skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (Disclaimer: Namecast (http://www.namecast.net) supports ALIAS records as well, so I have an abnormal interest in what was otherwise a small part of the article.)

Kudos, this is one of the most subtle advertising comments I've seen yet.
These are handy! Thanks for sharing!
You can dynamically load/unload shared libraries so the data is only shared once between all processes. A win is you can also optimize the memory layout of the translation tables (can be in C), for which a hash is probably not optimal. This can all be automated in the build process using the database as a source. During software upgrades processes must be aware enough to know when to reload. And since all shared memory schemes use virtual memory you still have potential latency issues because of paging. Not sure if a .so can be pinned. Another win is it is read only so you don't have to worry about corruption.
If those are your terms, it's up to the customer to decide whether they would accept those terms in exchange for the water. I don't see the problem
> First, it is explained in the text above it.

A minor correction: the explanation for this heuristic was added later. (I first opened this in a tab, and then didn't read the tab till much later. I also wondered about the heuristic and didn't think to hit reload till I saw your reply.)

But you're right, there is certainly nothing ungenerous from Norvig here. Quite the opposite.
> or was a red herring

As often in real life. There's this report from late 2006 (though I haven't checked any other sources)...

"Last week Omar Nasiri, a Moroccan who spent seven years infiltrating al-Qaeda as a double agent working for the French and British intelligence services, told the BBC’s Newsnight programme that al-Qaeda deliberately fed false information to the US government in order to encourage it to invade Iraq. According to Nasiri (a pseudonym), Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, who ran al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and was captured in the US invasion of that country five years ago, told his US interrogators that Saddam Hussein was cooperating with the terrorist organisation to plan attacks with chemical and biological weapons. [...] American forces had scooped up Ibn Sheikh al-Libi in Afghanistan in November, 2001, and sent him off to Egypt to be tortured (because the US itself doesn’t do torture) in the presence of American interrogators. And Libi told his lie about Saddam Hussein’s complicity with al-Qaeda, which Colin Powell seized on as justification for the US attack on Iraq."

(http://gwynnedyer.com/2006/al-qaeda-and-iraq/)
Then I don't see how you can claim that the fact that "Promises coerce caught exceptions occurring on the origin tick to errors" is bad. This coerces all the invalid argument exceptions into errors. Is that bad? Or are there other errors which should not be caught but are thrown in this manner, and if so, can you provide (links to) examples which ones and why?

These should be quite rare and are addressable by wrapping that badly behaving function with a crashy wrapper that throws asynchronously...
No, git runs into issues before mercurial does. Just saying the opposite of reality doesn't make it so.
> Actually, under the GPL, Red Hat is only obligated to make sources available to its customers.

That is true, but the GPL allows their customers to freely distribute the GPL source they receive. Not saying Red Hat doesn't help or isn't doing good here, but it's not quite as altruistic as you make it out to be. I thank the GPL for that.

Note that I'm a huge fan of Red Hat and preferred their distribution since the RH 4 days, I don't want to denigrate Red Hat in any way. Also a huge fan of CentOS as well.
Building Pyramid Applications
There are really three key differences between KDE and other Linux DEs:

* Better file management. Dolphin (modern UI), Konqueror (Windows Explorer style ui complete with web browser) and Komander (two pane midnight commander style gui) are all very good. Even the file open/save dialog is more useful than other DEs.

* KIO allows you to access pretty much everything local or remote from the file manager or file dialog. Just use a url like ssh://user:pass@someplace.biz. Supported protocols include ssh, ftp, webdav, smb, imap and a bunch more I use less often.

* Usable control panel that actually doesn't hide settings from you. You can change pretty much everything.

* Scriptable alerts and extensible context menus. If you don't like it you can change it.
I do; it's not very hard to build a layout which looks like what the designer intended for those who don't enforce font sizes or faces, and which also behaves gracefully for those who do (e.g., no text spilling out of its containers, &c.) You might be surprised how little effort that takes, and I think the result is much better for it.
hahahah. ;)
Like a drug, nobody knows yet the long term effects of Facebook. So when someone acts super paranoid about the effects of something yet unproven, other people come out of the woodwork and try to give the guy some perspective.

It's kind of the same negative attitudes we see towards GMO's, drones or RF radiation.

I mean people could easily flip their perspective and, instead, see these tools as very powerful and, if used correctly, could have massive positive impact on humanity. They can then educate themselves about these tools and figure out how to be the very ones to incur that massive positive impact on humanity using these tools.
While I have nothing against Snapchat - I would love to have $3 billion offers for my startup - I think that they have opened up a new market (or dramatically expanded an existing one) for app creators.
try this https://apps.xplr.com/xplr/news/?filter=dc_source_hash:41f60...
This is a demo of a professional system used by several industries to sort articles across the web.
Controls in 3D mode: right-click and drag to move the camera, scroll to zoom. Arrow keys move the camera location.
Sure! My lab focuses on SLAM and 3D reconstruction, especially for robotic applications. We've developed a BSD-licensed C++ (w/ MATLAB wrapper) library with specific applications towards 3D reconstruction problems such as SLAM and structure from motion. It's called GTSAM [1]

We actively maintain and release new features as they are published. While we don't provide a full out of the box pipeline (yet!), there are plenty of examples and documentation which walk you though the math, implementation, and other issues. If you want to read about the graphical models underlying GTSAM, see [2]

Utilizing OpenCV for feature detection and association is pretty much all you really need to add to a program in order to recreate Photosynth using gtsam. I'd also you recommend KAZE features from a former post-doc out of our lab, it's state of the art and recently added OpenCV wrappers[3]. However, it's also trivial to integrate other sensors such as IMUs, GPS, lasers, etc. for full navigation problems.

If you wish to know more about the actual subject, I definitely recommend Hartley and Zisserman's Multiview Geometery Book[4]

[1] https://borg.cc.gatech.edu/borg/

[2] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~dellaert/pub/Dellaert06ijrr.pdf

[3] https://github.com/pablofdezalc/akaze

[4] http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/hzbook/index.html
It can be a single camera with a sort of picture-in-picture setup.
A friend wanted to know the nitty gritty details of how this new Photosynth works. I don't work on it, but I saw a talk on it this summer and I've worked on similar projects, so I wrote up all that I know/can speculate.

http://kaflurbaleen.blogspot.com/2014/01/whats-up-with-photo...
Actually, the existence of privilege needs empirical evidence, and until then it's just a hypothesis. There's no such evidence at least where I live.

Making a claim doesn't automatically make it true, even if we're talking about privilege. Yes, I know that the believers of privilege always say that 'privilege exists but you just don't notice it'. As a believer of the scientific method I actually need some empirical evidence to believe in something.

In effect, the article states that because of privilege a white male who has a lot of experience should be able to get a job easily, since "they look the part". Empirically that claim doesn't apply to me. You can "hand-wave" about it being even harder if I was a woman, but it's still just hand-waving unless there's some evidence to back it up.

In addition, I notice any privilege I get. Besides, women programmers have some privilege over me: they don't need to waste one year in forced labour. All women are basically one year ahead of me because of military service.
On hover, with a 1s delay to expand. In practice that means the window usually expands as you start writing into it. And it's hard to trigger by accident.

I haven't tried on active yet, but suspect that that would not persist after I released the mouse button. With hover. so long as the mouse stays over the textarea and surrounding frame, it remains expanded.

I've posted code:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1spr7a/asymmetr...

(see the last code sample there).
This is really cool. Wifi being unavailable "in the wild" is something that continues to be an annoyance; if this actually starts being adopted by businesses, I think it could have a massive impact on who patronizes which establishments.

Ironically, I also view this as potentially helping Google with Chromebook sales... the more prevalent WiFi becomes, the more useful a Chromebook becomes.
Sure. But that's an occasional need, while not enforcing a minimum font size means hitting C-+ a couple of times for pretty much every page I ever load. In any case, the icon-font problem has less to do with the minimum font size than with the enforced typeface selections, which necessarily and completely break icon fonts.

I'm not sure which portion, of the blame in question here, you contend belongs properly with browser vendors. There are lots of things they might do differently, but I don't see how this is one of those.
HN would be a very different site with Colin & Jacques banned!
Mock file system in Node.js
Torture-as-a-tool became normalized in US media at about the time the US administration approved its use as a military tool. Until then this view of torture was taboo. So if the lifting of the taboo wasn't propaganda in the strict sense (recommended/directed by the authorities), it can be considered a type of voluntary propaganda in support of the decision making of the authorities (lessening opposition to the behavior of the authorities by explaining the same type of behavior from a sympathetic perspective).
Actually, many many companies (including a startup I once worked for) had negotiated rates w/ Amazon. Netflix is certainly paying far less than sticker price.
Eh. That argument cuts both ways. Memphis blues aren't quite as big a deal as Nashville country, but it exists, and, on paper at least, should make musicians wont to sadness.
Wow that looks terrible.

Here's mine at 200%

http://i.imgur.com/602XxWY.jpg

Better question, how does one test for this kind of thing?
Just a couple of days ago I was doing an upgrade from 6.4 to 6.5 and yum died in the middle; fixing that was quite hellish as rpm somehow decided that multiple conflicting versions of several packages were installed at once (eg glibc v131 and v137), and it wouldn't do anything until that was fixed (it wouldn't even attempt to fix the problem until it was fixed... "yum-complete-transaction" just complained about things being inconsistent and wouldn't roll back or forwards - "transaction" my arse). Ended up fiddling with "rpm --no-deps" to fix individual packages after drawing out the dependency graph by hand :(

I've had problems with individual .deb packages before, but never broke the whole package management system quite like that before :P
Adverts as an attack vector is one of many reasons why my DNS server also resolves 13,697 distinct domain names to 127.0.0.1

$ sudo cat /etc/bind/ads.conf | egrep yahoo| wc -l
55
In many jurisdictions in the US, won't adverse possession make much of those old title problems moot or at least make current title fixable without having to sort out the past mess?
Intel unveils 'dual OS platform' that runs Android and Windows
The good news about VR sickness is that most people get over it with practice. Not only that, but there are many reports from Oculus users that warming up to VR cured their motion sickness outside of VR! As in "I can read in the car for the first time!"

The bad news is that while better tech and better design can significantly reduce motion sickness, I doubt we will ever completely eliminate it.

The really bad news is that nausea is funny. It's great for catchy headlines and quippy comments. I'm really afraid that the Rift will get a reputation as a "vomit helmet" and that will lead the masses to dismiss it. That would be a tragedy.

It's really important PR for VR to get the word out: If you feel sick, stop. Don't try to push through, you'll make it really bad. Try again much later. With practice, it will get better and better. When you get over VR sickness, all kinds of awesomeness awaits!
NinjaMock's promo video
Torture has become so common in tv shows it has become difficult for my husband and I to find anything to watch together anymore. The genres we used to both enjoy are so filled with torture that I can't stand to watch them. He is willing to, but doesn't enjoy those scenes. Are there really a lot of people who want to watch prolonged, gritty torture?
My question was not whether the customer can decide to take my water or not, the question was whether it would be wrong to argue for getting rid of the radon, or maybe to ask for radon-free water because you are concerned about your health.
I believe RedHat would get a lot more followers, and a lot more support money if they did two things:

- have support contracts that make sense, and trust their customers. Let their customers choose which server they want to put under contract etc...

- have more software in their default repo (like, I don't know... Ubuntu)

They managed to corner the market for pay-for software (to a certain extent, Suse has managed to capture a piece of that market), but they make support and lack of standard software so bad, that people go to extreme length tu run on CentOS and ScientifiLinux, and have a single server running Ubuntu.
right, so why can't projects like that exiat in their own repository? what keeps HHVM and Facebook tightly coupled?
Are you hinting this is not really a concern? Could you elaborate?
The "social contract" now includes wifi?
Automatic Ninject Bindings
Man, that would have been super useful this last go around!
Guess what happened when T-Mobile US's boss trolled AT&T's CES party
Thank you.

I was utterly baffled by the top comment's focus on Star Trek (I figured out what "TNG" meant) when there was no mention whatsoever in the article.

Slate's got a good discussion of the piece:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2009/05/there_...
The problem with your hand-waving away of the issue is that torture is something that we as humans have a long, close history of, and time-travel is just a fantasy. To represent these as being essentially the same level of concept is utterly disingenuous.
Awesome! Thanks a lot for this detailed list. Very instructive :) The last version of KDE I used was in the early 3, and it seems like there's a lot of new stuff I missed.
I'll just put this here: Anycast doesn't _necessarily_ break CDNs in the way this thread has been implying. Ideally you've got some sort of loose unicast rpf in place for your DNS nodes, and have them receive DNS queries on the anycast address, and send outbound queries out of a local interface so that the NS you're querying knows where you're located... but this is getting a bit far afield of GitHub's new features in any case. PM me if you want to here me blather about DNS and CDNs more. And cross your fingers that edns0-subnet gets implemented sometime soon.
Customer relationships, user experience and veracity is the new business
Ah ok wow, my mistake. It's so common to hear people confidently (and wrongly) saying that saturated fats are DEFINITIVELY SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN to be bad for you that I just assumed that you mistyped.

That being said, from what I can tell, unsaturated fats are a far cry from your claim of "clearly bad", and even farther from "the only thing in a diet that's clearly bad". From a quick Google search, it appears that there's preliminary evidence that high amounts of PUFAs increase the rate of metastasis in rats with cancer, and preliminary evidence that high amounts of PUFAs decreases the "all-cause mortality" rate and rate of cancer events in humans with cancer. With such a low bar for "clearly bad", one could dig up a thousand and one studies about refined carbs (let alone sugar) that make it infinitely more "clearly bad".

*I mean that in the sense of reading up on things from reliable sources (studies etc), not that I'm a researcher
An introduction to Yahoo Tech
I addressed your point and you are acknowledging it and I can see you understand it from you various other responses. Promises catch "synchronous" exceptions, however unlikely. You can optionally rethrow them / manually crash, which you would need to. Your response is also the most common response, "don't worry about them and deal with them when they come up."

I prefer to avoid this mentality and it motivates the difference in our opinions.
Fixing Uber’s Surge Pricing
Yes, discussing yesterday, exactly. I missed that discussion when it was gone.

The point is the same whether you were joking about addiction or not. Preemptive forced action based on subjective reason like labeling makes for unwarranted control of human beings by other human beings or systems. I can just imagine a set of RAS checkboxes similar to stop and frisk for mental illness and homelessness. None of these are ok and the fact that we are supporting systems like this means we are headed backwards instead of forwards.

Harming others is a separate issue and is always a problem.
Do you mind sharing about how it was built (the backend)?
I think there is also an interesting embarassment factor - I felt that people did not like to be seen needing help on Jig. People that asked for help did get lots of it.

I also think the notification framework (posting to facebook would just get comments there, not on Jig; emailing people is annoying) is different for mobile rather than desktop use as well.

I still like the idea a lot so I hope Jelly unlocks the idea.
What is a Polar Vortex?
Code is "YAHOO"
Ubuntu, meanwhile, was willing to accept this tradeoff and distribute blessed Firefox, as Ubuntu also has trademarks that downstream modifiers (like Mint) need to remove.

It would be nice if it was easy to remove said trademarks by something as simple as uninstalling a package, however unfortunately most marks are spread throughout the archive.
Kanye West makes no claims about being a gangster. In fact, when his music first became popular, it ushered in an era of non-gangster "backpack" rap, at a time when "I've been shot 6 times" 50 Cent was on top of the charts.
Starbound is awesome. Are there really that many who can afford $10 but not $15?
Was the theoretical lower bound of this `max-flow' algo known? Just curious.

Also, are there a class of algorithms where the current practical state of the art differs greatly from the theoretical or how would I go about finding out the answer to this question? Much obliged.

I kind of thought a lot of these routing problems were worked out or known not to be work-out-able. Just shows what I know :/ * sigh
Facebook took the Mercurial path about 2 year ago, they hired some core devs one year later to secure and speed up development.
Which is worth more: 60% of zero or 50% of zero?

Which is worth more: a partner who feels mistreated or one that feels they have been treated fairly?

None of which is to suggest that you should ignore your misgivings. Rather to suggest that if you decide to partner with your friend, don't load your relationship down with petty emotional baggage - none of your rationales for equity are related to beating the long odds which mean most startups to fail.

Good luck.
Incredible image for an Earth-based telescope. I wonder what we could get from space?
No, the social contract includes not snooping in other people's private lives, and not co-opting unsuspecting third parties for doing so.
That was the idea. Lots of big companies are onboard, nobody small is integrated. Google "Federated Identity"
Home energy tracking: beta testers needed!
We're seeking beta testers for a quantified-self focused home energy tracker.

If you live in Northern California and have access to your utility account, sign up at https://www.ohmconnect.com/signup and shoot me a message at curtis@ohmconnect.com to let me know you'd like to be a beta tester.

Thanks!
He has virtually no association with Dr Dre.
Well, those 5 are very specific corner cases. Most people will not face them in real life.
Ask HN: Best blog hosting site for lazy hackers
Hi all,

I am training for a half-triathlon and want to blog my experiences. I'm sure I will incorporate some data analysis along the way, but right now only plan to document training statistics, nutritions, pictures, text content, etc. I don't plan on calling any APIs (for example, if MyFitnessPal has anything) or embedding other site content into my blog (for example, a Facebook like button). I know html, .NET, and some jsp, but I don't have the time right now to build my own.

I've added some that I like the look and feel of:

1. http://spion.github.io/posts/why-i-am-switching-to-promises.html

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7002073

3. blogger

I think I'd prefer wordpress over blogger, and I like example 1 the most but have never used github for hosting anything like this. Can anyone comment?
Those two comments don't disagree. "overplay" and "works in some situations" are concepts that agree quite readily.
Just to provide a similarly brief and pointless argument: I strongly prefer yum/RPM to apt-get/deb, both as a package maintainer (for tens of thousands of users) and as a system maintainer with dozens of servers to maintain.
No, I'm just saying that undocumented inconsistency cannot be addressed in any other way other than dealing with it on a case by case basis, as it comes up.
The paper also mentions someone else who also recently found a near linear time approximation for maximum flow: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.2077v1
I'd argue it's actually pretty immoral/unreasonable. I know it's still a great deal, but the average price they're showing is for the bundle we can buy + an extra game. They're effectively equating the two bundles by using a joint average, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually illegal.
It's always interesting to me how, the more an entity has shown itself to disregard the privacy and rights of it's users/customers/citizens/etc in the past, the more people are willing to extend the benefit of the doubt that they won't continue to do so on new ventures.

This will be abused, they will overstep massively at some point, people will complain, then they'll take a cosmetic baby step backwards, and possibly provide their users with a pixelated cow icon to make up for it... then continue on their way.

I'm guessing everyone has already forgotten about the "we read your posts, even if you don't post them" thing recently?
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook...
Why not just host it yourself then? You can get precompiled gzip and sane caching. The only reason I can think of to use GitHub Pages is not wanting to pay for a proper host.
I think a tagging system would work better when an article covers more than one area (like StackExchange) e.g.
New Python version released (python)
Bitcoin will fail (bitcoin)(economics)(cryptocurrencies)
Neat trick in Java (java) (programming)
Yahoo acquires Aviate (yahoo) (android)
NSA doing something (Snowden) (Google) (NSA) (Civil liberites)
you need categories.
I feel sorry for the guy. Really. To make such a fool of himself in such a public forum...