skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes you're right, idle connection do not use temp_buffers or work_mem.

I was trying to gather everything relevant to resources per connection. I'm not saying work_mem caused our problem.
You can pull the sphere up out of the water and make big waves. Fun stuff.
Took me a little over a year, and grew it through various means: press, social media, a lot of word-of-mouth.
Someone made a comment that they had an assignment which required 2K simultaneous connections. I'm assuming they were using nodejs but wanted to ascertain. It is hard doing async IO in Java and C++. Not something I'd expect for a class assignment. Unless, I'm missing something :)
Because it's using the graphics card to convert the 3D instructions into 2D equivalents in real-time. You can't calculate that stuff ahead of time if you want to allow the user to manipulate the canvas. And the whole reason we have graphics cards in the first place is because doing that on the CPU is too slow.
Google Cloud Platform provides support for HIPAA Covered Entities
Kept it vague when I worded it, so it was really just for the launch day.
So then my question is what is the future of WebGL?

I could see canvas extended to have 3D operations. Like say draw point takes 3 coordinates now. I can see a third party library that does 3D but projects it down to 2D and uses regular 2D commands on the canvas, or I see supporting WebGL interface and writing OpenGL style code.
OF COURSE something is wrong with the govt/edu buying model (I worked at a college for 5 years). But I still think it's worth playing the game if that's within your target market.

Are you saying don't sell to them on principle?
Fountains of Paradise, Red Mars, Blue Remembered Earth

There's a lot but these are 3 off hand. FoP was the one that really popularized the idea.

Red Mars and it's sequels have a small part about what can go wrong.

BRE just uses it as it would really be used. A piece of generic ordinary transportation technology that people used to it don't think twice about.
Also, this was at the height of the cold war and the ANC was a communist organisation. Nobody in the west wanted South Africa becoming part of the USSR's sphere of influence. There was a large amoung of realpolitik involved.
"The solution—and the key to Facebook’s success—is surprisingly simple: Identity online should take a cue from the physical world. You are more than your name; your face, your birthday, your location, and the company you keep all help others figure out who you are."

So, I guess the "solution" is an end to anonymity? The cure seems worse than the disease, in my opinion.

I was amused to see this at the bottom: "Commenting has been disabled for this article".

Either Wired decided they didn't want to deal with opposing viewpoints, or they couldn't get this wonderful proposed solution in place in time.
I don't think that works well for people who are not drug barons.
There was no apparent problem with turning it off for us. But maybe there is for others.
Google Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop
Converting any recipe on the web to shopping list?
Shopeat.com is a new way to manage your culinary life. they convert any recipe to a shopping list via bookmarklet
The UI (and maybe other parts?) of AVM routers ("FritzBox") is written in Lua.
This is the biggest joke since the HSBC scandal broke. Feds dont care about real criminals laundering money. They just like it as a convenient scapegoat when it involves an enemy of the state.

Also the US is not the world power anymore. They have no authority to 'flag' any currency.
This is really cool and super helpful, thanks for linking. I'll look forward to reading more from you... I hope. :)

You may be interested to know that I couldn't get it to work in Firefox (although I'm not familiar with d3.js and it's compatability or whatnot).
Does the possibility of a bomb exploding in a nuclear reactor also seems to you as an example for why we can't have nuclear reactors, while in practice we have hundreds of nuclear reactors and zero bomb explosions?

Seriously, of all the possible problems with constructing and managing a space elevator, this one seems like a non-issue.
Normally I wouldn't touch PHP due to the long history of security issues. Would this do anything to improve it? Love the idea of an embeddable interpreter.
Converting recipes to shopping lists?
17 Mistakes Microsoft Made in the Xbox Security System
Also the curious love for gradients(both too subtle yet distracting), faded color hues, rounded buttons and tilted tabs

http://www.micahcarrick.com/images/migrating-to-gnome-3/tint...

It always felt weird to me too, but well.. subjectivity.
As a teenager, I came to the conclusion that I would never get a job as a result of an interview. I'd be even less likely to get past HR and get an interview.

So I haven't interviewed for a single job for the last 18 years. Sometimes people ask me for my resume; I don't have one.

What I did instead is take a problem I was interested in, solve it on paper, and then approach a company to pay me to implement that solution for them (along with an estimate of the cost). That has worked out really, really well for me.

If you find that interviewers or HR aren't sizing you up correctly, this approach might be an option. Businesses, when it comes to tech, mostly just want problems solved. If you can do that, you'll get hired. Nothing shows you can do something like bringing them the (on paper) solution, and offering to built it.
Although legal action against ISP censoring and monopolization sounds beneficial, I'd prefer that government entities remove themselves from open Internet pursuits entirely.

It should be by the people, for the people.
Pricing info here:
https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/pricing

You can buy a package (reserved capacity?) or pay per-use.
I don't see anything to suggest that Arch uses eglibc. The glibc package in the repos is clearly the original glibc (look at the name, package URL, and build config) and there is no other package named "eglibc". Also, a very recent forum post[1] implies eglibc is not the standard.

Wikipedia says[2] that Arch uses eglibc, but their source is the eglibc website home page and I find no such claim on the entire site. I can't find anything about eglibc on the Arch mailing list, either.

Have I missed something?

[0]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/glibc/

[1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?177180

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_Library
Do you install and run Chrome, Sublime Text and the like on Vagrant? I've never actually had to do that, because I don't think you should need to, these software packages shouldn't mess up your system, if they are then you're doing something wrong.
Are Startup Weekends just for fun? The survival rates in the Netherlands
San Francisco Startup ZenPayroll Raises $20M, Finds Novel Ways to Lure Workers
Yeah we found another way to intrude in peoples lives.
In my experience all recent Netflix slowness is a product of congestion at peering points between Netflix's ISPs (Cogent, Level 3) and the consumer broadband ISPs (Comcast, Verizon). There's a good article in the WSJ today on the dispute:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

This kind of dispute is not really anything a Network Neutrality regime as currently proposed could fix.
A Stunning App That Turns Radiohead Songs Into Dreamscapes
Microsoft Surface 2 or iPad? iPad for me.
Link to R..'s C answers/questions:

http://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=votes&q=user%3a379897%20...
Busybox is great and it's specifically built to be tiny. I don't really know what the stali guys are going for. Are they building something to compete with busybox or something more general? If it's the latter then a user will probably have a lot of programs that use way more of the standard library than "hello world" does.

As it stands, the FAQ entry is comparing apples and oranges. Comparing full-featured and dynamically linked programs to statically linked, but feature-limited ones is only interesting if you can get by with the feature-limited version. I suspect we're in agreement.
Well I've seen some demos and games of people using a 2D canvas to show a 3D scene.

Back in the day computers didn't have 3D accelerated cards, it was all done on the CPU and there were enough 3D games that ran on them.

I can also see canvas API extended to have 3D operations on it.

It just seems WebGL is (was?) popular, lots of demos, but I still haven't seen too many industry uses of it and I have heard people at work claim "it is dead". So I was just wondering, ok, if it is dead is there any hope of having 3D accelerated graphics in the browser or is there something else replacing it.

* It seems a sibling comment answered my question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7264524
I thought the ruling said they didn't have the authority to do this without classifying ISPs as common carriers. If they're not going to do that (per the end of the article) then what changed that makes it legal this time?
I really enjoyed this article, well written and informative.

That being said, it seemed to be posted with perfect timing; I was thinking about this walking to work today. What if all of these mass extinctions (hypothetically or other wise) were caused by some species on the planet similar to us. Granted there is NO EVIDENCE for this, but what if... It seems that all mass extinction events happen in similar ways, each time some parts of an ecosystem are disturbed and it collapses.

Then, the most highly adaptable (fungi, bacterium, viruses are the most due to their short lifespan) survive. It's interesting to note that it took 30,000 - 50,000 years for the humans to develop this extremely complex society and ecosystem. Perhaps so short that when if we were destroyed this very day nothing would remain, say from nuclear war. All of our buildings would decay and there would be very little remnant in the fossil record.

I am not claiming any of this to be true, nor do I even believe any of it to be true. It was just an interesting thought I had that horrified me, and I felt I would share it.
It's not terribly difficult provided that you've got enough directional antennas in your base station. If you do, then every receiver is independent.

In other words it could very well scale as O(n), n = the number of devices.
Could you please source some of the reports that talk about the automation of the workforce? I agree with the gist, but I lack sources to defend the point.
"The people" don't have any power in this matter.
Did Disney World visitors "Myst" out on an amazing new interactive attraction?
Really simple cohort analysis using Google Sheets
.o files are not executable. You still have to link it to something that executes, and that something isn't Lua.
How is "US dollar bill B03542754F" not distinguishable?
You have a big gap between step 1 (Download Git) and 2 (git init), specially for windows users.
If you want an embeddable interpreter, Tcl and Lua are other possibilities.
Some people are mentioning that this doesn't work on iOS, and that's because Apple doesn't have WebGL available in mobile versions of Safari.

But it is. This post by Nathan de Vries [0] shows how you can hack the UIWebView to enable WebGL contexts in your iOS apps. You have to get a little more creative these days (the compiler has gotten stricter about private types and functions), but all it takes is something like this:

-(void)setWebGLEnabled:(BOOL)enableWebGL forWebView:(UIWebView *)uiWebView
{
id webDocumentView = [uiWebView performSelector:@selector(_browserView)];
id backingWebView = [webDocumentView performSelector:@selector(webView)];
[backingWebView performSelector:@selector(_setWebGLEnabled:)
withObject:[NSNumber numberWithBool:enableWebGL]];
}

It should go without saying that code like this will not make it into the app store.

[0] http://atnan.com/blog/2011/11/03/enabling-and-using-webgl-on...
Haha, they must be loving this thread over at Jetbrains. PyCharm user here since it came out. Tried just about everything else but after i started using PyCharm i haven't looked back.

My only gripe is perhaps performance. If you want to run a reasonably large Django project in debug mode you better bring some serious hardware. My 2011 Macbook Air with 4GB was nowhere near fast enough to do that, have since upgraded to a 16GB pro and now it's fine.
>As someone who's been a Linux desktop user since the early 2000s and was laughed out loud because everyone uses Windows so why even bother, I'm saddened by seeing the same logic from the GNOME team.

Well, below some number of users (userbase) the logic becomes solid.

I'm sure you'd agree too.

E.g Would you go out of your way to cater for an OS with 10 users? At some point there are diminishing returns. Is that 100? 1000? 10000? What NetBSD has? I don't know.

But just because you found it unfair to be laughed out because "everybody used Windows", doesn't mean it's not pragmatic to stop catering to niche OSes at some point, if your main focus is say Linux and getting compatible with them eats on your time and effort.
WebGL is a browser-specific technology - just like NaCl.
Authors moral rights are a bit more complicated, and I do not know how the UK deal with it. It is uncertain if I can in UK law take Shakespeare works and publish it as if I was the original author.

It is also uncertain if you can transfer moral rights. As I understand it, it is a legal gray zone to claim someone else wrote a copyrighted work.
>It should be by the people, for the people.

I agree, but I'm not sure how you can maintain these things without being owned by the people (govt) or a corp. I guess a regulatory body like the FCC then?
Where in the world does that apply? NYC has some of the most tenant-friendly rent control laws I know of, and most rent-controlled units are fairly close to market rate, and the legends you hear about exist but are so rare they might as well not.

Urban centers have a pretty finite supply of housing, so you're looking at what amounts to a long-running auction for rents among residents. People are generally pretty willing to "bid" 25-35% of their income on rent (or more, depending on the area and demographic), so as average salary rises, rents are going to rise too, unless you're expecting a major urban retreat sometime soon.
I was just about to point the same "checkout a repository" has nothing to do with checkout, you need to change it to "clone".
They can serve their own content while boycotting Time Warner's.
On portability
I never said it wasn't. :-)
Modeling a hierarchy of related things (in Go)
Show HN: Read well-formatted web pages in your mailbox
>because the openbsd ports people patched the hell out of it to remove all the non-portable crap. Leaving a gnome with a bunch of features gone.

Make up your mind. Was what they removed "crap" or was it "a bunch of features"?
Minimalist init for use inside Docker
Law enforcement in general only works effectively when a small portion of the population is a target for enforcement. If mixing exchanges represented a significant fraction of bitcoin activity, a "tainting" law would be practically unenforceable.
does a salary count as a benefit?
This is great, but I'm doubting the FCC will approve this unless he has found a way to not cause interference on the other frequencies his system uses.
FCC can help open up local access ISP competition. Spectrum reform, permitting dynamic sharing of existing spectrum, etc.

Anything else is a band-aid on top of an injury (the ISP monopolies) that actually requires surgery.
Urgent: Please Help Save Net Neutrality in the EU
If insecurities are part of PHP, no, not unless they deviate from the standard implementation. And there are most likely a bunch of undiscovered stack overflow type insecurities in this new interpreter as well.
But actual people in your circles (including rivals) WOULD know. They don't get their information from pictures, the masses do that.
Ah yes. All fair points as well. This is probably another reason why network hiring is so effective. I'd never pull someone from my network into a crappy experience.
you're right, RoR is WAY more secure...
Or simply send email to i@snipek.com with subject "read" (without quote) and the URL of any web page in body.

Combined with this function, you can also read hacker news in your mailbox: http://snipek.com/hackernews/ or simply send email to i@snipek.com with subject "hn" (without quote).
OK, this makes more sense I guess.
That seeks like by far the least likely way it is implemented.
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OK, this makes more sense I guess. Or, you know, he just likes the outfit. After all it worked for Steve Jobs.
You can use something that is not browser-specific (since WebGL is not a part of HTML5), such as Unity instead.
Wow! How to respond?

First off, while I appreciate your attempt at criticising the type of apps we build for clients who collectively generate billions of dollars in revenue per year I must point out that most web apps could be called pedestrian. Go through a list of the latest batch of YCombinator startups and I think you'd have a hard time finding many whose apps couldn't be called pedestrian too. An app doesn't have to be complex to be incredibly useful and/or profitable and by the way a lot of the work done at companies like Google and Facebook is pretty pedestrian too. So what's your point?

As for paying my employees less than I should, that's quite a statement given that you don't know how much I pay them. All of my engineers make $65-95k a year. At the lowest end is a recent community college grad who is really talented but didn't have the grades or money to go to a 4 year school because he was taking care of his sick father. I was literally the only company he applied to that gave him the time of day.

I constantly hear (from people like you) that my wages are too low and that I'm going to find it hard to hire good engineers but I have yet to experience this. I can't pay $110k to a new college grad or $140k to an engineer with 3 years of experience but from what I see the number of those jobs is far lower than the number of engineers in SV. Should the engineers who aren't going to even get an interview at Google remain unemployed?

I mentioned on another thread that I have one employee who I know is unhappy with his salary. He has about 4 years of experience and makes close to $90k a year but apparently he got it in his mind that the streets of Mountain View are lined with 6 figure jobs. He's a decent engineer who writes adequate code but he's not the type of guy who is going to pass a white board algorithm test. I know he has been looking and interviewing for the past 8 months and he's still here. If I'm taking advantage of him please explain why apparently no other company has offered him the 6 figure salary he (and you!) thinks engineers are entitled to.

By the way when I started in this industry in the 90s my salary as a programmer was the equivalent of about $38k today. I didn't feel taken advantage of or desperate then and thankfully to this day never got a big enough head to feel entitled to a significant income just because I can write some code.
"Never feed him a lot. Never more than a spot! Or something may happen. You never know what." (Childhood memory successfully recalled. That's from A Fish out of Water, a Dr. Suess "I can read it all by myself" series book almost precisely as old as I am, penned by Suess's wife, Helen.)
A little off-topic but the fantasy series Broken Empire are set in a post-apocalyptic world similar to the one you described. When I read them I thought that was very original.
The Zero Button Music Player
VPN into an AWS instance. If Netflix is faster, your ISP may be throttling.
> Bayesian and Frequentist descriptions are mathematically equivalent

That's a very strong statement. Is the class of problems where they both approaches agree well understood (for some definition of agreement)? I was under the impression it was not. Perhaps the complete class theorem? Are the assumptions for that reasonable?

As I understand it, Cox's theorem suggests that freq/bayesian standpoints actually have functional consequences under certain assumptions, although whether those are the correct assumptions has been up for debate. Perhaps, too, there's a frequentist formulation, but this goes beyond my expertise.

http://ksvanhorn.com/bayes/Papers/rcox.pdf
I have always found it odd how some databases conflate network connections with threads (or processes) of execution. If Postgres has an ideal number of concurrent workers it should instantiate that many and multiplex requests from various connections across them which has several benefits including allowing you to preemptively shed requests you know you won't get to in time and do other scheduling and QoS stuff.

I get it from a historical perspective where it would have been needless complexity to implement something else.

On an unrelated note it's pretty amazing what threads get conflated with in general.
Why are you dealing with money that you're assuming that is likely stolen? If they turn out blacklisted then you're out of pocket. Because bitcoin does not support refunds or chargebacks you must transfer clean money to refund them. Bitcoin has weaknesses, the way it deals with "change" and indeed the need for change is one of them. Bitcoin should have dealt with the change issue by instead of the splitting happening at the receiver end and sending back change, the splitting should have happened at the sender end so only the correct amounts were ever sent.
I think what you are looking is called a packager. I left The Windows world and scene long time ago but
t was very popular in scenes.

With a little search I found out UPX and it seems to be working with many unix binary formats too.. http://upx.sourceforge.net/
I work at a startup. But I've got mixed feelings about this.

My last gig was at a mid-sized manufacturer. We bought a reasonably expensive product from a startup. We bought installation, and support.

Worked for me: I didn't have to think about it much, except as a bit of hardware in a rack.

18 months later they folded. The day _after_ that I got a call from my boss: 'you now own X'. Go forth and support.

It was a constant PITA from that point until we got rid of it, two years later.

And it really soured the company on 'startups'.
They're almost definitely copying 500GB databases between machines. More than likely your 500GB database is running across 3 machines, and if 1 fails they bring a new one up and copy your database over. They wouldn't be able to provide that SLA otherwise. 500GB copies reasonable quickly on the in-datacenter links Google runs their servers on, afaik.
I doubt there wouldn't be evidence. A steel building frame probably preserves better than bone. A global population of tool making beings should at least leave some fossil evidence even if their timeline was only 30-50k years. Lastly, the distribution of natural resources might leave some evidence (like not finding ore where you would expect it).
Thanks. jsfiddle looks interesting. I will try it out. Unfortunately, for HTML/CSS/Javascript, we cannot boil down code into small parts, given the visual aspect of things. So, I agree with what you are saying.
I just switched from GAE to AWS due to not handling OpenCV; but I had someone suggest I could do the image handling via Google Cloud. I'd already made the switch, but was still curious since the original site was written for GAE.
> you can get "non-locality" via texture lookups inside the shader code.

So you define a way to encode arbitrary non-local data as texture data, correct? That is, you're hacking textures as a store for arbitrary data instead of the image data that textures were originally designed to store?
I was wondering that myself. It's going to be very disappointing if these rules are just "suggestions".
Every wallet that receives funds from the flagged wallet is tainted until they send it back to that wallet. All of the funds, not just the tainted amount.
wow amazing!! ??
Even so called "market rates" are actually unrealistically low.

http://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valley...