skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I correct in understanding that the main benefit is that JXCore allows you to run x number of tasks in parallel where x is the number of CPUs?

The problem is solved by running multiple node processes, which is standard deployment for node (i.e. if a machine has 8 cores then 8 node processes are started).

One issue with running multiple threads is that many developers use fail fast as a best practice when building node applications. In other words, uncaught exceptions cause the node process to fail, die and restart. So, it's perfectly acceptable practice to write your application to be written to accept failure as a given (similar to how Netflix uses Simian Army).

That said, how well is each thread isolated from everything else. Does an uncaught exception kill just the thread and its state, or does it kill the process? More specifically, when is the main process killed and what is contained within the thread?
> Whether they are subject to US jurisdiction or not might be debatable

If you're worried about what the courts have to say about the subject, it isn't debatable in the slightest. They're the ones who get to decide what the rules are, period.

If you don't care what a jurisdiction's courts have to say about the rules governing financial services, you really have absolutely no business offering financial services in that jurisdiction.
Medical data is a great tool but the problem is that these stories are poisoning public good will. There is no point telling people to calm down when they have just learned that records of every meeting they ever had with their doctor were available on the public internet and identifiable to anybody who knows their address and DOB. That is something that people rightly get upset about.

Additionally, it's not like these events are all just accidents or incompetence. The UK government made a policy decision to sell medical records to insurance companies[1].

Also, is it really true that release to the insurance industry is unacceptable to the HSCIC? Its own information governance assessment from August says that access to individual patients records can "enable insurance companies to accurately calculate actuarial risk so as to offer fair premiums to its [sic] customers. Such outcomes are an important aim of Open Data, an important government policy initiative."[2]

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10659147/Patient-recor...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/28/care-da...
His opinion is biased and he doesn't know what he's talking about.
Tutorial and Demo of data binding with Backbone.js + Rivets.js
That is pretty common as companies get larger policies such as "you paid to do a solid 8 hour work per day" are common.

Some places don't have that, I know, some have more strict policies like "come in at 9 or leave at 5 or 6 or whatever".

Some have core business hour that they expect it is reasonable to have meeting and expect people to be in "11 to 4" or something similar.
I was a terrible math student in school.

Looking back, it wasn't because the material was hard, or boring, but because it was completely unmotivated. They may as well have been asking me to organize piles of toothpicks or count ceiling tiles to fill up the class periods. There was simply no sense to it.

I think this is partially understood, and the attempted solution is to try to find applications for the math you're learning. Except that once you hit even basic algebra, you quickly run out of applications a young student can relate to. So they go home, ask their parents "what do you use Algebra for?" and get "I don't." and that's that.

I think, along with application concepts, the history of these maths...why were they created, about the creators who came up with the concepts, what were they trying to solve, let's solve the same problems with these new techniques, etc. This would have grabbed me and pulled me in. Instead you sometimes get a little box in the reading quickly going over all this (if you are lucky) before a hundred problems are dumped on you to drill through. It's rarely talked about in class, and if it is, it's by a teacher who doesn't know or appreciate the value of this history at all.

By doing this you show applicability to entire fields, even if the child doesn't understand what's involved in the field. Those kids that say "when I grow up I want to be a biologist" will encounter stories about people who learned to apply logic or math or fractions or whatever to solve difficult problems in biology or whatever, and then relive those moments as they try to solve the same or similar problem using the tools they were just given.
While it's a pretty impressive survey in its breadth, he doesn't seem to have much depth in a lot of the languages. There were mildly cringeworthy things in all the sections for languages I know well. For instance, the Ruby section seemed strangely obsessed with Rails, saying that programmers find joy in Ruby, citing the metasploit folks as an example, and then confusingly attributing that joy in part to Rails, which of course metasploit doesn't use.
Moving from WordPress to Jekyll
It is, but that also means a Node application will not use all four cores of a quadcore efficiently by default. I think the usual approach in that case is to just rev up four node processes with a load balancer of sorts in front of it.
That's a big list. A relatively inexperienced programmer looking for advice on what language to start with would probably be overwhelmed. How to choose what language to learn next? There's a dozen languages they've never heard of on there.

Glad to see Bash on there, even if his example code was sort of misleading. Sure, you have to be able to read that stuff, but if you can rely on Bash being there, you can use better syntax.

Anyway, Bash (and other similar shells) is special because it's the glue that ties a Unix system together. No other type of language can construct the same kinds of pipelines and filters so concisely or interact with the filesystem so easily. For a certain set of problems, Bash is by far the best option. The ugliness is partially legacy, but mostly just necessary to allow the same language to work at the command prompt without overloading everyday CLI usage with a ton of pointless syntax. It's all about tradeoffs, kids.
I think they're probably going to get sued by mercedez benz who own the trademark on smart car
That's true. Especially today - some oldies like Amazon don't have a lot of knack for it. I meant that few companies have the same ability to predict or set fashion that Apple does. At least, the same awareness or willingness to make it a top priority.
...meanwhile, everyone writing npm packages assumes a single thread.
Anecdote: I have a general interest in the progress of Go, even though I don't program in it. I clicked through, saw no real content, and moved on to the comments to see if they would talk about what changed. I'm not going to try to parse svn commits - such things are written for people who know the code.

These updates are a fantastic opportunity to talk about interesting technical points. What changed and why? You don't need to think about it as marketing, just an excuse for some quick-n-dirty tech talk.
Sinatra Boilerplate.
And that's the real problem: those things all cost money. Quite a bit, actually.
You lack imagination. There are many people whose medical records contain much more sensitive information than "allergic to bee stings".
I think one problem is that mathematicians would have high school students focus on solving puzzles and slowly introducing technical content and proof-technique, while the rest of the world cries out that they need real-world applications and preparation for calculus.

The truth is that the puzzles and proof techniques are what develop mathematical thinking skills. Every mathematician knows this, but no administrators are publicly willing to believe it.
Not underplaying at all - your point is spot on - but this data only relates to hospital attendances and not GP interactions. Currently GP interactions are not available in the database, and that's the point of care.data.
Useful, but no solution to the issue of new warnings. You'd have to be able to say "I just want THESE warning" to guarantee code continues to compile.
Kill -9
Negotiation in bad faith with the customer, though I ended up fixing that...

they deliberately breached my contract as well and treated everyone like shit (forcibly reinterpreting the sales guy's contracts to avoid paying them what they were owed, etc)

now that I think about it, these are more in the line of 'immoral' subject to civil penalties / civil suits as opposed to criminal acts against the public good, like dumping toxic waste...

so the general ethical quandary is 'to what extent am I responsible for not informing other who will be harmed by their actions?' The reason I ask is that the person who could have informed me, didn't, and so I ended up in this mess. I don't want that to happen to other people - I would have done it a year ago, but I was exhausted with everything.

Everyone before me has made the same decision, to not tell people... and so they have been getting away with this general stuff for 30 years. Back room gossip only goes so far and now they are loose in the IT community, thanks to me. I should have immediately quit when I was feeling the impulse.
There isn't an iPad equivelant for Android though. All of the Android tablets share an ecosystem and all of the iOS tablets share an ecosystem; that's where the link is. Perhaps only counting tablets with Android 4.0 and above would be a better comparison.
The biggest thing that sticks out to me is the design of the tab buttons in the nav bar. I remember looking at Photoshop tutorials and using Macromedia Fireworks to create buttons that looked similar to this for phpBB styles. Yikes, I'm not old. But damn I'm old.
Yes, but the drive wasn't what had the value (it was second hand). It got sent back afterwards.

It was publicly funded research data, to be processed and uploaded to the Genome Browser at UCSC. Had someone just put zero on it I think it would have gone a lot more smoothly.
Aren't farms about it? What else? National parks? They already have special rules.
I'm sorry Common Lisp is not elegant enough for the author, but it has a great community and library support. (At least compared to scheme)

Efforts are also underway to spruce things up a bit. https://github.com/fukamachi/cl21
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this is why I sleep behind my desk, gives me 16 hours of spare time a day I can spend on running with my imaginary dog and such.
WTF is all that doing on a web-accessible server.
Your medical records are a proxy to your current health. Thanks to big data, they are a proxy to your future health and that of your relatives too (and by extension, theirs to yours). Health factors can impact every relationship you have with anything or anyone, as well as your ability to perform any activity, and many of them are not reversible in the way that debts can be repaid or ideology can change. Therefore, if you believe in any need for privacy at all, then health is the most important privacy of all.
If the company does not care about the quality of those services then I guess they can do that. How long will the brand stay after that is a another question. I would not bet for long.
Medical information can be the most private information about people. There are plenty of situations with obvious stigmas - STDs, abortion, mental health as well as a near infinite list of things which could cause embarrassment or that people would want to keep private, from acne to miscarriage.

The last thing we want is for millions of people to stop going to the doctor because they're scared their classmates, coworkers and neighbors are going to know about their [rash, lump, depression, diarrhea, anxiety, psoriasis, pregnancy, etc].
Latidude? Autonomy?! If only you were in charge teachers would get something done!
Microsoft Office was pretty much was computers were to most people, and they came off (Bill Gates personally, ‘computer-savvy‘ managers in general and meetings involving PowerPoint in particular) as… no really inspiring. ‘Office life’ was an oximoron -- the title of the show “The Office” didn’t make sense. It was dredge reports, inexplicably weird titles, erratic page numbers, section numbers and inserted images on crack, illegible bar-charts because color-copies where too expensive, and tweaking with margins that sent the key information outside of your fax borders.

Apple played on that angle a lot. They were the computer for the cool kids who made music, took wowing photos, edited gorgeous books, and gave snappy presentations. Things clicked. They had the cool typeface, always, without even pointing at it. They even knew those were not called ‘fonts’. They made computers you actually wanted to spend time with, not be paid to be next too.

Not sure why OC is pissing: either at the office gimmicky memories, or how Apple’s angle seems dated now. But, at the time, that was compelling.
http://siterecruit.comscore.com/sr/atlantic/broker.js is holding up the entire site for me. Async, anyone?
Yeah the old "If you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about" argument. Used by everybody since the SS. And now the NSA.
I'm not very good at naming things. I'm aware of the name clash with many other tools and would really like to find another name. If you have any better idea, just let me know.
I understand. But IBM CEOs are just not the "rotating CEO" type. For most (if not all) it was their last position before retiring.
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It almost seems like this company is in existence to get acquired by Tesla, which I'm not sure will happen. I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla itself implemented everything seen in the video in the Model S's next infotainment/firmware upgrade.
Movie: Sad that this was made

COST
Judgment: Going to cost everyone Billions. Movie industry needs to be scared. If 5 seconds with paper work that was not upfront is the deciding factor of copyright I am betting there are thousands of actors and actresses who will bring up similar claims.

Copyright is to strong already, as we all agree.
Look, i'm really not going to argue with you.

But we have a saying in Dutch: "Wij van Wc-eend adviseren... Wc-eend"

Translation: "We from ToiletDuck advice... ToiletDuck"
(it was a known commercial for a toilet cleaning product)
As a side note: 1e^x reads as the natural log base to the x power all times 1.

1ex or 10^x is what you probably want.

Why e was chosen to represent that may be due to 7-segment-only displays on (some) (early) calculators. I still think it was a bad choice because of this very issue.
The 2nd is your opinion. Lots of single guys I know are miserable. There definitely an under-served population here, and saying its natural and expected isn't the whole solution.
Sooo... not a lot of data. That's kabdib's point.

This isn't the 90s or something, a couple of terabytes is no longer "big data".
If I delete my wallet and all the backups, it might still be in the blockchain but it's effectively gone forever because it can never be spent.
I've taught a lot of enrichment seminars on Saturdays. They involve "clock arithmetic," or Fermat's little theorem and the basics of RSA encryption for older students, or fractals and ways of computing fractal dimension (and exploring polynomials and iteration and Newton's method), or the differences between geometry on a beach ball, a paper towel center tube, and a piece of paper, or even a bit of Mill and Frege's ideas on how to define a number... Kids love this stuff and they get really excited and they start asking questions about infinity and making connections with their other learning. They have fun, but the topics aren't fun -- they are important and useful! Learning about solids has applications (if that's what you value) to proteins and polymers and all sorts of funky stuff. Check out http://phys.org/news/2014-02-years-mathematicians-class-soli... for some new solids mathematicians have just discovered, inspired by biological research.

Seems better than just learning to hate math. Our current system is certainly not effective in teaching young people to add fractions, which I see as the single greatest indicator for competence in college mathematics (sigh).

Ok, after another moment's thought your argument seems similar to "Why should kids read stories and books? To succeed in writing dissertations they need grammar. All that extra reading of literature should be confined to the side..."
He also has a series of videos on his youtube detailing the painting and build: https://www.youtube.com/user/lucaiaconistewart/videos
Apple tended to use numbers that were based on calculations made with AltiVec[0], a very powerful SIMD instruction set on PowerPC processors. Of course many apps didn't benefit much from AltiVec at all.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltiVec
Note that Tesla doesn't let you grant 3rd party apps access to the API (or that no API yet exists and all this is reverse engineered from the phone app).

So to use this, you would have to hand them your username and password.
People submit their own work to HN all the time. We encourage it.
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I think the article, as well as many of the comments, are missing the crucial point: going out for lunch is about spending time with friends, socializing, and maintaining work/life balance. And of course, it's also about networking.

Although the article makes an interesting point about how doing work while everyone else is out to lunch can lead to accelerated career advancement; I think going out to lunch provides a valuable networking opportunity that is an important aspect of career advancement inside any organization.
I think it's tough to say. There's considerable overhead to packeted traffic. Also it sounds like they had a simple setup so there would be a delay in exchanging the DVDs after each one finishes. Uploads probably finished over the weekend with nobody there to start the next one too.
> We need to draw math teachers from the top tier of math majors (or physics, stats, etc). And if we do that, it's very likely that people with real insight into math will teach it very effectively but less mechanically.

Then don't pay me 25%-33% of what I'd make working in industry.
I disagree this is a first amendment case that someone found a way to get the video taken down.

They then made this a copyright case due to a bad contract.
The article headline is a little sensationalist. It's very rudimentary, and it's more about learning limits than equations. That said, games like DragonBox highlight that kids are capable of being introduced to these concepts well before schools get around to it.
Math curriculum may be rote and boring, but if you don't master arithmetic, fractions, exponents, etc., you're going to have a lifetime of poor decisions regarding investments, financing, etc., which will be very costly.
The best smooth scrolling is to not rate limit the speed and remove the inertia effect.
"no one wants to get rich slowly”
How WhatsApp achieve 2 million connections per server.
I hope they make this available for aftermarket manufacturers. No way I'm going to spend $80k to replace my '97 Landcruiser with a 2014. Maybe in 15 years, but by then I'd probably need to be running a 15 year old iPhone.
The best any US company can say is that they will only turn your information when they obtain a legally binding gag order.

Until our culture changes, US companies can't get that faith back.
> "Working" through lunch and then leaving early is almost certainly detrimental to your career prospects at that place.

How do you know? Are you familiar with his workplace?

If not, then please stop telling him what his workplace is like. Different companies have different cultures and different requirements.
That movie was ahead of its time and predicted a unix based Mac OS. Prophetic indeed Newman!
The fact that those private banks did not have their shareholders wiped out completely and no one went to jail are the problems I have with TARP.
Sorry. Yes you are quite right.

When I said public internet I was actually referring to the things Ben Goldacre has been tweeting ( https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/440475049880195073 ) and I'm not sure which data set he is talking about.
Actually I didn't make the comment about the database being properly designed. I was at a loss as to what to say when that was the complaint.
Lunch is quite a variable thing in the US workplace. I've had all sorts:

1: Got takeout lunch and came back to eat it at my desk. Would get griped at by boss for eating at desk because it seems like I am available to work (between 12pm-1pm hours?). I was told to "eat somewhere out" except the only place to get internet was at my desk. Maybe I should have had a neon sign to indicate it was my lunch hour. This was ~2003 so I guess my only option for killing an hour out at a restaurant at the time would have been some kind of portable gaming system.

2: Work provided lunch, some people ate in the break room, I brought back to desk, worked while eating (not much work to be done in 10 minutes really), then left to go home for ~45 minutes to play on computer there. Free lunch and still an appreciable break!

3: Since I drove 75 miles one way to work, I came in an hour later and ate lunch at desk. I can admit I was less productive during this time. Not to mention, I did have to drive out for lunch which cost ~10-15 minutes. Oversight was low, however, and I felt owed a bit by the huge delays on the promised opening of a new office nearby my house.

4: Lunch hour is mandatory between 12pm-1pm. Made lunch in break room, ate at desk to play on computer for my mandatory 1 hour. I had to start wearing headphones because bosses (same bosses who made mandatory lunch) would try to talk work during 12pm-1pm hours since they never ate lunch or went anywhere for lunch. I wish they had stuck to their own rule. Eventually started going to Chinese restaurant nearby for the hour to escape, made friends with order taker there, watched tv shows on iPad or read books on e-reader. You could say I did learn my lesson from #1 here and the advent of portable tech kept me satisfied. Was less happy when lunch was reduced to 1/2 hour since it made my Chinese trip impossible. Had to stick to faster food and eat in my truck, with tethered iPad or e-reader of course.

5: Currently, my office is 5 minutes from my house as is my wife's, so we meet up at home. My lunch hour is flexible whereas hers is not, so I wait for a text that she is leaving first.

In conclusion, lunch time usage greatly depends on what the employer will allow. However attempting to eat at my desk has either upset my employer by making it seem like I am available to work when I am taking an hour break, or else it probably was not productive time which my employer was probably not aware of but still wouldn't have been thrilled about.