skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a unsure what you're trying to say here. Are you talking about having a situation where the Turing machine resolves without any physical signs of execution? I don't see what's wrong with the current method of using tokens as a tape and infinite triggers based on those tokens until a halt state is reached. It just needs a bit of refinement on the triggers.

Just like a theoretical Turing machine doesn't require a human to feed it with a strip of tape, a theoretical Magic-Turing machine doesn't require a human to feed it with tokens and damage markers.

And game-breaking infinite loops in Magic are dime a dozen. Did you know that there's a combo that allows you to rip every card in your opponent's deck into confetti? (Unless they forfeit.)

Sorry if I entirely missed the point of what you were saying.
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IIRC, until fairly recently (well after Mongo had launched), "master/slave replication for availability" in Postgres was a bitch to set up, requiring 3rd-party tools + manual failover if the master died. It was a lot easier to get going with Mongo, which is really what matters if you're a 2 person startup just trying to validate an idea.
Besides the corruption, that just sounds like it's missing features. Missing features is ridicule worthy?
From Politico:

The Obama administration Sunday said it’s called on “the best and brightest” tech experts from both government and the private sector to help fix the troubled website at the root of the Obamacare enrollment problems.

The unusual Sunday 600-word blog post from HHS was the first update in more than a week on the many failings of an expensive website that HHS itself described as “frustrating for many Americans.” But it didn’t specify who the administration had called in, or when the American people would see clear-cut results on Healthcare.gov.
> I wonder if Google Maps could close down....

No. Google has bought what must be dozens of companies at this point just to support and improve Maps (Waze being the latest), it's reportedly profitable & popular, with the continued rise of mobile I'd expect it to become more important, and my little survival analysis (http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns) gives it 87% odds of surviving to May 2018 (which IMO is too low).
I've used MongoDB for various projects and found it nice to use. Lately though, I've found MySQL to be pretty enjoyable too, so honestly, what's all the fuss? It's a database.

Nobody writes about the filesystem like they do the database, and yet they do the same job - store and retrieve data.
take your link to the fake site down from your page here! You're just upranking them and giving them potential traffic by giving them in-links.
I think coding at 15 still falls into the first category.

The 5th grade thing was just a label. You don't have to agree with my broad generalization.
Looking back on my years of PHP pain, I feel it would be a commendable thing to end this article with just a small sentence on the importance of choosing the right tool for the job. 10 years ago I would have read this and gone off to learn PHP and MySQL.
That article is focused on ping and glibc but the reason why this works is fundamental to IPv4 itself.

All IPv4 address are 32 bit addresses. That's why each number of an IPv4 address that people are familiar with are called octets. They represent 8 bits of the 32 bit address. So if you have 127.0.0.1, then the first octet is 127, the second is 0 and so on.

Any representation of this 32 bit number (including the most familiar A.B.C.D format) is a kind of short-hand for representing that 32 bit number.

I tried finding a link to a particular site that was phenomenal for learning the entire TCP/IP stack but I haven't seen that site since at least 1998.

But basically, if you want to spend time learning about IPv4 right before IPv6 becomes the dominant standard, then look into how hosts use the combination of IP address and subnet mask to determine if something is on the local network, how hosts use ARP to translate a 32 bit IP address into a MAC address and all the other low level protocols.
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I developed this as a solution to my own pain: contact potential customers to ask questions.

1. How could it be improved?
2. Would this be useful to you?
3. What target customers should I go for?
4. Any other thoughts?

For any useful comments, I'll gladly give 1k emails credit. Just email hello@talk2customers.com requesting it. Thanks!
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Taking the interviewed at face value, we find a really solid argument for why people are miserable at long-term planning. "Wah wah wah my bidness wah wah wah the traffic during construction." Fuck it, let'em suffer--except that that 66 year old will be dead and rotted just as the next generation really can use that new rail.
Yea - I have the rel="nofollow". Do you know if that's enough? Obviously I don't want to give them any extra juice.
>After all these years there still isn't a format that can save a Photoshop layer and represent non-trivially blended transparency correctly (closest you can get is images wrapped in SVG with filters, uhh).

There are other ways you can hack around it. One is to save the JPEG at double width and save the alpha channel as a gray scale image on the right, and then use css masks for webkit, canvas for firefox, and CSS filters for IE to add the alpha channel when the page renders. A similar technique can be used to do transparent video: http://jakearchibald.com/scratch/alphavid/

For better results, you actually want to pad the right side of the non-alpha image to a multiple of 8 so that you hit JPEG block boundaries. Then you repeat the edge pixels so that you don't get artifacts at the edges.

Handling artifacts from transparent pixels turning non-transparent is a little trickier, but one strategy is to apply a gaussian blur (radius 8) to the original image, discard the alpha channel, and then fill all completely transparent pixels in the original with the blurred version.
Every time I read that some well-meaning company has pushed Windows machines into a school or village in a developing country, I recoil, knowing that each machine is a liability as well as an asset. I know how much effort goes into supporting friends and family. Computers are too complex.

Chromebook represents a "good enough" solution for places that don't need desktop apps but would like connectivity. But that's not the feature. The feature is all the other stuff you don't have to do anymore. No more virus trouble. No more registry.

They're not cheap enough yet, but they represent a better solution than the next 5 generations of ever-increasing complexity that is Windows. And no, common-or-garden Linux isn't the solution here either.
It's adorable the way you tell people to get fucked and use other insults of similar vitriol and then imply that my comments are invalid for using a term like 'petty'.
Also, this tool is useful, a bi-directional IP-long converter:

http://www.elfqrin.com/LongIP.php
Don't worry, Google will buy them and shut them down too.
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Imagine a world wherein our intellectual heroes and vagabonds did not have to answer to the unchecked rule of tyranny, rather than the other way around.

Whence cometh the world of unchecked human excellence?
because nuclear

god

its like you dont even understand clean energy
Try http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/bibdata

It's free, downloadable, and has records on almost 13 million items. Just going by the API (http://dp.la/dev/wiki/Item_API), it looks like it has the information that you need.
Whilst in the same breath implying that "the experience the end user is used to" is a good one - which is probably not true!
Not only is it always in the top selling laptops category on Amazon, it is the only laptop that appears on the first page for me on the general computers category:

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories/zgb...
It was my window manager around 1997-99.
Can you expand on why/how?
It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that AOSP was shut down.
Your definitions of Turing-Complete and Turing Equivalent, as phrased, are incorrect or perhaps mistaken to some extent. I don't want to

Arbitrarily scalable memory is just one necessary component for Turing-equivalence to a Turing Machine. Two machines are Turing Equivalent when they can simulate each other. Not that this does not necessarily extend to general computation and can actually be a limited for of such.

Countably unbounded memory is not necessarily a requirement (ex. some symbolic systems), but might as well be for the class of machines that you are thinking of. A lot of models of computation become Turing-complete when they receive this benefit. You also need to keep in mind that some automata can have infinite memory, but don't have the ability to take advantage of it. Straightforward examples include pushdown automata and time bounded machines. Machines that do not have a logically complete algebra will also have this problem.

I complete agree with you about the "finite memory" objection people like to use. I find it incredibly annoying and not very productive. It is almost ignorant to discussion going on as they are completely missing the point. It's insulting that they think others don't realize this. I'm glad someone else (you) here shares this feeling. :)

I believe you meant that problems can be R.E.-complete (semidecidable in a complete way; ex. Halting problem). The term, Turing Complete, is inapplicable in this situation. It describes properties of a formal system and/or model of computation (which I'm certain you knew).
That doesn't have anything to do with availability, at least not in the CAP theorem sense as I understand it. What I think you're talking about (being "blown out of the water" is pretty vague, though) is partition tolerance: high-latency requests that are practically indistinguishable from network partition events.

I'm not sure what MongoDB returns (or how its clients react) when there are no available connections because of a lock whose duration exceeds the configured timeout. I'm pretty confident, though, that this sort of thing is covered by basic driver config.
100MHz Pentium, what a nice constraint to work with.
I generally agree with your criticisms and understandings on these matters.
I use Strava all the time. As a cat 1 racer it makes it fun to set KOMs and "race" against the elite in the state. That being said I think Strava needs to have a way to limit the Downhill segments. Some downhill segments where I live, utah, are outrageous with top speeds of 70mph. While I'm a Strong advocate for the segments I wish people would stop making downhill segments as they're far too dangerous. If I ever do a climb then a descent and see a segment that is way too dangerous I always flag it. The problem is, people can continue to re make the segment so no matter how many times me or my team mates flag the DH segment it continues to come back.

Strava can't take all the blame, its really up to riders to not ride out of their level, on a public road. You're not in the tour de France, you're on some public road.

While I talk down upon the DH segments its because I got lucky. While riding in Colorado I decided to go hard down a climb like I was the lead in the tour de france, I didn't know the descent what so ever. I came around a corner and it got much tighter than I had expected I went into oncoming traffic and had to bail into a ditch, destroying my bike and nearly killing myself. After that I realized it's not worth being a hero on the descent.
Samsung - see my comment :D
I just came across iSee[0]. Do you know if it has an API? It would be really cool to try to automatically plot routes to places without surveillance cameras.

[0] http://66.93.183.118:8080/isee/s1?zm=0&id=5876
I only know one guy in my personal bubble using one. He's a front end web developer and does much of his coding with ShiftEdit and is able to consume stuff, code on sites and exchange email with it. He loves it.

Personally I wouldn't be able to use such a device for everything, and I don't think most people could either. The traditional "media consumers" could use it, but I think they're just as content doing it with a phone or ipad.
Every time I use a tiling WM I think to myself "This would be incredible if I only used terminals and minimalist X apps (like xclock)". But the problem is web browsers feel extremely out of place in a tiling WM and I need web browsers so...
Well, without Google's proprietary Play Services, it's practically unusable by itself.
WindowMaker was quite nice, specially the docklets.

It replaced AfterStep for me (around 1999) and I used it mainly until 2004.

Nowadays I just use whatever is the default in any OS I use, as I no longer have the patient to tinker with settings.
Whoops, link fixed to the permalink.
Yup - I wrote a similar book (Google is your friend if you want to find it - don't wanna steal publicity here). I haven't sold that many but the process of writing it and giving support has been really cool. I learned a ton in just writing the book and currently I'm working on my next one (on AngularJS + Rails). Funnily enough, I've also been thinking about giving away Upgrade to Rails 4 for free through Leanpub. Might do that sooner or later.
The mindset that it is worth keeping an open mind if the consequences are potentially catastrophic - is that the mindset you are having difficulty with?
You're probably OK but I wouldn't link them at all. Anyone who pretends to know the secret sauce of Google or any other search engine is either lying or is a high-level engineer working specifically on search at said search engine.
I look at wikipedia as a cafe where intellectuals come and chat.

Do I want to continue listening to this chatter? Hell Yes. Nothing else comes even close in terms accessibility.

Will I stake my life on the information taken from wikipedia? Absolutely not. I wouldn't even cite it as a reference anywhere.
Gnome 3 is turning out to be the best DE on any platform. It's by far the most polished and innovative I've seen.

I never thought I'd say that 3 years ago.
Yes, that's true. But there are automatic shutdown provisions inherent in business like bankruptcy. The government that controls the money supply can never really go bankrupt, and even one which doesn't (like those in Europe) still tend not to go bankrupt as they can levy higher taxes, at least up until the point at which there is a revolution.

Businesses start and fail all the time and none of it requires guns or marches or any of that. Which is to say that it's largely peaceful. Something that I'm ardently in favor of.
An IPv4 address is a 32 bit number. The 4 octet representation is just meant for humans, it doesn't even look like that in an IPv4 packet header.
Ask HN: Looking for site where data stored in URL.
I'm looking for a site that provided as service where they'd store a body of text as a get param, then spout it out on the page.
I noticed a couple of my favorites.
Pekwm, and dwm.

I wish that someone had done this list a few years ago, as the http://xwinman.org/ site is all I had to go on when I did my own WM search.
It depends on your needs, neither MySQL or MongoDB is the silver bullet.
I believe that InnoDB is an MVCC implementation, so readers blocking writes shouldn't happen. Another thing to add to your list is missing window functions.

I'm not a big MySQL fan at all, but it's still leaps and bounds ahead of mongo technologically.
> I know of no formal study, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the rates of bipolar and depression amongst software developers are double that of the general population.

So, you're just guessing about rates of mental illness among the technical community?

> Food?

Yes, food. The threads are full of weird anecdote and semi-mystical bollocks.
just what he said. Most blogs on controversies deliberately don't link to the bad guys' site (you can always google them, right?) just so as not to give them traffic or any likely benefit.
The problem with sites like this is that readers such as mike-cardwell are not cool enough to download the sources themselves and host it where they trust it.
A lot of these downsides are
fixed by Tokumx. Real transactions, document level locking, compression and disk optimized indexes. I suggest everyone take a look at it.
Do you have a copy of the DMCA request from chillingeffects.org? I think pretty much every DMCA request that Google receives has a copy sent there for public view. It should at least have their name or company name though they may have faked it.
Argh. I should know what FizzBuzz is before I write one. I've updated the implementation in my post to be... not wrong. (It's a little different from yours, though.)
I use this one all the time:

127.0.0.1 == 127.1

10.0.0.1 == 10.1

192.168.0.1 == 192.168.1
The fuss is that a "proper" database does so much more than store and retrieve data.

If you've only ever used Mongo, a filesystem, and/or mysql, then you've never really used a database. Postgres (and mssql, oracle, etc) are so much richer; they are so much more than storage systems. I'm not saying you no one should ever use Mongo or MySql, I'm just saying that they are generally far inferior choices for problems bigger than mere storage.

It's high time we started thinking about storage systems and the higher-level functionality of databases separately. We can make different, more informed, and generally better tradeoffs than we're currently making by viewing this broad category of software through such a foggy lens. For instance: Take a look at how Datomic utilize pluggable storage to provide a sensible information model, with raw index access and powerful, pluggable querying.
I was fooled myself, and so thought it would be a fun experiment for you guys/ladies to partake in.

However, it does seem that someone has now changed the title to avoid confusion (would have thought it would happen much earlier).
If intellectuals were the only people chatting on Wikipedia, I would like Wikipedia even better than I like Hacker News.
As a Dolphin(Wii Emulator) developer, I can tell you that we haven't heard anything from Nintendo in the 10 years we have been around.
Strongly disagree here. MongoDB (10gen, at the time) had absolutely insane, irresponsible defaults set in all its drivers until, like, 1.8 (very recent). This is anathema to "we're just trying to validate an idea" especially when "our idea took off and now 6 months later we actually do need to scale."

They've fixed it like I said but that whole "we're just using it to validate an idea" thing is a total con. "Nothing so permanent like a temporary [solution]."
My wife has been using the one that I received as a gift on Google I/O 2011 and she is very happy with it, she doesn't need any more
If this project follows the same track record for other construction in this state, then this is more than likely.
I wasn't aware of that shortcut, that's very useful.
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Isn't a file system a better solution for both of those use cases?
Previous versions of my startup's enterprise product used to be based on relational DBs (mostly Oracle, MySQL also). This year we switched to Mongo and dropped RDBMS support.

RDBMS performance was fine most of the time as we're not doing big data really. Our problem was developing and maintaining a schema that holds lots of metadata many levels deep. Our app allows for unlimited user defined forms and fields, some of which may hold grids inside which hold some more fields... Our app also handles lots of logs and large file dumps, which slowly made data, cache and fulltext search management mission impossible. Even though we had considerable previous experience with Mongo, it took us a long time to switch because we were utterly scared. It's nice to sell a product that is Oracle-based, as that sent out a message about our "high-level of industry standardization and corporate commitment" bullshit that (we thought) is quite positive for a startup competing against the likes of IBM, HP, etc.

To our surprise, our customers (some Fortune 500 and the like) were VERY receptive to switch to a NoSQL, opensource database. Surprise specially given it would be supported by us instead of their dreadfully expensive and mostly useless DBA departments. It even came to a point where it has changed their perception of our product and our company as next generation, and surprisingly set us apart from our competition even further.

In short, as many people here know, not all MongoDB users are cool kids in startups that need to fend off HN front page peak traffic day in day out. Having a schemaless, easy to manage database is a step forward for sooo many use cases, from little intranet apps to log storage to some crazy homebrew queue-like thing. 10-gen superb, although criticized, "marketing effort" also helps a lot when you need to convince a customer's upper-management this is something they should trust and even invest on. I can't express my gratitude and appreciation for 10-gen's simultaneous interest in community building, flirting with corporate wigs and getting the word out to developers for every other language. Mongo is definitely a flawed product, but why should I care about the clownshoeness of its mmapped files when it has given us so much for so long?
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That 2% is received more form the Consumers directly. Banks make 80% of income from Consumers in terms of late fees, interest charges, annual fees and various other charges they slap on consumers. Part of this goes to pay for the rewards i.e. not all rewards are paid from Merchant acquisition fees.
> "Tab-completion is now enabled by default in the interactive interpreter."

Thanks! Now I don't have to do this on every box anymore for using Python.
You so desperately want this to be a nefarious PR job.

Why was Chick-fil-a mentioned first? (Puts on Sherlock Holmes cap.)

1. Maybe the writer was fishing for pageviews?

2. Maybe the writer wanted an eye-catching lead? Aggregators pick up the first sentence.

3. Is it a coincidence this is trending on a Sunday after millions of Christians just ate Chick-fil-a after church? How many priests/pastors injected this story into the sermon today? How many Christian moms did a "share by email" on this? A ton!

4. Sometimes these stories take months to write. Maybe the writer first discovered the phenomena via a Chick-fil-a related conversation.

5. A good article must have quotes. It's possible the Chick-fil-a quote came first which got the always-difficult first paragraph rolling.

6. Maybe this was an underhanded jab at Chick-fil-a patrons. "See, it's not just chicken-eating Christians that are generous." NYT's political slant is no secret.

7. Maybe the writer just likes the chicken? Is that so far-fetched? LOL.

Those are just as plausible, if not more plausible, in my opinion.
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My thoughts exactly. So why isnt this being used instead.
Are you actually losing any queries to this site or seeing a drop in your traffic? Google is very smart, they probably know your site is more trustworthy and had the content first. If the person is hosting a bunch of similarly crappy pages on the same IP and/or the same host, Google knows about it.

Any suitably popular site is going to have all sorts of people ripping off your content. Google knows this, and work very hard to deal with it. I just searched for a bunch of things related to your site and the legitimate pages appears to be winning them all, and I don't even see the bad page showing up in the top 10.

If the site is sapping traffic, file a DCMA against their hosting provider (though there are some shady web-hosts who won't do anything about it). Obviously if they are filing a DCMA request against you, defend yourself. But just because somebody is ripping off your content doesn't necessarily mean you need to do anything.