big Dog has been out for a while.

* More to the point: the airplane had little competition in it's field - the wright flyer was already faster than a balloon. Walking robots' primary advantage is in rough terrain, which is only a advantage in marginal areas (if walkers moved with even the same efficiency as (inherently simpler) wheel vehicles, we would still want to confine them to paved roads. Consider how, relative to a wheel vehicle of the same weight, it's likely a walking robot would take a greater toll than on any path or road it used because it's movement would involve inserting its weights at specific points and pushing).

* Treaded vehicles have around for a while and they do some portion of what a walking vehicle could do in a military setting - an army is quite will to the destroy a forest to move through it. And further, continuous track can things walkers couldn't - moving over swamp and other muck. Walkers might, maybe find a marginal use along side other specialized vehicles. But walkers have an inherent problem - if they are a lot bigger than a horse, what keeps them from sinking in the soft ground they have to be targeted for. If they aren't bigger than a horse, what makes them better than the presumably cheaper horse?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_track

* We never got our flying cars and video-phones have taken a long time. Shows that not all possible tech becomes practical tech in a simple fashion.
Why do people not sign up for Mandrill / Postmark / Sendgrid etc when creating an app like this so the confirmation email is delivered instantly and not placed in your junk folder?

App looks good, was thinking about creating something like this for my own use. My use case would be for monitoring a forum 'Whats New' page so we can be alerted if a thread is started about our business. But we would need the alert much more frequently (every hour at least), and wouldn't want the same alert over and over again.
Show HN: Fitbit Sleep Stats
http://sleepstats.herokuapp.com/

Here's a side project of mine to help me learn more about stats, using Fitbit's sleep tracking feature. Figured I'd use their API and do it for everyone else too. I don't save your data, I promise. The code's on Github. https://github.com/davemckenna01/sleepstats
I totally fell in love with this movie too. Thanks for the reminder, I think I will watch it again tomorrow!
Great Job on this. I really like the light upbeat (pun intended) feel of the design.
I picked up the original Samsung Series 5 chromebook for $250 on sale. It gets the same battery life as the new ARM-based model, has a nicer screen (1280 x 800 vs. 1366 x 768 - more vertical real-estate) and is only slightly thicker. Oh, and it has a fan, but it isn't too loud.

There's nothing stopping me from writing Android software on this device since it's x86.
This seems to be the equivalent of Flex's 'callLater()', which was the bane of my life back when I did Flex, as it almost completely decouples the called code from the calling code -- very difficult to work out what called the code if it's failing and very difficult (without good comments) to know why it was added.

We had a rule: If you think you need a callLater(), you don't need to use callLater(). If you still need a callLater(), you need to get someone to come and look at your code now to tell you that you don't need to use callLater(). If you both agree that you need to use a callLater(), you've still got to justify it at code review time.

The biggest difference I can see at the moment is that Flex doesn't recompute layout until the end of the frame, even if you do read from it. JS does recompute, so you need to defer for performance rather than (as in Flex) correctness. In either environment, the sane thing to do is to avoid having to defer your calls at all. It may be more work now, but your sanity will thank you later.

As an example of how bad things can get, Adobe's charting components would take more than 13 frames to settle rendering, because of all the deferred processing. This is a good example of how deferring your calls can actually cost you quite a lot of performance.