skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should have added a dog as his coauthor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Matzinger#Past_and_curren...
I was also hoping to see the analysis apply both ways to some degree. Rather than simply having a paying company ask you to find the best fit, is it not better to have something akin to a dating service, where you're not just finding the best fit for one party; you're trying to find the best fit for all parties. An employee who's not a great fit for Company A may be a perfect fit for Company B -- this, ideally, is the sort of value I see from these ideas, rather than just ending with 'He's not a great fit for company A'.
Automatic failover is not the same as High Availability.

You should have a completely redundant node standing by to take over if the first one fails if you are running critical services - although, few clients seem to want to pay the +double cost of having it.

There is even the possibility to have a node in sync in a different datacenter, although the bandwidth costs can become high.
I do agree, We do setup for HA, but due to some bugs on our end, the cut over from our DB Slave to Master didn't happen. Will be more careful next time.
HAPPY 25th birthday, WWW
Just #include it again and it will work like expected.

This preprocessor optimization is only for the case where include guards block off the entire #include file. Ex:

#ifndef INCLUDE_FOO_H
#define INCLUDE_FOO_H

#endif

When the preprocessor sees that, it marks it off and never reads the file again (Unless you were to #undef INCLUDE_FOO_H, but that's an extremely unlikely scenario since it's likely to break your code). If you want to be able to include a file multiple times, just don't use include guards. Even without this optimization your idea still wouldn't work if you placed include guards in your #include file. All this does is speed up preprocessing when we already know that the file has no new lines to be added.
Hosts requiring a reboot due to issues with the underlying physical hardware are inevitable for VMs. It happens to me approximately once per instance-year on Rackspace (and before that, Slicehost). [Edit: Slightly better approximation: ~5 incidents in the last ~20 instance-years.]

The general level of seriousness with regards to operations is not constant across all VM providers. Let's put it this way: there exist companies where the heart-and-soul of the business is supporting $5 a month hobbyists and there are companies where the heart-and-soul of the business is business-grade services. Choose appropriately.
Interesting, when looking at it with BLExplr I see it presents a Battery and Current Time service. Are you using iBeacon basically just to discover nearby devices? Pretending to be an iBeacon and then listening for your uuid to wake up the other clients in the area?

It appears to use wifi for the chat once it finds a neighbor, are you using the iOS multipeer API once for the actual chat conversations?
- "magna cum laude" isn't spelled with a -cum-, it's three words, one of which is "cum".

- while the "cum" in "magna cum laude" does mean 'with', the "cum" in "bedroom-cum-office" doesn't. How would you interpret "this is the bedroom with office"?

- the cum of bedroom-cum-office isn't a latin word, it's english. Similarly, if I say "there's something wrong with the audio", "audio" isn't a latin word, it's an english word. The fact that there's a latin word "audio" (it's a verb, meaning "I hear") is irrelevant.

- explaining one thing by reference to another completely unrelated thing is a weird thing to do.
At the risk of being downvoted, it's kinda sweet. Makes me wanna make one for mine
She was found partly at fault. Based on the trial she wasn't found entirely at fault.

The injury actually was relevant and not an emotive distraction. McDonalds was selling coffee, not knives. Most would have the expectation that spilling a cup of coffee on yourself wouldn't leave you with 3rd degree burns on 6% of your body with 1st and 2nd degree burns on another 16%. She not only needed eight days of hospitalization for skin grafts, but also years of medical treatment.

McDonalds acknowledged that customers had gotten 3rd degree burns from using their product in the executed manner (multiple customers with 3rd degree burns), but that they were unwilling to make a minor change to the product that would prevent this.

It was the fact that they knew they had already injured people to the point of needing hospitalization that could have been avoided by making a minor change to keep people from getting injured that was at the root of why they were at fault. It was the fact that in court they stated that they were unwilling to make that change even after knowing about this injury that caused punitive damages, which the judge reduced.
Yes, lesson learn from us..
We do have a scripts to auto cut over our Slave to Master DB once it detect our Master DB "death"..

Guess it's best to setup Master to Master replication..
On that note, interesting tidbit from Wikipedia:

The modern American holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908,
when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in Grafton, West Virginia.
Her campaign to make "Mother's Day" a recognized holiday in the United States
began in 1905, the year her beloved mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, died. Anna’s
mission was to honor her own mother by continuing work she had started and
to set aside a day to honor mothers, "the person who has done more for you
than anyone in the world." Anna's mother, Ann Jarvis, was a peace activist
who had cared for wounded soldiers on both sides of the Civil War and
created Mother’s Day Work Clubs to address public health issues. (...)

Although Jarvis was successful in founding Mother's Day she soon became
resentful of the commercialization and angry that companies would profit
from the holiday. By the early 1920's, Hallmark and other companies had
started selling Mother's Day cards. Jarvis became so embittered by
what she saw as misinterpretation and exploitation that she protested and
even tried to rescind Mother's Day. (...) Jarvis organized boycotts and
threatened lawsuits to try to stop the commercialization. She crashed a
candymakers convention in Philadelphia in 1923. Two years later she
protested at a confab of the American War Mothers, which raised money
by selling carnations, the flower associated with Mother’s Day, and was
arrested for disturbing the peace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day
They seem to mask u32 values just fine everywhere, so u32 being larger than it has to is no problem.

ulong is as you know the smallest type that's always guaranteed to be at least 32 bits.
It appears to be used only in tinysshd-printkey to print the key's fingerprint.

The fingerprint is 47 characters when printed, the key itself is 64. Since the key is so short does the fingerprint still server a useful purpose, or would it be enough to print only the key?
good luck today
The TMB taking this responsibility seems workable on face value; in a lot of ways, this correlates with how many European nations handle consumer protection: fewer lawsuits are permitted, but the bureaucracy increases its responsibility and authority. It seems like a pretty straightforward tradeoff with no obvious answer; just a tradeoff curve.

When it fails is when, as grandparent indicates, the bureaucracy (TMB in this case) wasn't given enough additional resources to handle the increased workload.
The name is a little confusing. The way u32 is used in TweetNaCl, it doesn't have to be exactly 32 bits, only at least 32 bits.
That's interesting. So, from that, the thing that stops DO being a cloud service (and linode and so on) is that you can't say "I used 2 CPUs at 100% for 12 hours"? It only allows for the granularity of saying "the node was on for 12 hours"?
.scot will likely be very popular in Scotland, especially if this year's referendum sees a Yes vote.
It's Mother's Day in Brazil. Phoned my mom. Feliz Dia das Mães!
Or take the approach Netflix did: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...
stdint.h is C99 and while I'd love to believe that every C compiler is C99 capable by now, I don't know if that is actually the case.
Does stdint.h exist on Win32 these days?
If you click on the gear icon and go to Advanced Build Options, you can turn on XeLaTeX.

It's also worth noting that you can use accented characters with pdflatex: adding
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
at the top of your preamble will usually do the job.

If none of that helps, feel free to send us the link to the doc via https://www.writelatex.com/contact and we will have a look.

EDIT: english
This is beyond creepy: http://www.theheraldng.com/us-marines-satellite-locate-missi...

TechCrunch randomly chose a thing to search and that's where they are? Granted, it's a huge 60,000kmsq area... But of every place TechCrunch could've searched for on Google Maps, it's the same place?
The reason there hasn't been much discussion is because the state controls the parameters of discussion through heavy use of propaganda and intimidation, and they don't like the questions that get asked when we ask why.

The truth is they don't want to kill us at large. Not even the most militant groups have ever taken issue directly with the American people as a whole, in fact many of them quite the opposite. Their issue is with the American government and its allied state actors who are the chief executors of its foreign policy. However when one side has disproportionate strength, and the political outlets to change are closed to you, and you are systematically disenfranchised, guerrilla warfare (aka terrorism) becomes the only way to strike back at your tormentors.

The state actors do not want their foreign policy and their violence (direct and indirect) to become the subject of the discussion. So instead they spin narratives about how the enemy is pure evil, how his hatred is irrational and fanatical and cannot be reasoned with or understood, and because of that, we have no choice but to kill as many of them as possible all the time because otherwise they would leave their relatively impoverished lands thousands of miles away and come here to kill us. Does it sound ridiculous? That's because it is.

Rather than condense hours of Noam Chomsky lectures that go in great detail about this subject, I will paraphrase his conclusion: The best way to stop terrorism domestically is to stop carrying out acts of terrorism overseas. But the American government has no intention of stopping so unfortunately you will be kept in the Orwellian state of fear they are orchestrating.
I've tried to point this out above, but this cum is only related to the latin word cum by historical accident. It doesn't share usage or meaning with the latin word. And I can only interpret the english phrase "bedroom with office" (already questionably grammatical) as referring to a bedroom with a separate office attached or contained within; it can't refer to a room which serves as both, which is what a bedroom-cum-office is.
I agree that the author should have named what the Windows installation is, i.e., a VM. However I disagree that metaphors aren't useful in teaching people things, especially about technology.

The author knows his audience, and it is not people like you who have deep technical knowledge. The majority of people reading this probably have trouble starting their Windows PCs, much less understanding how a 'Virtual Machine' is any more or less virtual than the machine they're already using. The russian doll metaphor points towards the concepts of separation and encapsulation, which can help the non-technical reader understand what's going on.

This isn't a technical manual and shouldn't be held to the standards of one. It's entertainment for people who want to know slightly more about technology -- but not too much or too deeply -- than they did before.
>> any studies that show that Texas doctors are significantly worse than doctors in other states?

> Texas has some of the best doctors in the world and an innovative healthcare community

This doesn't answer the question.
Thanks a lot. Subscribed to all!
I'm sorry that for you reading a book in pyjamas is not a good day.

Wait, actually I'm envious of how many days you must have that are even better than reading a book in pyjamas.
Thank you, although I feel much more sorry for her loss, than I do for mine. Cancer stole her life at a time when everything was supposed to be getting better. A brutal reminder for everyone around her to make the most of their time. And to appreciate loved ones while they're there.
To be honest, ^.+@.+$ is probably all you need, along with a confirmation email.
Creepy Coincidence: Missing Girls in Nigeria and TechCrunch Article
Remember this article with 200+ comments a day ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7725247

Well, http://www.theheraldng.com/us-marines-satellite-locate-missing-girls-sambisa-forest-bringbackourgirls/

Creepy coincidence! Hoping for the best outcome of this entire situation...
Happy Mother's Day to moms that read Hacker News! Happy Mother's Day to moms that don't read Hacker News! :-)
I personally hold the opinion that XeLaTeX should be the default anyway, e.g. Texpad app (iOS/Mac) already does this. I don't know of any downsides to choosing XeLaTeX over LaTeX.
It seems to me that all this fuss over multiple includes and include guards would be solved by something like a #stop directive:

#ifdef STDIO_H
#stop
#endif
#define STDIO_H

which would cause the preprocessor to skip the rest of the file. How would this not be a better solution? What am I missing?
How about calling every day - not just Mothers's Day....
Sorry for your loss. My mom passed away when I was 10, and I still miss her. Wish she was around to talk to!
Sorry for your loss. I made the call two hours ago :-)

ps. I love when HN gets emotional.
It also boots faster than your typical Linux kernel + userspace. That probably only makes a difference if you boot up a lot of short-lived VM instances or trying to recover from a failed instance though.
While I like the idea, I don't care for the side effects. If everyone uses a big data based algorithm, and you are an outlier, you will never get a job.
Oh, didn't see that one. Thanks for linking it! Seems like a zero in the url is the difference between the links we both submitted.
Ask HN: Quora tips?
I'm looking for advice on how to use Quora most effectively, is anyone here a power-user and would like to share their craft?

Mostly, I'm looking for ways to minimize all the crap on the newsfeed, and have genuine questions with insightful answers to look at. I'm proficient in a few categories, but it seems to be that a lot of the Quora categories are flooded with people asking the same questions over and over again.

Is it the case that smaller communities might provide better experience?

Not expecting any response to this, but if someone knows their way around Quora, would be nice to hear it.
Ask HN: What do you think about Noam Chomsky?
Hi,

Simple question: what do you think about Noam Chomsky?

Best,
Wiktor
I wouldn't mind to have an SSH shell to MirageOS though.
Perhaps something like TinySSH could be translated to OCaml?
> This is a ridiculous stance, in my opinion.

I always find it humorous to find posters here and reddit and other boards say these things and I believe they would make the same statement about the Ten Commandments from God.
Git doesn't require scp.
Hahaha awesome :-) I wonder if Knuth was getting the same kind of treatment from his mother ("You know there's is this friend of mine who wrote a program on her computer to keep their grocery store expenses! You should talk to them!"). It's amazing that even at this age she's trying to give an advice :-)
and sometimes a few lines of extra code is needed to help the compiler figure out programmer's intent. simplest, example, is extra code that will be optimized out in the final product, or another to not optimize out certain aliasing. the compiler is your friend who sometimes disagrees, misbehaves, and right, just all along is a good friend.
The first 6 months at Urban.Us
Awesome! A few questions/thoughts:

Right now, you're suggesting it be downloaded via HTTP, which isn't exactly the best way to get my secure daemons. Any chance you could move that to HTTPS?

Semi-related: any chance you'll be making a repo available in some form? (I'm preferential to GitHub, but really anything that lets us follow source changes and open bug reports would rock)

I would love to see an audit of this by some 3rd party entity.

Glad to see folks working to build new tools from such solid building blocks!
No because this is artificial scarcity. It does not cost these big internet service providers a single dime more to serve up Netflix than it does to serve up Wikipedia pages. The issue here is the relentless corporate greed that is going to make them continue to squeeze customers and content providers to get more and more profits without offering more service. After the bandwidth caps and the Netflix (content provider) extortions, they will find new reasons to force people to pay more money for the existing internet service they have always been using. This is what happens when you have no competition and you want profits going up year after year. The only cure is for the government to step in and slap some regulations down.
And for all of us that don't celebrate mother's day today[0], you can still call :)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day#Dates_around_the_... ( learn somthig new today. Mother's Day is celebrated on different days in different region of the worlds ).
http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-string...
some are missing like .gmo
I get the impression if I registered briansrecipes.com I would get better traffic than brian.recipes . Or am I wrong? So much of this is irrelevant since people google rather than type in urls
Mother's day or not, you should be thankful for mothers every day. Call them anyday, not just mother's day.
Have you looked at the code for plan9? It follows this principle and I think it works fairly well. Its much nicer than wading through a large number of preprocessor directives.
Isn't "shortwave" radio used for extremely long distance communication?
crap.zone

('Nuff said.)
1970s original space art by Robert McCall on eBay
I'd also like to see XeLaTeX become the default, but unfortunately there are still a lot of old documents and journal templates that are not compatible.

In the mean time, we try to auto-detect which engine to use, so if you load the fontspec package, for example, we'll automatically use XeLaTeX.
Rsync stats a bunch of files on both sides. There are plenty of cases where reading is much more expensive than writing at the destination---imagine Glacier, maybe.
Doesn't anybody else think the real intersting observation is that commodity cameras are approaching unitary quantum efficiency?

In short: we're mass producing quantum-scale-detectors and deploying them to billions of humans. That in itself is pretty extraordinary.
You have my condolences. Losing a parent must be devastating. My grandmother passed away last weekend so I am making sure that my mother feels special today. The way my mother cared for her own mom in her final days taught me a lot about what it means to be a truly good person.
I tried first plain views (shouted it out really, to anyone), then per install (went from table to table).

But no A/B testing, it wasn't a buzzword back then really.
I confess, I don't see how that would make it reasonable to act like an incompetent jerk. You can "pass" the interview and decline the job offer.
I think having an audio-visual display would be appealing , im not sure if you're looking into it or not, but having the HN page displayed while it's being read would result in a better experience
That's a simple question with many complex answers, including those with very strong opinions both for and against.

Personally, I'm philosophically inclined towards emergent models of linguistics rather than Chomsky's universal grammar, but I have barely the ability to write Pirahã, much less go into a detailed discussion of the current naturist/nurturist debate.

So your question might be a bit more specific in order to get the answers you're looking for.
Thank you. I'm very sorry to hear that your mother passed so early. Missing someone, even after many years, is a testimony to the strong bond you shared. The loving memory lives on.
Me and my mom had a fight last night, stop trying to force me to call her!
Sure but I don't think you can scp to Glacier either.
I don't feel like finding a link to a source for you. After 10 years of roasting my own beans from home, I can assure you that the temperature range for brewing is 195-205 as shown in at least one other post and in your link. To do so in a lower temperature impedes the flavor extraction process and provides a poorer cup of coffee no matter the quality of the bean.

To do so is a disservice to the customer. (I also own two restaurants.)
To the downvoters, the Yoga 2 Pro really doesn't have a trackpoint as parent implied, just the trackpad + touch.
In terms of 'lines of code running' wouldn't a stripped down Linux kernel + Mirage application in direct mode beat
Xen + Linux dom0 HW drivers + Linux dom0 Xen daemons/tools + Mirage unikernel?

I do agree with you that Xen is probably better at providing isolation than Linux, i.e. it is better at what
an OS is supposed to provide :)

Also if you are in an environment where your only option is to deploy Xen domUs, i.e. like EC2, then you probably have a performance advantage as well because you just eliminated one layer.

In the end not much changes conceptually compared to a traditional application:

* instead of being linked with libc it is linked with Mirage's runtime
* its "OS" is now Xen instead of Linux
* the drivers of the OS are unchanged (running Linux in dom0)
* developing a Mirage unikernel is much like developing a traditional application, if you restrict yourself to the Mirage provided interfaces
Can somebody please explain. Why is the parent comment short story inappropriate, as a top level comment on this page?

Also it seems to trigger a reaction. I have seen it go upto +6 points and now it is at 0. Means people either like it or hate it. I don't get it, whats in that that people have to react strongly to it.

I would really like to understand.

edit: minor
Back from the Farm
I don't think there's ever been much market for RSS as such, because RSS is just a means to an end. Companies, particularly big ones, are constantly trying to improve internal communications. Think HR newsletters, IT updates (we're upgrading to Windows XP! [hey, they're enterprises]), the CEO's newsletter, version 27 of internal tool Foo is being released and what it means to you, whatever. They want better internal communications and it looked like RSS could help, so they bought it.

NewsGator (now Sitrion) still does this with Social Sites, they just do it as a Facebook-ish newsfeed rather than as an RSS reader. Same goal, different implementation.
Microsoft's poor support for standard C is no excuse not to use these types everywhere else and either define them yourself on windows or get stdint from boost, from one of the stdint.h replacements or <cstdint> from MSVC 2012.

IMHO, of course.
That is a touching piece, thank you for sharing it.
And you don't have to be familiar with a situation at all to give advice on the Internet!
FBI wants easier process to hack suspects’ computers
I don't consider it to be a "reasonable expectation" that if you spill a hot beverage you bought all over yourself, you won't be burnt. It is a completely unreasonable expectation.

I'm in the UK and I can buy tea all over the country. It is always sold at near boiling temperature - because that's how you make most tea, with boiling water. If you buy a beverage you can't just "expect" that it can't hurt you.

I expect this is why the outcome of the case is McDonalds adding a warning to their product that should be obvious to anybody - they didn't change the product because there isn't actually anyhing wrong with supplying a boiling beverage.