skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was one of the things that took me by surprise in Canada. At home I would do it if someone asked me but in Canada even the cable guy and the construction guy removed their shoes as soon as they entered without being asked. Surprising considering they were also going in and out to their van and had to put the shoes on/off repeatedly.
I guess your views are a part of your performance review.
This is also how Ph.D.s work.
> And yes, everyone has individual needs and those are the most pressing for them. I was talking more from a society perspective.

Right, but in a free society you can't impose to people what they should work on. This is a matter of individual freedom, and we should treasure it, no matter what the choices are.
Now we really need a long term storage medium.

Has anybody else though about just how fragile data is these days I mean these books/manuscripts are ancient?

What is the likelihood of any of our data surviving for over 1000 years in the digital realm?

We need a long therm digital data archive or we risk loosing a lot of important but not very popular data since the internet favors popularity over importance.
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> But you said that if we knew why it worked, it would have become science.

No, I said if we explained it, that would be science. For God's sake, read the words. Explaining something like gravity doesn't try to justify why it is that way, it only shows that we understand it in depth.

> General relativity may describe gravity, but it doesn't explain it.

FALSE! GENERAL RELATIVITY IS THE PRESENT EXPLANATION FOR GRAVITY.

http://www.highexistence.com/einsteins-theory-of-relativity/

Title: "Einstein’s Theory of Relativity: Explained"

Circle the word you don't understand, and raise your hand.

> Consider this a final response ...

Unfortunately, you are among the science-illiterate.
Untrue. Courts have also upheld many Prop 8-like measures in other states - see Nebraska's Initative 216, which the Eighth Circuit ruled was acceptable (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Equal_Protection_v...). So the courts disagree, and you cannot simply cherry-pick the "right" cases where the preferred side wins, to say that courts (who are always right) support you.

And ultimately, the courts are decided by majority vote, by being appointed by politicians that citizens vote for. A Supreme Court in Russia may find a rational basis for opposing gay marriage, and then write that in an opinion.
Actually, the "bidet" is an invention from the early 1700s that was specifically designed to wash intimate parts. The etymology of the word indicates that the bidet is something one rides, by analogy with a small horse.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bidet
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet_(meuble)
Unless the man grows, feeds and slaughters the cow himself, that "bloody beef" is just as removed from animalistic experience as the organic food.

It's ridiculous to pretend that eating hormone-accelerated mass-processed meat is closer to nature. Sure, it's oozing blood, but that blood is tainted by an enormous industrial profit machine.
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Yes. Agree, but what I meant is that the materials used to record information mattered more before. If you write something in stone (like the Rosetta stone, for example), it's extremely durable even if you do not make any copy of it. For oil paintings and sculptures, copies were usually not the preservation strategy, rather the protection of the originals in trusted places.
Honest question: why is Python so dramatically more popular than Ruby for scientific computing?
Often, the compiler cannot produce better code than humans because of the failings/features of the language being used. Even c/c++ has many gotchas, for example the assembly code might have to constantly dereference a pointer because the source code (in this case) does not guarantee that the data won't have been changed by others. Meanwhile, a programmer who hand-crafts the same assembly language might know that this won't happen, so they can keep the value in a register.

In theory, some of these shortcomings could be solved by a well-written aggressive whole-program optimiser that could deduce data usage & aliasing, but in practice they don't/can't, few people use WPO and it fails when you use library code.

In short, compilers probably don't have enough info to beat a skilled assembly programmer.
My mail clients have push support.

Look, I'm not saying 'Use mail for IM' nor do I claim that this is ideal. I'm saying that this is what I resort to because that's the _only_ thing that works.

In my world, there _is_ no IM solution. I don't have the necessary clients - or my friends don't. Or a subset of the people I want to reach are on a different service (Friend A & B on Hangout, C is using WA or Threema). The IM you talk about? It doesn't exist in my world and only therefor mail qualifies as 'as good as possible, given the environment'.

And .. if that makes 'IM' less like (each * a new message)

* Hi.

* You there?

* What are you doing?

* What about a beer tonight?

and leads to

"Hey, want to have a beer tonight?"

(still 'instant', as in 'reaches me in seconds and reply might! be equally fast) - all the better.
How can one become an expert without using assembly on a daily basis?
using cdn increases your bandwidth bill cause cdn bandwidth is pricier than your dedicated-server/rack/colo bandwidth
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Problem is, data storage evolves very fast and new technologies come and go. Even if you designed the ultimate, 1000-year durable floppy disk 20 years back, nobody would use it now because it's obsolete in terms of storage. You can only reach this kind of thinking when storage density reaches a plateau.

Personally, rather than data storage, i'm much more concerned about the formats and the OS we use for our files - will they still be supported 50-100 years down the road ? For the ones which are open-sourced, maybe, but how about all the proprietary formats ? How can we ensure they will remain readable ?
Lots of books and manuscripts from that period aren't around any more. A monestry in the middle of the desert is going to be hot and dry, which is great for preserving books.

"Never been sacked" is important as well. Often books can get burned and destroyed during political upheaval, either intentionally (burn the books) or accidentially (the building with the books goes on fire).

When the Spanish conquered what is now Mexico, they destroyed all the Mayan books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices#Background
> "We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they (the Maya) regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction."
many societies are facing this right now, see Russia, Japan, Germany, Italy, places with quickly declining populations. Meanwhile, other countries are rapidly growing. In the world of geopolitics, is having a rapidly declining population and seeing your stake at the table fade away, a good one? The countries popping out the most babies have traditional views regarding the role of marriage in building a society. And no, the 0.0001% of children born from artificial insemination does not nudge the needle enough.
The front page and demo's seem to be all about interactive on-screen books. Does GitBook also do things like pretty PDF export? (Converting the HTML to PDF does NOT count!)
If you stored your bits with lots of redundancy and checksums, then you could still recover the bits if some of the bits are 'gone'.
We use Sentry a lot at Justcoin. Frontend, backend, workers, everywhere. It doesn't look great and their support is a bit slow at times, but it works and is affordable for startups.
My brother and I have avoided upgrading the Talk application on our mobiles and we can video call each other from it. I can call him from my Xoom too, which I also have upgraded to the latest Hangouts.

If I attempt to video call from a laptop to my brother (using the plugin you must install in Chrome etc.), he never gets notified and it states that he can't join the Hangout.

This makes the service useless.

Why is this broken? How do I fix it? Is there anyone here from Google that can help?

I remember using MSN in the olden days on a variety of platforms with joy and ease, yet as everyone states, all these new tiny platforms that compete makes it actually impossible to reliably send messages to anyone. I still use SMS for that.

Also, does anyone know if Hangouts on Android indicates if someone is online or offline yet?
Since memory latency improves more slowly than CPU instruction throughput, code size actually matters more and more over time.
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Oh God. This is so ridiculous.

Even back in the 80s people were spoofing this attitude, with essays like "Real Men Dont Use Pascal"
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rni/papers/realprg.html
So why did they appoint him in the first place?
So there was a four year unnecessary mistake degree/degree as consumption not investment, right? One can get an Ll.B. in three years in the UK. Does mandatory postgrad actually mean mandatory or is it just a way of throwing out all other applicants?
I didn't take it personally, was just having fun with words and certain populist stereotypes.
"A 10x speedup isn't cool. You know what's cool? A 1000x speedup."
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> How much entertainment does the market really need? For example, so many awesome books have been written already that you don't need any more books, you can live your whole life reading just the best of the best old books and not make a dent. Yet tons of people become writers.

Moot point. You already have had many more books that you could hope to read in a lifetime in the previous centuries - this is nothing new. This is even true for games - it's impossible to play all games that have been created, and this is a much more recent medium.

The reason why books/movies/games keeps getting made is because NEWNESS has usually more value than anything else. You know, every time you go to the movies, that it's very likely that the movie is NOT the best movie you'll have ever seen. Yet, you may be interested to go because it's something NEW, and newness is what drives curiosity (and sales).

So, it's actually very rational. Most readers are more likely to buy the latest ebook from whoever than to pick up Homer out of the blue.
I talk to friends who are still on Google's XMPP servers from Fastmail's XMPP server. It works. I think it works if their account was created when gTalk was still a thing. But yeah, I'm more worried about Google shutting off my friends every day.
If no one did it, there would be no experts.
Making it mandatory to have appropriate examples of your work on GitHub is foolish. There are a huge number of talented engineers who simply don't have the time or the ability to maintain a decent OS repo.

Sure, it certainly helps to be able to see real samples of code but it should never be a mandatory requirement.
Exactly! Humans are imperfect they lose "the ability to respect" for irrelevant reasons. Just like people couldn't believe in General Relativity because Einstein was Jewish.
From the tarsnap mailing list:

I'm currently suffering from a deluge of emails (turns out that a blog post
from Patrick McKenzie saying that I shouldn't have cut prices results in
even more people signing up for Tarsnap than the price cut did, and most of
my email comes from new users)

http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-users/msg00895.html
Libraries, libraries, libraries and history. The first serious numeric library for python was released in 1995 or 1996 and things have just grown and grown since then. Ruby is far behind in its offerings in this space.
Thanks for the info. Very cool statues. I wonder if my neighbours would mind a giant mouse pointer on my lawn? Come to think of it, I wonder if my wife would.
why not add it yourself?
This lacks any sort of credibility and solves none of the open problems with encryption. The creator thinks that a secret encryption algorithm with a 256 byte key is more secure than an public algorithm with a 256 bit key. This represents a pretty fundamental lack of knowledge of cryptography and is therefore likely to be untrue. If it's your kickstarter project and you want an honest, and likely brutal, review put your code on github (or similar) and let us have a look at it.
Do you know why imo dropped their interopability? Were they pushed or did they really believe that they could strike out on their own?
Absolutely--I see this as a failure of current programming languages and compiler technology, though, and not a fundamental barrier. We should aim to take away all the impediments to the compiler's job, like the aliasing problem you point out. Then, we can just sit back and let the blinding speed and precision of computers take over, trying all the different possible compilations of a given program.

This is the main goal of the Mutagen language. See the link above for a bunch of hand-waving about compiler technology that might exist some day :)
Fantastic Domo icons.

Related to quality icons, I came across a really well drawn icon on Mac OSX in the EasyFind application. I emailed them and asked who drew it and they told me, if only I could remember who he was! I think he was a chap in Canada. Really quality icon.
You can even jump back from a catch or finally handler to the try block ;) At least in MSIL.
I find it funny to see this on the same front page as the one where the tarsnap founder is being told how he can make lots of money.

You can't have it both ways folks, either you charge 'by value' or you charge 'by cost'. If you follow the advice of 'charge as much as the market will bear' for medication you get this situation, if you follow the cost+ model and apply it to backup you get tarsnap (assuming you know enough about medicine to come up with the medication and enough about crypto and assorted bits and pieces of computer programming to be able to create a secure backup service).

Applying charging by value to tarsnap and cost+ to medicine is telling people that they should go and study ethics, and business people are notoriously bad at ethics.

As long as medicine and money are intricately involved (and as a motivator, money seems to be doing a pretty good job) you'll have excesses like these. Life is literally priceless and we're addicted to it, what better product than one that costs little to produce and has a 90% chance of improving the chances of the taker afflicted with some horrible disease to prolong their lives. It's any marketeer/greedy s.o.b'es wet dream.

That's all the justification they'll ever need.
Agreed. I would switch to Tarsnap and use it to backup several TB of data but the marginal price is still an order of magnitude too much. Tarsnap would be ideal if it were only a few cents more expensive than S3.
It's basically a pet, surely?

Automating child supervision will be the next great liberation of human labour from drudgery, if we manage to make a society where people can afford it. At the moment the cost of childcare (whether transactional or domestic) is limited by the number of children one adult can effectively look after; around four, or fewer if they have special needs. Traditionally one solution has been to make the older kids look after the young ones, but nobody accepts this when childcare is contracted out.

Unfortunately the downside is accustoming children to automated surveillance and potentially automated child discipline.
I figured so, occasionally it is the same for me. But I didn't say everyone should be saving time.
The last paragraph is good writing.

The challenges are to make sure that the interesting particles would not break apart, to take precautions that any alien life would not infect Earth, and to fit it into the $500 million budget of one of NASA’s lower-cost planetary missions.

It frames it all beautifully. Engineering feats solving problems you don't quite understand. Sci fi potential. Budgetary drudgery.
If a christian run organization fired an employee (lets not kid ourselves here, Eich was fired) because they paid $1,000 to support gay marriage, how dramatically would the reaction differ from this situation?

Why the huge difference? because in our culture, we are not "allowed" to voice a different opinion than the SCOTUS. Even if the majority populous agrees with our opinion.

I know what you are going to say... This is a civil rights issue. It is now a homosexual's civil right to be married because the court said so.

When I hear the term civil rights, I always think of blacks and whites in America, segregation and unequal rights because of race.

Non Caucasian people were not allowed to use the same schools, bathrooms, bus seats, or even drinking fountains that white people used. That was wrong. Everyone is human and should be treated with dignity.

These days we have this out of control "equality" thing that just kind of blindly rolls over common sense.

If there is no distinction between men and women in marriage now, then what about the rest of the gender based legal things like a law preventing a man from going into a women's locker room at the local gym and showering with 10 year old girls that happen to be showering in there. Well gay men can shower with boys in the locker next door, so why not? Why are there women's battery laws? Special rape laws only for women? There are literally thousands of laws that are preferential toward or only exist to assist women? Can't a gay man have these same laws applied to him just like marriage? It just isn't fair if they aren't. This breaks "Equality".

Men and women are different, that is why there are different rules for us. Homosexuals did not fit the description of marriage because it was defined by gender, since this fundamental attribute was thrown out, it seems only fair to throw out any and all gender biased laws, rules, and guidelines.

If a women feels that she was violated because a man came into the women's shower while she was shaving, how is this different than a women feeling that her marriage was violated because it also was re-defined as being genderless.

I just don't grasp the "logic" (or lack thereof) that people today must use to come up with such thoughts and justifications.
"I’m talking about a real world, honest-to-God unit of work that you need done right now today on your actual product."
This bit sounds unethical. Your asking someone to do work for you without paying them.
I don't think there's any technological reason why email should necessarily be slower than IM, that's something of an accident of history in the technology.
After the Da Vinci Code book & film, people think there's some sort of secret early Christian books that are being hidden and if the world knew about them, Christianity/Catholic church would fall.

But there are loads of early Christian books / "gospels" that survive or rediscovered which are quite different from what's in the bible, and no-one really cares.

For example in 1945, a pile of early books were discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt[1], including a Gospel of Thomas[2]. There is a Infancy Gospel of Thomas[3] from ~145CE which claims to talk about Jesus as a child, in which child Jesus uses his supernatural powers to kill children who bully him.

Have the revelations of all this "brought down the Catholic Chruch"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_thomas
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infancy_Gospel_of_Thomas
I like the article but I think I like the current website. its austerity tells me that the value is in the engineering, that the product roadmap is not dictated by marketing people.
I have a little distrust feeling when I land on a fancy website for a technical product. Something tells me that the company behind the product had been acquired and soon the product will cease to be good.
Maybe we can redesign the site but not to much. :)
Six Things You Need to Know About ATMs and the Windows XP-ocalypse
Streisand Effect I take it?
"what does this big red pushy button do" :P
It's shocking and irritating to me that the three of the replies pointing out the strictly false nature of your post are all downvoted while your post sits inexplicably positive.
It is debateable whether or not scanning a public domain book allows you to claim copyright on it. Alas.

Some of the early maps of Ireland (from 1840s) have been scanning and rectified and put online by the Ordenance Survey of Ireland. But they're all copyrighted by them, and you can't have them. (they're viewable here http://maps.osi.ie/ )
For me it's my unauthorized-purchases-made-in-my-name sense that's tingling.
We have XMPP, but http://op-co.de/blog/posts/mobile_xmpp_in_2014/
So all you need is to get access to a 1,000 year old book. Sure real easy.
ATMS's XP will get patches until Jan. 12, 2016, then why not other XP users?
Based on what evidence? Despite your fantasy, humanity is nowhere close to understanding sentience.

I can imagine pigs flying in 25 years with some creepy DNA hacking but you have absolutely nothing even remotely close to electronic sentience in any lab ever.

I hate to burst your bubble but Johnny Five is not alive--it's a puppet. "Tim Blaney (born 1959) is an American puppeteer and voice actor. He has provided the voices for Frank the Pug in Men in Black and Men in Black II and the self-aware robot "Johnny 5" in Short Circuit and Short Circuit 2." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Blaney
Asia is a region which has proven its ability to innovate in the messaging space and the internet as a whole.
I believe Rakuten and Alibaba (through their investment in Tango and Viber) along with Tencent are now ready to compete with US juggernauts like FB
Jan. 12, 2016 refers to a version of Windows Embedded, not the consumer version of XP.
Lots of folks involved, LOTS, but I (and others) will keep pushing until they fire me.
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Because ATMs run Windows Embedded.
$499 is pretty good value over a year as well I found!
You should consider getting in touch with SpaceX and sign up for a one-person, one-way trip to Mars. Disassociation with all potential wrong-doers guaranteed.
I think if I got mud on, say, my inner thigh, I'd still want to clean it off. With water.
You could start by reading the tremendous life of Lysenko.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko

You will see how he used politics to expend his influence on all the soviet agriculture: research, agronomy, industrial production. Not only that lead to a massive agricultural failure but as said Sakharov he was also "responsible [...] for the defamation, firing, arrest, even death, of many genuine scientists".
I've never timed it, but I do try to do realtime-spam detection on blog/forum comments:

http://blogspam.net/

Although it operates at a much smaller scale than most of the things linked to here it does work pretty well.
I have one data point against yelp: I created a website for a small business and they asked me about yelp's services after getting a call since they were not technologically inclined (nice elder couple).

I told them it was not necessary for the success of their website, that the decision was up to them and they should not feel rushed into signing up for extra advertising since the site was just launched. I suggested they wait it out and see how much traffic they received.

They politely declined Yelp's services, and over the period of a month I saw a decline in their yelp ratings due to questionable reviews over very superficial stuff not indicative of overall service quality.

Idunno what to believe, but a couple colleagues know people with similar experiences. If Yelp is in the wrong here, I sincerely hope they are exposed and get the negative publicity they deserve.
I think you should try again to play with your magnetic switch.
Here is some help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_switch