skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Education is a process of ruining subjects for you and the last subject to be ruined determines your profession"
that makes a lot of sense to me, and partly explains why I'm in IT / computers now

Being unemployed for most of my life, that quote sounds way out of touch.

One of the best ways to ruin a subject is to tell someone who has been studying very hard at said subject and also has made spectacular progress, that they should stick to what they are capable of - and then tell them they are just wasting their time and should stick to sweeping streets and cleaning shit stained toilets. It's even more of an insult to receive criticisms in writing, with poor spelling and grammar.

If, unlike myself, you have a full time job and don't get treated like a retard, rejoice.
Apparently Erdogan only receives support from more rural and religious communities which is probably still more than 30% of the country.
If you want to see one of these working and in action you can check out one of our demos at
https://www.algorithmia.com/demo/pathplan
I have some HyperJuice units that I made cables for. It works OK, but is definitely clunky. I think it could be done in a better way, but it can only be a hack with Apple defending the walls of their garden so militantly.

For this reason I really hope GBatteries have a license to use the connector, and that they build in some cable management similar to what's on the magsafe unit, so the cable can be coiled neatly.

My other feedback is that having a built-in AC adapter would be so very useful. Look at the HyperJuice plug [1]. It's got the AC prongs that just slide out -- no separate wall wart, and no micro-usb cable. People that have only Apple devices won't have many micro USB cables around. It would also prevent someone from plugging the USB cable into their laptop while it's being powered by the external battery. :\

1: http://www.hypershop.com/HyperJuice/Plug/

(note that this model HyperJuice will not charge a laptop)
...the attacker could still find their direct servers fairly easily and attack that IP.

Can the upstream to the actual server restrict traffic to known Cloudflare blocks?
I read the first half of that title and though "oh god, here we go again". Then I realised (1) it's Switzerland, not the US/NSA, and (2) it's actually a useful service.

Go Switzerland!

Extra paragraph to compensate for the HN comment truncation bug.
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My guess is those times are assuming a 2A charger, which isn't particularly uncommon nowadays.
My grade school had a Big Trak. Loved that thing. I saw there was a new version coming out that works with a phone app and thought about getting it for my great-nephews. But there's so many interactive toys out there like it I have to wonder if they'd think it was cool.
s/Brandon/Brendan
I guess 2 years is long enough for most people to have forgotten the brief storm about his homophobic political activities. I wonder if this appointment would have been made 18 months ago when that was still fresh in people's minds. I can't help thinking that it doesn't really fit with the image Mozilla tries to present of themselves.

http://tommorris.org/posts/2550
Which controversy you've now made much more likely by bringing it up. Thanks a whole lot.
Good man. Certainly deserved both ways.
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Is there something like cloudfare but more aggressive?

Like something that tries to find exploits on the machines used in the attack and try to shut them down, close their internet connection or inject a self-targeting DNS or something of the sort?
Machine learning is really one part probability theory, one part functional analysis one part optimization and another part algorithms. I think with your background you will enjoy it. The particular two papers by Vapnik and Chervonenkis are very readable and does not use anything more technical than Chernoff bounds, its more about how they are used rather than what are used. CS students typically do not have probability in their curriculum, at least no measure theory, so you will see a lot of Physicist turned machine learners in this field. You might have something interesting going on with your own research finding, if you have not published it I would encourage you to do so. A possible venue is JMLR (journal of machine learning research, there editors are not scared of a little measure theory).

BTW a surprising fact is that Vapnik's bounds are dimensionality independent, provided you are working with what are known as function classes with finite VC (Vapnki-Chervonenkis) dimension. Dimensionality is a big deal in m/c learning because the data they are interested in is typically quite high dimensional.
> Any conversation at all about how to avoid the legal issues/being sued out of existence?

I share your concern, but maybe just sort, uh, :) worry about that part later? It could prove to be fatal but it'll be neat to at least see?

I mean, at least quick enough to get a prototype together and then later-on the avionics level of code auditing would take place.

I've worked with former and current avionics engineers before, whom worked with Ada on fighter aircraft or civilian jets. It seems like a few lines of code per day is typical.
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Scala doesn't have operator overloading btw. It just doesn't restrict method names very much. This is very different from how C++ treats operators as special cases.

If you give your methods bad names, it really is not the language's fault. You can probably find a way to make a bad API even if you are limited to a-zA-Z0-9 ...

If a library has an inscrutable set of method names blame the lib not the language.
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Wishlist:

-Cease copying Chrome's UI

-Comprehensive Bug / Security review focus cycle

-Slightly slower release schedule[achieved in part by the previous item]
> Performance/$ is still going to rise

But is performance/core also going to keep rising? Or do we need smart compilers/languages to make use of all the cheap cores?
I think the answer is No. ZFS users are just extra paranoid and looking for the next SPOF.
But after you've waited 10 seconds (in my experience, with a single code change it is usually more like 2 - 3 seconds) what you've done has a greater likelihood of working the way you intended, since it wouldn't have compiled at all if your intentions were less well-defined.
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In 1993, while in college, I wrote a paper about the fallacies of the Patriot Missile effectiveness. What I learned in writing it was that the so-called accuracy of the Patriot was grossly exaggerated. The mainstream media, and indeed the country, needed some symbol to rally around and the Patriot Missile became that symbol. The battery's very name started the process.

The US touted a 95% accuracy.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/...

In reality, a "success" didn't mean disarming the scud. It meant flying on a trajectory sufficiently close to the scud to have disabled it if all else worked as designed.
I was gonna scoff at you. then I looked at who you were and I was like
rolls eyes oh /n...
I replied to this comment on the article itself, if anyone is interested: http://flippinawesome.org/2014/03/24/string-templating-consi...
How do you figure? What scala data type is scala source code?
Oh noes! Someone whose political beliefs differ from my own! Burn the infidel!
Yes you do. Because DDoS, so like the service is down for users and attackers.

I'm surprised that on a technical forum there is still this complete misconception of what a DoS is.
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He has got 15 million registered members for his party. mostly men not having any higher-education, minimum-wage government contract based workers. This way they feel like they are a part of a some bigger movement.
Networking (the Ethernet/IP/TCP kind, not the social kind).
It reminds me of the 'bridges' game from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. It has the additional restriction that edges cannot cross each other.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

(Say goodbye to your productivity if you like puzzles).
Communitech has a Q+A with PiinPoint co-founder Jim Robeson here: http://www.communitech.ca/start-news/qa-with-piinpoint-ceo-j...
Read the linked FreeNAS forum thread. The answer is yes.

On a non-ZFS file system, a bit getting flipped in memory will result in the file being written incorrectly. That sucks. You can read the file ten times and nothing more will happen. Your file is corrupted, maybe even unreadable. If you were really unlucky, maybe some file system metadata was corrupted.

On ZFS, the same single bit being flipped can result in ZFS writing _more_ bad data when the file is read, because ZFS will try to fix the file but can never do it successfully since the memory is bad (and the original checksum was wrong). Hypothetically that could keep happening forever, trashing more and more bits, all because of ZFS.

Now, the real question is how often that scenario can arise and does that justify the cost of ECC RAM in your mind.
Makes sense. I'm building out on Play right now but given that my long-term goal is to have a JS view + REST endpoints I'm still not decided on whether I want to stay on the Play UI/template model or switch to something like Backbone.js + Spray.
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And maybe free access to a huge market to sell all the goods your growing economy produces to!?
Although you said it, not all of the app developers are aware of the real value of communicating with their users other than email, that's why we wrote this article to raise awareness about how much success can be achieved through integrating with any of the various in-app feedback mechanisms.
He was an SVP of Engineering in between, I believe.
I thought with newer SSDs TRIM is no longer as important and in some FSs even has drawbacks?
Software breaking!

Upgrading from kernel 2.4 to 3.10 won't be easy I think.
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Please don't tell them that anymore. Floats are the correct way.
And MagSafe 2 was introduced in 2012.
> What? I think you did not understand what I meant by that.

I understand exactly what you mean. You don't, however.

> The only freedom that would be eliminated here is the freedom of a company to abuse data they do not own.

You would also eliminate my ability to agree to the status quo. These are rights I have now. Legislation as you suggest would eliminate that freedom that I have.

You aren't enforcing privacy. You are removing choice and freedom. If anything, your legislation goes so far as to say I'm not allowed to trade my data for a service.

So, why do you feel it's okay to legislate away freedoms I have now?
That sentence is indeed grammatically correct.
I use postscanmail, which has $10/mth plans. It works well and any issues I've had have been resolved.

I had an issue with postcards not scanning properly due to the envelope=letter, but they eventually got them scanned.

The other issue is that it can take an extra couple days for things to happen, so I wouldn't use it with time sensitive things. I'd like to hear if anyone using the other services have better experiences with how long it takes to open/scan mail when it's received.
I looked at ucarp however, as far as I understand, it only looks if node is alive/down, not if particular port or service is down.
Basic Income directly makes labor more expensive (by lowering the opportunity cost for other activities). It would also increase the price of scarce resources. There are inputs to production that are neither of these. Even so, it's undoubtedly true that we could set so high a basic income that it would impact production enough that we'd see runaway inflation rather than any positive outcome. I'm not necessarily convinced $20k/yr is that high, but I personally favor a much lower number (~7k/yr).
The following scenario helps explain: you have two radars. One is a wide-angle, general radar, which sees a missle at some coordinates, travelling at some speed.

The other radar is for target acquisition, has a very narrow spread ("range gate"), and must determine the precise location of the missle given an initial set of coordinates, a velocity, and a timestamp.

In other words, the system is actually aiming at targets differently depending on how long it has been up, tracking so far in front (or behind, I don't recall the details) that it can't acquire the target.
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Lesson learned: Don't upload a fun, story-telling presentation online for fear that a third-party may submit it to HN where you will likely be ridiculed not only for not applying scientific-study-level-rigor to every bullet point and image you've placed on your slides, but also for events of your past that are constructed from nothing more than tenuous inference and speculation.

You guys are a lovely and welcoming bunch. I'm sure YC, successful startups, and potential founders really desire rockstars like you who've got this wondrous natural ability for unnecessary criticism.
I just took another look at the pictures. They are using the MagSafe to MagSafe 2 Converters!
That is the scenario, it's not just framing it that way, it actually is that way. There's nothing childish about it.
I didn't experience "poor tool support" with Intellij IDEA. Java performance profiler also worked well, command line too. Maybe I am not very exacting.

Sticking with Java you lose both the expressive Scala features and some good frameworks without Java burden.

Btw under "advanced parts" I didn't mean "everything above Java". I enjoy immutability, collections, case classes, pattern matching, first class functions, lambdas, terse syntax not considered them "advanced parts". Advanced parts are all those lenses, recursive types, type lambdas, you know.
Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
Yes, but you don't have to specify all the other columns that aren't being updated.

With json/jsonb, you have to provide the entire object graph each time you are updating it. You can't update one field in the graph. Which could be a pain if you have concurrent updates.

Hopefully we'll be able to update parts of the jsonb columns sometime.
Its 32.
This bizarre lisp fetish where everyone wants to call every language "basically lisp but..." needs to die. Scala is not basically lisp. Neither is python, or ruby, or javascript. Lisp is not just "has lambdas".
Wonder if things like this might cause an issue: http://tommorris.org/posts/2550

Mozilla has always stood for freedom of knowledge, and by extension human rights (so people can access that knowledge). I don't know what Brendan's political beliefs currently are, but I hope he doesn't still wish to restrict the human rights of certain people based on their sexual orientation. Not trying to make any assumption and wish him the best, but its at least possible this could be indicative of a world view that sees discrimination as acceptable in certain situations. I sure hope that's not the case. It would not be good for Mozilla, or the Internet at large.
People pay $800 monthly premiums in America?! And they still say that their system is better than "socialised" health care systems? Madness. Why not just pay our relatively low national insurance (12.5% of your pay check) and get free health care for everything. It would save you all money.

But I know what you are thinking... socialism is evil!
It's niche and there's not generally great support for portable batteries for macbooks. I'm pre-ordering one because the alternative is making my own.
Time is ripe for a P2P real-time people-network. Outside first world, Twitter has been playing a pivotal role in helping people counter oppressive regimes & lack of democracy. But this may not continue for long.

Edit: Ripe = not just for making it but adopting it as well.
Indeed. The real world performance of Patriot PAC-2, the first generation tweaked for BMD but using the same hardware except for increasing the size of the warhead's projectiles, says little about how later versions and generations (PAC-3 uses a dedicated missile, 1/4 the size and therefore 4 times as many in a launcher) also preformed in the real world.

Since in this case the real world = actual instances of enemies shooting live missiles at you trying to kill you, it's been proven in some acid tests. And one reason Guam is sprouting Patriot and THAAD batteries.
Because on-premise solutions are even more vulnerable to DDoS. A large data centre will have large amounts of connectivity, giving you a lot of head room for most types of attacks. But in this case 20Gbps of extra traffic was too much too. What on-premise solution can handle 20Gbps of extra traffic?

And I don't think Basecamp is technically "cloud", but collocated. They appear to own most or all of their servers.
I wish there was an easy and unobtrusive way to invite people to correct my English. Would it be okay to state that every once in a while in my comments? My opinion is that people don't like it, not because it's rude but because it carries the conversation off topic. I also wish there was a way to send a private message here to remedy that but maybe that's me over-complicating things.
Interesting opportunity but unfortunate name selection. PiinPoint with two i's is always going to be tricky to try and tell somebody. It even took me a couple of occurrences in the article to realize it had a double i since the brain tends to automatically filter out duplicate unexpected letters.

The other problem is that PinPoint.com is owned by Microsoft who will probably never be interested in selling it. So even after getting funding you won't be able to move over to a better url.
That's what I'm realizing slowly
> I understand there are people that will buy this, or OpenMoko, or anything like that.. but most of us are not ready to sacrifice basic needs just because we want to use Linux. (Not saying we need to, just as a response to suggestion to buy this kind of hardware)

What "basic needs" are you sacrificing on these notebooks?
This is good, but also somewhat inevitable.

It's interesting that all announcements play up the interim CEO's involvement in Firefox OS. I have felt for a long time that it's going after the wrong target in Android, and should instead go up against Chrome OS. Will be interesting to see how the priorities change, if at all.
Eich can rage as much as he likes about inter-racial marriage or homosexual marriage or single parent families or any other topic that gets social conservatives upset. Similarly, other people are free to criticise his views. Especially if he is going to choose to take on the role of being the public face for a large institution.
BTW, author here. Happy to chat about any ideas you all have about this, pro or con
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I keep hoping that the operator abuse is just a growing pain. The language community has been given a new toy, and they're going to chew on it.

Eventually libraries that will come along that were intended to be used by humans. Sbt will disappear. Flowers will bloom, and the lion will lay with the lamb.
I think same problems apply to both ucarp and heartbeat, they do not check service status, if I am not wrong. Also it is stated that heartbeat is deprecated and continue with corosync, but corosync seems more complicated.
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I was learning Scala and Go simultaneously. Hey, you forget to mention compiling time. Go is so fast that I just want to cry when I compile my Scala code.
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That's good to know. I haven't used Dispatch since 2011 when I first started using Scala (that was a rough introduction). I'm looking forward to Play moving their WS package out of the core though—right now we've basically written a few wrappers around AHC in their style for the pure Akka parts of our stack but we'd love to standardize.
Surely it would be Graham's condition?
Google might have technical advantages over their competitors, but as a developer and consumer, their name isn't exactly synonymous with customer service and when you're trusting a provider with your (critical) infrastructure, that's pretty important.
A one-liner maze builder for the C64:

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

http://10print.org/

http://retroplay.co/c64/ (click the play button for a C64 emulator)
Is it necessary to provide randomly controlled trial/other scientific data to talk about things you don't like in a programming language? Do you have the same standard for talking about things you do like in a programming language? My only problem with the article is that the hyperbole/sarcasm (e.g. "I've given irrefutable scientific evidence...") is not so well done.
It makes sense, given that Mozilla's purpose as an organization seems to have primarily become the promotion of the Javascript language
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This list[0] contains links to algorithms based on specific applications viz. VLSI, Operations research etc..

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/pscico-guyb/re...
>> Would you quit your job for a guaranteed 20k a year? I wouldn't.

Probably yes.
I've worked for 25 years. I have a good amount of savings. But not enough to retire on. If you gave me $20k a year I'd have enough to retire on right now.

So it would cost you $20k a year to pay me not to work, plus probably 50% more than that in lost taxes.

Not a chance of this working.
I think that it's not about the BatteryBox product per se, but about some technology inside which is supposed to reduce long-term capacity loss. The box itself is basically a demo to sell or license the actual tech to OEMs.
I like the "criminals" language. It's unfortunate they need to use it, because it points out that many people think this sort of thing is more like youthful hijinks--a type of vandalism, say--as it was when the Internet was younger. Repeating the word criminals is an excellent way to change the tenor of discussion on this topic in the public mind. I hope all companies that are ddos'd will do it, until it becomes redundant.
String templating is not type safe, operational transforms on trees (AST) can be type/structural safe.

Clojure https://github.com/cgrand/enlive

Python https://github.com/supervisor/meld3
Yes! In fact, you can have a Mongo interface to Postgres. I've written just that for Node.js: https://github.com/olegp/pg-mongo/
That's somewhat disappointing. Has he ever made a public statement on this?
Gary Kovacs stepped down last summer, does this mean that Mozilla has been without a CEO for almost a year?
SCFusion is nowhere near as good & maintained as WizardOfWin [1], which I've built. Although SCFusion is open-source, which may be a bonus point for some.

[1] http://www.wizardofwin.com
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Should you get the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro whopper-sized tablet?
Its an ok start. As a collaborative effort it could actually be useful.
Clearfix doesn't need a space character. content: "" is sufficient.
Edit - on the github page he encourages contributions. https://github.com/mdo/wtf-html-css/
Why do they all look like the astronauts made the suits themselves out of duct tape?
Then again, policy means you can't, like, make more than your boss or anything like that.
HLSL is Microsoft's shading language. GLSL is the OpenGL shading language.
More like Lesson learned: Don't upload a story board full of blatant lies, misrepresentation of facts and half truths and expect people to just fall down and worship the ground you walk on.
Things got a lot stricter due to:

* Fairly active insurgency in Ireland for much of the 20th century.

But particularly:
* A school shooting, after which pistols were pretty much banned.
Clearly if the relationship between funding and tuition were positive this would be taken as strong positive evidence.
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