skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the book "Systems Performance" by Brendan Gregg, there is a section on Kernels--in this case comparing Linux to Solaris--where the author shows a table of Kernel Versions with Documented Syscall Counts.

He states: '...there is a pattern over time: Linux has been adding system calls. Solaris has been removing them...'

Just as a matter of personal opinion, I would personally never jump into Linux Kernel Development simply because I feel there are already 'too many cooks in the kitchen' and it feels as if there is simply not as much clarity when compared to other *nix distributions.

Do I work with Linux? Yes, because this is what is used in my workplace. Would I hack on the Linux Kernel or Network Stack for work purposes? Sure, because it would likely be a group effort to address some problem for instance.

Now would I go home and hack on the Linux Kernel for fun and understanding? Absolutely not.
Will be useful to me!
Do you agree that 2 weeks out is the best time to book? From what I've seen, that's still cutting it way close, and the ideal time to book is more like 4-6 weeks out
Comparing Android 2.1 to latest phones is like comparing windows 3.1 to latest Mac OS X. Why not compare Android KitKat instead?
geekam - (this question is in the wrong thread, but I can't seem to comment in the older threads, sorry) - can you tell me anything (via email) about the dentist who threatened you and the fellow yelper with a lawsuit - even just the name of the state or the size of chain of practices? I'm using gmail with address todoso253. I believe there are some dentists who do this serially.
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You didn't address my point about albatrosses and dynamic soaring. Why do you think that our physical body has adapted to perfectly support our intelligence, as opposed to our intelligence adapting itself to our bodies?

And you still haven't given an adequate definition for intelligence; just saying "the result of our wisdom" (what is wisdom?) doesn't cut it.
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http://attending.io/ is doing this.

They're focusing on the market below EventBrite, small free events and small venue (i.e. tech user talks) that may require a small fee.

It's really refreshing to be able to just say "I want to attend that event" and for it to be a few clicks rather than an arduous check-out process.

Note: Whilst they have a "browse" button at the top, they've started by providing stand-alone pages that act as a flyer and mini-promo site for the event... this is a tool with great potential, not a fully mature product. Example of an event page http://attending.io/events/how-to-market-through-influencers...
Co-creator here - that's an great idea. I'd really like to see more sophisticated course suggestions too - I'll add it to our to-do list!
There is no chance nuclear bomb on the sea bed would blow up suddenly.
Radioactive materials would leak into the sea, but pollution will be much less than radioactive water from Fukushima.
Not saying that it is not bad, but not as bad as it sounds.
I can tell you from experience that some small percentage of people will mark your message as spam even if they specifically requested it -- heck, even if they want to continue receiving it in the future.

I routinely deal with people complaining about not getting a newsletter they requested after they marked it as spam (once they do that, we are required by agreement with the ISP to not send them any more messages ever).
I think that there's a lot of value in amateur data science from an "eyeballs" perspective. Young people want more "intelligent" coverage, but not so dense that they can't understand it. The sort of nitpicking you're engaging in suggests that you're not the target audience.

This is why I'm looking forward to more and more journals becoming open access. I think that for people who are dissatisfied with 538, understanding academic publications would not be too big of a leap.
Perhaps integration between this site and Metacademy would fit your needs. Metacademy was discussed in a different HN thread[1] recently, and is especially relevant to your query because it seems that the seed topics are machine learning and probabilistic AI.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7617683
There isn't a working jailbreak for AppleTV3. People have injected themselves into the existing apps changing where they look for video, but that's different to having local root.
APIs, App Stores, and the Era of Mass Customization in Banking
Show HN: GrowthHackers Event ft.Gagan Biyani CEO of Sprig and Co-founder of Udemy
I find hackaday inspirational, but not informative enough for newbies.

In no particular order, I suggest:

Check out makezine.com.

Find a local makerspace[1]

Work through tutorials and references for beginners (great hands on electronics book [2], more in-depth info to augment an electronics tutorial [3], arduino [4])

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=makerspace

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Learning-Through-Disc...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-...

[4] http://www.amazon.com/Arduino-Workshop-Hands--Introduction-P...
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You don't. Just like when you're browsing HN and you get a message you don't want to swap to another app to answer it. That's why the separated Facebook chat app uses message bubbles that you can answer in any app:

http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-S...

Honestly, it's brilliant, and the sole reason I use Facebook chat for most of my communications.
The "Performance" section of the linked page claims that Mithril takes 9.44ms where React takes 79.65ms for their rendering benchmark [1] [2]. If true, it could be a good enough reason to pick over React.

[1] http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/comparisons/mithril.renderin...
[2] http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/comparisons/react.rendering....
I've also had next to zero response from the admins on a few issues as well. My guess is that arbitrage is right, there was a legal issue they needed to address. But for run of the mill issues like downvote brigades, good luck getting anything useful out of them. I've usually just gotten something to the effect of "we're too busy for this" or "tough luck"

The bigger problem is that mods should have log access themselves to up/down votes so they can root out bad behavior on their own and then have the tools to deal with it. Mod powers are incredibly slim on reddit and they arguably shouldn't be.
Would prefer if they had a comparison chart for why I should use them vs. the dozen other solutions in this space. Currently using Harvest App, for example.
I see the ratio as 28.39 sbcl to 10.61 for g++, closer to 3 on the 64 bit version.

At any rate, I was addressing generating and then running Asm from Lisp issue.
Try to imagine how someone could prove false the claim that a reduction of lead in gasoline caused a reduction in the crime rate, to the exclusion of other factors, in a social setting, with no meaningful controls in place.

I literally gave you an example of this already, and you've ignored it. I can only assume you're responding in bad faith.
I was totally expecting an article discussing the politics of toilets.
The Entitlement of Really, Really Ridiculously Good Looking People
We'd be totally up for that, Metacademy is fantastic - saw them yesterday too and had fun looking around. They seem to be very focused on Machine Learning at the moment, but could certainly make a great synergy once they've expanded their focus a little.
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This is a topic that I find particularly interesting. I have a strong confidence in my pattern matching abilities, for my day job I have to process pages of text on a daily basis with complete precision and very little allowances for error. I mine data like this for a living. I had to do the same to get my masters degree in science. It will take me some work to get the results of what is going on but I will build a model and see how I go.
> It would seem like what they are doing is capturing the signal from a better source, and then maintaining a batch of crappy antennas just to claim a 1:1 ratio of antennas to customers.

I'm not an expert, but to some extent, isn't that the same thing? Because of the way radio transmission works, any receiver is also a (re-)transmitter.

It might be that maintaining several small antennae actually improves the signal.
>delayed productive income acquisition

That's a really fancy way to say long-term unemployment.
Let me also recommend any interested in theorem proving check out ACL2. It is based on lisp and might be easier to get started with than Coq. There is a pretty cool website that lets you run it in a browser here along with a basic tutorial:

http://tryacl2.org/
Protobuf is not bad, but relies on a fixed schema. Blink protocol transmits the schema and seems much better suited. But then there is the question of message security and authenticity. Hawk encoding seems to be the best option outside of TLS transport.

There are enough existing formats/protocols/standards, let's work with the existing ones and continue to improve them.
Prone to race conditions, unfortunately. What's more frustrating than seeing Yes and then finding the door closing in front of you.
You should check out this analysis of their analysis of their story on Bechdel-test-passing movies. It highlights some of the inadequacies in their methodologies and analysis and gives a call for more openness and higher scientific standards.

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/brianckeegan/Bechdel/blob...
It's actually like I were asked for my number to get a service and then the company started calling me twice a day to offer me things I don't even want or care for because it falls within their carefully-worderd-ToS.

Do I agree to get emails sent to me from <random company> as long as they're product-related and I'm using their service? Yes I do. Will I mark these as spam? No I won't.

Do I agree to getting promotional emails or reminder emails when I stopped using their service months ago? No I don't. Will I mark these as spam? Yes I will.
I think the author was basing that statement on his previous assertion that:

> If weighted equally, the prices paid, following Kayak’s algorithm, were 2 percent higher than the initial March 29 prices. Wearing my statistical hat, I’d call that a tie between the two strategies.

The author also claims that:

> in user surveys that in addition to appealing to quantitative types, another group of regular users said Farecast gave them “peace of mind.”

So if the price difference is 2% (basically a wash either way), then waiting would be a superior strategy because it "might actually relieve some of the second-guessing that occurs when you’re left to your own devices," and that peace of mind may be worth more than 2% of the ticket cost.

...or at least, I think that's the author's point.
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Context: this is the official in-universe website for the central startup in HBO's "Silicon Valley."
Shine.js – A Library For Pretty Shadows
This website gave me motion sickness. If it's some art project, good on them. If they're trying to communicate information, -1.
As an American you are proud of Apple? Seriously?
Meb Keflezighi First American To Win Boston Marathon In 31 Years
Is this the first mayor scala release that doesn't introduce a huge language or library change?
Transitioning to 2.11 should be smooth, aside from some library deprecations not much has changed.
Peculiar Traits of Rich People
> FB probably recognizes that a Social Network is at its core a directory of connections and the ability to message/talk to each other

How many years of hype did it take to bring us to this moment, where we realized we had reinvented ICQ/AIM?

I know, I know, I'm being reductive. There is also a sort of Geocities thing bolted on. You know, like Friendster and Myspace
"consumer appliances."

All converged appliances suck, and probably always will, and the consumers are figuring it out, which will be the doom of the "convergence" meme.

Non-converged appliances usually work pretty well. My dumb TV displays whatever the HDMI flings at it, the separate optically connected surround sound system works beautifully, the computer hooked up to them just does its thing.
IP over SMS would be even more useful in the US.
I use pythonanywhere.com for this. With a free account you get 1 daily task. That wasn't enough for me so I upgraded to the "Hacker" plan for $5/month and now I get 10 hourly or daily tasks. It's very simple to use and I absolutely love it. You can also pay for a year upfront.
It was funnier until I realized that it was created by HBO
> does the act of freely putting your shows on it mean you give up the right to control unaltered reuse or differing uses?

No, by law it does not. The copyright remains in effect. As discussed in the article, broadcasting grants certain rights to end users, but it certainly doesn't wipe out all the copyright holder's rights.
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In Defense of Marketing, Hacking, and Programming
>"You" chose to pursue "fun and interesting", and didn't run the numbers on "ROI", which only geeks, low-class people, and in-it-for-the-money people did.

Except that the "geek" industry in Silicon Valley bills itself constantly as all about "passion" and "disruption" and "changing the world" (with $0.99 in-app purchases).
> So wearing Google Glass says something about the person wearing it. You're owned and you don't mind if everyone knows

So if you own Glass, you are a tool. Good to know!

If I had 1500 dollars just burning a hole in my pocket, I'd love to get my hands on that device, but I don't. I'd love to though because I find the technology very compelling, if a bit gimmicky. If that makes me a tool, I guess that's something I'd just have to deal with.
Thanks for the link to that lecture, it's rather amazing.
Great post.

>> Research should weigh heavily on building your product/ service WITH your customer-PARTNERS

I have often advocated this from a business development perspective. It becomes a free way to elevate your customer to someone driving the iterations rather than a receiver. They are a gold-plated, VIP, so-important-they-make-suggestions- partner. An easy win.

>> Market like a king with a blacksmith’s earnings.

Really astute advice.

All in all a great list - accurate, brief and clear. What is next for you?
I'm in the same place -- I think the company takes itself too seriously.

It's not fun to use anymore -- I'm always getting these stern warnings about new privacy policies, and they are always screwing around with the timeline.

For example, now the Facebook gods have decreed that I will view the vapid posts of acquaintances who insist on posting "look how happy my family is" pictures, and buries posts from people whom I actually interact with on Facebook.
Maybe they could add a reservation queue to the bathroom as new functionality. That would probably be unnecessary blocking if people abandon their place in line.
> It's like smiling and saying to a guy, "Here's my number", and not saying: "But if you call me, for any reason, I will report you for harrassment", without any indication that this is how you feel.

Absolutely, and what's worse is that people marking ham as spam means that email providers can't take a spam report as seriously as they otherwise might, thus reducing the potential benefits of a 'report as spam' feature.

So we all get more spam because some people misuse 'report as spam'.
True, but _asciiker_ was also saying this:

> Conclusion: There is no common standard because every
> major ISP can set their own standards. This will
> eventually force everyone to use the same services
> worldwide.
>
> Where's the freedom of choice [of ESP] here?

My point being that the current blacklist-based system is broken from a "freedom of choice" perspective. The current system favors the established ESPs, as the cost of doing it yourself gets larger and larger.
For me the most exciting part is that they are bringing in support for Java 8. Though lambdas don't impress anyone already using a functional language on the JVM, the introduction of Nashorn and the merger of JodaTime are pretty awesome.

Java 8 is the most exciting release since Java 2 in my opinion.
When you have one post every minute in /new it is inevitable that a lot of interesting articles will get lost.
The type system is what the compiler (or interpreter) knows about your program. Sophisticated type systems know a lot, and can tell you a lot. Sophisticated does not mean typing a lot.

When building code for the long term, you really want to focus on techniques that make it impossible to misuse an API, whenever it's possible to do that. This article nicely calls out one such technique.

Generic typing can be used to (try to) force the consumer of an API into correct usage. Judicious use of final and abstract in the land of Java can be used force/guide eventual overriders of an abstract class down the right path -- they'll get compilation errors if they don't at least implement the right methods.

Whenever you find yourself writing an assert method, take a beat and figure out if the type system could have turned that into a compilation error instead.
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That algorithm sounds like total B.S. As if someone could stumble onto a lossless compression algorithm with file sizes 50% of an mp3. Even a comparable size would be a huge compression breakthrough.

And there are theoretical limits to what you can do with lossless compression and I suspect that the algorithm in the show breaks those.
I feel like hosting events is trivial. It's finding the events that is difficult. It's trivial to get a stripped down ticketing system going, it's much harder to get people to see those events.

I'm surprised there's still not a Google for events.
Thanks for the tips columbo. I'm the guy from the article - I'll look up this stuff you're talking about. Cheers.
My conclusion was obscuring message contents isn't really too important, but certainly authenticating them is, and preventing replay attacks is where it gets hard. (So a challenge/response system would be needed in some cases).

This becomes nasty at the device configuration stage though, since you need to distribute/share keys somewhere. There simply are not protocols around that deal with buying a device from a store, taking it home and magically making it work, but that is the point it needs to get to. The industry seems to be moving towards "solving" that through embedding cellular modems in everything and getting the stuff to phone home.

The actual binary format is beside the point really, but it does need to be as close to self describing as possible.
Thanks guys! This is incredibly helpful!
Directly to the source: http://csis.org/publication/reference-note-russian-communica...
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Not only Baltic Sea is really, really small and shallow sea with small circulation of water, but also it is one of the (or the most depending on source) dirtiest one. There are huge projects to return sea life to it - and now with chemical waste leaking all this can be pointless.
Also Baltic Sea is important for fishing industry for some countries - so there is huge danger of getting heavy metals etc getting in to food circulation and causing long term effects on whole populations.
I doubt very much that the president would receive the same level of attention and prioritization at an ER as a homeless person, but even if you substitute a wealthy person in 1960 for the president you're still wrong.

Let's say that the homeless person develops a form of cancer that was incurable in 1960 but can now be treated with a very low rate of recurrence with chemotherapy. Your point, I assume, is that because this new treatment exists, this homeless person will receive better healthcare than anyone in 1960. But that presupposes that this homeless person has access to that treatment, which means that they need reliable transportation to a medical office on a regular basis for an extended period of time, they need someone to take care of them when they're really sick, they need some ability to get their medication and to take it regularly.
FYI, Xiaomi, a Beijing based company, has launched its TV with root-able Android based OS(, but with limited availability like other products from the company). Other competitors are also trying hard to catch up.
This is why Microsoft won. And why they lost.
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HN has changed, the new normal seems much more similar to Slashdot. The huge political slant, for one. But I sympathize with your complaint.
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Well we all knew that the Russians didn't care about privacy ... what was shocking about Snowden revelations is that this kind of surveillance happens in a nation that presents itself as a free country.
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Probably the best change in my opinion was resolving the arity limit for case classes: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-7296

I've bumped up against that limit pretty bad while trying to deserialize json. Shapeless did a lot to solve the problem, but I'm sure glad that limit has been removed.
They lease space in the same building as the source.
Can you notify other people of the status of your trip automatically though? I've used TripCase in the past and they don't have this feature that I'm aware of.
> * Somebody was granted admin access, kicked the rest of the mods off and has turned the sub to private (and the sub creator is incommunicado?) Tough luck.

Reminds me of the takeovers in IRC (quakenet). There are so many channels/subreddits that admin can't deal with all the problems.
When the company started it was called 1:1 ratio of antennas to customers. Which the signal from that one antenna only being delivered to one customer.

If they have changed since then it would be interesting to here about the decision process that lead to the change.
Its a start. I feel like zocdoc is good for looking up doctors who take your insurance but because the healthcare system itself is so massively broken, they can't tell you how much a procedure would cost and success rates. I may be wrong though and hope I am.
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Well, all the gold in the world is a cube 21m on a side. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold ) So this is 8 times as much as all the gold in the world. Which seems like a lot.
There's a good bit in The Innovator's Dilemma tracking the decrease in disk sizes over time and how the leaders of the last generation could never connect with the customers of the next. At one point there's a guy from a big company at the time complaining that they made the new 4.5" disks and there was no market, while at the same time there's someone who's in the market for them who can't find them at the big companies, even though they're clearly there (think this was at the same conference even).

Maybe AdRoll has better focus in general, maybe they do a better job of selling to a much larger group of mom and pop customers than Google and Facebook which may inevitably wind up focusing on big brand problems. It's usually not enough to have the same checklist features.
Hi adrianhoward. I'm glad you appreciate the difference (I'm the founder of this company), and I wanted a seamless experience, which is why we made it that way.

Breather is designed to allow you to pop in and out of private space while around a city, and it works really well. I hate talking to people when I check into things (hotels, airports, etc.) so we designed this as self-serve.

Come try it out sometime. Here's a coupon for you: HACKERNEWS.
It is also possible to apply model checking or theorem proving directly to the implementation. Doing so would be able to catch any sort of error that a static analysis tool would. Of course, static analysis typically scales better and would be a good place to start for catching this type of error.