skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DOM in that time wasn't that fancy it is now. The real reason is security.
Well you definitely just cleared it up, thanks -- was completely wrong in my assumptions. Looks like armon from consul team has answered, that's probably a much better way to go.

I did see that the documentation was very old (notice @ top of page I linked) -- I switched to this: http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandr...

Still -- I think that consul is a more generic tool than Cassandra. The cluster-management tools I see on their page seem to be java-focused, if not cassandra-focused (as in, outside of just managing the cassandra cluster, JConsole manages java apps, supposedly, not any kind of app that can make an HTTP request, which Consul seems to offer).
I agree with the concern and appreciate the solution that Qubes offers.

It might be worth pointing out that some of the "hippies" also became concerned with this and implemented their own partial solution within the X framework decades ago -- the "secure keyboard" feature. You can see it in action: run an xterm, Ctrl-Left Click in the window, and choose "Secure Keyboard" from the menu. Now all X11 keyboard events are sent exclusively to that xterm, not to any other X application (even if the other application has focus). Caution: for these purposes the window manager is also an "application", so you won't even be able to Alt-Tab to switch applications while the secure keyboard mode is active!

The X11 developers assumed that you would use the Secure Keyboard feature while typing important passwords. There's a pretty elaborate discussion of this in the man page for xterm(1).

There, the threat that they're most focused on is remote display access from applications on other hosts, rather than malicious software potentially running on the local host. For example, the authors of xterm fear that you'll be using machines foo and bar in the same computer lab, and run "xhost foo" on bar, and then an attacker will rsh into foo and log in to their account there and then run "DISPLAY=bar:0 keyboard_sniffer" from their account on foo, whereupon the X server on bar will conclude that the remote client request from foo is perfectly legitimate because you told it to accept all X11 connections originating from foo.

Of course the secure keyboard feature only partially mitigates one aspect of this threat, while Qubes offers a much more thoroughgoing and useful mitigation to a larger range of things. (I might also mention ptrace, where recent Linux distributions have activated a kernel policy which forbids, by default, having a non-root process start to ptrace another running process that isn't its child. I believe this was in response to malware grabbing private keys from programs like ssh-agent via the ptrace interface. Oops. It does also mean that you can't strace -p or gdb attach something that's already running, unless you become root and change the policy.)

In general, the idea of protecting against software that's running locally as the same user is something of a novelty on most desktop OSes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discretionary_access_control
I get that too. When your comment gets negative votes it turns grey and attracts a lot of attention. More people read it out of curiosity to see what's so bad about it. In turn it attracts upvotes.
Interesting projects. What role does the website/service play wrt to the clients? Is it possible to run fully separate networks with just the client?

Any thoughts of how it compares with i2p? (http://geti2p.net/en/)
That's funny. This is one of the reason why I don't care much for Common Lisp. Hashtables in particular are common as mud in programming, but I have to work with a clunky interface specific to each abstraction. Ironically this puts CL closer to Java and C++ than the likes of Python and Ruby.
There's a nice (not very literature heavy) first line I remember from the great late science fiction writer Frederic Brown.

"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...".
Maybe this is what you're thinking of, but instead of randomly altering the actual score, how about randomizing just the position on a per page view per user basis?

I.e. a particular comment/story has it's normal score + X% chance of being promoted to somewhere near the top. You can vary X depending on age & actual score.

This seems much easier to implement, and many more stories/comments would get exposure (each to fewer users).
Thanks for the input. They aren't Idea Men (though one of them has particularly useful input. Me and him both were our former target users). I am also formerly non-technical.

Have you had your own experiences with this (as either the tech guy or the business guy in your pre-tech iteration)?
Dead for all practical purposes.
For most companies, the value hits zero when the share price hits zero. When a stock drops from $10 to $5, investors see this as "halfway to zero" and adjust. For yahoo, given its valuable holdings, the zero line happens to be somewhere above actual zero (let's just say $10). However, when yahoo drops from $20 to $15 investors are not switching to "halfway to zero" mode.

As simple as it sounds, I think the elevated numbers have allowed the market to go too low. The whole thing is very psychologically driven after all.
Thanks for the info! Sorry that I didn't reply back earlier, I missed seeing that you had replied :)
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ghc/libraries/base/GHC/

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You keep making the mistake of assuming that government only comes in one type. My point was that there are good and bad outcomes on both sides of the public / private line (not to mentioned grey areas like DARPA) and using simplistic terminology prevents you from participating in the conversation about how to use the strengths of both. Phrases like "bloated government" are intellectual junk food — not to mention amusingly blinkered in a list including Microsoft or Netscspe.

Your choice in examples underscores the point: all of those companies have profited enormously by taking technology which was developed elsewhere, often on government grants at universities, and successfully commercializing it. None of them have in their combined histories funded even a fraction of what NSF / DARPA / etc. funds every year because the business model for a public company isn't really compatible with funding speculative research without a proven path to market.
Both fix it by making snooping and spoofing unavailable by default. An application only has access to its own windows, inasmuch processes are properly isolated in other aspects as well. Typically they aren't, e.g. very few distros have any "single user level" safeguards for ~/.bashrc. Qubes solves that problem as well.
Disagree, but upvoted.

Magical realism in general and Garcia Marquez in particular are more critically problematic than many realize.

I don't think this thread should gloss over that entirely, even if the tone of objection is unlovely.
My great alternative was leaving the west at 19, and trying out different cities overseas. Now 33, I've had multi-month to multi-year stints in five different cities in mainland China (~100,000 - 24 million), Bangkok, London, Los Angeles and Taipei. Like you, I've found that the smaller ones appeal more to me, with maybe bi-weekly trips to a larger city. With kids on the way, after an exploratory trip for the serious consideration of buying some forest in New Zealand, my wife and I now look forward to checking out France. If I had invested in a mortgage, there's no way I'd be this mobile, with such rich experience. I've never owned a car, or driven one (legally), but for one slab of my self-managed 'weekend' spent five hours yesterday on a motorbike riding through some of the most spectacular scenery I've yet found, the upper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanpan_River ... no regrets with this path, life is fantastic!
I really wish, instead (or in addition), that there was a "new" indicator so that I could quickly see recent comments. This won't do a late comer any good as all posts appear as new, but for those engaged in the thread, it would help them be able to scan and read any new comments since they last visited.

And/or indicate posts made in the past X minutes.

Maybe these could be toggle options to quickly show/hide or just shrink/lighten to the background older/read posts.

This is something I've been wanting since day one, but may impact performance too much, unless they handled the indicators/toggle client-side based on a last read timestamp cookie (or similar implementation).
I think of the arrow of time like this. We started in an extremely exceptional state of very low entropy. The state space is very high dimensional. Therefore the entropy is much higher, pretty much everywhere we go. In this space we do a random walk.

Now, the mystery that remains to be solved is: Why did we start with such an exceptional (low entropy) state?
I hadn't seen LMDB before. How does it compare to LevelDB? On first glance it looks like the two have similar characteristics.
24Magnesium is a dead end. It'd be a good idea to use a different font color to mark it.

(What happens with the 24Magnesium in the real stars?)

Edit: From a comment in another thread by ISL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7607397

> I'm getting trapped at Mg24. Following the alpha-process, I should be able to stuff in another alpha to get to Silicon, but it's not happening, nor is it listed in the fusion rules below the game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_process .
Not many sets of identical twins have one of the twins be the mother of the other twin. That's the weird part.
In the short term, you're likely right, in the very long term, I think biofuels will make up the vast majority of liquid fuel (which will be helped as most transport moves to electric).

There have been some interesting developments in biofuels lately with Algenol peaking above >10,000 gallons/acre/year rate and demonstrating a sustained rate north of 8,000 gallons/acre/year. There have been some murmurs of breakthroughs in genetically modifying the photosynthesis pathway as well, which could have a dramatic affect on per-acre productivity.
You should read the Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe. Techno-magical, sci-fi wizardy in an ancient future world.
First, the stock trader bit was an example, and doesn't demonstrate limitations. It demonstrates that people will invest huge sums to generate returns. I will agree that they likely could calculate the returns ahead of time, and the payback time was very small. (This example is further complicated, since the builders actually licensed the use of the cable to other companies and essentially made their money back immediately.) Nevertheless, I simply can't buy the argument that the military and a bunch of academics were the only ones who foresaw the use of the internet, and thus the private sector never would have built it. It simply doesn't make sense, even without the hindsight bias.

Second, whether VCs in biotech are harmful to innovation is irrelevant, both to the current biotech field and to the history of pharmaceuticals.

My point, again, is that if you want the government involved in research, you should want it involved in research individuals aren't willing to pay for, but has the chance to significantly improve society. Otherwise, you're going to see a ton of taxpayer money ultimately flow into the pockets of the rich who likely would have funded the work anyway.
There's a rhythm to the original that's lost in translation. GGM's mastery of the language is impossible not to notice.
VC for the people
I hear Solaris has Trusted Extensions for X11 (e.g. [1]). Would that handle this case better?

[1]: http://www.desktopsummit.org/sites/www.desktopsummit.org/fil...
Cinefi : No download. Stream torrents in the browser.
I'm sorry your experiences have been less than positive. When I worked there I followed the path that I described above, and the other Tier I folks I worked with were nearly all smart and helpful. And whenever the customer had complex support questions and it was clear they were clued-in themselves, we usually were able to hand them over to the Tier IIIs to work things out directly between them.
It's not exactly checking for falsy values. Although all falsy values will lead to a radix of 10 being applied.

parseInt internally uses the ToInt32 abstract operation on the radix parameter. Once it has that value, it explicitly looks to see if the value is 0. If it is, it uses a radix of 10.

https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-pa...

Edit: I hope that doesn't come off as pedantic. My point wasn't to disagree as much as it was to just add some further explanation.
A new dating app, at least better than Tinder
Roller?

http://roller.apache.org
Mighty Spring and Heartbleed (Updating StartSSL Certificates on Heroku)
do you are from Spott team? Great!

I think improve it with twitter integration will be great. And, maybe, let an optional "public chat" (without images and with flood control) maybe let it more 'popular'

if you want to discuss more feedback feel free to found me on me at dougcorrea.com

:)
And a very powerful end too:

He [Aureliano II ] had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
actually, market cap === valuation
Some of this (especially the new post indicators) can be provided by a Chrom{e,ium} extension I've been using called Hacker News Enhancement Suite [0].

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodbpphnojd...
IMO, this downvote show you are right.
Why investors are pouring millions into crowdfunding
From the headline I guessed the article would be about the observation drones that detect graffiti and track the perpetrators. It seems the Drone Wars are already upon us and a thirst for artistic expression was the trigger.
I'm so 'proud' to see this here, hard to think of something to say so I'll put one of my fav quotes from him:

"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
Marquez praised the English translation of One Hundred Years, though. I think he said that that was the way he would like to write it, if he had used English.
More people own Lost Coast, an addon for Half Life 2, than Half Life 2 itself? How did that happen?
On linux, system calls don't result in a TLB flush - kernel data structures and code are in a different portion of the virtual address space (starting from the top of VM memory, if I remember right) that is tagged as not being available from ring 3. So system calls are quite fast.

EDIT:

Kernel memory begins at PAGE_OFFSET, see here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand...

Kernel memory lacks the flag _PAGE_USER so that it isn't accessible from userspace: https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand...
FreeBSD kernel & userland
1 hour lunch with Naval Ravikant (angellist founder)
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It's also illustrative to look at the alternatives – e.g. prior to the internet catching on there were many competitors which had been privately funded but the desire to obtain short-term returns ultimately relegated things like CompuServe, GEnie, etc. to also-rans because the private funding model favors centralization and rent seeking over qualities like openness and independent innovation.

Absent something like the academic internet we'd no doubt have some of the abilities we now have but it'd almost certainly look like those older services or the pre-iPhone cellphone app market – costly, high barriers to entry and centralized designs.
Seattle's ride-sharing regulations are suspended
This is an example of a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. Its a "hardware solution" to a problem that at its root is a cultural assumption. The people who developed these seeds apparently needed to go the 'long way around' just to circumvent a preexisting absurdity with something as marginally absurd in hopes of incremental gains.

It's like fighting stupid with stupid where whoever is the most clever at it "wins".
Is there such a thing as a "non-strategic" acquisition?
Google is hiding I/O tickets in developer documentation images
I'm just a passerby, but it seems like codeproject is mostly windows-focused? Just looking at the front page, I see a lot of .NET, ASP, C#, Java (not windows, of course), but a lot of enterprise-y stuff.

I think part of the success of stack overflow is the wide representation of so many languages, areas of expertise,etc that are there.

ex. I just went to the stackoverflow main page, and the first question listed was objective c, two steps down was a question about neo4j.

Also -- search results probably had something to do with it
The title should have (2011) at the end.
This isn't even remotely a puzzle.

The cash value of the Alibaba etc. holdings is always going to be discounted some % (often a significant %). The supposed puzzle implies that those assets are valued at max value inside the market cap of Yahoo. They are not, and historically, cash, cash equivalents, or future expected cash value, is always hit with a discount as far as the market cap is concerned. You can see this in action across every type of public company (from Apple to Berkshire).

Investors simply do not put a full value on cash holdings. They prize earnings and growth drastically more than cash on a balance sheet.
It's not an addon, it's a free tech demo of features they didn't manage to have ready for the engine at release, HDR and the like.
Look at the first image on this documentation page and you'll see a watermark that is a short URL. That short URL takes you to a text based game where you can get a code to buy a Google I/O ticket.

http://developer.android.com/images/tools/as-mainscreen.png

Game: http://goo.gl/hRd7ek
I think we are barely scratching surface of what could be done with drones. While technology now still imposes some restrictions, tomorrow sky is the limit.

For example construction. Right now there is a lot of heavy machinery at a construction site and humans to operate them, in future significant part of that could be replaced with drones. While it vastly more expensive to develop a drone compared to training a human and building machinery, drones have nearly infinite scaling[0].

Construction drones could also help address extraordinarily high development costs (California I am looking at you).

[0] If you make one drone work, getting a million drones is relatively easy, compared to training a million humans if you trained one.
Yes. I'm actually looking at upgrading my server to a 64bit kernel just so i can take advantage of this. I've been on them so long i'm still a 32bit userland.
floats :(
Lost Coast is a standalone freebie tech demo; it probably was issued freely to owners of various other Source Engine games (or maybe even just to absolutely everybody). Apparently it was also given out to people who bought certain graphics cards too.
There were other advantages. To write JS you just need a text editor, and it's easy to pick up. To write Flash requires spending several hundred dollars. To write Java requires the JDK and to learn Java.
For those of us who wear glasses, dodge ball presented some significant additional dangers.
Cronica de una muerte anunciada! What a wonderfull book too.
One possible answer is based on complexity: we were more likely to start in a low entropy state because it had a description with low Kolmogorov complexity, or something like that. (K-complexity induces a probability distribution on the state space that is very different from the uniform distribution.) If that reasoning works, it seems to reduce the question "why did we start in a low entropy state?" to the question "why do we often observe hypotheses with low complexity to be true?", which is pretty much the problem of induction. I'd love to know the answer to that.

Another possible answer is anthropic: you see an ordered universe because otherwise it wouldn't create an ordered mind like you. Unfortunately, the anthropic answer seems to predict that we're in a tiny ordered bubble that will be swallowed by chaos any moment now, so the complexity-based answer looks more promising to me.
Are there any other problems aside from octal?
About a week ago, I wrote a comment in another Linode-related thread asking how the new usage patterns that hourly billing encourages might affect CPU contention. At the time, I received 11 upvotes but no replies. Apparently, quite a few people were interested in my question but had no useful conjectures to share.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7564764

Now it's obvious what Linode's answer to that question is: Lower "burstable" CPU for lower plans.

The $20 plan used to be able to burst to 8 cores for short periods, but now it only has access to 2 vcores. The "guaranteed" processing power is probably higher with the newer CPUs, but at the expense of short-term burst performance.

Another minor detail that I find interesting is that the transfer cap for the $20 plan has been increased to 3TB, whereas the $40 plan still gets 4TB. Apart from the transfer cap plateau-ing at the extreme high end, this is the first time that Linode has broken its 11-year-old policy of "pay X times as much money, get X times as much RAM/disk/transfer".
That's really scummy that the student did not receive appropriate credit at the time or after. That should have been a career maker story.
http://www.eteamz.com/6423568/
That's all been doable for a long time, using controlled breeding. We do it all the time with animals; look what we've done to dogs. The only difference genetic engineering brings is how quickly it can be done.

But that's eugenics, and it's been rejected as immoral by pretty much everyone. A big part of the problem, I think, is that a custom-engineered child is a lot more expensive to create than a natural random-chance child, and therefore eugenics only produces super-humans for the rich and powerful, who will become even more rich and powerful by breeding themselves into master race that enslaves everyone else.

Eugenics can't upgrade all of humanity directly because natural breeding, being cheaper, is also much more common. So the vast majority of inferior humans will always outnumber the eugenics-produced super-humans. That's where the enslavement comes in; the super-humans will have to use their inherited wealth and power to make sure they retain control because they can't out-breed everyone else.

The other possibility, and the only way the super-humans can replace the normals, is to kill off all of the normals either directly or by making them infertile. That's even worse than enslavement.

No matter how you look at it, eugenics has a bad outcome if it's not available to everyone at the same time. And if it was available to everyone, we wouldn't call it eugenics. We'd call it 'medicine', 'vaccination', 'pre- and post-natal care', and 'preventative care'.
The second JavaScript example, when he told someone in the audience, "No, that's just an object." It was a string.
This is what I was expecting once I figured out what Isotopic 256 was. Being able to go triple-alpha to carbon is key to stellar burning (it's why you're here, too).

Both games are fun, but Fe26 is going to keep me occupied for a long time.

Edit: I'm getting trapped at Mg24. Following the alpha-process, I should be able to stuff in another alpha to get to Silicon, but it's not happening, nor is it listed in the fusion rules below the game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_process